Monday, December 22, 2003

• China to overhaul foreign trade law
• Personnel system reform remove barriers to talents flow
• President Hu expresses condolences to Philippines for flood, landslide
• Western cities take up urban grassroots democracy
• China to train 300,000 skilled manufacturing workers in five years
• China to put "Three Represents" into Constitution
• Shenyang gang leader Liu Yong gets death penalty
• Job creation should top govt's priorities to bridge income gap
• Trade unions urged to protect rights of workers
• Returned overseas students to work in government
• Tibet won't forget gift of freedom
• Official: more measures to push direct cross-Straits links
• Beijing police seize over 1.33 million pirated publications
• Official calls for greater efforts to combat unemployment
• China battles crippling power shortages

• Three draft bank laws submitted to legislature for third-round review
• China to further simplify procedure for investment abroad
• China mulls opening aviation market to private investors
• SOEs formulate restructuring plan
• China makes progress in Internet protocol v6 technologies
• China constructing a rating system for foreign investors
• Foreign-invested firms in top list
• Challenge rising amid rapid growth
• Production of new jet takes off
• China prepares for Christmas with mass toys, gifts exports
• Xinjiang opens up mining rights
• Beijing Olympics offer world stage for Chinese brands

• IAEA to start nuclear inspections in Libya soon
• US official meets Hamas representatives in Gaza
• Libya willing to sign NPT Additional Protocol, says diplomat
• US raises terror threat level to the second-highest
• Boeing in talks to sell new jetliners
• Afghanistan may adopt powerful presidency
• Saddam defiant but resigned to captivity
• Michael Jackson's family, friends rally to show support
• Afghanistan to cooperate with China in combating terror groups
• Iran calls for fight against terrorism, unilateralism
• Iraq's interim authorities seeks security pact with Syria
• British Lockerbie families demand further inquiry
• US moves hi-tech weaponry into Korean peninsula: report

• Humanization reform gets started in prison in China
• Britain's "twin pillars" collapse over Iraq: News analysis
• Editorial hails meeting on human resources development in China  

• China develops IPv6 technology to tackle IP address exhaustion
• Internet connects Ngari with the world
• Asia's top solar base begins operations
• British Nobel Prize winner visits Beijing
• Going under the sea for 'fire in ice'
• Expert warns of computer viruses as Christmas draws near
• Shanghai opens door of public schools to migrant children
• Eye operation on Siberian tiger successful

• Chinese drug-taking soccer player punished
• Tung racing towards F1 dream Chinese makes fine impression on Williams
• National Gymnastics team celebrates its 50th birthday
• IBF keeps to current nationality separation rule

• Mao's home province starts commemorations of his birth
• Prehistoric oriental "Venus" carved on cliff discovered in Ningxia
• Bicycles still rule, but less popular in China
• Ancient tomb findings in Beijing stun archaeologists
• Meeting with Mao makes couple's date with destiny
• Grand Theater to further diversify style of China's first avenue