Sunday, December 28, 2003

• Government starts sending blowout victims back
• Suspected SARS case no cause for alarm
• More foreign leaders send condolences over China's gas blowout
• China offers emergency humanitarian aid to Iran
• Top ten domestic news stories in 2003
• Health Ministry reports suspected SARS case to WHO
• Disinfection starts in gas field
• Members of HK's District Councils appointed
• China seals up gas well, investigation continues
• China likely to be "Mad Cow" free
• Amendments to China's Constitution drafted
• Two Chinese lawmakers dismissed
• Nation to amend solid waste pollution prevention law
• 2,720 development zones cancelled to save land

• Legislators lectured on foreign trade law
• Members of listing panel named
• New law justifies banking watchdog

• Rescue workers in Iran seek survivors in earthquake ruins
• Some 600 prisoners flee from jail after Iran quake
• Japan considering SDF dispatch to Iran for quake relief
• At least 6 killed, 10 missing in California mudslide
• Michael Jackson defends himself in CBS interview
• 138 people killed in plane crash in Benin
• Iran earthquake toll soars, as do aid offers
• US traces its first mad cow case to Canada
• Four Taliban and al-Qaida fighters killed in southeast Afghanistan
• DPRK seeks holding next round of six-party talks early 2004
• EU provides humanitarian aid to Iran
• PNA committed to peace process despite Israeli aggression: Arafat

• China's Constitution amendments to have far-reaching influence

• China to launch satellite with European Space Agency

• Chinese swimmers look for Olympic gold

• Lion-tiger couple at odds in Hainan zoo
• Beijing alert to newly-found suspected SARS case