Friday, January 09, 2004

• Chinese, US parliamentary bodies set up formal exchange mechanism
• CPPCC National Committee to hold annual meeting on March 3
• Jiang, Hu attend Spring Festival art performance
• Two held in custody in connection with deadly gas blowout
• 3 HK reporters test negative for SARS
• China organizes and implements rounding the moon project in 2004
• Brzezinski: Big powers inter-dependent
• Guangdong steps up hygiene in SARS battle
• Launch of "Shenzhou VI" scheduled in 2nd half of 2005, to carry more than one astronaut
• Ten most popular photos of 2003 selected by netizens
• Millions to be laid-off as State firms streamline
• Recovered SARS patient communicates with media in written statement
• China, Japan join hands to train Chinese administrators
• Chinese State Councilor meets Japanese vice FM
• Senior official on role of United Front
• WHO experts visit Guangdong
• Most gas blowout victims get compensation

• China to further regulate outbound tourism market
• Motorola launches new office complex in Beijing
• Textile sector reports 24 percent rise in sales
• HK world's freest economy for 10th consecutive year
• Shanghai to provide 500,000 new jobs in 2004
• Zhou Xiaochuan warns sweetheart loans fuel NPLs
• Bill Gates appointed Zhang Yaqin as Microsoft's global vice president
• Top oil company executive removed from post
• Crude imports to reach 120 million ton in 2004
• Leading bank reports 40 percent growth in profits
• China to face peak of scrapped household electric appliances
• Nation's capital into banks draws media attention worldwide
• China reports record tariff revenue
• The most generous entrepreneurs in China: Survey
• Sino-Swedish life insurance company launched in Beijing
• Macao likely to do RMB trade
• Easy access for HK, Macao traders
• Geely shifts to focus on HK listing
• Bank of China deals with bad loans
• Service industry to grow in share of economy
• China's old industrial base eyes bright future with ambitious plan
• First Taiwan delegation to attend Shanghai farm produce expo
• China's "Iron belt" readies financial revival

• French airliner victims families get US$170m from Libya
• Bombing attack outside Iraqi mosque kills five
• US military deaths in Iraq approach 500
• Japan orders dispatch of main air force to Iraq
• Chinese, US congressional politicians to meet every two years
• Bush to announce plan for returning Americans to moon
• Uzbek FM pledges closer ties with China
• What do the new US rules do? "Q and A"
• Britons to need visas for US trips
• Solana to visit Iran over Iran's alleged nuclear program
• Japan's ruling coalition OKs advance troops dispatch to Iraq
• Chinese FM pays official visit to Djibouti
• 9 US soldiers killed in emergency helicopter landing in Iraq

• Why Chinese customs revenue soars while tariff rates fall
• US-China ties allow no deviation from track of cooperation: Interview
• The truth of Diaoyu Island's ownership
• Politicking takes the centrestage
• Chen Shui-bian taking Taiwan down a dangerous path
• China to increase oil-supply security

• Ninety percent of Beijing's university graduates find jobs in 2003
• The "golden bowl" of translation
• Educational opportunities open up for migrant population in Shanghai
• Beijing Electron Positron Collider to be reformed
• Sex education for mentally handicapped children starts
• Culture week to kick off in Paris
• Space shuttle Columbia crew memorialized on Mars

• Chinese softball aims for renaissance in Athens
• Watchdog to ensure Beijing Olympic venue building clean

• Welfare lottery sales hit new high in 2003
• High body temperature passenger not allowed travelling 
• "SARS" tops Chinese newspaper buzzwords of 2003
• China plans to seek 36 million overseas tourists this year
• China's first human sperm bank opens for deposits
• Teacher sentenced to death for raping 4 school girls
• What job seekers want most? Security
• 70,000 police to guard railways in Spring Festival operation
• One killed, three injured in construction collapse in Nanjing
• Cause of fireworks factory blast traced
• Beijing set to deal with noise pollution