Tuesday, January 20, 2004

• Macao opens winter shelter for the homeless
• No new SARS cases reported in Chinese mainland
• State celebration for Spring Festival held in Beijing
• Bus crash kills 11, injures 46 in Sichuan
• AIDS-hit villagers celebrate Chinese New Year with tears and hope
• China sets up daily reporting system to monitor bird flu
• Chinese leaders, people celebrate Spring Festival
• Officials visit leading media on eve of Spring Festival
• China's space hero to host Spring Festival gala
• Leading officials visit farmers, rural cadres on eve of Spring Festival Holiday
• CCTV official, writer sentenced to jail terms
• China asks Paris to slam Taiwan splittists
• New regulations issued to ensure safe production
• Migrant farmer workers recover 90 percent of overdue wages
• CMC Chairman Jiang's reunification speech anniversary marked
• UN chief congratulates Chinese on Lunar New Year

• Outside experts verify official statistics
• Value of China's auto imports up 84 percent in 2003
• China's auto sales expected to top 5 million units in 2004
• Economist: RMB will remain stable in 2004
• Foreign businesses cash in on Chinese holiday economy
• Auto parts sales enter fast lane
• Social credit system in the pipeline
• China's economy grows 9.1 percent in 2003: official
• Chinese mainland's trade deficit with Taiwan set to rise
• Airbus aims high in China market
• China's plane parts industry takes off: News analysis
• A step further in guarding private property
• Oil prices surge due to strong economy, low stocks
• Economic integration with Chinese mainland benefits HK: monetary chief

• Spanish prime minister announces general elections
• Kerry wins first caucuses in US Democratic nomination process
• Vietnam to kill all poultry in bird flu-infected areas
• IAEA, US, Britain reach agreement over Libya nukes
• UN Asked to Study Elections for Iraq
• Former Zambian president's son survives alleged assassination attempt
• Prisoners escape from Maputo's top security jail
• Text of UN chief's message on Chinese Lunar New Year
• Killer of ex-Swedish FM to undergo psychiatric exam
• 11 Afghans killed in US helicopter bombing
• Saddam not to be tried soon: Powell

• SARS lesson: How to address crises
• A nation in motion as annual ritual begins
• Comment: Chen has emerged as his own worst enemy

• Official stresses technology transfer in China-France economic relations
• Scientists scorn new human clone
• Country's 3G standard development speeding up
• Fossil find filling in primate puzzle
• Chinese doctors to test SARS vaccine on human body 

• Coach Liu not bothered with draw for the worlds
• Beijing anti-doping lab passes IOC annual review
• China defends Asian women's basketball crown  

• Love for monkeys heats up as Chinese New Year sets in
• China-made bronze elephant from France visits homeland
• Life expectancy of Beijingers close to 80 years old
• Expert refutes rumors of Legionnaire's disease in Beijing
• Young lovers accuse school
• CCTV goes all out for galas
• Lunar festive family fun means really big spending
• The first smiling monkey on stamps in 24 years
• 'Festival syndrome' hurting many
• 5.8 million people expected to cross mainland-HK border during holidays
• Test question slows Nestle suit
• The cutting edge, in paper
• HK's last SARS patient discharged from hospital
• HKSAR, Egypt signed MOU on cultural cooperation
• More people prefer dining at home on Lunar New Year's Eve as tradition stages comeback
• Man arrested after detonating bomb at bank in Yunnan
• More than 80 cars collide on major expressway
• HK stays vigilant against possible SARS