Sunday, January 25, 2004

• Consumer confidence in China rebounds
• China's steel consumption not to peak before 2010, experts
• Egyptian ambassador hails Egypt-China ties
• No new SARS case reported on Chinese mainland: health ministry

• South China boomtown reports record high GDP in 2003
• Auto production concentrated in 10 plants
• Fast economic growth to continue in Guangdong

• Schroeder's visit highlights German interest in Africa
• Northeast India proposes nuclear power plant
• Taliban former governor arrested in Pakistan
• Cheney asks Europe for more effort in fighting terrorism
• Indian, Pakistani border officials meet
• Pakistan's nuclear assets in safe hands: PM
• Amazon.com collects online donations for US presidential candidates
• Champs Elysees hosts Chinese New Year parade
• WHO confirms 2 more H5N1 infections in Vietnam
• Iraq asks three countries to return planes
• Helicopter crash kills two US soldiers in northern Iraq
• Pakistan confirms top al-Qaeda leader killed

• NASA prepares for second Mars rover landing

• South China city soliciting ideas for Asian Games bid

• Eastern province to spend more on poverty relief
• On-line "love", "marriage" intoxicate Chinese children
• Increasing number of mainland visitors enter HK
• Twenty people jailed for poaching rhesus monkeys
• Evacuees begin to return homes in flood-hit areas
• New year means a new car in Tibet
• Shanghai adjusts population and birth control policy