Tuesday, March 02, 2004

• China, US launch cooperation in fighting AIDS
• Amendment to CPPCC charter scheduled for imminent session
• China cracks down on human trafficking
• China hopes UN work is undisturbed by spying: FM
• Premier Wen meets Portuguese FM
• Upcoming sessions expect appeased GDP fervor
• State councilor meets Portuguese FM
• China lifts quarantine of four bird flu-affected areas
• China ready to further promote ties with Portugal: FM
• China, Vanuatu reiterate one-China policy
• China opposes foreign interference in HK affairs: FM
• Group comics: China's new leadership in people's eyes
• Chinese economy centering on three city groups
• CCTV to get grand new home
• Exhibition showcases overseas returnees' achievements
• About 2,900 journalists flock to NPC, CPPCC sessions
• China to open special rehabilitation sections for drug addicts with HIV/AIDS
• Vice-president stresses implementing scientific concept of development
• CPC leader stresses inner-Party supervision
• More funds to go to rural areas

• Upsurge in HK jewelry exports to benefit international show
• China's software industry opens wide to world
• China Telecom may sell as much as $1 billion in stock, Bonds
• Legitimacy of trade barrier considered
• Seeds sown for agro insurance firm
• Eastern fair increases in scale, attendance
• S&P makes first foray into A-share indices
• Securities firms get nod on bond issuance
• Everbright Ltd. admits four new shareholders
• Nation tightens screws on property bank loans
• Shanghai reduce bank card transaction fees
• Manufacturers still pillar to Shanghai growth
• China to become world's second largest TV commercial market
• Bank of America furthers foothold in Shanghai
• HSBC sees $14.5b of pre-tax profit in 2003
• Campaign launched to promote farm products industry
• Economists forecast rosy picture for 2004

• Two more flu type A infections, suspects detected in Vietnam
• India, Russia negotiate partnership for new missile
• Militants assassinate Arafat's advisor in Gaza
• Overseas Chinese world conference blasts Taiwan leader for threatening peace
• France, US show coordination, contention in Haiti crisis
• Seoul to provide 200,000 tons of fertilizers to DPRK
• US military denies report on troop reduction in S.Korea
• 124 dead after blasts on Iraqi Shi'ite holy day
• US to fund Cambodia to destroy its 233 surface-to-air missiles
• Panama urged to have diplomatic ties with China
• Chechen warlord Gelayev believed killed in Dagestan
• Dems step up campaign as Super Tuesday nears in U.S.
• S.Korean president slams Koizumi
• Arafat adviser shot dead in Gaza: witnesses
• Inter-Korean economic talks to start on Tuesday
• EAC summit to sign Customs Union Protocol in Tanzania
• Aristide hits back from exile
• Pakistan rejects report of deal with US on Osama hunt
• US may deploy 1,500 or 2,000 troops in Haiti, says Rumsfeld
• Opposition blocks streets against Venezuelan president
• US denies abduction of Haitian ex-president

• People's Daily hails opening of CPPCC session
• Should US reflect on its own human rights situation?
• Participants comment on second round six-party talks
• China's rise benefits world: Comment
• Shrine obsession more than one man's stance
• Mainland becomes a major force driving forward Taiwan's Economy: analysis

• Science academy provides annual sci-tech reports
• China highlights achievements by returned overseas Chinese
• World's first gene therapeutic medicine approved for market in China
• Mars rover Opportunity makes "significant"' finding
• Geological early-warning system set up in Three Gorges
• Human H5N1 vaccine to come out in six months: WHO

• Chinese teams get second win
• China wants service rules simplified in table tennis
• Chinese Team has arrived in South Korea
• Wang Manli clinches 500m skating Championship
• NBA arrival in China arouses interest and concern
• Chinese weightlifting Olympic champions hail anti-doping law
• China to stage Champions Diving Tour

• Adopting wild animals becoming a fashion in Nanning
• Boat sinks leaving six dead, two missing in Taiwan Straits
• Man of 90 finds true love through lonely hearts agency
• Serial killer sentenced to death in Beijing
• Human damage hastening destruction of Great Wall
• China faces with the 18th warm winter
• Police hunt Yunnan university slayings suspect
• Beijing drivers pay no more for illegally-parked cars