Saturday, March 06, 2004

• Japanese leaders should take history as mirror: Chinese FM
• Chinese never allow Taiwan separation: FM
• China opposes foreign interference into HK affairs: FM
• FM slams unilateralism, favors multilateralism
• HK media praise Wen's report putting people first
• Chinese FM denies DPRK "refugees" in China
• HK legislator condemned by local media as traitor
• Officials urged to work for the people
• China attains main development targets: minister
• China spends more in employment, social security, social undertakings in 2003
• Top priorities for 2004 budget expenditures
• China moves to experiment with new rural medical service
• Main development tasks set for 2004
• China to increase defense spending by 11.6% in 2004
• HK legislator condemned by local organizations
• Japanese lawyers begin gathering chemical weapons evidence
• China to raise farmers' income, improve food security: minister
• China to create more jobs, expand consumer spending
• China to beef up human resources development in 2004: minister

• Central government signals slowing growth guideline: economist
• China races against time in reform of State-owned commercial banks
• RMB 10 bln risk fund to benefit grain farmers
• Mainland resumes poultry exports to Macao
• China's reliance on global oil market to mount in 2004
• Chinese economy not overheated, Asian Development Bank economist
• China moves to handle unpaid export tax rebates: finance minister
• CCB plans simultaneous listings
• Transfer payments to local governments to be increased: finance minister
• Finance minister vows to tighten expenditure management
• Property insurers eye more gains in accidental insurance market
• China implements oil reserve project
• Gov't moves to stop excessive investment
• No interest rate rise in sight
• China to use treasury bonds in balancing development: minister
• China to further loosen control on forex purchases

• 2 Jakarta hotel bombers to face trial soon
• 1 killed, 100 injured as train derails in central India
• Bangladesh most violent for journalists in Asia: CPJ
• EU, China, Ukraine congratulate Russia's new PM
• Pakistan vows to curb terrorism, sectarianism
• EU, China, Ukraine congratulate Russia's new PM
• Russia's Duma approves new PM
• Chaos continue in Haiti, Aristide vows to come back
• Kerry launches first election website in Chinese
• Eritrean president meets with China's assistant foreign minister
• Russian engineers alleged to have helped Iraq in banned missile program
• ASEAN reaffirms adherence to one-China principle
• Japan, US experts to discuss future alliance
• Arroyo bares US aid for Philippine military modernization
• Blair urges UN to stand up to terror threat
• Israeli troops besiege Arafat's HQ
• Powell to visit India, Pakistan, Afghanistan
• Chirac rejects outside interference in Arab world
• ICRC to launch new manual to help women affected by war
• S. Korea speaks highly of six-party talks
• Four British soldiers injured in Iraq

• Needles removed from man's brain after 29 years
• Second Mars rover finds more evidence of water
• Dozy man wakes up after treatment in Hebei
• Renowned mainland universities hold enrollment fair in Macao

• Pingpong: Champions China brush Germany aside
• Chinese fencers in world top class: FIE president
• Chinese gymnastics aims at Olympics instead of World Cup

• Soong Ching-ling's handwritten letters to be published
• HK's Jumbo restaurant revamped for tourist spot
• Citizen's plan to turn apartment into public toilet aborted by neighbors
• Needles removed from man's brain after 29 years
• Attitudes mixed on Lei Feng Day deeds
• More pocket money to children in China than in Japan, ROK, Vietnam: survey
• Oyama Hiroshi, a Japanese touching heart of Chinese people
• Head operation helps addicts kick heroin habit
• Shandong tightens control over Internet cafes
• Two arrested in connection with deadly workshop blast in Shijiazhuang
• HK women's unemployment problem slightly improved
• Panda center turns down mating request from Shanghai