Sunday, March 07, 2004

• Premier Wen pledges support for HK, Macao govn'ts
• China's 2004 higher unemployment rate accords with reality: expert
• Full text of Chinese FM's press conference 
• Chinese government earmarks 1-bln-yuan for disaster-torn areas
• China to intensify efforts against money laundering
• Proposed amendment to CPPCC charter unveiled
• China's cabinet ends irregular decision-making meetings
• Netizens constitute most active "constituency" in China
• Top leaders join discussions of lawmakers, advisors 
• USS Kitty Hawk strike group docks in HK 
• College students confident in political prospects
• Golf courses devouring land illegally in China
• Chinese FM on relations with big countries
• Chinese FM on relations with neighboring countries
• China denounces unilaterism, external interference in its internal affairs
• Highlights of Foreign Minister's press conference 
• Hu reaffirms support for HK and Macao governments 
• China sets main economic, social tasks for 2004
• Chinese, Russian presidents to meet later this year
• HK legislator condemned by local media as traitor
• China's defense spending still fairly low: official

• Economist: make it easier for private sector to develop
• China helps poultry industry with more financial support, less taxes
• China's Xinjiang auctions off mining rights
• China invests US$566m in grain production bases
• Tianjin improves environment for Taiwanese investors
• China's portals eyeing MMS for future explosive growth
• CEPA brings about south China logistics boom

• 3 arrested for bombing Chinese restaurants in Australia
• Aristide again says he was kidnapped from Haiti
• China's NPC, a chamber for debate: The Guardian
• Libya ships all remaining nuclear equipment to US
• Japan reports another suspected case of mad cow
• WHO approves China's SARS vaccine trials

• Premier Wen pledges: "Put people first"

• China to send woman into space
• Electric-powered buses hit China's Hangzhou
• Migrant children enjoying school, making friends in Beijing

• Germany edge China to reach men's foil final at Shanghai GP
• Germany ousts S. Korea to meet China in final
• Chinese table tennis team wins 15th Corbillion Cup

• Beijing urged to set up mental health care system
• Three Gorges region becomes China's largest geological park
• Beijing's centenarians tell secrets of longevity
• Students cause debate by seeking rich wives
• Couplets with Taoist preaching found in central China
• Shanghai hospital helps cut teenage pregnancies
• Sexual purity still very important to China's youth, survey shows
• Guangdong has biggest transient population in China
• Oldest man in world dies at age of 114