Tuesday, March 16, 2004

• Chinese peacekeeping troops leaves for Liberia
• Jiang Zemin congratulates Putin on reelection
• FM: China welcomes more US-Asian cooperation
• FM on Brazilian FM's China tour
• NPC vice-chairwoman meets Australian guests
• Premier Wen meets European official
• FM on Putin's re-election
• EU decision on China's market economy status soon
• China, France kick off maritime drills
• Full text of Premier Wen's government work report 
• China vows to push Sino-Russian military ties
• European parliament members sit in the visitors' seats of Chinese NPC
• Macao NPC delegates file 40 bills
• China to join UN heritage convention
• China declears bird flu control success
• China attaches great importance to anti-corruption: senior CPC official
• Vice-premier urges closer trade links with EU
• Vice-premier meets US guest
• China, Poland to push forward economic, trade cooperation
• Hu extends condolences over landslide in Kazakhstan
• Chen's timetable for "Taiwan independence" provokes tension across Straits: experts
• Party officials hail state-run newspapers reform
• Experts to share views on copyright protection in digital era
• President Hu congratulates Putin, stresses cooperation
• Minister: China will play active role in new WTO talks
• Japanese PM meets Chinese vice-foreign minister
• Full text of amended Constitution released
• HK holds symposium to mark 14th anniversary of Basic Law promulgation 
• NPC vice-chairwoman leaves for Chinese Women's Culture Week in France

• FAW quickens expansion steps
• Central wheat reserves auctioned to adjust market demand
• Atos Origin aims to quadruple its China business
• European airlines spread wings to Shanghai
• Shanghai VW eyes 20% market share by 2008
• GE blazes trail in leasing biz in China
• Emirates airline to launch Dubai-Shanghai route
• Cigarette packaging maker plans going public
• S&P maintains its rating on China's CNOOC
• Foreign investment hit $8.319bln in the first two months
• China's total consumer goods sales grows 10.5 percent
• Proposed mutual funds give boost to stock market
• Guangdong foreign trade hits US$23.58bln in February
• Weekly biz highlights Mar. 8-14, More energy in pipeline
• China, EU seek trade expansion in 2004
• Tesco ready to wrestle in China
• Experts: FDI slowdown will not hit growth
• Yuan buying limited to US$10,000 a day
• BALtrans establishes joint venture in Shenzhen
• "China and EU moving towards quality relationship": EU trade commissioner Lamy
• Prices bolster China oil majors
• China unveils recall system for flawed automobiles
• HK records 2 bln RMB in deposits

• US media have fewer audience: study
• Two Chinese workers abducted by rebels in Sudan
• Koizumi to visit Yasukuni Shrine despite China's strong opposition
• Blast destroys section of 9-storey building in Russia's Arkhangelsk
• Inter-Korean talks scuttled over S. Korean impeachment
• Security is "key priority" in EU-China talks: Solana
• Dead soldiers' families join anti-war protest at White House
• Dengue fever deaths reaches 452 in Indonesia
• Most Canadians believe US president lied to justify Iraq war
• News analysis: What behind Powell's visit to South Asia?
• Ugandan government forces kill 209 rebels in north
• Former Haitian president arrives in Jamaica
• Iran reverses decision to suspend inspection, IAEA chief says
• Spanish socialists favor withdrawing troops from Iraq
• S. Africa destroyes nuclear power: former president
• Haiti suspends ties with CARICOM

• Barrister Lee 'must apologize for deception'
• Dualism in US aiding policy towards Africa: Commentary
• Morgan Stanley chief economist: "why we ought to be thanking the Chinese"

• English-only teaching not allowed for kids
• H5N2 inactivated vaccine effective in preventing bird flu: official
• Carrier rocket for Shenzhou VI to be shipped next year
• Computers, phones "dirtier than toilets"
• Chinese students applying for US university drastically decreased
• Planet-like object discovered in solar system 
• Photos: Poor but happy kids
• Italy offers aid for veterinary institute in China's Qinghai
• Registration for national test for translators and interpreters starts
• Sino-US anti-AIDS project launched
• China to reveal female-specific language to public

• Chinese snatch three titles at All England badminton championships
• Tickets for F1 Shanghai stop in hot pursuit

• Shadow removed from south China's bird flu-stricken city
• Elderly rewarded for long life in Gansu
• New habitats for giant pandas under construction
• Jiangxi launches large-scale protection over cultural relics
• Beijing repairs ruined section of Great Wall
• Food poisoning kills 31 in 2003 in Guangdong
• Tipster of campus slaying suspect gets reward
• China vows to intensify drug control: official
• Chinese film to make debut at NY film festival
• Suzhou holds Azalea fair
• Emirates airline to launch Dubai-Shanghai route
• Condoms on campus? Some are delighted, some frown
• Int'l Art Festival to be held in Anhui
• Sino-US anti-AIDS project launched in China's Yunnan
• Suspect in college slayings captured in south China