Sunday, March 21, 2004

• Taiwan leader election closely watched: official
• China badly needs 'gray-collars' for manufacturing
• Taiwan "Referendum" vetoed by the people

• New gas-fired power plant for China's "smog city"
• China's going to nurse its own commercial conglomerates
• Beijing's imports up 38.8 percent in first two months

• Chinese vice-premier arrives in Phnom Penh
• Latin American countries demonstrate on first anniversary of Iraqi war
• Global protests rally against Iraq war, occupation
• Bomb blasts rock Kathmandu suburbs
• Bin Laden's right-hand man visits N.Z. twice
• S. Africans protest US military invasion of Iraq
• Bush renews defense of Iraq war in weekly radio address
• Anti-war protesters march in London on Iraq war anniversary
• Ten thousand people participate in peace demonstrate in Rome
• About 10,000 demonstrators march in Paris against Iraq war
• Ethnic clashes in Kosovo force some 3,600 non-Albanians to flee homes
• Thousands join protest in New York to mark 1st anniversary of Iraq war
• About 350 people protest war against Iraq in Prague
• Michael Jackson's first accuser could be called to testify
• US launches Air Force GPS satellite

• Gender disparity needs work: Opinion

• Massive funding helps improve ecology in Tibet
• Stamp album marks birth centenary of late leader
• Hope slim for eight trapped miners in SW China
• Sichuan doctor begins 49-day fast for world record