Monday, March 22, 2004

• CAE president on China's balance economic growth with environmental protection
• Macao's Legislative Council collects 39 opinion papers for Election Bill
• China offers the world five opportunities: official
• "A win-win Asia" becomes long-standing theme of BFA
• Three Gorges Dam Project sparks new relocation
• Office: Beijing watches Taiwan developments closely
• State tightens farmland protection
• Premier Wen urges further western development 
• China should boost development of service sector: official
• China values military ties with neighboring countries
• Vice-premier vows to boost sustainable development

• Another batch of duty-free products under CEPA leaves Macao for Shanghai
• Electric cars on their way to markets
• Amoi center targets new business
• State assets trade opens up
• Alcatel eyes tie-up on TD-SCDMA development
• Skyworth heads into real estate sector
• Sino-Myanmar bilateral economic, trade ties get new momentum
• Avon to become solely foreign-funded in China
• Chinese mainland firms attract international investors
• Biz weekly highlights Mar. 15-19 Keep talking, keep in tune
• New import source for soybeans suggested
• 70th national confectionery, alcoholic commodity fair opens
• Stephen Roach: China to play vital role in rebounding world economy
• 70th national confectionery, alcoholic commodity fair opens

• Abdullah takes oath of office as Prime Minister
• Islamic Jihad: Israeli assassination of Yassin opens door to war
• General strike declared after Yassin assassinated
• PNA condemns Yassin killing
• Hamas leader declares "open" war with Israel
• Hamas founder Yassin killed in Israeli air strike 
• Al-Qaeda's No 2 claims to have nukes
• Georgian president names French ambassador as FM
• Over 500 guerrillas killed in western Nepal
• Tensions erupt between Argentina, Britain over disputed islands
• New leader takes reins of Germany's Social Democratic Party
• Ugandan army kills 46 rebels
• Thousands of anti-war protesters take to Los Angeles streets
• Explosions rock central Baghdad
• Israeli army pulls out of Gaza village, 6 Palestinians killed
• Malaysian ruling coalition wins in general election 
• Schroeder quits party leadership
• Afghan aviation minister assassinated

• Koizumi tries to block the 'domino' trend of troop withdrawal from Iraq

• China vows to raise ideological and moral standards of young people
• Database on ancient China's academy culture established in central China
• China's oldest bamboo article unearthed in central China
• Oracle tortoise shell discovered in W.China
• 1,300-year-old male gingko confirmed in NE.China
• First pottery with human-body design unearthed in Gansu
• Farmers in Chongqing City benefit from internet learning
• 4,000 year-old city excavated in Central China
• Beijing University builds research center on senility
• English interpreters' exam attracts record number of examinees
• China to launch lunar probe satellite on Long March III A

• S. Korea sweeps in World Speed Skating Championship
• Returned race walk queen eyes Olympic medal
• Wang wins China gold in speedskating world championships

• Beijing to kick off ten water conservancy projects to guarantee supply by 2008
• Inbound tourism resumed in China
• Arid NW Chinese city curbs excessive water consumption
• Audio-video companies unite to counter piracy in Guangdong
• Discoveries reveal a flourishing Dunhuang 1,000 years ago
• Miniature stone sculpture of famous novel on exhibition
• Transient workers quest for love in cities
• All bodies from Yunnan tin mine cave-in found
• Poisonous meat kills one, sickens 56 in east China