Wednesday, March 31, 2004

• Premier calls for study, implementation of amended Constitution
• China to promote Sino-Albanian relations: CPPCC vice-chairman
• Payment of subsidies to grain farmers accelerated
• Polls favor indirect vote of Macao's next chief executive
• China, Afghan to resume cultural exchanges
• Chen Shui-bian slammed for independent stance
• Prisoner 'Hearing' enters jails in China
• China to return more farmland to forests in 2004
• China ready to improve defense cooperation with Thailand: Chinese official
• China to build three new maritime rescue teams this year
• Yemeni PM concludes China visit
• 3,798 civil servants punished over SARS negligence
• Italy to launch "Marco-Polo" project to increase exchange with China
• Research body on government functions founded
• Chen's new remarks on "Taiwan independence" observed: spokesman
• Party leader calls for strict farmland protection
• Yemeni PM on his "fruitful" China tour
• Murderers of Chinese diplomat executed in Xinjiang
• China takes countermeasures on US visa procedure

• Beijing's estate market still has great potential
• Power shortage problem to be solved by 2006: official
• Fund allocated in subsidies for rice growers
• Anti-dumping investigation against imported Kraft board started
• Ambassador wants Sino-Russian trade to top US$100bln
• Offshore Oil becomes major source of China's crude oil
• China makes its first 3G mobile phone
• ICBC inks credit cards deal with Amex logo
• China's IT investment to reach 40 billion yuan this year
• HK forms auto alliance to tap mainland market
• Forex dealings up 51.2%
• Financial group plans further biz expansion
• Effort urged to offset oil import pressure
• New policy on auto sector "ready in 3 months"
• No easy way to win in China: Carrefour 
• Macao power plant makes 56.4 million US dollars in profits
• Chinese residents buy more foreign currency
• CNOOC confirms oil finding in Bohai Bay
• Chinese technology firm to issue corporate bond
• World potato congress in SW China results in fruitful trade,cooperation
• ICBC confident of 10% profit growth
• Profit of China's machinery industry breaks record

• Uruguayan president meets China's trade delegation
• Two Chinese workers killed in Sudan
• Jewish settlers move into East Jerusalem, causing clashes
• Musharraf sets deadline on Kashmir issue
• Cambodia destroys surface-to-air missiles
• French president to visit Russia on April 3
• Anti-Chavez ambassadors to be replaced: report
• China to improve defense cooperation with Thailand
• Candidate registration for S.Korean parliament election begins
• Chirac authorises Raffarin to form new French government
• NATO expansion causes serious concern in Russia
• McDonald's hires daughter of Thai PM
• Netherlands bids farewell to Queen Juliana
• NATO access brings gains, as well as loss, to 7 new members
• 20 Uzbek militants blow themselves up
• Explosives seized, 8 arrested in UK terror raid
• Separated families and relatives of two Koreas meet at Mt. Kumgang
• Bush says he agrees to let Rice testify publicly
• Arafat welcomes Hamas demand of joining PNA
• US, Israel agree on disengagement terms
• DPRK civilians admit faking papers on chemical weapons testing on humans
• Myanmar announces reconvening of national convention
• Bangladeshi opposition forms human wall to show no-confidence in govt
• Ambassador wants Chinese-Russian annual trade to 100 billion dollars
• Annan's adviser recommends long-term UN presence in Haiti
• Bolivian miner blows himself up at local congress
• Uganda reiterates "one-China" policy

• US criticism reveals Cold War mentality: signed article
• Human rights progress verifies "people first" principle
• 'Taiwan independence', No way out: Chinese worldwide

• Private schools boast 14.16 million students
• China to name asteroid after astronaut Yang Liwei
• Gates aims for 2006 Longhorn release
• China makes great breakthrough in plasma TV technology
• Stem cells help attack cancer in mice
• Doctors suggest monitoring high-risk people for hepatitis C virus
• First baby born to liver-transplant patient in stable condition:doctor
• Microsoft says it is hard to recruit 100 software engineers in China

• Chinese get easy pass at badminton S.Korea Open
• Chinese Yao loses to Bryant in Western weekly honors race
• Qi defends title in China's national Olympic trial

• Short message helps solve debt case in Nanning
• Fund allocated in subsidies for rice growers
• Spring crops growing well
• Confucius' hometown restores ancient city wall
• Sandstorm brings challenge to air traffic control
• Residence permits urged for foreigners
• Road accidents major killer for Chinese children
• Bus plunges into river, leaving 7 dead in Sichuan
• Son, mom tried for faking relationships
• Farmers go looking for love in cities
• Why birth rate in China keeps dropping
• Sophie Marceau skips trip to Beijing
• Historians protest plan to move wall
• Breast enlargement causes swellings on belly
• Price drop on Hong Kong tour expected in Labor Day
• Sotheby's HK to auction chinawares worth HK$200M
• Experts warn against rising obesity in Chinese children