Saturday, April 10, 2004

• Cambodian king leaves Beijing for DPRK
• Latvian president highlights further cooperation with China
• NSSF to increase equity investment
• China sets timetable for recovering worker's overdue payment
• Fighter plane successful in test flight
• China to launch nationwide crackdown on drug trafficking
• 3 bln yuan to be used on Three Gorges Project migrants
• US expert investigates shooting on Chen
• Sino-German aviation deal set for May 1
• Dates set for World Leisure Expo

• Headhunting firms encounter setbacks for substandard service
• Anti-dumping a heating-up campaign, why?
• Farm tax to be axed in 3 years
• China Southern buys 21 Airbus aircraft
• Bank helps clients manage idle funds
• Foreign trade of hi-tech products increases 52%

• Hillary Clinton adds afterword to book
• 2 US soldiers, several civilians missing in Iraq
• Weapons stolen from Australian defense forces since 2001: report
• Thai PM hints of Iraqi withdrawal
• 6 killed, 37 trapped in Russian mine accident
• Japanese PM refuses to meet hostages' relatives
• Sri Lanka to prevent post election violence
• Violence continues in Iraq
• US to locate Japanese hostages
• Japan has few options for Iraq hostages
• Rice testimony yields mixed results for White House: polls
• White House to declassify key intelligence memo
• Candidate, former PM rejects re-elected Algerian president
• Spain denies joint actions with US in Najaf
• U.S. troops fight insurgents on highway

• China introduces overall WTO rules by Foreign Trade Law amendment

• Chocolate has good impact
• China's largest wildlife museum opens in Xinjiang
• Trading of technological property rights gets brisk
• Russian scientists plan to send men to Mars
• Rhodia unveils Asia-Pacific R&D centre
• Hainan to hold fair on new hybrid rice varieties

• Village boasts recorded history of 6,000 years
• Buddy Bears in HK, carrying message of peace and love
• Assistance for HIV/AIDS orphans intensifies in Henan