Tuesday, April 13, 2004

• China, US to confer on "extensive topics" during Cheney's visit
• Premier raises 3 proposals for enhancing Sino-EU ties
• US does not support "Taiwan Independence": Cheney 
• Chinese Vice President holds talks with Dick Cheney 
• A study on use of Japan's aid for common development and mutual benefit
• Macao to select election committee members in June
• South China Sea Fleet conducts drill
• Beijing to continue ban on ads in Tian'anmen
• Tougher measures for defanging snakeheads
• Xinjiang enjoys stability and development: official
• Health Ministry publicizes top infectious diseases in first quarter
• Vice-premier calls for flood control, drought relief efforts
• Beijing reaffirms stand against independence
• New policy eases one-child restrictions
• Seven abducted Chinese nationals released 
• Chinese, Croatian FMs talk over phone on bilateral cooperation
• Official calls for efforts to secure comprehensive public security
• President Hu highly concerned with seven kidnapped Chinese in Iraq
• Premier Wen offers condolences to Russia over mine blast

• China's Kejian mobile phones launched in India
• Overseas direct investment in Chinese mainland surges
• 2nd natural gas pipeline proposed to link gas field and Beijing
• Construction of aid-Tibet projects in progress
• Cultural industry proposed as new stimulator for West Development
• Soaring textile investment driven by demand, technological progress: expert
• Tax revenue in first quarter grows
• Auto tax policy attracts students in Shanghai
• China hungry for electricity this summer
• Foreign-funded banks set up 192 operations in China
• China becomes global "brain"
• China's economy to grow by 9 percent: expert
• Unemployment rate down 1.48 percent in Beijing
• MII refutes handset licence rumours
• Biz weekly highlights: Chances for a breakthrough of Sino-Russian trade
• Steel prices on rise in China for first quarter
• China's auto industry boosted after WTO entry: official
• China to invest 50 billion yuan in rural infrastructure construction

• Four Italians abducted in Iraq
• US Apache helicopter crashes west of Baghdad
• US vice president kicks off China visit
• Election campaign winds down in South Africa
• Backgrounder: Key facts about South Africa ahead of the April 14 elections
• Mysterious cattle disease breaks out in Zambia
• China Peaceful Reunification World Summit Forum opens
• Japanese emperor appeals for release of hostages in Iraq
• New Zealand bodyguards warned to stay out of Iraq
• 8 Russians kidnapped in Iraq
• US says to kill or capture al-Sadr
• US economy embarks on bumpy recovery road
• Sri Lankan president commences constitutional reforms
• Japan to keep up efforts for release of hostages in Iraq
• Elections to be top priority: Nepali king
• Howard sees no need to order Australians to pull out of Iraq
• Japan still in dark on situation of hostages in Iraq
• At least 427 killed in Central America during Holy Week
• Russia: Private Mars mission "nonsense"
• 11 Russians reportedly kidnapped in Iraq
• US to allow Israel to keep parts of West Bank in future deal: US newspaper
• US commanders in Iraq ask for two more combat brigades
• Death toll of mine blast in Russia's Siberia rises to 45
• Bush, Mubarak meet on Iraq, Mideast conflict

• Chen Shui-bian's independence attempt doomed
• Kidnappings fan flames of Iraqi
• China once target of Philippine-US joint military exercise
• United Airlines pins high hopes on China
• US, Japan establish military alliance
• Central bank puts "wet blanket" over over-investment

• UK-based education tools developer sets up Asia Pacific office in Hong Kong
• China developed first "nanometer optical tweezers equipment"
• Scholarship aids study in France
• China cracks down on juveniles in Net bars
• Chinese students attend model UN conference
• Chinese and French gov'ts to launch Internet cooperation
• China delivers satellite operation rights to user

• China determines to qualify for Olympics women soccer
• China books a position in Olympic pentathlon
• Dong's maiden goal boosts Antwerp win
• Martinez wins her tennis carrer's 700th victory
• Liverpool 0-1 Charlton: 50-year wait over
• Chinese teenager to undergo trials in Chelsea

• Chinese playwright adapts Victor Hugo's novel for stage
• Official: China a main victim of CD piracy
• Chinese cultural week ends in Mongolia
• "Body card" played at ease?
• Cold Mountain premiered in warm Beijing
• Macao to launch campaign bidding for WHO Healthy City
• More Shanghai families allowed to have second child
• Relics of ancient Warring States period discovered in SW China
• New communication system expected to ease traffic congestion in Beijing
• Sixteen face the music in record case of disc piracy
• Guangdong to allocate 30m yuan to help farmer patients
• Shanxi offers legal aid services for prison inmates
• Fire put out in Hunan, no casualty reported
• Spring flood submerges city in Inner Mongolia, 345 people evacuated
• Court tries gang with China's largest number of porn discs
• Rescue operation halted, 12 still missing in central China coalmine flooding