Tuesday, April 20, 2004

• Chinese Premier to visit five European countries, EU headquarters
• China confident of scheduled six-party talks
• China to raise grain output by popularizing "super rice"
• Reception marks 30th anniversary of Sino-Gabonese ties
• Chinese state councilor meets US FBI director
• Third Bo'ao Forum for Asia to greet more new faces
• Cambodian PM arrives in Beijing
• Former Mexican President visits People's Daily Online
• China orders alert against epidemic meningitis from Central Africa, Chad
• Landmark win for wartime victims
• Leaders of China, Gabon hail 30th anniversary of diplomatic relationship
• Blood supply center officials arrested for embezzlement
• Senior Bush speaks at forum in Shanghai
• Army chief holds talks with Finnish guests
• Chinese, Russian officials call for promoting bilateral regional cooperation
• Chinese state councilor meets US guests
• China indignant about Vietnam's tourism to Nansha islands
• Czech president vows to boost Czech-China trade ties
• WHO rules out Taiwan as member
• Chinese defense minister meets Finnish guests
• Air flights to be launched linking Jiangxi, Singapore
• China's health departments above county level urged to set up AIDS expert panels
• APEC Transportation Working Group Meeting held in Beijing

• Chinese exporters cautious on raising prices
• China Railcom to invest 9 billion yuan in network building
• Beijing reports drastic rise in overseas investment inflow
• Export of live chickens resumes from mainland to HK
• China faces first trade deficit in 17 years with calmness
• HK government issues bonds to relieve deficit
• China will allow institutional investors to sell short treasury bonds
• Microsoft signs second global partner in China
• Biz Weekly Highlights April 12-16: China's status of market economy
• Chinese steel companies seek steady ore supply from Australia
• China's oil depot construction draws disputes from experts
• Sino-Russian trade to pick up a gear
• NW China region to open tourism for overseas investors
• Guangdong reports growing foreign trade in 1st quarter
• Bank of China establishes first Middle East branch
• China export commodity fair draws record global attendance
• Shanghai intellectual property rights park opens
• Boao Forum for Asia ready: secretariat
• HK launches 769 million US dollars bonds sale
• China to resume trading of fuel oil futures
• McDonald's Chairman dies of heart attack

• Captured terror suspects remain under custody in Pakistan
• NATO to strengthen partnership with Ukraine: secretary-general
• Bus accident kills three, injures 26 in S.Korea
• Japanese official denies ransom involved in hostage crisis
• Irish leaders keen to boost cooperation with China
• King of Jordan postpones meeting with Bush
• Brazilian president praises cooperation with China
• Spanish PM holds talks with Latin American states on troop pullout from Iraq
• Japan to extend supply mission in Gulf: report
• US envoy says no plan to deploy troops to Malacca Straits
• Thai senate debates troop withdrawal from Iraq
• Honduras to withdraw troops from Iraq
• Voting begins in India's general election
• Facts and figures of parliamentary elections in India
• Venezuela slams US senator over attack on Chavez
• UNHCR plans to shut new Afghan refugee camp in Pakistan for security reasons
• US disappointed with Spain's pullout
• Military cooperation key to transformed India-US ties: US diplomat
• DPRK criticizes EU for pushing human rights resolution
• Bush nominates Negroponte US ambassador to Iraq
• Road Map best way to peace: Blair
• United States to form new anti-terrorism task force

• Ten Defects in China's Urban Development, Hilarity for Things Big and Foreign
• New Zealand shows way for rest of the world

• Genes replicate like the hairs of the Monkey King
• 160 people with doctorates in service for China's strategic missile troops
• Chinese Mushroom Found to Boost Fitness
• UNESCO praises China's contribution to oceanographic research
• China improves overseas study service: official

• Chinese athletic official denies Michael Johnson's China move
• Indonesia announces Thomas, Uber Cups lineups

• Cook named "green chef" for refusing to cook rare wildlife for years
• Export of live chickens resumes from mainland to HK
• Fujian cracks down on piracy
• Police officers' rights to be better protected
• TV prime time for children
• Curtain raised on mysterious ancient ethnic regime in NW China
• Beijing courtyards on sale
• Milk powders kill babies, PM orders investigation
• China stages opera version of "Othello"
• More people suffer psychological crises
• 3 killed, 2 severely injured by unidentified gas in S. China
• One missing in landslide in south China province
• Jacky Cheung's new album launches
• Venereal disease cases decline in Guangdong
• Taiwanese-based drug trafficking gang captured
• Over 30% of China's preserved fruit brands unqualified
• Guangdong faces severe HIV situation
• Former US President Bush visits Shanghai
• Prince of Magic to Cast Spell on Beijing  
• Truck robber shot dead after highway chase in Beijing
• Summer Comes Early in Beijing  
• Adventures of Tintin Back in China
• Shanghai intellectual property rights park opens
• China's health departments above county level urged to set up AIDS expert panels
• Air, water conditions stay normal in Chongqing after gas tank destruction