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Date Mon, 06 Dec 2004 05:40:40 -0800




2004-12-06  People's Daily
Three years in WTO: challenges after transition period
http://english.people.com.cn/200412/06/eng20041206_166293.html

2004-12-06  New York Times
China's Textbooks Twist and Omit History
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/06/international/asia/06textbook.html

2004-12-06  New York Times

Stepping Up the Pressure Against Piracy in China
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/06/business/businessspecial2/06patents.html

2004-12-06  New York Times
Moving into China's 2nd-tier cities
http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/12/06/business/walside.html

2004-12-06  New York Times
The Two Faces of China
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/06/business/businessspecial2/06main.html

2004-12-06  LA Times
China Fears a Baby Bust
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-fg-onechild6dec06,1,7811747.story

2004-12-06  SCMP
Wenzhou spirit mines China's black gold
http://chinastudygroup.org/newsarchive/7909/

2004-12-06  SCMP
Leaders ponder a return to society's roots to stop the rot
http://chinastudygroup.org/newsarchive/7908/

2004-12-06  Bloomberg News
MNCs pour $906b into China
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/sub/money/story/0,5562,288997,00.html?

2004-12-06  Straits Times
Economists praise Beijing's fiscal policies
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/sub/asia/story/0,5562,288983,00.html?

2004-12-06  AFP
Beijing's low labour standards 'a big threat'
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/sub/asia/story/0,5562,288941,00.html?

2004-12-06  SCMP
U.S. Automakers See China as the Land of Opportunity
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/06/business/businessspecial2/06auto.htm

2004-12-06  Xinhua
China highlights macro control in economic work next year
http://en-1.ce.cn/Business/Macro-economic/200412/06/t20041206_2489632.shtml

2004-12-06  Financial Times
Chinese party leaders call for monetary stability
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/5eaa4e96-472c-11d9-b099-00000e2511c8.html

2004-12-05  Financial Times
Competition in China keeps foreign profits low
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/342499fa-4700-11d9-b099-00000e2511c8.html

2004-12-05  New York Times
Glamour Lives, in Chinese Films
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/05/movies/05darg.html

2004-12-05  New York Times
A Long March From Maoism to Microsoft
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/05/business/yourmoney/05mao.html?oref=login

2004-12-05  China Daily
Speculative money: A hot potato
http://en-1.ce.cn/Business/Macro-economic/200412/05/t20041205_2485269.shtml

2004-12-05  Xinhua
Ministry's control on railways questioned
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-12/05/content_397425.htm

2004-12-04  Business Week
Bolstering China's Banks
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_50/b3912157_mz035.htm

2004-12-04  Globe and Mail
IBM reported set to sell PC unit to China's Lenovo for $2-billion
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20041204/RIBMPCS04/TPBusiness/International

2004-12-04  Slate
Oh, My God! The Chinese Are Coming!
http://slate.msn.com/id/2110644/

2004-12-04  Reuters
'Kekexili' Wins Best Film at Chinese Oscars
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34987-2004Dec4.html

2004-12-04  SCMP
Dirty money flow washes over China
http://chinastudygroup.org/newsarchive/7892/

2004-12-04  New York Times
White House Defends China on Currency
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/04/business/worldbusiness/04dollar.html

2004-12-04  New York Times
Failed China Fuel Supplier Waited Too Long for Help
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/04/business/worldbusiness/04losses.html

2004-12-04  AP
Playboy goes to China
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20041203.wchina1203/BNStory/Business/

2004-12-03  Business Week
Just How Cheap Is Chinese Labor?
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6638964/

2004-12-03  People's Daily
China's agriculture sees three increases in 2004
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200412/03/eng20041203_166037.html

2004-12-03  People's Daily
Key SOEs' profits top 500 billion yuan
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200412/03/eng20041203_166075.html

2004-12-03  People's Daily
China will stick to socialist road: President Hu
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200412/03/eng20041203_165951.html

2004-12-03  AP
Beijing struggles to make a polyglot nation conform
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/12/03/2003213563

2004-12-03  SCMP
China rising with enforcement role
http://chinastudygroup.org/newsarchive/7883/

2004-12-03  SCMP
Mainland could suffer disaster 'on the same scale as Bhopal'
http://chinastudygroup.org/newsarchive/7882/

2004-12-03  SCMP
Petitioners' woes to be handled at local level
http://chinastudygroup.org/newsarchive/7881/

2004-12-03  CIIC
Rules Mapped Out to Protect Workers' Rights
http://china.org.cn/english/2004/Dec/113778.htm

2004-12-03  Washington Post
Chinese Officials Seek to Pump Up the Party
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30173-2004Dec2.html

2004-12-03  China Economic Net
How should RMB face the USD depreciation?
http://en-1.ce.cn/main/Insight/200412/02/t20041202_2469034.shtml

2004-12-03  China Daily

Coal mining industry shake-up unveiled
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-12/03/content_396989.htm

2004-12-03  Xinhua
China to bailout two more state banks
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-12/03/content_397161.htm

2004-12-03  Asia Times
China's resistance war revisited, revised
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FL04Ad06.html

2004-12-03  Straits Times
Curbs on land and credit supply will stay
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/sub/asia/story/0,5562,288413,00.html?

2004-12-02  Globe and Mail
China lifts ban on film icon
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20041202.wxchina02/BNStory/International/

2004-12-02  AP
UPS to Buy Out Partner's Share in China
http://www.forbes.com/technology/ebusiness/feeds/ap/2004/12/02/ap1686686.html

2004-12-02  Financial Times
China widens access for foreign banks
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/8ccf880e-43c6-11d9-af06-00000e2511c8.html

2004-12-02  Financial Times
Lawsuit opposes US quotas on Chinese textiles
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/673a4d48-441d-11d9-a5eb-00000e2511c8.html

2004-12-02  People's Daily
China to exercise prudent fiscal and monetary policies next year
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200412/02/eng20041202_165810.html

2004-12-02  Xinhua
China capable of diminishing pressure from yuan appreciation, say experts
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200412/02/eng20041202_165930.html

2004-12-02  People's Daily
Is China a world factory or workshop?
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200412/02/eng20041202_165922.html

2004-12-02  China Economic Net
China's fundamental telecom opens up to the outside world
http://en-1.ce.cn/main/Insight/200412/01/t20041201_2455624.shtml

2004-12-02  China Economic Net
China economy entering a new era of heavy industry
http://en-1.ce.cn/main/Insight/200412/01/t20041201_2455625.shtml

2004-12-02  China Daily
Hot money hiking property prices?
http://en-1.ce.cn/Industries/Property/200412/02/t20041202_2460366.shtml

2004-12-02  China Daily
Banks show improvement in capital strength
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-12/02/content_396751.htm

2004-12-02  Asia Times
ASEAN, China all smiles for now
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/FL03Ae02.html

2004-12-02  Asia Times
China's regional airlines fail to take off
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FL03Ad01.html

2004-12-02  SCMP
China weighs dollars and sense of revaluation
http://chinastudygroup.org/newsarchive/7858/

2004-12-02  SCMP
Party's influence waning at banks
http://chinastudygroup.org/newsarchive/7857/

2004-12-02  Beijing Review
Put Out the Forex Fire
http://www.bjreview.com.cn/200448/Business-200448(A).htm

2004-12-02  Straits Times
Hu to spell out thoughts on Taipei
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/sub/asia/story/0,5562,288252,00.html?

2004-12-02  Straits Times
Global war on Aids
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/sub/asia/story/0,5562,288262,00.html?

2004-12-01  Washington Post
Party Censors Leave a Chinese City to Speculate on Corruption Scandal
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A14707-2004Oct31

2004-12-01  AP
AFL-CIO leader to meet with Cos. in China
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/apbiz_story.asp?category=1310&slug=Labor%20China

2004-12-01  AP
China Says Beijing Must Finish Bank Reform
http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/ap/2004/12/01/ap1683761.html

2004-12-01  SCMP
Miners forced down blazing pit 'to secure bonuses for bosses'
http://chinastudygroup.org/newsarchive/7852/

2004-12-01  SCMP
Smiles all round, but suspicion of China won't go away
http://chinastudygroup.org/newsarchive/7851/

2004-12-01  SCMP
Hu puts focus on fighting epidemic
http://chinastudygroup.org/newsarchive/7850/

2004-12-01  SCMP
Go West campaign draws investment to Chengdu
http://chinastudygroup.org/newsarchive/7849/

2004-12-01  New York Times
China Hurries to Animate Its Film Industry
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/01/movies/01anim.html

2004-12-01  LA Times
China Mine Explosion Death Toll Rises to 166
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-fg-mine1dec01,1,1877737.story

2004-12-01  The Guardian
'I don't know how it works'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,7369,1363339,00.html

2004-12-01  China Economic Net
Economic dance of China hand in hand with Latin America
http://en-1.ce.cn/main/Insight/200411/30/t20041130_2444001.shtml

2004-12-01  China Daily
Labour rules give workers more security
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-12/01/content_396197.htm

2004-12-01  China Daily
Foreign banks given new entree
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-12/01/content_396444.htm

2004-12-01  Financial Times
Google hit by access problems in China
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/b5ed45e4-4396-11d9-af06-00000e2511c8.html

2004-12-01  Asia Times
China and India steal the show
http://chinastudygroup.org/newsarchive/7841/

2004-12-01  Asia Times
Japan has a tiger by the tail
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/FL02Dh01.html

2004-11-30  SCMP
Local authorities get more say on investment plans
http://chinastudygroup.org/newsarchive/7839/

2004-11-30  SCMP
China moves higher in wealth league
http://chinastudygroup.org/newsarchive/7838/

2004-11-30  SCMP
Pit-blast miners 'ordered to work despite blaze'
http://chinastudygroup.org/newsarchive/7837/

2004-11-30  SCMP
China 'gets critical role in US foreign policy'
http://chinastudygroup.org/newsarchive/7836/

2004-11-30  Financial Times
Wen rebuffs invitation to visit Tokyo
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/3d37d580-42d1-11d9-bea1-00000e2511c8.html

2004-11-30  Christian Science Monitor
China 'gray lists' its intellectuals
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1130/p01s03-woap.html

2004-11-30  China Daily
China AIDS cases rise 40% a year
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-11/30/content_395951.htm

2004-11-30  China Economic Net
Implications of Wal-Mart's procurement in China
http://en-1.ce.cn/main/Insight/200411/26/t20041126_2420149.shtml

2004-11-30  China Daily
Luxury goods storming Chinese cities
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-11/30/content_395935.htm

2004-11-30  Asia Times
China steady on the peg
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FL01Ad01.html

2004-11-30  Asia Times
Taiwan's 'post-election stress syndrome'
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FL01Ad03.html

2004-11-30  Asia Times
China adds its might to ASEAN
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FL01Ad08.html

2004-11-29  Xinhua
"Income gap" tops senior officials' concerns
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-11/29/content_395772.htm

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