Thursday, July 08, 2004

News

Rice in China: Chairman of China's Central Military Commission Jiang Zemin met here Thursday with US Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Condoleezza Rice. Jiang said he is glad to meet Rice, adding that she looks younger than before.

US Shrimp Ruling Angers Producers: Chinese shrimp producers said Wednesday that the US decision to impose high duties on their exports is unfair and that it is US consumers who will pay the cost.

China's vision for new space age: "Space technology is very hi-tech. It's important for national economic and social development. We won't stop doing it just because other countries have already done it. We think we still need to have these technologies to help other kinds of hi-tech development, such as material science, computers and the life sciences."

Timeline—SARS virus: BBC News Online looks at the chronology of key events surrounding the outbreak of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) virus.

Chiang Kai-Shek to Be Buried - at Last - in Taiwan: Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek will be buried at last—three decades after his death and after his successors failed to realize his dream of reclaiming the Chinese mainland from Mao Zedong's communists. [NYT reg. req.]

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