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News -- January 3, 2005
- 40% of urban employees work as freelancers
- Active Israeli soldiers to carry out evacuation from Gaza
- Australian climber falls to death in New Zealand
- Auto market sees rebound from price war to technology competition
- At least 23 killed in Iraq suicide bombing
- Books on Hui medicine published in China
- Central gov't earmarks US$386m for disaster relief in 2004
- Chinese defense minister conveys condolence to tsunami victims
- Chinese medical squad arrives in tsunami-hit Sri Lanka
- Canada doubles aid to tsunami-hit Asia
- Death toll of HK tsunami victims may rise to six
- Foreign-funded companies in Shanghai set trade record
- font color="#0000CC">Premier Wen to attend ASEAN tsunami summit
- FM spokesman: 9 Chinese die in tsunamis in Thailand
- FM: Tsunamis kill 9 Chinese in Thailand
- France offers another 3 mln euros for tsunami-hit countries
- Germans have donated 30 million euro for tsunami victims
- Mainland to work for charter flights across Straits
- Mesic wins first round of Croatian presidential elections
- Mandarin's influence reaches deep in China: survey
- Number of self-employed tops 100 million in China
- Nigerian president boasts progress since taking office
- Ningxia recovers sand-hit grasslands
- New desert coffins unearthed in Xinjiang
- Overseas investment grows steadily in Shanghai
- Over 14 people dead in Zambia's road accident
- Russian draftees no longer to be sent to Chechnya: Defense Minister
- Remoteness, damage hinder tsunami relief efforts in Indonesia
- Shanghai subways transport record passengers in 2004
- Sharon: cabinet to vote on Gaza plan in January
- Syria reasserts support to One China policy
- Sharon: pullout from Gaza a gradual process
- SEF chairman Ku passes away in Taiwan
- Thai death toll from tsunamis rises to 4,993
- Thailand plans long-term psychiatric centres
- Unusual and dangerous circus performance
- UK police question man over hoax "quake dead" e-mails
- Weather satellite's first picture received
