Business -- Tuesday, August 20, 2002

• Overseas Financial Managers Eye China Market
• HKSAR to Strengthen Service Center Role in Regional Trade
• Pudong Sees 15 Percent Trade Growth
• Hitachi Invests in Shanghai's Logistics Sector
• China's First Semi-private Airline to Take off
• Macao Draws Huge Overseas Investment
• Foreign Stakes in Joint Ventures over 65% Must be Sold
• China to Host the First APEC E-commerce Fair
• China's Corn Production Belt Adjusts to Soaring Imports
• Farm Products Processing Industry Helps China's Agriculture Prosper
• Air China Accomplishes Beijing-NY Polar Route Test Flight
• Asian Hotel Property Market Emerges from Slump: Survey
• A New Railway Station in NW China
• Nissan's revival plan bets on new models in China
• HK's culinary contest receives warm response
• Hitachi invests in Shanghai's logistics sector
• Steel company's leader denies possible resettlement
• Huge market for general aviation in China
• HKSAR to strengthen service center role in regional trade
• Overseas financial managers eye China market
• Hong Kong shares close up 160 points
• HK delegation to attend APEC meetings
• Foreign exchange rates in Hong Kong
• Trading on Hong Kong stock exchange
• Pudong sees 15 percent trade growth
• Shenzhen stock index up
• Shanghai stock index up
• Xinhua stock index up
• Jiangsu reports faster foreign trade growth
• Landslide suspends traffic on Beijing-Kowloon railway
• Macao draws huge overseas investment
• Hong Kong stocks open up
• Chinese firm largest shareholder in Nasdaq-listed communications company
• Foreign software companies move into Shanghai
• Farm products processing industry helps China's agriculture prosper
• China attracts the most ROK visitors: ROK Ambassador to China
• Air China accomplishes Beijing-New York polar route test flight
• HK's unemployment rate up
• China intensifies regulation on food safety
• Hong Kong shares close slightly lower
• China's corn production belt adjusts to soaring imports
• 10 foods free from quality examination
• Xinhua stock index down
• Shanghai stock index down
• Hong Kong stocks close down
• Cross-Straits direct L/C transaction realized
• Prices of Chinese industrial products drop in July
• Senior bank official sentenced on corruption charges
• China's first part-private airline to take off
• China to transfer 300,000 fishermen to other jobs
• Hong Kong stocks open down
• Industrial city pins hopes on real estate industry
• China to leap forward in upgrading farm industry in 3 years
• China vows to solve food safety problem
• China auctions first mining rights to gold mine
• Chinese farming industry facing increased competition
• Expanded airport operational in NW China
• West route of the water diversion project to start in 2010
• Clearing center for City Commercial Banks due in Shanghai
• Largest insurance deal signed for 2002 Air Show China
• Interview: More Sino-Australian exchanges to take place
• Exports tipped to save NE. China corn
• Nissan, Dongfeng joint venture talks delayed again
• Shanghai worries about real estate bubble
• State Council approves expansion of Beijing economic zone
• Figures: China's imports from Japan
• Figures: Imports of China's mainland from Taiwan Province
• Figures: China's imports from Chile
• Figures: China's imports from Germany
• Figures: China's imports from Singapore
• Figures: China's imports from Malaysia
• Figures: China's imports from Indonesia
• Figures: China's main imports in Jan-June 2002
• Figures: China's imports from Thailand
• Figures: China's imports from India
• Figures: Imports of China's mainland from HK
• Figures: China's imports from Australia
• Figures: China's imports from Vietnam
• Figures: China's imports from ROK
• Figures: China's imports from New Zealand
• Figures: China's imports from Russia
• China's WTO entry creates win-win situation
• Gas supplier in east China competes with west
• Dalai Lama's "greater Tibet" defies Tibetan people's will
• South Africa to strengthen ties with China
• Senior party official on discipline inspection
• NPC chairman meets Thai princess
• Cameroonian ambassador on Chinese premier's upcoming visit
• SW China to set up international zone for new materials industry
• Math toy exhibition highlights China's ancient math history
• China hosts 24th International Congress of Mathematicians
• Macao to build science center
• China set to lead world maths research
• Int'l education exchange event to be held in Beijing
• China to step up education for ethnic groups
• Research base for cultural industry opens in China
• Thai princess hosts concert in Beijing
• Tibetan students to go to inland key high schools
• China guards against possible arrival of cholera
• Tropical storm hits China's southern coast, interior areas
• First big prize winner in receipt lottery
• 3 missing students' bodies found in 6700-meter high snow field
• Crew saved from South China Sea after ship sinks