Business -- February 15, 2006

• Australian govt considering changing ways of exporting wheat
• About 5.1 mln Chinese laid-off workers reemployed in 2005
• Biggest state bank aims to go public in 2006
• China's A share market reports leap of new share traders in new year
• China eyes sea water to ease shortages

• China's money supply accelerated in January: central bank
• China reports 56 pct surge in mobile phone exports last year
• China signs joint statement with EU to promote international accounting standard
• China to have a surplus work force of 14 million this year
• China spends nearly 40 billion US dollars to buy US planes

• China to close 35,842 firms without work safety license
• Expert: what buoys gold price after a downturn
• Ethiopian firm extends optical fiber telephone line to Sudan
• Ethiopian firm says nation's power capacity to reach 4,000 mw
• Number of air travelers in China more than double in five years

• Soaring growth for China's aviation industry
• Strategic investors not to threaten China's financial safety
• West to be more dependent on Mideast oil refineries: report
• World market share of China's export of machinery and electronics increases