Business -- December 4, 2004

• ADB okays loan for railway project in SW China
• China to bail out 2 more state banks
• Czech driver Kresta signs with Ford team
• Crude oil prices drop below 43 dollars a barrel
• China's top 10 trading provinces

• Forum to facilitate HK as international asset management center
• Largest luxury goods maker optimistic about mainland
• Little progress made in 6th round of Andean-US FTA talks
• Price tag for China-WB greenhouse gas deal: $19m
• Singapore, Chinese firms can make win-win partnership: official

• Snow says strong dollar "foundation" of US policy
• South Korea vows to increase investment in Poland
• Top 10 trade partners of China's mainland
• UPS to acquire direct control of Sinotrans's express operations
• US unemployment rate down to 5.4 percent in November

• US says China isn't violating US currency law