News -- December 22, 2004

• 150 Darfur rebels surrender
• 32 US Marines commit suicide in 2004
• 754 officials punished for misuse of gov't funds
• Anti-secession law seeks peaceful reunification
• Albania, Poland pledge to keep troops in Iraq

• Big numbers of foreigners in Shanghai classrooms
• BASF to invest US$30m in China
• Boeing close to new order
• Bangladesh faces crisis in manpower export
• Bank provides Uganda with grant for water projects

• China slams Japan's visa offer to Lee Teng-hui
• China plans to enact anti-secession law
• Chinese students catching up in math: Cambridge professor
• China urges US to sever military ties with Taiwan
• Charitable giving becoming a trend

• China to increase top-level nodes for "dot CN" connection
• Drivers for NY private bus lines stage sickout
• Dairy producer Yili confirms chairman, CFO detained
• Darfur peace talks suspended without progress
• Ex-soldier hunted for occupation of Aristide's mansion

• First Chinese graduate of Yale honored
• Japan eyes selling used warships to Asian countries: paper
• Japanese PM hopes to visit Iraq
• Largest database of spoken Chinese nears completion
• Mozambique's president elect Guebuza

• "nobodies" get media attention
• Nation to begin economic census
• Nissan plans engine plant in Guangzhou
• New Zealand deplores killing of policeman in Solomons
• Oilfields discovered off Cambodia's coast

• Peacekeepers leave for UN mission in Liberia
• Peru bus accident toll rises to 52
• Refining capacity rise lags demand growth
• Romania supports China's anti-secession efforts
• Sino-Canadian lab on dioxin inaugurated

• UN urges Sudanese govt, rebels to observe ceasefire in Darfur
• Venezuela's oil strike leaders accused of rebellion