News -- December 23, 2004

• 1998 US embassy blast suspect acquitted in Tanzania
• 15 wounded in India-controlled Kashmir blast
• 2 Filipinas injured in attack on US base in Iraq
• 2004 HK securities market witnesses new records
• 3rd Int'l Congress of Chinese Mathematicians closes in HK

• British soldiers discharged from murder trial in Tanzania
• Baby born in taxi; driver may face fines
• Chile's supreme court postpones ruling on Pinochet indictment
• Canada to send 20 observers for Palestine elections
• China asks US to lift trade tariff

• Cuban FM condemns EU foreign policy
• China asks US to lift trade tariff
• Drought may hit hard next year
• EU court upholds sanctions against Microsoft
• First manned Chinese helium airship approved

• font color="#0000CC">705 officials punished following public hotline reports
• Gisele Bundchen, Leonardo's girlfriend
• HK Securities & Future Commission charges 7 persons in Nov.
• HP eyes bigger market pie
• Lenovo, Visa to form alliance

• Low tariffs help foreign wines pour in
• Mobile phone short messages register record high
• Macao police arrest prisoner escapee
• Mongolian President Bagabandi concludes visit to DPRK
• Millions in Southern Africa face hungry Christmas, says UN

• New institute of computational biology to be built in Shanghai
• Nigeria, China to hold economic forum in Abuja
• No troop withdrawal from Siachen: Indian minister
• Network to track vagrants to start
• Pakistan hails peace gesture from Indian PM

• Poisonous gas kills 13 miners
• Reserves prospering, protecting nature
• Shining, shining, my alluring diamonds
• Sudan handles Darfur issue in cautious way
• Snowfall shuts airports, highways

• Top mathematicians explain beauty of math
• US economy grows 4% in Q3
• Woman thieves on screen
• Win Victory director charged in HK$89 mln scam