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		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Issue 1: The Pope &amp; China  &lt;/B&gt;">
			<outline text="A public end for an extraordinary papacy ">
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				<outline text="Chris Buckley       "/>
				<outline text="324 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="International Herald Tribune            "/>
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				<outline text="Copyright (c) 2005 Bell &amp; Howell Information and Learning Company. All rights reserved.          "/>
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				<outline text="BEIJING:  "/>
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				<outline text="In China, Catholics joined in mourning the death of the pope, while the Chinese government offered its sympathies. &quot;China offers its condolences on the passing of Pope John Paul II due to illness,&quot; said Lian Jianchao, the spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, according to the Xinhua press agency.  "/>
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				<outline text="International Herald Tribune  "/>
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			<outline text="Media snippets greeted with an air of indifference  ">
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				<outline text="Vivien Cui       "/>
				<outline text="409 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="South China Morning Post            "/>
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				<outline text="(c) 2005  South China Morning Post Publishers Limited, Hong Kong. All rights reserved.          "/>
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				<outline text="The Pope's death was briefly announced by the mainland media a few hours after he passed away.  "/>
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				<outline text="Xinhua released a short article one hour after his death which set the tone for other official media.  "/>
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			<outline text="Vatican seen as both friend and foe ">
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				<outline text="By ANNA FIFIELD, JO JOHNSON, ROEL LANDINGIN, VIRGINIA MARSH and RICHARD MCGREGOR       "/>
				<outline text="699 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="Financial Times            "/>
				<outline text="Page 4   "/>
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				<outline text="It is a measure of Pope John Paul II's global influence that even China, which does not recognise the authority of the Vatican and broke off ties with the Holy See in the 1950s, offered its sympathies.  "/>
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				<outline text="&quot;China expresses its condolences on the passing away of Pope John Paul II,&quot; its foreign ministry said last night, adding that it remained open to improved Sino-Vatican relations with his successor.  "/>
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				<outline text="The Financial Times Limited  "/>
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			<outline text="Beijing to seek better ties under new pope ">
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				<outline text="State-sanctioned church mourns loss, but grief is deeper in unofficial parishes  "/>
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				<outline text="Nailene Chou Wiest in Beijing     "/>
				<outline text="458 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="South China Morning Post            "/>
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				<outline text="(c) 2005  South China Morning Post Publishers Limited, Hong Kong. All rights reserved.          "/>
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				<outline text="Beijing yesterday expressed its condolences over the Pope's death and said it hoped Sino-Vatican ties would improve under his successor.  "/>
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				<outline text="&quot;We express condolences for the passing of Pope John Paul II,&quot; Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao was quoted by Xinhua as saying. &quot;We hope that under the leadership of the new pope, favorable conditions for improving China-Vatican relations can be made.&quot;  "/>
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			<outline text="Beijing, HK 'thwarted dearest wish of pontiff' ">
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				<outline text="Bishop Zen says a Chinese visit was the unfulfilled dream of John Paul II  "/>
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				<outline text="Patsy Moy       "/>
				<outline text="552 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="South China Morning Post            "/>
				<outline text="2   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005  South China Morning Post Publishers Limited, Hong Kong. All rights reserved.          "/>
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				<outline text="It was &quot;the greatest desire&quot; of Pope John Paul II to visit China, but this aspiration was thwarted by Beijing and the Hong Kong government, says the local head of the Catholic Church.  "/>
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				<outline text="Bishop Joseph Zen Ze-kiun criticised the mainland for being &quot;unfriendly&quot; and &quot;showing no interest&quot; in opening dialogue with the Vatican.  "/>
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			<outline text="HK's role in Sino-Vatican relations ">
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				<outline text="'will not change' Holy See official says death could revive Beijing talks  "/>
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				<outline text="Ambrose Leung       "/>
				<outline text="399 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="South China Morning Post            "/>
				<outline text="3   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005  South China Morning Post Publishers Limited, Hong Kong. All rights reserved.          "/>
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				<outline text="The Catholic diocese of Hong Kong will continue to act as a bridge between China and the Holy See in the papacy of John Paul II's successor, a Vatican official said.  "/>
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				<outline text="The official and analysts also believe the death of the Pope would present an opportunity for re-establishing diplomatic negotiations, and praised Beijing's condolence message to the Vatican as a &quot;positive sign&quot;.  "/>
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		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Issue 2: Chinese textile exports&lt;/b&gt;">
			<outline text="Dispute Over Chinese Textiles Heats Up ">
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				<outline text="--- Surge in Exports Fuels Calls For Europe, U.S. to Impose Emergency Curbs on Beijing"/>
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				<outline text="By Mei Fong       "/>
				<outline text="735 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="The Asian Wall Street Journal            "/>
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				<outline text="(c) 2005 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc.         "/>
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				<outline text="HONG KONG -- A surge in Chinese garment exports this year is fueling demands in Europe and the U.S. that they impose measures that might trim some of China's newly gained power in the world textile trade.  "/>
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				<outline text="The European Commission, the European Union's executive body, will meet Wednesday to discuss possibly applying emergency restrictions on Chinese imports. And in the U.S., unusually early release of first-quarter textile-trade data -- which show soaring imports from China -- is expected to spawn new pressure on policy makers to consider similar steps.  "/>
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				<outline text="Dow Jones &amp; Company Inc.  "/>
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			<outline text="Chinese textile surge spawns backlash  ">
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				<outline text="MEI FONG       "/>
				<outline text="614 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="The Globe and Mail            "/>
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				<outline text="A surge in Chinese garment exports this year is fuelling demands in Europe and the United States that they impose measures that might trim some of China's newly gained power in the world textile trade.  "/>
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				<outline text="The European Commission, the European Union's executive body, will meet Wednesday to discuss possibly applying emergency restrictions on Chinese imports. And in the United States, unusually early release of first-quarter textile-trade data — which show soaring imports from China — is expected to spawn new pressure on policy makers to consider similar steps.  "/>
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				<outline text="Bell Globemedia Interactive  "/>
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			<outline text="Stream of Chinese Textile Imports Is Becoming a Flood   ">
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				<outline text="By DAVID BARBOZA        "/>
				<outline text="908 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="The New York Times            "/>
				<outline text="3   "/>
				<outline text="Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company.  All Rights Reserved.           "/>
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				<outline text="SHANGHAI, April 3 -- Imports of Chinese textile and apparel products into the United States soared in the first quarter, offering fresh evidence that the world's clothing trade is being drastically reshaped by the abolition of global quotas in January.   "/>
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				<outline text="The United States Commerce Department said Friday that in the first three months of the year, preliminary data showed that United States imports of textile and apparel products from China rose more than 63 percent from a year ago.   "/>
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				<outline text="New York Times Digital (Full Text)  "/>
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			<outline text="West's dilemma over China textiles  ">
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				<outline text="David Barboza       "/>
				<outline text="677 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="International Herald Tribune            "/>
				<outline text="13   "/>
				<outline text="Copyright (c) 2005 Bell &amp; Howell Information and Learning Company. All rights reserved.          "/>
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				<outline text="SHANGHAI:  "/>
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				<outline text="Imports of Chinese textile and apparel products into the United States soared in the first quarter of this year, offering new evidence that the world's clothing trade is being dramatically reshaped by the abolition of global quotas in January.  "/>
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				<outline text="International Herald Tribune  "/>
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		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Issue 3: Anti-Japan escapades &lt;/b&gt;">
			<outline text="China web opposition to Japan's UN hopes targets Beijing.  ">
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				<outline text="By RICHARD MCGREGOR       "/>
				<outline text="467 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="Financial Times            "/>
				<outline text="Page 6   "/>
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				<outline text="China's internet-led campaign against Japan gaining a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council has begun to target the Beijing government itself because of anger over its failure to oppose openly Tokyo's bid.  "/>
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				<outline text="Chinese websites have by their own count collected 22m signatures against Japan's UN ambitions in a campaign that has so far been sanctioned by a government sensitive to any form of political protest outside of its control.  "/>
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				<outline text="The Financial Times Limited  "/>
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			<outline text="Chinese protest Japan UNSC seat  ">
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				<outline text="Yasuharu Seki Yomiuri Shimbun Correspondent       "/>
				<outline text="337 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="Daily Yomiuri            "/>
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				<outline text="(c) 2005 The Daily Yomiuri All Rights Reserved.          "/>
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				<outline text="More than 2,000 people took to the streets Sunday in Shengzhen, Guangdong Province, China, where many Japanese firms operate, to protest Japan's bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council.  "/>
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				<outline text="The protesters called for a boycott of Japanese products and collected signatures for their anti-Japan campaign.  "/>
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				<outline text="Yomiuri Shimbun, The  "/>
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			<outline text="Escalating outcry poses threat to Japanese trade, investments  ">
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				<outline text="589 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="South China Morning Post            "/>
				<outline text="9   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005  South China Morning Post Publishers Limited, Hong Kong. All rights reserved.          "/>
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				<outline text="As an old Chinese proverb goes, &quot;a single spark can start a prairie fire&quot;, and sparks are indeed flying, with anti-Japan protests in several mainland cities looking set to spread and intensify.  "/>
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				<outline text="While the protests have been largely peaceful, they have taken an ominous turn with protesters targeting Japanese shops and products.  "/>
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				<outline text="SCMP.com Limited  "/>
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		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;International Relations&lt;/B&gt;">
			<outline text="Technology Transfers Help Further Repression  ">
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				<outline text="By Fred Armentrout       "/>
				<outline text="957 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="The Asian Wall Street Journal            "/>
				<outline text="A11   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc.          "/>
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				<outline text="Those advocating the lifting of the arms embargo that was imposed on China after the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown may try to claim that Beijing has cleaned up its human-rights record, and thus can handle the responsibility that would come with an inflow of sophisticated-weapons technology. Beijing's use of previous technology exchanges, however, calls that claim into question. Chinese authorities have benefited from information-technology transfers with the West to further hone their skills of repression.  "/>
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				<outline text="China's domestic-communications capacity is expanding exponentially. Related technology-transfer businesses from foreign suppliers are booming, and according to Gartner Consultants, at least three Chinese IT companies will become significant global competitors by 2010.  "/>
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				<outline text="Dow Jones &amp; Company Inc.  "/>
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			<outline text="Lifting ban on China arms sales ‘a mistake'  ">
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				<outline text="PATRICK McLOUGHLIN       "/>
				<outline text="260 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="The Globe and Mail            "/>
				<outline text="B7   "/>
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				<outline text="U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick said if the European Union ended a ban on selling arms to China it would affect its transatlantic defence trade with the United States.  "/>
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				<outline text="EU leaders have repeatedly voiced support for lifting the embargo, which was imposed after the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989. But the European bloc wants to ensure its U.S. interests would not be hit by the move.  "/>
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				<outline text="Bell Globemedia Interactive  "/>
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			<outline text="Hu to Visit NK for 6-Party Talks">
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				<outline text="Unification Ministry  "/>
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				<outline text="274 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="Korea Times   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 hk internet Co. for the Korea Times          "/>
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				<outline text="The Unification Ministry said Sunday that Chinese President Hu Jintao's planned visit to Pyongyang will be closely related to the resumption of the stalled six-party talks, aimed at resolving North Korea's nuclear weapons issue.  "/>
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				<outline text="In a report, entitled ``analysis on North Korean Prime Minister Pak bong-ju's visit to China,'' the ministry said Hu's upcoming visit to Pyongyang will further cement Beijing-Pyongyang relations.  "/>
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				<outline text="Hankook i.com  "/>
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			<outline text="India and China ">
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				<outline text="— a game of one-upmanship  "/>
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				<outline text="Ashish Vachhani        "/>
				<outline text="1496 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="Business Line (The Hindu)            "/>
				<outline text="08   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 The Hindu Business Line          "/>
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				<outline text="China and India may well dominate the international economic and trading system two decades from now. But how and where India will stand vis-à-vis the powerful Chinese presence in the global market place depends on how well it builds on its strengths, addresses the reform gaps and steers clear of doctrines that threaten stability.  "/>
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				<outline text="IF THE flow of Indian and Chinese modern economic history is any indication, both the countries are heading towards a phase of momentous change. Growth trends in both the countries have been twice that of the global economic growth rate for almost two decades.  "/>
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				<outline text="Kasturi &amp; Sons Ltd  "/>
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			<outline text="There's room at the top for both India and China">
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				<outline text="Amitav Acharya , FOR THE STRAITS TIMES       "/>
				<outline text="1080 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="Straits Times   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 Singapore Press Holdings Limited          "/>
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				<outline text="INDIA and China are often described as 'historic rivals' in their bilateral relationship, or 'natural rivals' for the leadership of Asia. India is also described as a 'balancer' of China in South-east Asia.  "/>
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				<outline text="Whatever the term, perceptions of rivalry dominate perceptions of interdependence and co-existence between the two Asian giants.  "/>
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				<outline text="SPH AsiaOne Ltd.  "/>
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			<outline text="Pakistan lines up key business deals for Wen's visit  ">
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				<outline text="S. N. M. Abdi in Calcutta       "/>
				<outline text="410 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="South China Morning Post            "/>
				<outline text="12   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005  South China Morning Post Publishers Limited, Hong Kong. All rights reserved.          "/>
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				<outline text="Pakistan hopes its already close ties with China will be broadened by Premier Wen Jiabao's three-day visit that starts tomorrow.  "/>
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				<outline text="Mr Wen's four-nation South Asia tour will also take him to Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and India. But Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said the fact that Mr Wen was flying to Pakistan first highlighted the special relationship between the two countries.  "/>
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				<outline text="SCMP.com Limited  "/>
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		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Government, Law &amp; Politics&lt;/b&gt;">
			<outline text="Muzzled on Campus ">
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				<outline text="Beijing cracks down on unruly student Web sites.  "/>
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				<outline text="By Craig Simons       "/>
				<outline text="458 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="Newsweek International            "/>
				<outline text="28   "/>
				<outline text="Copyright (C) 2005 Newsweek Inc. All Rights Reserved.          "/>
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				<outline text="It was a quiet protest. Over three hours, several hundred students gathered around a monument at the center of Beijing's prestigious Tsing-hua University. They left paper cranes, handwritten notes and flower wreaths. One taped up a computer printout reading, GIVE BACK OUR SHUIMU, the name of the school's online bulletin-board service (BBS), one of the most popular and freest forums in Chinese cyberspace until earlier this month. &quot;You could find everything on the BBS,&quot; says one engineering student who joined the mid-March protest.  "/>
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				<outline text="For Beijing, that was the problem. In recent weeks universities across China have clamped down on school computer networks to conform with new Ministry of Education regulations. According to students and Xiao Qiang, director of the China Internet Project at the University of California, new rules call on administrators to block off-campus users and prevent students from posting anonymously to &quot;enhance the moral and thought education of university students.&quot;  "/>
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				<outline text="Newsweek, Inc.  "/>
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			<outline text="Jailed Chinese &quot;killer&quot; freed after wife turns up alive.  ">
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				<outline text="378 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="Reuters News   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 Reuters Limited          "/>
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				<outline text="BEIJING, April 4 (Reuters) - A Chinese man jailed and badly beaten for his wife's murder has been freed after she turned up not only alive but with another husband, domestic media said on Monday, revealing a brutal arbitrariness to China's legal system.  "/>
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				<outline text="She Xianglin's wife, Zhang Zaiyu, disappeared after a domestic dispute in 1994 and when a woman's body was found in a local reservoir, She was detained on suspicion of killing his wife, the China Daily said.  "/>
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				<outline text="Reuters Ltd.  "/>
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			<outline text="China Dam Project Devastates Town ">
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				<outline text="--- `Ghost City' Troubles Show Strains in Beijing's Effort To Build Inland Economy  "/>
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				<outline text="By Andrew Browne       "/>
				<outline text="1732 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="The Asian Wall Street Journal            "/>
				<outline text="A1   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc.          "/>
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				<outline text="[First in a Series]  "/>
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				<outline text="FENGDU, China -- Ghost City is doomed.  "/>
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				<outline text="Dow Jones &amp; Company Inc.  "/>
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			<outline text="Crying foul over industrial pollution   ">
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				<outline text="Chua Chin Hon , China Correspondent        "/>
				<outline text="992 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="Straits Times   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 Singapore Press Holdings Limited           "/>
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				<outline text="BEIJING - OVER a glass of soda, farmer Wang Zhongfa relates the familiar story at the heart of China's growing pains.   "/>
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				<outline text="For more than three years, pollution from a chemical industrial park has been killing off crops and poisoning peasants in his native Huaxiwu village in eastern Zhejiang province's Huashui county, he complains.   "/>
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				<outline text="SPH AsiaOne Ltd.  "/>
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			<outline text="Five-Year Evaluation of West China Development  ">
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				<outline text="by Hyung-June  Park lovesong@donga.com       "/>
				<outline text="451 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="Dong-A Ilbo Daily   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 Dong-A Ilbo Daily. All Right Reserved          "/>
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				<outline text="The amount of money that China poured into developing its western provinces from 2000 to early this year has reached 460 billion yuan (about 55.2 trillion won) in direct funds from the central government and 500 billion yuan (about 60 trillion won) in indirect assistance including shared taxes and project subsidies.  "/>
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				<outline text="Beijing has undertaken the “West Development Policy” to reduce the income gap between the eastern and western part of the nation by developing the western provinces. Regions subject to the project are Sichuan, Guizou, Yunnan, Gansu, Shanxi Provinces, Uyghur autonomous area in Xinjiang, and Zhuang autonomous area in Guangxi, which comprise 70.5 percent of the entire Chinese territory.  "/>
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				<outline text="Dong-A Ilbo Daily  "/>
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			<outline text="China freezes film, TV co-production  ">
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				<outline text="Regulator stalls joint venture approvals as it looks into whether foreigners are pushing too far too fast  "/>
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				<outline text="mediaSidney Luk       "/>
				<outline text="523 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="South China Morning Post            "/>
				<outline text="1   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005  South China Morning Post Publishers Limited, Hong Kong. All rights reserved.          "/>
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				<outline text="China has pushed the pause button on its cautious opening of the film and television sector to foreign investment as a more conservative management team at the country's media regulator examines whether some overseas companies are pushing the industry's reforms too far too fast.  "/>
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				<outline text="The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television and the Ministry of Commerce are said to have approved only one foreign-invested production joint venture, between Sony Pictures Television International and a China Film Group subsidiary - known as Huaso Film/Television Digital Production - since the sector was formally approved last November.  "/>
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			<outline text="What are you waiting for, Beijing?  ">
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				<outline text="640 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="South China Morning Post            "/>
				<outline text="17   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005  South China Morning Post Publishers Limited, Hong Kong. All rights reserved.          "/>
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				<outline text="There is something unnervingly indecisive about the leadership in Beijing. It scores quite well on rhetoric, giving the impression of nationalism on Taiwan and Japan, and of steadiness on the domestic front. But, at least judging from the issue of the currency and financial system, the soothing words and right noises cannot hide the lack of willingness to make bold decisions.  "/>
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				<outline text="It is all very well not to allow the yuan to be pushed around by the US, which is in no position to lecture any country on fiscal or monetary rectitude. America must look to its own miserable savings rate if it wants to find a cure for its trade deficit. But the Chinese government's failure to grasp the currency nettle at any time over the past 18 months is clearly in evidence in the lending excesses and localised property bubbles for which a hefty price will have to be paid.  "/>
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			<outline text="Get back to basics">
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				<outline text="587 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="South China Morning Post            "/>
				<outline text="16   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005  South China Morning Post Publishers Limited, Hong Kong. All rights reserved.           "/>
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				<outline text="Fifteen years ago today, the Basic Law was promulgated, with high hopes that the post-1997 charter could insure Hong Kong against unforeseen damage to its systems and way of life under a new constitutional order.   "/>
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				<outline text="Today, seven years and nine months after the Basic Law took effect, there are mixed feelings about its relevance and significance in the &quot;one country, two systems&quot; experiment.   "/>
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		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Greater China &amp; Provincial News&lt;/b&gt;">
			<outline text="Tung should have read between the lines, says journalist   ">
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				<outline text="Larry Teo        "/>
				<outline text="626 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="Straits Times   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 Singapore Press Holdings Limited           "/>
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				<outline text="FORMER Hong Kong chief executive Tung Chee Hwa has left behind a weakened office and widespread disillusionment with Beijing's 'one country, two systems' formula, a veteran journalist said at the weekend.   "/>
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				<outline text="Beijing is unhappy to see the formula turn out to be 'a flop', even though each time it had to interfere in Hong Kong's matters - well against the formula's spirit - it blithely annexed some of the powers that rightly belonged to the Hong Kong government, according to Mr Ching Cheong, Chief China Correspondent for The Straits Times.   "/>
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			<outline text="Donald Tsang accused of disdaining patriotic values  ">
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				<outline text="Jimmy Cheung        "/>
				<outline text="351 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="South China Morning Post            "/>
				<outline text="8   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005  South China Morning Post Publishers Limited, Hong Kong. All rights reserved.           "/>
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				<outline text="Tension between acting Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen and the pro-Beijing camp has surged after a DAB lawmaker criticised him as being arrogant and disrespectful of patriotic values.   "/>
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				<outline text="Choy So-yuk said Mr Tsang, tipped as Beijing's favourite candidate for chief executive, was just lucky Beijing changed its policy on Hong Kong.   "/>
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			<outline text="Taipei mayor calls for reform of KMT  ">
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				<outline text="Lawrence Chung , Taiwan Correspondent       "/>
				<outline text="681 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="Straits Times   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 Singapore Press Holdings Limited          "/>
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				<outline text="Ma Ying-jeou vows to rejuvenate party as he begins bid to become its chairman  "/>
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				<outline text="TAIPEI - TAIPEI mayor Ma Ying-jeou said yesterday that if the Kuomintang (KMT) fails to carry out reforms it will not win Taiwan's 2008 presidential election.  "/>
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			<outline text="The cold shoulder  ">
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				<outline text="479 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="South China Morning Post            "/>
				<outline text="17   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005  South China Morning Post Publishers Limited, Hong Kong. All rights reserved.          "/>
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				<outline text="It is stating the obvious to say that Beijing winters are cold. The ever-approaching Gobi Desert and its winds make the northern climate that much more frigid. But Beijing's coldest times come twice a year for those of us living in buildings constructed in the years before the Olympic-sized &quot;New Beijing&quot; boom: early November and late March. And what makes these the coldest times is only partly the weather.  "/>
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				<outline text="It has been decreed that the government shall decide when to turn on and off the central heating systems across the capital - and across the northern half of the country. November 15 and March 15 - every year - are the dates that have been chosen.  "/>
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			<outline text="Babies among gas leak's victims, say villagers  ">
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				<outline text="Staff Reporter       "/>
				<outline text="351 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="South China Morning Post            "/>
				<outline text="10   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005  South China Morning Post Publishers Limited, Hong Kong. All rights reserved.          "/>
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				<outline text="The youngest victim of last week's chlorine gas leak in Huaian , Jiangsu province , was just seven months old, while several more were less than a year old, villagers have revealed.  "/>
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				<outline text="Twenty-eight people were killed and more than 300 injured on Tuesday when an overloaded truck carrying 35 tonnes of liquefied chlorine hit a cargo truck after a tyre exploded. The spill led to the evacuation of nearly 10,000 people from three villages along the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway.  "/>
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				<outline text="SCMP.com Limited    "/>
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		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Business &amp; the Economy&lt;/b&gt;">
			<outline text="BHP eyeballs China on ore  ">
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				<outline text="Andrew Trounson       "/>
				<outline text="621 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="The Australian            "/>
				<outline text="37   "/>
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				<outline text="Commodities  "/>
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				<outline text="BHP Billiton is refusing to give ground on its demand for a freight premium on iron ore sales, despite Chinese steel companies flatly rejecting its price push.  "/>
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				<outline text="Nationwide News Pty Ltd.  "/>
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			<outline text="CNOOC's bid attempt hits a snag">
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				<outline text="By FRANCESCO GUERRERA and JOE LEAHY        "/>
				<outline text="502 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="Financial Times            "/>
				<outline text="Page 25   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 The Financial Times Limited. All rights reserved           "/>
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				<outline text="CNOOC's ambitions of bidding for US-based Unocal are believed to have hit a hurdle amid deepening dissent within China's third-biggest oil producer over the merits of the proposal.   "/>
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				<outline text="There is concern that the proposed acquisition, believed still to have strong backing from some senior CNOOC executives, would be financially risky and politically difficult to execute, and that Unocal would not necessarily be a good fit. Unocal was understood to be anticipating a bid from CNOOC but this was now unlikely, at least in the next few weeks, people familiar with the situation said.   "/>
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				<outline text="The Financial Times Limited  "/>
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			<outline text="The Dawn of a New Oil Era? ">
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				<outline text="China is the world's second-largest consumer of oil. It has about 20 million cars and trucks now. By the year 2020, that may be 120 million.  "/>
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				<outline text="By Robert J. Samuelson       "/>
				<outline text="895 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="Newsweek            "/>
				<outline text="37   "/>
				<outline text="Copyright (C) 2005 Newsweek Inc. All Rights Reserved.          "/>
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				<outline text="The interesting question about the advent of $50-a-barrel oil is whether it signals a new era in the economics and politics of energy. To sharpen the question: have we entered a period when, owing to consistently strong demand and chronically scarce supplies, prices have moved permanently higher? We don't know, but the answer could be &quot;yes&quot; for at least one reason: China.  "/>
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			<outline text="New Loan Loss Mars the Veneer On Bank of China ">
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				<outline text="--- Country's Showcase Lender, Polishing for Overseas IPO, Claims $78 Million Fraud  "/>
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				<outline text="By Andrew Browne       "/>
				<outline text="762 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="The Asian Wall Street Journal            "/>
				<outline text="A1   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc.          "/>
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				<outline text="HONG KONG -- Bank of China has revealed a new lending scandal that cost its Beijing branch about US$78 million, underscoring the tough task of preparing the huge state lender for an overseas stock-market listing that could come as early as this year.  "/>
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				<outline text="The country's showcase bank has accused a Beijing real-estate developer of swindling it out of the money in a mortgage fraud, according to the official Chinese news agency, Xinhua. The alleged fraud dates back to December 2000, when the property developer borrowed money using forged house-purchase contracts, and the bank reported the case to police in 2002, Xinhua said, quoting bank spokesman Wang Zhaowen. Mr. Wang wasn't immediately available for comment.  "/>
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				<outline text="Dow Jones &amp; Company Inc.  "/>
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			<outline text="China plays key role in Heller's world view ">
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				<outline text="In a whirlwind interview with Dana Flavelle, HBC's CEO talks about everything from China and challenges facing retailers to his tenure at Canada's oldest company In a whirlwind interview with Dana Flavelle, HBC's CEO talks about everything from China and challenges facing retailers to his tenure at Canada's oldest firm In a whirlwind one-on-one with the Star, HBC's chief talks about everything from China and retailing challenges to his tenure at Canada's oldest company    "/>
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				<outline text="Dana Flavelle         "/>
				<outline text="2186 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="The Toronto Star            "/>
				<outline text="C01   "/>
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				<outline text="The entry to George Heller's executive office is studded with weighty historic symbols, not least of which is the nearly 400-year-old charter King Charles II signed granting most of modern day western Canada to his cousin Prince Rupert in the name of the Hudson's Bay Co.    "/>
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				<outline text="As head of the last national department store chain still owned by Canadians, Heller occupies a position unique in Canadian retailing. He refers often to his long tenure, more than 30 years in the industry, much of it spent at Canada's oldest and most storied company.    "/>
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				<outline text="Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd.  "/>
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			<outline text="Top banker talks up hometown advantage ">
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				<outline text="- Chan Tze-ching is among a new wave of Hong Kong-bred executives to take key positions once occupied by expatriates  "/>
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				<outline text="Enoch Yiu        "/>
				<outline text="1367 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="South China Morning Post            "/>
				<outline text="18   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005  South China Morning Post Publishers Limited, Hong Kong. All rights reserved.           "/>
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				<outline text="NOT MANY BANKERS in Hong Kong have a public following. But Chan Tze-ching, Citigroup's newly appointed Hong Kong and Taiwan country officer, is remembered by much of the local investing public for his former stint as a moonlighting radio talk show host.   "/>
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				<outline text="Prior to his 2003 transfer, which saw him head up Citigroup's Taiwan operations, Mr Chan was a part-time co-host of Metro Finance's popular radio show, Best of the Best. Each week, he and Alice Kwok spent an hour chatting on air with fixtures of the local business community, including Hopewell Holdings chairman Sir Gordon Wu Ying-sheung and Airport Authority chairman David Pang Ding-jung.   "/>
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				<outline text="SCMP.com Limited  "/>
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			<outline text="China sees beginning of a labor shortage  ">
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				<outline text="Jim Yardley and David Barboza       "/>
				<outline text="807 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="International Herald Tribune            "/>
				<outline text="13   "/>
				<outline text="Copyright (c) 2005 Bell &amp; Howell Information and Learning Company. All rights reserved.          "/>
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				<outline text="NINGXIANG, China:  "/>
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				<outline text="The pipeline that pours young, eager workers into China's manufacturing juggernaut begins in the country's interior, at vocational schools like Hunan Top Software.  "/>
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				<outline text="International Herald Tribune  "/>
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			<outline text="After 37-Year Reign At AIG, Tumult Marks Chief's Final Days ">
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				<outline text="--- Faced With Indictment Threat, Board Moves Quickly Against Mr. Greenberg --- Hopes Are Dashed for a Soft Landing  "/>
				<outline text=""/>
				<outline text="By Monica Langley       "/>
				<outline text="2179 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="The Asian Wall Street Journal            "/>
				<outline text="A1   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc.          "/>
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				<outline text="In Bermuda on March 25, a lawyer for American International Group Inc. Chairman Maurice &quot;Hank&quot; Greenberg carted boxes of documents out of an AIG office and into a van, according to people familiar with the situation.  "/>
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				<outline text="The next day, lawyers hired by the big insurer to handle a regulatory probe discovered certain records were missing, these people say. Then another jolt: They also learned that an AIG employee had destroyed some computer records and tape recordings of business meetings. There was a confrontation between the lawyers for AIG and their counterparts representing Mr. Greenberg over who should secure the rest of the documents.  "/>
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				<outline text="Dow Jones &amp; Company Inc.  "/>
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			<outline text="Network opposes FTA with China">
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				<outline text="Katharine Murphy       "/>
				<outline text="343 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="The Australian            "/>
				<outline text="4   "/>
				<outline text="Copyright 2005 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved          "/>
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				<outline text="AUSTRALIA should not legitimise China's poor record on human rights and environmental standards by negotiating a landmark free trade agreement with Beijing, the Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network has declared.  "/>
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				<outline text="As the Howard Government finalises the framework for the bilateral trade deal, which is expected to be announced by John Howard later this month, opponents are using a Senate inquiry into Australia's relations with China to argue the case against the new agreement.  "/>
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				<outline text="Nationwide News Pty Ltd.  "/>
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			<outline text="China's boom has led to only partial change">
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				<outline text="By JOE STUDWELL       "/>
				<outline text="822 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="Financial Times            "/>
				<outline text="Page 19   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 The Financial Times Limited. All rights reserved          "/>
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				<outline text="As China's economy shows signs of a modest slowdown from annual growth officially reported at more than 9 per cent in 2003 and 2004 - but which physical indicators suggest probably exceeded 10 per cent - it is time to ask whether this latest &quot;China boom&quot; has been qualitatively different from previous ones.  "/>
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				<outline text="The Financial Times Limited  "/>
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			<outline text="Chinese seek Rover guarantees">
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				<outline text="Shanghai demands British government reassurance on car maker's future and pensions liability    "/>
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				<outline text="Mark Milner and Larry Elliott         "/>
				<outline text="594 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="The Guardian            "/>
				<outline text="2   "/>
				<outline text="© Copyright 2005.  The Guardian.  All rights reserved.            "/>
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				<outline text="The Chinese motor group negotiating a crucial financial deal with Rover, Britain's last volume car manufacturer, wants reassurance from the government that the company has a viable financial future for at least two years before it will sign up to an agreement to save the troubled Longbridge plant.    "/>
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				<outline text="Shanghai Automotive Industrial Corporation (SAIC) has outlined its concerns about Phoenix Venture Holdings, Rover's parent company, in meetings with British officials who have flown to Shanghai in an attempt to save the deal. The talks are entering a fourth day.    "/>
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				<outline text="Guardian Newspapers Limited  "/>
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			<outline text="Plan to import Chinese cars seeks backers ">
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				<outline text="More investors sought for visit to factories  "/>
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				<outline text="James R. Healey       "/>
				<outline text="574 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="USA Today            "/>
				<outline text="B.5   "/>
				<outline text="© 2005 USA Today.  Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.   All Rights Reserved.          "/>
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				<outline text="NEW YORK -- Colorful and controversial auto-industry veteran Malcolm Bricklin, trying to be first to distribute Chinese cars in the USA, has attracted only half the number of dealer-investors he wants just two weeks before they're scheduled to travel to China.  "/>
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				<outline text="The number who make the trip is key. A potential dealer must put $2 million in an escrow account to go on the trip. If the dealer likes what he or she sees at the Chery auto company and signs a contract with Bricklin to sell Chery vehicles in the USA, that $2 million is released to Bricklin as start-up capital for his Visionary Vehicles.  "/>
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				<outline text="USA Today Information Network  "/>
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			<outline text="To Stop a Tech Deal ">
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				<outline text="Taiwan shows how hard it is to control sales to China.  "/>
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				<outline text="By Jonathan Adams and George Wehrfritz With Hideko Takayama in Tokyo and B. J. Lee in Seoul       "/>
				<outline text="860 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="Newsweek International            "/>
				<outline text="49   "/>
				<outline text="Copyright (C) 2005 Newsweek Inc. All Rights Reserved.          "/>
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				<outline text="It's no secret that the two firms share common DNA. The elder, Taiwan-based United Microelectronics Corp.--the world's second-largest contract chipmaker--owns the patents allegedly used by an up-and-coming Chinese competitor, He Jian Technology. In fact ex-UMC employees established He Jian in 2001 and UMC chairman Robert Tsao now admits to having coached the mainland start-up in the hope of acquiring it someday. The problem: this kind of technology transfer requires official approval. And UMC didn't get it. Last month Taiwanese prosecutors swarmed UMC headquarters and searched senior executives' homes. More than 20 He Jian employees visiting from the mainland were barred from leaving Taiwan, and prosecutors briefly detained He Jian head J. H. Shyu. After weeks of denouncing legislators critical of his firm as &quot;clowns&quot; and accusing prosecutors of practicing &quot;white terror,&quot; Tsao flew out of the country.  "/>
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			<outline text="`Super Cycle' in Commodities Means Boom Has More Room  ">
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				<outline text="By Patrick Barta       "/>
				<outline text="1154 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="The Asian Wall Street Journal            "/>
				<outline text="M1   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc.          "/>
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				<outline text="Bangkok -- EQUITIES ANALYSTS HAVE long touted natural-resources stocks as a way to cash in on China's booming economy. At present, some are super-sizing their predictions for commodities.  "/>
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				<outline text="Last week, Goldman Sachs surprised investors when it warned of a potential &quot;super spike&quot; period that could push oil prices as high as $105 a barrel. On Thursday , Citigroup Smith Barney reiterated its prediction a &quot;super cycle&quot; for commodities, driven by long-term demand in China.  "/>
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				<outline text="Dow Jones &amp; Company Inc.  "/>
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			<outline text="Hong Kong mulls easing reits rules ">
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				<outline text="- Lifting the rule that bars overseas investments would be welcome - more in mainland China than in the territory, writes Jeff Wagner.   "/>
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				<outline text="By JEFF WAGNER         "/>
				<outline text="911 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="Financial Times            "/>
				<outline text="Page 7   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 The Financial Times Limited. All rights reserved            "/>
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				<outline text="A proposed easing of regulations on Hong Kong-listed real estate investment trusts could be a major boost for cash-strapped mainland Chinese developers desperate for ways to use their share of the booming mainland property market to raise funds.    "/>
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				<outline text="Hong Kong's stock market regulator, the Securities and Futures Commission, last week launched a one-month consultation exercise on measures that include allowing locally listed reits to invest in properties abroad.    "/>
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				<outline text="The Financial Times Limited  "/>
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			<outline text="The Spanish dragon  ">
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				<outline text="2186 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="El Pais - English Edition            "/>
				<outline text="4   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 EL PAIS, SL/IHT.          "/>
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				<outline text="The profile of the Chinese immigrant community has changed dramatically in recent years  "/>
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				<outline text="H ong Guang Yugao is a young Chinese businessman. He's 34, with an affable face and a quick smile. When he says that there are no Chinese people in Spanish cemeteries, he looks like he's about to tell a joke. &quot;Well,&quot; he laughs, &quot;I think there are 30 graves in a cemetery in Getafe.&quot; Hong Guang knows that one of many stereotypes about the Chinese community in Spain is that sinister mafias get rid of the bodies of the deceased, but not their passports, which are immediately recycled by the living. But the apparent demographic anomaly that the Chinese in Spain don't die has a simple explanation, hence Guang Yugao's smile: &quot;Chinese people, when they get old or die, go back to China. Only the young stay.&quot;  "/>
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				<outline text="Diario El Pais Internacional S.A.  "/>
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			<outline text="An unexpected problem">
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				<outline text="Labor shortages in China Workers gain the power to make demands  "/>
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				<outline text="Jim Yardley and David Barboza       "/>
				<outline text="1413 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="International Herald Tribune            "/>
				<outline text="1   "/>
				<outline text="Copyright (c) 2005 Bell &amp; Howell Information and Learning Company. All rights reserved.          "/>
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				<outline text="NINGXIANG, China:  "/>
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				<outline text="The pipeline that pours young, eager workers into China's manufacturing juggernaut begins in the country's interior, at vocational schools like Hunan Top Software.  "/>
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				<outline text="International Herald Tribune  "/>
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		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Chinese Diaspora&lt;/b&gt;">
			<outline text="Singapore Chinese Orchestra Concert First night Arts  ">
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				<outline text="Richard Morrison       "/>
				<outline text="440 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="The Times            "/>
				<outline text="Times2 17   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 Times Newspapers Limited. All rights reserved          "/>
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				<outline text="Singapore Chinese Orchestra. Barbican. ***  "/>
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				<outline text="MY ONLY previous contact with Singapore, a 12-hour stopover, left me quite unprepared for this event. Are all concerts in Singapore this frenetic? If so, audiences must stagger out feeling as if they have gone 15 rounds with a steamroller.  "/>
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				<outline text="News International Associated Services Ltd  "/>
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			<outline text="For better or worse  ">
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				<outline text="Marc Lim       "/>
				<outline text="917 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="Straits Times   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 Singapore Press Holdings Limited          "/>
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				<outline text="Not all inter-racial marriages work out. For some, the reality may be too much to bear once the novelty wears off  "/>
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				<outline text="Straight Talk  "/>
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				<outline text="SPH AsiaOne Ltd.  "/>
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		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Society &amp; Culture&lt;/b&gt;">
			<outline text="Treasures in cultural crossfire: ">
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				<outline text="EXHIBITION: Pro-Tibet groups have accused New York's Rubin Museum of presenting Chinese propaganda in its latest show, says Sue Morrow Flanagan.  "/>
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				<outline text="By SUE MORROW FLANAGAN       "/>
				<outline text="1211 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="Financial Times            "/>
				<outline text="Page 15   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 The Financial Times Limited. All rights reserved          "/>
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				<outline text="New York'snewest museum, the Rubin Museum of Art, is the latest venue to host a highly controversial exhibition of Tibetan art.  "/>
				<outline text=""/>
				<outline text="Tibet: Treasures from the Roof of the World was a coup for the museum world. The Bowers Museum of Cultural Art of Santa Ana, California, worked with Tibet's Bureau of Cultural Relics and the staff of Lhasa's three central cultural institutions to bring to the US more than 100 Chinese, Indian, Nepalese, Mongolian and Tibetan sacred and ritual objects. The exhibition spent the early part of 2004 at the Bowers, then moved to the Houston Museum of Natural Science.  "/>
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				<outline text="The Financial Times Limited  "/>
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			<outline text="Sale of virtual weapon leads to a murder   ">
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				<outline text="Beijing     "/>
				<outline text="271 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="Canberra Times            "/>
				<outline text="17   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 The Canberra Times           "/>
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				<outline text="A Shanghai online game player stabbed to death a competitor who sold his cybersword, the China Daily said this week, highlighting a dilemma in China where no law exists for the ownership of virtual weapons. Qiu Chengwei, 41, stabbed competitor Zhu Caoyuan repeatedly in the chest after he was told Zhu had sold his ''dragon saber'', used in the popular online game Legend of Mir 3, a Shanghai court was told. Legend of Mir 3 features heroes and villains, sorcerers and warriors, many of whom wield enormous swords. Qiu and a friend jointly won their weapon last February, and lent it to Zhu who then sold it for 7200 yuan ($A1127), the newspaper said. Qui went to the police to report the ''theft'' but was told the weapon was not real property protected by law. ''Zhu promised to hand over the cash but an angry Qui lost patience and attacked Zhu at his home, stabbing him in the left chest with great force and killing him,'' the court was told.   "/>
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				<outline text="Federal Capital Press of Australia Pty Ltd  "/>
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			<outline text="Pain Relief From Pins  ">
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				<outline text="By JUDY FOREMAN       "/>
				<outline text="1077 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="The New York Sun   "/>
				<outline text="Copyright 2005 The New York Sun, One SL, LLC. All rights reserved.          "/>
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				<outline text="The ancient Chinese technique of sticking needles into the skin to relieve pain, nausea, and many other ills never fails to make me feel better. Sometimes, my longtime acupuncturist gently pokes needles into my chronically tight lower back. At other appointments, she focuses on my pesky sinuses. Still other days - the best ones – the goal is a general tune-up of my qi (pronounced &quot;chee&quot;), the Chinese term for vital (and sometimes, not vital enough) energy. I always leave feeling more mellow and energized. I used to think this lovely state was mostly due to the placebo effect.  "/>
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				<outline text="But a growing body of evidence - gleaned from brain scans, ultrasound, and other techniques - now shows that acupuncture triggers direct, measurable effects on the body, including perhaps, activation of precisely the regions of the brain that would be predicted by ancient Chinese theory.  "/>
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				<outline text="The New York Sun  "/>
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			<outline text="Talk is cheek ">
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				<outline text="- Humour helps Michael Hui explore Hong Kong politics, but he believes he can justify treading carefully around mainland issues, writes Clarence Tsui  "/>
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				<outline text=""/>
				<outline text="1533 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="South China Morning Post            "/>
				<outline text="5   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005  South China Morning Post Publishers Limited, Hong Kong. All rights reserved.           "/>
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				<outline text="HALFWAY INTO an explanation about his solo stand-up comedy show at the Hong Kong Coliseum at the end of the month, Michael Hui Koon-man puts on the most solemn expression possible and says he has to make an announcement. &quot;I hope you can get this across on my behalf,&quot; he says. &quot;I had wanted to talk non-stop for two hours - but since most of the stuff I had prepared was based on Tung Chee-hwa, the show will now have to be cut to five minutes.&quot;   "/>
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				<outline text="Satisfied that he's delivered a flawless punchline, Hui howls with laughter before pressing on. &quot;Not that I'm too worried about having lost such a good source for my one-liners, since Hong Kong sees in-jokes nearly every day,&quot; he says.   "/>
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				<outline text="SCMP.com Limited  "/>
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			<outline text="Qing heir offers reviled empress' side of history ">
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				<outline text="Despite scorn for ties to a 'traitor', Manchu descendant treasures his lineage   "/>
				<outline text=""/>
				<outline text="Irene Wang        "/>
				<outline text="731 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="South China Morning Post            "/>
				<outline text="10   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005  South China Morning Post Publishers Limited, Hong Kong. All rights reserved.           "/>
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				<outline text="If Yehenala Genzheng had been born 150 years ago, his lineage would have ensured him a place in the Qing imperial court rather than the obscurity of the Summer Palace's complaints department.   "/>
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				<outline text="Mr Yehenala, 54, hushed up his blood ties to Empress Cixi until a few years ago, when news media focused attention on his surname and prompted him to tell his family's side of the empress' story.   "/>
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				<outline text="SCMP.com Limited  "/>
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		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Education &amp; Language&lt;/b&gt;">
			<outline text="US, British varsities losing China students  ">
				<outline text=""/>
				<outline text="Clarissa Oon , China Correspondent       "/>
				<outline text="659 words "/>
				<outline text="4 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="Straits Times   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 Singapore Press Holdings Limited          "/>
				<outline text=""/>
				<outline text="Overseas degrees now commonplace and local universities have raised their standards  "/>
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				<outline text="BEIJING - TELEVISION journalist Pei Pei left Beijing four years ago to do a master's in transnational communications at London's Goldsmiths College, one of Britain's top institutions for media studies.  "/>
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				<outline text="SPH AsiaOne Ltd.  "/>
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