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		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Issue 1: China &amp; the Vatican&lt;/B&gt;">
			<outline text="Chinese Catholics caught between churches ">
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				<outline text="Pope was unable to ease tension between Vatican, communist government  "/>
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				<outline text="Paul Wiseman       "/>
				<outline text="1414 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="USA Today            "/>
				<outline text="A.5   "/>
				<outline text="© 2005 USA Today.  Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.   All Rights Reserved.          "/>
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				<outline text="HONG KONG -- The pope who helped demolish communism in Eastern Europe couldn't make a dent in it in China.  "/>
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				<outline text="Pope John Paul II never fulfilled his dream of visiting China, never brought the underground Chinese Catholic Church into the sunlight, never established diplomatic relations between the Vatican and the communist leadership in Beijing.  "/>
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				<outline text="USA Today Information Network  "/>
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			<outline text="Mourning has rules in China">
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				<outline text="Chris Buckley       "/>
				<outline text="1098 words "/>
				<outline text="5 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="Chinese Catholics crowded a Beijing cathedral on Monday to mourn the death of Pope John Paul II. The memorial Mass was attended by about 300, some of whom cried or said the rosary amid clouds of incense and solemn hymn-singing.  "/>
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				<outline text="International Herald Tribune  "/>
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			<outline text="China's State Catholic Church Honors John Paul  ">
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				<outline text="By JIM YARDLEY       "/>
				<outline text="466 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="The New York Times            "/>
				<outline text="10   "/>
				<outline text="Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company.  All Rights Reserved.          "/>
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				<outline text="BEIJING, April 4 -- More than 300 Chinese parishioners filled a downtown cathedral Monday morning to honor Pope John Paul II in a public Mass held by the Communist Party's state-controlled Catholic Church.  "/>
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				<outline text="The memorial Mass held at Southern Cathedral here captured the contradictions of Catholicism in China, where the church, officially known as the Catholic Patriotic Association, acknowledges the pope as a spiritual leader but rejects the authority of the Vatican over church affairs.  "/>
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				<outline text="New York Times Digital (Full Text)  "/>
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			<outline text="China and the Pope  ">
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				<outline text="629 words "/>
				<outline text="5 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="In a way there was no greater testament to the power of John Paul II's life and ideas that, as the 84-year-old Pope lay dying and news of this event dominated front pages in Asia and the world, Chinese authorities relegated the information in the state media to back pages or bottom items on television news. Fostering discussion of this champion of freedom was too dangerous, it seems.  "/>
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				<outline text="China did offer condolences to the Vatican this past weekend, tacking on a hope for improved relations. Though the official Catholic church in China is not &quot;Roman&quot; but national, China does allow this &quot;patriotic&quot; church to recognize the Pope as a spiritual leader.  "/>
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				<outline text="Dow Jones &amp; Company Inc.  "/>
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			<outline text="Hope grows for a new dawn in Sino-Vatican relations ">
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				<outline text="While hailing late pontiff's integrity, mainland Catholics look to successor to bring flock in from the cold  "/>
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				<outline text="Analysis Nailene Chou Wiest in Beijing     "/>
				<outline text="597 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="South China Morning Post            "/>
				<outline text="7   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005  South China Morning Post Publishers Limited, Hong Kong. All rights reserved.          "/>
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				<outline text="As the world mourns the death of Pope John Paul II, China is anticipating the dawn of a new era of Sino-Vatican relations under his successor.  "/>
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				<outline text="In a requiem mass at South Cathedral in Beijing, the Pope was hailed as a fine pontiff whom Chinese Catholics looked to as a spiritual leader. Father Sun Shangen said in a homily that the Pope had wanted to visit China, but regrettably the Vatican kept its ties with Taiwan due to the &quot;interference of certain conservative forces&quot;.  "/>
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			<outline text="Vatican 'ready to cut Taiwan ties'  ">
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				<outline text="Staff Reporter and Jacky Hsuin Taipei       "/>
				<outline text="380 words "/>
				<outline text="5 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="The Vatican is prepared to sever its ties with Taiwan in exchange for the resumption of diplomatic relations with Beijing, the head of the Hong Kong diocese said last night.  "/>
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				<outline text="But Bishop Joseph Zen Ze-kiun said there was no way the Vatican would commit itself to this position without first having talks with Beijing on the subject.  "/>
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				<outline text="SCMP.com Limited  "/>
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		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Issue 2: Hating on Japan&lt;/b&gt;">
			<outline text="China Fights Enlarging Security Council  ">
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				<outline text="Colum Lynch       "/>
				<outline text="308 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="The Washington Post            "/>
				<outline text="A15   "/>
				<outline text="Copyright 2005, The Washington Post Co. All Rights Reserved          "/>
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				<outline text="-- China's U.N. ambassador on Monday challenged Secretary General Kofi Annan's proposal to enlarge the Security Council to 24 members by year's end, dealing a setback to the second major effort in a decade to expand the powerful 15-nation body.  "/>
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				<outline text="China's top U.N. envoy, Wang Guangya, said more time is needed to reach agreement on the politically sensitive issue. Wang also insisted it is &quot;essential&quot; that an agreement on enlarging the council be reached by a unanimous vote in the 191-member General Assembly, a standard that would permit a single U.N. member to undercut any rival's candidacy.  "/>
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				<outline text="Washington Post  "/>
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			<outline text="Anti-Japanese protests rattle investors ">
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				<outline text="Growth of Chinese consumer classes leaves foreign firms vulnerable in face of boycott tactics  "/>
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				<outline text="GEOFFREY YORK       "/>
				<outline text="858 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="The Globe and Mail            "/>
				<outline text="B13   "/>
				<outline text="All material copyright Bell Globemedia Publishing Inc. or its licensors. All rights reserved.          "/>
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				<outline text="After a weekend of violent attacks and consumer boycott activity, Japanese investors in China are increasingly jittery about their future in a country that is crucial to Japan's economic recovery.  "/>
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				<outline text="The anti-Japanese protests and the boycott movement have exposed the risks of investing in China, showing that the growing muscle of China's new consumer class can be turned against foreign investors when political disputes arise.  "/>
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				<outline text="Bell Globemedia Interactive  "/>
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			<outline text="Koizumi voices fears over protests   ">
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				<outline text="Shi Jiangtao in Beijing     "/>
				<outline text="509 words "/>
				<outline text="5 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="The anti-Japanese protests erupting across the mainland have further chilled ties, scholars warned, as Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi called on China to ensure the safety of his country's businesspeople.   "/>
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				<outline text="&quot;I want China to consider ways to ensure that Japanese companies and citizens there can go about their business freely,&quot; Mr Koizumi said in Tokyo.   "/>
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				<outline text="SCMP.com Limited  "/>
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			<outline text="Leaders must show the way to reconciliation  ">
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				<outline text="655 words "/>
				<outline text="5 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="When mainland football fans burned Japanese flags and overturned a Japanese diplomat's car after a match in August, restraint from the leaders of both nations helped keep bilateral relations on an even keel. The more recent events involving vandalism of Japanese department stores on the mainland arguably call for a stronger, more thorough response - one that goes far beyond simply preserving the shaky status quo between Asia's contending superpowers.  "/>
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				<outline text="The smashing of store windows and large gatherings outside Japanese-owned shops in Shenzhen and Chengdu follows the mainland-wide circulation of a petition opposing Japan's bid for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council. It also follows calls to boycott Japanese goods because the country's education ministry has approved textbooks seen as whitewashing Japan's imperial past. Millions have signed the petition and thousands have joined marches.  "/>
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				<outline text="SCMP.com Limited  "/>
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			<outline text="Pacific power play puts Japan and China between a rock and a hard place  ">
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				<outline text="Simon Tisdall       "/>
				<outline text="832 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="The Guardian            "/>
				<outline text="12   "/>
				<outline text="© Copyright 2005.  The Guardian.  All rights reserved.          "/>
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				<outline text="An uninhabited Pacific reef 1,000 miles due south of Tokyo makes an unlikely battlefield. But wars have been fought over less. And Okinotori Shima, as this hazard to shipping is known, is rapidly becoming a focal point of rising tension between China and Japan.  "/>
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				<outline text="Only two small outcrops of the reef, sovereign Japanese territory that is administratively part of Tokyo, remain above water at high tide.  "/>
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				<outline text="Guardian Newspapers Limited  "/>
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		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Issue 3: Rover-deal ups and downs&lt;/b&gt;">
			<outline text="Rover's talks with Chinese stall">
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				<outline text="UK firm must remain solvent for at least two years, says SAIC   "/>
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				<outline text="Mark Milner Industrial editor        "/>
				<outline text="601 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="The Guardian            "/>
				<outline text="15   "/>
				<outline text="© Copyright 2005.  The Guardian.  All rights reserved.           "/>
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				<outline text="The fate of MG Rover, Britain's last domestically owned volume car maker hung in the balance last night after talks aimed at brokering a deal with its proposed Chinese partner were said to have stalled.   "/>
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				<outline text="The directors of MG Rover's parent company, Phoenix Venture Holdings, are understood to be under pressure to address Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation's concerns about the financial position of the UK company, according to sources.   "/>
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				<outline text="Guardian Newspapers Limited  "/>
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			<outline text="Doubt over MG Rover's finances puts Chinese rescue deal on hold.   ">
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				<outline text="By JEAN EAGLESHAM and JAMES MACKINTOSH        "/>
				<outline text="351 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="Financial Times            "/>
				<outline text="Page 2   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 The Financial Times Limited. All rights reserved           "/>
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				<outline text="MG Rover's efforts to secure a Pounds 100m loan from the government to back a Chinese rescue deal have stalled after Britain's last mass market carmaker failed to convince either side it could survive.   "/>
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				<outline text="Rover's financial position was worse than either the government or Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp had realised, according to government insiders. They said the onus was now on Rover's directors to address the Chinese carmaker's questions about its finances.   "/>
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				<outline text="The Financial Times Limited  "/>
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			<outline text="Chinese step on brakes in Rover talks ">
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				<outline text="Troubled carmaker's hopes of life-saving deal with Shanghai company ride on pounds 100m loan from the Government   "/>
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				<outline text="By Christopher  Hope Business Correspondent        "/>
				<outline text="578 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="The Daily Telegraph            "/>
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				<outline text="(c) 2005 Telegraph Group Limited, London           "/>
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				<outline text="TALKS between cash-strapped British car maker MG Rover and Chinese motor giant Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation stalled last night, raising the prospect of thousands of job losses in Labour's key West Midlands heartland on the eve of the general election. Pressure has been mounting on the two sides to agree terms since officials from the Department of Trade and Industry flew to Shanghai last week to try to smooth the deal with a pledge of a pounds 100m bridging loan from the Government. However, officials claimed last night that the talks had run into trouble and that the Chinese were now pressuring the four men who own MG Rover, through parent company Phoenix Venture Holdings, to come back with better financial terms.   "/>
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				<outline text="Telegraph Group Ltd  "/>
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		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;International Relations&lt;/B&gt;">
			<outline text="North Korean official in China">
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				<outline text="Choe Sang-Hun       "/>
				<outline text="290 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="International Herald Tribune            "/>
				<outline text="3   "/>
				<outline text="Copyright (c) 2005 Bell &amp; Howell Information and Learning Company. All rights reserved.          "/>
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				<outline text="SEOUL:  "/>
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				<outline text="An architect of North Korea's nuclear diplomacy met Monday with Chinese leaders in Beijing to discuss the resumption of six-nation talks intended to end North Korea's nuclear weapons program, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reported.  "/>
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				<outline text="International Herald Tribune  "/>
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			<outline text="N. Korea Asks for `Face-Saving Exit' for Nuke Talks  ">
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				<outline text="592 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="Korea Times   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 hk internet Co. for the Korea Times          "/>
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				<outline text="A high-level North Korean official visiting China showed Pyongyang's strong will to return to the six-party talks on its nuclear weapons program, while asking for a ``face-saving exit'' from the other nations in the disarmament talks, diplomatic sources said Monday.  "/>
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				<outline text="First Vice Foreign Minister Kang Sok-ju and four other North Korean officials are said to be on a secretive visit to Beijing since last Saturday to discuss ways to reopen the stalled negotiation as soon as possible with senior Chinese officials.  "/>
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				<outline text="Hankook i.com  "/>
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			<outline text="China's missile prowess poses growing threat  ">
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				<outline text="Michael Richardson , For The Straits Times       "/>
				<outline text="768 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="Straits Times   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 Singapore Press Holdings Limited          "/>
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				<outline text="CHINA insists that its new anti-secession law is intended to deter Taiwan, which Beijing regards as a renegade province, from declaring independence.  "/>
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				<outline text="But the United States, Japan and many people in Taiwan worry that, by giving 'non-peaceful means' legal status, China is making a military strike more likely.  "/>
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				<outline text="SPH AsiaOne Ltd.  "/>
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			<outline text="Chinese premier on four-nation South Asia tour  ">
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				<outline text="397 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="Hindustan Times   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 The Hindustan Times Ltd          "/>
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				<outline text="Indo-Asian News Service  "/>
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				<outline text="Beijing, April 5 -- Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao Tuesday left on a four-nation South Asia tour during which he will discuss the lingering border dispute with Indian leaders, Xinhua reported.  "/>
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				<outline text="Hindustan Times Limited  "/>
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			<outline text="Chinese premier's Asia tour to highlight closer India ties.  ">
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				<outline text="By FARHAN BOKHARI, JO JOHNSON and RICHARD MCGREGOR       "/>
				<outline text="563 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="Financial Times            "/>
				<outline text="Page 2   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 The Financial Times Limited. All rights reserved          "/>
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				<outline text="Signs of improving relations between China and India, two Asian states whose rise poses unprecedented foreign policy challenges for the US, will be in evidence this week when Wen Jiabao, China's prime minister, makes his first tour of south Asia.  "/>
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				<outline text="&quot;India and China between them account for over one-third of humanity and are the two powerhouses of Asia,&quot; said Nalin Surie, India's ambassador to Beijing. &quot;Our two countries are in the process of rediscovering each other. Relations have progressed steadily over the last five years.&quot;  "/>
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				<outline text="The Financial Times Limited  "/>
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			<outline text="India, China models: Race is on  ">
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				<outline text="Lydia Lim , Senior Political Correspondent       "/>
				<outline text="604 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="Straits Times   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 Singapore Press Holdings Limited          "/>
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				<outline text="MM says LKY School is well-placed to compare and contrast the two systems  "/>
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				<outline text="CHINA and India are propelling themselves into the front ranks but which has the better development model will only be clear by the middle of this century, Mr Lee Kuan Yew said.  "/>
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				<outline text="SPH AsiaOne Ltd.  "/>
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			<outline text="The next big East Asian power?  ">
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				<outline text="554 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="South China Morning Post            "/>
				<outline text="11   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005  South China Morning Post Publishers Limited, Hong Kong. All rights reserved.          "/>
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				<outline text="With Premier Wen Jiabao due in New Delhi on Saturday, and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi a few weeks later, one is reminded of Indian Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee arguing that Asia without India was like Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark.  "/>
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				<outline text="The complaint was prompted by India's exclusion from the Asia-Europe dialogue spearheaded by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. But if the Asian community's internal dynamics now appear to welcome the entry of a politically stable and economically thrusting nation of more than 1 billion people that can hold the balance among the existing players, India, too, has much to gain from closer ties with East Asia.  "/>
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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="Rights group takes aim at China's soaring execution rates ">
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				<outline text="New data-gathering methods and more nations using the death penalty paint a grim picture in Asia, writes Tim Cribb  "/>
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				<outline text="1347 words "/>
				<outline text="5 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="It was business as usual for Asia's executioners last year, with nine countries within the region responsible for the majority of judicial killings, and a further nine imposing death sentences during the year.  "/>
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				<outline text="China again topped the list for executions, with at least 3,400. Vietnam, with at least 64, trailed Iran's 159, but was ahead of the US on 59, down from 65 in 2003.  "/>
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				<outline text="SCMP.com Limited  "/>
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			<outline text="Mainland blamed for 90pc of the world's executions ">
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				<outline text="But Amnesty says the true number of deaths is still unknown  "/>
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				<outline text="Kristine Kwok and Tim Cribb       "/>
				<outline text="515 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="South China Morning Post            "/>
				<outline text="4   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005  South China Morning Post Publishers Limited, Hong Kong. All rights reserved.          "/>
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				<outline text="Almost 90 per cent of the executions recorded around the world last year were carried out on the mainland, according to Amnesty International's latest report on the death penalty, to be released today.  "/>
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				<outline text="Of the 3,797 people known to have been executed in 25 countries last year, the human rights watchdog estimated that 3,400 were put to death on the mainland, accounting for 89.5 per cent of the total.  "/>
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				<outline text="SCMP.com Limited  "/>
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		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Greater China &amp; Provincial News&lt;/b&gt;">
			<outline text="Hong Kong resurgent ">
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				<outline text="- again   "/>
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				<outline text="Anthony Paul , Senior Writer        "/>
				<outline text="1005 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="Straits Times   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 Singapore Press Holdings Limited           "/>
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				<outline text="THE God of Luck is a Cantonese deity, very likely one from Hong Kong.   "/>
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				<outline text="This is at least one explanation for the good fortune that this extraordinary place seems to be able to count on whenever it hits hard times.   "/>
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				<outline text="SPH AsiaOne Ltd.  "/>
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			<outline text="Tsang says DAB critic is well-intentioned ">
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				<outline text="- His attempt to defuse tensions with the pro-Beijing camp comes after Choy So-yuk described him as disrespectful of patriotic values  "/>
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				<outline text="Gary Cheung        "/>
				<outline text="552 words "/>
				<outline text="5 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="Acting Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen yesterday sought to settle differences between himself and the pro-Beijing camp, describing as &quot;well-intentioned&quot; a DAB lawmaker's criticism that he had been disrespectful of patriotic values.   "/>
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				<outline text="A spokesman for the acting Chief Executive's Office said Choy So-yuk, a legislator for the Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong, was a good friend of Mr Tsang and had been very supportive of his work.   "/>
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			<outline text="Restoration of palace lake hangs in balance  ">
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				<outline text="Jane Cai       "/>
				<outline text="315 words "/>
				<outline text="5 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 fate of a controversial 150 million yuan lake restoration project at Beijing's Old Summer Palace on which work has been halted remains uncertain.  "/>
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				<outline text="The State Environmental Protection Administration (Sepa) last week ordered a halt to the project.  "/>
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			<outline text="The New China News Agency was the first to break the news that the Dalai Lama...  ">
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				<outline text="5 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 New China News Agency was the first to break the news that the Dalai Lama had entered India following the crushing of the previous week's revolt in Lhasa.  "/>
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				<outline text="The report said the ruler of Tibet and others had arrived in India on March 31. Indian border authorities had left Tawang, in Assam, to meet him and foreign correspondents in India were also trying to reach him.  "/>
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			<outline text="Surge in Chinese clothing imports prompts U.S. investigation  ">
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				<outline text="462 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="The Globe and Mail            "/>
				<outline text="B13   "/>
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				<outline text="The United States will initiate trade cases against China to determine whether quotas should be re-imposed to protect textile and clothing manufacturers against a surge in Chinese imports, the Bush administration said yesterday.  "/>
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				<outline text="The decision represents a major victory for U.S. manufacturers, who had been pressing the administration to bring these cases on its own rather than waiting for the industry to petition the government for relief, a process that could take a longer period of time.  "/>
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			<outline text="U.S. Begins Steps to Limit Import Surge From China">
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				<outline text="By EDMUND L. ANDREWS and ELIZABETH BECKER        "/>
				<outline text="795 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="The New York Times            "/>
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				<outline text="WASHINGTON, April 4 -- The Bush administration, reacting to a flood of Chinese clothing imports since January, began a process on Monday to impose import quotas on shirts, trousers and underwear.   "/>
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				<outline text="In an abrupt policy reversal, the Commerce Department said that it would begin an investigation into the need to re-impose trade quotas that were lifted just three months ago on a wide variety of Chinese apparel.   "/>
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				<outline text="New York Times Digital (Full Text)  "/>
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			<outline text="U.S. Opens Challenge To Chinese Textiles ">
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				<outline text="Shipments Soar After Lapse of Quota System   "/>
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				<outline text="Paul Blustein        "/>
				<outline text="876 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="The Washington Post            "/>
				<outline text="A15   "/>
				<outline text="Copyright 2005, The Washington Post Co. All Rights Reserved           "/>
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				<outline text="The Bush administration took a giant step yesterday toward imposing new caps on imports of Chinese clothing, responding to complaints that China's export juggernaut is starting to dominate the worldwide apparel market since the system governing the global industry was changed on Jan. 1.   "/>
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				<outline text="A U.S. interagency panel said it will initiate proceedings to determine whether new limits should be slapped on imports from China of underwear, cotton trousers, and cotton knit shirts and blouses. In a statement, Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez said the administration is committed &quot;to providing assistance to our domestic textile and apparel industry consistent with our international rights and obligations.&quot;   "/>
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			<outline text="Anxiety at EU plan to curb import of textiles.   ">
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				<outline text="By EDWARD ALDEN and RAPHAEL MINDER        "/>
				<outline text="467 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="Financial Times            "/>
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				<outline text="The European Union's response to higher Chinese textile exports shows &quot;a growing and worrying protectionist trend&quot; which could eventually undermine the EU's economic competitiveness, Sweden's trade minister has warned.   "/>
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				<outline text="Highlighting a growing divide within the 25-nation bloc over the benefits of trade liberalisation, Thomas Ostros told the FT: &quot;There is an increase in protectionist ideas which I feel is very troublesome, not least in the light of the Lisbon strategy (to turn the EU into the world's most competitive economy.) In the long run, it will mean less economic growth and fewer jobs if we use that type of strategy.&quot;   "/>
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				<outline text="The Financial Times Limited  "/>
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			<outline text="Chevron Buys Unocal In $16.8 Billion Deal ">
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				<outline text="--- Cnooc's Rival All-Cash Bid For U.S. Energy Company Falls Through at 11th Hour  "/>
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				<outline text="By Russell Gold       "/>
				<outline text="932 words "/>
				<outline text="5 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="ChevronTexaco Corp. agreed to buy Unocal Corp. for cash and stock valued at $16.8 billion, bringing together two energy companies with substantial oil and natural-gas production in Southeast Asia.  "/>
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				<outline text="ChevronTexaco, the fourth-largest Western oil company by reserves, clinched the deal after a weekend that saw an all-cash offer for Unocal from China National Offshore Oil Corp. fall through abruptly. Italian oil giant Eni SpA also was in the bidding for Unocal, of El Segundo, California.  "/>
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			<outline text="Chinese steel makers fight rise in ore price   ">
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				<outline text="David Lague and Wayne Arnold        "/>
				<outline text="844 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="International Herald Tribune            "/>
				<outline text="13   "/>
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				<outline text="China is applying diplomatic pressure on Australia in a bid to curb soaring iron ore prices as Melbourne-based BHP Billiton demands that Chinese steel makers pay double the rates they now pay for its ore shipments. Australian officials said their Chinese counterparts in Beijing and Canberra had been lobbying the Australian government and industry groups, warning that the price increases could hurt the Chinese economy and undermine long-term trade ties just as raw materials suppliers in Australia were enjoying a boom arising from China's soaring appetite for commodities.   "/>
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				<outline text="International Herald Tribune  "/>
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			<outline text="Chinese steel unites against iron ore price   ">
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				<outline text="By Aaron Patrick        "/>
				<outline text="411 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="The Daily Telegraph            "/>
				<outline text="027   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 Telegraph Group Limited, London           "/>
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				<outline text="CHINA may have joined the World Trade Organisation but its steel manufacturers are still coming to terms with the global marketplace. In an unusual move, the China Iron and Steel Association is publicly complaining that the world's largest mining company, BHP Billiton, wants to charge too much for iron ore. Iron ore is a component of steel and the booming Chinese economy is the world's largest producer of the metal, last year increasing output 23pc to 276m tonnes. Chinese demand has squeezed the global market for iron ore, allowing producers to force through large price rises. BHP Billiton recently pushed prices up 70pc to $46 ( pounds 24) a tonne for its Japanese customers, a price that has set a global benchmark price. Although there are dozens of iron ore mines around the world, about three quarters of the trade is handled by three companies: BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Brazil's CVRD.   "/>
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				<outline text="Telegraph Group Ltd  "/>
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			<outline text="China's banking system needs a cultural revolution.   ">
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				<outline text="By GUY DE JONQUIERES        "/>
				<outline text="949 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="Financial Times            "/>
				<outline text="Page 19   "/>
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				<outline text="John Paul Getty once observed that &quot;when you owe the bank Dollars 100, that's your problem. When you owe the bank Dollars 100m, that's the bank's problem.&quot; In China, the late oil tycoon's adage has gone one step further: bankers there have made it their own.   "/>
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				<outline text="The scale of fraud and embezzlement is breathtaking: at one branch, bank staff looted an entire town's deposits. Efforts to crack down on offenders appear so far to have been more effective in exposing the extent of the rot than in stopping it.   "/>
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			<outline text="Chinese Cars Roll Into Russia  ">
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				<outline text="Anna Smolchenko       "/>
				<outline text="1043 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="The Moscow Times   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 The Moscow Times All Rights Reserved          "/>
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				<outline text="If Russian drivers have been slow to discover the pickup truck, some enterprising Siberians are more than ready to make the introduction -- by way of an affordable Chinese 4x4.  "/>
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				<outline text="While Koreans, Japanese and Germans focus primarily on Russians' demand for quality cars and SUVs, a Novosibirsk-based company called Pekinsky Dzhip, or Beijing Jeep, is edging into the booming automobile market with a rugged Chinese-made pickup. If it all goes according to plan, Beijing Jeep will soon have a nationwide chain of dealerships and open a Russian assembly plant by next year.  "/>
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				<outline text="IMH Media Limited  "/>
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			<outline text="More Investors Develop a Taste For China's Top Winemakers   ">
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				<outline text="By Mary Kissel        "/>
				<outline text="944 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="The Asian Wall Street Journal   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc.         "/>
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				<outline text="Hong Kong -- CHINA'S YOUNG WINE industry may have legs.   "/>
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				<outline text="Chinese consumers quaff a tiny fraction of the wine their French and U.S. counterparts enjoy. But that's changing, and China's top winemakers -- boasting healthy profit margins, rapid earnings growth and hefty market share -- are starting to catch the attention of investors and private-equity firms.   "/>
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			<outline text="Arunachal upset over China claim that it is disputed  ">
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				<outline text="480 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="Hindustan Times   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 The Hindustan Times Ltd          "/>
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				<outline text="Indo-Asian News Service  "/>
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				<outline text="Itanagar, April 5 -- The Arunachal Pradesh state government Tuesday reacted sharply to China's claims that the region was a &quot;disputed area&quot;, saying that it was erroneous and the state was an integral part of India.  "/>
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				<outline text="Hindustan Times Limited  "/>
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			<outline text="Goldman Makes Foray Into Chinese Property ">
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				<outline text="--- Pidemco Tower Deal Marks Bank's First Big Investment In Country's Real Estate  "/>
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				<outline text="By Laura Santini       "/>
				<outline text="387 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="The Asian Wall Street Journal            "/>
				<outline text="A2   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc.          "/>
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				<outline text="HONG KONG -- Goldman Sachs has made its first big investment in Chinese property, paying US$107.6 million for a 24-story Shanghai office tower.  "/>
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				<outline text="Purchase of the tower, near the city's famous waterfront area the Bund, shows the U.S. investment bank's belief that Shanghai real estate remains a good investment. Chinese authorities are seeking to cool the hot property market in Shanghai and other big cities.  "/>
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				<outline text="Dow Jones &amp; Company Inc.  "/>
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			<outline text="Developing countries need better skills in trade talks">
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				<outline text="433 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="Xinhua's China Economic Information Service   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 Xinhua News Agency. All Rights Reserved          "/>
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				<outline text="HANGZHOU, April 5 (CEIS) -- Chinese and United Nations officials Tuesday urged developing countries to be better equippedwith negotiation skills to get their voices heard and interests fulfilled in World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations.  "/>
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				<outline text="Matthias Bruckner, an official with UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), said at an on-going regional workshop on trade facilitation that there is a clear link between each country's interest and the outcome of negotiation, therefore it is vital for developing countries to improve negotiation skills in a bid to fully and effectively participate in the Doha Round trade negotiations.  "/>
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				<outline text="China Economic Information Service of Xinhua News Agency  "/>
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		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Chinese Diaspora&lt;/b&gt;">
			<outline text="FEW LEADS IN SEARCH FOR FOOD DELIVERER  ">
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				<outline text="BOB KAPPSTATTER and MELISSA GRACE DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS  WithAlison Gendar       "/>
				<outline text="290 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="New York Daily News            "/>
				<outline text="10   "/>
				<outline text="Copyright (c) 2005 Bell &amp; Howell Information and Learning Company. All rights reserved.          "/>
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				<outline text="COPS WERE stymied yesterday after searching hundreds of apartments in a Bronx building complex for a Chinese food deliveryman last seen there Friday night.  "/>
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				<outline text="Ming Kung Chen, 35, who worked for Happy Dragon restaurant, made three deliveries at 40 West Mosholu Parkway South, a Van Cortlandt Village housing development, at about 8:30 p.m.  "/>
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				<outline text="Daily News  "/>
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			<outline text="By Foot and by Air, Search for Deliveryman Continues in the Bronx  ">
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				<outline text="By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE       "/>
				<outline text="561 words "/>
				<outline text="5 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="In New York, delivering food can be a dangerous trade. At least three times in the last five years, deliverymen for Chinese restaurants have been killed by their customers, and it is not uncommon for restaurants to blacklist certain addresses or insist on delivering only to the front door of an apartment building.  "/>
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				<outline text="But Ming Kuang Chen, who disappeared Saturday after making three deliveries to Tracey Towers, a housing complex on West Mosholu Parkway in the Bronx, is known for bringing food to a customer's front door.  "/>
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				<outline text="New York Times Digital (Full Text)    "/>
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			<outline text="Feds detain 29 Chinese allegedly smuggled to LA in cargo ship   ">
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				<outline text="437 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="Associated Press Newswires   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005.  The Associated Press.  All Rights Reserved.           "/>
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				<outline text="LOS ANGELES (AP) - Federal authorities detained 29 men who appeared to have been smuggled into the Port of Los Angeles inside two cargo containers.   "/>
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				<outline text="Port police alerted federal agents late Sunday after the men were spotted wandering in a cargo area.   "/>
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				<outline text="Press Association, Inc.  "/>
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			<outline text="Lee Man Fong to be honored in Singapore   ">
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				<outline text="Carla Bianpoen , Contributor, Singapore        "/>
				<outline text="809 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="The Jakarta Post            "/>
				<outline text="19   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 The Jakarta Post           "/>
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				<outline text="On April 9, Art Retreat Singapore will launch a solo exhibition of Lee Man Fong, the renowned Chinese-born Indonesian painter who started his career as a humble, self-taught artist.   "/>
				<outline text=""/>
				<outline text="Art Retreat is a private museum owned by Indonesian collector Kwee Swie Teng, who received the Distinguished Patron of the Arts Award from the National Art Council last September.   "/>
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				<outline text="PT Bina Media Sejahtera  "/>
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			<outline text="Mouldy photo albums a golden find for history of Chinese in Victoria   ">
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				<outline text="CAROLYN WEBB        "/>
				<outline text="502 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="The Age            "/>
				<outline text="5   "/>
				<outline text="© 2005 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.    www.theage.com.au   Not available for re-distribution.           "/>
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				<outline text="A NEW Public Record Office exhibition offers a rare insight into Victoria's 19th century Chinese community.   "/>
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				<outline text="Three years ago, at the Record Office's North Melbourne archives centre, researcher Pat Draper discovered 600 photographs of prisoners in Victorian jails. In six mouldy, dusty albums without titles or text were rows of portraits with just the name of each prisoner inscribed in ink.   "/>
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				<outline text="F2 Australia &amp; New Zealand Limited (Fairfax)  "/>
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			<outline text="Earthquake Highlights Deep Economic Divide Isolated Indonesian ">
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				<outline text="Town Reliant on Ethnic Chinese"/>
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				<outline text="Ellen Nakashima       "/>
				<outline text="1153 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="The Washington Post            "/>
				<outline text="A20   "/>
				<outline text="Copyright 2005, The Washington Post Co. All Rights Reserved          "/>
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				<outline text="The earthquake that savaged this ocean-side town the night of March 28 was discriminating in who it killed. Most of the 32 fatalities were ethnic Chinese, members of merchant families wealthy enough to live in multi-floor brick and concrete houses that came tumbling down on them with lethal force.  "/>
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				<outline text="The quake also did major damage to the families' factories and company offices, which provide a majority of the jobs and income in the town. By a fluke of topography, the tremors raised the seafloor in the harbor, closing it off to the boats that in normal times carry out coconut oil, rubber and other exports.  "/>
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				<outline text="Washington Post  "/>
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		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Society &amp; Culture&lt;/b&gt;">
			<outline text="Ups &amp; downloads ">
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				<outline text="Cyber singers are carving careers that bypass traditional music industry methods. But as Joey Liu explains, the spectre of piracy looms ever larger  "/>
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				<outline text="1164 words "/>
				<outline text="5 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="WHEN POP MUSIC fan Yang Chengang composed Mice Love Rice in 2001, he was too lazy to knock on the doors of record companies. Instead, he gave the song to his friends. Two years later, one of his friends made it into a flash film and offered it for free online.  "/>
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				<outline text="The song spread quickly on the internet. Last year it received the highest hits for months on the mainland's largest music search engine, baidu.com. The popularity of the song not only landed Yang a contract with Guangzhou Feile Record Company, but gave him the chance to show up at its Lunar New Year gala. Yang, who used to earn a living performing gigs in bars in Wuhan, Hubei province, became a household name.  "/>
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				<outline text="SCMP.com Limited  "/>
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			<outline text="A policeman's idea of hell  ">
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				<outline text="618 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="South China Morning Post            "/>
				<outline text="11   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005  South China Morning Post Publishers Limited, Hong Kong. All rights reserved.          "/>
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				<outline text="In Pan Ling's classic book, Old Shanghai: Gangsters in Paradise, life is described as an overlap of interests between corrupt officials and the mafia. Together, they profited against a backdrop of incompetent government, mayhem and crime.  "/>
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				<outline text="The book should be recommended reading for anyone trying to understand China today. It would serve them well to have a good grasp of the social and economic conditions during the Republican period (1911-1949), which led to social decay and eventual breakdown. Presumably, it could never happen now, because of China's extensive and pervasive bureaucracy.  "/>
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				<outline text="SCMP.com Limited  "/>
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			<outline text="Musical revolution  ">
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				<outline text="447 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="South China Morning Post            "/>
				<outline text="11   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005  South China Morning Post Publishers Limited, Hong Kong. All rights reserved.          "/>
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				<outline text="The pop song Snail, by Taiwanese singer Jay Chou Jie-lun, has joined the revolutionary anthem The East Is Red on a list of approved songs chosen to build patriotism among Shanghai middle-school students.  "/>
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				<outline text="It marks the first time that the city has picked popular songs from Hong Kong and Taiwan for the list in an effort to hold the attention of students in music classes, burnishing the city's reputation as the hippest on the mainland.  "/>
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				<outline text="SCMP.com Limited  "/>
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			<outline text="More from China, India head for LKY school  ">
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				<outline text="387 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="Straits Times   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005 Singapore Press Holdings Limited          "/>
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				<outline text="THE Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy plans to study India and China and already has more students from both countries knocking on its doors.  "/>
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				<outline text="Out of 190 applications it has received for this year's Master in Public Policy programme, 40 are from India and 30 from China.  "/>
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				<outline text="SPH AsiaOne Ltd.  "/>
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			<outline text="Pupils from ethnic groups doing best at Scots exams ">
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				<outline text="Chinese, Indian and Pakistani kids more likely to pass Highers  "/>
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				<outline text="By STEWART PATERSON       "/>
				<outline text="530 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="Evening Times            "/>
				<outline text="11   "/>
				<outline text="© 2005, Newsquest Media Group          "/>
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				<outline text="PUPILS from ethnic minority backgrounds are performing best in Scotland's schools, according to the latest statistics.  "/>
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				<outline text="Official figures released today show boys and girls from the Indian, Pakistani and Chinese communities are more likely to pass Highers than pupils of white UK origin.  "/>
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				<outline text="Newsquest Media Group  "/>
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		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Science &amp; Technology&lt;/b&gt;">
			<outline text="Language a barrier to open source in Asia   ">
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				<outline text="Sherman So         "/>
				<outline text="516 words "/>
				<outline text="5 April 2005 "/>
				<outline text="South China Morning Post            "/>
				<outline text="4   "/>
				<outline text="(c) 2005  South China Morning Post Publishers Limited, Hong Kong. All rights reserved.            "/>
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				<outline text="Language and cultural barriers are preventing Asian programmers - especially those from China - from taking part in open-source projects, industry experts say.    "/>
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				<outline text="Many open-source projects are based in English, a language mainland programmers do not feel comfortable using.    "/>
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				<outline text="SCMP.com Limited  "/>
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