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...AIDS activists--finally paid off last week when, on World AIDS Day, the Chinese government took a lesson from its sluggish response to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic and launched its first big AIDS public-awareness campaign, complete with posters, TV spots and an unprecedented visit by Premier Wen Jiabao to a Beijing hospital, where he shook hands with AIDS patients...
...Tuesday President George W. Bush, at a press conference to mark Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's first visit to the White House, appeared to side with Beijing by issuing a rebuke to Chen, signaling that Taiwan's President should not move ahead with the referendum for fear it would upset the diplomatic ambiguity that allows Taiwan and China to remain at arm's length. "The comments and actions made by the leader of Taiwan indicate that he may be willing to make decisions unilaterally to change the status quo," a position, Bush said, that the U.S. "opposes...
...SENTENCED. WANG XUEBING, 51, former Bank of China president, to 12 years' jail for accepting bribes; in Beijing. Wang, once a protégé of former Premier Zhu Rongji and a proponent of Chinese banking reform, ran the bank's New York branch during a period when a borrower defaulted on $34 million in fraudulent loans. The bank had to pay $20 million in fines to U.S. and Chinese regulators, but won $106.4 million in a lawsuit against the client...
...entrepreneurial minds behind Harvard’s premier record label, Veritas Records, have been busy preparing their debut—a stylistically diverse compilation album—for a late spring 2004 release...
...address that lasted more than an hour, the premier touched upon his love of students, China’s historical development and Chinese-American political and economic relations...