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PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia - Foreign ministers meeting in Malaysia sought the rewording of an Islamic summit resolution on Iraq on Tuesday to strengthen a call for a dominant role for the United Nations.
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- WEEK IN BRIEF
SHANGHAI
- A call from India
It looks as if Shanghai and the rest of the East China region has become the forefront of the increasingly close economic ties between China and India.
- Battered by misfortune
A WOMAN slapped her daughter on the head, inflicting a dangerous intracranial haemorrhage on the two-year-old baby girl.
- President stresses brain power
"THE biggest natural resource (of Ireland) is brain power," said Irish President Mary McAleese when answering students' questions at Shanghai's China-Europe International Business School last Monday. Shanghai is one of three cities, with Beijing and Shenzhen, on the Irish president's State visit to China.
- Tourism as a job machine
CHINA has the fourth fastest growing tourism economy in the world, with growth in 2004 expected to be 33.6 per cent, according to a report from the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC).
- Narrowing the gap
TO better protect the welfare of the rural workforce, a new social insurance system targeting workers in small towns comes into operation on October 20.
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