Debate over WTO focuses on China.
As officials and protesters converged on Seattle for the World Trade Organization's ministerial conference, the political debate in Washington turned Sunday to the wisdom of liberalizing trade relations with China.

AMD's early Xmas gift: 750MHz Athlon.
AMD, with a new 750MHz version of the Athlon chip, on Monday began offering PC buyers the highest clockspeed PC processor available.

Intel melds SDRAM, 133MHz bus.
Intel Corp. (Nasdaq:INTC) is developing a new chip set that supports SDRAM and a 133MHz system bus, offering a high-bandwidth alternative to its troubled RDRAM chip sets. The chip set, code-named So lano, will support the PC133 synchronous dynamic RAM specification and is expected to ship in desktop PCs in the first quarter.

Report: China developing technology to detect U.S. stealth aircraft.
China is close to fielding a revolutionary new antiaircraft early-warning defense system that worries U.S. intelligence analysts because it could defeat current Air Force tactics against enemy air defences, Newsweek reported on Sunday. The technology, which could detect U.S. stealth aircraft, has so alarmed the defense community that top military and industry experts have been called to a secret meeting in December to discuss the strategic implications, the magazine said.

Sampras sweeps No. 1 Agassi in ATP final.
Pete Sampras beat the man who supplanted him at the top of the rankings, winning the ATP Tour World Championship on Sunday with a 6-1, 7-5, 6-4 victory over Andre Agassi.

Shipwreck off China's east coast reportedly kills 290 people
Reports in Chinese: 烟台海域海难：重演"泰坦尼克"悲剧.
A ship caught in a violent storm caught fire and cracked open off the coast of Shandong in eastern China, killing at least 290 people and leaving many missing, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on Thursday. The Dashun was carrying 312 people when it wrecked late Wednesday in gale-force winds and towering waves near the Shandong port of Yantai, the report said.

China successfully tests spacecraft (Reports in Chinese)
China has taken a major step toward joining the United States and Russia in space, successfully testing an unmanned spacecraft that soon could carry the country's first astronauts into orbit. The spacecraft -- dubbed "Shenzhou," or "Vessel of the Gods" -- separated from its launch vehicle and went into orbit about 10 minutes after liftoff, circling the Earth for 21 hours before controllers brought it down safely in Inner Mongolia.

Chinese Woman Killed in Columbus, OH (Report 1, 2)
A Chinese immigrant, Xiaoying Wu, who moved to Columbus several years ago died in a North Side shooting during a carjacking attempt behind her apartment complex Thursday afternoon. Columbus police arrested an 18 year-old man yesterday and charged him with murder in the slaying of a woman who was shot Thursday at the Colony Square Apartments.
Safety Tips: Life is the most important thing of all. Follow what the gunman told and give him all they want. Don't try to struggle or fight.

Leaders sign European arms control treaty.
Leaders of 30 nations signed a new conventional arms control treaty for Europe on Friday, updating limits on armed forces and heavy equipment set at the end of the Cold War. President Bill Clinton signed the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty for the United States, and Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov for Russia after President Boris Yeltsin flew home early from the summit of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

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美国联邦调查局暂不接手埃航飞机失事
    美国全国交通安全委员会主席吉姆·霍尔16日晚在华盛顿宣布，在埃及和美国调查人员对埃及航空公司失事飞机的座舱通话记录作出全面评估之前，飞机失事原因的调查暂不由联邦调查局接手，而仍由交通安全委员会继续主持.

我国航天史的里程碑：第一艘试验飞船飞行成功 
    新华社北京11月21日: 我国发射的第一艘“神舟”号试验飞船，20日6时30分在酒泉卫星发射中心用新型长征运载火箭发射升空的。起飞约10分钟，飞船与火箭分离，进入预定轨道。飞船在完成了空间飞行试验之后，于今天3时41分在内蒙古自治区中部地区成功着陆。作为我国航天史上的又一里程碑，试验飞船的成功发射与回收，标志着我国载人航天技术有了新的重大突破。这次发射的试验飞船和运载火箭，均为我国自行研制。载人航天技术是航天领域中技术难度最大的。此前，世界上只有美国和俄罗斯掌握了这一技术。

中国加入世界贸易组织 [China and W.T.O in depth]