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Date: 20 December 2002
By Joseph Kahn (NYT)
Joseph NYT
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp broadens its reach into fast-growing Chinese television market by agreeing to jointly finance and produce TV programs with Hunan Broadcasting Group (S)
Date: 20 December 2002
By Floyd Norris
Floyd Norris
Nasdaq market regulatory body NASD revises its proposed rule covering conflict of interest disclosures by stock research analysts; removes requirement that analysts not talk to reporters (M)
Date: 20 December 2002
By James Brooke (NYT)
James NYT
Five Japanese returned to Japan after lengthy stay in North Korea after being abducted hold joint press conference announcing their decision to stay in homeland and express wish for their families to join them; Hitomi Soga, American soldier Robert Charles Jenkins' wife, declares intent to visit mother-in-law in US; Jenkins, still in North Korea, has been listed as deserter since 1965 when he disappeared near demilitarized zone; photo (S)
Date: 20 December 2002
CHINA: Auto Venture; CHINA: Broadcast Agreement; JAPAN: Insurance Fund Renewed; JAPAN: Conservation Urged; PHILIPPINES: Exports Decline;.
Date: 20 December 2002
By Adam Nagourney and Janet Elder
Adam Nagourney
New York Times/CBS News Poll of Republican National Committee shows support for Sen Trent Lott is diminishing and concern that he is damaging party's image and undermining its efforts to appeal to minorities; only 16 percent of committee members believe he will survive questions about his views on segregation; poll of Democratic National Committee members finds Democrats are concerned about their performance in midterm election and worried about how that bodes for 2004 presidential election; both parties agree that Al Gore would have been weak candidate, had he decided to run; graph show poll details (M)
Date: 20 December 2002
By Marc Santora
Marc Santora
Boldface Names column; actor Daniel Day Lewis has immersed himself in art of shoemaking during five-year hiatus from making movies; Tom Hanks comments on box office success of movie Road to Perdition compared with that of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, which he produced with his wife Rita Wilson; John C Reilly appears in three movies coming out soon, The Hours, Gangs of New York and Chicago; New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg dresses as Santa Claus to dole out gag gifts for members of press; photos (M)
Date: 19 December 2002
By Daniel J. Wakin
Daniel Wakin
Followers of Falun Gong spiritual movement in New York say authorities in Beijing have brought propaganda war against it to New York by planting defamatory articles in Chinese-language newspapers and waging campaign of harassment; say they have been subtly threatened; movement has filed suit against several newspapers; battle exists in other Chinese communities in US, but is most acute in New York, where movement's founder Li Hongzhi lives (M)
Date: 20 December 2002
By Clyde Haberman
Clyde Haberman
Clyde Haberman NYC column comments on changed atmosphere at City Hall under Mayor Michael Bloomberg; recalls Mayor Giuliani's relationship with press was more adversarial (M)
Date: 20 December 2002
By Adam Liptak (NYT)
Adam NYT
Kentucky Supreme Court denies request of Roman Catholic Diocese of Lexington to hold Courier-Journal of Louisville in contempt for publishing article describing sexual abuse and cover-up accusations in suit against diocese after court had ordered records sealed (S)
Date: 19 December 2002
By Pamela Licalzi O'Connell
Pamela O'Connell
Pamela LiCalzi O'Connell Online Diary column; online themed Advent calendars, which count down from Dec 1 to Christmas, are available at several sites; mirrorproject.com and pictureyourself.org offer users opportunity to participate in Web compilation of self-portraits; Yahoo, Lycos and Google issue year-end reports of top news stories based on number of search queries; some miscellaneous Web sites noted; drawing (M)