71.   China has asked South Africa to provide emergency assistance to hundreds of Chinese citizens and ethnic Chinese who fled the violence in Lesotho, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.

72.   China opposed the NATO bombing that included a mistaken hit on the Chinese embassy in Belgrade that killed three Chinese citizens.

73.   Chinese citizens can tap into the Internet through a number of servers, but are supposed to register with police.

74.   Chinese citizens living in the United States also wrote to Zhu urging him to cancel his visit because of the Kosovo crisis.

75.   Chinese citizens now can apply for tourist visas at Malaysian embassies, he said.

76.   Chinese citizens living in the United States have written Zhu urging him to cancel, said one Chinese source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

77.   Chinese citizens should have the right to travel freely and return to their country, New York-based Human Rights in China said in a statement.

78.   Despite the dispute and a ban on contacts by Chinese citizens with Roman Catholic priests, the Vatican is pushing for full diplomatic relations with Beijing.

79.   Demonstrations against the NATO bombing, staged mainly by Chinese citizens, took place across East Asian capitals from Tokyo to Singapore and as far away as Israel.

80.   Dozens of Chinese citizens rallied outside the U.S. Embassy in Moscow on Sunday demanding a stop to the NATO campaign, Russian news reports said.