China Daily back issues from July 2002:
Bush aims to restore public trust
Jul 01, 2002 ... WASHINGTON: US President George W. Bush vowed Saturday to restorepublic confidence in US companies after a string of financial andaccounting fraud debacles has eroded both US corporate profits andthe public trust. "No violation of the public's trust will be tolerated," ...
Embracing brighter future
Jul 01, 2002 ... Today marks the fifth anniversary of the Hong Kong SpecialAdministrative Region (SAR) as well as the beginning of ChiefExecutive Tung Chee-hwa's second term in office. It is a time tocelebrate and reflect on the past and look to the future. Five years ago, when Hong Kong was ...
Keep Lashihai a bird paradise
Jul 01, 2002; ... wo decades of rapid economic development in China has pulled manypeople out of the water of poverty. Unfortunately, it has also dried up a large number of wetlandhabitats, as waves of buildings are erected on the once thrivingsoil. In a world-famous sanctuary for tourists, ...
Legislators endorse five laws
Jul 01, 2002; ... The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China'stop legislative body, passed a new government procurement law overthe weekend, as well as a new law on work safety in the wake of aseries of deadly mine explosions. The new procurement law comes at the right time to ...
Reform critical for rural residents
Jul 01, 2002; ... Problems of the rural economy, which is centred on the slowing ofincreases in farmer incomes, can find their roots in the nationaleconomy. Without proper macroeconomic reforms, the issues will not beeffectively dealt with. To solve rural problems, economic restructuring is ...
Save our Earth's kidney
Jul 01, 2002 ... China has 65.94 million hectares of wetlands, ranking first inAsia and fourth in the world. The vast area and great variety havegiven rise to a rich biodiversity. Early this year, the Chinese Government launched one of thelargest wetland conservation and restoration projects in the ...
Guess who to replace Koizumi?
Jul 01, 2002 ... TOKYO: Japan's World Cup success is a flash of cheer for a countrythat has seen economic decline for a decade. The current joy isreminiscent of the "Koizumi fever" which raised voter hopes thistime last year. A year ago, screaming school girls as well as older votersthronged the ...
Advani's deputy PM appt clarifies his position
Jul 01, 2002 ... NEW DELHI: India's Lal Krishna Advani, named deputy prime ministeras part of a cabinet reshuffle, said yesterday his appointment shouldend speculation about differences between him and Prime Minister AtalBehari Vajpayee. Advani, who is hawkish on relations with Pakistan and a ...
FM to quit; Arroyo to accept
Jul 01, 2002 ... MANILA: Philippine Vice-President Teofisto Guingona, embroiled inpolicy differences with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, has bowedto pressure and is definitely quitting as foreign minister, anewspaper said yesterday. Guingona, a staunch nationalist, has long expressed ...
Hopes high as Union arrives
Jul 01, 2002 ... NAIROBI: Like parents awaiting the birth of a child, Africanleaders are placing big hopes in a new continent-wide institutionthey present to the world this week. The omens are distinctly mixed ahead of the arrival of the AfricanUnion (AU), a body meant to help save the world's ...
Automobile imports shoot up
Jul 01, 2002; ... Foreign automakers are being warned not to rely heavily onexporting to the fast-growing Chinese market in the wake of thecountry's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO). According to the China Trading Centre for Automobile Imports, thenation imported 39,405 vehicles during ...
Euro holdouts may give in
Jul 01, 2002 ... STOCKHOLM: Six months after the euphoric launch of the euro in 12of the 15 members of the European Union, voters in the remainingthree - Britain, Denmark and Sweden - seem resigned to abandoningtheir national currencies in favour of the common one. Sweden, whose voters have ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 12, Date: 07/01/2002)
Jul 01, 2002 ... SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan Afghan workers find burnt body parts Afghan workers have found burnt human body parts in the debris ofa deadly blast at an arms dump in the border town of Spin Boldak,raising fears some 15 missing guards may be dead, officials ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 8, Date: 07/01/2002)
Jul 01, 2002 ... SOCCER Ronaldinho reported set for Real MADRID: Real Madrid want to kick off their annual summer spendingspree by signing Brazilian World Cup sensation Ronaldinho, accordingto a press report in Spain. Club President Florentino Perez hinted in the sports daily AS ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 6, Date: 07/01/2002)
Jul 01, 2002 ... BEIJING Motorola: Silicon has had its chips Motorola and two Chinese research institutes predicted at theweekend that silicon will soon be surpassed as the best raw materialfor semiconductor products. Motorola said that lanthanum aluminate film will replace siliconas ...
Henman survives the scare
Jul 01, 2002 ... LONDON: Furious South African Wayne Ferreira claimed he wascheated of a potential Wimbledon victory in his third round clashagainst Britain's Tim Henman here on Saturday. The 30-year-old veteran lashed out at Portuguese umpire Jorge Diasafter a controversial overrule in the third ...
Jiang pledges support for HK prosperity
Jul 01, 2002; ... HONG KONG: President Jiang Zemin yesterday pledged the centralgovernment's support to help Hong Kong maintain prosperity andstability in line with the "one country, two systems" policy. Jiang said this during his meeting with Tung Chee-hwa, chiefexecutive of the Hong Kong Special ...
Removal of Jewish outposts ordered
Jul 01, 2002 ... JERUSALEM: Israeli Defence Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer orderedJewish settlers to remove 10 rogue outposts in the West Bankyesterday, drawing fire from settlement leaders who accused him ofrewarding a Palestinian uprising. While Ben-Eliezer took aim at the illegal settlements, the ...
City to lure cross-Straits money
Jul 01, 2002; ... DALIAN: This coastal city has vowed to lure more Taiwan investmentto enhance its overall economic development. A delegation of 260 Taiwanese entrepreneurs, led by He Shizhong,director of the Taiwan Affairs Economic Bureau, spent two days inDalian. "Dalian, a port city that ...
Beijing to get green housing
Jul 01, 2002; ... Around 3,600 families in Beijing are expected to have brand newand environmentally friendly homes of their own in three years thanksto a first-ever co-operative pilot housing project launched by Chinaand the United States. The 200,000-square-metre project, dubbed Longzeyuan, which ...
S. Korean miracle as Asia awakens at Cup
Jul 01, 2002 ... YOKOHAMA: It started with a disaster and ended in defeat - butAsian teams were celebrating their best-ever World Cup performance asthe tournament drew to a close here yesterday. A rollercoaster ride into the semi-finals by South Korea, fuelledby the feverish national pride of ...
Little fear of second Jilin quake
Jul 01, 2002 ... CHANGCHUN: Experts from the Seismological Bureau of Jilin Provincein Northeast China agreed on Saturday that there is littlepossibility that a ruinous earthquake could jolt the province in thenear future. An earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale rocked theprovince's ...
WEATHER REPORT (07/01/2002)
Jul 01, 2002 ... Drizzle to moderate rain is likely in northwestern parts of theXinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, northeastern parts of InnerMongolia, central and southern parts of North China, northern partsof Heilongjiang Province, most of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, easternparts of the Yangtze-Huaihe ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 3, Date: 07/01/2002)
Jul 01, 2002 ... BEIJING FM's trips Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan left yesterday for the 131st plenarysession of the International Expositions Bureau in Paris. Tang willmake a presentation at the session to support Shanghai's bid to hostthe 2010 World Expo. Tang will also visit other ...
Public can now access geological information
Jul 01, 2002; ... Starting from today, individuals as well as both domestic andforeign enterprises will have free access to the geologicalinformation that the country has collected at the cost of over 100billion yuan (US$12.1 billion). All such data, with the exception of materials concerning ...
Koreans point fingers over exchange of fire
Jul 01, 2002 ... SEOUL: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) saidyesterday that the Republic of Korea (ROK) had staged a surpriseattack on its navy to provoke a response, damage Pyongyang's imageand undermining already strained relations during soccer's World Cup. Earlier, ROK President ...
Twelve victims of gold mine explosion uncovered
Jul 01, 2002 ... TAIYUAN: Investigators said yesterday that local police havediscovered 12 bodies believed to be victims of the gold-mineexplosion on June 22 in North China's Shanxi Province. The bodies were found by police, with the help of witnesses, intwo different places 10 kilometres away from ...
Rescue operations to dam up damage
Jul 01, 2002; ... Major rescue operations are still in full swing in all 19provinces and municipalities affected by severe flooding in an effortto keep losses as low as possible. The provinces affected include Shaanxi in northwest, the centralprovinces of Hunan and Hubei, Chongqing and Sichuan in ...
Customs set to put squeeze on smugglers
Jul 01, 2002; ... Premier Zhu Rongji urged customs authorities to maintain "highpressure" in fighting against smuggling and to use informationtechnology to improve working efficiency. Zhu also urged them to strengthen tariff-collection work toimprove the country's financial revenue ...
SCOREBOARD (07/01/2002)
Jul 01, 2002 ... BASEBALL NEW YORK: Results of Saturday's Major League Baseball games (Hometeam in CAPS): Interleague Atlanta 2 BOSTON 1 CHI WHITE SOX 5 Chicago Cubs 4 NY Mets 11 NY YANKEES 2 San Francisco 5 OAKLAND 3 TORONTO 5 Montreal 4 (10 ...
Greene left with envy
Jul 02, 2002 ... SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND: Britain's Dwain Chambers pulled off his secondwin in three days over the world's fastest man Maurice Greene, at theIAAF Grand Prix II event here on Sunday. Chambers, who beat Greene in the opening Golden League event atOslo on Friday, clocked an impressive time ...
Park seeks bids for growth, design
Jul 02, 2002; ... Public bids are being sought for the largest park in Beijing togive it a new aesthetic beauty to match the city's modern image. Chaoyang Park, which means "rising sun," is looking for outsideexpertise for its general planning and design. Five million yuan (US$604,000) will be ...
Deprived painters pick up palettes with passion
Jul 02, 2002 ... KABUL: Musicians studying at prestigious Kabul University's FineArts Department in the 1980s had every brass, string and percussioninstrument in the orchestra. At last count, they had just one harmonium and two drums. Everything else was destroyed or stolen by feuding ...
Village people embrace cultural activities
Jul 02, 2002; ... An ancestral hall used to be a place where a family memorializedancestors in China's countryside, but now it has a new role inLuoding, South China's Guangdong Province. The Tan family's ancestral hall in Luocheng town affiliated withLuoding, built in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), ...
Kim: 'Sunshine policy' to go on
Jul 02, 2002 ... SEOUL: The Republic of Korea (ROK) and the United States agreedyesterday to strengthen rules of engaging the Democratic People'sRepublic of Korea (DPRK) after Saturday's bloody naval clash betweenthe two sides of the Korean Peninsula, the South's Defence Ministrysaid. The ROK ...
Environmental-friendly tourism vital
Jul 02, 2002; ... Tourism development has long been highlighted as a key to povertyalleviation and economic growth in the country. The issue was a hot topic for discussion during the Seminar onInternational Co-operation in the Tibet Autonomous Region last week,as the region is poised to further ...
Artful balance between theory, aesthetics
Jul 02, 2002; ... HANGZHOU: A heated discussion was going on between Chen Zhenlian,professor at Chinese Calligraphy, Painting and Seal Cutting at theSchool of Arts at Zhejiang University and his five doctoral studentsin a classroom. The debate centred on modern calligraphy after Chen said a ...
Stocks fall slightly on negative sentiments
Jul 02, 2002 ... China's stocks fell about 1 per cent yesterday as investorspunished B share firms for making dismal earnings forecasts andpocketed earlier gains in A-share constituents of a new benchmarkindex. Shanghai's composite index tumbled 19.050 points, or 1.10 percent, to 1,713.705 while ...
CCTV travel show plans to go far
Jul 02, 2002; ... For many overseas travellers about to set foot in China, theLonely Planet guidebook is one of their many necessities. When it comes to handy tips and warnings, first-time Chinavisitors cling to this "Travel Bible." Knowing what she's up against, Ma Jing, the producer of a ...
Banks becoming transparent
Jul 02, 2002 ... The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) for the firsttime added two important figures to its latest annual report for2001: The ratio of 29.78 per cent for non-performing assets and acapital adequacy rate of 5.76 per cent. Its non-performing ratio remains fairly high, and ...
New rules made on travel agents
Jul 02, 2002 ... China's travel agencies must provide several new kinds ofguarantees for its citizens travelling abroad, under new rulesintroduced yesterday. Agencies must not rip off travellers and must provide reliableinformation about when it is unsafe to travel in certain countries.They are ...
Nation reaffirms commitment
Jul 02, 2002; ... China yesterday sent out a strong message to the global businesscommunity that it will keep its commitments to the World TradeOrganization by gradually opening related industries. Minister Shi Guangsheng of Foreign Trade and Economic Co-operation (MOFTEC) said: "We are making ...
EXCHANGE RATES (07/02/2002)
Jul 02, 2002 ... Market exchange rates in RMB set by the People's Bank of China (July 1) Currency Unit Rate US dollar100 827.71 Japanese yen 100 6.9256 HK dollar 100 106.06 Bank of China exchange rates in RMB Currency Unit Buying ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 8, Date: 07/02/2002)
Jul 02, 2002 ... SOCCER Curse of Collina strikes Kahn again YOKOHAMA: Italian referee Pierluigi Collina spent a moment at theend of Sunday's World Cup final, won 2-0 by Brazil, to console Germangoalkeeper Oliver Kahn. But the German, whose error handed Ronaldo an easy chance ...
Bush actions shed light on 'invisible' economic team
Jul 02, 2002 ... President George W. Bush's decision to personally lead the callfor more honorable US corporate behaviour puts a sharper focus on theadministration's "missing in action" economic team. With worries mounting that the relentless tally of accountingscandals will sow doubt about the ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 12, Date: 07/02/2002)
Jul 02, 2002 ... BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan Grenades fired at US air base in Afghanistan Two rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) were fired at an airfieldused by US forces in eastern Afghanistan but there were no injuries,a US military official said yesterday. Colonel Roger King ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 6, Date: 07/02/2002)
Jul 02, 2002 ... BEIJING Aluminium and transport seminar A seminar on the aluminium market in the transportation industryis expected to open on July 30. The two-day event, sponsored by theChina Non-ferrous Industry Information Centre and Antike InformationDevelopment, is to reinforce ...
Jiang pledges to support HK
Jul 02, 2002; ... HONG KONG: President Jiang Zemin yesterday encouraged the HongKong Special Administrative Region (SAR) government and people towork for "a new economic landscape." He also pledged the support of the central government, saying thatit will continue to help with the SAR's economic ...
Capital on fast track to end traffic trauma
Jul 02, 2002; ... Beijing is mobilizing think tanks around the country to solvetraffic congestion in the capital ahead of the 2008 Olympic Games. A total of 19 leading transport experts from around the countrygathered in Beijing last week to discuss the city's traffic problemsat the invitation of ...
Banking sector opening urged
Jul 02, 2002; ... A senior central bank official said China should step up the paceof the opening of the banking sector to both foreign banks anddomestic private investors. Some of the smaller commercial banks are looking for privateinvestors, and the Big Four State banks also need to start ...
Kahn blamed for final loss
Jul 02, 2002 ... BERLIN: German newspapers mourned their team's loss in Sunday'sWorld Cup final by mixing criticism of a goalkeeping error withpraise for a side no one expected to advance so far. In their yesterday morning editions, most German papers blamedgoalkeeper Oliver Kahn for the loss after ...
General satisfaction dominates pain
Jul 02, 2002 ... BERLIN: A collective groan in Berlin accompanied the whistle thatended Germany's World Cup final hopes against Brazil on Sunday butemotions were dominated by general satisfaction that the team hadcome so far. In front of the big-screen set up in Potsdamer Platz, a rallyingpoint ...
Chinese diplomat killed in Kyrgyzstan
Jul 02, 2002; ... A working group led by Chinese Foreign Ministry officials will goto Kyrgyzstan today to investigate the killings of a Chinese diplomatand his limousine driver last weekend. Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said the Chinese side is"shocked" and strongly condemns the ...
Israeli leaders laud killing of top Hamas bomb maker
Jul 02, 2002 ... JERUSALEM: Israeli leaders hailed the killing of a top Hamas bombmaker as a resounding military success yesterday and said suchattacks would continue, but the Palestinians condemned it as a state-sponsored assassination. The militant Islamic group Hamas vowed to avenge the death ...
Hunger haunts Panama's Guaymis
Jul 02, 2002 ... CERRO SOMBRERO, Panama : A group of sluggish children, theirstomachs swollen from malnutrition, stand around a pot of a lumpyrice drink, while their mother, too weak to stand herself, ladles outa spoon of the hot white sludge to each child. The Tubris family, members of Panama's ...
Leaders talk up bilateral relations
Jul 02, 2002 ... China and Mauritius have had fruitful co-operation since theyestablished diplomatic ties 30 years ago, Premier Zhu Rongji saidyesterday during talks with Mauritian Prime Minister AneroodJugnauth. Zhu said that Jugnauth's visit on the 30th anniversary of theestablishment of ...
Clash casts shadow on peace process
Jul 02, 2002; ... The naval encounter on Saturday in the Yellow Sea betweenDemocratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and Republic of Korea(ROK) patrol boats was a reminder that the Korean Peninsula remainsone of the world's most volatile flashpoints. Seoul blamed DPRK's two patrol ships for ...
Overseas investors to help industry fly
Jul 02, 2002; ... China's civil aviation regulator announced yesterday that anindustry regulation amended to give foreign investors wider access toChina's aviation market will take effect on August 1. A document from the General Administration of Civil Aviation ofChina (CAAC) showed that foreign ...
Foreign giants take gas pipeline stake
Jul 02, 2002; ... Oil giants Royal/Dutch Shell, ExxonMobil and Russia's Gazprom haveagreed to take 15 per cent stakes each in China's US$5.6 billionnatural gas pipeline project, clearing away the final obstacleblocking the kick-off of the repeatedly delayed project. The firms agreed to equally split ...
Ronaldo savours sweet moment
Jul 02, 2002 ... YOKOHAMA: Ronaldo, the hero of Brazil's 5th World Cup triumph,said his fairytale comeback from the depths of despair had exceededeven his own wildest dreams. "Slowly, slowly I am starting to understand what has happened,"the 25-year-old said after scoring twice in the final to ...
Japan's business confidence rises
Jul 02, 2002 ... TOKYO: Japanese boardroom blues lifted for the first time in sevenquarters as rising exports sparked fresh activity at factories,stirring the rest of the economy, the central bank's latest Tankansurvey showed yesterday. But economists warned against becoming too excited by the ...
WEATHER REPORT (07/02/2002)
Jul 02, 2002 ... As has become the gloomy norm, rain or thunderstorms are likely inthe northern part of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, theeastern part of Northwest China, the western and southern parts ofNorth China, the northeastern part of Inner Mongolia, the central andnorthern parts of ...
Campaign to make ships safe to sail
Jul 02, 2002; ... China yesterday joined the world's leading port states inlaunching a three-month Concentrated Inspection Campaign to ensurecargo ships are operating safely and in an environmentally consciousmanner. Any cargo vessel weighing 500 tons or more will be detained if itfails to comply ...
ROUNDUP (07/02/2002)
Jul 02, 2002 ... TAIPEI New system brings share tumble Taiwan's shares tumbled to a new low for the year yesterday asinvestors rushed to sell their holdings on unfamiliarity with a newtrading system, dealers said. Market sentiment was further dampened after "Finance Minister" ...
Tung: Economy tops agenda
Jul 02, 2002; ... HONG KONG: Tung Chee-hwa began his second term as the Hong KongSpecial Administrative Region (SAR)'s chief executive yesterday,listing his prime tasks as lifting Hong Kong out of the economicdoldrums and restoring people's confidence. He promised to tackle rising unemployment ...