China Daily back issues from October 2002:
Putting the gloss on Shanghai culture
Oct 01, 2002; ... SHANGHAI: For many residents and visitors, it is hard toarticulate the beauty and vibrancy of Shanghai in words. But a contingent of international artists are trying to interprettheir feelings for the city in a different way - with their paintbrushes. The 23 painters were ...
Military sweeps end in Chechnya villages
Oct 01, 2002 ... NAZRAN, Russia: The head of Chechnya's Moscow-appointedadministration, Akhmad Kadyrov, said yesterday that massive Russianmilitary sweeps of Chechen villages had come to an end, but anotherofficial said scores of people were still being detained in suchoperations. Kadyrov said ...
Working towards a new international order
Oct 01, 2002; ... China has consistently supported and worked towards theestablishment of a new international order. As early as the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s,China backed developing countries' demands for the establishment of anew international economic order. When ...
Central bank raises forex currency buying price
Oct 01, 2002; ... The central People's Bank of China raised foreign currency buyingprices by commercial banks today, mainly in a bid to herd a growingamount of unregulated forex transactions derived from border tradeback into the banking system. The State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) ...
UN-Iraq talks under way
Oct 01, 2002 ... VIENNA: Chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix said yesterday heexpected unlimited access to sites when his team returns to Iraq, inan effort to ward off a military attack by the United States andBritain. Speaking to reporters before Iraqi officials and UN inspectorsbegan their ...
EXCHANGE RATES (10/01/2002)
Oct 01, 2002 ... Market exchange rates in RMB set by the People's Bank of China (September 30) Currency Unit Rate US dollar100 827.71 Japanese yen 100 6.7917 HK dollar 100 106.07 Bank of China exchange rates in RMB Currency Unit Buying ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 2, Date: 10/01/2002)
Oct 01, 2002 ... BEIJING Friendship prize Premier Zhu Rongji yesterday highly praised, during a get-together, the foreign experts who have been awarded the "FriendshipPrize" by the Chinese Government for their outstanding contributionto the country's modernization and the process of reform ...
First digital TV service initiated
Oct 01, 2002; ... SHANGHAI: This coastal metropolis tentatively launched a 24-hourdigital television programming over the weekend, making it the firstcity on the Chinese mainland to initiate digitalization of its cableTV industry. The high-definition digital programmes, carried by the currentcable ...
Jamming harms world economy
Oct 01, 2002; ... A Beijing-based satellite operator, whose television signals werehi-jacked by Falun Gong followers based in Taiwan, branded thedisruption an "evil and criminal act," and urged the island to put astop to it. The hi-jacking was also lambasted by the InternationalTelecommunications ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 8, Date: 10/01/2002)
Oct 01, 2002 ... JAKARTA Three shot dead in attack near Indonesia presidential palace Three people were shot dead outside a money changer's shop not farfrom Indonesia's presidential palace yesterday, in an attack thenational police chief said was a suspected robbery attempt ....
Nation maintains growth momentum
Oct 01, 2002 ... Despite 2002 being a relatively quiet year compared with theeventful 2001, we have many reasons to celebrate our National Day. Looking at what our country has achieved, we may get a bettersense of our true whereabouts amid the sometimes bewildering commentsfrom ...
SOEs facing tough tasks
Oct 01, 2002; ... After years of reforms, China's key enterprises have achievedremarkable progress in implementing a modern-enterprise system and insharpening their competitive edges. But domestic enterprises still face many arduous reform tasks intheir futures. A recent survey by the National ...
Time to celebrate
Oct 01, 2002; ... Large, red flags emblazoned with five gold stars line streetsthroughout China. The banners flutter in the wind. Flowers are arranged in various designs - most notably in theshapes of Chinese characters shiyi, which means "October 1," orguoqing, which means "celebrating National ...
HSBC gets cyber licence for inland banking services
Oct 01, 2002; ... SHANGHAI: The competition arena for domestic and foreign banks isgoing beyond the real world to cyber space as overseas players arenow ready to serve their customers on the Internet. The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC)yesterday obtained approval to offer ...
Champ Tan suffers pain of growth
Oct 01, 2002; ... BUSAN: Tan Xue, the newly-crowned women's sabre world champion,paid a high price for her inexperience yesterday.Missing the highly-anticipated gold medal,she bowed out of the competition with a semi-final upset loss before finally securing a bronze medal in GangseoStadium here at the ...
China and Japan rule day two
Oct 01, 2002 ... BUSAN, South Korea: The first full day of the Asian Gamescompetition belonged to China and Japan as the two countries combinedto take 11 gold medals out of 14 at stake yesterday. South Korea found some solace by picking two golds in fencing andjudo, after losing two fencing events ...
Products of leather reach EU standards
Oct 01, 2002; ... The recent European Union ban on the use of some azo colourants isexpected to have little influence on China's leather and textileexports to the region, domestic industrial experts said yesterday. "Germany introduced a similar ban in 1994 and Chinese leathermakers have since then ...
Ministers discuss Iraq issue over telephone
Oct 01, 2002 ... Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan had an in-depth exchange of viewswith Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, on the best way ofresolving the question of arms inspections in Iraq. During yesterday's telephone talks Ivanov made clear Russia'sstance on the situation, expressing the view ...
Foreign funds go to new areas
Oct 02, 2002 ... Ten of the world's leading travel agencies have set up offices inChina, in anticipation of the complete opening-up of the tourismindustry in three years. And of the top 50 world retailers, more than half have arrived inthe country. On the fundamental changes in foreign ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 4, Date: 10/02/2002)
Oct 02, 2002 ... UNITED NATIONS UN unveils ambitious plans for major facelift of New York HQ The United Nations disclosed its ambitious renovation programme onMonday, which could cost up to US$1.3 billion to stop water fromdripping through the roof and remove asbestos lining the ceiling ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 2, Date: 10/02/2002)
Oct 02, 2002 ... TOKYO Confidence up Business pessimism has declined slightly in Japan but the outlookremains clouded by heavy debts, flagging sales and concerns over theUS economy, a key survey showed yesterday. The Bank of Japan said its latest Tankan survey of businessconfidence ...
Teen gymnast leads China win
Oct 02, 2002 ... BUSAN: Teng Haibin, the new teen star in China's gymnasticsdynasty, gave a breakout performance in Busan yesterday to leadChina's men to a team gold medal at the Asian Games. The reigning Olympic champions defended their Asian Games crownwith 228.825 points, with runners-up South ...
Bush signs bill on Jerusalem
Oct 02, 2002 ... WASHINGTON: US President George W. Bush, at the risk of angeringthe Arab and Muslim world, signed legislation on Monday local timethat requires his administration to identify Jerusalem as Israel'scapital. Faced with a choice between endorsing the controversial billpassed by ...
Chinese swimmers steal the night in poll
Oct 02, 2002; ... BUSAN: Chinese swimmers made a splash in the 14th Asian Gamesyesterday, winning all five gold medals up for grabs. There were two surprise victories by the Chinese men, who defeatedtheir long-time dominant Japanese counterparts in the Sajik Complex. China's overwhelming ...
WEATHER REPORT (10/02/2002)
Oct 02, 2002 ... Drizzle to moderate rain or sleet will visit northern parts ofXinjiang, eastern parts of Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang Province andmost parts of Jilin Province. There will be winds of force 5 to 6 inNortheast China, North China and the region between the Yellow Riverand Huaihe River, ...
UN-Iraq talks making progress
Oct 02, 2002 ... VIENNA: Iraqi arms experts were expected to make a show of goodfaith by handing over to United Nations weapons inspectors longoverdue information about their nuclear facilities, a senior diplomatsaid. An Iraqi delegation and top UN weapons inspectors met for a secondand final day ...
Yangtze found not polluted by construction
Oct 02, 2002 ... GOLMUD, Qinghai: Construction of the Qinghai-Tibet railway has notpolluted the source of the Yangtze River, which is in the projectarea. That was the key finding of a water-quality and environment surveyby the Qinghai Provincial Environment Monitoring Centre. It concluded ...
Marketing firm unites retailers
Oct 02, 2002; ... Nine local retailers of household electrical appliances announcedlast Friday they have jointly set up a new marketing company - theZhongyong Tongtai Electrical Appliances Marketing Co Ltd. The new firm will purchase commodities for the nine companies,whose annual sales income was ...
Voters shun Kashmir vote; rebels kill seven
Oct 02, 2002 ... ANANTNAG/SRINAGAR, Kashmir: Gunmen killed seven people on a bus inIndian-controlled Kashmir yesterday and attacked several pollingstations as voters shunned the third round of elections in thetroubled region. India has billed the vote, which ends on October 8, as a test ...
ROUNDUP (10/02/2002)
Oct 02, 2002 ... TAIPEI Shares lower on growth worries Taiwan shares registered their lowest close in 10 monthsyesterday, on Wall Street losses and lingering concerns over theeconomic recovery's slow pace, analysts said. The benchmark index of the Taiwan Stock Exchange closed down ...
Eight golds mark National Day
Oct 02, 2002 ... BUSAN: Chinese athletes celebrated the October 1 National Dayyesterday by winning eight gold medals on the second day of the AsianGames. They got five from swimming and one each from gymnastics, judo andweightlifting, raising their gold collection to 15. And a woman ...
City revises rules to bring in more research institutes
Oct 02, 2002 ... New Beijing municipal government regulations came into forceyesterday, aiming to attract more research and development institutesto the city. Under the new regulations, which are a revision of regulationsissued in June 1999, Chinese and foreign research institutes -whether they ...
SCOREBOARD (10/02/2002)
Oct 02, 2002 ... NFL NEW YORK: Result of Monday's National Football League game (hometeam in CAPS): BALTIMORE 34 Denver 23 SOCCER English premier league LONDON: Result of an English premier league soccer matches playedon Monday: West Bromwich 0 Blackburn 2 (Yorke 72pen, Duff ...
US envoy to DPRK stops in Tokyo
Oct 02, 2002 ... TOKYO: A senior US State Department official arrived in Tokyoyesterday en route to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea(DPRK) to open high-level talks. James Kelly, assistant secretary of state for East Asian andPacific affairs, will meet Japanese officials before heading ...
Gov't fully supports expo bid
Oct 02, 2002; ... The Chinese Government has thrown its full support behindShanghai's bid to host the 2010 World Expo, pledging to guarantee itsfinances to ensure success. Wei Jianguo, vice-minister of foreign trade and economic co-operation, said he was confident Shanghai would stage the ...
Fahad backs best ever Olympics
Oct 03, 2002 ... BUSAN: President Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, of the OlympicCouncil of Asia (OCA), said yesterday his council would work togetherwith Beijing to deliver the world's best ever Olympics in 2008. "The OCA will co-operate with the Beijing Organizing Committee forthe Olympic Games, ...
Tax cuts on firms to help jobless
Oct 03, 2002; ... The Ministry of Labour and Social Security is considering reducingthe taxes and fees that new businesses should pay if they employ laid-off workers. Newly founded businesses, if most of their employees are laid-offworkers from State-owned enterprises, would enjoy lower business ...
Beijing sees GDP 9.3% up in first 8 months
Oct 03, 2002 ... Beijing municipality's gross domestic product reached 187 billionyuan (US$22.6 billion) in the first eight months of this year, a riseof 9.3 per cent over the same period last year. The main areas of positive change were in the fields of investmentand consumption, industrial ...
Stylish Man United march on; Milan beat Bayern
Oct 03, 2002 ... PARIS: Manchester United and AC Milan had plenty to celebrate onTuesday as the footballing giants moved to within a hair's breadth ofthe second phase of the Champions League. Manchester United performed a stylish 4-0 demolition job on Greekchampions Olympiakos with two goals from ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 2, Date: 10/03/2002)
Oct 03, 2002 ... BEIJING Flower power China has planted a total of 147,500 hectares of flowers over thepast two decades or so, putting it top of the world's flowerindustry. Flower production and consumption has been soaring in China inrecent years, insiders in the flower industry said ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 4, Date: 10/03/2002)
Oct 03, 2002 ... PARIS After London, Schroeder looks to Paris to mend ties with US German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder was to dine with FrenchPresident Jacques Chirac in Paris late yesterday as part of hiseffort to mend fences with the United States through Berlin'sEuropean Union ...
ROUNDUP (10/01/2002)
Oct 01, 2002 ... HONG KONG Hang Seng follows US slump Hong Kong stocks slumped yesterday on the back of last Friday'stumble on Wall Street. The main Hang Seng Index fell 222.25 points, or 2.39 per cent,finishing at 9,072.21. On Friday, the index had gained 23.75 points,or 0.26 per ...
WEATHER REPORT (10/01/2002)
Oct 01, 2002 ... Drizzle to moderate rain is forecast for eastern areas of theQinghai-Tibet Plateau. Eastern regions of Inner Mongolia, most areasof Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning provinces, and eastern ShandongProvince will experience drizzle to moderate rain or sleet. Drizzleto moderate rain or ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 3, Date: 10/01/2002)
Oct 01, 2002 ... TAIPEI Exports to mainland up The Chinese mainland remained Taiwan Province's largest exportmarket in the first seven months of this year with the trade acrossthe Taiwan Straits continuing to rise. During the January-July period, exports from Taiwan Province tothe ...
Torrance strategy pays off in Euro Ryder win
Oct 01, 2002 ... SUTTON COLDFIELD, England: By the time Tiger Woods marched downthe 17th fairway in the final match, the Ryder Cup was already lost. The world's greatest player wasn't even a factor as Europe wrestedthe gold trophy from the United States in a thrilling final day upsetat The ...
Toll soars up to 970 in Senegal capsizing
Oct 01, 2002 ... DAKAR: Senegal's government promised answers yesterday over thesinking of a state-run ferry, after revealing the death toll washigher than first announced, with 970 people believed missing ordead. The toll of missing, presumed dead, soared on Sunday when thegovernment announced ...
Day to remember as nation marks anniversary
Oct 02, 2002; ... More than 250,000 people defied strong winds to witness the flag-raising ceremony on Tian'anmen Square yesterday that heralded a hostof celebrations and activities to mark China's National Day. Yu Meng, an 18-year-old woman from North China's TianjinMunicipality, said this was the ...
World leaders try to revive economy
Oct 01, 2002 ... WASHINGTON: World economic leaders tried over the weekend to buckup a shaky recovery, but failed to eradicate the looming menaces of acreaking Japanese financial system and future debt crises. Argentina was left twisting in the wind. And activists once againaccused rich nations of ...
Premier praises achievements
Oct 01, 2002; ... Premier Zhu Rongji yesterday lauded the progress China has made onthe eve of the 53rd anniversary of the founding of the People'sRepublic of China. Speaking at a banquet attended by some 1,500 guests from home andabroad, Zhu said that China has attained "remarkable achievements ...
Role of private sector expanding
Oct 01, 2002 ... Qiu Jibao, the owner of a nationally renowned sewing machineenterprise group, has been elected as a delegate to the upcoming 16thNational Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), which isscheduled to open on November 8. "It's a great honour for me to attend the National ...
Lost US pilots remains found
Oct 01, 2002; ... A joint Sino-US search team found remains believed to be those ofsome missing pilots of a plane that crashed in Southwest China'sTibet during World War II, according to a news conference held in theUS embassy in Beijing yesterday. The remains, in 112 pieces, were believed to be ...
Section of old city wall restored
Oct 01, 2002; ... The last remnants of Beijing's ancient city wall, which has ahistory of more than 500 years, have been uncovered and restored totheir former appearance after enduring the ravages of war and urbanconstruction over the past century. The revamped wall, 1,540 metres in length, from ...
Weight lifts challenge in Asia
Oct 01, 2002; ... BUSAN: A less-than-convincing victory by the Chinese women'sweightlifter yesterday sounded the alert for the Chinesecamp,fighting to continue their long-standing dominance in the sportat world competition level. "The challenge really shows," said Duan Shijie, deputy chef ...
SCOREBOARD (10/01/2002)
Oct 01, 2002 ... BASEBALL NEW YORK: Results of Major League Baseball games played on Sunday(home teams in CAPS): American League TORONTO 1 Detroit 0 BOSTON 11 Tampa Bay 8 CLEVELAND 7 Kansas City 3 NY Yankees 6 BALTIMORE 1 MINNESOTA 3 Chicago White Sox ...
Market for learning English surges ahead
Oct 03, 2002 ... Students have complained that the biggest headache these days withtaking highly feared English examinations is not the exams themselvesbut the number of people wanting to take them. Sha Xiaowei, a graduate student at Beijing University, said: "It'smore difficult to apply for the ...
PM is not needed in Palestine
Oct 03, 2002 ... RAMALLAH, West Bank: Top members of Palestinian leader YasserArafat's Fatah faction have rejected calls for a new prime minister,saying it would serve only Israeli and US interests, a seniorofficial said yesterday. The United States and Israel have been seeking to sideline ...
Asiad swimming battle ignites
Oct 03, 2002; ... BUSAN: Japan's Kosuke Kitajima set the Asian Games alightyesterday by smashing the 10-year-old 200m breaststroke world recordto claim his second Asiad gold. The world champion bronze medallist and 100m winner trounced thefield to win by a massive 3.5 seconds and topple the 2:10.16 ...
Trade with Russia closes on benchmark
Oct 03, 2002 ... Trade between China and Russia grew strongly in the first eightmonths of the year and could top US$12 billion for 2002, an increaseof US$2 billion compared with last year, General Administration ofCustoms figures show. Until August, two-way trade between the countries reached ...
Aziz: No new resolution needed
Oct 03, 2002 ... ANKARA: Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz said yesterday atough new United Nations (UN) resolution proposed by the UnitedStates to cover the operations of arms inspectors in Iraq wasunacceptable. "This proposal of the United States is unacceptable, not only byIraq, it's ...
US embassy apologizes for treatment of Malaysian VIPs
Oct 03, 2002 ... KUALA LUMPUR: The United States Embassy in Kuala Lumpur apologizedyesterday for the treatment of Malaysian leaders by security-conscious staff at US airports after Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamadcomplained of rudeness and other leaders were told to remove theirshoes and ...
Veteran Wang heads shooting medal feast
Oct 03, 2002; ... BUSAN: Classy marksman Wang Yifu was the star as China dominatedthe Asian Games shooting competition yesterday with seven gold medalsin eight events. Veteran Wang, the 1992 Olympic champion, finished the day with twomore gold medals to put in a trophy cabinet already glittering ...
UN 'vital' to halting weapons build-up
Oct 03, 2002 ... UNITED NATIONS: The improvement of international relations isconducive to global efforts to prevent the proliferation of weaponsof mass destruction (WMD), a high-ranking Chinese official saidearlier this week. Hu Xiaodi, the Chinese ambassador to the United Nations ondisarmament, ...
WEATHER REPORT (10/03/2002)
Oct 03, 2002 ... Drizzle or moderate rain is expected in western and southern areasof Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan provinces in Southwest China. Southernparts of Chongqing and northern parts of Guizhou can expect heavyrain. Winds of force 6 to 7 are forecast to sweep across the Bohaiand Yellow seas ....
Investment soars in Zhejiang
Oct 03, 2002 ... HANGZHOU: More than two-thirds of social investment in EastChina's Zhejiang Province is from the private sector or individualbusiness people, a provincial department said yesterday. And private investment comprised almost 68 per cent of the totalinvestment in Zhejiang in the first ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 3, Date: 10/03/2002)
Oct 03, 2002 ... BASKETBALL Clippers sign Wang, Mavs can match LOS ANGELES: The Los Angeles Clippers signed restricted free agentcentre Wang Zhizhi to a three-year offer sheet on Tuesday. Wang, the first Chinese-born player to play in the NationalBasketball Association, has spent two ...