China Daily back issues from September 2003:
France strikes gold twice
Sep 01, 2003 ... PARIS: Former European champion Christine Arron anchored France totheir second gold medal of the evening on Saturday with a scorchingfinal leg in the women's 4x100 metres relay final. Heptathlete silver medallist Eunice Barber had earlier sent thepacked crowd at the Stade de France ...
Money-losing SOEs face bankruptcy
Sep 01, 2003; ... More than 2,000 State-owned enterprises (SOEs) on the brink ofinsolvency are expected to go bankrupt within five years, saidsources from State-owned Assets Supervision and AdministrationCommission (SASAC). This is an important step in the country's State-owned assetsrestructuring ...
Nation's economic boom to continue
Sep 01, 2003 ... Growth of China's economy is likely to remain stable in the secondhalf of the year and the momentum will carry on into 2004 as long asproper policy choices are made. That's the conclusion of a report drafted by a research team fromthe State Information Centre. China's gross ...
Melody from Horqin grassland
Sep 01, 2003; ... "Little swan geese from the south They don't take off again until arriving at the Yangtze River And it is for the Mongolian people's land That the rebellious Gadameilin fought for!" This is the first part of "Gadameilin," an Inner Mongolian folksong familiar to ...
Sunken sub 'no threat to ecology'
Sep 01, 2003 ... MOSCOW: Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov said yesterdayradiation levels were normal in the Barents Sea where a Russiannuclear-powered submarine sank at the weekend. Nine seamen were killed when the K-159 sank in stormy Arcticwaters in the early hours of Saturday as it was ...
Folk expo to link art with market
Sep 01, 2003; ... CHANGCHUN: Li Baofeng was apprehensive when she started herPhoenix paper-cut art centre two years ago. She was 33 and had a big family to take care - her husband, son,parents-in-law and her own parents. She wondered if she could handle the challenge, and if her familywould ...
Insights into Etruscans
Sep 01, 2003; ... SHANGHAI: A young man was making pencil sketches in front of acoffin displayed as part of "The World of the Etruscans" exhibitionat the Shanghai Museum. "The carvings on the coffin are really amazing," said ZhaoDicheng, a sophomore majoring in advertising at Shanghai ...
Honouring women's choice
Sep 01, 2003; ... Allowing women to retire at the same age as men has been a hottopic of discussion lately as it is being considered for inclusion inthe Law on Protection of the Rights and Interests of Women. In the early years after the new China's foundation in 1949, thegovernment established a ...
Bush talks up tax cuts and economy
Sep 01, 2003 ... WASHINGTON: US President George W. Bush says increases in consumerspending and reports that manufacturing is on the mend are proof thathis tax cuts have restarted the US economy, although the job marketis yet to turn around. "Now we must build on this progress and make sure that ...
300,000 join funeral for Shi'ite Muslim leader
Sep 01, 2003 ... BAGHDAD, Iraq: More than 300,000 Muslims began a two-day, 180-kilometre march to the holy city of Najaf yesterday to mourn acherished Shi'ite leader who was assassinated in a car bombing thatkilled at least 85 people. The faithful beat their chests and called for vengeance as ...
Officials subject to punishment for accidents
Sep 01, 2003; ... More than 80 local officials allegedly responsible for severalmajor mining explosions in North China's coal-rich Shanxi Provinceare subject to punishment, according to the local provincialgovernment. Eighteen officials will face criminal charges while 64 will besubject to ...
New auto loan regs to be out
Sep 01, 2003; ... China's widely-anticipated auto financing regulation will beformally promulgated this year, economic sources said. Ten months after a trial version of the regulation on auto financecompanies was published by the central bank last year for publiccomment, officials announced last ...
Killing of Cleric stirs Iraq turmoil
Sep 01, 2003 ... LONDON: The car bombing that killed a powerful Iraqi Shi'iteleader on Friday will throw Iraq's majority Shi'ite community intoturmoil and further set back faltering US-led efforts to stabilizepostwar Iraq. Arrests made so far of the suspects indicated al-Qaida was behindthe blast ...
New regulations for fish farming
Sep 01, 2003; ... A set of stringent aquaculture measures will take effect today tosubstantially improve the safety and quality of China's farmedaquatic products, the Ministry of Agriculture announced at theweekend. The Management Regulations Regarding Aquaculture Quality andSafety take a hard ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 1, Date: 09/01/2003)
Sep 01, 2003 ... TEL AVIV Israel hunts Hamas with high-tech tactics From whispered telephone tip-offs to missiles that can home in ontargets as small as a face in a car window, Israel's hunt forPalestinian militants in the teeming Gaza Strip is a mix of high riskand high-tech. Ten ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 8, Date: 09/01/2003)
Sep 01, 2003 ... TENNIS Kournikova ends stint as TV reporter NEW YORK: Anna Kournikova's stint as a roving reporter at the USOpen has come to a premature end after the glamorous Russian foundquizzing fellow players uncomfortable. Kournikova, sidelined by a back injury, also ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 6, Date: 09/01/2003)
Sep 01, 2003 ... BEIJING Smart phone product launched Major Chinese telecom operator, CECT, in co-operation with high-tech firm E28 Shanghai Ltd, launched its latest smart phone productCEC e2800 yesterday in Beijing. The new cell phone, targetting high-end customers like ...
Wen urges Shanghai to take leading role
Sep 01, 2003; ... During his three-day inspection trip to Shanghai, Premier WenJiabao urged the city to take the lead in the country's modernizationpush. While developing the west and reviving the northeast, the countryshould continue to push the eastern region's rapid economic growth,Wen ...
Pottery pooches a lasting legacy of Han Dynasty
Sep 01, 2003; ... Nanyang, a historical city in Central China's Henan Province, isrenowned for its wealth of relics dating back to the Han Dynasty (206BC-AD 220). Of the large number of figurines unearthed in burial sites in thecity, pottery dogs are among the most unique.These marvelous ...
Shanghai targets high rollers
Sep 01, 2003; ... SHANGHAI: To re-emerge as an international financial capital hasbeen a dream cherished by Shanghai for more than a decade. Concrete steps are being undertaken by both local governments,regulatory bodies and financial institutions. The result is that the city has turned into the ...
Beckham in dream start
Sep 01, 2003 ... MADRID: David Beckham scored three minutes into his first leaguematch, a 2-1 win over Real Betis on Saturday, to cap a dream start tohis Real Madrid career. The England captain was on hand to sidefoot home a Ronaldo passafter the Brazilian and fellow striker Raul had exchanged a ...
Agassi put on hold as contenders beat rain
Sep 01, 2003 ... NEW YORK: Jennifer Capriati, Justine Henin-Hardenne and LleytonHewitt all looked forward to the business end of the US Open afterclocking up victories at the rain-hit hardcourt grand slam onSaturday. But top seed and world No 1 Andre Agassi was put on hold byorganizers, who told ...
Taliban offers strong resistance as hunt goes on
Sep 01, 2003 ... KABUL/SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan: Taliban fighters put up stiffresistance yesterday as Afghan and US forces continued to hunt themdown backed by artillery, jet fighters and attack helicopters, asenior official said. Khalil Hotak, intelligence chief in the southern province of ...
Shaanxi, Sichuan floods kill 35
Sep 01, 2003; ... XI'AN/CHENGDU: At least 35 people had been killed in floods andlandslides in Shaanxi and Sichuan provinces as of yesterday. Starting on August 24, heavy rains which had hit most parts ofShaanxi caused flooding in 32 counties of the province. A total of 21 people have been ...
Scholars to work for city's future
Sep 01, 2003; ... A dozen professors yesterday joined Guiyang in Southwest China'sGuizhou Province in their attempt to achieve a resource circulatingeconomy and an environmentally friendly society. There were nine academicians from the Chinese Academy of Sciencesand the Chinese Academy of ...
Blackburn put the brakes on Chelsea again
Sep 01, 2003 ... LONDON: Chelsea were held to a 2-2 home draw by their bogey teamBlackburn Rovers on Saturday as the big-spending London club droppedtheir first points of the English Premier League season. With Manchester United and Arsenal both in action a day later,Chelsea took centre stage but, ...
Shanghai attracts overseas students
Sep 01, 2003; ... SHANGHAI: Shanghai announced yesterday that it is launching amassive recruitment campaign to attract over 10,000 Chinese who havecompleted high-level education and training overseas in the comingtwo to three years. Such a move is regarded by local officials as essential ...
Rogge lauds Beijing's Olympic preparation
Sep 01, 2003; ... With five years to the Beijing Olympic Games, InternationalOlympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge has showered lavishpraise on the national capital's Games buildup. Rogge arrived in Beijing yesterday ahead of today's launch of themarketing plan for the event. He said the ...
Foreign exchange China's own issue
Sep 01, 2003; ... Overseas critics of China's foreign exchange system should refrainfrom interfering in the country's policy-making process, a seniorofficial with an Australian elite business and international affairssociety said. China's foreign exchange policy is a matter for China to ...
More exotic insects emerge at ports
Sep 01, 2003; ... GUANGZHOU: Some 310 species of exotic insects in more than 3,100different fruit or crop imports were detected at ports in Shenzhenduring the first eight months of this year, a local Imports andExports Quarantine and Inspection Administration (IEQIA) source hasrevealed. The ...
Dalai's US visit will hurt relations
Sep 01, 2003; ... Talks are under way between the United States and the Dalai Lamaabout the political exile's forthcoming visit to the United States.In his 20-day visit to Washington, scheduled to start on September 4,the Dalai Lama will possibly meet with President George W. Bush,Secretary of State Colin ...
War on poverty an uphill battle
Sep 01, 2003; ... The pledge made by the State Council Poverty-relief Office thatthe country will help lift poverty-stricken rural citizens out ofdifficulty by 2010 is certainly welcome, not only by those in thetarget group, but by others who have concerned themselves with thepitiable ...
Tears not enough to keep attraction afloat
Sep 01, 2003 ... LAKE BALATON: Lake Balaton, central Europe's biggest fresh waterlake and one of Hungary's main tourist attractions, is shrinking,prompting warnings of a potential ecological and economiccatastrophe. For the first time since records began in 1865, four consecutivehot summers and ...
WEATHER REPORT (09/01/2003)
Sep 01, 2003 ... Light to moderate rain or thundershowers are forecast in most ofTibet, southeastern Northwest China, western and southern NorthChina, northeastern Inner Mongolia, northwestern Heilongjiang,western and northern Hunan, western Guangxi, and eastern SouthwestChina. There will be winds of ...
MONEY MATTERS
Sep 01, 2003 ... FOREX SAFE announces forex probe The State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) last weekannounced a probe into forex acceptance and settlement operations bybanks. Analysts said it was possibly aimed at what was believed to bemassive inflows of speculative ...
Taiwan human smuggling suspects apprehended
Sep 01, 2003; ... FUZHOU: A total of 13 suspected human smugglers involved in theTaiwan Straits human trafficking case that saw the death of sixmainland women on August 26 were caught in East China's FujianProvince as of last Saturday. "Some of the 13 have been confirmed to have been directly ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 3, Date: 09/01/2003)
Sep 01, 2003 ... SHIJIAZHUANG Footprints found Archaeologists have discovered 46 footprints of elephants at anOld Stone Age site in North China's Hebei Province. It is the first such discovery in a Paleolithic site in China,says Liu Lianqiang, who has been heading an archaeological ...
China retain top place at Daegu Universiad
Sep 01, 2003 ... DAEGU, the Republic of Korea: China retained its No 1 ranking atDaegu and the United States slumped, winning fewer gold medals thanon any previous trip to a World University Games comprised of morethan one sport. But gold medals were mostly overshadowed by politics, withactivists ...
Deal on cheap drugs sealed
Sep 01, 2003 ... GENEVA: Moved by impassioned speeches and shocking statisticsabout deaths in Africa, the World Trade Organization (WTO) put asidedifferences on Saturday and concluded its long-delayed deal allowingpoor nations to import cheap copies of medicines against AIDS andother killer ...
Wu meets Arroyo in Manila
Sep 01, 2003; ... MANILA: The new leadership of China attaches great importance todeveloping good neighbourly relations with the Philippines and wouldlike to push forward bilateral co-operation to a new high in allfields. Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of the NationalPeople's ...
Loss of water cause for concern
Sep 01, 2003; ... SHANGHAI: The rapid decline in water reserves in China's largestcity is becoming an increasing concern for local environmentalistsand officials. Over the last two decades, Shanghai's water area has been reducedby 2.7 per cent from 11.1 per cent of the city's total territory ...
SCOREBOARD (09/01/2003)
Sep 01, 2003 ... BASEBALL NEW YORK: Results of Saturday's Major League Baseball games (hometeam in CAPS): American League NY Yankees 10 BOSTON 7 SEATTLE 13 Baltimore 1 Toronto 9 CLEVELAND 3 Chicago White Sox 5 DETROIT 2 Minnesota 2 TEXAS 0 OAKLAND 4 ...
Sharks, new residents in Kazakhstan
Sep 02, 2003 ... ALMATY: Sharks in the steppe. The ocean's most feared creatures inthe middle of the vast, windswept plains of Central Asia, as far fromthe ocean as it is possible to get. The very idea is absurd. Except it's true. Sharks have become the newest residents of thesteppes of Kazakhstan, ...
French victims to get more reparations
Sep 02, 2003 ... TRIPOLI: Families of those killed in a 1989 terror attack on aFrench airliner will get more compensation from a charity closelylinked to Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy, but Libya deniesresponsibility. In a statement yesterday, the Khadafy International Associationfor Charitable ...
Becks: I tried to attack Fergie after boot incident
Sep 02, 2003 ... LONDON: David Beckham has said he tried to attack Alex Fergusonafter the Manchester United manager kicked a boot at him in thedressing room following an FA Cup defeat last February. "I went for the gaffer," Beckham wrote in his autobiographyserialized in the Sun newspaper on ...
DPRK says US demands remain unacceptable
Sep 02, 2003 ... MOSCOW: Keeping up its tough rhetoric, the Democratic People'sRepublic of Korea's Embassy in Moscow yesterday released a statementdismissing US demands made during last week's talks in Beijing as a"game even kids won't play." The statement from a spokesman for the DPRK Foreign ...
Don't meddle with the yuan
Sep 02, 2003; ... The presidential election campaign in the United States iscertainly one of the most influential political dramas in the world.But it is often unpleasant to be thrust into having to play a role init. China's currency, unfortunately, is in a position of findingitself involved in ...
US athletes stir controversy
Sep 02, 2003 ... SAINT-DENIS, France: Far too often, US athletes were the talk ofthe World Championships for all the wrong reasons - yet they stillmanaged to top the gold medal table. For the second time in a row no world records were broken, but astunning array of surprises still gave the nine-day ...
Orchestras start new season
Sep 02, 2003; ... China Philharmonic Orchestra's ambitious third season started withrising pianist Lang Lang's Tchaikovsky Concerto No 1, and Mahler'sprofound "The Song of the Earth" with lasting thunderous calls of"Bravo" and "Encore" at Poly Theatre Saturday evening. The musical extravaganza and ...
No let-up for housing
Sep 02, 2003 ... SYDNEY: Australian building approvals data showed no let-up in thered-hot housing market in July, ensuring the central bank will holdinterest rates steady this week despite expectations for flateconomic growth, analysts say. Building approvals figures released yesterday rose a ...
National ensemble's future brightening
Sep 02, 2003; ... After more than seven months of preparation, Chinese-Americanconductor Li Xiaolu finally kicked off his debut season with ChinaNational Symphony Orchestra Sunday evening at the National LibraryConcert Hall. The opening concert featured American violinist Kurt Nikkanen, oneof a ...
Consumer lending brings in bucks
Sep 02, 2003 ... BANGKOK: Black-suited hipsters, hair spiked at rakish angles,await customers. People perusing magazines lounge on chairsresembling bent pipe cleaners. A disc jockey spins tunes. Customers could be forgiven for thinking they have wandered astrayon their way to paying their bills or ...
Pearl River link benefits entire region
Sep 02, 2003 ... HONG KONG: Construction of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge willallow the Pearl River Delta area in South China to develop into aworld-level economic zone with multiple functions and high openness,officials say. Construction of the proposed 29-kilometre bridge will cost ...
Avant-garde bookstore expands its horizons
Sep 02, 2003; ... Beijing-based chain bookstore, the Modern Bookshop, recentlyannounced the opening of the Modern Bookshop Direct Sales Outlet,China's first venue dedicated solely to selling English and Chineselanguage books on contemporary art, architecture, design, photographyand ...
Renegade tourists prefer roundabouts
Sep 02, 2003 ... PARIS: Sick of sightseeing? Tired of tour guides? Then why not tryexperimental tourism, a novel approach to travel that starts with aquirky concept and can lead anywhere from Bora Bora to a bus stop. Take monopoly tourism. Participants armed with the local versionof a Monopoly game ...
Beijing Games' marketing plan formally launched
Sep 02, 2003; ... The marketing plan for the Beijing Olympic Games will ensure that"the Games will open the gates to the most important markets in theworld." Jacques Rogge, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) presidentmade this unswerving claim at a grand extravaganza to launch theGames ...
One-child farmers helped to make a fortune
Sep 02, 2003; ... QUWO, Shanxi Province: Han Qingzhu decided 17 years ago to haveonly one child to lead a better life, but the lack of dependableworkers to help his family get rich has always been a headache forhim. Nowadays he has found a way out. Han, 39, the receiver of the biggest ...
EXCHANGE RATES (09/02/2003)
Sep 02, 2003 ... Market exchange rates in RMB set by the People's Bank of China (September 1) Currency Unit Rate US dollar100 827.71 Japanese yen 100 7.0626 HK dollar 100 106.08 Bank of China exchange rates in RMB Currency Unit Buying ...
Spin doctor's firing may aid Blair
Sep 02, 2003 ... LONDON: Britain's government should see a recovery in the opinionpolls with the departure of communications chief Alastair Campbell,but many analysts believe reports of the death of spin have beengreatly exaggerated. The numbers from pollsters, the Labour party conference and a ...
Mitsubishi eyes stake in auto JV
Sep 02, 2003; ... Japan's Mitsubishi Motor Corp is in talks with its Chinese partnerSoutheast Motor Corp, with which it has a technical productionlicence, to acquire an equity stake in the Chinese mainland-Taiwanjoint venture, according to a senior Southeast executive. Mitsubishi and Southeast, ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 1, Date: 09/02/2003)
Sep 02, 2003 ... LONDON Weapons expert Kelly felt betrayed, his widow says British weapons expert David Kelly, who killed himself after beingexposed as the source for a claim the government exaggerated the casefor war against Iraq, had felt betrayed, his widow said yesterday. "He said ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 8, Date: 09/02/2003)
Sep 02, 2003 ... FOOTBALL Ronaldo wears number nine MADRID: Brazil striker Ronaldo will get to wear his favouritenumber nine shirt at Real Madrid this season following the departureof Fernando Morientes. Ronaldo had to give up his customary number nine, held byMorientes, and switch to ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 6, Date: 09/02/2003)
Sep 02, 2003 ... BEIJING SAFE unveils regulation The State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) announcedyesterday that it is going to raise the amount of foreign currencythat Chinese residents are allowed to purchase from designated banks.Starting from October 1, residents can purchase ...
Flood forces evacuations
Sep 02, 2003; ... XI'AN: The second flood crest on the Weihe River, a tributary ofthe Yellow River, arrived at Huaxian County in Northwest China'sShaanxi Province yesterday, forcing the evacuation of over 100,000residents from the threatened areas. The embankments had been soaked by the first flood ...
Ageless Agassi thunders along
Sep 02, 2003 ... NEW YORK: A pumped-up Andre Agassi thumped former world No 1Yevgeny Kafelnikov 6-3, 7-6, 6-4 on Sunday, racking up his 199thvictory in a grand slam match to reach the fourth round of the USOpen. "I think a lot of things went well ... I managed to sneak out thatsecond set tiebreak ...