China Daily back issues from September 2004:
Bayer suffering from rise in costs
Sep 01, 2004; ... Bayer AG, Germany's second-biggest drug and chemical maker,reported a fifth consecutive quarter with no profit growth as rawmaterials costs increased and the Cipro antibiotic lost sales togeneric competition. Net income in the second quarter was unchanged at 128 millioneuros ...
Pros and cons of campus life
Sep 01, 2004; ... I shared a dorm room with seven other girls for the last threeyears of my college life. Between the four bunk beds were just two narrow gangways thatallowed the girls who slept next to the windows get past the eightsmall desks which stood in the middle of the room. If someone ...
North
Sep 01, 2004 ... Jealous kidnappers teach Harbin man a lessonA Harbin man with a penchant for lovely ladies got a rudeawakening last week when he brought his dears shopping. His afternoon stroll in the mall turned sour when his three femalecompanions caught the eye of two onlookers ....
Rebuilding the ancient Silk Road
Sep 01, 2004 ... The ancient Silk Road was once unsurpassed in the trade it tookacross continents, the cultures that were linked by the camelcaravans and donkey trucks who wended their way through its dust. Nowadays, as the old thoroughfare falls into disrepair andoblivion, regions along it are ...
Improved lending programme aids students
Sep 01, 2004; ... By the end of June, more than 800,000 college students from poorfamilies had become the beneficiaries of a student loan programmethat started in 1999. To date, the programme has offered loans of 5.2 billion yuan(US$628 million), Vice-Minister of Education Zhang Baoqing ...
Bid on barkers at Beijing's bazaars
Sep 01, 2004; ... Beijing plans to set up four large-scale dog trading bazaars in abid to regulate a situation that finds nearly 90 per cent of thecity's pet pooches being purchased from local black markets. The move is regarded as a brand-new approach to dog managementcompared with former strict ...
Taiwan 'most important?to US relations
Sep 01, 2004; ... China and the United States share important common interests inopposing Taiwan independence and safeguarding peace in the TaiwanStraits, said Chinese Vice-Foreign Minister Zhou Wenzhong. "Currently, what is most important for the United States is totranslate into reality its ...
Iraqi militants kill 12 Nepali hostages
Sep 01, 2004 ... DUBAI/AMMAN/BAGHDAD: An Iraqi militant group said it had killed adozen Nepali hostages and showed pictures on a Muslim websiteyesterday of one of them being beheaded. "We have carried out the sentence of God against 12 Nepalis whocame from their country to fight the Muslims and to ...
Pension fund seeks higher returns
Sep 01, 2004; ... Following the entry of the central social security funds to thecapital market, the Chinese Government is planning to put morepension funds into stock investment to seek higher returns, seniorofficials said yesterday. The move is expected to make better use of the pension ...
Athens waves goodbye after 'dream?Games
Sep 01, 2004 ... ATHENS: Hundreds of thousands of athletes, officials and visitorswaved goodbye to Athens in a post-Olympics exodus on Monday, leavingcity officials to probe a doping scandal that tarnished an otherwisedream Games. A public prosecutor called in for testimony the star sprinter ...
Japanese industrial production remains unchanged in July
Sep 01, 2004; ... Japanese industrial production unexpectedly failed to grow in Julyas manufacturers cut output of semiconductors and chip-makingmachinery, adding to signs of a slowdown in the world's second-largest economy. Growth in output was unchanged from the previous month, afterfalling 1.3 ...
Huarong takes over D'long assets
Sep 01, 2004; ... A State-owned asset management company has taken over assets ofthe nearly collapsed D'Long International Strategic Investment CoLtd, a controversial private company that has equity stakes in manylisted firms, sources said yesterday. China Huarong Asset Management Corporation signed ...
Consumer watchdog slams banks' unfair clauses
Sep 01, 2004; ... In an ordinary remark on market services published this week, theConsumers' Association of China lashed out at banks for unfairclauses in their contracts that cater to individual clients. The clauses, cried the association, often unilaterally exemptbanks' obligations or deprive ...
West
Sep 01, 2004 ... Beggar weighed down by banknotes A beggar brought nearly 20,000 small notes to a bank and had themall changed into bigger notes to make it easier for him to carryaround , reports the Huashang Newspaper. The beggar, whose legs have been amputated, earned all the ...
UN joins push to develop new route
Sep 01, 2004; ... The United Nations urged stronger political commitments from Asianand European countries to build regional co-operation to modernizethe famous ancient trading route. Khalid Malik, UN Resident Co-ordinator in China, said regional co-operation is helpful to meet the countries' ...
Silt amount goes down in Yangtze River, Dongting Lake
Sep 01, 2004 ... WUHAN: The amount of silt in the Yangtze River, China's longest,continues to decline, according to a recent survey of hydrologicalmonitoring centres. The latest issue of the "Yangtze River Silt Bulletin" shows theaverage sand content dropped by 59 per cent in Yichang and 45 ...
Foundation focuses on donation management
Sep 01, 2004; ... SHANGHAI: The Shanghai Charity Foundation (SCF) has announced itwill change its role from project operations to a manager thatfocuses on fund donations. This is part of a nationwide move launched under the Regulationson the Management of Foundations (RMF) issued by the State ...
Athletes greeted by applause back home
Sep 01, 2004 ... The Chinese Olympic delegation returned to a heroes' welcome. With a record 32 gold medals, 17 silvers and 14 bronzes won inAthens, the Chinese athletes landed at Capital International Airportyesterday morning. Scores of spectators hailed their great triumphwith applause and ...
Suicide bombings take lives of 15, wound 80 on Israeli buses
Sep 01, 2004 ... BEERSHEBA, Israel: Palestinian suicide bombers killed at least 15people in simultaneous attacks on two Israeli buses yesterday,breaking a long lull in such violence and potentially disrupting anIsraeli plan to pull out of Gaza. The bombings in southern Israel's largest city ...
Further adjustment of tax rebate system suggested
Sep 01, 2004; ... Experts suggest China should further adjust its tax rebate system,whose new version was just implemented in January this year. All of the overdue export rebates have been paid but theprocessing of the rebates happening this year has been slow. Only one third of the total ...
Kerry Group first-half profit falls
Sep 01, 2004; ... Kerry Group Plc, Ireland's largest foodmaker, said first-halfprofit fell 1 per cent after the company bought convenience-food andbeverage businesses. Net income fell to 61.5 million euros (US$74.2 million) from 61.9million euros (US$74.28 million) a year earlier, the Tralee, ...
Market
Sep 01, 2004 ... SHANGHAI Chinese shares up China's shares rose 1.72 per cent yesterday as regulatorssuspended initial public offerings until they tailored new guidelineson the pricing of new share issues, sparking a buying spree in largecaps. The benchmark Shanghai composite index, ...
Better late than never-but first is best
Sep 01, 2004; ... It has been reported that the middle route of the mammoth South-North Water Diversion Project will make a detour from its originalroute in Henan Province so that some centuries-old cultural sites arenot destroyed. The new route, which has been drawn up following concerns by ...
East
Sep 01, 2004 ... Cellphone text message saves elderly in-law A deaf mute daughter-in-law saved her 83-year-old father-in-law bysending a message via a cellphone in Shanghai, reports Youth Daily. The old man surnamed Liu lived with his son and daughter-in-law,both deaf mutes. When the ...
Asian party leaders to meet in Beijing
Sep 01, 2004; ... Politicians from across Asia will gather in Beijing this weekend. For the first time, the Communist Party of China (CPC) will hostthe International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP). Representatives from 84 parties in 35 Asian countries will attendthe three-day ...
Xi'an tackles water pollution issues
Sep 01, 2004; ... XI'AN: This capital city of Northwest China's Shaanxi Province istaking effective measures to better protect and improve itsenvironment both for local residents and tourists. As part of the effort, local government decided to install specialequipment to monitor and control those ...
Construction fees included in airfares
Sep 01, 2004; ... Carriers will start collecting airport construction fees, sparingpassengers long line-ups by including them in the cost of tickets. Starting today, the airport construction fee will be listedseparately as a single item on airplane tickets, said an officialwith the Civil Aviation ...
8 Afghan civilians die in US air strike
Sep 01, 2004 ... KABUL: US warplanes bombed a village in eastern Afghanistan,killing eight people and destroying the camp of a Danish relief groupafter assailants rocketed a nearby government office, Afghanofficials and the director of the international aid group saidyesterday. The US military ...
Bureau cautious on savings diversion
Sep 01, 2004; ... The growing diversion of Chinese households' savings out of thebanking system this year will help improve the funding effectivenessof the economy and reduce burdens on the banks, the National Bureauof Statistics (NBS) said yesterday. But abrupt diversions may have bad consequences ...
EXCHANGE RATES (09/01/2004)
Sep 01, 2004 ... Following are the exchange rates for leading currencies againstthe dollar at 12:00 GMT on August 31: Euro US$ per Euro 1.2112 Britain US$ per Pound 1.79295 Australia US$ per A$ 0.69935 Switzerland Franc per US$ 1.2737 Norway Crown per US$ ...
Woodwork denies United home victory
Sep 01, 2004 ... LONDON: Manchester United were denied three times by the woodworkas they were held on Monday to a 0-0 home draw by Everton, the clubwhose England striker Wayne Rooney they hope to sign before Tuesday'stransfer deadline. United, whose latest offer for Rooney of an estimated 25 ...
Hometown reaps rewards of famous son
Sep 01, 2004 ... GUANG'AN, Sichuan: Chen Zairen, a 34-year old farmer from Guang'ancity, squats in front of his one-story house in the afternoon sun,whittling a piece of firewood. "Now the harvest season is over, I have more free time," he says."I take odd jobs whenever I can or I will stay at home ...
United finally get Rooney
Sep 01, 2004 ... LONDON: Manchester United finally got their hands on Wayne Rooneyyesterday after nearly a week of tense negotiations concluded withthe club agreeing a transfer fee with his current club Everton. In a statement to the Stock Exchange, United said they had reachedan outline agreement ...
National Grid plans network sale for US$10 billion
Sep 01, 2004; ... National Grid Transco Plc, the owner of the UK's power and natural-gas grids, has agreed to sell half of its regional gas-distributionnetworks for 5.8 billion pounds (US$10 billion) to raise money to cutdebt. Proceeds will also be used to return 2 billion pounds (US$3.6billion) ...
Hainan Airlines out of red
Sep 01, 2004; ... Hainan Airlines Co Ltd, China's fourth largest carrier, reported afirst-half profit as sales nearly doubled on recovering traveldemand. During the first six months of this year, it gained a net profitof 86.08 million yuan (US$10.4 million), the company said in itsinterim report ...
Making national products popular
Sep 01, 2004; ... Unlike their high-profile fellow athletes, there were Chinesefighting on another front at the 2004 Athens Olympics. They were promoting Chinese brands. Maybe you didn't notice, but Wang Weiqun, editor of the Beijing-based trade journal Successful Marketing will tell you, the ...
Trade unions fight foreign firms for right to set up
Sep 01, 2004; ... An inspection by the Standing Committee of the National People'sCongress on the implementation of the amended Trade Union Law thisyear provides food for thought. The law took effect in 2001. At a time when labourers' interests and rights are being infringedfar more often than ever ...
Central
Sep 01, 2004 ... Woman on the run from marriage-wrecking mumA 35-year-old Shaoyang woman has been driven to the brink of anervous breakdown by a marriage-wrecking mother, reports the ChangshaEvening News. The woman, named Jiang Ming - an assumed name - says her motherhas consistently ...
China marks centenary of rubber
Sep 01, 2004; ... A series of activities will be held early next month in YunnanProvince to mark the centenary of the natural rubber industry inChina. More than 8,000 rubber trees were planted in Yingjiang County ofthe Southwest China province in 1904. It was the first batchsuccessfully planted in ...
IPOs suspended for new pricing regulation
Sep 01, 2004; ... China will temporarily suspend initial public offerings until itformulates new rules to price IPOs. The China Securities Regula-tory Commission released a draft ofthe new IPO pricing regulation on its website late on Monday,introducing more market-driven practices and transparency ...
CSRC unveils rule on new fund product
Sep 01, 2004; ... The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) released a long-expected regulation on monetary market funds yesterday. It is the first time that regulators have set up guidelines forsuch funds, which enable fund managers to enter the monetary market,and clarified their ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 16, Date: 09/01/2004)
Sep 01, 2004 ... FOOTBALL Newcastle sack coach Robson NEWCASTLE, England: Newcastle United on Monday sacked theirmanager, Sir Bobby Robson, effectively ending the career of one ofthe most respected and best-loved figures in English football. Robson, 71, was "relieved of his duties" ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 12, Date: 09/01/2004)
Sep 01, 2004 ... Only candidate Accor SA, the world's fourth-largest hotelier, is one of the fewindustry candidates for whom a purchase of WestLB's 31 per cent stakein No 1 tour operator TUI AG is possible, Financial Times Deutschlandreported. Such a purchase would make sense in financial ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 8, Date: 09/01/2004)
Sep 01, 2004 ... TOKYO Seven dead in typhoon Powerful Typhoon Chaba was racing towards the northern Japaneseisland of Hokkaido yesterday, leaving at least seven people dead andfour missing after torrential rains that forced thousands intoshelters. Chaba, one of the strongest storms to ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 2, Date: 09/01/2004)
Sep 01, 2004 ... BEIJING Media co-operation Li Changchun, a member of the Standing Committee of the PoliticalBureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, yesterdaysaid he hoped that media co-operation between China and theAssociation of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will ...
Saviola to join Monaco
Sep 01, 2004 ... MADRID: Barcelona's Argentine forward Javier Saviola will play onloan at French Ligue 1 side Monaco this season, the Spanish clubannounced on their website. Saviola, a member of Argentina's gold medal winning squad at theOlympics, confirmed the transfer to last season's Champions ...
Doping cases at Summer Games since 1968
Sep 01, 2004 ... ATHENS: It was not until 1967 that the International OlympicCommittee (IOC) banned drug use at Olympics. This was prompted inpart by the death of Danish cyclist Knut Jensen during the road raceat the 1960 Games after taking amphetamines. Full-scale drug-testing was introduced in ...
Hyundai to sell 300,000 Sonatas
Sep 01, 2004; ... Hyundai Motor Co, South Korea's largest automaker, said it expectsto sell more than 300,000 of its new Sonata sedans every yearstarting in 2005, part of its effort to become one of the world's topfive auto makers by 2010. Hyundai Motor plans to sell 100,000 units of the new ...
Chemicals trader posts net increase
Sep 01, 2004; ... Sinochem International Co Ltd, the Shanghai-listed arm of China'slargest chemicals trader Sinochem Group, reported yesterday a 365 percent increase in its combined net profit during the first half of theyear, as China's appetite for raw materials continues to rise. The net profit ...
Rightists will fail
Sep 01, 2004 ... Japan's rightists are never going to succeed in distortinghistory, despite yet another attempt, according to a commentary byXinhua News Agency. An excerpt follows: Japan's attempt to gloss over their history of aggression in yetanother surreptitious text book has been met with ...
South
Sep 01, 2004 ... Links to the outside world increased Guangzhou Tourism Bureau has announced that Guangzhou is planningto increase its international flights from 22 to around 40, theSouthern Metropolis Daily reports. The city is expected to open new airline routes to Rome,Stockholm, ...
Lack of scientists may hamper city
Sep 01, 2004; ... SHANGHAI: A lack of research and management personnel could be amajor obstacle for Shanghai to become a science and innovation hub. "We are particularly lacking research and project leaders andprofessional technicians in several areas," said Niu Xiaoming, anofficial with Shanghai ...
Improving rapport
Sep 01, 2004 ... More attention from governments at all levels should be paid tothe reform of communication between the government and the public,says an article in Shanghai-based Wenhui Daily. An excerpt follows: A "letters and visits system" exists in China to serve as achannel for communications ...
Agassi and Serena sparkle on the opening night
Sep 01, 2004 ... NEW YORK: Andre Agassi returned to his favourite hunting ground onMonday to serve up a traditional late-night feast on the opening dayof the US Open. After men's top seed Roger Federer and women's third seed SerenaWilliams had posted impressive first round victories on a muggy ...
Home is where the heart is
Sep 01, 2004 ... Chen Xiansong bursts with pride. The 78-year-old is the retiredcurator at a small one-storey house that has a grey tiled roof and asmall courtyard cast in shadow by the surrounding trees that are infull summer leaf. Taking visitors on a guided tour around this ubiquitous ...
Athens Games a watershed in war against dope cheats
Sep 01, 2004 ... ATHENS: It started with a missed drugs test and ended with astripped gold medal. In between it was dominated by steroids,stimulants and diuretics. The Athens Olympics truly earned the title, the Drugs Games. It was not what the Greek organizers had wanted, but rather ...
Europe's inflation unchanged in August
Sep 01, 2004; ... Inflation in the dozen nations sharing the euro remained unchangedin August as slowing economic growth made it harder for companies topass on record oil costs. The annual rate of consumer price increases held at 2.3 per cent,the Luxembourg-based European statistics office said in ...
Breaking the tshatsha mould
Sep 01, 2004 ... Long worshipped by Tibetans, clay tshatshas have filled theinterior of stupas and the statues of Buddhas since the middle of the11th century. They are found almost everywhere - in special shrines called Tsha-khang, or on top of Mani stones flanked by prayer flags along ...
Telecom company reports profit
Sep 01, 2004; ... Zhongxing Telecom Co Ltd (ZTE), the country's number twotelecommunications equipment provider, posted a net profit yesterdayof 513.18 million yuan (US$61.8 million) for the first half of thisyear, registering a growth of 163.5 per cent from a year earlier. Turnover for its core ...
Globalizing Chinese brand names
Sep 01, 2004; ... The determination of Chinese enterprises to raise themselves fromthe lower rung of the value-added chain and establish internationalrecognized brand names is not in doubt. But the road to achievingthose goals is going to be long and challenging, according to expertsand senior executives ...
SCOREBOARD (09/01/2004)
Sep 01, 2004 ... BASEBALL NEW YORK: Results of Monday's Major League Baseball games (hometeam in CAPS): INTERLEAGUE CHICAGO W SOX 9 Philadelphia 8 AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit 9 KANSAS CITY 1 NATIONAL LEAGUE ATLANTA 7 San Francisco 6 Chicago Cubs 5 ...
Tunnel to funnel water to thirsty capital city
Sep 02, 2004; ... BAODING, Hebei: Ground was broken yesterday in Hebei Province tofurther push the long-awaited construction of the middle line of thesouth-to-north water diversion project. As part of the Beijing-Shijiazhuang section of the middle line,work on a huge inverted siphon and a more than ...
More than 1,500 protesters detained
Sep 02, 2004 ... NEW YORK: Wielding metal barriers and orange netting, policestruggled to contain swarms of anti-Republican Party protesters onthe second day of the Republican National Convention, eventuallyarresting nearly 1,000 demonstrators with their sights set on afortress-like Madison Square ...
Legal moves to ensure Internet prosperity
Sep 02, 2004; ... As the Internet has been up an running in China for 10 years, thegovernment said it will use legal measures to create a favourableenvironment for the prosperity of the industry in coming years,senior officials said yesterday at the Internet 2004 conference inBeijing. "Stable and ...
Wal-Mart may post smallest gains in 17 months
Sep 02, 2004; ... US retailers, including Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Kohl's Corp, mayhave posted their smallest sales gains in 17 months during August ashigher gas prices and sluggish wage growth cut into back-to-schoolshopping budgets. Sales at stores open at least a year probably increased by ...