China Daily back issues from November 2004:
Arenas, stem cells among US$29.7 b of bonds on ballot
Nov 01, 2004; ... US voters will consider US$29.7 billion in bond sales on November2, from borrowing to study stem cells in California to renovating theOrange Bowl in Miami, as governments take advantage of interest ratesnear a 36-year low. The proposals, the second-highest amount in US history, ...
Car financing deal inked
Nov 01, 2004; ... Dongfeng Peugeot, a unit of the joint venture between French PSAPeugeot Citroen and China's Dongfeng Motor Corp, on Saturday clincheda car financing deal with three Chinese commercial banks. According to the deal, Bank of China, Citic Industrial Bank andChina Merchants Bank will ...
US strategy to be blamed
Nov 01, 2004; ... The changes of the world's structure in the 20th century weremainly brought about by war. In this century, two world-scale wars,namely, World War I and II, and the Cold War, broke out. The world has not been clearly reconfigured since the end of theCold War, which signalled the ...
Japan vows to stay after hostage killed
Nov 01, 2004 ... TOKYO: Japan yesterday condemned the beheading of a Japanesehostage in Iraq as a despicable act of terrorism and vowed to keepits troops in the country. Japanese officials confirmed that the body and severed head of aman found wrapped in a US flag in Baghdad on Saturday was that of ...
Women in life-and-death struggle
Nov 01, 2004 ... In her seven-year career in the emergency room, Wang Weiwei hasalready accustomed herself to pulling about two suicidal persons backfrom the brink of death per week, although she is only on duty once aweek. "Most of them were rural women. And quite a lot are brought heremore than ...
Ideas sought to protect environment
Nov 01, 2004; ... Vice-Premier Zeng Peiyan has called on experts from around theworld to help the Chinese Government develop the nation's environmentprotection. Zeng said he wanted the experts to pay close attention to China's11th Five-Year Plan (2006-10). "The role of the council should be ...
Researchers tackle population problem
Nov 01, 2004; ... GUANGZHOU: The heavily populated southern province of Guangdong isleading the way in China's unprecedented population strategyresearch. The new campaign will draw up effective mid- and long-termstrategies to tackle problems caused by the province's growing numberof ...
Air travel to open wider to investors
Nov 01, 2004; ... ZHUHAI: With the fastest growing air transport market in theworld, China pledged yesterday to open the aviation sector wider toprivate and foreign investment while spurring development of regionalairlines. The effects of SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) virus,which ...
Securities houses facing reshuffle wave
Nov 01, 2004; ... More poor-performing securities houses are expected to be takenover by big institutions or government agencies, as Chineseauthorities carry on reforms to clear up irregularities in thesector. An official with the China Securities Regulatory Commission(CSRC), the securities ...
South Korean skaters sweep gold medals
Nov 01, 2004; ... South Korea's skaters continued to show their overwhelming powerin the second leg of 2004/05 International Skating Union (ISU) WorldCup short track by winning all the six races in the last day of theevent in Beijing yesterday. With three South Korean skaters entered for the ...
Dynavax's Hepatitis B vaccine beats Glaxo's shot
Nov 01, 2004; ... Dynavax Technologies Corp, the vaccine developer using DNA tostimulate the immune system, said its experimental vaccine increasedprotection to hepatitis B, a liver disease, in fewer doses thanGlaxoSmithKline Plc's Engerix-B in a study. Two doses of the Dynavax shot protected all ...
Commodities fair yields record-setting transaction volumes
Nov 01, 2004; ... GUANGZHOU: The 96th session of the Chinese Export Commodities Faircame to an end here over the weekend, breaking new transaction volumerecords and the number of professional purchasers. The 48 domestic trade delegations concluded export deals ofUS$27.2 billion, rising 11 per cent ...
Paying the price for environment destruction
Nov 01, 2004; ... When taxi companies in Beijing tried to replace their old cars inearly September, the authorities supposedly set limits on car sizeand emissions, which cut out smaller cars from the running. But ifthe taxi companies had read more closely a widely-quoted article by ahigh-profile ...
Bush,Kerry divided on bin Laden videotape
Nov 01, 2004 ... WASHINGTON: US President George W. Bush and Democratic SenatorJohn Kerry differed sharply over the war on terror on Saturday, as anew threat from Osama bin Laden shook up the stretch run of a tightWhite House race. Hunting for votes in the crucial swing states of the upper ...
Prevention project offers an outlet
Nov 01, 2004 ... Xu Rong, a project officer with the Cultural Development Centrefor Rural Women, recalled bitter memories when she talked aboutstarting the suicide prevention project she runs in Hebei, since"everybody thought suicide was a private issue." Now running in Zhending, Haixing and ...
Democracy and law common goal: Wu
Nov 01, 2004; ... NAIROBI: China's top legislator Wu Bangguo said parliamentaryexchanges between China and Kenya will promote state-to-staterelations. Wu, who met with Francis K. Ole Kaparo, speaker of the NationalAssembly of Kenya (NAK), was speaking during his visit to the capitalof the East ...
Legal profession cracks down on malpractice
Nov 01, 2004; ... The Beijing Municipal Lawyers Association is seeking to adopt amore effective credit and supervision systems to regulate the boomingindustry. The number of lawyers has increased by an average of 1,000 peryear in China's capital city, according to association sources. But ...
Two men to circle space for five days
Nov 01, 2004; ... ZHUHAI: China's second manned space flight will be conducted bytwo astronauts over five days in 2005. "Shenzhou-VI will be blasted into space sometime next year," saidZuo Saichun, a spokesperson of the China Aerospace Science andTechnology (CAST). "The spacecraft will make new ...
Naza says bid for DRB-Hicom failed
Nov 01, 2004; ... The Naza Group, Malaysia's largest importer of luxury vehicles,said talks with a bidder seeking to buy a stake in auto, real-estateand property group DRB-Hicom Bhd were not successful. Naza and two other businessmen have been competing with tycoonSyed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary to buy the ...
Reinsurance firm confident on future prospects in China
Nov 01, 2004; ... Unreasonably low premium rates in China's non-life insurancesector, coupled with inadequate awareness of insurance protection, ishampering the hugely promising industry's long-term growth. But international reinsurers are by no means losing their interestand confidence in the ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 7, Date: 11/01/2004)
Nov 01, 2004 ... KIEV Ukrainian election begins Ukrainians began casting their ballot yesterday in thepresidential election to choose a successor to President LeonidKuchma. A total of 24 candidates were on the ballot to succeed Kuchma, andPrime Minister Viktor Yanukovich and a former ...
Taking steps against natural disasters
Nov 01, 2004; ... Several southern Chinese provinces usually hit by floods have beencursed by severe drought since autumn. Among the most hardest hit are Hainan Province, Hunan Province andthe Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, while Guangdong Province isexperiencing its most serious drought for 13 ...
Kidnap group issues deadline
Nov 01, 2004 ... KABUL: Militants holding three foreign United Nations workers inAfghanistan have threatened to kill them unless all Taliban and al-Qaida prisoners are released from US custody by noon on Wednesday. The leader of Jaish-e-Muslimeen (Army of Muslims) said the UN mustalso cease ...
Olympic officials upbeat about 2008 Games
Nov 01, 2004 ... International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge onSaturday spoke highly of Beijing's preparations for the 2008 OlympicGames after inspecting the city's venues. Rogge, who arrived in Beijing on Saturday, visited constructionsites at the National Stadium, the main ...
Poisonous gas kills 15 miners
Nov 01, 2004 ... A poisonous gas leak at a State-owned coal mine in NortheastChina's Liaoning Province has killed 15 miners . The State Administration of Work Safety said a large area of thePingdong pit at the Xilutian Coal Mine collapsed at 2:55 pm onSaturday, causing poisonous gas to fill the ...
US trouser limits 'extreme' trade protectionism
Nov 01, 2004; ... US import limits on China-made trousers will violate WTOprinciples once effected, said textile producers and exporters thatare greatly concerned. The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA),an interagency group of the US Government, announced on Friday ...
Petrov four-goal spree takes Wolfsburg clear
Nov 01, 2004 ... BERLIN: Bulgarian striker Martin Petrov scored all four of VfLWolfsburg's goals as the surprise Bundesliga leaders completed athrilling 4-3 comeback win against FSV Mainz on Saturday. The visitors had led 2-0 but Petrov scored twice in stoppage timebefore the break to level and ...
Shevchenko strike keeps Milan on Juve's heels
Nov 01, 2004 ... ROME: AC Milan maintained the pressure on Serie A leaders Juventuson Saturday after a goal by striker Andriy Shevchenko gave them a 1-0 win against Sampdoria. The result consolidated Milan's second place in the division with20 points from nine games, two fewer than Juve who host ...
Russian oil exports to go north
Nov 01, 2004; ... Russia, the world's second-biggest oil exporter, next month willincrease northern Baltic port loadings on expectations winter stormsin the Black Sea and traffic in the Bosporus will restrain southernshipments. The Baltic Sea port of Primorsk will report a record, handling1.03 ...
Knocking on history's door
Nov 01, 2004 ... As he lay dying on July 26, 1882 in Kazakhstan, the leader of theMuslim immigrants from Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Bai Yanhu,left these last words: "If there is a time any one of you can go backto our native place, tap the knocker of Xi'an's city gate three timesfor ...
Adhesive industry sticks to growth plans
Nov 01, 2004; ... China's adhesive industry will maintain an annual increases of 10to 12 per cent in the coming five to 10 years, said Gong Beifan,secretary- general of China Adhesives Industry Association. According to Gong, the adhesive industry foresees promising marketprospects in China and is ...
Top listed firms grow with economy
Nov 01, 2004 ... Editor's note: Standard & Poor's released their "China Top 100Corporates: Economic Growth Propels Earnings" report last Thursday.It is a review of the country's leading listed corporations in termsof revenue, with industry commentaries and credit statistics, basedon information sourced ...
If Bush wins, neocons win
Nov 01, 2004 ... The disputed hawkish foreign policy of the US President George W.Bush was formulated under the influence of neoconservatism and itsproponents, like Vice-President Dick Cheney and Deputy DefenceMinister Paul Wolfowitz. But conservatives in the United States, likemuch of the rest of the ...
Leukaemia ruled out for Yasser Arafat
Nov 01, 2004 ... CLAMART, France: French doctors arechecking Yasser Arafat forviral infection after tests ruled out leukaemia and any other life-threatening illness, aides to the Palestinian leader said yesterday. Arafat, 75, spent his second night in a French army hospital onSaturday after being ...
New limits set on car fuel consumption
Nov 01, 2004; ... Designers of new Chinese vehicles are being urged to stoke thecountry's energy austerity drive by meeting the nation's firststandards that cap fuel consumption for passenger cars. The compulsory "Limits of Fuel Consumption for Passenger Cars," tobe enacted by July 1, aims to cut ...
Local gov't protects old folk music
Nov 01, 2004; ... The 600-year-old folk music popular in Northwest China hasofficially been brought under State protection, says the Chinese FolkArtists Association. The protection was given when it was found that some old Hua'er(meaning flower) tunes no longer existed in writing. Not even ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 14, Date: 11/01/2004)
Nov 01, 2004 ... Last week, I gave some deals featuring crazy pre-empts. Do notthink that only present-day experts produce examples not in thetextbooks. Today's deal occurred during the 1958 Bermuda Bowl worldchampionship held in Como, Italy. This was a three-cornered affair between Argentina, ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 10, Date: 11/01/2004)
Nov 01, 2004 ... BEIJING New credit card launched CITIC Industrial Bank and MasterCard jointly issued a new creditcard that has enhanced security functions on Friday. The card, named CITIC Star Card, with dual accounts in bothRenminbi and the US dollar, offers card holders a choice to ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 2, Date: 11/01/2004)
Nov 01, 2004 ... YINCHUAN Mass poisoning A total of 29 workers at a construction site in this capital cityof Northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region were poisoned onSaturday. They are still in danger, despite medical treatment. The workers felt dizzy, sick and nauseous on ...
Barcelona held to 1-1 draw at Bilbao
Nov 01, 2004 ... MADRID: Leaders Barcelona dropped points for only the second timethis season when they drew 1-1 at 10-man Athletic Bilbao in anentertaining Primera Liga game on Saturday. African Player of the Year Samuel Eto'o scored his eighth goal ofthe campaign to put the visitors ahead in the ...
Agassi looks for master stroke against Johansson
Nov 01, 2004 ... STOCKHOLM: Andre Agassi will line up against the last home playerto win the title when he faces final opponent Thomas Johansson in abattle of veterans on Sunday at the 632,750-euro Stockholm Open. Both the 34-year-old Agassi and Johansson, 29, who missed lastseason as he recovered ...
Wal-Mart October sales up 2.8 per cent
Nov 01, 2004; ... Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world's largest retailer, estimated thatOctober sales at US stores open for at least a year rose 2.8 percent. That figure was nearer the lower end of its forecast range,with shoppers buying bedding and boys' and girls' clothing helpingsales. The company ...
Italian firm set on seeking nation's best exhibitors
Nov 01, 2004; ... GUANGZHOU: International exhibition operators are keener than everon the participation of China's enterprises and buyers. Among them is Italy-based Fiera Milano International SpA (FMI),which traveled all the way to Guangzhou last week to promote itscoming exhibitions, hoping to ...
Top 100 companies in Chinese mainland
Nov 01, 2004 ... Ranking Company Sales(RMB mil.) 1China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. 417,191 2 2 PetroChina Co. Ltd.303,779 3 3 China Mobile (Hong Kong) Ltd. ...
Shanghai fast becoming modern city
Nov 01, 2004; ... SHANGHAI: Shanghai now ranks 25th among 53 major cities worldwide,reveals a new study which examines technology, macro-economicenvironment and public institutions. A latest report by the Global Competitiveness Programme of theWorld Economic Forum carried out a series of surveys on ...
Van Persie is Arsenal's saviour after Saints shock
Nov 01, 2004 ... LONDON: A last-minute goal by Robin van Persie saved a point forArsenal after Southampton seemed set for a shock win at Highburybefore eventually being held 2-2 on Saturday. Thierry Henry put Arsenal ahead before two goals in the last tenminutes from Ireland midfielder Rory Delap ...
Ma, Zhang winners in World Cup in Hangzhou
Nov 01, 2004; ... HANGZHOU, Zhejiang Province: China's Ma Lin scored a World Cupchampionship hat-trick yesterday here while Chinese women's playerscontinued to dominate with their eighth World Cup title. Defending champion Ma repeated his come-from-behind victory of2003, posting a 4-2 win against ...
Survey shows crude oil futures may fall
Nov 01, 2004; ... Crude oil futures may fall on speculation China's first interestrate rise in nine years will slow demand growth amid rising USinventories, a Bloomberg survey shows. Thirty-two of 52 traders and analysts, or 62 per cent, said oilfutures will fall this week, the biggest margin ...
Pedal-powered odssey to visit laoxiang in a faraway village
Nov 01, 2004 ... During April this year, in one of the blizzard-lashed passes ofthe Qilian Mountain, in Northwest China's Gansu Province, a truckdriver, after hours of driving without seeing a soul, got out of hiscab to fetch water. To his surprise, a man of big build, with knots of black ...
Automakers work on fuel cell vehicles
Nov 01, 2004; ... General Motors (GM) and Chinese partner Shanghai AutomotiveIndustry Corp (SAIC) on Saturday signed a joint development andcommercialization agreement on hybrid and fuel cell vehicles in oil-hungry China. The two companies will co-develop a demonstration vehicle usingthe latest ...
Interest rise aims at cooling property sector
Nov 01, 2004; ... The interest rate hike announced last week is likely to heraldfuture hikes, analysts said. The central People's Bank of China on Thursday jacked up interestrates for the first time in nine years. The benchmark rate for one-year renminbi loans was lifted to 5.58 per cent from 5.31 ...
SCOREBOARD (11/01/2004)
Nov 01, 2004 ... FOOTBALL Belgian first division BRUSSELS: Results of Belgian first division soccer matches playedon Saturday: Lokeren 2 Anderlecht 2 FC Brussels 1 Beveren 3 Racing Genk 1 St Truiden 0 La Louviere 4 Mons-Bergen 0 Westerlo 1 Germinal ...
Minsheng Bank reports 47 per cent net profit growth
Nov 02, 2004; ... China Minsheng Banking Corp witnessed a 47 per cent net profitgrowth in the first three quarters of this year, compared to the sameperiod last year, the Shanghai-listed bank announced over theweekend. Its net profit in the first three quarters stood at 1.6 billionyuan (US$193.2 ...
Sino-EU trade ties thriving
Nov 02, 2004; ... China's rapid economic development over the past 20 years has hada significant impact upon Sino-EU trade and economic relations. With European integration, in particular, and the launch of theeuro, the EU has fundamentally changed the world's economic structureand successfully ...
Bush, Kerry target battleground states
Nov 02, 2004 ... In the closing hours of their bitter campaign, US President GeorgeW. Bush and his Democratic challenger Senator John Kerry chargedthrough the critical battlegrounds of Florida and Ohio, going fromhushed church services to raucous campaign rallies with promises tokeep America ...
West
Nov 02, 2004 ... Second chance at college life An 87-year-old man in Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province, hasbeen accepted as a student by the distance learning programme of theBeijing-based University of International Business and Economics. Su Guilin stopped his college education 68 ...
Restoring life to China's rivers
Nov 02, 2004 ... A high-echelon international advisory body is proposing theimplementation of what is internationally known as "integrated riverbasin management" for Chinese rivers, with the hope it can restoredelicate ecological systems. The proposal put forward to the Chinese Government is ...
Country welcomes EU Galileo project
Nov 02, 2004; ... China is welcoming the EU's Galileo satellite navigation system asa significant boost for industries like transport and communications. Fang Xiangming, deputy general manager of the China AerospaceScience and Industry Corporation (CASIC), the major initiator of theproject in China, ...
Liaoning adopts ethanol gasoline
Nov 02, 2004; ... SHENYANG: All automobiles in Northeast China's Liaoning Provincemust switch to ethanol fuel as of yesterday. Only some special institutions, like the army and State strategicstorage facilities, will be allowed to continue using pure fossilfuel, according to new provincial ...
Olympic press centre starts service
Nov 02, 2004; ... The Beijing Olympic Press Centre was launched yesterday to meetthe increasing media demand for information about the Beijing 2008Games. Located at the Huabei Hotel in Beijing, the press centre isjointly operated by the Media and Communications Department of theBeijing Organizing ...
Four dead in suicide bombing
Nov 02, 2004 ... TEL AVIV: A 16-year-old Palestinian suicide bomber killed at leastfour people in Tel Aviv's main open-air market yesterday in a show offorce by militants just days after Yasser Arafat was flown to ahospital in France. "A suicide bomber blew up next to shoppers. We have four to ...
Gov't acts to stabilize oil product prices
Nov 02, 2004; ... Zhen Yi, a taxi driver for Xinyue United Company in Beijing, keptcomplaining as he was driving. "Life is becoming tougher," grumbled the 30-year-old. "You cannotget a single passenger even at rush hour." Zhen said he works 12 hours a day - eight hours to earn money topay ...
South Korean export expansion slows down
Nov 02, 2004; ... South Korean exports rose in October at their slowest pace in 11months and consumer prices were unchanged, which may make the centralbank more receptive to government calls for interest rates to be cut. Exports rose 21 per cent from a year earlier after climbing 23 percent in ...
Capital to go all out to build rail system
Nov 02, 2004; ... The capital city is conjuring up a vision of a complete metronetwork that may help alleviate heavy traffic pressures on the roads. The Beijing Municipal Commission of Transportation is planning tobuild more rails, Xinhua News Agency reported. A new subway loop line is among the ...
Bus reforms: Public first
Nov 02, 2004 ... Hot debates have been held between monthly bus pass systemsupporters and opponents during recent years. Although a commonunderstanding has never been achieved, its abolishment has been anirreversible trend. Whether the old system is kept or not, satisfyingpeople should always be the top ...