China Daily back issues from June 2005:
British Standard expands business scope in China
Jun 01, 2005; ... SHANGHAI:British bank Standard Chartered is to expand to newpremises in Shanghai. The move is to accommodate a doubling in Shanghai staff to 1,400by the end of the year, said Standard Chartered's newly appointed CEOfor China Katherine Tsang . The firm is expanding its ...
SGX seeks feedback on exchange proposal
Jun 01, 2005; ... Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX) on Monday issued a publicconsultation paper to seek feedback on the exchange's proposals forspecific rule changes concerning corporate governance standards andregulatory practices, according to a top exchange official. The rule changes come just weeks ...
Angela Merkel to challenge chancellor
Jun 01, 2005 ... It is in an idyllic spot. Surrounded by lakes and forests, thetown of Templin is popular in summer with tourists who wander amongits sandy paths and pine trees, or go fishing in its reed-filledcanals. It was here in former East Germany that the woman who could becomeGermany's ...
Villepin appointed French premier
Jun 01, 2005 ... PARIS: French President Jacques Chirac appointed Dominique deVillepin, a loyalist who was France's voice against the Iraq War, asprime minister yesterday to head a new government in response to ahumiliating referendum defeat. Villepin, 51, moves from the Interior Ministry to ...
Why all the parental anxiety?
Jun 01, 2005; ... Millions of Chinese high school students are sweating throughpreparations for the national college entrance examinations takingplace June 7-8. This is the last sprint of their 12-year school race. Winningmeans getting a place at university. This, in turn, means anadvantageous ...
Tibet youngsters join hands with Beijingers
Jun 01, 2005; ... For Konchog Drolma, a 5th grader from Lhasa, in Southwest China'sTibet Autonomous Region, Beijing is no longer a faraway nationalcapital. As the 11-year-old Tibetan girl celebrates this year'sInternational Children's Day, the Great Wall, the Summer Palace,Tsinghua and Peking ...
Pearl River region earmarked for flood protection
Jun 01, 2005; ... Flood-control will be ambitiously upgraded along South China'sPearl River Valley to protect the country's most populous andprosperous area. Billions of yuan have been earmarked to ensure the safety ofmillions of people and key cities and regions including Guangzhou,Hong Kong and ...
New training programme has Sichuan Sisters maid up
Jun 01, 2005; ... CHENGDU: Filipino maids better watch out - the Sichuan Sisters aimto give them a run for their money. The province will spend 1.6 million yuan (US$193,000) this year totrain 5,000 housekeepers and create a brand as a labour export. It is the first time the province has ...
Children's Day offers young migrants hope
Jun 01, 2005; ... As China's one-child parents pamper their kids with fancy giftsand expensive outings today-the International Children's Day-theplight of two youngsters in Beijing and Guangzhou shows the harshsides of life. For Zhang Luyao in Beijing, it is just a day off from school spentdoing ...
Planet Kaleidoscope
Jun 01, 2005 ... ROME Guide to encourage pet friendliness Forget fine wines and deluxe suites, the restaurants and hotels ina new Italian guide get four "paws" for homemade dog food and vetservice. More than 1,600 hotels and inns made the cut while 222 eateriesacross Italy were ...
May ends in hailstones, thunderand rain
Jun 01, 2005; ... Car owners in the capital were carefully examining their preciousvehicles yesterday after hailstones the size of golfballs tumbledfrom the sky. Traffic was brought to a near-standstill in the heart of Beijingwhen millions of unseasonable ice crystals pierced the humid skiesand ...
No escaping police language lessons
Jun 01, 2005; ... Police in the capital city held an English-speaking contestyesterday to encourage their colleagues to learn the language inpreparation for the 2008 Olympics. The final round of the competition, organized by the BeijingMunicipal Bureau of Public Security, involved 13 performances ....
Dream comes true Baseball dreams really have come true for China.
Jun 01, 2005 ... Now that the dust has settled from the 23rd Asian BaseballChampionship it is time to reflect on the enormity of theaccomplishments of the China National Baseball Team in capturing thebronze medal in Miyazaki. It has been 144 years since the game of baseball was imported to ...
Stoudemire ensures Suns don't set on Phoenix NBA title dream
Jun 01, 2005 ... SAN ANTONIO, Texas: Amare Stoudemire scored 31 points, thenblocked Tim Duncan and grabbed a rebound in the final seconds here onMonday to lift Phoenix past San Antonio 111-106 and keep the Suns'NBA title dream alive. The Suns kept the Spurs from sweeping the best-of-seven ...
French joblessness holds at 5-year high
Jun 01, 2005; ... French joblessness was unchanged in April, leaving theunemployment rate at a five-year high amid slowing growth in Europe'sthird-largest economy. The number of unemployed remained at 2.775 million, usingInternational Labour Organization methods, the Labour Ministry inParis said ...
Curtain drops on Beijing arts fest
Jun 01, 2005 ... The month-long Meet in Beijing arts festival wrapped up last nightat the packed Great Hall of the People to the composer Bright Sheng's"The Phoenix" played by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. The Norwegian-born soprano Anne Margrethe Dahl brought the housedown with her super ...
Profits climb at Bank of China
Jun 01, 2005; ... Bank of China, the country's largest foreign exchange lender,yesterday announced a 21.3 per cent rise in operating profit lastyear. Spokeswoman Zhou Ning said the bank's operating profit,audited bythe international accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, stood at57.8 billion yuan ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 15, Date: 06/01/2005)
Jun 01, 2005 ... FOOTBALL Beckham and Owen plan long Madrid stays NEW YORK: England stars David Beckham and Michael Owen areplanning for long stays with Real Madrid, although Beckham said onMonday on the eve of his US debut that he might one day play for anAmerican side. Beckham and ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 13, Date: 06/01/2005)
Jun 01, 2005 ... BEIJING Paderewski unveiled A statue by Chinese artist Yuan Xikun of renowned Polish musicianand politician Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941) was unveiled inBeijing's Chaoyang Park last month to mark a Polish cultural event. A world famous pianist and composer, ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 7, Date: 06/01/2005)
Jun 01, 2005 ... HERAT, Afghanistan NATO forces take over duty NATO troops took command of security and reconstruction efforts inwestern Afghanistan from US forces yesterday under a plan that willlikely soon put NATO forces into insurgent hot spots. NATO took charge of ...
Market
Jun 01, 2005 ... SHANGHAI Shares hold steady China's shares held steady yesterday as Baoshan Iron and Steel CoLtd and other large listed firms rallied after it became clear largecaps would be included in a plan to trim state holdings. The benchmark Shanghai composite index, closed up ...
Economists call for removal of trade barriers
Jun 01, 2005; ... Some of the world's top economists called for removal of tradebarriers and a more integrated global economy in Beijing yesterday. During the second day of the Nobel Laureates Beijing Forum 2005,advocacy for no or low-barrier global trade became the unifyingtenet. Citing a phrase by ...
Fatal structural defects found in sports museum
Jun 01, 2005; ... Construction began on the China Sports Museum in 1990 before thedesign was finished; structural defects forced the museum to close in2003, a director of the museum said on Monday. Substandard materials and a faulty design caused walls to sinkinto the ground and the foundation to ...
Guardian Angels to watch over miners
Jun 01, 2005; ... Miners are to form their own safety inspection task force to stampout the appalling catalogue of needless pit deaths. Under a new scheme, about 100,000 senior coal miners will beappointed as safety supervisors. They will possess the power to down tools and leave the coal ...
Pledge to 'never forget' holocaust
Jun 01, 2005 ... Israel and Germany are to create a fund to promote improvedrelations, German President Horst Koehler said on Monday as he andIsrael's President Moshe Katsav took stock of a relationship wherethe Holocaust has never been more than a thought away. Katsav was in Berlin at the start ...
Producers left in limbo by disputes
Jun 01, 2005; ... SHANGHAI: Textile producers expressed cautious optimism at thegovernment's elimination of export tariffs but are still anxious overthe effects of trade restrictions. Although pleased with the governments actions, Barry Zheng,manager at Ningbo Veken Elite Zhedong Knitting, felt ...
Buyers seek General Motors bond alternatives
Jun 01, 2005; ... DaimlerChrysler AG, the world's No 5 carmaker, and Telstra Corpare among European companies whose borrowing costs may fall as fundmanagers seek investment-grade debt to replace junk-rated GeneralMotors Corp bonds. Some investors holding GM's 34 billion euros (US$43 billion) ...
Siemens rescue plan timeframe revealed
Jun 01, 2005; ... German conglomerate Siemens AG is set to complete its spin-offplan to revive its handset business before October, sources close tothe company said yesterday. "The company is to reorganize the money-losing unit into anautonomously operating legal entity," the source who declined to ...
Galaxy larger than thought
Jun 01, 2005 ... WASHINGTON: The Andromeda galaxy just got bigger - three timesbigger, astronomers said on Monday. The galaxy is not actually expanding. But new measurements suggestthat the nearest galaxy to our own Milky Way is three times broaderthan astronomers had thought. They now ...
Eleven dead in Karachi violence
Jun 01, 2005 ... KARACHI: Six people were killed when a KFC restaurant was set onfire by a mob angry about a suicide attack on a Shi'ite mosque inKarachi, bringing the overall death toll to 11, Pakistani police saidyesterday. The fastfood chicken restaurant was targeted in overnight riotingafter ...
Let's hear children speak their own minds
Jun 01, 2005 ... The media will have a field day today with and about children, asthey do every year on International Children's Day. This very morning, curtains are to be raised on get-togethers,award ceremonies, and other scheduled activities in schools,auditoriums and parks the country over. And ...
Urban, rural children as equals
Jun 01, 2005; ... Wearing a white cotton shirt and a confident smile, Zhang Guohaolooks no different from his schoolmates in Beijing. But Zhang is different. He's the son of migrant parents. He nowstudies at the Honglian Primary School, one oof the few schols thatnow have both local children and ...
Anti-AIDS drug 'breakthrough' claim
Jun 01, 2005; ... Early clinical trials conducted at two Beijing hospitals allegedlyshow a new medication developed by a Chinese medical company mayeffectively increase immune cells in AIDS patients and relievesymptoms of the deadly disease. Zhang Xiuhua, vice-manager of Xiehe Group in Shenyang, ...
Shenzhen minimum wage rises
Jun 01, 2005; ... SHENZHEN: The minimum wage will be increased in an effort to helpease the worsening labour shortage in this booming southern city. Workers are going to where salaries are higher and around 100,000jobs could be vacant. With that in mind, from July 1 the localgovernment will raise ...
Drilling rights to top agenda
Jun 01, 2005; ... China and Japan agreed to discuss drilling rights in the resource-rich East China Sea when the talks move to Tokyo, Foreign Ministryspokesman Kong Quan said yesterday. The announcement came after latest discussions between the twonations to try to resolve a dispute over the rights ...
Pipeline to have major impact
Jun 01, 2005 ... A new oil pipeline linking Azerbaijan with Turkey could see theEuropean Union reduce its Russian oil imports by up to a quarter bythe end of the decade, according to an expert from the InternationalEnergy Agency. The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) line, which started pumping ...
China, Chile sign joint copper venture deal
Jun 01, 2005; ... China and Chile signed an agreement yesterday to establish a jointventure (JV) to develop copper mines in Chile. China's biggest metaltrading company, China Minmetal Corporation (Minmetals), is to teamup with Chile's biggest copper producer, Codelco, to establish a 50-50 joint venture ...
Alstom loss narrows on job cuts and disposals
Jun 01, 2005; ... Alstom SA, the French engineering company rescued by thegovernment from near bankruptcy, recorded its smallest six-month lossin three years after Chief Executive Officer Patrick Kron cut 11,500jobs and sold a quarter of the business. The stock gained as much as7.3 per cent. The ...
Bombardier on track in rail market
Jun 01, 2005; ... Canadian industrial group Bombardier yesterday said it has won anadditional order from China's Ministry of Railways for 20 eight-cartrains. This follows the first order for 20 trains Bombardier won lastOctober. The value of these 40 trains totals more than US$750 million, ...
Plastic containers dangerous?
Jun 01, 2005 ... A chemical widely used in food packaging may be a contributingfactor to women developing breast cancer, scientists have suggested. The study links the compound to the development of hormonesensitive tissue in mice and has prompted environmental campaignersto call for far tighter ...
Detainees tell of abuse and forced confessions
Jun 01, 2005 ... LONDON: One Guantanamo prisoner told a military panel that UStroops beat him so badly he wets his pants now. Another detaineeclaimed US troops stripped prisoners in Afghanistan and intimidatedthem with dogs so they would admit to militant activity. Tales of alleged abuse and forced ...
US, EU should lessen demand on textiles
Jun 01, 2005 ... China's trade negotiators are currently talking with their US andEuropean counterparts about the country's rapidly growing textileexports. As in most trade disputes, unilateral action is not constructive.Trade wars benefit no one. Representatives of all parties should be ...
Dell offers regret over remark
Jun 01, 2005; ... US computer giant Dell Inc, in the centre of a public relationswhirlwind which may damage its relations with competitor Lenovo andthe Chinese Government, was trying to mend fences yesterday after anemployee stated that Lenovo's IBM acquisition was "directlysupporting/funding the Chinese ...
South
Jun 01, 2005 ... I'm going to kill myself and I want to look great A girl asked a tailor at a store that makes clothes for the deadto make her a suit, the www.chinajilin.com.cn reports. The 20-year-old girl in Dehui, Jilin Province, said last week shewanted to commit suicide because she did ...
Guangzhou strives to guarantee food safety
Jun 01, 2005; ... GUANGZHOU: Fresher and purer fruit and vegetables may soon bereaching tables in the capital city of South China's GuangdongProvince thanks to a new system to clean up farmers' markets. If the food is not up to scratch, then it will not be allowed tobe sold. The move is ...
Olympic Games inspectors nestle in on stadium's progress
Jun 01, 2005; ... The National Olympic Stadium, dubbed the "bird's nest" (pictured) because of its unique design, has risen from its foundations toground level, officials of the 2008 Venues Construction Headquarterssaid yesterday. Li Shizhou, in charge of the National Stadium projects, informedan ...
Sinopec buys into Canadian oil sands
Jun 01, 2005; ... China Petrochemical Corp, the parent company of Sinopec, and aCanadian company yesterday announced the refiner will pay 105 millionCanadian dollars (US$84 million) for a stake in Canada's NorthernLights oil sands project. SinoCanada, a subsidiary of the Sinopec Group, sealed a ...
Things can only get worse for beaten Safin
Jun 01, 2005 ... PARIS: Losing a French Open five-set thriller is bad enough, butnow Marat Safin knows that the pain is about to become even morepronounced. His 7-5, 1-6, 6-1, 4-6, 8-6 fourth round defeat to Spain's TommyRobredo here has brought down the curtain on the Russian's claycourtseason ...
Surprise drop in retail sales in sunny Australia
Jun 01, 2005; ... Australia's retail sales unexpectedly fell last month as thehottest April in 146 years caused demand for winter clothing andheaters to slump. The nation's currency fell and bonds rose after a statisticsbureau report released yesterday in Sydney showed retail salesdropped by 0.5 ...
CCB to list by end of year
Jun 01, 2005; ... China Construction Bank (CCB), one of the four largest State-owned banks, said it plans to list shares in Hong Kong before the endof this year. Preparations for the initial public offering, which will raiseseveral billion US dollars, are well underway, the bank said in areport ...
Tragedy in the modern world
Jun 01, 2005; ... Laid off from his job as a technician in a textile factory, XiaoXie, honest and good-looking, scratches around for other employmentand is hired as a security guard by a karaoke bar. But that job is short-lived. One morning, he turns up for work tofind the place being closed down ...
Nottingham tries life without Robin Hood legend
Jun 01, 2005 ... SHERWOOD FOREST, England: Nottingham advertising gurus havefinally achieved what the evil Sheriff could never quite manage -they've done away with Robin Hood. The legendary forest thief who robbed from the medieval rich andgave to the poor in nearby Sherwood Forest has had his ...
Oil magnate Khodorkovsky sentenced to 9 years
Jun 01, 2005 ... MOSCOW: Russian oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky was sentenced tonine years imprisonment yesterday after being found guilty in a fraudand tax evasion trial. The central Moscow court found the billionaire guilty of six ofseven charges in a verdict that took judges 12 days to read ...
West
Jun 01, 2005 ... Pre-teen carries on search for parents A 12-year-old boy carried on a long-distance search for hisparents who work in Xi'an of Shaanxi Province with just 300 yuan(US$36) in his pocket. He finally ended in the city's aid centre. Xiao Shuai from Yucheng County of Henan ...
Dodgy insurance contracts top CCA annoyance list
Jun 01, 2005; ... Car owners involved in collisions with drinkdrivers are often leftstranded as their insurance company will not pay for damages if theoffender fails to pay compensation. Such cases illustrate the unfairness in many Chinese insurancecontracts, which were listed among the top 10 ...
Journalist contributes to opening-up drive
Jun 01, 2005; ... It was the summer of 1980 when I walked into the classroom of aBeijing middle school to take an exam -- not to enrol in college likethousands of youngsters were trying to do that day -- but to qualifyfor a job as a reporter in China's new foreign language media. A quarter of a ...
Chefs sweat, restaurants try to make the grade
Jun 01, 2005; ... SHANGHAI: The city's food and drug watchdog announced recentlythat it would categorize and rate its 40,000 eateries from July 1. "The days when all restaurants were administered by the samestandard are gone," said Gu Zhenhua, an official from the ShanghaiFood and Drug ...
Nation's old friend, Epi, dies
Jun 01, 2005 ... Veteran journalist and writer Israel Epstein-described as a trueold friend of the Chinese people-died in Beijing at the age of 90, itwas announced last night. He passed away on May 26, family members said. On April 17, President Hu Jintao paid a special visit to ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 2, Date: 06/01/2005)
Jun 01, 2005 ... BEIJING Meeting on ethnic affairs The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) CentralCommittee met yesterday to study and discuss work on ethnic affairsand the acceleration of the economic and social development of ethnicminorities and minority ...
Federer into semi-finals
Jun 01, 2005 ... PARIS: Roger Federer took another confident step closer tobecoming only the sixth man to win all four Grand Slams when heoutclassed Romania's Victor Hanescu 6-2, 7-6 (7/3), 6-3 in the FrenchOpen quarter-finals yesterday. In a feature match on the women's side, Belgium's Justine ...
Int'l Power, Mitsui buy Calpine's British plant
Jun 01, 2005; ... International Power Plc, an electricity producer on fourcontinents, and Japanese trading company Mitsui & Co will pay UnitedStates-based Calpine Corp 490 million pounds (US$889 million) for itsSaltend plant in the United Kingdom. International Power will have a 70 per cent stake ...
Ancient opera takes on a young look
Jun 01, 2005; ... The old tunes of Peking Opera have been sounding from thePolitical Consultative Conference Hall in recent evenings,captivating not aged Peking Opera buffs, but audiences of children. The Peking Opera plays being performed are by the children, forthe children and of the ...
ICBC finalizes bad loan agreement with Huarong
Jun 01, 2005; ... The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) signed anagreement with China Huarong Asset Management Company late last weekto transfer some of its bad loans. The 246 billion yuan (US$29.6 billion) of bad loans, classified as"losses," are being transferred to Huarong, but the ...
Canadian becomes this year's Miss Universe
Jun 01, 2005 ... BANGKOK: Blue-eyed Canadian brunette Natalie Glebova was crownedMiss Universe 2005 in the Thai capital yesterday, saying she hopes toraise awareness about AIDS. The Russian-born model from Toronto was chosen out of fivefinalists the four others from Latin America who answered ...
East
Jun 01, 2005 ... Child imitates TV and nearly hangs himself A 4-year-old child was almost killed from suffocation afterimitating a TV play, sparking a move to rank TV programmes accordingto the level of violence involved, reported Oriented Post lastFriday. Luo Wenhua was playing with three ...