China Daily back issues from March 2006:
Historians sue over 'Da Vinci Code'
Mar 01, 2006 ... Author Dan Brown attended a London court on Monday for the startof a trial in which two historians are accusing him of copying theirideas in his best-selling religious thriller "The Da Vinci Code." Richard Leigh and Michael Baigent are suing Brown's Britishpublisher Random House ...
Market
Mar 01, 2006 ... Shanghai SSEC gains for fourth day China's Shanghai Composite Index gained for a fourth day. ChinaMinsheng Banking Corp and Shanghai Zhenhua Port Machinery Co helpedindex reverse losses after the two companies reported higher 2005earnings. "Minsheng Banking and ...
Mainland can help HK attain sustained growth
Mar 01, 2006; ... The buzzword in the Hong Kong government 2006-07 financial budgetspeech delivered by Financial Secretary Henry Tang on February 22 wasindisputably "mainland," as the word cropped up frequentlythroughout. Of the 88 paragraphs in the budget, which is supposed tolay out government income ...
'Ordinary' Howard marks decade at top
Mar 01, 2006 ... Australian Prime Minister John Howard celebrates a decade in powertomorrow as the nation's most popular leader, with voters in no moodto dislodge him from office. Voters consider Howard to have done a better job than his fourpredecessors going back 34 years, a poll published ...
South
Mar 01, 2006 ... Mobile thief smokedby car while fleeing A thief felt the power of karma on Sunday when he was knocked downby a car immediately after stealing a mobile phone. The accident took place in downtown Guangzhou at 8 pm. The thiefstole a phone from the hands of a woman, and fled ...
Air crash compensation limit raised
Mar 01, 2006; ... Families of air crash victims can now be compensated up to 400,000yuan (US$48,000) each from airlines, according to a new regulationChina's aviation authority issued yesterday. This upper limit is almost double the amount that victims'families received from the November 2004 air ...
Mass dip planned for 'clean' river
Mar 01, 2006; ... GUANGZHOU: Swimming in Pearl River was once a must activity in thesummer for people in Guangzhou, the capital of South China'sGuangdong. But since the 1970s it has become a risky pastime because ofincreasing amounts of consumer and industrial waste in the water. With ...
Rebels kill 55 in Indian landmine blast
Mar 01, 2006 ... RAIPUR, India: Ultra-leftist rebels set off a landmine under atruck yesterday in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, killing 55people and wounding at least 20 who belonged to a government-backedgroup that is against the rebels, police said. The attack came on the eve of a visit to ...
Hu condemns Chen's secession move
Mar 01, 2006; ... President Hu Jintao yesterday denounced Taiwan leader Chen Shui-bian for scrapping a policy-making council on unification with themainland, warning that "anyone who moves against the trend of historyis doomed to failure." Hu called Chen's decision "a dangerous step forward ...
HK-mainland trade likely to pick up speed
Mar 01, 2006; ... HONG KONG: Trade between the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong isexpected to pick up speed in the coming years with the furtherimplementation of the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA)and the economic integration between the two areas. These are predictions of Chen Xing, ...
Taylor wants to succeed
Mar 01, 2006 ... LONDON: England Under-21 coach Peter Taylor declared himselfMonday a candidate to succeed Sven-Goran Eriksson as boss of thesenior national side after the World Cup. Taylor has won plaudits for his work with England's emergingtalent and for guiding Hull into the Championship, the ...
Detox: The A to Z recipe for a healthy life
Mar 01, 2006 ... With many popular detox diets debunked in a major health report,Amelia Hill from the Observer unravels the truth about the essentialfoods, drinks and exercises that could help you achieve genuineimprovements in how you look and feel. E is for essential fatty acidsAll fats ...
Thai leads an Asian challenge
Mar 01, 2006 ... LONDON: Asian No 1 Thaworn Wiratchant is relishing the prospect ofdefending his Indonesian Open title at the Emeralda Golf and CountryClub in Jakarta this week. Thaworn's five-shot triumph at the Cengkareng Golf Club almost ayear ago was his first on the European Tour and provided ...
Sinosteel seeks iron project stake
Mar 01, 2006; ... Sinosteel Corp, China's second-largest iron ore trader, is seekinga majority stake in Grange Resources Ltd's US$1.1 billion iron orepellet project in Western Australia to secure supplies of thesteelmaking ingredient. Sinosteel is in talks to take a stake of as much as 70 per cent ...
Climate scientists issue dire warning on global warming
Mar 01, 2006 ... The Earth's temperature could rise under the impact of globalwarming to levels far higher than previously predicted, according tothe United Nations' team of climate experts. A draft of the next influential Intergovernmental Panel on ClimateChange (IPCC) report will tell politicians ...
Minsheng profit hike last year signals bank's fast growth
Mar 01, 2006; ... China Minsheng Banking Corp, one of the nation's leading joint-stock banks, reported a 33 per cent hike of its 2005 net profits,which reached 2.7 billion yuan (US$333 million) at the end of lastyear. The bank's assets totalled 557.1 billion yuan (US$68.7 billion),with the ...
Scientists claim to find lost civilization under ashes
Mar 01, 2006 ... Scientists have found what they believe are traces of the lostIndonesian civilization of Tambora, which was wiped out in 1815 bythe biggest volcanic eruption in recorded history. Mount Tambora's cataclysmic eruption on April 10, 1815, buried theinhabitants of Sumbawa Island under ...
Central
Mar 01, 2006 ... Struggling to quit,smoker swallows lighter Doctors from a hospital in Loudi, Hunan Province, removed acigarette lighter, broken pencil and some screws from the stomach ofa man during emergency surgery last week. Li Yong, a 30-year-old farmer, had been smoking four packets ...
Coupon reminder of hungry days
Mar 01, 2006; ... A special exhibition is currently being held in Beijing. Ondisplay are a variety of commodity ration coupons used in Chinaduring the time of the planned economy, which ran from the early1950s to the mid-1980s. The exhibition will remind many people who are over 30 years oldof the ...
High-tech system to tackle congestion
Mar 01, 2006; ... Beijing is planning to adopt a series of intelligenttransportation systems (ITS) to alleviate the city's trafficcongestion, officials said. The use of high-tech devices in buses, taxis, public car parks andbus stations will greatly improve the transportation efficiency, saidLiu ...
Airport construction to receive steep funding boost
Mar 01, 2006 ... HONG KONG: China will spend 140 billion yuan (US$17.4 billion)over the next five years to expand its airport infrastructure to meeta predicted 14 per cent annual growth in domestic air traffic, acivil aviation official said yesterday. The amount is a sharp increase over the 120 ...
nuclear pact with US throws up divisions
Mar 01, 2006 ... NEW DELHI: With India and the United States struggling to work outa nuclear pact before US President George W. Bush's visit today,India's prime minister has pledged not to compromise the country'ssecurity to seal the deal. The landmark nuclear pact has, for many in India, come ...
Government spending on education to rise sharply
Mar 01, 2006; ... Spending on education is expected to take up a record 4 per centof China's gross domestic product (GDP) during the coming five years,a cabinet official said yesterday. In addition to increasing funds to guarantee compulsory education,the country will lay stress on vocational ...
Robinson criticizes media over Swede's 'stitch up'
Mar 01, 2006 ... MANCHESTER, England: England keeper Paul Robinson has delivered abitter indictment of the way coach Sven-Goran Eriksson has beenforced out of his job after the World Cup by newspaper revelations. Robinson said the players want Eriksson to see out his originalcontract until 2008, ...
Chinese firms urged to face EU's charges
Mar 01, 2006; ... HONG KONG: The "silence is golden" philosophy is apparently oneChinese companies should not take in the face of anti-dumpingcharges, said a trade official. Instead, Chinese companies, including those from Hong Kong andMacao, "should stand up to respond to anti-dumping charges ...
'Artificial skin' made from silk
Mar 01, 2006 ... HANGZHOU: China, a nation with a long history of silk, hasrecently developed a new use for the fabric. Scientists from East China's Zhejiang Province have used silk tocreate a new type of "artificial skin" which is expected to helptreat skin defects and reduce scars. Min ...
Aussie Ogilvy strikes blow for journeymen with La Costa win
Mar 01, 2006 ... LOS ANGELES: Like New Zealander Michael Campbell at last year's USOpen, Australia's Geoff Ogilvy struck a timely blow for thejourneyman professional with his surprise victory at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship. The 28-year-old from Adelaide started the week at La Costa ...
Want to live longer? Think positive thoughts
Mar 01, 2006 ... Optimism is good for the heart, a study said on Monday. The most optimistic among a group of 545 Dutch men age 64 to 84had a roughly 50 per cent lower risk of cardiovascular death over 15years of follow-up, according to the study published in the Archivesof Internal ...
EXECUTIVE APPOINTMENTS
Mar 01, 2006 ... Tencent China's largest Instant Messaging (IM) service provider TencentHoldings Ltd appointed former Chief Investment Officer (CIO) LiuZhiping as the company's new president. Last February, Liu Zhiping was named as chief strategic investmentofficer (CIO) of the Hong ...
Report: Third of British army unready due to strain
Mar 01, 2006 ... Years of strain in Iraq and Afghanistan have left nearly a thirdof British military units suffering from serious deficiencies, a UKparliamentary committee said in a report issued yesterday. The Public Affairs Committee said the country's armed forces hadyet to recover from the ...
Banks need to lend rural sector support
Mar 01, 2006 ... The financial support needed for building a "new countryside"involves more than just public funding. A functioning financialsector that can better serve the rural economy is a must as well. While giving a hand to the less-developed rural sector, thecountry's financial institutions, ...
North
Mar 01, 2006 ... All you need is lovewhen fighting cancer A cancer patient from Tianjin has recovered after 20 years of carefrom his wife. The man, 73, developed throat cancer two decades ago, and afterevery operation his wife has taken care of him. Speaking of hisgratitude, he said: "It ...
Internet control in line with world norms
Mar 01, 2006; ... SANYA: The meteoric growth of China's Internet has great potentialfor development and will promote a freer flow of information, majorwebsite executives and experts attending a seminar in South China'sHainan Province said Monday. China, the world's second largest Internet market ...
Service targets lonely elderly people
Mar 01, 2006; ... NANJING: About half of Nanjing's population aged over 80 who livealone are set to receive daily care by the end of the year. The local government in the capital of East China's JiangsuProvince is setting aside 2 million yuan (US$250,000) to hire workersto support the vulnerable ...
165 civil offences added to new law effective today
Mar 01, 2006; ... Foreigners in China may be ordered to leave the country if theyviolate a new set of public security regulations coming into forcetoday. Compared with the version that has been in place for 19 years, thenew law stipulates a total of 238 illegal practices an addition of165 ...
Lawyers walk out at Saddam trial; thirty die in Baghdad bombings
Mar 01, 2006 ... Bombs killed at least 30 people in Baghdad and wrecked the tomb ofSaddam Hussein's father yesterday as the ousted leader was in courtfor the first time since days of sectarian violence pitched Iraqtowards civil war. Saddam's two lead defence counsels walked out within minutes ...
Banks eager to cash in on nation's insurance sector
Mar 01, 2006; ... The trend of cross-sector operations in the financial business isgaining momentum in China with several banks itching to set up theirown insurance companies. Insiders said Bank of Communications (BoCom), the fifth-largestlender in the country, has received the green light from the ...
Real boss Perez quits
Mar 01, 2006 ... MADRID: Real Madrid president Florentino Perez has unexpectedlyresigned to herald the end of an era at Spain's, and possibly theworld's, most famous football club. An extraordinary meeting of the board on Monday confirmed Perezwould go and that Fernando Martin, a club ...
Wheezy allergic kids may grow into asthmatic adults
Mar 01, 2006 ... NEW YORK: Children who have airway hyper-responsiveness, a symptomof asthma, and allergic manifestations have an increased risk ofdeveloping asthma by the time they become adults, according to Danishresearchers. Dr Celeste Porsbjerg, of Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen, ...
Americans go 'Hao' over Jingju
Mar 01, 2006; ... HONOLULU, Hawaii: "Hao! Hao! Hao!" shouted the audience, toexpress their appreciation. They were saluting a Peking Opera performer who had just finisheda marvellous "qiangbei," a movement in which he twirled himselfaround, threw himself on the ground and rolled on the stage ....
Captaincy icing on the cake for Yorke
Mar 01, 2006 ... LONDON: When Dwight Yorke leads Trinidad & Tobago out for theirfirst game at the World Cup finals in June, the former ManchesterUnited striker will regard it as his finest moment. The 34-year-old is relishing captaining the Soca Warriors at thefinals in Germany, and rates the ...
Tenneco eyes China's automobile market
Mar 01, 2006; ... SHANGHAI: Tenneco Inc, a US-based auto parts supplier, plans toinvest US$51million over the next three years in China, where an autoindustry boom is expected. "The investment is about responding to our customers' need fortheir Chinese production," said Mark Frissora, chairman, ...
Lenovo costs to increase
Mar 01, 2006; ... Lenovo Group Ltd said costs will increase this year as the companybegins selling computers under its own brand to grab share in thesmall-business market from larger rivals Dell Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co. "There'll be an increase in marketing costs, but there's going tovery ...
Blair seeks party support for key education reform
Mar 01, 2006 ... British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour government publishedits Education Bill yesterday, setting the stage for a showdown withsome of its own MPs over a key part of Blair's domestic reformagenda. Several MPs remain deeply unhappy with the education plans,believing they will ...
Gov't must strike at organized crime root
Mar 01, 2006 ... Organized crime harms society the way a tumour harms the humanbody. Once this type of crime infects government bodies, it can erodeinstitutional functions to such an extent that administrativedepartments deviate from their role as public servants, and insteadserve as a protective ...
US$3b stem cell agency fights for life
Mar 01, 2006 ... The financial future of California's US$3 billion human embryonicstem cell research institute went on trial on Monday as taxpayergroups tried to block the state-funded research. Two lawsuits seek to invalidate the law that created theCalifornia Institute of Regenerative Medicine, ...
East
Mar 01, 2006 ... Woman suffers chest pains in landlord scrap A woman has won compensation after her breast implants becamedamaged in a dispute with her landlord. The woman, from Shanghai, rented a shop two years ago so that shecould open a hairdressing salon. However, she began to have ...
Celebration prepared for Sun Yat-sen's anniversary
Mar 01, 2006; ... China's top advisory body will observe the 140th anniversary ofSun Yat-sen's birth, pioneer of China's modern democratic revolution,with a series of grand rallies in November. The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC)made the decision yesterday, and presented ...
Regulation helps Beijingers keep fit
Mar 01, 2006; ... A new drive to promote sport and regular exercise among Beijingersbegins today. The Beijing Municipal All-people Fitness Regulation, approved bythe capital's legislator towards the end of last year, aims to createa better environment and more facilities to help people live ...
Cement industry structure to undergo reform
Mar 01, 2006; ... Attempting to adjust the cement industry's structure, China willcontinue measures for controlling manufacturing of the material, saidNational Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the nation'sleading industrial watchdog. The commission will speed up the elimination of cement ...
Blast at grave of Saddam's father
Mar 01, 2006 ... TIKRIT, Iraq: A bomb exploded yesterday at the mosque where SaddamHussein's father is buried, police said. The blast damaged a dome and blew out windows and doors at theHussein al-Majid mosque but caused no casualties, police Captain ...
In what was barren land, money now grows on trees
Mar 01, 2006 ... Ancient Chinese legend has it that a kind of tree, when shaken,yields leaves that turn into money on the ground. But those living on the dry loess highlands in Northwest Chinacouldn't see a single tree when they looked around. Now, holding a mobile phone while sitting on a ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 16, Date: 03/01/2006)
Mar 01, 2006 ... TENNIS Teen Murray becomes official British No 1 LONDON: Scottish teenager Andrew Murray has officially becomeBritain's top-ranked tennis player following the release of thelatest ATP rankings on Monday. The 18-year-old, who won his first Tour title eight days ago, ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 10, Date: 03/01/2006)
Mar 01, 2006 ... BEIJING Nu Skin study centre The US direct-selling company Nu Skin yesterday joined NanjingUniversity to establish a direct-selling study centre, the first ofits kind in China, which has recently lifted its seven-year ban onthe industry. Frankie Kiow, president of Nu ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 8, Date: 03/01/2006)
Mar 01, 2006 ... Iran/Russia Talks to resume today Another round of talks between Russia and Iran aimed at finding away out of the stand-off over Teheran's nuclear ambitions will starttoday, Russia said yesterday. Negotiations in Iran last week ended in a "basic" agreement on ajoint ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 2, Date: 03/01/2006)
Mar 01, 2006 ... BEIJING Consensus urged All relevant parties will hopefully achieve a consensus on thelatest draft resolution for the establishment of the UN Human RightsCouncil as soon as possible, said Foreign Ministry spokesman LiuJianchao yesterday. Liu said at a regular press ...
Lampard: Eriksson's exit not a Cup worry
Mar 01, 2006 ... MANCHESTER, England: England midfielder Frank Lampard says thatmanager Sven-Goran Eriksson's departure after the World Cup willchange nothing in the team's approach to the finals in Germany. Eriksson is stepping down after the tournament following unwittingcomments made during a ...
Owen eyes return against Chelsea
Mar 01, 2006 ... MANCHESTER, England: Newcastle United striker Michael Owen says hecould be back from injury in time to face Chelsea in next month's FACup quarter-final. Owen broke a bone in his foot in a collision with EnglandTottenham Hotspur goalkeeper and England team mate Paul Robinson ...
New partner may bolster JV's growth
Mar 01, 2006; ... SHENZHEN: Allianz AG life insurance JV's new Chinese partnerprovides solid capital backup for the company's "more aggressive"growth in China, CEO Christian Molt said in a press briefingyesterday. CITIC Trust and Investment, which managed over 8 billion yuan(US$986.4 million) at ...
'My tummy hurts, Mama' - when children are scared of school
Mar 01, 2006 ... COLOGNE/Heidelberg: Tummy aches and their heads really hurt arejust some of the complaints parents hear, especially in the morning,just as they are hurrying their children through breakfast in thehectic rush to school. Most accept these "illnesses" from time to time and conspire ...
Games operator opts for variety
Mar 01, 2006; ... Chen Tianqiao, ranked as China's third-richest man, plans torespond to falling online gaming sales by making Shanda InteractiveEntertainment Ltd a broader media company modeled on Walt Disney Co. "Diversifying earnings will make us more stable," the 32-year-oldsaid. "Disney has ...
Science fiction writer Octavia Butler dies
Mar 01, 2006 ... Octavia E. Butler, considered the first black woman to gain USnational prominence as a science fiction writer, has died, a closefriend said on Sunday. She was 58. Butler fell and struck her head on the cobbled walkway outside herhome, said Leslie Howle, a long-time friend and ...
Governor urges more mine safety
Mar 01, 2006 ... West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin has proposed adding emergencyshelters to the array of new safety gear mandated in response to whathas become one of the deadliest years in the state's undergroundmines. The governor wants all 315 underground mines to contain at leastone rescue ...
Protect rights of bicycle riders
Mar 01, 2006 ... The decline of bicycle lanes is a violation of the rights andinterests of the majority of road users, says a signed article inChina Youth Daily. An excerpt follows: A member of the municipal people's political consultativeconference of Harbin raised a proposal during a recent ...
Programme to preserve aquatic biodiversity
Mar 01, 2006; ... After decades of pollution and excessive fishing, China hasdetermined to protect its aquatic organism resources, according to aprogramme promulgated by the State Council in mid-February. Boasting some of the most abundant biodiversity in the world,China is home to more than 20,000 ...