China Daily back issues from August 2006:
Size matters in deciding meal portions
Aug 01, 2006 ... How many sweets are enough? It depends on how big the sweets scoopis. At least that is a key factor, says a study that offers newevidence that people take cues from their surroundings in decidinghow much to eat. It explains why, for example, people who used to be satisfied by ...
Beckham Academy wants to bend it in Beijing
Aug 01, 2006; ... England football megastar David Beckham may set up his exclusivetraining school in Beijing. The 2008 Olympic city is seen as one ofthe most important stops during a selection campaign for the DavidBeckham Asian Academy venue. "We are looking at cities all throughout Asia. From ...
Howard to run for 5th term next year
Aug 01, 2006 ... Australia's leadership crisis eased yesterday when Prime MinisterJohn Howard announced he plans to lead his party into next year'sgeneral elections and his ambitious deputy said he'd put aside hisown desire for the top job. Howard, Australia's premier since 1996, ended months ...
Hong Kong offers vital lessons in corruption fight
Aug 01, 2006; ... For a long time, corruption has been privately regarded by manynecessary to lower transactional costs in the course of economicdevelopment. This argument may have been valid in the early stage ofreform and opening up, but both the Chinese economy and society haveadvanced to the current ...
Central
Aug 01, 2006 ... Romance helps businessman find love A boastful businessman in Wuhan, Hubei Province, found his luckchanged when he adopted a more romantic approach. The single man, in his 30s, placed an online ad last year seekinga girlfriend. But the ad, which said, "I'm successful in ...
French firm launches logo lawsuits
Aug 01, 2006; ... French company Lacoste sued two garment factories and a departmentstore yesterday in a Beijing court, as part of a campaign tosafeguard its trademark in China. The Guangzhou Tai'e Garment Company in South China's GuangdongProvince, the Beijing Nianniangao Garment & Accessories ...
Broadband helps connect remote villages
Aug 01, 2006; ... GUANGZHOU: Qiu Dongping was about 50 kilometres away from hishometown yesterday, bargaining for affordable computers. Qiu is head of a large village in the mountainous county of Dapuin the east of Guangdong Province, home to 2000 people in sixvillages. "The local town ...
Fight stepped up against bribery
Aug 01, 2006; ... Increased efforts are being made to tackle commercial bribery inChina's ongoing anti-corruption campaign. Li Yufu, vice-minister of supervision and deputy head of a centralgovernment task force to crack down on commercial corruption, saidsuch activities of graft taking "disturb ...
UN gives Iran Aug 31 deadline
Aug 01, 2006 ... UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council passed a resolutionyesterday giving Iran until August 31 to suspend uranium enrichmentor face the threat of economic and diplomatic sanctions. Because of Russian and Chinese demands, the text is weaker thanearlier drafts, which would have ...
Huatai buys 49% of Great Wall Futures
Aug 01, 2006; ... Leading brokerage Huatai Securities has bought 49 per cent ofGreat Wall Futures, the latest sign of securities firms' growinginterest in futures houses as the trading of financial futuresapproaches. Both sides declined to reveal the financial terms involved in thedeal, which was ...
Destroy the criminal elements, says watchdog
Aug 01, 2006 ... LONDON: The world governing athletics body urged governments towork closely with the international federations and destroy thecriminal elements it claimed were behind doping in sport. International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF)spokesman Nick Davies said the federation ...
Pierce returns after six-month injury
Aug 01, 2006 ... SAN DIEGO, California: Mary Pierce makes her comeback after sixmonths of injury drama at the San Diego WTA tournament, which startedyesterday. The 31-year-old Frenchwoman last competed when she lost the finalat the Paris indoors in mid-February to fellow countrywoman ...
Mutual fund gets nod to convert
Aug 01, 2006; ... SHANGHAI: Xingye Fund, a closed-end mutual fund managed by ChinaAsset Management Co, obtained regulatory approval to convert to anopen-ended instrument upon maturity, the fund said in an exchangefiling over the weekend. Xingye, which will mature in November, is China's first ...
Air China poised for mainland listing
Aug 01, 2006; ... Air China Ltd, the nation's flagship carrier, is expected to issueA shares by August 22, making it the only Chinese airline listed inHong Kong, London and Shanghai. The carrier plans to sell no more than 2.7 billion renminbi-denominated shares, or a 22.25-per-cent stake, it said ...
Equality stressed in new vows
Aug 01, 2006 ... For 147 years, marriage vows in Mexico portrayed women asdelicate, weak and potentially annoying. These days, judges across Mexico are switching to versions thatstress equality and mutual support, reflecting the growing power ofwomen in a country still struggling with macho ...
Asian 'Nobel Prize' awarded
Aug 01, 2006 ... The head of the Cambodian capital's water authority, a crusaderfor social justice in South Korea and a Filipino journalist andpublisher are among winners of the 2006 Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia'sversion of the Nobel Prize. The annual awards, named after late Philippine President ...
Shanghai cools down scorching highways
Aug 01, 2006; ... SHANGHAI: With temperatures topping 37 C, authorities in Shanghaihave begun watering the city's two elevated roads in a bid to keepthem cool. The city has eight watering vehicles, and will continue with theprogramme this year whenever temperatures exceed 35 C. It is thefirst ...
Good writing is all about clarity
Aug 01, 2006; ... Three years into journalism at a Hong Kong newspaper, I thought Iwas one of the greatest writers in the profession. My world camecrashing down the first day I went to work for a large US newspaper.It was actually the first night when I got a call from an editor. Hisfirst words were: ...
Nation's power troubles may soon be solved
Aug 01, 2006; ... China is expected to see its power shortages substantially easedbeginning in the next half of this year, a senior official with theChina Electricity Council (CEC) said yesterday. "Power supply and demand will be balanced nationwide in the nexthalf of the year, although short-term ...
East
Aug 01, 2006 ... Local mum becomes popular teller of tales A Shanghai mother has shot to fame as a fairytale writer withinthe past month. Xu, a mother of four who has had her stories published on a numberof educational websites, started writing as she was concerned thather four-year-old son ...
Guard of Honour makes PLA's image shine
Aug 01, 2006; ... Under the scorching sun 151 soldiers stood like statues, waitingto be inspected by a visiting state leader in the centre ofTian'anmen Square. When the Guard of Honour of the three services of the People'sLiberation Army (PLA) moved, the earth seemed to shake, and a cloudof dust ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 8, Date: 08/01/2006)
Aug 01, 2006 ... Ukraine Impeachment threat A top lawmaker in Ukraine's pro-Russian parliamentary majorityyesterday threatened President Viktor Yushchenko with impeachment ifhe calls new elections, again raising the stakes in the country'spolitical crisis. Taras Chornovil, a senior ...
IN BRIEF (Page: 2, Date: 08/01/2006)
Aug 01, 2006 ... BEIJING Officials reassigned More than 1,400 local Beijing officials have been reassigned forbeing unqualified for their positions, part of the municipalgovernment's efforts to reform its official tenure system, accordingto a report yesterday by the newspaper Beijing Youth ...
Rise and fall of an American hero
Aug 01, 2006 ... RALEIGH, North Carolina: Mild-mannered and polite, Justin Gatlinappeared the perfect point man to lead a new wave of Americans pastthe tarnished image left by the BALCO laboratory doping scandal. His electrifying runs to Olympic and world 100 metres titles and ashare of the world ...
Alonso's tyred-old excuse
Aug 01, 2006 ... HOCKENHEIM, Germany: Renault's world champion Fernando Alonsoblamed blistering tyres for keeping him off the podium in Sunday'sGerman Grand Prix. The Spaniard finished fifth to see his once-commanding overalllead slashed to 11 points by Ferrari's triumphant Michael ...
Hong Kong chefs break new ground in fusion food
Aug 01, 2006; ... HONG KONG: With many of the leading lights in the city's culinaryworld, debate rages over what "fusion" cuisine actually is. Many now believe that the term has been overused to such an extentthat it lowers the image of a restaurant rather than enhances it. There is a ...
ICBC launches first QDII product
Aug 01, 2006; ... The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the country'slargest lender, yesterday launched its first fund to invest clients'money overseas. The bank started selling the fund, part of its US$2 billioninvestment quota under the qualified domestic institutional ...
Listed banks could see double-digit growth
Aug 01, 2006; ... HONG KONG: Three listed mainland banks could see a double-digitgrowth in earnings from the first half of 2006, benefiting from thecountry's booming economy and their early public listings. Analysts surveyed by China Daily rated China Construction Bank(CCB) as having the most ...
People
Aug 01, 2006 ... Gibson's remarks in spotlight after arrestDespite an apology by Mel Gibson, Hollywood insiders and thestar's fans sought more details about his reported anti-Semitictirade during an arrest for drunken driving and whether sheriff'sdeputies gave him preferential ...
Gays to show their 'IndigNation'
Aug 01, 2006 ... Singapore's gay community is about to show some "IndigNation." The city-state's gay and lesbian community begins its secondannual pride festival next Tuesday in the face of what organizersdescribe as continued discrimination. Scheduled around Singapore's independence day on ...
Good for law and order
Aug 01, 2006 ... Beijing Public Security Bureau announced recently that theperformance of its police officers is no longer assessed by theamount of cases cracked, thieves caught or money raised by finingoffenders. The abolished assessment mechanism characterized by "quota" hasbeen at the heart of ...
West
Aug 01, 2006 ... Retired mechanic builds electric automobile A retired automobile mechanic built his own electric car and droveit around recently in Deyang, Sichuan Province. Liu Chenggang, 64, said his car could reach a maximum speed of 50kilometres per hour. He has spent four months ...
Heavy rains delay flights while flooding capital's roads
Aug 01, 2006; ... A heavy thunderstorm hit Beijing yesterday, delaying hundreds offlights at the Capital International Airport and snarling trafficacross the city. Early yesterday morning, this summer's heaviest fog surroundedBeijing. At 6 am, visibility was about 250 metres in urban areas ofthe ...
Coal mine blast kills 11 workers
Aug 01, 2006 ... KUNMING: Eleven miners were killed this weekend in a coal and gasexplosion at a coal mine in Fuyuan, a county in eastern YunnanProvince, local sources said yesterday. A team of 11 miners were working underground in the BailongshanCoal Mine on Saturday when the tragedy occurred ....
Army plays vital role in relief efforts
Aug 01, 2006; ... The People's Liberation Army (PLA) has undertaken a range ofhumanitarian relief missions in disaster-stricken areas overseas inthe past five years, defence officials said ahead of today's 79thanniversary of the founding of PLA. Zhou Bo, a senior official with the Foreign Affairs ...
Bush sticks to call for lasting peace
Aug 01, 2006 ... US President George W. Bush reiterated that he wants a sustainableend to the violence between Israel and Lebanon rather than a quickceasefire. "I assured the people here that we will work towards a plan in theUnited Nations Security Council that addresses the root causes of ...
Distressed parents create blog to track down missing son
Aug 01, 2006; ... HARBIN: A couple who used the Internet to look for their missingson have received thousands of sympathetic responses. Inspired by some of their son's classmates, the couple in Acheng,a county of Harbin, capital of Northeast China's HeilongjiangProvince, created a blog titled: ...
Don't protect monopolies
Aug 01, 2006 ... Administrative protection has indulged monopoly industries, says asigned article in China Economic Times. An excerpt follows: China's airlines lost a total of 430 million yuan (US$54 million)in the second quarter as soaring oil prices pushed up costs, said thecountry's aviation ...
Limited funds, excessive rain leave Rome crumbling
Aug 01, 2006 ... Take a cab into Rome from Fiumicino airport and the odds are thatthe driver will hurtle you up the Via Ostiense, across the Aventinehill, and bring you out in front of the most breathtaking welcome toany European capital. Across the Circus Maximus, the remains of the palace of ...
Latest developments
Aug 01, 2006 ... Israel rejects mounting international pressure to end the 20-day-old war. UN postpones indefinitely a meeting on a new peacekeeping forcefor Lebanon. Civilians flee battered villages in southern Lebanon after Israelagrees to partial halt in air ...
Top Tiger leader: War is on andwe are ready
Aug 01, 2006 ... Sri Lanka's two-decade civil war is back on, a top Tamil Tigersaid, as seven soldiers and three rebels were killed yesterday in thefirst army advance on rebel-held territory since a 2002 ceasefire. S. Elilan, head of the Tigers' political wing in the restiveeastern district of ...
US image shattered and shamed
Aug 01, 2006 ... RALEIGH, North Carolina: Positive doping tests by Olympic 100metres champion Justin Gatlin and Tour de France winner Floyd Landisare destroying the credibility of American sport, the 2004 OlympicsUS men's athletics coach said on Saturday. "They are destroying it big-time," George ...
All aboard, with a little help from theory of relativity
Aug 01, 2006 ... As you board your flight, the fabric of space-time is probably thelast thing on your mind. But research suggests that by harnessing themaths behind Einstein's theory of relativity, airlines could speed upthe arduous process of boarding. According to New Scientist, which reports the ...
A poison corrupting everything
Aug 01, 2006 ... LOS ANGELES: World and Olympic 100m champion Justin Gatlin'srevelation that he had tested positive for testosterone was greetedas one more, perhaps fatal, blow to sports fans' faith. Gatlin, who faces a lifetime ban from athletics and the loss ofthe 100m world record he shares with ...
Raikkonen all fired up after third-place finish
Aug 01, 2006 ... HOCKENHEIM, Germany: McLaren's Kimi Raikkonen ended his Hockenheimjinx, thankful that this time his car caught fire only after he hadcrossed the line in third place. In five starts at the German Grand Prix, engine partner Mercedes'shome circuit, the Finn had retired five times - ...
Suning steps up efforts against competitors
Aug 01, 2006; ... SHANGHAI: China's No 2 electrical appliance retailer SuningAppliance Co Ltd plans to move its headquarters from Nanjing toShanghai and expand its regional base in a bid to compete with itsrivals. The firm has been under mounting pressure from competitors sincethe country's ...
ABN AMRO quickens pace to expand for retail RMB
Aug 01, 2006; ... Dutch Bank ABN AMRO will speed up its network expansion in Chinain preparation for the opening of retail renminbi business to foreignbanks by the end of this year. "We want to be close to our customers," said Kadichah Hei, vice-president of ABN AMRO Bank's (China) consumer client ...
Malaysia draws up blacklist of names
Aug 01, 2006 ... Malaysian parents will no longer be allowed to give their childrennames deemed unsuitable, a report says. According to the New Straits Times, the National RegistrationDepartment will not allow names with undesirable meanings in thelanguages used by the country's three main ethnic ...
90 years ago, New York suffered 1st major terror attack
Aug 01, 2006 ... The sound of the blast was unearthly, and the tremor was felt 160kilometres away in Philadelphia. The night sky over New York Harbourturned orange. People were jolted from bed and windows shatteredwithin 40 kilometres. The Statue of Liberty, less than 2 kilometres away, was damaged ...
Outrageous attacks
Aug 01, 2006 ... More civilian lives in Lebanon are falling prey to Israel'smilitary strikes against Hezbollah. The tragedy that struck the village of Qana in southern Lebanon onSunday provoked moral outrage throughout the world. The United Nations Security Council called on Sunday for an end ...
South
Aug 01, 2006 ... Tourist delighted to get back stolen items A tourist was surprised to be returned his identity card and airticket after his wallet was stolen in a local store on Thursday inGuilin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Ten minutes after Jin's wallet was stolen, the store's ...
Law adds transparency to land transaction
Aug 01, 2006; ... A set of governmental measures to expose rampant illegal landacquisitions took effect today. The central government has required that commercial land should bebid and auctioned nationwide. Previously, several provinces andmunicipalities had employed such market-based ...
Israel rejects int'l call for ceasefire
Aug 01, 2006 ... BEIRUT: Israel rejected mounting international pressure yesterdayto end its 20-day-old war against Hezbollah guerrillas, and theUnited Nations indefinitely postponed a meeting on a new peacekeepingforce for Lebanon. A UN official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said ...
New roads transform lives in rural areas
Aug 01, 2006; ... JINGGANGSHAN, Jiangxi Province: The border region of Jiangxi andHunan Provinces was the base area of the Red Army in the early 1930s,the rugged mountain terrain helping them stave off attack until theyembarked on the epic Long March of 1934-35. Afterwards, however, the same ...
Ultimate sacrifice
Aug 01, 2006; ... Firefighters were desperately trying to save a man and son,trapped in rising floodwaters in the village of Dangcun. Suddenly, aman carrying a lifeboat fell in the water. Within seconds, afirefighter jumped in to rescue him. "The man was suddenly lifted above the water's surface ....
Message to Schumi: win title and go
Aug 01, 2006 ... HOCKENHEIM, Germany: Michael Schumacher's manager Willi Weber hastold the Ferrari great to retire if he wins his record eighth FormulaOne championship this season. "I am not only his manager, I am also his long-time friend. If wewin the title, I think it's time to retire," Weber ...
Melting-pot mania boils over
Aug 01, 2006; ... When East meets West for lunch, each side brings a taste of itsown gastronomy to the table. When fusion exploded as a craze in the 1980s, many restaurateurspredicted the obsession would be just another flash-in-the-pan foodfad. But two decades later, fusion mania is still cooking ...
Mainland, Taiwan Net firms eye each other
Aug 01, 2006; ... Internet companies on both sides of the Taiwan Straits are lookingat each other in the search for new markets. The rekindled interest is expected to initiate the third wave ofTaiwanese companies' search for opportunities in the mainland'sInternet market. On July 18 ...
Sony stands apart from competitors
Aug 01, 2006; ... Sony had a tough year in 2005. Global consultancy Interbrand described the firm as last year'sbiggest loser of brand value. Its brand position fell from 20th in2004 to 28th in Interbrand's ranking, while brand value wascalculated to have fallen 16 per cent. Interbrand ...
Defend public interests
Aug 01, 2006 ... Public interests must always come first with regard to the issuingof meteorological information, says a signed article in Workers'Daily. An excerpt follows: According to Xinhua News Agency, a provider of short messageservices (SMS) received an administrative punishment from 11 ...
HK's CityU recruits 210 mainland students
Aug 01, 2006 ... HONG KONG: More than 200 new students from the Chinese mainlandhave been given offers to commence their undergraduate education atCity University of Hong Kong (CityU) this September, CityU announcedyesterday. Through the National University Entrance Examination Scheme, ...
SCOREBOARD (08/01/2006)
Aug 01, 2006 ... BADMINTON Thailand Open BANGKOK: Results of finals at the Thailand Open badmintontournament on Sunday: Men's singles: Chen Yu (Chn) bt Chen Jin (Chn) 21-17 21-23 22-20 Women's singles: Zhu Lin (Chn) bt Hwang Hye-youn (Kor) 21-13 18-21 ...
Microsoft submits documents in bid to avoid fine
Aug 01, 2006 ... Microsoft Corp has submitted documents required by the EuropeanCommission in an effort to avoid further fines for breaching anantitrust ruling, the European Union regulator said yesterday. The Commission said it was studying the files and that it was tooearly to tell whether the ...
Brokerages to get margin trading rule to guide trial
Aug 01, 2006; ... A detailed rule to guide margin trading is expected soon, as Chinaallows brokerages to use the advanced trading tool on a trial basisfrom today. Margin trading lets investors buy and sell money and stocksborrowed from brokerages. The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) submitted ...
Testing for testosterone
Aug 01, 2006 ... Olympic and world 100 metres champion Justin Gatlin and Tour deFrance winner Floyd Landis have both tested positive for excessivelevels of testosterone. Following is a factbox on the hormone: *Testosterone is a hormone which occurs naturally in both men andwomen. From puberty in ...