China Daily back issues from December 2006:
Record-setting adventure turns into a testing battle for survival
Dec 01, 2006 ... And Gray hopes to soon release a Chinese-language version. "It's a crazy adventure story with heaps of interminglingrelationships," Gray said. "It's a real social commentary on theinteractions between human beings, especially in environments wherethey're barely surviving, not ...
Microsoft pins hopes on Vista launch
Dec 01, 2006 ... Software giant Microsoft yesterday launched the latest version ofits Windows operating system Windows Vista. The new operating system, unveiled together with a fresh versionof the Office business software package, is one of the most importantnew products in Microsoft's history, ...
Bush calls Maliki 'right guy' for Iraq
Dec 01, 2006 ... AMMAN: US President George W. Bush praised Iraqi Prime MinisterNuri al-Maliki as the "right guy" for Iraq yesterday and said heagreed with the Iraqi leader that partitioning the country would onlyincrease violence. Bush declared support for Maliki after US officials insisted ...
Oversight vs privacy To be anonymous or not?
Dec 01, 2006 ... If the proposed real-name system is adopted, the decision on thatissue will be taken out of the Internet users' hands. The Internet Society of China (ISC), affiliated with the Ministryof Information Industry, is reportedly weighing regulations thatwould require users to submit ...
Special measures for inspection
Dec 01, 2006; ... Beijing inspection and quarantine officers are grappling with adilemma in the run up to the Olympics: how to ensure smooth entryinto sites for personnel and animals while keeping events safe fromexotic diseases? Though there are still 600-plus days to go before the 2008 ...
Beijing urges all sides to come back to Six-Party Talks
Dec 01, 2006; ... Beijing will continue to work with all parties to set a date forthe next round of Six-Party Talks, following two days of meetingswith Washington and Pyongyang. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said through multiple roundsof trilateral and bilateral talks, the three sides ...
News portals 'should strike right balance'
Dec 01, 2006; ... KUNMING: What happens in the virtual world has a strong bearing inthe real world, so Internet media operators as well as surfers shouldbe aware of the consequences and be more responsible. That was the message delivered by officials and experts attendingthe 2006 Forum on Internet ...
Think twice before you whistle at, or ogle, women
Dec 01, 2006; ... XI'AN: Lawmakers in Shaanxi are drafting a provincial-levelregulation that will strengthen the Women's Rights Protection Law inan effort to better deter sexual harassment. The regulation, which is expected to come into force next year, isaimed at filling in gaps in the anti-sexual ...
Direct sales deadline today, firms still waiting
Dec 01, 2006; ... Several major foreign-invested firms are waiting for the finalapproval of their direct selling businesses in China, without whichthey may have to close down, as their operations are consideredillegal as of today. Direct selling giants such as Amway, Mary Kay, and Perfect havenot ...
Pearce dreaming of Europe after ending away day jinx
Dec 01, 2006 ... BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND: Stuart Pearce insists Manchester City canchallenge for a European place after finally ending their desperatewait for a Premiership away win against Aston Villa. City manager Pearce is convinced his side can build on their firstaway win since April to forge ...
Independent Study group set to advise dialogue with syria, iran
Dec 01, 2006 ... WASHINGTON: The independent, bipartisan panel studying US policyin Iraq has reached a consensus agreement in a report that could helpguide US President George W. Bush's conduct of the war. "We reached a consensus," Co-Chairman Lee Hamilton told theliberal Center for American ...
Launch boon for local computer firms
Dec 01, 2006; ... Microsoft yesterday released the new generation of its threeflagship products Windows Vista, Office Systems, and Exchange Serverto businesses in China, in a move expected to create billions ofdollars of sales in the world's second-largest computer market. The products are ...
Fighting in the open
Dec 01, 2006 ... As the 19th World AIDS Day is observed all over the world today,the following figures have unfolded a severe scenario for thecountry's prevention efforts: The total number of cases of AIDS reported in the past more thantwo decades has reached 183,733 nationwide, and 12,464 of ...
Olympic veteran hopes for unique Games
Dec 01, 2006 ... He Zhenliang, chairman of the International Olympic Committee(IOC) Culture and Olympic Education Commission, shared his over 50years' sports career with China Daily reporter Lei Lei. Following are edited excerpts: You didn't major in sports at university. How did you get ...
Dangerous school buses jeopardizing child safety
Dec 01, 2006; ... The Ministry of Public Security has reiterated its commitment toensuring children get to school safely, branding existing transportmeasures "chaotic and lawless." "Vehicles are often unlicensed and overloaded and do not respectspeed restrictions. Some even drop off students far ...
Champ cars to hit Zhuhai track next year
Dec 01, 2006; ... ZHUHAI: This coastal city in South China's Guangdong Province isset to host the fourth race of a major international motor sportcompetition next spring. The Champ Car World Series (CCWS), an American motor sport series,is gearing up to roll on the Zhuhai International Circuit on ...
Benitez accuses foe of time-wasting
Dec 01, 2006 ... LIVERPOOL, England: Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez accusedPortsmouth of time-wasting as the Spaniard saw his side's faint titlehopes disappear at Anfield on Wednesday. A goalless draw after a careless performance against stubbornopposition left Liverpool 16 points adrift of ...
Thousands protest Australian labour laws
Dec 01, 2006 ... More than 100,000 workers and union representatives filled citystreets across Australia yesterday protesting Prime Minister JohnHoward's contentious labour laws, and vowed to take their concerns tothe ballot box next year. The laws, passed by parliament earlier this year, replaced ...
We must bring AIDS out of the shadows
Dec 01, 2006; ... In the 25 years since the first case was reported, AIDS haschanged the world. It has killed 25 million people and infected 40million more. It has become the world's leading cause of death amongboth women and men aged 15 to 59. It has inflicted the singlegreatest reversal in the history ...
Abbas says gov't talks at dead end as he meets Rice
Dec 01, 2006 ... Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday said talks toachieve a national unity government aimed at ending an internationalaid boycott have reached a "dead end." US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, standing alongside Abbasat a joint press conference in the West Bank city of ...
Condom use to be promoted among gays
Dec 01, 2006; ... A five-year project will be launched next year to significantlyraise condom usage among gays to curb the rising number of HIV/AIDSinfections, a top official has said. "Prevention efforts among gays will be key to the country's AIDScontrol. They need collaboration between ...
Everyone can be a champion
Dec 01, 2006; ... It appears that the ability to adeptly flip a burger can help onebecome a champion at the 2008 Olympic Games. Of course, it's a different kind of champion in a different kindof competition. The Olympic Champion Crew programme at fast-foodgiant McDonald's, a worldwide partner of the ...
Tourists sites struggling with online promotion
Dec 01, 2006; ... Beijing's tourist spots are not using the Internet effectively topromote their appeal to foreign visitors, according to expertsspeaking at a forum yesterday in Beijing. Official statistics show Beijing has 121 scenic spots, 38 of whichare top-ranking sites. But only 34 of the 38 ...
Five-year plan targetsair pollution
Dec 01, 2006; ... Beijing is mapping out strategies to reduce the amount of airpollution in the capital city over the next five years in its 11thfive-year (2005-10) environmental protection plan. "Beijing still has a long way to go towards reaching theenvironmental standards of a life-friendly ...
Japan's defence upgrading approved Japan's defence upgrading approved
Dec 01, 2006 ... Japan's powerful lower house of parliament yesterday approved abill to upgrade Japan's Defence Agency to a full ministry so as tobolster the agency's status within the government. Currently, Japan's military is strictly constrained by thecountry's pacifist constitution which Prime ...
Doha to dazzle on debut
Dec 01, 2006; ... DOHA: The opening ceremony of Asia's sports extravaganza beginstonight at the Khalifa Stadium after a spectacular 50,000 km torchrelay covering 15 countries and regions. The huge ceremony will be highlighted the lighting of the torchand feature athletes, singers, dancers, trapeze ...
Second-line treatment in urgent demand
Dec 01, 2006; ... Meng Lin relies on friends to post him drugs from overseas everymonth medicine he needs to stay alive. Meng is HIV-positive. As a former entrepreneur from Beijing, hecan afford second-line anti-retroviral treatment, so he's luckybecause he estimates they cost 160,000 yuan ...
Fergie denies Giggs spat
Dec 01, 2006 ... MANCHESTER, England: Sir Alex Ferguson has rubbished suggestionsthat he had a bust up with veteran winger Ryan Giggs beforeManchester United's 3-0 victory over Everton. The Old Trafford manager's team selection raised a few eyebrows ashe made five changes to the starting line-up ...
Reports: CNPC to ink US$7m Russian deal
Dec 01, 2006; ... China's top oil and gas producer is reportedly trying to set upanother joint venture in Russia next year, further tapping the energy-rich country. According to yesterday's China Business News, China NationalPetroleum Corporation (CNPC) has hammered out a preliminary agreementwith ...
A chronology of Middle East peacemaking process A difficult recent history of Middle East peacemaking:
Dec 01, 2006 ... 1991 Israel holds peace talks with all frontline Arab neighbours,including the Palestinians, at Madrid conference. September 13, 1993 Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and IsraeliPrime Minister Yitzhak Rabin trade historic handshake, sealingoutline for limited Palestinian ...
Clinton announces affordable AIDS treatment for kids
Dec 01, 2006 ... Former US President Bill Clinton announced an agreement yesterdayto cut prices of HIV and AIDS treatments for children, making thelifesaving drugs far more accessible worldwide. Two Indian pharmaceutical companies have agreed to supplyantiretroviral, or ARV, formulations for ...
Gov't cracks down on bribery
Dec 01, 2006 ... China dealt with 10,992 commercial bribery cases involving 3.29billion yuan (US$411 million) between August 2005 and September 2006,said a senior official with the Communist Party of China's (CPC)Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. "A total of 2,537 cases, which account ...
Car licence plates for a worthy cause Zou Hanru
Dec 01, 2006 ... Car-crazy Hongkongers are known to pay astronomical amounts forpersonalized licence plates. The rich and famous of the region havebeen paying millions of Hong Kong dollars for years to get fancylittle plates of their own. A plate that read "I Love U" fetched the highest price, ...
New products find their way into museums
Dec 01, 2006; ... Museums in Beijing are collecting Olympic licensed products tomark the occasion and promote Chinese culture. For example, the latest set of Beijing 2008 official licensedproducts, Treasures of a Study, was collected by the National Museumof China last Tuesday. Treasures of a ...
Police arrest blackmail suspect
Dec 01, 2006; ... SHANGHAI: Police from Shanghai and Hebei last week worked togetherto arrest a man who had allegedly been passing himself off as aninvestigator from Beijing to blackmail high-ranking officials inShanghai. The arrest came just months after the Shanghai pension fundscandal ensnared ...
Nation will continue to adhere to family planning policy
Dec 01, 2006 ... China will continue to adhere to the family planning policy in thelong run, the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC)Central Committee said at a conference in Beijing yesterday. The conference, presided by General Secretary of the CPC CentralCommittee Hu Jintao, ...
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Dec 01, 2006 ... FOOTBALL Hiddink keeps options open for return as Aussie coach SYDNEY: Guus Hiddink would consider a return to lead Australia's2010 World Cup campaign, reports said on Thursday. The master Dutch coach, who steered Australia into the secondround of this year's World Cup ...
Paddlers in cruise control
Dec 01, 2006 ... DOHA: China's table tennis giants demolished a string of opponentsWednesday in a clinical start to their Asian Games campaign in themen's and women's team event. China's women, spearheaded by three time world champion Wang Nan,strolled into the second round with a 3-0 victory over ...
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Dec 01, 2006 ... BEIJING Hu honours military units Chairman of the Central Military Commission Hu Jintao has signed adecree awarding merits and honorary titles to three units and nineindividuals. A first-class merit was awarded to an air defencebrigade of the Beijing Military Command of the ...
China could fill in ARV gap
Dec 01, 2006 ... China and India are two of the world's leading nations to makeanti-retroviral (ARV) medications, but a recent revision of theIndian patent law has taken many generics off the market, theInternational Health and Development Network reported. Suerie Moon, who works in Beijing for the ...
Mourinho plots title takeover
Dec 01, 2006 ... LONDON: Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has warned Manchester Unitedthat his side are primed to step up the pressure on the Premiershipleaders. United remain three points ahead of second-placed Chelsea afterboth teams won on Wednesday. But Mourinho believes his side's 1-0 win at ...
Intel to streamline amid challenges
Dec 01, 2006; ... Intel is likely to make China an individual branch and have itdirectly report to global headquarters as early as January, as thecompany is trying to shorten the decision-making process and fend offaggressive attacks from rival AMD. Intel's move comes two years after AMD established ...
Humans must look to outer space if race is to survive: Hawking
Dec 01, 2006 ... Humans will have to colonize planets in far-flung solar systems ifthe race is to survive, renowned physicist Stephen Hawking said in aninterview yesterday as he was awarded a top honour. "The long-term survival of the human race is at risk as long as itis confined to a single ...
SITUATION WORSENing IN South AFRICA : report
Dec 01, 2006 ... CAPE TOWN: Fewer than half of South Africa's 15-year olds willlive to see their 60th birthday because of HIV/AIDS, according to anew report. An estimated 950 people died every day during 1996 from AIDSrelated diseases, and a further 1,400 were infected each day a totalof 530,000 ...
Care for migrants' rights
Dec 01, 2006 ... Twenty-nine major cities along the Yangtze River held theirbiennial meeting for economic development co-ordination earlier thisweek. The theme for this session was development of navigation channelsand tourism along the river. However, an agreement to build a unified system ...
More women becoming journalists
Dec 01, 2006; ... Women will hold up half the sky in the world of Chinese journalismin the near future, according to official statistics. In journalism schools female students have outnumbered malestudents in recent years, and there are more than 70,000 womenjournalists registered at the State Press ...
'Angel of Soweto' a fraud, according to documentary
Dec 01, 2006 ... To Oprah Winfrey, Nelson Mandela and others who gave millions tohelp South African children orphaned by apartheid-era violence ordriven to a life of crime on the streets, the woman who dedicated herlife to caring for them was the "Angel of Soweto." To the children she helped she ...
UK checks 4 planes for radiation
Dec 01, 2006 ... Britain is monitoring a Russian plane and three British aircraftin an ever widening probe into the death from radiation poisoning ofa former Russian spy that has heightened tensions with Moscow. Other planes may need to be tracked, Home Secretary John Reid toldparliament as he ...
Low prices are welcome
Dec 01, 2006 ... More work should be done to guarantee the fair distribution of low-price Olympic tickets, says a signed article in Beijing News. Anexcerpt follows: The long-awaited ticket prices for the 2008 Beijing Olympics werepublished on Wednesday on the official site of the Games and ...
Dujkovic steers China to victory
Dec 01, 2006; ... DOHA: New China Olympic football coach Ratomir Dujkovic was upbeatafter his team's winning debut performance in Doha Asian Games. Midfielder Zhou Haibin, from the national premier league championsShandong Luneng, scored the only goal early in the first half to giveChina a 1-0 win ...
From the mouth of babies
Dec 01, 2006 ... Children interview children to learn more about the impact AIDS ishaving on young people, as Chen Zhiyong reports Kalizi, a 45-year-old woman of Uygur ethnic group, was sheddingtears quietly in a corner of a theatre where children were putting onanti-AIDS shows in Yili Prefecture ...
Ma double award winner
Dec 01, 2006 ... ABU DHABI: China's Ma Xiaoxu clinched both the women's player ofthe year award and youth player of the year - the first time a femalehad won that trophy at a glittering awards ceremony in Abu Dhabi onWednesday. "I know I had a good chance of winning the women's award but neverin ...
GBC: Business sector should take action
Dec 01, 2006; ... In 2005, Vice-Premier Wu Yi called on the business community totake action. "To prevent and control HIV/AIDS is not only the obligation of theChinese Government," she said, "but also the common responsibility ofthe entire society, including the business sector."A number ...
Dance season leaps into gear
Dec 01, 2006; ... Dancers from Germany, France and Turkey will stage a "Night of theSultans" this month at Beijing Beizhan Theatre with a fusion of tapand belly dance, folk and electronic music, and modern lighting andmulti-media. The December 12 event marks the beginning of another dance seasonin ...
Bank uses credit cards for growth
Dec 01, 2006; ... SHANGHAI: China Merchants Bank (CMB), the country's sixth-largestlender, said it will focus on its credit card business to offset itslack of outlets and compete with State-owned counterparts. Although the bank has the lead in the country's lucrative creditcard business, it intends ...
Draft questions uneviled for new US citizenship test
Dec 01, 2006 ... The US Government is disclosing draft questions it plans to tryout on immigrants applying to become US citizens in hopes of makingthe citizenship test more meaningful. Citizenship and Immigration Services, a division of the HomelandSecurity Department, plans to post 144 questions ...
Youth live with anxiety
Dec 01, 2006 ... It is no good for the development of our country if anxiety hauntsthe young generation, says a signed article in China Youth Daily. Anexcerpt follows: A recent online survey by the social research centre of ChinaYouth Daily found that 55 per cent of young people thought ...
Framedia boosts presence in China
Dec 01, 2006; ... Shanghai Framedia Advertisement Development Co Ltd's business isexpanding rapidly throughout major cities in the Chinese mainlandafter merging with eight other media companies in 2005. Framedia is a leading advertising company in the in-liftadvertisement market in the Chinese ...
FHC boosts int'l food trade
Dec 01, 2006; ... SHANGHAI: China's largest imported food and drink expo held hereis on a scale far larger than ever before. The event aims to foster closer trade links between nationalimporters and overseas suppliers. The 10th Food Hospitality China (FHC) Exhibition, an internationalevent ...
Film draws attention to AIDS
Dec 01, 2006; ... As a filmmaker from the United States, I am deeply honoured that ACloser Walk, my documentary about the global AIDS epidemic, is beingbroadcast today - World AIDS Day - on CCTV. I am honoured that Vice Health Minister Wang Longde, and hiscolleagues at the Ministry of Health, felt ...
More free medical treatment to virus carriers
Dec 01, 2006; ... The accumulated number of HIV/AIDS patients who get anti-virusmedical treatment will reach 30,000 in China by the end of this year,a senior official said. Since early 2003, the central government has offered free anti-virus drugs to all HIV carriers diagnosed with AIDS. By ...
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Dec 01, 2006 ... Lebanon Opposition urges protests Pro-Syrian Hezbollah and its allies called for a peaceful protestand open-ended sit-in in downtown Beirut today to demand a newgovernment in a fresh challenge to US-backed Prime Minister FouadSiniora. The anti-Syrian majority says the ...
Nation will continue to adhere to family planning policy
Dec 01, 2006 ... A Maori lawyer from New Zealand, a Malaysian Buddhist monk, anArgentinean photojournalist, an Italian recording artist and a Kiwi-American Mormon golfer. The roster sounds like the casting call for a bad joke rather thana true adventure story. But instead of walking into a bar, in ...
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Dec 01, 2006 ... beijing Australian wine Twenty Australian vineyards presented 150 wines to Chineseconsumers at the Minzu Hotel last week in Beijing. The wines all comefrom family wineries spanning several generations from Victoria,Western Australia, New South Wales and South Australia. Some ...
He walked the wall, now talks the walk
Dec 01, 2006 ... A Maori lawyer from New Zealand, a Malaysian Buddhist monk, anArgentinean photojournalist, an Italian recording artist and a Kiwi-American Mormon golfer. The roster sounds like the casting call for a bad joke rather thana true adventure story. But instead of walking into a bar, in ...