China Daily back issues from March 2007:
Goosen bids to emulate Woods and Els in Thailand
Mar 01, 2007 ... BANGKOK: World No 8 Retief Goosen aims to emulate Tiger Woods andErnie Els this week by becoming a multiple winner of the JohnnieWalker Classic in Thailand. "I have good memories of the course," the 2002 champion told theEuropean Tour's official website ...
Biz people: Gross warns of 'excessive risks'
Mar 01, 2007 ... Bill Gross, manager of the world's biggest bond fund, said theplunge in global equity and debt markets serves as a warning aboutexcessive risk levels. "Investors basically got a slap in the face," Gross (above) saidin an interview from Pacific Investment Management Co's ...
Investors still keen on property
Mar 01, 2007; ... HONG KONG: More foreign funds are expected to flow to themainland's real estate sector this year, with investors unfazed bythe possibility of further measures to bring down prices, marketwatchers say. "With the continuing growth of the mainland economy, capital willkeep flowing ...
Biz scene: BIZ MOVE
Mar 01, 2007 ... New VP for CDC Software CDC Software, a wholly owned subsidiary of CDC Corporation(China), has announced the appointment of Edmund Lau as vice-president, Greater China. In this role, Lau is responsible for sales, ...
Name is not what matters
Mar 01, 2007 ... More efforts should be made to guarantee migrant workers' rightsand interests, says a column in Oriental Morning Post. An excerptfollows: Lu Lei, a deputy to the National People's Congress, suggestedrecently that the appellation nongmin gong (farmer-turned-worker) beeliminated, ...
Biz people: New boss calls for partnership
Mar 01, 2007 ... The new head of South Korea's LG.Philips LCD Co Ltd said yesterdayit would be a "good option" for the company if one of its clientstakes a stake in the flat screen maker to become a new partner. Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial Co, a key LG.Philipsclient, recently denied ...
Biz scene: BIZ UNUSUAL
Mar 01, 2007 ... Call to pack it in The discarded moon cake boxes in Guangzhou for just one day couldcover 2,500 football pitches. And of the 3 million tons of rubbish inBeijing every year, 600,000 tons are made up of unnecessarypackaging. Beijing Daily reported that the cost of packaging ...
Culture is not just for the urbanites
Mar 01, 2007; ... My seven-day Lunar New Year holiday was rather lackluster as Imostly stayed at home in Beijing. I didn't light a single firecrackernor visit a temple fair. I spent some money, on a film and severalbooks. The most exciting moment I had was when I got a new membershipcard at ...
China Scene: East
Mar 01, 2007 ... At 91, Zhejiang man does 1,002 push-ups An elderly man in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, is widely admired in hisneighborhood for his physical ability: he did 1,002 push-ups in onestretch. Jiang, a former painter who will be 91 this year, has not seen adoctor in 25 years. He said his ...
2 Picasso paintings stolen from Paris house
Mar 01, 2007 ... At least two Picasso paintings, worth a total of 50 million euros($66 million), have been stolen from the artist's granddaughter'shome in Paris, police said yesterday. The paintings, Maya and the Doll and Portrait of Jacqueline,disappeared overnight between Monday and Tuesday from ...
Across China: BEIJING
Mar 01, 2007 ... Film crackdown The State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) hasissued a circular in conjunction with three other ministries strictlybanning people from shooting films in nature reserves and sight-seeing spots. The circular said cultural products should help ...
Art school in hostess scandal
Mar 01, 2007; ... An art school in Kunming, the capital of Southwest China's YunnanProvince, sent eight underage dancing students to work as bar girls,local media reported, making it the second art school caught by themedia in the last three months to have made such arrangements. Last November, a ...
China asked to join bid to fight disease
Mar 01, 2007; ... French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy asked Chinayesterday to join a new global initiative to provide people in thedeveloping world easier access to drugs to treat AIDS, tuberculosisand malaria. Initiated by France and Brazil, the innovative funding mechanism the ...
Wind blasts train off tracks; 3 dead
Mar 01, 2007; ... Extremely strong winds derailed a passenger train in XinjiangUygur Autonomous Region in the early hours yesterday, leaving threedead, more than 30 people injured, two of them seriously. The Ministry of Railways reported the train 5807, running fromUrumqi to Aksu, was hit by gusts ...
New law to abolish laojiao system
Mar 01, 2007; ... China is taking a fresh look at abolishing the long-disputed re-education-through-labor system, or laojiao, by proposing a new lawwhich is more lenient and protective of the legal rights of minoroffenders. According to the annual legislative plan released on Tuesday bythe ...
Across asia: Iran
Mar 01, 2007 ... Ahmadinejad arrives in Sudan Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Khartoumyesterday on a two-day visit reflecting good relations between thetwo Islamist governments which face hostility from Washington. Ahmadinejad will start his visit with talks with ...
An inconvenient truth: Gore's big energy bills
Mar 01, 2007 ... Al Gore knows a thing or two about the uncertainties of publiclife. Six years ago he was virtually written off as a has-been vice-president after he won the popular vote only to lose the 2000 racefor the White House. On Sunday night his rehabilitation was completedas he was ...
Barcelona coming to Beijing to face Guo'an
Mar 01, 2007 ... European champion Barcelona is coming to the Chinese capital toface the club team Beijing Guo'an. The match, set for either Aug. 3 or Aug. 5 in Beijing, wasannounced yesterday by Sun Kanglin, the director general of theBeijing Municipal Sports Bureau. It will be Barcelona's ...
Coach orders athletes to 'edge of hell'
Mar 01, 2007 ... TOKYO: Japan's judo coach has told his athletes to train to the"edge of hell" or risk humiliation at next year's Beijing Olympics. A trio of Japanese Olympic gold medalists suffered embarrassingdefeats at last week's Super World Cup in Hamburg, provoking abacklash from coach ...
Reviews: Book
Mar 01, 2007 ... TV anchor's path One-time Wall Street merger & acquisition specialist and now newsanchor, Zeng Zimo has a simple life philosophy. "Whatever you do, do it passionately. But if the passion dies out,you should make a fresh move," Zeng said. The anchorwoman of top-rating ...
Top Shot
Mar 01, 2007 ... Tiger and PGA team up for new tour stop WASHINGTON: Tiger Woods and the US PGA Tour have reached a long-term deal to stage a new tour event in Washington starting this July,the PGA Tour announced on Tuesday. The previous PGA events in the US capital failed in large ...
Not so happy New Year for snakes on a plain
Mar 01, 2007; ... Call me a killjoy, but when New Year rolls around, I account ithigh time to get golfing. It's not that I don't like havingfirecrackers thrown at me or being made to hand out cash-stuffedenvelopes. There is a perverse thrill/sense-of-grating-fulfilmentassociated with each. My ...
'Wizard of Woz' reveals how he caught tech bug
Mar 01, 2007 ... Apple Inc co-founder Steven Wozniak was barely 10 years old whenhe discovered the love of his life. In a hall closet at his home in California's Santa Clara Valley,he didn't find a secret entrance into a fantasy world or a box fullof candies, but a journal for engineers that ...
HK shares drop 2.5 percent
Mar 01, 2007; ... HONG KONG: Hong Kong shares dropped nearly 500 points yesterday,the biggest single-day loss since late November, as a global downturntriggered wide sell-off in the market. The benchmark Hang Seng Index lost 2.5 percent to 19,651.51, thefourth losing day in a row. The daily turnover ...
Huiyuan juices up market after IPO
Mar 01, 2007; ... Shares in China Huiyuan Juice, whose initial public offering (IPO)raised $308 million in Hong Kong, surged 66 percent in their marketdebut on February 23. Massive orders pushed Huiyuan shares 50 percent higher in pre-opening trade, with investors willing to pay 53-times forecast ...
GM rice gets thumbs-down sign again
Mar 01, 2007 ... A Chinese national committee for safety of genetically modified(GM) food shelved the commercial production of GM rice in November2006, the fourth time since 2004. "The application was rejected because some safety-related datawere missing," Lu Baorong, member of the State Committee ...
Telecom monopoly still exists
Mar 01, 2007; ... China Telecom and China Netcom, the two fixed-line telephoneoperators in the country, have reportedly signed a deal under whichthey will stop treading on each other's turf, beginning this month. Some media have called it a "gentlemen's agreement" as it couldlead to so-called ...
End legal black hole
Mar 01, 2007 ... The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) hasscheduled the first reading of the proposed law on correction ofillegal acts for its 30th meeting in October. The proposed law first appeared on the 10th NPC StandingCommittee's agenda in 2005. Back then, the ...
Letters and Blogs
Mar 01, 2007 ... Yangtze drought The Yangtze dry again! It is only February and the river is dryagain. It will be worse in another few months of dry season. Is there enough water for the Three Gorges and water diversion toBeijing? Looks like the Yangtze (China's water dragon) is sick! ...
Who's in
Mar 01, 2007 ... Back-breaking directorial debut for pop star Taiwan pop king Jay Chou is feeling the strain of his directorialdebut. Chou, who also plays the lead role in the film Secrets That Can'tBe Spoken that delves into his love affairs while in high school came down with a cold and ...
China Scene: West
Mar 01, 2007 ... Five arrested in trying to sell protected birds Five suspects who tried to illegally sell 122 rare birds underState protection were arrested on Tuesday in Lingwu, the Ningxia HuiAutonomous Region in Northwest China.The birds including owls, eagles and sparrow hawks were ...
Japan cuts short whale hunting
Mar 01, 2007 ... Japan has abandoned whale hunting in the Antarctic for this seasonafter its main whaling ship was crippled by a fire two weeks ago, theFisheries Agency said yesterday. The Nisshin Maru, the 8,000-ton flagship of what Japan calls itsresearch whaling fleet, restarted its engines at ...
New bid to stop the spread of HIV
Mar 01, 2007; ... SHANGHAI: A new scheme has been launched to help stem the growingnumber of HIV infections in East China's Zhejiang Province. As part of their ongoing job training, officials from allgovernment departments will be lectured on how to prevent and treatHIV and AIDS within the ...
Busier people buy time online
Mar 01, 2007; ... SHANGHAI: It seems you can pay someone to do almost anything foryou these days well, within reason. A booming new industry of so-called "errands assistants" seems tobe emerging to service the time poor. The assistants will buy flowers, a bus ticket, pay a fine, do ...
Ministry wants better food, and more of it
Mar 01, 2007; ... China's livestock sector will be further scrutinized this yearunder a raft of plans aimed at producing better, healthier food. The Ministry of Agriculture said yesterday it wanted more"scientific and standardized stock breeding" to combat disease andpoor food quality. "It's ...
Grain output rises
Mar 01, 2007 ... China's grain output rose 2.8 percent from the previous year to497.46 million tons in 2006, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)said yesterday. It is the first time the country's annual grain output hasincreased three years in a row since 1985. Grain output rose 9 percent ...
Across asia: India
Mar 01, 2007 ... Survivors remember riots Muslim survivors yesterday marked the fifth anniversary of one ofIndia's worst communal riots by visiting homes that remain charredand empty after they were attacked by Hindu mobs. Many families are still searching for remains of their loved ones and ...
Charles says banning McDonalds key to health
Mar 01, 2007 ... Britain's Prince Charles, on a visit to the United Arab Emirates,has suggested banning McDonald's fast food was crucial for improvingpeople's diets. Charles made the comments on Tuesday while visiting the ImperialCollege London Diabetes Center in Abu Dhabi for the launch of ...
IN BRIEF (Page 16)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Regulation dismissed US hedge funds have enjoyed "tremendous" growth and gained morefinancial muscle, but the trillion-dollar industry of private capitalpools doesn't need fresh regulation, a senior Treasury official saidon Tuesday. Treasury Undersecretary for Domestic ...
IN BRIEF (Page 14)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BEIJING Strong steel exports Chinese steel exports are set to remain strong in the near future,with the government unlikely to change taxes to discourage foreignsales of energy-intensive products any time soon. According to January customs data released on Monday, ...
IN BRIEF (Page 24)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BASEBALL Rare Wagner card sells for $2.35 million LOS ANGELES: A rare 1909 baseball card dubbed "the Mona Lisa oftrading cards" was purchased for a record $2.35 million by an unknownCalifornia collector, an auction company announced on Tuesday. The fabled T206 Honus ...
IN BRIEF (Page 22)
Mar 01, 2007 ... 'Female Wayne Rooney' in Laureus award contention Chinese teenage women's soccer sensation Ma Xiaoxu has become theonly nominee from China and Asia for the Laureus World Newcomer ofthe Year award. Chinese Olympic gold medalist Liu Xiang, who won the 2005 LaureusWorld Newcomer ...
IN BRIEF (Page 2)
Mar 01, 2007 ... BEIJING Dereliction of duties China has investigated more than 6,660 government officials fordereliction of duties in the past 19 months, said deputy procurator-general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate Wang Zhenchuanyesterday. Wang told a work conference that ...
FA comes down hard on League Cup brawlers
Mar 01, 2007 ... LONDON: Arsenal's Emmanuel Adebayor and Chelsea's Mikel John Obiwere banned for three and four matches respectively on Tuesday as theFootball Association (FA) came down hard on the players at the centerof the brawl that marred Sunday's League Cup final. Both players had appeals ...
Grassroots golf league prepares to swing into action
Mar 01, 2007 ... China has teed up an improvement in grassroots golf by launchingits first national league - the 2007 Buick China Golf Club League(CGCL). From April 20 to July 10, provincial level competitions will takeplace, with winners advancing into five zones - North, Mid-west,East, ...
Sharks get Guerin, Oilers lose Smyth to Islanders
Mar 01, 2007 ... TORONTO: The San Jose Sharks made the biggest splash on tradedeadline day with the capture of forward Bill Guerin, while Edmontonlost 'Captain Canada' Ryan Smyth in a shock move to the New YorkIslanders. Among a flurry of deals in the 24 hours ahead of the 1500 ESTdeadline, the ...
Reviews: DVD
Mar 01, 2007 ... Babel Directed by Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, starring Brad Pitt, CateBlanchett This Oscar-winner touches a nerve in the global village that istaking shape as we speak. The multidimensional tale illustrates theimportance of communication and interdependency when people ...
Dispute proves costly for Canon
Mar 01, 2007 ... When Canon Inc was sued by a small, money-losing US technologyfirm two years ago, the dispute was over a patent license that costthe Japanese electronics giant a one-time payment of $5.6 million. But now that the lawsuit has caused Canon to lose the licence, afresh agreement with ...
Standard Chartered triples 2006 profit
Mar 01, 2007; ... SHANGHAI: Standard Chartered Plc, a British bank that earns mostof its money in emerging markets, doubled income and tripled profitin China last year on the back of the country's fast-growing economyand loosening controls on foreign financial players. According to a statement ...
Cola war set to fizz in rural and urban markets
Mar 01, 2007; ... While watching CCTV with friends recently, we chanced upon a newCoca-Cola commercial. My friend said: "Coca-Cola is localizing look,it's even started observing Spring Festival." The ad features apanda, similar to a commercial for domestic brand Future Cola. FutureCola's ad uses a ...
Good and bad of changing the nature of a staple
Mar 01, 2007 ... Rice is the most important cereal after wheat. It is the staplediet of more than 2 of the 6 billion people of the world. But itdoesn't have Vitamin A (the lack of which causes blindness) and somespecific minerals needed in staples for a healthy diet. Geneticengineering claims to provide ...
Festival fatigue
Mar 01, 2007 ... Those in the advice business have racked their brains to offersuggestions on how to get rid of the symptoms caused by the longbreak for Spring Festival. A week off for the festival was supposed to make it possible forthe workforce to rest themselves in homey comfort. As it turned ...
Hindsight still not 20/20 refiguring cost of Iraq War
Mar 01, 2007; ... Anyone who practices deadline journalism is bound to find much toregret things you wish you'd said (or hadn't said) and words,arguments and attitudes that, with hindsight, seem poorly chosen.Which brings me to my September 2002 column headlined A War We CanAfford. Yes, that ...
China Scene: North
Mar 01, 2007 ... Peacock's disappearance linked to 4 young people Police in Handan, Hebei, have been looking for a missing peacock,a rare species under State's protection, after four young peopleapparently stole it on Saturday. A pair of wild peacocks, which symbolize dignity and beauty ...
Russia warns US against striking Iran
Mar 01, 2007 ... Russia's foreign minister strongly warned Washington not to useforce against Iran and criticized what he described as a unilateralUS approach to other global crises, according to an interviewpublished yesterday. Sergey Lavrov said Russia was worried by recent comments by ...
City to take name of its valuable tea
Mar 01, 2007; ... No specialties in China have ever been so flattered as to serve asa city's name. That is until now, with a type of tea. With approval from the State Council, Pu'er is to replace Simao asthe name of the tea-growing city in Southwest China's YunnanProvince. According to the city's ...
Expat Corner: Biking to Beijing fulfills dream for Slovenian woman
Mar 01, 2007; ... After eight months, 12,000 yuan ($1,548) and one unqualifiablelife adventure, Marija Koniz arrived in Beijing. What took her solong? She made the trek from her native Slovenia entirely on herMoMo bike. "I always dreamed of getting from home to Beijing by bike, likeMarco Polo," ...
Gov't urged to meet funding promise
Mar 01, 2007; ... A national legislator has urged the central government to fulfilits commitment to education spending after earlier falling short onbudget promises. Legislator Zhou Hongyu told China Daily yesterday he would putforward a motion at the pending session of the National ...
Real name system to curb rampant bike theft
Mar 01, 2007; ... Nicknamed the Kingdom of Bicycles, China is famous for not onlythe number of riders, but also for its widespread bicycle theft. About 4 million bicycles are reported missing every year,according to the Ministry of Public Security. It is believed the lax administration of ...
Across asia: Nepal
Mar 01, 2007 ... Strike brings country to a halt A strike called by an umbrella group of indigenous groupsdemanding more political rights shut schools and shops across Nepalyesterday. It was the latest ethnic protest to hit the Himalayan country asit emerges from a peace deal ending a ...
News Makers: Liz Taylor celebrates 75th in Las Vegas
Mar 01, 2007 ... Film legend Elizabeth Taylor celebrated her 75th birthday onTuesday night at a Las Vegas party flanked by her four children andfamous friends spanning the generations from model Kathy Ireland toformer rival Debbie Reynolds. The two-time Academy Award winner and dame of the British ...
US Olympic star finds Korean dad after 25 years
Mar 01, 2007 ... US Olympic medallist Toby Dawson hugged his weeping Korean fatheryesterday when the two met for the first since he went missing 25years ago as a toddler in a busy street market in South Korea. Dawson, 28, became an overnight sensation in South Korea, the landof his birth, when he ...
World Scene: Germany
Mar 01, 2007 ... Dinner for 60 stolen A jobless man has been handed a five-month suspended jail term forstealing a buffet for 60 people and eating it with friends. Using a false name, the 46-year-old from the western city ofDortmund ordered the $4,890 feast to be ...
Harbor seal pups recover, return to Bohai Bay shore
Mar 01, 2007; ... PANJIN, Liaoning: Two baby seals were found and are beingrehabilitated at Bohai Bay in Northeast China's Liaoning Province. Early on Sunday morning, Liu Zhengang, a worker at the LiaoheOilfield, found a strange animal squirming at the mouth of theDalinghe River. He ...
Around the world: Iran
Mar 01, 2007 ... Iraq talks being considered Iran, accused by Washington of backing militants in Iraq, isreviewing Baghdad's invitation to attend a regional conference onways of easing tensions in its neighbor, a senior official saidyesterday. The United States has said it will attend both a ...