China Daily back issues from May 2007:
After decade in office, Blair faces blackout
May 01, 2007 ... British Prime Minister Tony Blair plans to announce hisresignation soon after he passes the milestone of a decade in powerthis week but voters may sour his farewell by humiliating his partyat the polls. Today, Blair becomes only the second British prime minister in 100years - ...
From Russia with love
May 01, 2007; ... After performing Roland Petit's cutting-edge Carmen and Pink FloydBallet and John Cranko's dramatic Romeo and Juliet, the NationalBallet of China (NBC) returns to the classic repertoire Swan Lake.But don't expect the same "old" Swan Lake says NBC's president andartistic director Zhao ...
5 Britons sentenced to life for terror plot
May 01, 2007 ... A judge sentenced five men to life in prison yesterday forplotting to bomb several targets in London - including a popularnightclub, power plants and a shopping mall - in a trial that exposedlinks between the men and at least two of the suicide bombers whoattacked the capital two years ...
PLA beefs up military training system
May 01, 2007; ... The Chinese military officers of the future will be brightertacticians, better educated and adept at commanding the highest techweaponry under an innovative training plan to build a better armedforces in the information age. Recruiting high-caliber soldiers was also key to the ...
Tight air control rules impede private flights
May 01, 2007; ... Private airplanes are catching on in China, but niggling problemsare stunting the industry's growth. The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) issued the firstprivate airplane license in 1998. In 2001, 50 licenses were issued.The figure soared to 200 in 2005 ....
Science post to light the way
May 01, 2007; ... SHANGHAI: For Wan Gang, China's new minister of science andtechnology - and also the first non-Communist minister for manydecades - there are two things that he cherishes most. One is a kerosene lamp and the other a clean fuel automobilemodel. The lamp sits on the top of the ...
A wee dram
May 01, 2007; ... Just like people, whisky blends have individual characters. Someare smooth and polished but lack backbone; others have strength, butfall short on personality. But one with strength and charismapromises a lot! Not all at once of course, if all is revealed atfirst taste, there's nothing ...
Barca stay top as Sevilla and Real chase
May 01, 2007 ... MADRID: Barcelona maintained their slender one point lead of theSpanish first division, thanks to a Samuel Eto'o goal in their 1-0victory over Levante, as the top three teams in Spain all won. Second-placed Sevilla triumphed 3-1 over Espanyol while RealMadrid remain one point and ...
Pisa plans to build another 'Leaning Tower'
May 01, 2007 ... Does Pisa need a second "Leaning Tower"? More than 600 years after the city's most famous monument wasbuilt, construction starts in June of a modern glass and steelbuilding that will simulate a tilt with a trick of lighting. But theproject has stirred controversy, with opponents ...
Culture vultures have plenty to pick over
May 01, 2007 ... Are you a theater-goer who's spending the week long May 1stvacation in Beijing? Or, are you visiting Beijing during the holidayand want to catch a show while in town? You're in luck, because theannual Meet In Beijing Arts Festival is running in May. If you are interested in the ...
US informant played key role
May 01, 2007 ... A US citizen who had plotted to assassinate the Pakistanipresident played a central role in convicting five Britons foundguilty yesterday of plotting bomb attacks. The main prosecution witness in the year-long trial, dubbed the"British bomb plot" by US officials, was a 32-year-old ...
Canada 'keen on' partnership
May 01, 2007; ... Newly appointed Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi received his firstforeign counterpart Peter Mackay from Canada yesterday, vowing topush forward the bilateral strategic partnership. Yang, who took charge last week, said Mackay's first China visitcomes at a very important juncture of ...
Information leaks pierce privacy
May 01, 2007; ... SHANGHAI: The phone calls started soon after Chen Xin's wifereceived her first pregnancy examination. The callers offered a variety of services for the couple's as yetunborn child. The only trouble was that nobody knew Chen's wife waspregnant except his wife, Chen and the ...
A glimpse at the new minister
May 01, 2007 ... Wan Gang, a native of Shanghai, was born in 1952, graduated fromNortheast Forestry University in Helongjiang Province, and obtained amaster's degree in engineering from Tongji University. He received adoctorate of engineering from the Technical University of Clausthal,Germany in 1990. A ...
Grape expectations
May 01, 2007; ... LONDON: It's one of the wine world's most threadbare cliches,right up there with "gravity flow winery", "perfect with cheese andred meat" and "we picked before the rains". If I had 1,000 pounds for every time someone told me "our wine ismade in the vineyard" I'd be richer than ...
Coach drugged before being strangled: BBC
May 01, 2007 ... Pakistan's cricket coach Bob Woolmer was incapacitated by drugsbefore he was strangled, a British Broadcasting Corp investigativeprogram said yesterday. Preliminary toxicology tests, due to be given to Jamaican policenext week, indicated that Woolmer had been incapacitated by a ...
Best of the Midi fest
May 01, 2007 ... The Midi Music Festival brings non-stop rock to the capital, withacts performing day and night from May 1-4. A total of 90 bands will perform on five stages, including 67 fromChina and 23 from around the world. Haidian Park hosts acts duringthe day, while concerts will be held each ...
BBC to provide on-demand services
May 01, 2007 ... Britain's publicly funded broadcaster the BBC is to launch a rangeof web-based on-demand TV and audio services which couldrevolutionise the way people watch television. The BBC Trust, which oversees the corporation, said yesterday ithad approved the service after examining the ...
Canton Fair notches up record volume of deals
May 01, 2007; ... GUANGZHOU: The 101st session of the China Import and Export Fair,or Canton Fair, wrapped up here yesterday, registering trade dealsworth a record $36.39 billion. The figure was 6.8 percent larger than the combined value of thedeals signed during the 100th session, which took place ...
Airport adopts new security rule on liquid
May 01, 2007; ... Passengers taking international flights from the Beijing CapitalInternational Airport during the May Day holiday should arrive at theairport at least 2 hours before departure because of extendedsecurity checks. A new rule starts today, limiting passengers to carrying no morethan ...
Here's to your health
May 01, 2007 ... WASHINGTON: A fruity cocktail may not only be fun to drink but maycount as health food, US and Thai researchers said recently. Adding ethanol -the type of alcohol found in rum, vodka, tequilaand other spirits - boosted the antioxidant nutrients in strawberriesand blackberries, the ...
PSV trump Ajax, Alkmaar for third successive crown
May 01, 2007 ... THE HAGUE: PSV Eindhoven were crowned Dutch league champions onSunday on goal difference from Ajax after both teams finished on 75points from 34 games. PSV thumped Vitesse Arnhem 5-1 in their final match, while Ajaxcould only manage a 2-0 win over Willem II Tilburg, handing ...
Clothes maketh Heiyizhuang men ... and women
May 01, 2007 ... Heiyizhuang men wear upper garments that button to the right, incombination with baggy trousers. They wear a black cloth coiledseveral times around their heads, and a red silk belt on their waistsas a display of their bravery to keep away evil spirits. The women like to wear short ...
Score Board
May 01, 2007 ... Baseball NEW YORK: MLB results on Sunday (home team in CAPS). CLEVELAND 6 Baltimore 1 DETROIT 4 Minnesota 3 Boston 7 NY YANKEES 4 TORONTO 7 Texas 3 NY Mets 1 WASHINGTON 0 PHILADELPHIA 6 Florida 1 Cincinnati 9 PITTSBURGH ...
World Scene: India
May 01, 2007 ... Groom too drunk to wed Villagers at a wedding in eastern India decided the groom hadarrived too drunk to get married, and so the bride married thegroom's more sober brother instead, police said yesterday. "The groom was drunk and had reportedly misbehaved with guestswhen the ...
Life's a scream for Subs' rebrand
May 01, 2007; ... Frontwoman of Beijing group Subs, Kang Mao, likes cats. She evenhas a tattoo of a cat on her left arm and professes a fondness fortigers too. But when armed onstage with a microphone, the alarminglyenthusiastic firebrand doesn't meekly meow. She, ah, breathes fire. "I sometimes ...
War probe: Olmert made 'severe failures'
May 01, 2007 ... A government probe in last summer's war in Lebanon accused thecountry's wartime leaders of "very severe failures" in their handlingof the conflict, dealing a harsh blow that was sure to fuel new callsfor embattled Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to resign. Olmert, upon receiving the ...
Holiday tips
May 01, 2007 ... Hotlines Nationwide Police: 110 Directory assistance: 114 Weather forecast: 121 First aid: 120 Air China ticket booking: 4008100999 National tourism complaints: (010)65201028,65201029 Beijing Capital Airport airline ...
Tanker catches fire, melts down highway interchange
May 01, 2007 ... OAKLAND, California: A stretch of highway near the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge collapsed after a gasoline tanker crashed andburst into flames, a loss that officials said could leave freewaysleading to one of the nation's busiest spans in near paralysis atrush hour. Officials said ...
IN BRIEF (Page 12)
May 01, 2007 ... Cycling Landis: Lab destroyed key dope test data NEW YORK: Floyd Landis claimed Sunday that electronically storeddata from disputed dope tests conducted on his 2006 Tour de Francestage 17 samples had been destroyed at a French laboratory. Simon Davis, a technical ...
IN BRIEF (Page 2)
May 01, 2007 ... BEIJING Top trader China is expected to surpass Germany in foreign trade to becomethe world's second largest trader this year, a researcher from theMinistry of Commerce said. The country will become the world's No 1 trader after surpassingthe United States in 2010, Li ...
Trades enliven 2nd day of NFL draft
May 01, 2007 ... NEW YORK: The New England Patriots acquired veteran wide receiverRandy Moss from the Oakland Raiders on Sunday as trades enlivened thenormally subdued second day of the National Football League draft. Shortly after Oakland shipped the discontented Moss to New Englandin exchange ...
World Scene: Germany
May 01, 2007 ... Thief betrays himself A German phone thief led police right to his front door when theycalled the stolen mobile to say he had won some free beer and hewillingly gave his address. "An officer called and ...
Gov't to hire US PR firm to burnish its image
May 01, 2007 ... Thailand's interim government, increasingly unpopular at homeafter high hopes following a coup and under attack abroad foroverriding drug patents, plans to hire an American public relationsfirm. Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont, a former army chief, saidyesterday he had agreed to ...
Stocks on bull run despite ratio rise
May 01, 2007; ... China's stock market ended at record highs yesterday on the lasttrading day of April, despite a central bank announcement theprevious day that it would raise the reserve requirement ratio forbanks to help curb lending growth. The Shanghai Composite Index surged 2.16 percent to end ...
Across the world: Australia
May 01, 2007 ... Ex-PM rebukes gov'tAustralia's government and close ally the United States behaved ina tyrannical way and for "evil purpose" by jailing militants atGuantanamo Bay, former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser ...
World Scene: United States
May 01, 2007 ... What not to wear to work? Shopping for summer clothes to wear to work? Forget the tank topsand lose the flip-flops. A new survey showed tank tops and visible underwear are thebiggest fashion faux pas on the job, ...
4 dead, 2 wounded in Kansas City shootings
May 01, 2007 ... Three people were shot to death, including the assailant, and atleast two were wounded on Sunday in a shooting spree at a Kansas Cityshopping mall, police said. Police were investigating whether an earlier homicide at a house10 km away involved the shopping mall gunman, who was ...
Across the world: Israel
May 01, 2007 ... Vanunu convicted An Israeli court yesterday convicted former nuclear technicianMordechai Vanunu, who in 2004 completed a prison term for spillingmilitary secrets, of violating the terns of his release by speakingto foreign media. The verdict could mean fresh jail time for ...
Bulls sweep NBA champs Miami
May 01, 2007 ... MIAMI: The Chicago Bulls swept reigning National BasketballAssociation champions Miami out of the first round of the 2007playoffs on Sunday. Chicago defeated the Heat 92-79 to complete a four-game sweep inthe best-of-seven Eastern Conference first-round series. They becamethe ...
The beauty of black
May 01, 2007; ... I'd seen photographs and read articles about the Heiyizhuangethnic minority of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. But onething about this culture remained mysterious to me: They always dressin black. To find out why, I joined a group visiting Longhua Village, inNongwentun, ...
Nadal nails Canas to win third Barcelona title
May 01, 2007 ... BARCELONA, Spain: Spain's Rafael Nadal overpowered Guillermo Canas6-3, 6-4 on Sunday to win the Barcelona Open for a record-equallingthird time and extend his clay-court winning streak to 72 matches. The two-time Roland Garros champion kept the Real club trophysafely in home hands ...
Across the world: United Nations
May 01, 2007 ... Meeting on climate After two gloomy UN reports on global warming, scientists andgovernments began yesterday looking at how to fight climate change,with ...
Across the world: Iraq
May 01, 2007 ... April deadliest for US Four US soldiers were killed in Iraq over the weekend, themilitary said yesterday, raising the number of American troops killedthis month to over 100 and making April one of ...
Across the world: United States
May 01, 2007 ... Snow back on job White House press secretary Tony Snow was back on the jobyesterday, five weeks after doctors discovered a recurrence of hiscancer. He said he would soon undergo chemotherapy "just to make surewe've got ...
IN BRIEF (Page 1)
May 01, 2007 ... Hostage release confirmed Seven Chinese workers, kidnapped last Tuesday in an attack on aChinese oil company in Ethiopia, have been released, the ForeignMinistry confirmed yesterday in a press release. Survivors of the same attack as well as the bodies of nine victimswere ...
Ape gestures hint at language origin
May 02, 2007 ... A male chimpanzee may beg for food from another chimpanzee bygesturing with an extended arm and open hand. Under different circumstances, the same chimpanzee may use thesame gesture to try to coax a female chimpanzee to have sex. And thesame gesture may be used after two males ...
Sharing the silver screen
May 02, 2007; ... It was a typical March evening in a Shaanxi city and a crowd hadgathered outside for a very special treat. A large piece of whitecloth was hung over a power line and the locals were makingthemselves comfortable wherever they could find space. As more people gathered, an elderly man ...
Al-Qaida chief in Iraq dead, says ministry
May 02, 2007 ... The leader of Al-Qaida in Iraq was killed yesterday in a fightbetween insurgents north of Baghdad, the Interior Ministry spokesmansaid, but US military officials appeared to cast doubt on the report. Raising further question marks on the purported killing of AbuAyyub al-Masri, ...
Top honor for two Chinese scientists
May 02, 2007 ... Two top Chinese scientists have been officially granted the honorof becoming foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences(NAS) in the United States in recognition of their outstandingachievements in their fields. Yuan Longping, director-general of the China National ...
On right track to saving time and costs
May 02, 2007; ... Friends of "Farmer" consult him on train timetables if they wishto travel during the Golden Week holidays each year. Farmer, whose real name is Liu Xincheng, is a 29-year-old studentwho lives in Nanjing city, East China's Jiangsu Province, and a self-proclaimed train enthusiast ....
Railway finance to get a boost
May 02, 2007; ... The Ministry of Railways has decided to have multiple investors inall its new sections as part of its financial reforms, a top officialhas said. Speaking at a national conference recently, Minister of RailwaysLiu Zhijun invited local governments, State-owned and ...
Team China upset BMW Oracle in Louis Vuitton Cup
May 02, 2007 ... VALENCIA: China Team upset Louis Vuitton Cup leader BMW OracleRacing on Monday for its first win in America's Cup challengersseries racing. BMW Oracle Racing was in control at the start and pinned theChinese yacht out to the right behind its heel to build a ...
This place need not fish for compliments
May 02, 2007 ... Traditional Cantonese food well presented, with an emphasis onhealthy things - that is what you will find at Huamei Garden. The Cantonese restaurant is on the second floor of the Courtyardby Marriot Beijing. Set up in 1998, it has established itself as agood choice for Chinese and ...
Perfectionists face more social pressure
May 02, 2007 ... Perfectionists are more sensitive to psychosocial stresses thantheir more relaxed peers, and this greater responsiveness to stressmay have health consequences. In a study of 50 middle-aged men, those who measured highest ontests of perfectionism also secreted more of the stress ...
May Day march in Cuba proceeds without Castro
May 02, 2007 ... There was no sign of a convalescing Fidel Castro as hundreds ofthousands of Cubans marched through Revolution Plaza yesterday tocelebrate May Day, an event the island's "maximum leader" hadattended for decades without fail. In a speech just before the huge annual parade began, ...
Northeast forest blaze brought under control
May 02, 2007; ... A fire that damaged at least 1,500 hectares of forests in thecountry's northeastern mountains bordering Russia was brought undercontrol yesterday. The State Forestry Administration (SFA) said late yesterday that8,758 personnel and 11 helicopters were deployed to battle the ...
Theater built in Ming Dynasty to be demolished
May 02, 2007; ... Guanghe Theater, built during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and theoldest one in Beijing, is to be torn down during the May Day holidayweek. With a history of more than 360 years, Guanghe Theater is thoughtto be the cradle of Peking Opera. Many eminent Peking Opera actors ...
Anger over St. Lucia's links with Taiwan
May 02, 2007 ... The Chinese government yesterday expressed indignation on theresumption of "diplomatic relations" between St. Lucia and Taiwan. Opposing the move, Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao saidthat it was a flagrant violation of the declaration on theestablishment of diplomatic ties ...
Beijing's bites
May 02, 2007 ... It might seem to be a sad time for lovers of Beijing's traditionalsnacks, or xiaochi ; but it's not. While Qianmen's Menkuang Hutong - a center of snack stores - wasrecently demolished, and many other xiaochi eateries havedisappeared, diners should take solace in knowing that a ...
Left-handed women may have shorter span of life
May 02, 2007 ... A study suggests that women who are left-handed have a higher riskof dying, particularly from cancer and cerebrovascular disease -damage to an artery in the brain or an artery that supplies blood tothe brain. While it could be a chance finding and the evidence is far ...
Six foreign oil workers kidnapped
May 02, 2007 ... Armed militants killed a Nigerian and kidnapped six foreign oilworkers in an attack on an oil industry vessel off Nigeria's coastyesterday, security sources and the Italian government said. Italy's Foreign Ministry said four of the hostages were Italians.Security sources said one ...
Home price rise 'to slow down this year'
May 02, 2007; ... China's home price growth rate will probably slow down to lessthan 5 percent this year after its wild run since 2004, says the BlueBook of Real Estate 2007. "Stabilizing the home price is still the fundamental part of the2007 macro-controling measures, and containing the home price ...
Holiday tips
May 02, 2007 ... Hot lines Nationwide Police: 110 Directory assistance: 114 Weather forecast: 12121 First aid: 120 Air China ticket booking: 4008100999 National tourism complaints: (010)65201028,65201029 Beijing Capital Airport airline info: ...
Chavez: Venezuela will pull out of IMF, WB
May 02, 2007 ... CARACAS, Venezuela: President Hugo Chavez will formally pullVenezuela out of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the WorldBank (WB), a largely symbolic move because the country has alreadyrepaid its debts to the two institutions. Chavez said on Monday that he wanted to ...