Xinhua News Agency back issues from Friday, November 3:
Beijing Newspaper Highlights
Nov 03, 1995 ... Highlights of today's major Beijing-based newspapers: "People's Daily" -- The leading national newspaper carries a report on how threegrass-roots Chinese Communist Party secretaries in Shaoxing County,Zhejiang Province, abandoned their comfortable urban lives andreturned to ...
Beijing to Train More Marxist Theoreticians
Nov 03, 1995 ... The Beijing Municipal Government will annually allocate 500,000yuan (about 59,500 US dollars) from this year to the year 2000, forthe training of about 100 young Marxist theoreticians. The project, launched by the municipal propaganda department, aimsat making the group serve as ...
International Calligraphy, Painting Week Launched in China
Nov 03, 1995 ... This week has been named International Calligraphy and PaintingWeek, according to the Chinese Ministry of Culture. Works by artists from 30 countries and regions, including Japan,the United States, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, Canada andChina, as well as Hong ...
Major News in Indian Newspapers
Nov 03, 1995 ... Following are major news in Indian English newspapers today: The Hindustan Times -- The Karnataka State Farmers' Association has decided to includemore firms on its hit-list in addition to the already existing threatto attack the fast-food outlet, Kentucky fried ...
Man Killed by Overdose of Heroin in Myanmar
Nov 03, 1995 ... A national of Sierra Leone, David Foday, was found killed by 0.6kilograms of heroin in his intestines in a hotel room in downtownYangon recently, an official report confirmed today. The police found 63 packets of heroin burst open inside Foday, whohad ...
Market Exchange Rates
Nov 03, 1995 ... The People's Bank of China issued the market exchange rates in RMByuan against three major currencies today. The middle price of RMBagainst convertible currencies is mainly based on the closing priceof the preceding interbank trading. The designated foreign exchange trading banks ...
President Jiang Zemin Holds Talks with His Togolese Counterpart
Nov 03, 1995 ... Chinese President Jiang Zemin began his talks with visitingTogolese President Gnassingbe Eyadema here today. During the meeting which is now going on, the two leaders areexpected to exchange views on ways of further strengthening bilateralfriendly, cooperative relations and other ...
Road Building Helps Farmers Out of Poverty
Nov 03, 1995 ... Road construction has helped more than 2.1 million farmers in theYimeng Mountains in east China's Shandong province improve theirliving standards and no longer rely on state aid for the poor. The Yimeng Mountains, with their administrative headquarters inLinyi City, used to be a ...
Shanghai's Pillar Industries Robust
Nov 03, 1995 ... The six rising pillar industries in this, China's largest economiccenter have become a fresh force in the promotion of the localindustrial economy. These industries are automobiles, telecommunications equipment,power station installation, petrochemicals, iron and steel ...
Transport Network Being Formed in Hainan
Nov 03, 1995 ... Hainan, China's second largest island, located at the southern tipof the country, is setting up a land, water and air transport networkto further promote the local economy. The island province has at present two airports in operation and athird one under construction. The ...
Art Works to be Auctioned Off in Sichuan
Nov 03, 1995 ... Some 356 pieces of art works and antiques will be auctioned off onNovember 18 in this capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province. They include 222 pieces of paintings and calligraphic works byfamous ancient and modern Chinese artists and 134 pieces of antiqueswith a total base ...
China's Largest Ethnic Museum to Open in Kunming
Nov 03, 1995 ... China's largest ethnic museum, the Yunnan Ethnic Museum insouthwest China's Yunnan Province, is to open in the capital city ofKunming on November 9. The 13.3-ha museum is located at the bank of Dianching Lake on thesuburbs of Kunming, consisting of a 6,000-sq m exhibition hall, ...
China to Make Wax Figurines of Great Persons
Nov 03, 1995 ... China will soon complete a group of wax figurines of great personsincluding the retired leader Deng Xiaoping, a Shanghai-basednewspaper reported today. "Wen Hui Bao" said that a waxwork museum of great persons isexpected to be set up in Beijing, which will exhibit wax figurines ...
Chinese Vice-Premier Qian Qichen meets US Guests
Nov 03, 1995 ... Chinese Vice-Premier and Foreign Minister Qian Qichen said heretoday that the core of Sino-US relations is still the Taiwan issue. As long as the issue is properly settled, the bilateral ties canenjoy stable and healthy development, he added. Qian made these remarks during his ...
Family Rest Home Supports the Aged
Nov 03, 1995 ... Wang Bin, 80, is the only one left in his family. When herealized that he needed care from others, he went to a family resthome nearby. This home for the aged, run by Wang Hui, an employee of theYangtze Navigation Bureau in this capital of central China's HubeiProvince, looks ...
Forecast of China's Steel Market
Nov 03, 1995 ... China is expected to consume more than 100 million tons of steelproducts this year, somewhat increase over last year, EconomicInformation Daily reported today. Its demand for steel products next year will increase slowly, andthe supply and demand will maintain balance as a result ...
Forward US Dollar Premiums Soar in India
Nov 03, 1995 ... Forward US dollar premiums soared yet again to record peaks inIndia, on paying pressure and hectic import covering, in volatiletrading in the futures section of the interbank foreign exchangemarket Thursday. Call money rates touched a new peak of 85 percent in theshort-term money ...
Greater Efforts Urged to Collect Delayed Taxes
Nov 03, 1995 ... Tax authorities nationwide should make greater efforts to collectdelayed tax payments in order to ensure that this year's national taxtarget is met, Xiang Huaicheng, deputy director of the StateAdministration of Taxation, urged here today. "Special attention must be given to the ...
India Plans to Give More Power to Ports
Nov 03, 1995 ... The Indian government plans to amend two ports acts to enhanceport development in the country, a government official said heretoday. Surface Transport Ministry is of the opinion that in the changedeconomic environment, chairmen of the various ports need greaterfunctional ...
India to Rely More on Paging Service
Nov 03, 1995 ... Paging service in India is expected to grow rapidly and penetratefour percent of the population in the next five years. According to available estimates, with the introduction of pagingin India, and with the growing awareness, paging is likely to becomethe most widely used mode of ...
Indian Farmers to Attack American Fast-food Outlet
Nov 03, 1995 ... India's Karnataka State Farmers' Association is reported to havedecided to include more firms on its hit-list in addition to thealready existing threat to attack the fast-food outlet, KentuckyFried Chicken. It appears that the opponents to multinationals have drawn up astrategic ...
Leading Swiss Underwriter Enters Shanghai
Nov 03, 1995 ... Winterthur Swiss Insurance, one of the top 10 insurance groups inthe world, Thursday opened an office in Shanghai, China's largestcity. Founded in 1875, Winterthur Swiss is the No.1 insurance company inSwitzerland ....
Major News in Pakistani Press
Nov 03, 1995 ... Following are major news items in leading Pakistani newspaperstoday: The News, The Muslim, The Nation, The Pakistan Times, The FrontierPost -- Fifteen people were killed in Pakistan's biggest city ofKarachi on Thursday. The News -- Prime Minister Benazir ...
Mysterious Spring Found in Guizhou
Nov 03, 1995 ... A mysterious spring whose flow is determined by the sunshine hasbeen discovered by tourist experts in southwest China's GuizhouProvince. The spring is located in Rongni Village, some 30 km from XingyiCounty, capital of the Ethnic Buyi-Miao Minority ...
Nepali Ruling Party Calls for Cabinet Re-expansion
Nov 03, 1995 ... Nepal's major ruling party -- the Nepali Congress (NP) -- will askPrime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba to expand his coalition cabinetagain as soon as possible, reports said here today. The decision was made Thursday at a meeting of the NPParliamentary Committee chaired by NP ...
New Tourism Zone Takes Shape in Hainan
Nov 03, 1995 ... Hainan Island, south China, is accelerating the building of a newscenic area in Qionghai City as part of its efforts to greet the"1996 China Tour Year", which will focus on the scenic tropicalisland province. The Wanquan (ten thousand springs) River Scenic Area of QiongzhouCity ...
Roundup: Sri Lanka to Seize Rebel Stronghold (by Hu Guangyao)
Nov 03, 1995 ... Sri Lankan armed forces are now poised to seize Jaffna town in thenorth, stronghold of the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam,military sources said today. According to the latest reports, government troops were only fivekilometers from the town after advancing from Palaly ...
Shanghai to Become Major Information Center
Nov 03, 1995 ... By the year 2010, China's largest metropolis will become a majorinformation center, according to Cheng Xiyuan, director of theShanghai Posts and Telecommunications Administration. According to preliminary estimates, by the year 2000 the productvalue of the local posts and ...
South Asia to Strengthen Cooperation with Japan
Nov 03, 1995 ... The South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and aJapanese government delegation discussed measures to furtherstrengthen their cooperation at the SAARC Secretariat here Thursday. The meeting was held between SAARC Secretary-General Y. K. Silwaland head of the ...
Thai-Run Hotel to Open in Myanmar
Nov 03, 1995 ... The Construction of the 5-star Andaman Club Myanma RecreationHotel on Thuhtay Island of Kawthoung Township, the southern end cityof Myanmar, has been completed and the hotel is scheduled to open onNovember 25, an official report disclosed today. The 5-storey modern hotel comprises ...
War-Left Bombs Kill 80 in Vietnam
Nov 03, 1995 ... War-left bombs and land mines have killed nearly 80 people inVietnam's central province of Quang Tri this year, an official reportsaid today. Most of them were killed when they were trying to remove theexplosives from the bombs because they wanted to make money byselling them as ...
Welfare Foundation Calls for Assistance to Poor Mothers
Nov 03, 1995 ... The China Population Welfare Foundation issued an open letterWednesday, calling for more loving care for poor mothers. The letter suggested that more social organizations, schools andenterprises join the movement "Happiness Project" to help poormothers, "China Youth News" ...
Wool Prices Pick up In Australia
Nov 03, 1995 ... Wool prices continued to pick up in the Australian wool marketthis week on the backing of a strong rally last week. The Australian Council of Wool Exporters (ACWE) said today thatthe eastern market indicator ended at 628 Australian cents (474 UScents) per kilogram clean, up from ...
Xinhua weekly international news schedule
Nov 03, 1995 ... The following is a list of major world events scheduled forNovember 5 to 11. Nov. 5 -- First round of presidential elections in Poland. -- Legislative and presidential elections in Georgia. -- British Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind begins one-week ...
Zhangzhou Turns out Million Diesel Engines
Nov 03, 1995 ... By the end of October this year the output of the Zhangzhou DieselEngine Co. Ltd., located in east China's Jiangsu Province, hadsurpassed one million, reaching the target for the year 2000 fiveyears ahead of schedule. This was revealed by the Ministry of the Machinery ...
1995 Chinese Pharmacopoeia Published
Nov 03, 1995 ... The 1995 edition of the ``Chinese Pharmacopoeia'' has beenpublished here. Minister of Public Health Chen Minzhang called the publishing ofthe pharmacopoeia an important event in the enforcement of the lawsand regulations concerning the production and marketing of drugs. The ...
China Making Major Progress in Planetary Physics Research
Nov 03, 1995 ... Chinese scientists have made some major breakthroughs in studiesof planetary physics, sources at a recent Sino-German seminar said. Planetary physics studies the physical condition of celestialbodies inside the Solar System (not including the sun). By using long-wave radio ...
China Optimizes Import, Export Structure
Nov 03, 1995 ... Facts and Figures for the Eighth Five-Year Plan period (1991-95): China has made continuous efforts to optimize its structure ofimport and export commodities during the period. Statistics show that the export volume of manufactured goods tookup 83.7 percent of the country's ...
China's Sees Better Market Circulation
Nov 03, 1995 ... China's retail sales volume of social commodities increased by11.2 percent in the first nine months of this year, a growth of fivepercentage points over the same period last year, according to areport by the State Planning Commission. The report says the total retail sales volume ...
Chinese Premier meets Russian Guests
Nov 03, 1995 ... Chinese Premier Li Peng met here this afternoon with YuriShafranik, Russian minister of Fuels and Power. During the ...
Chongqing Hosts Military-Turned-Civil Industry Seminar
Nov 03, 1995 ... An international seminar on military-turned-civil industry, with"New Business Opportunities in China" as its theme, was held recentlyin this leading industrial city of southwest China's SichuanProvince. The seminar was jointly sponsored by the UN Development andProgram, the UN ...
Feature: Prison in Jilin Giving Female Convicts New Lives
Nov 03, 1995 ... The spacious and clean road lined with beautiful flowers and greentrees in this compound seems more like the inside of a garden than ofa prison -- but the electric wire mesh, the high walls, and the guardtowers tell the true story. Located on the outskirts of northeastern China's ...
Foreign Exchange Rates in New Zealand
Nov 03, 1995 ... The New Zealand Dollar found buying support in early trade afterovernight selling took the currency lower. The kiwi was at 65.44/51US cents at the local open from 65.55/62 US cents at the closeyesterday, and it slipped further to 65.28/35 US cents before localbuying took it back up to ...
Hainan Cracks Down On Wildlife Poaching
Nov 03, 1995 ... Nineteen hotels and restaurants have had their business licensesrevoked for selling meat of wildlife illegally obtained, during arecent province-wide surprise check in Hainan, an island province insouth China. The check, which lasted for three months and ended early thismonth, ...
Jiangsu Promotes International Educational Exchanges
Nov 03, 1995 ... Education in east China's Jiangsu Province has been marked by moreinternational exchanges in the past ten years. To date, more than 15,000 foreign students from 25 countries havecome to study in the province, and some 8,200 local students havebeen sent abroad to pursue further ...
Major Labs Contributing to Scientific Progress
Nov 03, 1995 ... Over the past few years, east China's Zhejiang Province hasinvested a total of over 40 million yuan in 24 major laboratories andexperimental bases. The advanced laboratories and bases have contributed greatly totraining specialists, conducting major research, and applyingresearch ...
Major News Items In Johannesburg Press
Nov 03, 1995 ... Following are major news items in leading South African newspaperstoday: The Citizen -- The African National Congress (ANC) won victory in almost allof the provinces in Wednesday's first all-race local governmentelections, even in the National Party (NP)-led Western Cape it ...
Major News Items In Leading Kenyan Newspapers
Nov 03, 1995 ... Following are major news items in leading Kenyan newspapers today: East African Standard -- Medical experts researching new strains of the virus thatcauses AIDS which have never been seen before in America and Uruguay,have put the blame on Africa and Asia. Daily ...
New Zealand Places More Import Orders in September
Nov 03, 1995 ... New Zealand's import orders in September were up by 12.3 percentfrom the August level, said Statistics New Zealand in a press releasereceived today. But the total value of the orders -- 1.45 billion New Zealanddollars (957 million US Dollars) -- was one percent lower than thatof ...
News Items from Asia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua (Part 1)
Nov 03, 1995 ... Following are news items from the Asia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua inHong Kong today: hke110301 -- Major News In Australian Presshke110302 -- Man Killed by Overdose of Heroin in Myanmar hke110303 --Major News in Indian Newspapers hke110304 -- Major News in PakistaniPress hke110305 -- Wool ...
Release Of Agricultural Loans Urged In Zambia
Nov 03, 1995 ... President of the Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) Ben Kapitahas urged lending instututions in the country to start givingagricultural loans to farmers as the rainy seasom sets in. Kapita said in the northern city of Ndola on Thursay that thegovernment and the lending ...
Remote Sensing Technique Used in Forest Fire Monitoring
Nov 03, 1995 ... Chinese scientists have used the modern remote sensing technologyin monitoring forest fires with high accuracy, according to today's"People's Daily". The newspaper said that the remote sensing system is capable oflocating a small fire about the size of a washbasin 500 km away, ...
Shanghai's Consumer Market Developing Steadily
Nov 03, 1995 ... The consumer market of this, China's largest economic center hasdeveloped steadily this year. According to the latest statistics, the city's retail salesamounted to 70.889 billion yuan in the first nine months of thisyear, an increase of 26.8 percent over the same period of last ...
Suzhou to Clean up Its Rivers
Nov 03, 1995 ... With a 1,500-year history, Suzhou, which is called one of the two"paradises in China", is well-known for small gardens and riversrunning through it, but they have been seriously polluted with black,dirty water in recent years as the economy has been growing rapidly. About 3.5 ...
Vietnam Expects More Foreign Capital
Nov 03, 1995 ... Vietnam is expecting to attract some 18 billion U.S. dollars ofimplemented foreign capital in the next five years, according to thelatest issue of the weekly "Vietnam Investment Review." Dau Ngoc Xuan, chairman of the newly-created Evaluation Commissionfor State Projects, described ...
Zhangjiagang Free Trade Zone Thriving
Nov 03, 1995 ... Since 1992 the Zhangjiagang Free Trade Zone in the Yangtze Riverport city of Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu Province, has brought in 1.17billion US dollars in overseas funds. An official of the zone said that 390 Chinese and foreignenterprises have been set up in the zone over the past ...
15 People Killed by Unknown Disease in Nicaragua
Nov 03, 1995 ... Fifteen people have died among more than 1,000 cases in the pastthree weeks in Nicaragua since an outbreak of an unknown epidemic inthe country, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported today. WHO Spokesman Philippe Stroot said that the first case wasreported on October 13 in a ...
86 State-owned Companies Privatized In Zambia
Nov 03, 1995 ... 86 state-owned companies and commercial properties had beenprivatized by september 30 this year since the zambia privatizationprogram began in 1993, said a report just released by ZambiaPrivatization Agency. Of the 86 business entities, 44 were already operating underprivate ...
Australian Dollar Ends Up
Nov 03, 1995 ... The volatile Australian dollar ended firm against the greenbacktoday. The Australian dollar ended at 75.83 US cents, up from theprevious close of 75.79 US cents. The local dollar also closed stronger against other majorcurrencies. It continued to make its gains against the ...
Australian Stocks Rally Sharply
Nov 03, 1995 ... The Australian stock market closed firmer today, with the leadingmarket indicator jumping by more than 30 points. The all ordinaries index ended 32.6 points stronger at 2,091.6points from the previous finish of 2,059 points, driven up by thestronger performance on Wall ...
Beijing Confiscates Fireworks
Nov 03, 1995 ... A large amount of confiscated fireworks and crackers weredestroyed Thursday in suburban Beijing by the Beijing Public SecurityBureau, the "Beijing Daily" reported today. Those fireworks and crackers were confiscated recently fromillegal dealers and those who illegally transported ...
China's Diplomatic News Summary
Nov 03, 1995 ... The following is a summary of today's diplomatic news covered bythe Home News for Overseas Service of Xinhua. Chinese, Togolese Presidents Hold Talks Chinese President Jiang Zemin held talks with visiting TogolesePresident Gnassingbe Eyadema at the Great Hall of the People ...
Chinese Acrobatic Troupe Performs in Nepal
Nov 03, 1995 ... A visiting Chinese acrobatic troupe gave its first performancetonight here, winning prolonged applause from an audience of nearly1,500. The traditional Chinese acrobatic programs such as lion dance, jarjuggling, lithe movement and group acrobatics were well received bythe local ...
Chinese Economy Tipped to Continue Fast Growth
Nov 03, 1995 ... China's economy will continue its quick pace in the next fiveyears, with its gross domestic product growing at an average annualrate of 8.7 percent, according to Zheng Jingping, an official withthe State Statistics Bureau (SSB). "This prediction is a result of model-based research ...
Courier Edges out Chang at Paris Open
Nov 03, 1995 ... Jim Courier moved up to the semi-finals of the Paris Open men'sindoor tennis tournament, by defeating fellow-American Michael Changon Friday. The sixth-seeded Courier claimed a 6-2, 7-6 (7/5) victory in justover one and a half hours. Chang has the reputation of being the ...