Xinhua News Agency back issues from Wednesday, October 23:
477 Kilos of Drugs Seized in Myanmar in September
Oct 23, 1996 ... A total of 477.74 kilos of narcotic drugs including 118.19 kilosof heroin and 239.58 kilos of opium were seized by the Myanmarauthorities in September, the official paper "the New Light ...
China's Economy Grows 9.6 Percent
Oct 23, 1996 ... The Chinese economy grew by 9.6 percent in the first nine monthsthis year, the State Statistical Bureau said here today. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) totaled 4567.5 billion yuanduring the ...
China's Grain Output Hits Record
Oct 23, 1996 ... China's grain output this year is expected to reach more than 480million tons this year, showing a record high, statistics from theState Statistics Bureau said today. Ye Zhen, a spokesman for the SSB, said at a press conference heldhere today that the output of cotton and ...
China's Price Index Rise Within Control
Oct 23, 1996 ... China's retail price index in the first nine months of this yearrose by 6.6 percent, a drop of 10 percentage points as compared withthe same period of last year. Ye Zhen, a spokesman for the State Statistical Bureau, said ...
China Striving to Use Wind Power
Oct 23, 1996 ... China has purchased wind-power generators with the capability ofgenerating 73,000 kilowatts of power from Denmark. The contract was signed between China Nam Kwong National Importand Export Corporation and Micon and Vestas companies of Denmarkyesterday in Beijing. The step is ...
China to Work Out Rules for Monitoring BOT Efforts
Oct 23, 1996 ... China will soon have a set of regulations governing themanagementof Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) foreign-invested projects, "ChinaDaily" reported. The newspaper quoted She Jianmin, vice-minister of the StatePlanning Commission, as saying that a draft of the regulations hasbeen ...
Chinese Newspaper Highlights
Oct 23, 1996 ... Highlights of today's major Beijing-based newspapers: "People's Daily" The paper frontpages a speech made by President Jiang Zeminyesterday at a meeting to mark the 60th anniversary of the RedArmy'sLong March, in which Jiang praised the Long March as ...
Dengue Fever Claims 251 Lives in India
Oct 23, 1996 ... The spreading dengue fever disease in New Delhi, capital ofIndia,has claimed 251 lives with eight more deaths reported in the past 24hours in the city, hospital sources said here today. Till now, as many as 5,390 suspected dengue fever cases have beenreported since its outbreak ...
Draft Law on Stationing Troops in Hong Kong Goes to Legislature (1)
Oct 23, 1996 ... The draft of a law concerning stationing troops to the Hong KongSpecial Administrative Region (HK SAR) of the People's Republic ofChina was submitted to the country's top legislative body today. Sending the People's Liberation Army (PLA) troops to Hong Kong onJuly 1, 1997 has ...
Long-Airdox Expands Investment in China
Oct 23, 1996 ... US-based mining machinery group Long-Airdox is posed to expanditsinvestment in China with the opening of two newly funded companies,today's China Daily reported. The 3.5 million US dollar Long-Airdox (Tianjin) and 5 million USdollar Tangshan TYL LTD are respectively 100 percent ...
Major News Items in Leading Japanese Newspapers
Oct 23, 1996 ... The following are major news items in leading Japanese newspaperstoday. Asahi, Mainichi, Yomiuri: Mitsui Mining Co. was ordered in July to pay about 1.5 billionJapanese yen (about 13.4 million U.S. dollars) in penalty tax on anincome of some 2.3 billion Japanese yen (about ...
Major News Items in Leading Pakistani Newspapers
Oct 23, 1996 ... The Following are major news items in leading Pakistaninewspaperstoday: The News, The Nation, The Muslim, The Frontier Post The Pakistan government announced a 40-billion-rupee mini-budget,raising petroleum products prices and gas charges by 10 percentcoupled with an 8.5 ...
Major News Items in Leading Indian Newspapers
Oct 23, 1996 ... The following are major news items in leading Indian newspaperstoday: The Hindustan Times Alarmed by reports of dengue fever cases and deaths from severalcities in states adjoining Delhi, the Indian Health Ministry hasconvened a meeting of state health secretaries on Thursday ...
Major News Items in Leading Philippine Newspapers
Oct 23, 1996 ... The following are major news items in leading Philippinenewspapers today: Manila Bulletin: Philippine President Fidel Ramos Tuesday announced theappointmentof Governor Nur Misuari of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanaoas chairman of the ...
Major News Items In Leading Australian Newspapers
Oct 23, 1996 ... The following are major news items in leading Australiannewspapers today: The Australian The surprise defeat of Australia's bid to win a non-permanentmembership on the United Nations security council yesterday promptedthe Federal Government to order an urgent review to ...
Market Exchange Rates
Oct 23, 1996 ... The People's Bank of China today issued the market exchange ratesin RMB yuan against three major currencies. The middle price of RMBagainst convertible currencies is mainly based on the closing priceof the preceding interbank trading. The designated foreign exchanged trading banks ...
Movable Property of "Killers" of Bangladeshi
Oct 23, 1996 ... The movable property of some retired army officers,"self-confessed killers" of Bangladeshi "father of nation"Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has been seized. According to police sources here today, the retired army officersinclude Colonel Abdur Rashid, who fled the country after ...
New TV Program on Hong Kong to be On Show
Oct 23, 1996 ... A new TV series, Hong Kong Today, is to be screened on Beijing'scable TV network starting October 26. Hong Kong has drawn the interest and attention of more and morepeople in inland China, as the date China resumes sovereignty - July1st, 1997 - looms closer. The 60-part ...
Philippine Party Embroiled in Internal Dispute
Oct 23, 1996 ... The two feuding factions in the Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino(Laban) have stepped up their effort to force each other out of thebadly decimated biggest opposition force in the country. The ongoing purge inside the party would continue until thefaction headed by Representative ...
PLA Air Force Delegation Leaves For Cuba
Oct 23, 1996 ... An air force delegation of the Chinese People's Liberation Army(PLA), led by Political Commissar of the PLA air force General DingWenchang, left here today for a goodwill visit to Cuba. The delegation have been invited by Lieutenant General RubenMartinez Puentes, ...
Russian PM to Settle Dispute With Duma Over Budget
Oct 23, 1996 ... Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin met with leaders ofmajor State Duma factions Tuesday to try to settle the dispute overthe draft budget for 1997, according to TV reports. The reports believe that the "working meeting" may help reach acompromise between the two ...
Sri Lanka Amends Public Enterprises Bill
Oct 23, 1996 ... Sri Lanka's Parliament passed an amendment to the Rehabilitationof Public Enterprises Bill Tuesday evening, according to theofficialradio this morning. The amendment which restricts the ...
Thailand to Take 1 Percent of IMF Credit Facility
Oct 23, 1996 ... Thailand has agreed to contribute a minimum of one percent to anew International Monetary Fund (IMF) credit facility, Thai CentralBank Governor Rernchai Marakanond said Tuesday. Thailand is expected to contribute around 340 million specialdrawing rights (SDRs) (476 million US ...
Thailand to Push Farm Liberalization Within WTO
Oct 23, 1996 ... Thailand will focus on implementing the Uruguay Round of tradeagreements, especially those on farm liberalization, at the WorldTrade Organization (WTO) meeting scheduled for December, the localpress reported today. Thailand has garnered support from Australia to start the ...
Yeltsin Discusses Urgent Issues With Prime Minister
Oct 23, 1996 ... Russian President Boris Yeltsin said he had discussed a number ofurgent issues with Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin Tuesday,describing the talks as "very substantive and productive." During the meeting at the Barvikha sanatorium near Moscow,Yeltsinand Chernomyrdin mainly ...
21st SEANZA Banking Course In Southwest China Province
Oct 23, 1996 ... A biennial training course for central bank executives fromSoutheast Asia, New Zealand, and Australia is being held in thecapital of southwest China's Yunnan Province. The 21st Central Banking Course opened Monday at the sponsorshipof the the central banking organization of SEANZA ...
Bangladeshi Garment Exports to Europe Face Problem
Oct 23, 1996 ... Bangladesh's ready-made garment industry, which enjoysgeneralizedsystem of preference (GSP) facility in Europe, is confronting someproblems in continuity of the treatment, threatening future exportprospects in the market. According to concerned sources today, the export to the EU ...
Brisk Sales In China's Consumer Market
Oct 23, 1996 ... Retail sales in consumer goods in China during theJanuary-September period amounted to 1,732.7 billion yuan, up 12.3percent in real terms, over the same period of last year, accordingto the State Statistics Bureau today. Ye Zhen, a spokesman for the ...
Chelsea Vice-chairman Dies in Air Crash
Oct 23, 1996 ... Matthew Harding, vice-chairman of English premier league soccerclub Chelsea, was killed in a helicopter crash on Tuesday night,according to local TV channel on Wednesday. The Sky television channel reported that Harding and four otherpeople were killed when their helicopter crashed ...
China Maintains Foreign Trade Balance
Oct 23, 1996 ... According to the State Statistical Bureau today, China hasmaintained a balance in foreign trade. Total import and export volume in the first nine months was 199.9billion US dollars, an increase of 1.1 ...
China's First Expressway Funded by Asian Development Bank Opens
Oct 23, 1996 ... A new expressway linking Shenyang, capital of northeast China'sLiaoning province and Benxi, an industrial city in Liaoning, hasopened. It is China's first expressway to be built with loans from theAsian Development Bank (ADB). The 75-kilometer road was built in two ...
Chinese Involvement In Overseas Construction Market
Oct 23, 1996 ... China has become a major partner in engineering and constructionwork around the world, with engineering projects in 171 countries,and annual turnover of 25.6 billion US dollars. According to Yao Bing, chief engineer of the Ministry ofConstruction, China has been involved in 1,500 ...
Chinese Monument to Long March Erected
Oct 23, 1996 ... A monument bearing an inscription written by Jiang Zemin, generalsecretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee,has been newly erected in Jiangtaibao, where the Red Armies joinedforces after the Long March 60 years ago. The meeting of the first and second front ...
Chinese Techniques For Disposing Of Paper Mill Waste Water
Oct 23, 1996 ... Chinese scientists have developed a technique for dealing withthewaste of paper mills that has polluted many rivers nationwide. China has more than 10,000 paper mills, most of them causingpollution. Some 99 percent of them are medium-sized or small onesusing cornstalks and rice ...
Coalition Talks Continue in NZ
Oct 23, 1996 ... Talks between New Zealand political parties continued today in aneffort to form a coalition government after the October 12 generalelection failed to produce a clear-majority winner. The negotiating team of the New Zealand First party met with itscounterpart from the Labor Party ...
Environmental Protection In Northern Chinese Grassland
Oct 23, 1996 ... The Erlian Oilfield in Inner Mongolia has spent 36 million yuaninrecent years building a 200-kilometer asphalt road, putting an endtoa period in history when all sorts of vehicles could be seen runninghelter-skelter on the region's grasslands. Gao Yun, an official in Xilin Gol ...
Feature: Indonesia's Tourism Industry Growing
Oct 23, 1996 ... Indonesia, a sprawling archipelago with a cultural diversitydating back to the Stone Age with sophisticated ancient courttraditions, has ambitions to receive 11 million foreign touristswithan earning of 15 billion U.S. dollars by the year 2005. With the number of foreign tourists ...
Foreign Exchange Rates in Hong Kong
Oct 23, 1996 ... Following are closing foreign exchange rates in Hong Kong today(Wednesday): !!!!!!!! Foreign Exchange in HK Dollars Wednesday TuesdayUS Dollar 7.7320 7.7320Canadian Dollar 5.78 5.77Pound Sterling ...
Good Fixed Assets Investment Increase In China
Oct 23, 1996 ... Investment in China's fixed assets hit 827 billion yuan duringthepast nine months, a 13 percent increase in real terms, over the sameperiod last year, the State Statistics Bureau reported today. Ye ...
Greenpeace Discovers Sydney Olympics Uses Toxins
Oct 23, 1996 ... The environmental group Greenpeace said it planned to contactinternational Olympic authorities after exposing what it said was asignificant breach of Sydney's pledge to deliver a "green" Games inthe year 2000, according to reports reaching here. The reports quoted Greenpeace ...
Improvement In China's Standard Of Living
Oct 23, 1996 ... The standard of living of the overwhelming majority of theChineseresidents has improved, Ye Zhen, a Statistics Bureau spokesman, saidat a press conference here today. Urban residents' income in the first nine months of this yearaveraged 3,249 yuan per capita, up 3.4 ...
Increased Income for Shanghai's Educated Citizens
Oct 23, 1996 ... Incomes of intellectuals in China's leading industrial city haveincreased significantly, according to a recent survey done by theHongqiao Friendship Market, Youth Journal, and the Shanghai branchofthe China News Service. The survey found that, of 1,000 people surveyed, the higher ...
India's Steel Output Increases
Oct 23, 1996 ... India's production of finished steel in the first six months ofthe current financial year (from April 1, 1996 to March 31, 1997)reached 10.66 million tons, up 13.3 percent over last year, theSteelMinistry sources said here today. Pig iron production registered an increase ...
Iran Welcomes Saddam's Rapprochement Bid
Oct 23, 1996 ... Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati said here today thatIran welcomes Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's rapprochement bid inhis message to Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. "The message by the Iraqi leader was positive. Baghdad wants tohave good ties with us and we ...
Iranian FM: Boat Collision Understandable in Persian
Oct 23, 1996 ... Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati today made the firstcomment on the collision between an American warship and an Iranianpatrol boat, saying that "it is quite understandable andpredictable." The Iranian government had kept silent for 10 days over thecollision incident ...
Iraqi Kurdish leaders agree in principle to ceasefire
Oct 23, 1996 ... - The leaders of the warring Iraqi Kurdish groups in northernIraqhave agreed in ...
JLG Experts to
Oct 23, 1996 ... The Sino-British Joint Liaison Group (JLG) is to hold the 20thexperts meeting on defense and public security in Hong Kong onOctober 24 and 25, according to the Chinese side of the ...
Kenya Reiterates Support to Ghali
Oct 23, 1996 ... Africa is solidly behind the candidacy of Boutros Boutgros-Ghalifor assuming the post of U.N. Secretary General, Kenyan ForeignMinister Kalonzo Musyoka has said. Kenya, newly-elected non-permanent member of the U.N. SecurityCouncil, called for the democratization of the U.N. System ...
Lee Named Architect of New Century by U.S. Center
Oct 23, 1996 ... Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore has been named theArchitect of the New Century this year by the American think-tanktheNixon Center for Peace and Freedom, the Straits Times reportedtoday. This is the second such award given out by the center, formed in1994 by former ...
Major News in Leading British Newspapers
Oct 23, 1996 ... The following are major news items in leading British newspaperstoday: The Times: France and Germany urged Britain and other less committed statesTuesday to accept a scheme for side-stepping the national veto inEuropean Union affairs or face the prospect of more eager ...
Major News Items in Leading Nigerian Newspapers
Oct 23, 1996 ... The following are the major news items in leading Nigeriannewspapers today. New Nigerian Economic growth goals and target to be set by the committee on"vision 2010", Nigeria's long-term economic development bluprint,would be geared toward adequately addressing the problems ...
Major News Items in Leading S.African Newspapers
Oct 23, 1996 ... The following are major news items in leading South Africannewspapers today. The Citizen South Africa's controversial Termination of Pregnancy Bill wasadopted with amendments by the National Assembly's Health Committeeyesterday after four days of intense ...
Major News Items in Leading Kenyan Newspapers
Oct 23, 1996 ... The following are major news items in leading Kenyan newspaperstoday. Daily Nation Kenya's election to take up a non-permanent seat in the U.N.Security Council is the recognition of the crucial role it hasplayedin the maintenance of peace in the East African region, ...
Malaysia's Economy Projected to Grow
Oct 23, 1996 ... Malaysia's gross domestic product (GDP) is forecast to grow by8.4percent this year and by 8.2 percent next year, according to theMalaysian Institute of Economic Research (MIER). Meanwhile, although strong demand pressures would continue,inflationary expansion would be fairly ...
News Items from Asia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua
Oct 23, 1996 ... Following are news items from the Asia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua inHong Kong today: hke102301 Major News Items In Leading AustralianNewspapers hke102302 Major News Items in Leading PhilippineNewspapers hke102303 Philippines Posts Surplus of 300 millionDollars hke102304 477 Kilos of ...
Nigeria To Hold ocal Government Election in
Oct 23, 1996 ... The National Electoral Commission of Nigeria (NECON) hastentatively fixed December 17 as the date for the election of localgovernment council on party basis, local media reported ...
Retail Prices In China Hit Four-Year Low
Oct 23, 1996 ... Retail prices in China were up 6.6 percent during the first ninemonths of this year, the lowest rise in four years, the StateStatistical Bureau reports. The economy retained its steady growth in the January-Septemberperiod, rising by 9.6 percent from same period of last ...
Sri Lanka's Teacher Trainees on Hunger Strike
Oct 23, 1996 ... Sri Lanka's 12,000 teacher trainees today launched a hungerstrikeoutside the Ministry of Education demanding their absorption intotheteacher service. According to the United Teachers Union sources, discussions heldso far had failed to solve the problem. The Ministry of ...
Trading on Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Oct 23, 1996 ... Following are Hang Seng Index (key indicator of Hong Kong's bluechips), Hang Seng China Enterprises Index and the turnover on theHong Kong Stock Exchange today (Wednesday): Index:Wednesday Tuesday Change Hang Seng Index (HSI) 12,492 ...
URGENT Norwegian prime minister resigns
Oct 23, 1996 ... - Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland announced inOslotoday that she would resign on Friday, according to reports ...
Zambian Farmers Advised To Prepare For Planting
Oct 23, 1996 ... The kapiri Mposhi Council of Zambia's Central Province hasadvisedlocal farmers to prepare adequately for the coming planting seasontoincrease food production in the area. Farmers should prepare adequately for the rain season by securingall the necessary inputs on time, the ...
Zanzibar Women Active in Sports
Oct 23, 1996 ... Zanzibar President Salmin Amour said on Tuesday that Zanzibarwomen are gradually liberalising themselves culturally to diversifytheir participation in sports. "Women are rising now they are overcoming the customs andtraditons which held them back," he said. President Amour ...
Australia's Inflation Rate Drops to Two-Year Low
Oct 23, 1996 ... Australia's inflation rate for the September quarter dropped to atwo-year low of 2.1 percent, showing that the country's economy isingood shape. The Australian Bureau of Statistics said that the consumer priceindex rose by 0.3 percent in the September quarter and the ...
Australian Dollar Remains Steady
Oct 23, 1996 ... The Australian dollar ended steady against the US dollar today. The Australian dollar remained unchanged at 79.54 US cents on theclose from Tuesday's close. It was firmer against the Japanese yen, ending at 89.73 yen fromTuesday's close of 89.47 yen.But it was weaker against ...
Australian Stock Market Drops
Oct 23, 1996 ... The Australian stock market dropped slightly today. The all ordinaries index closed 6.9 points lower at 2,346.7. The all industrials index lost 11.7 points to 3,610.9 while theall resources index fell 3.0 points to 1,381.7.The local bourse was dragged down by the New York ...