Xinhua News Agency back issues from Friday, May 8:
Australian Committee Calls for Defense Funding Boost
May 08, 1998 ... Australia needs an immediate funding boost to fulfill a19.5-billion-U.S.-dollar bill to replace aging defense equipmentearly next century, an Australian parliamentary committee saidFriday. Funding should be increased by up to 162 million U.S. dollars ayear to help ensure that ...
Bangkok to Host International Film Festival
May 08, 1998 ... Bangkok will join Cannes, New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, HongKongand Tokyo on the map of leading film-festival venues as it hosts itsfirst international movies exhibition in September. More than 50 films from countries around the world will be shownat the Inaugural Bangkok ...
Bulgarian President Looks Forward to China Trip
May 08, 1998 ... Bulgarian President Peter Stoyanov said he looks forward tovisiting China on May 10 and he believes his trip will boost thedevelopment of bilateral relationships between the two countries. At the invitation of Chinese President Jiang Zemin, Stoyanov isscheduled to make a five-day ...
Capital Inflow to Lift Thai Economy: Researchers
May 08, 1998 ... Fresh capital worth about 38.6 billion U.S. dollars is expectedtoflow into Thailand in the next 12 months, which will provide astimulus to the economy, a financial research institute said. Cathay Capital Research said the projection is based on fivefactors, the Bangkok Post ...
China Confident of Maintaining Growth Rate of 8 Percent: Official
May 08, 1998 ... China's Chief Trade Representative Long Yongtu said here on Friday that China has full confidence in maintaining a growth rate of 8 percent this year despite theAsianfinancial crisis.Addressing the ninth International Corporate Conference of AsiaSociety, Long, also ...
China's Consumer Goods Market Has Sufficient Supply
May 08, 1998 ... A survey conducted by China's commercial departments on 601 majorconsumer goods found that there will be a sufficient supply in thehalf of this year. The survey found that, at present, the market has no goods inshort supply. The situation of supply exceeding demand has ...
China's Largest Motorcycle Engine Assessed
May 08, 1998 ... The most powerful motorcycle engine developed in China has passeda state assessment. The 650cc engine is the first four-stroke water-cooled modeldeveloped for high-powered motorcycles. The Liuzhou Machinery Factory in south China's Guangxi ZhuangAutonomous Region developed ...
China to Reveal Plans for Steel Industry
May 08, 1998 ... China's long-term investment and development plans for steelproduction up until 2010 are expected to be unveiled at an upcominginternational conference on the iron and steel industry, today's"China Daily" reported. The China Iron and Steel Conference 1998, to be held from June ...
Chinese City Dwellers Show Concern for Air Pollution (1)
May 08, 1998 ... An increasing number of city dwellers in China is payingattentionto air pollution, which has become one of the major concerns of theChinese urbanites. This is the result of a survey of 5,000 families in 10 Chinesecities done by the Lingdian Company at the end of last ...
Chinese President
May 08, 1998 ... Chinese President Jiang Zemin met with visiting Prime MinisterNurlan Balgimbaev of the Republic of Kazakhstan here this afternoon. The meeting is still going on at press time. Balgimbaev and his party arrived here yesterday afternoon for anofficial visit to ...
Chinese Vice-Premier
May 08, 1998 ... Chinese Vice-Premier Qian Qichen here today met with a delegationfrom the Republic of Korea (ROK) led by Kim Kyong-Won, president ofthe Seoul Forum for International Affairs. The two sides exchanged views on bilateral ties, regional issuesand other problems of common concern, ...
Chinese Woman Devotes Her Life to Caring For Giant Panda
May 08, 1998 ... Even though three months have passed since Qiang Qiang, theoldestgiant panda in the Shenyang Zoo, died, people are fairly careful incase they will mention the panda before Feng Huifang. Everyone who knows Feng knows that she had a special feeling forQiang Qiang and that the ...
Debate on Criterion for Truth Brings Truth Back to China: Hu Jintao
May 08, 1998 ... The greatest theoretical contribution of a nationwide debate onthe criterion for testing truth two decades ago served to bringChinaback to the ideological line of emancipating the mind and seekingtruth from facts, said Chinese Vice President Hu Jintao here today. "And the ...
Election Campaign Helicopter Explodes in Philippines
May 08, 1998 ... A helicopter being used for election campaign exploded Thursdayafter being hit by a grenade in the southeastern Philippines, theAirTransportation Office said here Friday. The office said the 500-C helicopter, being used by a congressmanfor campaigns, shattered into pieces ...
Electronics Show Features Defense
May 08, 1998 ... China will hold its first national defense electronics exhibitionin Beijing from May 12 to 15, today's "China Daily" reported. The paper said that the China International Defense ElectronicsExhibition, sponsored by the General Armament Department of thePeople's Liberation Army of ...
EU to Finance Vietnam's Health Care Network
May 08, 1998 ... The European Union (EU) will grant Vietnam 30 million U.S.dollarsto finance the development of its health care network under afinancial agreement signed here Thursday. The program aims at improving management ...
Eximbank Supports Company's Exports
May 08, 1998 ... The Export and Import Bank of China (Eximbank) yesterday inked apackage of loan agreement with Shanghai Electric (Group) Corp (Sec)in Shanghai to back up the company's export of power generationunitsand machinery and electronic products, today's "China Daily"reported. Under the ...
Famous Chinese Comic Series Available on Internet
May 08, 1998 ... Shanghai People's Radio Station has made its famous comic programseries, "The Stories of Wang Xiaomao," available worldwide on theInternet. People in and out of China can use their personal computers towatch the program on "Shanghai Window" on the Internet. The comic program ...
First Group of Model Law Firms Commended
May 08, 1998 ... Twenty national model law firms were commended by the ChineseMinistry of Justice at a TV conference held here today. Ministry officials say that the commendations, the first of theirkind in China, are mainly aimed at improving Chinese lawyers'qualityand image in society, as well ...
First Sino-Foreign International Travel Company Set Up
May 08, 1998 ... Yunnan-Litian Travel Service, the first Sino-foreign joint-ventureinternational travel company in China, has been set up in thiscapital of southwest China's Yunnan Province. The travel service was approved recently by the Ministry ofForeign Trade and Economic Cooperation ...
Five People Injured in Building Collapse In Southern China
May 08, 1998 ... Five people were slightly injured in the collapse of tworesidential buildings in the city of Zhuhai in south China'sGuangdong Province, Wednesday afternoon. The buildings collapsed as the result of a basement constructionsite of a large building, which caved in. Twenty other ...
Fixed Assets Investment Up In Eastern Chinese City
May 08, 1998 ... Fixed assets investment in 1997, in Xiamen in China's FujianProvince, was 15.34 billion yuan and went mainly to largeenterprisesand social and industrial projects. A city government said that the investment will reach 17 billionyuan in 1998. In 1996, it was 15 billion yuan, 7 ...
Forum Marking Debate on Criterion of Truth Held (Urgent)
May 08, 1998 ... A forum to mark the 20th anniversary of the debate on thecriterion for testing truth was held today at the Great Hall of thePeople in the Chinese capital. Chinese Vice President Hu Jintao will make an important speech onthe forum. Hu is also member of the Standing Committee of ...
Fredericks Threatens Commonwealth Games Boycott
May 08, 1998 ... Noted Namibian sprinter Frank Fredericks has threatened toboycottthe Commonwealth Games in Malaysia unless he gets a bronze medal hewon four years ago, according to reports from Osaka. Fredericks is taking part in the IAAF Japanese Grand Prix inOsakaon Saturday. He will ...
French Firm Invests in Shandong Province Power Company
May 08, 1998 ... Electricite de France (EDF) has announced an investment of 112million U.S. dollars to gain 19.6 percent equity in a ShandongProvince power company. The company, the Shandong Zhonghua Power Company Ltd., has thelargest amount of foreign investment of any power company in ...
Green Vegetables Becoming a greater Part of Tibetans' Diet
May 08, 1998 ... A revolution is quietly taking place on the dinner tables of anold ethnic group living on China's Tibetan Plateau, as greenvegetables enter their lives. Tibetans used to get by only on zanba (roasted qingke barleyflour), beef, mutton, and butter tea, and humorously referred ...
Highlights of Beijing-based Newspapers
May 08, 1998 ... Highlights of today's major Beijing-based newspapers: "People's Daily" In the next three years, the central government and government ofnine provinces and autonomous regions including Xinjiang, InnerMongolia, Qinghai, Ningxia, Gansu, Tibet, Yunnan, Guangxi andGuizhouwill ...
Hong Kong Stocks Close Higher Midday
May 08, 1998 ... Hong Kong stocks rose 15 points, or 0.15 percent, to close themorning session at 9,987 on ...
Hong Kong Stocks Open Lower
May 08, 1998 ... Hong Kong stocks fell 60 points, or 0.6 percent, to open at 9,911on ...
Hu Jintao Speaks at Forum Marking Ideological Debate-Urgent
May 08, 1998 ... A forum to mark the 20th anniversary of the debate on thecriterion for testing truth was held today at the Great Hall of thePeople in the Chinese capital. Hu Jintao, member of the Standing Committee of teh PoliticalBureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central ...
Hungry Philippine Farmers Threaten to Boycott
May 08, 1998 ... Hungry farmers in a famine-hit province in the southernPhilippines Friday threatened to boycott next week's elections ifthegovernment fails to distribute promised food. A report reaching here said that about 3,000 farmers in Kidapawanin North Cotabato province said they would ...
Illegal Westerner Nabbed in Myanmar
May 08, 1998 ... A westerner of dual citizenship, charged with having connectionwith outlawed anti-government organizations and entering Myanmarillegally, has been arrested under the country's immigration law,TheNew Light of Myanmar newspaper reported Friday. James Mawdsley, who holds British and ...
India's Ambassador Donates Books to China National Library
May 08, 1998 ... India's Ambassador to China V.K. Nambiar, on behalf of the Indiangovernment, presented 150 sets of books in Hindi to the NationalLibrary of China here today. The books ranging from literature and art to religion andhistoryinclude ...
India to Fortify Patent Front
May 08, 1998 ... India would soon join the Paris Convention on intellectualproperty rights to fortify its patent front, official sources saidhere Friday. Joining the convention would make India eligible to join thePatent Cooperation Treaty, Trademark Law Treaty and the MadridAgreement on ...
Indonesia's Coal Production Continues to Increase
May 08, 1998 ... Indonesia's coal production has been increasing sharply in thelast 20 years and it may well continue to increase for many years tocome, a mining expert said. In the early 1970s, when an oil crisis started to strike theworld, the government began to turn to coal as an alternative ...
Israeli Venture Capital Rise Dramatically
May 08, 1998 ... Israeli companies raised 156 billion U.S. dollars of venturecapital in the first quarter this year, a 130 percent increasecompared with the same period last year. A survey conducted by Israeli Kesselman Accounting Firm showedthat the majority of such investments went to ...
Jiangxi Improving Urban Housing
May 08, 1998 ... East China's Jiangxi Province will invest an additional 21.8billion yuan into the construction of urban housing in the comingthree years, in a bid to add 43.47 million sq m of floor space. As a result, it will be possible for an average five-memberfamilyto live in a 50-sq-m house ...
Kazakh Prime Minister Attends Bilateral Trade Seminar
May 08, 1998 ... Kazakhstan will further improve its investment environment toexpand cooperation with China in the fields of oil, gas andauto-making. Visiting Kazakh Prime Minister Nurlan Balgimbaev made the pledgewhile attending a Sino-Kazakh economic and trade seminar here today. He said ...
Large Number of Fish Die in Central China's Donghu Lake
May 08, 1998 ... A large number of fish has died recently in the Donghu Lake incentral China's Hubei Province. The losses have so far been estimated at 150 tons by the localenvironmental protection department, but fish farmers say the actuallosses are higher. Blocks of dead fish were first ...
Mahathir Leaves for Cairo to Attend G-15 Summit
May 08, 1998 ... Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad left here Friday forCairo for an official three-day visit to Egypt and for attending theGroup of 15 (G-15) Summit of developing countries of Asia, AfricaandLatin America. Mahathir's visit to the ancient country famed for its ...
Major Foreign Exchange Rates in Indonesia
May 08, 1998 ... The following are major foreign exchange rates against Indonesiarupiah on Friday: CurrenciesBuying Selling U.S. dollar82509,150Australian dollar 5,2505,950Singapore dollar 4,850...
Major Foreign Exchange Rates in Philippines
May 08, 1998 ... The following are major foreign exchange rates against Philippinepeso released Friday by the Central Bank of the Philippines: U.S. dollar 40.4250 Japanese yen 0.3033British ...
Major Foreign Exchange Rates in Pakistan
May 08, 1998 ... The following are major foreign exchange rates against thePakistani rupee released Friday by the Overseas Banking Division ofthe National Bank of Pakistan: U.S. dollar 44.0700 Pound sterling 72.5470Deutsche mark ...
Major News Items in Leading British Newspapers
May 08, 1998 ... The following are major news items in leading British newspapersFriday. The Times: Tony Blair pledged millions of pounds for Northern Ireland'svictims of violence Thursday, leading opponents of the peace accordto accuse him of "buying" the May 22 referendum.Financial ...
Major News Items in Leading Turkish Newspapers
May 08, 1998 ... The following are major news items in leading Turkish newspapersFriday. Zaman (Time) Turkish Parliament Speaker Hikmet Cetin, who was in the UnitedStates for an official visit, said Thursday that Turkey hopedWashington could take an impartial stance in resolving ...
Major News Items in Leading Kenyan Newspapers
May 08, 1998 ... The following are major news items in leading Kenyan newspapersFriday. Kenya Times: U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan Thursday started visit toBurundi, where estimates of the number of deaths in ethnic conflictin the past five years reach 150,000.Daily Nation:Annan told ...
Major News Items in Leading Israeli Newspapers
May 08, 1998 ... The following are major news items in leading Israeli newspapersFriday. The Jerusalem Post: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has suspended hisefforts to get the right-wing party Moledet to join the coalitiongovernment. The negotiation will resume only after the ...
Major News Items in Leading Indian Newspapers
May 08, 1998 ... The following are major news items in leading Indian newspapersFriday. The Hindustan Times: Health services in most government hospitals remained paralyzedfor the third day Thursday following a nurses strike in the Indiancapital.The Times of India:Twenty-nine pilgrims ...
Major News Items in Leading Japanese Newspapers
May 08, 1998 ... The following are major news items in leading Japanese newspapersFriday. Asahi, Yomiuri, Mainichi, Nihon Keizai: German luxury car maker Daimler-Benz and the U.S. Chrysler Corpannounced Thursday they would merger, becoming the world's thirdlargest automaker in terms of ...
Major News Items in Leading Philippine Newspapers
May 08, 1998 ... The following are major news items in leading Philippinenewspapers on Friday. Manila Bulletin: President Fidel Ramos Thursday opposed calls for the suspensionofelections in Mindanao, saying the Commission on Elections hasalreadytaken measures to check feared electoral ...
Major News Items in Leading Australian Newspapers
May 08, 1998 ... The following are major news items in leading Australiannewspapers on Friday. The Australian: The chance of an early federal election in Australia increasedsharply Thursday, with unemployment falling below 8 percent for thefirst time since 1990, a promise of stable low ...
Market Exchange Rates
May 08, 1998 ... 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 exchange trading banks ...
Military Put on Alert in Southern Philippines
May 08, 1998 ... The armed forces based in Mindanao, the southern Philippines,havebeen put on red alert as more areas are identified as hot spots bythe Commission on Elections. Philippine Daily Inquirer Friday reported that Southern Commandchief Joselin Nazareno has ordered the troops to be on ...
Mongolian FM on Economic Diplomacy
May 08, 1998 ... The Mongolian Ministry of External Relations should be active inpromoting economic diplomacy, its new minister R. Amarjargal said inthe People's Right newspaper published on Friday. In his first speech published after he took office late lastmonth, Amarjargal said it is the call of ...
More Chinese Transient Workers Rush to Fields
May 08, 1998 ... Zhou Dakuang, once a surplus farm laborer from China's largesttransient labor center, Anhui Province, has become an enviablefigurein the eyes of his fellow villagers with the profits he earned fromfarming a piece of land in Shanghai's suburb. His 1.7-hectare farm yields an ...
Mugabe to Attend G-15 Summit
May 08, 1998 ... Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is expected to attend theeighth G-15 summit which will discuss developments in internationalfinancial markets, intra G-15 trade cooperation, the ForeignMinistrysaid Thursday. The summit which meets in Cairo from May 11 to 13 will alsoconsider ...
Myanmar Appoints Three New Deputy Ministers
May 08, 1998 ... The Myanmar State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) hasappointed three new deputy ministers including a new deputy foreignminister, Friday's The New Light of Myanmar quoted a notificationofthe SPDC as saying. According to the notification, U Khin Maung Win was named ...
News Items from Asia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua
May 08, 1998 ... Following are news items from the Asia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua inHong Kong Friday: hke050801 Major News Items in Leading AustralianNewspapers hke050802 Major News Items in Leading PhilippineNewspapers hke050803 Military Put on Alert in Southern Philippineshke050804 Mahathir Leaves ...
Overseas-Funded Businesses Booming in Harbin
May 08, 1998 ... This capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province hasestablished some 2,000 overseas-funded enterprises in the past fiveyears, involving 4.3 billion US dollars in total investment. This is a result of the improvement of the local investmentenvironment. The past five ...
Overseas Investment in Agriculture in Shanxi Increasing
May 08, 1998 ... North China's Shanxi Province has introduced 960 millionyuan-worth of overseas investment for 67 agricultural projects sincethe beginning of last year. The funds came from 18 countries and regions. Germany is the leading overseas investor in the sector in theamount of money, ...
Ramos to Host
May 08, 1998 ... Philippine President Fidel Ramos will host a breakfast meetingearly Sunday with candidates running for president and vicepresidentto ensure "honest, orderly and peaceful" elections on May 11. A presidential press release said Friday that the meeting will beheld at 7:30 a.m. in ...
Schedule for World Fastest Woman Race in China
May 08, 1998 ... Following is the schedule for the world fastest woman 100 metersrace to be staged in China's northwestern city Chengdu next Tuesday: Opening ceremony and performence: 16:30 local time; 08:00 GMT Exhibition events:Men's and ...
Shandong Township Enterprises Tap World Market
May 08, 1998 ... Township enterprises in east China's Shandong Province have inrecent years made successful attempts to tap the internationalmarket. Exports of Shandong's township enterprises totaled 56.3 billionyuan in 1997, up 10.5 percent from the previous year, according toofficial ...
Shanghai Admitting More Foreign Insurance Companies
May 08, 1998 ... Shanghai is opening up more to insurance companies from overseasto make itself into an insurance business center for China. Shanghai is China's largest trade and finance center andestimatesthat it will be able to maintain an average annual growth rate of 35to 40 percent for the ...
Shanghai Stock Index Up
May 08, 1998 ... The Composite Stock Index on the Shanghai Stock Exchange finishedat 1,357.59 today, up 29.72 points from the previous session,according to the Guangfa Securities Co. Ltd. The SSR-30 index, based on 30 blue chips that are selected frommore than 200 A shares for ...