Xinhua News Agency back issues from Friday, January 8:
Teenager Hacker Breaks Into Network
Jan 08, 1999 ... Police in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region recentlycaught a computer hacker who illegally accessed a local informationservice network. The hacker, a 13-year-old middle school student, connected to thelocal 169 information service network in the name of his father ...
Taihu's Water Quality Improves
Jan 08, 1999 ... Central and local governments will not relax efforts to clean upthe nation's third-largest freshwater lake, even though majorindustries are no longer discharging excessive pollutants into theTaihu Lake. A majority of enterprises required to meet stricter nationalenvironmental ...
Shanghai's Retail Sales of Consumer Goods up 11 Percent
Jan 08, 1999 ... The volume of Shanghai's retail sales of consumer goods totaled147 billion yuan in 1998, up 11 percent from the previous year,according to official statistics. After adjusting to the negative price indices, the actual growthrate was as high as 16 percent. An analysis shows ...
Shandong Keen to Develop Tourism Resources
Jan 08, 1999 ... East China's Shandong Province is to increase its financialsupport for the development of tourism resources this year to makethe industry a growth area of the local economy. Governments at all levels should include tourism in their planforeconomic and social progress, a ...
Philippines Issues 1 Billion Dollars of Bonds
Jan 08, 1999 ... The Philippine government successfully launched 1 billion U.S.dollars of global bonds in the international debt markets Thursday,reflecting the return of investor confidence in the Philippines. The Philippine Journal Friday quoted Finance Secretary EdgardoEspiritu as saying that ...
Obligatory Schooling for Migrants' Children in China
Jan 08, 1999 ... As ten-year-old Zhang Lili was reading her textbooks in a primaryschool in Anhui Province in east China, no one could have imaginedthat only five months ago she had left school in her home in thecoastal province of Zheji ang because she had traveled with herparents who were working in ...
Non-Governmental High-tech Businesses Boom In Guizhou
Jan 08, 1999 ... Southwest China's Guizhou Province has been speeding up thedevelopment of local non-governmental scientific and technologicalbusinesses in recent years, and they have become a strong force ineconomic growth. The number of the enterprises involved rose from 800 in 1995 tomore than ...
Market Exchange Rates
Jan 08, 1999 ... The People's Bank of China today issued the market exchange ratesin RMB yuan against three major currencies. The middle price of RMByuan against convertible currencies is mainly based on the closingprice of the preceding interbank trading. The designated foreign exchange trading ...
Major News Items in Leading Australian Newspapers
Jan 08, 1999 ... The following are major news items in leading Australiannewspapers Friday. The Australian: The Australian share market bounded into unchartered territoryThursday, hitting a nine month high as investors took their leadfroma record-breaking performance on Wall Street.The ...
Major News Items in Leading Philippine Newspapers
Jan 08, 1999 ... The following are major news items in leading Philippinenewspapers Friday. The Philippine Post: Prevailing tight credit lines pushed the level of soured bankloans in the Philippines to 11.97 percent as of end of October 1998from 11.5 percent recorded in the first nine months ...
Kosir Leads after First Leg
Jan 08, 1999 ... Slovenia's Jure Kosir edged out 1994 Olympic champion AustrianThomas Stangassinger to lead after the first leg of a World Cupslalom in Schladming, Austria on Thursday. Kosir clocked 47.29 seconds before a crowd of some 30,000Austrianfans while the World Cup slalom leader ...
Indonesia Looks Ahead to Olympics
Jan 08, 1999 ... Indonesia is preparing squads in eight sporting disciplines forthe Sydney Olympics, an official of the country's sports governingbody KONI said here Thursday. The eight squads, which include boxing, weightlifting, ya chting,badminton, taekwondo, athletics, tennis and beach ...
China's Light Industry Output Grows by 9.7 Percent in 1998
Jan 08, 1999 ... China's light industry sector realized a gross output value ofsome 1,250 billion yuan in 1998, up 9.7 percent on an annual basis,according to the latest statistics from the State Administration ofLight Industry. The figures also indicated that pre-tax profits last year ...
China Newspaper Warns Overseas Investors of Mistakes
Jan 08, 1999 ... A leading Chinese economic newspaper has advised overseasinvestors to use world advanced technology, adapt themselves tomarket changes, study the regional differences in China's marketsandhire first-class management personnel to prevent losses when runningbusinesses in the ...
Beijing to Improve Service for Border Entry and Exit
Jan 08, 1999 ... Beijing's border entry and exit department has announced it willstart processing passport and visa applications every Saturday plusweekdays from January 9, this year. It has also pledged to increase efficiency during its daily 8-hourwork schedule and strictly observe relevant ...
Xinhua Weekly World News Schedule
Jan 08, 1999 ... The following is a list of major world events scheduled forJanuary 10 to 16: January 10 Kazakhstan holds presidential election. January 10-17 Bolivian parliamentary delegation headed byPresident Hugo Carvajal Donoso visits China.January 11 Argentine President ...
Xinhua Stock Index Up
Jan 08, 1999 ... Today's Xinhua A stock index rose 2.58 points to close at 130.29,and the Xinhua B stock index edged up 0.12 point to finish at 22.48. The Xinhua Stock index is ...
Viagra Undergoing Clinical Trial in China
Jan 08, 1999 ... China's drug administration is conducting clinical experiment onViagra, whose fate in China will be decided later this year, whentheresults of the study are released. Seven hospitals in the cities of Beijing, Shanghai, and Wuhan aretrying it out on about 600 male volunteers, ...
Van Roost Enters Final at Auckland Women's Tennis Tourney
Jan 08, 1999 ... Defending champion Dominique Van Roost of Belgium rallied fromoneset down to beat Austrian Barbara Schett 3-6, 6-1, 6-0 and reachedthe final at a women's tennis tournament at Auckland, New Zealand onFriday. Van Roost had a poor start against the fourth-seeded Austrian buttook ...
Ugandan MPs to Summon Vice President
Jan 08, 1999 ... The Uganda's parliamentary standing committee on national economyhas resolved to summon Vice President Specioza Kazibwe and twoministers over the stalled Budget Bill. The committee, chaired by Isaac Isanga Musumba, made the decisionThursday, the New Vision daily reported ...
Two Spaniards Withdraw from Seventh Stage
Jan 08, 1999 ... Spaniards Jose Maria Servia and Oscar Gallardo both withdrew fromthe Dakar rally seventh stage on Thursday. They began the day as leaders of the car and motorcycle classesrespectively. With car stuck in the dunes of the Nega desert in Mauritania,Servia fell out the ...
Two New Rice Mills to Be Set Up in Sri Lanka
Jan 08, 1999 ... The Sri Lankan government will spend 100 million rupees (1.5million U.S. dollars) to establish two new rice mills to processmorerice, the official Daily News reported Friday. Chairman of the Cooperative Wholesale Establishment (CWE) S.P.Chandradasa told the paper that the new ...
Turkey Bans Forced Virginity Testing
Jan 08, 1999 ... Turkish Minister of Justice Hasan Denizkurdu has issued a decreeto stop the practice of forced gynecological exams to determine ifwomen and girls are virgins. Local Daily News Friday quoted Denizkurdu as saying that girls instate orphanages, prisoners and sometimes even foreign ...
Transactions at Manila Stock Exchange
Jan 08, 1999 ... The following are transactions at the Manila Stock ExchangeFriday: Total shares ...
Trading on Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Jan 08, 1999 ... Following are Hang Seng Index (key indicator of Hong Kong's bluechips), Hang Seng China Enterprises Index, Hang Seng China-AffiliatedCorporations Index and turnover on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange onFriday: Index: FridayThursdayChange Hang Seng Index ...
Three Thai Fishermen Held Hostage by Cambodians
Jan 08, 1999 ... A group of heavily-armed Cambodians attacked two Thai fishingvessels and held three crewmen hostage, the Bangkok Post said onFriday. The incident occurred on Thursday night about six nautical milesaway from Kood island off the Thai Chanthaburi Province, thenewspaper ...
Thais Get Warning to Reduce Water Usage
Jan 08, 1999 ... The Metropolitan Waterworks Authority (MWA) of Thailand willstartreducing water volume released for public consumption by up to 15percent this month while officials are kicking off nationalwater-saving campaign to prepare the country for what is expected tobe the worst shortage in ...
Thai National Carrier Set to Raise Air Fares
Jan 08, 1999 ... Thai Airways International (THAI) will raise domestic fares by13.5-13.7 percent under a proposal by the Transport andCommunications Ministry, aviation sources said on Friday. The fare per flight will go up by about 200 baht (5.5 USdollars),according to the proposal. But it did ...
Sri Lanka Initiates Primary Education Reforms
Jan 08, 1999 ... Reforms in primary education are implemented in Sri Lanka's stateschools from Friday, which aim at identifying each child as anindividual to introduce them to the formal educational system tosuittheir own individuality. Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga said in a ...
Southeast China Has Warm Winter This Year
Jan 08, 1999 ... It is a sight rarely seen in winter on the streets of Fuzhou ineastern China's Fujian Province: young women still wearing skirtsandyoung men in shirt sleeves. Mr. Zhou, a shop assistant, is walking with goods on hisshoulder,and says,"I don't feel cold at all though I am just ...
Shenzhen Stock Index Up
Jan 08, 1999 ... The Component Stock Index on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange closedat2,981.13 points today, up 68.00 points from the previous session,according to the Guangfa Securities Co ....
shanghai stocks
Jan 08, 1999 ... The Composite Stock Index on the Shanghai Stock Exchange finishedat 1,168.81 points today, up 31.08 points from the previous session,according to the Guangfa Securities Co. Ltd. The SSE-30 index, based on 30 blue chips selected from more than400 A shares for domestic ...
Roundup: Myanmar Greens Arid Zone in Central Region
Jan 08, 1999 ... Since 1992, Myanmar has been implementing a greening andenvironmental project for the arid zone in the central part of thecountry, aimed at systematic conservation of forests to maintainsustainable yield of forest products. It initiated the greening projects in nine districts of ...
Results of Auckland Women's Tennis Tourney
Jan 08, 1999 ... Following are the semi-final results from a women's tennistournament in Auckland, New Zealand, on Friday (prefix ...
Results From Hopman Cup Mixed Team Tournament
Jan 08, 1999 ... Following are results from the Hopman Cup Mixed Teams Tenniseventin Perth of Australia on Friday: Round robin matches: Sweden beat Switzerland 2-1Martina Hingis, Switzerland, bt Asa Carlsson, Sweden, 6-2, 6-2Jonas Bjorkman, ...
Results from Australian Men's Hardcourt Championships
Jan 08, 1999 ... Following are results in the Australian Men's HardcourtChampionships on Friday in Adelaide of Australia on Friday: Slava Dosedel, ...
Results from Australian Women's Hardcourt Championships
Jan 08, 1999 ... Following are results on the sixth day of the 165,000 U.S. dollarAustralian Women's Hardcourt Championships at the Hope Island TennisClub on Gold Coast, Australia, on Friday (prefix denotes seeding): Singles semifinals: 1-Mary Pierce, France, bt 3-Irina Spirlea, Romania, 4-6, ...
Relics Verify Tianjin History
Jan 08, 1999 ... Archeologists from the Tianjin History Museum have concluded thatthe northern port city has a history dating back over 8,000 years They reached their conclusion based on extensive studies ofrelicsdiscovered at the Qingchi Ruins in Jixian County to the north ...
Rain Disrupts Championship's Schedule
Jan 08, 1999 ... The match between Patrick Rafter and Slava Dosedel previouslyslated for Thursday will be played Friday as rain disrupted theschedule at the Australian Men's Hardcourt Tennis Championship inAdelaide. The match between the the U.S. Open champion Australian and theCzech was ...
Rafter Knocked out of Championships in Adelaide
Jan 08, 1999 ... Dual U.S. Open champion Patrick Rafter was knocked out of theAdelaide Men's Hardcourt Championships in the second round inAdelaide, Australia, on Friday in a shock upset by Czech veteranSlava Dosedel. Dosedel, ranked 64th in the world, eliminated the world No.4 7-5,6-4 in a ...
Rafter Beaten at Australian Hardcourt Tourney
Jan 08, 1999 ... World No. 4 Patrick Rafter suffered a surprising second-round 7-5,6-4 defeat at the hands of world No. 64 Czech Slava Kosedel at theAustralian Men's Hardcourt Tennis Championship in Adelaide onFriday. The clash between two-time U.S. Open champion Rafter and lowlyCzech was ...
Persons Responsible For Chinese Coal Mine Disaster Detained
Jan 08, 1999 ... Ten persons who have been held responsible for a gas explosionthat claimed the lives of 30 people at a coal mine in China's HenanProvince on December 12, 1998, were detained recently as an inquiryis carried out. They include the man in charge of the mine and his deputy, ...
People's Daily Criticizes U.S. Report (1)
Jan 08, 1999 ... Today's edition of People's Daily, China's leading officialnewspaper, carried a commentator's article criticizing the so-called"Investigation Report on Technology Transfers to China" adopted bythe U.S congressional Ad Hoc Committee on China and TechnologyTransfers. The article ...
No Deal Yet on DRC Cease-fire: Chiluba
Jan 08, 1999 ... Zambian President Frederick Chiluba said there was no consensusfor a cease-fire in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) conflict,but he was optimistic that talks planned for next week in Lusakawould be fruitful. Chiluba was speaking Thursday after a two-hour meeting withRwandan ...
News Items From Asia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua
Jan 08, 1999 ... Following are news items from the Asia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua inHong Kong Friday: hke010801 afghan Taliban Releases Another 264POWs of Opposition hke010802 Governor Rule in Sindh Province toContinue: PM hke010803 Bus Service Not to Help Improve Pak-IndiaTies: FM hke010804 Major News ...
New Zealand Stocks Close Lower
Jan 08, 1999 ... The New Zealand sharemarket closed lower here Friday after astrong gain early this week. The NZSE40 Index ended 11 points lower at 2,160 with a turnover of 97 million NZ dollars (52.6 million U.S. dollars).Among the leading stocks, AMP was the biggest loser, falling 40cents ...
Myanmar to Hand Down Deterrent Sentences on Drug
Jan 08, 1999 ... The Myanmar Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control (CCDAC) isdeliberating deterrent sentences on drug offenders as part of itsmeasures to step up drug fight in the country. A coordination meeting of the work committees of the CCDAC, heldhere Thursday, also covered drug education ...
MOFTEC Offers Training to Private Firms
Jan 08, 1999 ... China's Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation(MOFTEC) plans to sponsor training sessions for 20 private firmsrecently granted import and export authority. MOFTEC sources said here today that the training sessions aredesigned to familiarize the firms with China's ...
Major News Items in Leading Indian Newspapers
Jan 08, 1999 ... The following are major news items in leading Indian newspapersFriday. The Hindustan Times: Bus service is set to go on a final dry run Friday betweenIndia'scapital and Lahore, Pakistan, and actual service will start laterthis month.The Times of ...
Major News Items in Leading Pakistani Newspapers
Jan 08, 1999 ... The following are major news items in leading Pakistaninewspaperson Friday. The News: Terrorists stirring sectarian troubles wanted to harm Pakistan'srelations with its key Muslim neighbor and ally, Iran, a spokesmanfor the Foreign Office said here Thursday.The ...
Major News Items in Leading Kenyan Newspapers
Jan 08, 1999 ... The following are major news items in leading Kenyan newspapersFriday. Kenya Times: Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi held talks Thursday at StateHouse in Nakuru, southwest Kenya with visiting Chinese governmentdelegation led by Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan.Daily ...
Major News Items in Leading S. African Newspapers
Jan 08, 1999 ... The following are major news items in leading South Africannewspapers Friday: The Citizen: Police fired stun grenades Thursday to disperse a group ofradicalMoslems protesting against visiting British Prime Minister TonyBlairand joint American-British air strikes against ...
Major News Items in Leading Turkish Newspapers
Jan 08, 1999 ... The following are the major news items in leading Turkishnewspapers on Friday. Hurriyet (Freedom) Turkish President Suleyman Demirel Thursday re-assigneddemocraticLeft Party (DSP) leader Bulent Ecevit to form a new government.Demirel made the decision after True Path Party ...
Major News Items in Leading Israeli Newspapers
Jan 08, 1999 ... The following are major news items in leading Israeli newspapersFriday. The Jerusalem Post: Labor legislator Shimon Peres, who met with Palestinian NationalAuthority President Yasser Arafat Thursday, said Arafat told him hewould not declare a Palestinian state if the stalled ...
Major News Items in Leading Nigerian Newspapers
Jan 08, 1999 ... Following are major news items in leading Nigerian newspapersFriday. New Nigerian: The transition to civil rule program will enter its crucial stageSaturday when Nigerians once again troop to polling stations toelect36 state governors and 984 state legislators for the ...
Major News Items in Leading Egyptian Newspapers
Jan 08, 1999 ... The following are major news items in leading Egyptian newspaperson Friday. Al Ahram: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met Thursday with visitingJapanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura on regional andinternational issues, economic cooperation and means of ...
Laser World Championship Results
Jan 08, 1999 ... Following are results on the second day of the Laser WorldChampionships in Melbourne, Australia on Friday: 1. Ben Ainslie, Britain, 13 points 1. (equal) ...
Lack of Funds Hampers AIDS Education in Tanzania
Jan 08, 1999 ... Lack of funds, textbooks and teachers has prevented Tanzania fromeffectively carrying out AIDS education among students, an officialwith the Ministry of Education and Culture has said. M. Sawaya, a coordinator of School AIDS Education Program of theministry, was quoted by Friday's ...
Kenya to start AIDS Education in School
Jan 08, 1999 ... The Kenyan government will soon start an education campaignagainst AIDS in schools across the country, Xinhua learned hereFriday. The Kenyan Ministry of Health said students, teachers and parentswill, beginning next month, be shown films and given lectures on ...
Kenya's Economic Growth Distressed
Jan 08, 1999 ... Contrary to official estimates that show the Kenyan economy grewat 1.6 percent in 1998, the Economist Intelligence Unit saidproductive activities rose only by a distressing one percent, astatistic which will marginally improve to 1.6 percent this year. In its latest country report ...
Jones to Defend Titles against Challenger Frazier
Jan 08, 1999 ... WBC and WBA light-heavyweight champion Roy Jones will defend hiscrowns in a bout against challenger Richard Frazier in his hometownPensacola, Florida on Saturday. Jones is 38-1 with 32 knockouts. Frazier is 18-3 with one drawnand seven knockouts. Jones will be 30 one week ...
Israeli Universities to Hook up to NASA
Jan 08, 1999 ... Israel's universities will be linked by a special computerconnection to the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administrationto get reliable digital data about the Earth, The Jerusalem Postreported Friday. The newspaper quoted Science Ministry officials as saying ...
Israel to Market lots for Homes in West Bank
Jan 08, 1999 ... Israeli Housing Ministry is to market lots in the Palestinianterritories for building 3,729 residential units, according to aministry document carried by the local paper Ha'aretz Friday. The document said that another 1,320 lots are to be madeavailableat the politically ...
Israel to Provide Technological Assistance to Hubei
Jan 08, 1999 ... A delegation of Israeli agricultural experts will go to Hubeiprovince in central China from January 11 to 15 to help localfarmers, according to sources from the Israeli Embassy here today. The delegation, consisting of experts on soil science, vegetablegrowing and greenhouse ...
Investments in Bangladesh's Two EPZs Rise to 320.2 Mln
Jan 08, 1999 ... The investments in Bangladesh's Dhaka and Chittagong exportprocessing zones (EPZs) rose to about 320.2 million U.S. dollars inthe last two fiscal years against cumulative investments of 197.5million dollars in the previous 13 years till the 1995-96 fiscalyear, The Financial Express daily ...