Xinhua News Agency back issues from Tuesday, February 16:
NZ Researchers Discover Blood Test for Cancer
Feb 16, 1999 ... Two Wellington Researchers have discovered a blood test forcancer, in a breakthrough that has huge potential for diagnosis andtreatment of cancer. Until now, there has been no simple blood test for cancer. Thenew test is not restricted to detecting a particular type of cancerand ...
New Envelope Introduced for New Year Card
Feb 16, 1999 ... People rushing to post offices to send good wishes for the LunarNew Year, which falls on February 16, will find new envelopes onsalefor holiday cards and invitations. Two kinds of pre-paid envelopes incorporating three designs weremade available from February 10 countrywide ....
Major News Items in Leading Australian Newspapers
Feb 16, 1999 ... The following are major news items in leading Australiannewspapers Tuesday. The Australian: Prime Minister John Howard's push to soften the capital gains taxappears likely to win guarded backing from the government'shigh-powered Review of Business Taxation next week, ...
Major News Items in Leading Philippine Newspapers
Feb 16, 1999 ... The following are major news items in leading Philippinenewspapers Tuesday. Manila Bulletin: Philippine Airlines reported Monday an accumulated net loss of 10billion pesos (250 million U.S. dollars) for the first nine monthsofits fiscal year ending March 1999, almost double ...
Major Chinese Grain Producer Opening up Agriculture
Feb 16, 1999 ... East China's Anhui Province, one of the country's major grainproducers, plans to open its agricultural sector wider to theoutsideworld in a bid to accelerate agricultural modernization. An official from the provincial agricultural department said thatpriority will be given to the ...
Chinese Looking For New Way To Celebrate New Year
Feb 16, 1999 ... A recent survey of people in the northern Chinese city of Tianjinshowed that they have changed their ideas about the lunar New Yearand are moving away from family gatherings toward other kinds ofactivities. Many want to spend this year's Spring Festival, which falls onFebruary ...
Weekly Highlights of China's Trade News
Feb 16, 1999 ... Weekly Highlights of China's Trade News (February 8-15): China is to hold its first International Agricultural Science andTechnology Exposition this November in the city of Dongguan insouthern China's Guangdong Province. China imported 21 airbuses last year with a total value ...
Urgent Uzbek State TV Says President Safe After Explosions
Feb 16, 1999 ... The explosions which rocked the center of the Uzbek capitalTashkent early Tuesday were directed against President IslamKarimov,according to a report by the state television reaching here. The report said that Karimov was sound. Four ...
URGENT Ocalan Brought Back to Turkey
Feb 16, 1999 ... Turkey's most wanted man, Kurdish Workers Party leader AbdullahOcalan, was brought back to Turkey on Tuesday, Prime Minister BulentEcevit announced. The prime ...
URGENT: Ocalan Captured by Turkey
Feb 16, 1999 ... Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, who Turkey has been seekingfor waging a guerilla war for autonomy, was brought back to Turkeyearly Tuesday, Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit announced. "We had promised that the state would catch him, we have kept ourpromise," Ecevit ...
Urgent Kurds Break Into Greek Embassy in Moscow
Feb 16, 1999 ... About 30 Kurds broke into the yard of the Greek embassy in MoscowTuesday protesting Greece's decision to extradite Kurdish ...
URGENT Kurds in Vienna seize Greek ambassador
Feb 16, 1999 ... Kurdish protesters burst into the Greek and Kenyan embassiesearlyTuesday, taking Greek ambassador and his wife as hostages, and setthe Kenyan mission on fire, the Austria Press Agency said. The Kurds' action was part of a protest campaign at embassiesthroughout Europe against the ...
UNHCR Pledges Aid for Displaced Sri Lankans
Feb 16, 1999 ... The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) haspledged 248 million rupees (3.64 million U.S. dollars) aid to assistdisplaced Sri Lankans in the Northern province. Of this amount 77,683,007 rupees (1.14 million dollars) will beprovided to government for rehabilitation ...
Uganda to Re-Issue Visas for UK Citizens
Feb 16, 1999 ... Uganda will begin issuing visas next month to foreigners whosecountries of origin demand visas from Ugandans. The decision by the cabinet is expected to take effect from March1 this year, the Monitor daily reported Tuesday. This move will affect all Ugandan missions abroad. ...
U.S. Company Invests in Sri Lankan Textile Industry
Feb 16, 1999 ... The Mast Industries Group of the United States has invested inanother textile factory in Sri Lanka which commenced operationsrecently, the Board of Investment said Tuesday. Leisureline (Pvt) Ltd., at the Katunayake Export Processing Zonein the Western province, will manufacture ...
Transactions at Manila Stock Exchange
Feb 16, 1999 ... The following are transactions at the Manila Stock ExchangeTuesday: Total shares ...
Tibetan Antelope Finds Friends in Nature (1)
Feb 16, 1999 ... A Beijing-based independent environmental organization haslaunched a campaign to save the Tibetan antelope, an endangeredspecies which is being killed illegally to make the shahtooshshawls. Liang Congjie, president of China's most active independentenvironmental group, Friends of ...
Sweden to Give 22.5 Mln Dollars as grant to
Feb 16, 1999 ... The Swedish government will provide Bangladesh with a grant of22.5 million U.S, dollars for rehabilitation of those affected intherecent floods, the Daily Star newspaper reported Tuesday. The grant will be given through the Swedish InternationalDevelopment Cooperation Agency, ...
SOCOG Confidents About 2000 Olympics Budget
Feb 16, 1999 ... Sydney Olympic Organizing Committee (SOCOG) President MichaelKnight said Tuesday he is optimistic about the running of the 2000Summer Olympic Games even if organizers fail to meet the revenuetarget. "I'm confident the existing sponsors will remain. However, youcan run a pretty ...
Philippines' Trade Deficit Posts Big Drop in 1998
Feb 16, 1999 ... The Philippines' trade deficit dropped to 164 million U.S.dollarsin 1998, the lowest in 26 years, after the country reduced itsimports by 17.5 percent in the year, the National Statistics Officesaid Tuesday. In a report released here, the office said that total ...
Philippines to Amend Law for Mindanao Peace
Feb 16, 1999 ... As part of his commitment to pursue lasting peace in the SouthernPhilippines, President Joseph Estrada Tuesday certified as urgent abill in the congress proposing to amend the Organic Act for MuslimMindanao. Estrada signed the certification calling for speedy passage ofthebill ...
Pakistani Rice Export Expected to Pick Up
Feb 16, 1999 ... Pakistani rice export is assumed to pick up within this month,making the target of rice export value of 700 million U.S. dollarsachievable in the fiscal year of 1998-99, an official source saidTuesday. Export of rice in Pakistan has undergone a marginal decline of7.3percent in ...
No. 1 Subway Line Opens in Guangzhou
Feb 16, 1999 ... Guangzhou City, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, hasopened No. 1 line of its subway to the public to greet the ChineseSpring Festival today. The 18.48-kilometer subway, starting from Xilang to EasternRailway Station, has 16 stations and it can daily transfer ...
News Items from Asia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua
Feb 16, 1999 ... Following are news items from the Asia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua inHong Kong Tuesday: hke021601 Indonesian President Reveals Move byPrabowo in May 1998 hke021602 NZ Researchers Discover Blood Test for Cancerhke021603 Major News Items in Leading Australian Newspapershke021604 ...
New Zealand PM Attends China's Traditional
Feb 16, 1999 ... New Zealand Prime Minister Jenny Shipley Tuesday Joined NewZealanders of Chinese origin in celebrating the arrival of China'sRabbit Year. According to China's lunar calendar, this year's February 16th isthe first day of China's Rabbit Year. To celebrate the traditionalChinese ...
New Zealand Stocks Close Higher
Feb 16, 1999 ... The New Zealand sharemarket closed higher here Tuesday. The NZSE40 Index ended 5 points higher at 2,152 with a turnover of 77 million NZ dollars (41.6 million U.S. dollars).Among the leading stocks, AMP gained 25 cents to 2,210 cents, LionNathan and Air New Zealand 10 each ...
New Envelope Introduced for New Year Card
Feb 16, 1999 ... People rushing to post offices to send good wishes for the LunarNew Year, which falls on February 16, will find new envelopes onsalefor holiday cards and invitations. Two kinds of stamped envelopes incorporating three designs weremade available from February 10 countrywide. There ...
Myanmar to Improve Justice Administration
Feb 16, 1999 ... Myanmar has opened the first special refresher course as aspecialprogram for judicial officers to improve administration of justiceinthe country. The six-week course, which began here Monday, is aimed atenablingthe judicial officers to have correct views, outlook and thought, ...
Museveni Condemns Bombings in Kampala
Feb 16, 1999 ... Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has condemned Sunday night'sterrorist bombings in Kampala's suburb of Kabalagala which killedfour and injured more than 30 others. In a press release Tuesday, Museveni said he was shocked andsaddened to learn that four people has lost their lives ...
More Chinese People Spend Spring Festival by Traveling Overseas
Feb 16, 1999 ... On the eve of Chinese Spring Festival, which falls today, LuoHonghong's four-member family in Ningbo City, east China's ZhejiangProvince, started their holiday tour to Hong Kong, Macao andThailand. Along with Luo's family on board the airplane, there were morethan 70 Ningbo ...
Major News Items in Leading Japanese Newspapers
Feb 16, 1999 ... The following are major news items in leading Japanese newspapersTuesday. Asahi: The approval rating of Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi' scabinet has risen to 37 percent, up from 32 percent in January andthe highest level since Obuchi came to office in July last year, ...
Major News Items in Leading Pakistani Newspapers
Feb 16, 1999 ... The following are major news items in leading Pakistani Englishnewspapers on Tuesday. The News: Hinting at 10-11 percent raise in the electricity tariff by nextmonth to save the bankrupt Water and Power Development Authorities,Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar Monday said ...
Major News Items in Leading Indian Newspapers
Feb 16, 1999 ... The following are major news items in leading Indian newspapersTuesday. The Hindustan Times: On the eve of Delhi Police week, three cases of murder have beenreported in the Capital in the last 24 hours.The Times of India:Pakistan Prime Minister Sharif Nawaz said on Monday ...
Major News Items in Leading Kenyan Newspapers
Feb 16, 1999 ... The following are major news items in Leading Kenyan newspapersTuesday. Kenya Times: The Nairobi City Council is losing 60 million Shillings (almostone million U.S. Dollars) per month through illegal waterconnections, car wash and leaks from the main water supply ...
Major News Items in Leading S. African Newspapers
Feb 16, 1999 ... The following are major news items in leading South Africannewspapers Tuesday: The Citizen: South African Health Minister Nkosazana Zuma Monday dismissedsuggestions that she would become deputy president in thepost-election cabinet.The Star:Johannesburg High Court judge ...
Major News Items in Leading Nigerian Newspapers
Feb 16, 1999 ... Following are major news items in leading Nigerian newspapersTuesday. The Guardian: A delicate reconstruction of the Nigerian federation is likelyunder a People's Democratic Party government, according to GeneralOlusegun Obasanjo.The Post Express:The national convention ...
Major News Items in Leading Egyptian Newspapers
Feb 16, 1999 ... The following are major news items in leading Egyptian newspaperson Tuesday. Al-Akhbar: Russian Ambassador to Egypt Vladimir Goudev on Monday reiteratedhis country's support for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak'initiative on rendering the Middle East a zone free from all ...
Major News Items in Leading Turkish Newspapers
Feb 16, 1999 ... The following are major news items in leading Turkish newspaperson Tuesday. Zaman(Time) Visiting Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz warned theUnitedStates not to interfere in the bilateral ties between Iraq andTurkey."The security of Turkey is in connection with the ...
Macao Business People Celebrate Chinese New Year
Feb 16, 1999 ... Hundreds of business people and local celebrities held a partythis morning to celebrate the first day of Chinese New Year. Ma Man Kei, president of the Macao Chamber of Commerce, called onMacao residents to make unremitting efforts in the new year so as toboost Macao's economic ...
Kuwait Denies Talks with Maradona to Coach National Team
Feb 16, 1999 ... Kuwait sports officials Monday denied reports that they hadopenedtalks with former Argentinian football superstar Diego Maradonaaimedat hiring him to coach the Gulf state's national team following theresignation of its Czech trainer. An official aide to Sheikh Ahmed Fahed ...
Kurds Leave Compound of Greek Embassy in Moscow
Feb 16, 1999 ... About 30 Kurds, who broke into the yard of the Greek Embassy inMoscow earlier Tuesday, agreed to leave the mission's compound aftertalks with police, Itar-Tass reported. The Kurds said they staged the action to protest Greece'sdecisionto extradite Kurdish Workers Party leader ...
Kenya to be Hit by Famine: Experts
Feb 16, 1999 ... Kenya will be hit by a severe famine in the next two months whichcan only be compared to that of 1984, climate and agriculturalexperts have predicted. According to information released at the just-concluded ClimateOutlook Forum for Eastern Africa in Kampala of Uganda, the ...
Joint Indo-Lanka Venture to Expand Cashew Exports
Feb 16, 1999 ... India and Sri Lanka will soon set up a joint venture to expandcashew exports of both countries, the official Daily News reportedonTuesday. Managing Director of the Indian Cashew Manufacturers' AssociationT. Pillai who was in Sri Lanka recently agreed to collaborate ...
Indonesian President Reveals Move by Prabowo in May
Feb 16, 1999 ... Indonesian President B.J. Habibie Monday revealed, for the firsttime, military movements launched by Lieut. Gen. Prabowo May 22last year following the down-fall of former president Soeharto,Prabowo's father-in-law. In a impromptu speech delivered before participants of the ...
Highlights of Beijing-Based Newspapers
Feb 16, 1999 ... Highlights of today's major Beijing-based newspapers: On the Spring Festival today, all major newspapers carried thereport about Chinese President Jiang Zemin's and Premier ZhuRongji'sSpring Festival greetings to the Chinese people of various ethnicgroups including compatriots in ...
French Yachtwoman Fighting for Survival in Southern Ocean
Feb 16, 1999 ... French yachtswoman Isabelle Autissier was fighting for survivalTuesday after apparently capsizing in the Southern Ocean during thesolo around the world race, organizers said on Tuesday. Fellow race competitor, Italian Giovanni Soldini, had turnedsouthinto mountainous seas and bad ...
Foreign Exchange Rates in Pakistan
Feb 16, 1999 ... The following are major foreign exchange rates against thePakistani rupee released Tuesday by the Overseas Banking Division ofthe National Bank of Pakistan. Tuesday Monday U.S. dollar 45.9500/46.2800 45.9500/46.2800British pound ...
Foreign Exchange Rates in New Zealand
Feb 16, 1999 ... The following are the foreign exchange rates against the NewZealand dollar here on Tuesday: TuesdayMonday Australian dollar0.8422 ...
Foreign Exchange Rates in Philippines
Feb 16, 1999 ... Following are foreign exchange rates against the Philippine pesoreleased Tuesday by the Central Bank of the Philippines: Tuesday Monday U.S. dollar38.5990 38.4600Japanese yen0.3383 0.3371British pound 63.0488 ...
Foreign Exchange Rates in Indonesia
Feb 16, 1999 ... The following are foreign exchange rates against Indonesianrupiahhere on Tuesday: Tuesday Monday U.S. dollar 8,400/8,800 8,400/8,800Australian dollar 5,350/5,750 5,400/5,800Singapore dollar4,850/5,250 4,850/5,250Hong Kong ...
Estrada to Visit Mindanao Despite Death Threats
Feb 16, 1999 ... Philippine President Joseph Estrada will push through his visittoMindanao, the southern Philippines, later this month to make peacewith rebels despite death threats, a senior official said Tuesday. In a radio interview here, Executive Secretary Ronaldo Zamorasaidthat Estrada ...
EDS-Update with Details
Feb 16, 1999 ... About 30 Kurds broke into the yard of the Greek Embassy in MoscowTuesday protesting Greece's decision to extradite Kurdish WorkersParty leader Abdullah Ocalan to Kenyan authorities. Police has cordoned off the embassy, in downtown Moscow, Itar-Tass reported. Russian Deputy ...
EDS-Update with details
Feb 16, 1999 ... Explosions rocked Tashkent early Tuesday were an attempt on thelife of Uzbek President Islam Karimov, government televisionannounced. Karimov was not hurt. There were five explosions heard in the central Tashkent near thebuildings of the Interior Ministry, the Foreign Trade Bank ...
Crackdown on Video Games Near Schools in Phnom Penh
Feb 16, 1999 ... Phnom Penh municipality has managed to reduce the presence ofvideo games arcades near schools dramatically since it launch afreshcrackdown on gambling and gaming outlets in the city last month. "The crackdown is very successful and right now there are hardlyany video games ...
Congo (K) Rebels Launch Major Offensive
Feb 16, 1999 ... Rebels and their backers in eastern Congo (K) have launched amajor offensive on all fronts, particularly in the north andsoutheast, despite efforts for a peaceful resolution to the conflictbeing spearheaded by Zambian President Frederick Chiluba. The daily Herald Tuesday quoted the ...
Cholera Kills 42 in Lusaka
Feb 16, 1999 ... Cholera has killed 42 people in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia,since the disease broke out last month, according to the Lusaka CityCouncil (LCC). The LCC has, with immediate effect, banned street vending of allfresh foods and has put hotels and restaurants on 24-hoursurveillance, ...
Bulletin: Kurdish PKK Leader Arrested by Turkey
Feb 16, 1999 ... Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the rebel Kurdistan Workers ...
Bombs Planted Against Americans: Officer
Feb 16, 1999 ... The bombs, which killed at least four people and injured 35otherson Sunday night, is said to target foreigners, especially U.S.citizens who frequent the two bars in the suburb of Kabalagala. Tuesday's New Vision paper quoted some senior police officer assaying that the terrorists ...
Bleak Months Ahead For Angolan War Victims
Feb 16, 1999 ... The World Food Program (WFP) sounded an alarm over the worseningcondition of more than half a million Angolans who have been forcedto flee their homes in fear of the fighting, according to a newsrelease from the agency's Nairobi office available here Tuesday. WFP said reports of ...
Bangladesh Plans to Launch Credit-Providing Project
Feb 16, 1999 ... The Bangladeshi government plans to launch a project to providecredit to the non-bank financial institutions to meet liquiditycrisis of those institutions, an English newspaper reported Tuesday. The project will be implemented in collaboration with the WorldBank (WB) which is ...
Bangladesh's High Court Issues Rule on Hartal
Feb 16, 1999 ... The High Court Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court on Mondayissued a rule upon the ruling and the opposition parties and thegovernment to "show cause why pro- and anti-hartal activities shallnot be declared cognizable offense," newspapers here reportedTuesday. It is for the ...
Australian Stocks Close Lower
Feb 16, 1999 ... The Australian sharemarket slipped lower Tuesday amid profittaking on many top industrial stocks. The benchmark all ordinaries index closed 18.4 points softer at2859.4, recovering from an intraday low of 2851.1 points. With no lead from Wall Street Monday night, the U.S. market ...
Australian Dollar Closes Softer as Yen Falls
Feb 16, 1999 ... The Australian dollar lost about two thirds of a U.S. centTuesdayas the Japanese yen took a dive against the U.S. currency. Deutsche Bank currency strategist Tim Moloney said comments fromaJapanese official welcoming a weaker Japanese yen saw that currencyfall, dragging the ...
Australia Prepared to Take Cricket Indoors
Feb 16, 1999 ... Australian cricket officials are prepared to take limited oversinternationals indoors for the first time next year following twowashouts this season, according to reports. Australian Cricket Board chief executive Mal Speed said the new52,000-seat Docklands Stadium in Melbourne ...
ADB New President to Visit Indonesia
Feb 16, 1999 ... The new president of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), TadaoChino, is slated to visit Indonesia between February 16 and 18,1999,and will have a talk with President B.J. Habibie, official AntaraNews Agency reported Tuesday. Chino, who was appointed the new ADB president last month, ...