Xinhua News Agency back issues from Tuesday, April 27:
UNICEF Aid Project Implemented in East China Province
Apr 27, 1999 ... An aid project supported by the United Nations Children's Fund(UNICEF) to improve health conditions in east China's JiangxiProvince has been accomplished as scheduled with more than 700,000flood victims benefiting. Jiangxi was one of the Chinese provinces hit hardest by ...
U.N. Provides Aid for Myanmar's Border Areas
Apr 27, 1999 ... Two United Nations agencies provided a total of 26.9 million U.S.dollars of aid to Myanmar for its border areas development duringthepast ten years, according to a latest official report on thedevelopment. Of the aid, 11.9 million dollars were extended by the U.N.Development ...
Tibet Developing Compulsory Education
Apr 27, 1999 ... Seventeen of the Tibet Autonomous Region's 75 counties have nowadopted the six-year mandatory education program. Between them these seventeen counties have a combined populationof 678,100, accounting for 27.9 percent of Tibet's population. At the same time, four of them have ...
Thailand's Trade Surplus Improves for 19th Straight
Apr 27, 1999 ... Thailand's trade surplus in March of this year grew for the 19thstraight month by 17.5 billion baht (510 million U.S. dollars),according to the Customs Department of the Thai government. The value of exports in March declined year-on-year in baht termsby 1.4 percent to 177.9 ...
Source of Hong Kong's Drinking Water Protected
Apr 27, 1999 ... East China's Jiangxi Province has just launched a new campaign toafforest the Sanbai Mountains, where the Dongjiang River, whichsupplies drinking water to Hong Kong, originates. More than 1,000 volunteers from the province will plant over 100hectares of maples around the river ...
Shanghai Reports Negative Population Growth
Apr 27, 1999 ... China's largest city of Shanghai has registered a populationdecline for seven consecutive years, with a 1998 drop of 1.8 perthousand. The latest statistics show an annual birth rate of 5.3 perthousand and a death rate of 7.1 per thousand for last year. Thatmeans a natural ...
Shanghai Industry Grows 11.3 Percent In First Quarter
Apr 27, 1999 ... Shanghai, China's economic and financial center, completed anindustrial output value of 133.5 billion yuan in the first quarter,up 11.3 percent over the same period last year. The municipality's statistics bureau said that the industrycontributed 45.3 percent of its GDP and that ...
Shanghai Invests More Abroad
Apr 27, 1999 ... Shanghai, China's leading industrial and commercial city, is nowworking out an overall plan for more enterprises to invest abroad. According to a source with the municipal government, the new planwill encourage local businesses to establish research institutes aswell as trade and ...
Roof of World Used to be Damp Area
Apr 27, 1999 ... Chinese scientists have found a range of fossils during acomprehensive scientific survey on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, knownas the "Roof of the World", according to a book published hererecently. "The fossils are leaves of a broadleaf tree from a subtropicalzone," said Wu Yuhu, ...
Philippines' Treasury Bill Yields Fall to 2-Year Low
Apr 27, 1999 ... Philippines' Treasury bill yields declined Monday to their lowestin two years after the Central Bank cut its closely watched interestrates anew to spur bank lending, the Manila Times reported Tuesday. At an auction of government securities, the average rate for thebellwether 91-day ...
Old-folks Home for Returned Overseas Chinese
Apr 27, 1999 ... North China's Tianjin Municipality has recently opened anold-folks home for senior returned overseas Chinese and theirrelatives, the first one of its kind among the over 80 old-folkshomes in the city. Officials with the Tianjin Municipal Office of Overseas ChineseAffairs said ...
More Poor People in Ningxia Move to Better-Off Area
Apr 27, 1999 ... More than 33,700 poor rural residents are expected to beresettledin newly built villages in the Hongsibao Irrigated Area, innorthwestChina's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, this year. Built on a former artillery shooting range the area covers 50,000ha of land along the Yellow ...
Measures Called for Protection of Pine Trees in Mt. Huangshan
Apr 27, 1999 ... Experts from the Chinese Research Institute of Forestry and theState Forestry Administration have called for measures to combatnematodiasis, a plant disease endangering pines in the HuangshanMountain in east China's Anhui Province. Huangshan, a scenic spot and tourism destination, ...
Market Exchange Rates
Apr 27, 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 Philippine Newspapers
Apr 27, 1999 ... The following are major news items in leading Philippinenewspapers Tuesday. Journal: President Joseph Estrada said Monday that his government canhandle the peace talks with the National Democratic Front withoutthehelp of a third party, like the Church.Today:Barely two ...
Major News Items in Leading Japanese Newspapers
Apr 27, 1999 ... The following are major news items in leading Japanese newspapersTuesday. Asahi, Yomiuri, Mainichi, Nihon Keizai: A special committee of Japan's House of Representatives on Mondayapproved three bills to implement the updated Japan-U.S. defensecooperation guidelines, which ...
Major News Items in Leading Australian Newspapers
Apr 27, 1999 ... The following are major news items in leading Australiannewspapers Tuesday. The Australian: Former Australian prime minister Malcolm Fraser said Monday thatSteve Pratt's use of military language had contributed to his arrestas a spy in Yugoslavia.The Sydney Morning ...
Highlights of Beijing-Based Newspapers
Apr 27, 1999 ... Highlights of today's major Beijing-based newspapers: "People's Daily" In a special commentary on the frontpage, the leading nationalnewspaper urged local Party and government officials at and abovethecounty level to do a good job in carrying out "three stresses" ...
Foreign Investments on Indonesia's Agribusiness
Apr 27, 1999 ... Although the total foreign direct investments (PMA) in Indonesialast year dropped by 70 percent, in fact the value of PMA inagribusiness doubled to 998.5 million U.S. dollars last year from465.3 million U.S. dollars a year before. State Minister for Investment Hamzah Haz, who is ...
East Asian Tourist Arrivals to Thailand Increase
Apr 27, 1999 ... East Asian tourists are again flocking to Thailand, with 35percent more arrivals in February of this year than in the samemonths of last year, according to figures released by the TourismAuthority of Thailand available here Tuesday. Overall tourism is also on the rise, with 565,615 ...
Colibri Helicopter Fuselages Mass Produced in China
Apr 27, 1999 ... The Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation (HAMC) in northeastChina's Heilongjiang Province has started mass production offuselages for Colibri Helicopters, considered the world's mostadvanced craft of their type.. With its production line almost fully expanded the ...
China Unicom to Increase Market Share
Apr 27, 1999 ... China United Telecommunications Corp. (China Unicom), ChinaTelecom's chief rival, will expand its business this year as newinvestment measures are applied. A new financing mode was introduced by China Unicom yesterdaywhena frame agreement was signed for equipment purchase from ...
China's Largest State Farm Plays Big Role
Apr 27, 1999 ... The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corporation, China'slargest state farm, is playing an important role in invigoratinglocal economy. The corporation, located in the northwestern Xinjiang UygurAutonomous Region, is the country's largest enterprise inagriculture, industry, ...
Bangkok Rubber Prices
Apr 27, 1999 ... The following are Bangkok rubber sheet F.O.B. prices, in baht perkilogram (37.68 baht to the U.S. dollar): last week this week rsst123.60 ...
Archipelago City To Build Sea-Crossing Bridges
Apr 27, 1999 ... The offshore island city of Zhoushan in east China's ZhejiangProvince is preparing to build a total of six sea-crossing bridges,in a bid to build a peninsula by linking several local islands withthe mainland. It is estimated that the project will cost 5.8 billion yuan andwill ...
Xiamen Aircraft Maintenance Project Passes Joint Inspection
Apr 27, 1999 ... A joint-stock aircraft maintenance project built by Xiamen TaecoEngineering Co. recently passed an international inspection. The team composed of experts from China, the United States,Britain, Japan and Singapore, and Hong Kong has made a closeinspection of the management skills, ...
World Bank Loans Aid North China Economy
Apr 27, 1999 ... The economy of North China's Shanxi province has benefited from atotal amount of nearly 800 million U.S. dollars in loans from theWorld Bank. The 18 projects carried out with World Bank loans have involvedmany sectors including highway construction, water diversion ...
WB Finances Municipal Service Project in Bangladesh
Apr 27, 1999 ... Bangladesh will receive 138.60 million U.S. dollars from theInternational Development Agency (IDA), the concessional lending armof the World Bank (WB), for a municipal service project at a rate of0.75 percent. A development credit agreement in this regard was signed betweenthe ...
Vietnam Prepares For '99 Kunming World Horticulture
Apr 27, 1999 ... Vietnam has planned to showcase the beauty of its traditionalfamily gardens at the '99 Kunming World Horticulture Expositionwhichwill run in Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province in southwest China,from May 1 to October 31 this year. Vietnam's exhibit will reflect the close ...
URGENT Japan's Lower House Passes Defense Cooperation Bills
Apr 27, 1999 ... Japan's House of Representatives, or the lower house, on Tuesdayapproved a set of three bills aimed at implementing the revisedJapan-U.S. defense cooperation ...
UNIDO Program to Boost Sri Lanka's Industrial Growth
Apr 27, 1999 ... The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) isdeveloping an integrated program of support for Sri Lanka to assistits industrialization objectives, the official Daily News saidTuesday. UNIDO's mission, who arrived here last week, is making a fieldassessment on a ...
Shanghai Sets up Polar Educational Center
Apr 27, 1999 ... Shanghai, China's leading industrial and commercial city, hasjustestablished a polar educational center to spread the knowledge aboutthe South and North Poles among the public. The center, jointly set up by the Shanghai-based China PolarResearch Institute and a local neighborhood ...
Scientists to Focus on Light Energy for Boosting Crop Yield
Apr 27, 1999 ... Chinese scientists have started a major research program to helpbetter utilize light energy in raising crop yields, in an effort tomeet the food needs of the country's vast population 30 years fromnow. This major state sponsored research program, costing a total of50million ...
Science Sharpens Competitive Edge in Petrochemical Industry
Apr 27, 1999 ... Science and technology has given China's petrochemical industry aboost, with some 60 percent of 3, 000 scientific research findingsbeing adopted throughout the industry over the past ten years. According to Zhang Jiaren, vice-president of the China NationalPetrochemical Corp ....
NATO Bombs Yugoslavia's Ruling Party Headquarters
Apr 27, 1999 ... Two NATO missiles hit the headquarters of Yugoslavia's rulingSerbian Socialist Party (SPS) early Tuesday, the official newsagencyTanjug reported. The bombing, the second against the 24-floor building within oneweek, destroyed a transmitter used by six radio and ...
More Japanese Visiting Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall
Apr 27, 1999 ... An increasing number of Japanese are visiting Nanjing, thecapitalof east China's Jiangsu Province, to pay their respects to thevictims of the massacre of thousands of Chinese in December 1937 andto offer their apologies for the crime committed by Japaneseinvaders. Since the ...
Major News in Leading Pakistani Newspapers
Apr 27, 1999 ... The following are major news items in leading Pakistani Englishnewspapers on Tuesday, The News: Terrorists late Sunday night struck a sparsely-populated villagein Dera Ismail Khan, 340 kilometers south of Peshwar, capital ofNorth West Frontier Province, and killed four ...
Major News Items in Leading Indian Newspapers
Apr 27, 1999 ... The following are major news items in leading Indian newspapersTuesday. The Hindustan Times: President K. R. Narayanan Monday dissolved the 12th Lower HouseofParliament and set the stage for fresh elections.The Times of India:The stock market reacted adversely to the news ...
Major News Items in Leading Kenyan Newspapers
Apr 27, 1999 ... The following are major news items in leading Kenyan newspapersTuesday. Kenya Times: Kenya Revenue Authority's internal fraud investigators haveintensified their probe into cases of theft, amounting to millionsof shillings in the form of duty and tax remissions by a ...
Macao to Issue Transitional Stamps in June
Apr 27, 1999 ... Macao Posts and Telecommunications Department has announced toissue the first set of transitional stamps on June 2, while thecirculation of the stamps currently in use will not stop until July,reported the "Macao Daily News" on Tuesday. The transitional stamps, consisting of ten ...
Intel Chief Foresees Leadership Role for HK IT Industry
Apr 27, 1999 ... President of Intel Corporation Craig Barrett said here Tuesdaythat Hong Kong has opportunities to make itself a Asia PacificInternet hub, thus playing a leadership role in informationtechnology. Addressing an engineering faculty of the Hong Kong University,Barrett said Hong Kong ...
Indonesian Badminton Queen Susi Susanti Gives Birth
Apr 27, 1999 ... Indonesia's former badminton queen Susi Susanti gave birth to ababy girl through Caesarean section at the Medistra Hospital hereMonday. Susi, 28, married to 1992 Barcelona Olympic badminton goldmedallist Allan Budikusuma. "I'm very grateful that the four-minute operation went ...
Indonesia to Send 448 Athletes for SEA Games
Apr 27, 1999 ... Indonesia's National Sports Council (KONI) said 448 of the 549athletes being groomed for the 20th Southeast Asia (SEA) Games inBrunei Darussalam would participate in the Games in August, TheJakarta Post reported Tuesday. Moch. Hindarto, KONI's official in charge of athlete ...
Hong Kong Stocks Open Up
Apr 27, 1999 ... Hong Kong stocks surged 218.05 points, or 1.66 percent, to openat13,345.07 ...
Hong Kong Stocks Higher at Midday
Apr 27, 1999 ... Hong Kong stocks gained 212.94 points, or 1.62 percent, to closethe morning session at 13,339.96 ...
Helicopter Maintenance Soldier Commended by PLA (1)
Apr 27, 1999 ... Li Hongtao, a soldier turned helicopter maintenance expert hasbeen honored by the Headquarters of the General Staff of thePeople'sLiberation Army (PLA) for his outstanding achievements in militarytraining. He was cited as a modal soldier in the new era for learning andmastering ...
Heilongjiang Modernizes State Farms
Apr 27, 1999 ... Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province will upgrade 80 percentofits outmoded tractors and harvesters as well as a great number ofauxiliary farm machines in state farms and land reclamation zonesover the next five or six years. This will cost about 600 million U.S. dollars, said ...
Feature: China's Private Firms Eyeing International Market
Apr 27, 1999 ... A brand new Chinese bicycle is winning fans all over the worldandafter a joyful round of cycling inside a crowded exhibition, GarberGakobsson, a Swiss businessman, held his thumb up and told themanufacturer that he would place an order for one million US dollarsworth. The new ...
EDS-RPT for Users in Africa
Apr 27, 1999 ... Infection rate of HIV/AIDS in Africa, especially in sub-SaharanAfrica, is the highest in the world, according to a World Bankreport. The report, entitled World Development Indicators 1999, wasissuedby the World Bank Monday and it showed that the rampant spreading ofthe pandemic ...
Death Toll in Philippines' Landslide Rises to 16
Apr 27, 1999 ... The death toll from the Mt. Diwalwal landslide of southernPhilippines rose to 16 as rescuers dug up two more bodies over theweekend, the Manila Post reported Tuesday. According to the paper, more than one hundred families have fledthe gold-rush site of Mt. Diwalwal in Compostela ...
CIH Virus Damages Thousands of Computers in China
Apr 27, 1999 ... At least 7,600 computers were damaged by the destructive CIHvirusin China yesterday, causing huge economic losses yet to bedetermined. By this morning, more than 100,000 computers across the countrywere discovered to be affected to a different extent by the virus,according to ...
Chinese Version of Japanese Veteran's Diary Released
Apr 27, 1999 ... The Chinese version of the wartime diary by Shiro Azuma, one ofthe Japanese intruding soldiers who massacred 300,000 unarmedChinesesoldiers and civilians in Nanjing in 1937, has been released in eastChina's Zhejiang province, where the author surrendered as aninvaderin ...
Chinese Citizens to Be Allowed to Appeal against Government Documents
Apr 27, 1999 ... Chinese citizens are likely to be entitled to appeal againstgovernment infringement of their interests and also against"illegal"government documents, according to a draft law tabled with the toplegislature yesterday. The draft law additionally states that citizens, companies ...
China Unicom to Purchase Ericsson GSM Equipment
Apr 27, 1999 ... China Unicom has signed contracts with the Swedish Lm EricssonTelefon Ab today to purchase GSM ( Global System of Mobile Phone)equipment. China Unicom will purchase GSM equipment and related servicesfromtwo of Ericsson's joint ventures in Beijing and Nanjingrespectively.The ...
China to Use Freon-Free Substance As Refrigerant
Apr 27, 1999 ... All car air conditioners produced by China will use the freon-freesubstance R134a as refrigerant starting on January 1 next year. This is part of the measures adopted by China to help save thethreatened ozone layer, which protects the environment from directexposure to ...
China Launches New Securities Investment Fund
Apr 27, 1999 ... China launched its ninth securities investment fund today, inanother move to develop institutional investors in the securitiesmarket. The "Jinghong Fund", with an offer of two billion units and to berun by the Da Cheng Fund Management Company, was issued at 1.01 yuanper unit on ...
Bangladeshi Gv't Approves Draft Privatization Policy
Apr 27, 1999 ... The Bangladeshi government has approved a draft privatizationpolicy designed to facilitate the hand-over of state-ownedenterprises (SOEs) to the private sector. The draft policy, endorsed by the weekly cabinet meeting onMonday, also created scope for punishing those violating terms ...
Asia Pacific Leather Fair 99 Opens in Hong Kong
Apr 27, 1999 ... The Spring Show of Fashion and Finished Products of the AsiaPacific Leather Fair 99 opened Tuesday at the Hong Kong Conventionand Exhibition Center (HKCEC). More than 950 exhibiting companies from over 34 countries andregions take up three exhibition halls in the new extension of ...
AIDS Prevention On Curriculum at Shanghai's Universities
Apr 27, 1999 ... AIDS prevention has become a required course at 15 colleges anduniversities in China's largest city of Shanghai. This is a positive response to college students' lack ofknowledgeabout the fatal disease, according to an official with the ShanghaiMunicipal Educational ...
Xinhua Stock Index Down
Apr 27, 1999 ... Today's Xinhua A stock index dropped 4.25 points to close at130.67 and the Xinhua B stock index dipped by 0.21 point to finishat22.81. The Xinhua Stock Index is ...
World Leaders Invited to S. African President
Apr 27, 1999 ... South Africa has invited world leaders and special guests toparticipate in the swearing-in of the country' s new president duetobe held on June 16, local daily Sowetan reported Tuesday. Invitations had been sent to 187 leaders for the function,Thombela Nqcula, spokesman for the ...
WB Urges Manila to Adopt Clear Infrastructure Policy
Apr 27, 1999 ... The World Bank (WB) has urged the Philippine government to adoptpolicy reform measures that would encourage private sectorinitiatives in infrastructure development. The measures, forming part of the Philippine Country FrameworkReport of the WB, were discussed recently during a ...
Urgent: PLO Central Council Begin Discussing
Apr 27, 1999 ... Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Central Council startedits discussions here Tuesday on the issue of ...
U.S. Trade Mission Arrives at Clark for Investment
Apr 27, 1999 ... A trade mission of 17 officials and representatives of SiliconValley firms in the United States has been discussing with Clarkauthorities trade and investment projects in software and hardware,urban waste management and housing projects. Philippines News Agency (PNA) said Tuesday ...
U.S. F-16 Fighter Crashes in Arizona
Apr 27, 1999 ... U.S. military officials confirmed Tuesday that a U.S. Air ForceF-16 jet fighter crashed Monday on a training mission in the stateofArizona. Airman Jill Popst, spokesman of Luke Air Force Base said thetwo-seater jet went down in a rugged area at 18:05 (local time) nearthe White ...