Xinhua News Agency back issues from Wednesday, March 29:
hke German Team Two Draws with Russia
Mar 29, 2000 ... The German National Team Two played to 4-4 draw with RussianNational Team in a friendly match Tuesday night in Offenbach,Germany. Russia led the first half 1-0 through Semak in the 27th minute. Bestschastnich extended the lead to 2-0 in the 50th minute. SeanDundee, who came ...
hke World Golf Rankings
Mar 29, 2000 ... Following are the world golf rankings based on players'performance throughout the world through March 26: 1. Tiger Woods, United States, 23.81 points 2. David Duval, United States, 12.49 3. Colin Montgomerie, Scotland, 10.12 4. Davis Love III, United States, ...
Market Exchange Rates
Mar 29, 2000 ... 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 ...
Argentine Stocks Down
Mar 29, 2000 ... The leading Merval index on the Buenos Aires Exchange closed at588.93 points Tuesday, down 2. 37 percent from Monday's 603.27points. The turnover was 30.88 million U.S. dollars, against 17.53million dollars in the ...
Strong Winds Kill Three Persons in Beijing
Mar 29, 2000 ... A strong two-day storm that swept through Beijing has died down,but on Monday gale-force winds killed three construction workers andcaused property losses of hundreds of thousands of yuan, local pressreports. China Daily says three construction workers died when a 20-square-meter ...
Forest Fires Spread in Guatemala
Mar 29, 2000 ... Wildfires have destroyed more than 2,700 hectares of forest ineast and west Guatemala, said the Guatemalan National ForestInstitute Tuesday. The main fire has charred an area 20 kilometers long inOlintepeque and La Esperanza (Quetzaltenango), INAB director MarcoAurelio Juarez ...
URGENT: Premier Zhu Rongji Meets EC Trade Commissioner Lamy
Mar 29, 2000 ... Premier Zhu Rongji met with Pascal Lamy, trade commissioner ofthe European Commission, here Wednesday morning. The meeting is still going on at press time. Chinese negotiators led by Minister of Foreign Trade and ...
hke Results of World Figure Skating Championships
Mar 29, 2000 ... Following are the men's results of the 2000 World Figure SkatingChampionships after short program at the Palais des Exposititions onTuesday: Men (after short program) (Top 24 advance to long program) 1. Alexei Yagudin, Russia, 1.0 factored placings 2. Yevgeny ...
South China's Zhuhai Builds CD Production Center
Mar 29, 2000 ... Construction has begun on a compact disk production center inZhuhai High-Tech Development Zone of Zhuhai City, GuangdongProvince. According to local sources, the CD production center is jointlyfinanced by Zhuhai Special Economic Zone Audio and Video PublishingHouse and Haina ...
Highlights of Major Beijing-based Newspapers
Mar 29, 2000 ... Highlights of today's major Beijing-based newspapers: "People's Daily" Premier Zhu Rongji met with visiting Italian Foreign MinisterLamberto Dini here Tuesday. They exchanged views on bilateral tiesand international issues of common concern. Zhu said China strongly ...
Myanmar Rejects US Report on Human Rights
Mar 29, 2000 ... Myanmar has rejected a recent U.S. report on the human rightssituation of countries in the world, accusing it of taking aprejudiced stance toward the country with politically motivatedattempts to meddle with its internal affairs. The report, issued by the U.S. State Department, ...
Revised Marine Law to Protect Ocean, Seas
Mar 29, 2000 ... China's new Marine Environmental Protection Law, slated to gointo effect on April 1, is expected to help the country expand itsfishery industry, China Daily reported. Since ocean and sea pollution depletes aquatic resources andendangers development of the fishery sector, a statute ...
NPC Vice-Chairwoman Meets Japanese Guests
Mar 29, 2000 ... He Luli, vice-chairwoman of the Standing Committee of the ChineseNational People's Congress (NPC), met here today with a retiredveteran diplomats delegation from Japan. The delegation is headed by Hadano Keiyu, Japanese ...
Hong Kong Stocks Open Lower
Mar 29, 2000 ... Hong Kong stocks went down 98. 56 points, or 0.54 percent, toopen at 18,203.13 ...
Environment Monitoring Station at Three Gorges Starts Operation
Mar 29, 2000 ... An environment monitoring station has started trial operation inBadong County of central China's Hubei Province to monitor theenvironment and ecology in the Three Gorges reservoir area. The station is the second of its kind China has built in thereservoir area of the giant Three ...
Major News Items in Leading Japanese Newspapers
Mar 29, 2000 ... The following are major news items in leading Japanese newspapersWednesday. Asahi, Yomiuri, Mainichi, Nihon Keizai: Japan's Diet (parliament) on Tuesday enacted seven bills thatwill cut the pensions of private-sector employees as part of thecountry's pension system reform ....
hke British Denies England-Germany World Cup Bid
Mar 29, 2000 ... The British government on Wednesday denied a report of theEngland-Germany bid to host soccer's 2006 World Cup. The Independent newspaper reported that the plan for England tojoin one of its oldest and fiercest sporting opponents was essentialto head off a strong challenge by South ...
First Flight from Lhasa to Shanghai Successful
Mar 29, 2000 ... The first flight of China Southwest Airlines from Lhasa, capitalcity of southwestern Tibet Autonomous Region, to Shanghai in theeast, successfully completed Tuesday. The success of the flight represents the opening of the air routebetween Lhasa on "the roof of the world" and ...
On-line Disputes Emerge in China (1)
Mar 29, 2000 ... On-line disputes are emerging in China and Internet-relatedlawsuits are causing problems for some of the courts, China Dailyreported today. "The rapid development of the industry is challenging the witsand expertise of judges who lack related legislative support," ...
On-line Disputes Emerge in China (2)
Mar 29, 2000 ... A confrontation between Ruide On-line in Beijing and aninformation service company of Southwest China's Sichuan Provincethe Oriental Information Service Corporation, appears to have beenChina's first case of Internet infringement. in the case, theOriental's lawyers disputed the court's ...
On-line Disputes Emerge in China (3)
Mar 29, 2000 ... Meanwhile whether the Copyright Law can be applied to Internet-related cases has triggered a heated debate among legalprofessionals. A case in point involved noted writers Wang Meng,Zhang Chengzhi, Liu Zhenyun, Zhang Jie, Zhang Kangkang and BiShumin, who accused last September a website ...
Myanmar Enacts State Budget Law 2000
Mar 29, 2000 ... The ruling Myanmar State Peace and Development Council enactedTuesday the country's State Budget Law, 2000, which will come intoforce on April 1, 2000, for the 2000- 2001 financial year. The five-part 21-section law deals with receipts andexpenditures, the reserve fund, taking of ...
China's Revolutionary Base Launches Green Campaign (2)
Mar 29, 2000 ... In the 1980s the Chinese government started working on theproblem of soil erosion, but achieved little due to its failure todeal with the ties between grain production and environmentalprotection. In recent years, China's grain output has grown steadilyand there are now sufficient ...
China's Revolutionary Base Launches Green Campaign (1)
Mar 29, 2000 ... Sixty years ago, Yan'an was the bedrock of the Chineserevolution. Now it is undergoing a green campaign to turn huge areasof meagre farmland into forests amid a nation drive to developwestern China. Local farmers have given up their traditional ploughing andcultivating and begun ...
Indonesia Third in Tuberculosis Cases in World
Mar 29, 2000 ... Indonesia is third in the world in the number of tuberculosispatients with more than 583,000 recorded infections last year, ofwhich 140,000 died, according to Health Minister Achmad Sujudi. The minister said the figure put Indonesia in third place afterChina with 2.5 million cases ...
Chinese Premier Meets EC Trade Commissioner
Mar 29, 2000 ... Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji held "friendly and frank" talks withPascal Lamy, trade commissioner of the European Commission, hereWednesday morning on issues concerning China's entry into the WorldTrade Organization (WTO), said sources with the Ministry of ForeignTrade and Economic ...
WTO Entry Impacts China's Agriculture: Expert (2)
Mar 29, 2000 ... As a member state China will have a better chance to protect itsown trade interests. It will be eligible to resort to relevant WTOclauses and its mechanism to resolve disputes to protect itsdomestic agricultural production and market against the dumping offoreign farm produce. China is ...
WTO Entry Impacts China's Agriculture: Expert (3)
Mar 29, 2000 ... The Chinese Government has therefore decided to increase itsinvestment in the agricultural sector and increase the supply ofdomestic farm products. During the Uruguay Round of Talks some WTOmembers, such Japan, the Republic of Korea, the European Union, andthe United States, promised to ...
WTO Entry Impacts China's Agriculture: Expert (1)
Mar 29, 2000 ... China's expected entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO)will greatly affect the country's agricultural sector, a Chineseresearcher said. China will soon engage in free international trade ofagricultural products, which means its agriculture will be subjectto global changes ...
WTO Entry Impacts China's Agriculture: Expert (4)
Mar 29, 2000 ... Under the agreement reached during the Uruguay Round of TalksChina is allowed to increase its textile exports. The country'srapid economic development will also increase demand for cotton inthe next few years. To make up for the cotton shortages, the countrywill have to expand cotton ...
Canadian Street Gangs Said to Fund S. Lankan Rebels
Mar 29, 2000 ... Some of Canada's most notorious street gangs have funneledillicit profits to fund Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels' separatistwar, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs charged Wednesday. Those Tamil gangs operating in Toronto and Montreal such as VVTand A.K. Kannan gangs have strong ...
Major News Items in Leading Indian Newspapers
Mar 29, 2000 ... The following are major news items in leading Indian newspapersWednesday. The Hindu: In an effort to reach out to the Islamic world, India is gettingready to build a new political partnership with Turkey which haslong been an important ally of Pakistan. The ...
Foreign Exchange Rates in Indonesia
Mar 29, 2000 ... The following are foreign exchange rates against the Indonesianrupiah here Wednesday: WednesdayTuesday U.S. dollar 7,525/7,675 7,375/7,525 Australian dollar 4,575/4,750 4,475/4,650 Singapore dollar4,325/4,500 ...
Seminar on Myanmar in 21st Century Held in Yangon
Mar 29, 2000 ... A seminar on Myanmar in the 21st century is being held here toshare views and opinions on the challenges faced by the country inthe new century. Jointly sponsored by the Office of Strategic Studies (OSS) of theMyanmar Defense Ministry, the Information and Resource Center ...
Macao SAR Chief Executive to Deliver 1st Policy Address
Mar 29, 2000 ... Edmund Ho Hau Wah, chief executive of China's Macao SpecialAdministrative Region (SAR), on Wednesday afternoon will deliver hisfirst policy address since he took office last December when theMacao SAR was founded. Beginning at 3:00 p.m., the chief executive is scheduled to makea ...
Avalanche Kills 11 in Austria
Mar 29, 2000 ... An avalanche tumbled down the Kitzsteinhorn mountain southwest ofSalzburg on Tuesday afternoon, killing 11 skiers from Austria,Finland, Denmark, Slovakia and Belgium, media reports here said. Some 150 rescue workers and 10 helicopters sent to the scenepulled 10 bodies out of the ...
Major News Items in Pakistani English Newspapers
Mar 29, 2000 ... Following are major news items in Pakistani English newspapers onWednesday. The Frontier Post Chief Executive General Pervez Musharraf said on Tuesday in KualaLumpur that he wants to reopen a stalled dialogue with India overthe disputed Kashmir region and expressed the hope ...
hke Indonesian Flush With Cash For Olympic Training
Mar 29, 2000 ... Indonesia's National Sports Council (KONI) has received moresupport for its training program for the 2000 Olympic Games inSydney, and is now well past its initial fund target, according tothe Jakarta Post Wednesday. PT Samsung Electronics Indonesia, which is the second ...
Thai Deputy PM Indicted for Falsifying Assets Record
Mar 29, 2000 ... Thailand's National Counter Corruption Commission (NCCC) hadindicted Deputy Prime Minister Sanan Kachornprasart for falsifyinghis assets record, The Nation reported Wednesday. The decision was based on the results of a lengthy investigation,mainly into a 45 million-baht (1.2 ...
hke Colombia and Brazil Draw 0-0 in World Cup Qualifiers
Mar 29, 2000 ... Colombia and Brazil played to a 0- 0 draw in the first SouthAmerican qualifier for the 2002 World Cup on Tuesday. Colombia, in front of 45,000 crowd, seemed overawed by theoccasion and had trouble stringing more than a couple of passestogether. The Brazilians, who lost five ...
News Items from Asia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua (Part 2)
Mar 29, 2000 ... Following are news items from the Asia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua inHong Kong Tuesday: Yugo Football Team to Play in HK Brunei Proposes to Set Trade Committee with Malaysia Indonesian Former President Soeharto Urged to Meet Attorney'sSummon Hong Kong Stocks Edge to ...
hke Yagudin Leads Men's Event after Short Programme
Mar 29, 2000 ... Russian skater Alexei Yagudin showed his rivals the differencebetween sports and arts Tuesday night, leading the men's event afterthe short programme at the World Figure Skating Championships. Skating to the music of Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky, Yagudin, twiceworld champion in 1998 ...
hke Ice Dancing Results of World Figure Skating Championships
Mar 29, 2000 ... Following are the ice dancing results of the 2000 World FigureSkating Championships at the Palais des Exposititions on Tuesday: Compulsory dances 1. Marina Anissina/Gwendal Peizerat, France, 0.4 2. Barbara Fusar-Poli/Maurizio Margaglio, Italy, 0.8 3. Irina ...
hke Agassi Beats Rafter or Quarterfinal Berth
Mar 29, 2000 ... American Andre Agassi, who won a marathon game in the second set,beat Australia's Patrick Rafter 6-4, 6-4 Tuesday in the fourth roundof the Ericsson Open, reports said. The top-seeded Agassi moved a step closer to his fourth title atKey Biscayne and his first since ...
hke Yugoslavia Edges China 1-0 in Friendly
Mar 29, 2000 ... Yugoslavia beat China 1-0 on Tuesday for its Euro 2000 warm-up atthe Partizan stadium. Predrag Mijatovic scored on a header in the eighth minute for thehome side after a cross by Sinisa Mihajlovic, a free-kick specialistof Lazio Roma. The ...
hke Results of Ericsson Open Tennis
Mar 29, 2000 ... Following are the results of the Ericsson Open tennis tournamentin Florida on Tuesday (prefix number denotes seeding): Men Singles fourth round 14-Lleyton Hewitt, Australia, bt 3-Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Russia, 6-4, 6-3 Wayne Ferreira, South Africa, bt Dominik ...
Brazilian Stocks Down Sharply
Mar 29, 2000 ... Stocks on the Sao Paulo securities exchange, the largest in LatinAmerica, closed down Tuesday, with the key Bovespa Index falling3.23 percent to 18,337 points against Monday's 18,951 ...
Xinhua World News Summary at 0030 GMT, March 29
Mar 29, 2000 ... NICOSIA Cyprus President Glafcos Clerides on Tuesday called onthe European Union (EU) to clearly define its policy on the Cyprusissue Cyprus News Agency reported. Clerides made the appeal whilemeeting with a delegation from an university in Athens, Greece, anEU member. ...
hke Results of Al Ahram PSA Masters Squash
Mar 29, 2000 ... Following are the results in the Al Ahram PSA Masters inHurghada, Egypt on Tuesday (prefix number denotes seeding): Second round 2-Peter Nicol, Scotland, bt Billy Haddrell, Australia, 15-13, 15-4, ...
Major News Items in Leading Philippine Newspapers
Mar 29, 2000 ... The following are major news items in leading Philippinenewspapers Wednesday. Manila Bulletin: The Philippine government and a U.N. agency launched Tuesday ajoint project to combat organized crime groups smuggling illegalimmigrants, a foreign office statement ...
Mexico, Thailand to Strengthen Ties
Mar 29, 2000 ... The visit of Thailand's Vice Foreign Minister SukhumbhandParibatra to Mexico will further strengthen ties between the twocountries, said the Mexican Foreign Secretariat (SRE). During his three-day visit starting Sunday, Paribatra and CarlosIcaza, sub-secretary of the SRE in charge ...
Earthquake Rocks Japanese Islands
Mar 29, 2000 ... An earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale hit Japan'ssouthern islands of Chichi at 19:00, March 28 (Beijing time),according to China's ...
Mexico, Brazil Continue Tariff Talks
Mar 29, 2000 ... Chief negotiators from Mexico and Brazil kicked off here a secondround of talks for a preferential tariff treaty, authorities saidTuesday. High on the agenda of the negotiation, which will last untilMarch 30, are a mutual beneficial tariff treaty, technical rules andsolutions for ...
Former Indonesian President's Crony Detained
Mar 29, 2000 ... Former Indonesian President Soeharto's close associate Muhammad'Bob' Hasan was placed under detention on Tuesday by the AttorneyGeneral's Office after being declared a suspect in a corruptioncase. Hasan, a leading conglomerate figure, is initially to be detainedfor 20 days ...
Chinese Tele-diagnostics System Goes International
Mar 29, 2000 ... China has recently had a local tele-diagnostics system wentinternational in Dalian, a coastal city in northeast China'sLiaoning Province. The city's tele-diagnostics system was first networked with theEuropean tele-diagnostics medical institution in France, which madeit possible ...
Executives, Scholars Call for Less Government Control over China's IT Industry
Mar 29, 2000 ... Senior business executives and scholars called for lessgovernment control and a better legal system for the development ofChina's booming information industry at the China Development Forumconference here Tuesday. When Wu Jichuan, China's minister of Information ...
Xinjiang Grapes Website Attracts Frequent Visits
Mar 29, 2000 ... Want to have the finest Xinjiang grapes? Just click http://www.Turpan.com.cn and you can order your favorite variety of grapeson your computer. According to Zhang Zhijun, an information network developer, saidthe website has attracted some 15,000 visitors since it opened ...
IMF Delays Vote on Loan For Indonesia JAKARTA, March 29
Mar 29, 2000 ... The International Monetary Fund ( IMF)has delayed a scheduledmeeting of its executive board which was to vote on an additionalloan disbursement for Indonesia. Senior IMF Representative in Jakarta John Dodsworth said no datefor its next 400 million U.S. dollars loan disbursement has ...
China Builds Largest Wholesale Center in Moscow
Mar 29, 2000 ... China has built a Chinese commodities wholesale center in Moscow,with a floor space of 160, 000 square meters. The wholesale center, located in the business hub of Moscow, isthe largest one of its kind in Russia. With the approval from relevant departments of ...
Hong Kong Stocks Lower at Midday
Mar 29, 2000 ... Hong Kong stocks lost 287.33 points, or 1.57 percent, to finishthe morning session at 18,014. 36 ...
hke Japanese Star Ono to Be Sidelined for Month
Mar 29, 2000 ... Shinji Ono, one of Japanese soccer 's brightest talents, will besidelined for a month after undergoing ankle surgery on Tuesday,according to reports Wednesday. The 20-year-old Urawa Reds captain, who played for Japan at theWorld Cup in France, had an operation on his right ankle ...
Residents Near Japanese Volcano Told to Leave
Mar 29, 2000 ... At least 4,500 people living near a volcano on the northernisland of Hokkaido in Japan have been ordered to evacuate with awarning of a possible eruption of the mountain in days. More than 3,000 soldiers have been deployed to help theevacuation, reports reaching here ...
Ground Water Level Falls Rapidly in Dhaka
Mar 29, 2000 ... Water level in Dhaka city and its suburban areas is fallingrapidly due to massive extraction of underground water by DhakaWater Supply and Sewerage Authority ( WASA)through hundreds of deeptube wells daily for the growing population. Ignoring the warning of environment and soil ...
Foreign Exchange Rates in Pakistan
Mar 29, 2000 ... The following are major foreign exchange rates against thePakistani rupee issued by the National Bank of Pakistan onWednesday: Selling Buying Buying TT & OD TT CleanOD/T.CHQ U.S. dollar 51.9000 51.4000 51.3409 British pound ...
Security Council Mission to Visit Kosovo in Late April
Mar 29, 2000 ... The U.N. Security Council Tuesday decided to send a mission toKosovo, Yugoslavia, in late April to see how the U.N. InterimAdministration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) is functioning there andpress for an end to ethnic conflicts, the council president said. The president of the ...