Xinhua News Agency back issues from Thursday, September 28:
Today's Domestic News Items from Xinhua (2)
Sep 28, 2000 ... Following is the second part of today's domestic news itemsreleased by Xinhua: China's Fund Market on Wednesday Shanghai B-share Market Up At Wednesday Close Book On Confucius Published Chinese Vice-Premier Meets Indian Minister Senior CPC Official to ...
Foreign Entrepreneurs Advisory Meeting Opens in Tianjin
Sep 28, 2000 ... Thirty-one entrepreneurs from the United States, Japan, Germany,Australia, and other foreign countries were invited to offersuggestions and proposals for the development of Tianjin at aadvisory meeting which started today. The two-day meeting, the third of its kind, focuses on how ...
Advanced Meteorological Observing System Installed in Bangladesh
Sep 28, 2000 ... An Advanced Meteorological Observing System (AMOS) was formallyopened Wednesday at Dhaka Meteorological Office by Prime MinsterSheikh Hasina to improve the weather forecasting and warning systemin Bangladesh. The AMOS was installed under a project "Strengthening of WeatherWarning ...
News Items from Asia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua (Part 2)
Sep 28, 2000 ... Following are news items from the Asia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua inHong Kong Wednesday: HK People More Confident in Future, Poll Australian Dollar Closes a bit Weaker Trading on Hong Kong Stock Exchange Xinhua Asia-Pacific Economic News Summary, Wednesday, ...
Sino-U.S. Joint Venture to Mine Phosphorite
Sep 28, 2000 ... A deal was sealed today between a Chinese firm and an Americancompany to produce chemical fertilizer DAP, by using phosphoriticresources in Yunnan Province, southwest China. The two companies, Yunnan Phosphate Fertilizer Factory andCargill Fertilizers Co. agreed to invest 15 ...
Bangladeshi Govt Makes Agreement with Striking Teachers
Sep 28, 2000 ... Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wednesday made anagreement with the striking non- government primary school teachers,promising to increase salary and allowance of the teachers,according to the United News of Bangladesh. The prime minister announced a 300 million taka ...
UN Confident in its Success in S.Leone
Sep 28, 2000 ... Olu Adeniji, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-generalKofi Annan in Sierra Leone, has said that the UN peace mission inthe west African country will succeed despite its currentdifficulties, reports reaching here from Freetown said Wednesday. The reports quoted Adeniji as ...
Abbreviations of Olympic Delegations
Sep 28, 2000 ... Following are the abbreviations of the participating countriesand regions for the Sydney Olympic Games: GRE - Greece ALB - Albania ALG - Algeria ASA - American Samoa AND - Andorra ANG - Angola ANT - Antigua and Barbuda ARG - ...
Disappointed Saoutine Looking to Make Amends
Sep 28, 2000 ... Russian diving superstar Dmitri Saoutine will be hoping to winhis first gold medal of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games in the men's10m platform diving which begins on Friday and concludes onSaturday. In what many thought was a shock result, Saoutine had to settlefor a bronze medal ...
Nine Medals to Be Awarded on Super Thursday of Diving
Sep 28, 2000 ... The Super Thursday is set for the Olympic diving with three medalevents -the synchronized events of the men's 3m springboard andwomen's 10m platform, and the finals of the women's 3m springboard. Eight teams of two divers will compete in each of thesynchronized events. China has ...
Spaniard, Greek to vie for Taekwondo 58kg Title
Sep 28, 2000 ... Gabriel Esparza of Spain and Michail Mouroutsos of Greece willfight for the gold medal of men's 58kg taekwondo gold medal. Gabriel Alberto Taraburelli of Argentina, Younes Sekkat ofMorocco, Huang Chih-Hsiung of Chinese Taipei and Joseph Salim ofHungary are still in the hunt for a ...
Perec Says She Fled Sydney Overcome by Fear
Sep 28, 2000 ... French track star Marie-Jose Perec explained her actions in aninterview to be published Thursday one week after she abruptlySydney. Perec said she was overcome by a fear that surpassed her dream ofobtaining a third Olympic gold medal. "There wasn't a day that I wasn't ...
Start List for Women's Synchronized 10m Platform Final
Sep 28, 2000 ... Following is the start list for womens' synchronized diving 10mplatform final: 1. Jenny Keim/Laura Wilkinson, United States 2. Azul Almazan/Jose Alcala Maria, Mexico 3. Anja Richter-Libiseller/Marion Reiff, ...
Start List for Men's Synchronized 3m Springboard Final
Sep 28, 2000 ... Following is the start list for the men's synchronized diving 3mspringboard final: 1. Frederic Pierre/Gilles Emptoz-Lacote, France 2. Nicola Marconi/Donald Miranda, Italy 3. Alexandre Dobroskok/dmitri Saoutine, ...
Market Exchange Rates
Sep 28, 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 ...
China Wins Women's Synchronized 10m Platform Diving Title
Sep 28, 2000 ... Chinese Li Na and Sang Xue won the gold medal of the women's 10mplatform synchronized diving with a total of 345.12 points. Emilie ...
London Key Market Information at Close
Sep 28, 2000 ... Following is the key market information at close in LondonWednesday: September 27 September 26 Pound sterling1.4641 US dollars 1.4635 Euro 0.8834 US dollars 0.8827 US dollar 7.4237 French francs ...
Results of Women's Synchronized 10m Platform Diving Finals
Sep 28, 2000 ... Following are the finals results of the women's synchronized 10mplatform diving at the Olympic Games on Thursday: 1. Li Na/Sang Xue, China, 345.12 points 2. Emilie Heymans/Anne Montminy, Canada, 312.03 3. Rebecca Gilmore/Loudy Tourky, Australia, 301.50 4. Marion ...
Sao Paulo Stocks Close Lower
Sep 28, 2000 ... Stocks on Brazil's Sao Paulo Securities Exchange, the largest inLatin America, closed lower on Wednesday with the key Bovespa Indexfalling 2.5 percent to 15,848 points from Tuesday's 16,254. Dealers ...
Mexican Stocks Close Lower
Sep 28, 2000 ... The Mexican Stock Exchange closed lower Wednesday, with thebenchmark IPC index falling 90.61 points, or 1.40 percent, to6,368.54.Dealers exchanged 74.183 million shares worth 149.918 million U.S ....
Li Na, Sang Xue Win China Second Diving Gold
Sep 28, 2000 ... Li Na and Sang Xue won the women's synchronized diving 10mplatform gold medal with a great margin of more than 30 points onThursday. Li and Sang, the 2000 World Cup champions of the event, repeatedtheir feat by totalling 345.12 points from 5 dives. They led from the first ...
Argentine Stocks Close Lower
Sep 28, 2000 ... The stocks on the Buenos Aires Exchange closed lower Wednesday,with the leading Merval Index falling 0.56 percent to 473.09 pointsfrom Tuesday's 475.77. The turnover was 49.298 million U.S. dollars against 36.8 milliondollars in the ...
Dzanashia back in Georgia's World Cup Squad
Sep 28, 2000 ... Lokomotiv Moscow striker Zaza Dzanashia has been named inGeorgia's squad for the World Cup qualifiers against Lithuania andItaly next month, according to reports from Tbilisi, Georgia, onTuesday. Dzanashia was recalled along with goalkeeper Irakli Zoidze ofleague champions ...
PC Sales in Chile Soared in First Half of 2000
Sep 28, 2000 ... The personal computer (PC) sales in Chile reached 187,171 unitsin the first half of 2000, up 46.8 percent from the same period oflast year, International Data Corporation Chile (IDC) said onWednesday. Alejandro Prieto, an official of Chilean Trade, Service andTourism Chamber, ...
Ahn Left out of South Korea Squad for Asian Cup
Sep 28, 2000 ... Star striker Ahn Jong-hwan was one of several surprise omissionsfrom South Korea's squad for the Asian Cup announced here onWednesday. The 24-year-old became the first South Korean to sign for anItalian club when he joined Serie A side Perugia in August thisyear. World Cup ...
Beijing Offers Wideband Service to Cities' Summit
Sep 28, 2000 ... Beijing Telecom will provide foreign mayors with a widebandinformation service during the Sixth Major Cities' Summit Beijing2000 which begins today. Mayors participating in the Summit will have easy and quickaccess to the Internet as all the rooms they stay in has beeninstalled ...
Dzanashia back in Georgia's World Cup Squad (Updated)
Sep 28, 2000 ... Lokomotiv Moscow striker Zaza Dzanashia has been named inGeorgia's squad for the World Cup qualifiers against Lithuania andItaly next month, according to reports from Tbilisi, Georgia, onWednesday. Dzanashia was recalled along with goalkeeper Irakli Zoidze ofleague champions ...
Beijing Opens Infrastructure Sector to Overseas Investors
Sep 28, 2000 ... Overseas investors are now welcome to participate in Beijing'sinfrastructure construction, according to a latest officialdocument. In the past, the government was the sole investor in the sector.From now on, both domestic and overseas enterprises are eligible tocompete in the ...
Cuba Reinforces Borders to Combat Drug Trafficking
Sep 28, 2000 ... The Cuban government has reinforced security measures on itsborders to drug trafficking to and fro the island country, which islocated on the drug traffic route from South America to the UnitedStates and Europe, a TV report said on Wednesday. Nine out of every 10 persons detained ...
Chengdu to Hold "No Cars Day" in October
Sep 28, 2000 ... Residents of Chengdu, capital of southwest China's SichuanProvince, will enjoy a quiet, clean and safe day on October 14,because no cars will be allowed in the downtown area on that day. Chengdu will be the first city in China to hold such an activity. On September 22, 1998, 34 ...
Chilean Stocks Close Lower
Sep 28, 2000 ... The IPSA index of Chilean leading 40 companies dropped 0.19percent to 97.43 points on Wednesday, below the 100 points where itstarted this year. The IGPA general gauge dropped 0.40 percent to 4830.13 points andthe ADRIAN index, which reflects the local share prices of allChilean ...
Science to Better Serve Economy: Minister
Sep 28, 2000 ... The Ministry of Science and Technology has vowed to furtherincrease the contribution of science and technology to the nationaleconomy, today's China Daily reported. The ministry intends to help enterprises commercialize newtechnological findings and upgrade traditional industries ...
Israeli Businessman Escapes From Kidnappers in Colombia
Sep 28, 2000 ... An Israeli merchant in Colombia escaped from his kidnappers whohad detained him for two months, police said. Edmond Banuz fled Wednesday from a house in the "Las Ferias"neighborhood, west of the Colombian capital of Bogota, where hesought help from a passing police patrol ...
DaimlerChrysler to Add Investment in Beijing Jeep
Sep 28, 2000 ... DaimlerChrysler will inject 226 million U.S. dollars into BeijingJeep, its joint venture with Beijing Automotive Industry Corp.,today's China Daily reported. The two companies also decided to extend the joint venture's termby 30 years to 2033. The new investment demonstrates ...
Colombian Exports Up 18.3 Percent
Sep 28, 2000 ... Colombian President Andres Pastrana said Wednesday that Colombianexports grew by 18.3 percent during the first six months of thisyear, compared to the same period of 1999. The president attributed the growth to improvements in theefficiency and capabilities of the Colombian ...
Yugoslav Presidential Run-off on October 8: Commission
Sep 28, 2000 ... Yugoslavia's Federal Electoral Commission on Thursday officiallyannounced that October 8 would be the date for the presidentialelection run-off between President Slobodan Milosevic and oppositioncandidate Vojislav Kostunica. The Yugoslav Tanjug news agency quoted the commission as ...
Liu and Perrone Disquaified in Women's Walk
Sep 28, 2000 ... Liu Hongyu, world and world cup champion, from China wasdisqualified in the women's 20 kilometers walk race on Thursday whenshe was leading the fields of 57 paticipants. Alos ...
Construction of Asia Forum Venue Nears Completion
Sep 28, 2000 ... Construction of the venue for the Asia Forum, in Qionghai, southChina's Hainan Province, is almost complete. According to local sources, more than 4,000 workers have beenbusy constructing 15 basic facilities at Bo'ao Tourism DevelopmentZone, the venue of the forum. It is ...
Venezuela, Saudi Arabia Sign MOU on Consultation
Sep 28, 2000 ... Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jose Vicente Rangel and his SaudiArabian counterpart Prince Saud al-Faisal signed a memorandum ofunderstanding on bilateral consultation here Wednesday. The document, consisting of four articles, recommends the twosides should consult each other ...
China Wins Women's 20 km Walk
Sep 28, 2000 ... China 's Wang Liping won the women's 20 kilometers walk by timing1:29:05 here ...
Xiong Ni, Xiao Hailiang of China Win Synchronized Diving Gold
Sep 28, 2000 ... Xiong Ni and Xiao Hailiang of China won the gold medal of themen's synchronized diving men's 3m springboard with a total of365.58 ...
Earthquake Rocks Bengkulu, Indonesia
Sep 28, 2000 ... An earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter Scale jolted parts ofBengkulu province, Indonesia, Wednesday morning, but there were noimmediate reports of casualties and damage. The quake occurred at 9:08 a.m. local time and was felt in theprovincial capital of Bengkulu, about 500 ...
Results of Synchronized Diving Men's 3m Springboard
Sep 28, 2000 ... Following are the final results of synchronized diving men's 3mspringboard on Thursday: 1. Xiong Ni/Xiao Hailiang, China, 365.58 points (gold medal) 2. Alexandre Dobroskok/Dmitri Saoutine, Russia, 329.97 (silvermedal) 3. Robert Newbery/Dean Pullar, Australia, 322.86 ...
Major News Items in Leading Philippine Newspapers
Sep 28, 2000 ... The following are major news items in leading Philippinenewspapers Thursday. The Philippine Star: Philippine President Joseph Estrada ordered Wednesday Labor andEmployment Department to convene the various regional wages andproductivity boards and act on petitions for wage ...
U.S. Mediators Talk With Israeli, Palestinian Negotiators
Sep 28, 2000 ... U.S. mediators on Wednesday held separate talks with Israeli andPalestinian negotiators near Washington to seek breakthroughs in theMiddle East peace process. A senior U.S. State Department official said that this was, infact, the second day of such talks because U.S. special envoy ...
Russia Favored to Wins Synchronized Swimming Team Title
Sep 28, 2000 ... Russia is the firm favorite to win the team event in thesynchronized swimming at eh Sydney Olympic Games. As reigning world champions, the Russian team were unbeaten atthe 2000 Olympic qualifying tournament and have dominatedinternational competitions in recent years. Among their ...
Champions League Collated Results, Standings (1)
Sep 28, 2000 ... Collated results and standings of Champions League matches playedon Wednesday: Group A: Bayer Leverkusen, Germany, lost to Real Madrid, Spain, 2-3 Spartak Moscow, Russia, beat Sporting, Portugal, 3-1Standings (tabulated under games played, won, drawn, lost, ...
China Bans Using Foreign Languages for Place Names
Sep 28, 2000 ... China will forbid the use of foreign languages in place namesigns and will set up united-standard place name signs in all itscities, according to sources with the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Jin Ergang, director of zoning and place names under the Ministryof Civil Affairs, said that ...
Explosion Hits Indonesian Capital Again
Sep 28, 2000 ... Another explosion again hit Jakarta, capital of Indonesia,Wednesday evening, but there were no immediate reports of damage orcasualties. The minor blast occurred at 9:30 p.m. when a passing motorcyclisthurled two fireworks at the office of the Indonesian Legal AidFoundation ...
Sixth Major Cities' Summit Beijing 2000 Opens
Sep 28, 2000 ... The Sixth Major Cities' Summit Beijing 2000 opened here today inthis Chinese capital. Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, and some 150 representatives frommore than countries and international organizations presented at theopening ...
Argentina Stresses Importance of South American Integration
Sep 28, 2000 ... Argentine Foreign Minister Adalberto Giavarini stressed theimportance of political and economic integration in South America onWednesday, saying that integration could help Latin Americancountries keep up with the development of the world economy. Over a working breakfast organized ...
Myanmar Exposes 296 Drug-Related Cases in August
Sep 28, 2000 ... The Myanmar authorities exposed a total of 296 narcotic-drug-related cases in August this year, seizing 62.49 kilos of opium and87.13 kilos of heroin in the month, official newspaper The New Lightof Myanmar reported Thursday. The seizure, made by army units, police and the customs, ...
Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan Sign Military Accord
Sep 28, 2000 ... Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev signed a military agreement withhis visiting ...
Major News Items in Leading Japanese Newspapers
Sep 28, 2000 ... The following are major news items in leading Japanese newspapersThursday. Asahi: The Japanese government's medical insurance scheme for smallfirms, which covers some 30.7 million salaried workers, suffered adeficit of 320 billion yen (2.9 billion dollars) in fiscal 1999 ....
Indonesian Prosecutors Set to Take Former President's Son to Jail
Sep 28, 2000 ... Head of the South Jakarta Attorney's Office Antasari Azhar saidhe will order prosecutors to arrest former President Soeharto's sonHutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra. Indonesia's Supreme Court has ruled that Tommy and a businesscolleague Ricardo Gelael be jailed for 18 months over a land ...
(recast) Sixth Major Cities' Summit Beijing 2000 Opens
Sep 28, 2000 ... The Sixth Major Cities' Summit Beijing 2000 opened here today inthis Chinese capital. Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, and some 150 representatives frommore than 30 countries and international organizations presented atthe opening ...
U.S. Firms Found China Attractive for Tech Research
Sep 28, 2000 ... Six U.S. big companies agreed that China becomes an attractiveplace to set up their research and development centers, today'sChina Daily reported. The six member companies of the US-based Industrial ResearchInstitute (IRI), including Motorola, Ford, Lucent Technologies andProcter ...
Highlights of Major Beijing-Based Newspapers
Sep 28, 2000 ... Following are highlights of major Beijing-based newspapers: "People's Daily" The daily continued its serial commentary on summering upexperience of China's rapid economic growth and social developmentduring the country's 9th Five-Year Plan period (1996 to 2000). The ...
Over 16 Percent of Indonesians Classified as Poor
Sep 28, 2000 ... The economic crisis is still gripping Indonesia, with the numberof poor families rising from 6. 9 million last year to 7.7 millionthis year, according to the results of a new survey. The number of poor families make up over 16 percent of theestimated total number of families in the ...
Hong Kong Stocks Open Higher
Sep 28, 2000 ... Hong Kong stocks edged up 20.43 points, or 0.13 percent, to openat 15,464.56 ...
Results of Athletics Women's 20km Walk Final
Sep 28, 2000 ... Following are the results of the athletics women's 20km walkfinal at the Olympic Games here on Thursday: 1. Wang Liping, CHN, 1:29:05 2. Kjersti Plaetzer, NOR, 1:29:33 3. Maria Vasco, ESP, ...
China Takes Synchronized Diving Men's 3m Springboard Title
Sep 28, 2000 ... China won another gold medal in the Olympic diving tournamentwhen Xiong Ni teamed up with Xiao Hailiang to clinch the gold medalof synchronized diving men's 3m springboard. Xiong and Xiao totalled 365.58 points from five dives, beatingDmitri Saoutine and Alexandre Dobroskok of ...
Indonesia's Foreign Exchange Reserve Increases
Sep 28, 2000 ... Indonesia's foreign exchange reserve increased slightly to 27.99billion U.S. dollars as of the week ending on September 22, from27.29 billion U.S. dollars the previous week, ...
China Issues Rules On Hong Kong Dollar Check Settlement
Sep 28, 2000 ... The detailed rules on Hong Kong (HK) dollar check settlementswere announced yesterday by the Guangzhou Branch of the People'sBank of China (PBC). The new check settlement business will be formally started fromOctober 1, the bank said. Earlier this week Guangzhou and Hong Kong ...
China Wins Women's 20km Walk
Sep 28, 2000 ... Wang Liping won China's first athletics gold medal in the SydneyOlympic Games on Thursday as she crossed the line first in thewomen's 20 kilometer walk race. Wang created the biggest surprise in the event, finishing in onehour 29 minutes and 05 seconds. Kjersti Plaetzer of ...