Xinhua News Agency back issues from Friday, June 22:
Hewitt Beats Ivanisevic to Reach Semi-finals
Jun 22, 2001 ... Top seed Australian Lleyton Hewitt defeated three-time Wimbledonrunner-up Goran Ivanisevic of Croatia 6-4, 7-5 to reach the quarter-finals of the Heineken Trophy tennis tournament in Den Bosch,Netherlands. Hewitt spent just over an hour to beat the Croatian wildcard andkeep his ...
Eight More Indian Fishermen Arrested by Sri Lankan Navy
Jun 22, 2001 ... Eight more Indian fishermen who were caught poaching in SriLanka's territorial waters were arrested by the navy this week, theDefense Ministry said on Thursday. It said that the Indian fishermen were taken into custody alongwith their two boats off the coast of Talaimannar on ...
CAST to Make Contribution to National Strategy
Jun 22, 2001 ... Chairman of the China Association for Science and Technology(CAST) Zhou Guangzhao said Friday that the CAST should make morecontribution to the state's strategy of invigorating the statethrough science and technology. The CAST should concentrate itself on economic construction ...
Spain Confirms New Swine Fever Case
Jun 22, 2001 ... A new swine fever case was discovered Thursday in Catalonia, anautonomous community in northeastern Spain, press reports here saidFriday. Catalonia's Agriculture Department reported Thursday it is thesixth case on a farm in Penelles, Lerida province. It was confirmedthrough ...
Draw for Wimbledon Open Tennis Championship (2-last)
Jun 22, 2001 ... Women's singles: 1-Martina Hingis, Switzerland, vs Virginia Ruano Pascual, Spain Lina Krasnoroutskaya, Russia, vs Anne-Gaelle Sidot, France Selima Sfar, Tunisia, vs Asa Carlsson, Sweden Barbara Schwartz, Austria, vs 25-Chanda Rubin, United States 19-Conchita ...
Cuba Says It Frustrates Incursion by Armed Men From U.S.
Jun 22, 2001 ... Cuba announced Wednesday it had frustrated the first incursionby U.S.-based anti-Cuba elements since U.S. President George W. Bushtook office. According to a Cuban security official, the country's Coast Guardcaptured three individuals after exchanging fire on April 26 on ...
Beijing-Based Newspaper Highlights -- June 22
Jun 22, 2001 ... Highlights of major Beijing-based newspapers Friday: All Beijing-based newspapers frontpage President Jiang Zemin'sseparate meetings with Prime Minister Lee Han-Dong of the Republicof Korea and Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of DefenseChavalit Yongchaiyudh. Jiang ...
Greene Clocks Year's Fastest Time in 100m
Jun 22, 2001 ... World record holder Maurice Greene ran the year's fastest time of9.90 seconds in the 100 meters at Eugene, Oregon. Greene clocked the time in the first round of the U.S.championships but then pulled out of the rest of the competitions inprotest. Greene is upset at an ...
Standings of Women's United Soccer Association League
Jun 22, 2001 ... Following are the standings of the Women's United SoccerAssociation (WUSA) league after San Diego beat Washington 3-2Thursday evening (tabulated under games played, won, lost, tied,goals for, against and points): Philadelphia Charge 10 5 3 2 16 13 17 New York Power ...
Major News in Leading Philippine Newspapers
Jun 22, 2001 ... The following are major news items in leading Philippinenewspapers Friday. Manila Bulletin: -- Philippine President Arroyo assured the Filipino people onThursday that the government is in full control of the peace andorder situation and will thwart all moves by some quarters ...
Thailand Threatens to Launch Soy Sauce War Against UK
Jun 22, 2001 ... Thailand threatens to impose protectionist measures on Britain ifthe latter does not remove its latest ban on soybean sauce importsfrom Thailand, The Nation newspaper reported Friday. "Last year the European Union claimed soybean products importedfrom Thailand contained chemicals ...
Scientists Urged to Make More Innovation
Jun 22, 2001 ... Chairman of the China Association for Science and Technology(CAST) Zhou Guangzhao Friday urged his fellow scientists to makemore scientific and technological innovation and contribute more tothe country's economic construction. Zhou, also vice-chairman of the National People's ...
China's Science Organization Opens National Conference
Jun 22, 2001 ... The China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) Fridaymorning started its sixth national conference in Beijing's GreatHall of the People. The conference, which is traditionally organized in every ...
World Youth Football Championships Standings
Jun 22, 2001 ... Following are World Youth Football Championships (under-20) teamstandings after Thursday's matches (tabulated under matches played,won, drawn, lost, goals for, against, points): Group A Argentina2 2 0 0 9 1 6 Finland 2 1 0 1 1 2 ...
Disney's California Adventure Cuts Prices to Attract Visitors
Jun 22, 2001 ... Disney's California Adventure is dropping summer prices forresidents of Southern California to boost sluggish attendance. The new theme park adjacent to Disneyland opened to smaller thanexpected crowds earlier this year and has struggled to meetattendance projections, local CBS 2 ...
German Donates Historical Materials on China's Three Gorges Area
Jun 22, 2001 ... Tamara Wyss, a TV employee at a German television station,recently donated 190 old pictures and some folk song tapes toChina's Three Gorges Museum. These pictures and tapes were taken and recorded between 1899 and1917, when Wyss' grandfather, Fritz Weiss, was sent by the ...
Premier Visits Show on SOE Reform, Development
Jun 22, 2001 ... Premier Zhu Rongji, member of the Standing Committee of thePolitical Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) CentralCommittee, Thursday visited an exhibition on the reform anddevelopment of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and the achievementsSOEs have made in technological ...
Indian President Greets Pakistan's New President Musharraf
Jun 22, 2001 ... Indian President K R Narayanan on Thursday night sent a messageof good wishes to General Pervez Musharraf on his assumption ofoffice as President of Pakistan, the Press Trust of India (PTI)reported here. This is the first message sent to Musharraf from the governmentof ...
Bangladesh Wants Border Talks With India by Early July
Jun 22, 2001 ... Bangladesh would expect that the substantive talks with theofficials from India on border issues be held in the first week ofJuly, a top official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said hereThursday evening. "We would like the talks" to start on July 2 when the two JointBoundary ...
Opener, Advisory
Jun 22, 2001 ... . Unauthorized reproduction of ...
Pakistan's Liquid Foreign Reserves Increase
Jun 22, 2001 ... Pakistan's liquid foreign reserves registered a massive increaseof 449.5 million U.S. dollars as it stood at 2,825.3 million dollarson June 16 against 2,375.8 million dollars on June 9, the AssociatedPress of Pakistan(APP) reported on Thursday. The foreign reserves held by ...
News Items from Asia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua (Part 2)
Jun 22, 2001 ... Following are news items from the Asia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua inHong Kong Thursday: Foreign Exchange Rates in Hong Kong Indonesia, IMF Discussing Timing for Review Team Arrival S.Korea Eases Regulations on Foreign Currency Loans Xinhua Summary of Asia-Pacific ...
First Asian Woman Honored as Member of "Scholar-Athlete Hall of
Jun 22, 2001 ... Fame" HONG KONG, June 21 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Taipei's Olympic medalistChi Cheng was the second Asian or the first Asian woman to behonored as member of the "2001 International Scholar-Athlete Hallof Fame", Taiwan media reported Thursday. Chi will join the big names such as ...
Sri Lankan Government Troops Kill 17 Tamil Rebels
Jun 22, 2001 ... Sri Lankan government forces have killed 17 separatist TamilTiger rebels in separate clashes in the north of the country, amilitary statement said on Thursday. Six rebels of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) werekilled in a confrontation in Welioya area while eight more ...
Results of Nottingham Open Tennis Tourney
Jun 22, 2001 ... Following are the results from the Nottingham Open ATP tennistournament on Thursday (prefix number denotes seeding): Quarter-finals: 3-Thomas Johansson, Sweden, bt Wayne Arthurs, Australia, 7-6 (7-2), 7-6 ...
Brazil Raises Diversified Funds to Strengthen Currency
Jun 22, 2001 ... Brazil's Central Bank announced Thursday that it would use a loanof 2 billion U.S. dollars from the International Monetary Fund tohelp increase its international reserves and strengthen the nationalcurrency Real. As parts of the measures to achieve the goals, the bank hasraised a ...
Japanese History Textbook Contains 56 Errors
Jun 22, 2001 ... A group of eminent Japanese historians said a recently approvedhistory textbook which drew criticism from Japan's neighboringcountries contains at least 56 mistakes, a leading Japanesenewspaper reported Friday. The historians, from Japan's 21 academic societies, sent a listof the ...
Xinhua World News Summary at 0030 GMT, June 22
Jun 22, 2001 ... SANAA -- Yemen on Thursday denounced repeated U.S.-British airraids on Iraq, urging the international community to help stop suchatrocities. "Yemen strongly condemns the air raids that have killed manyinnocent children, women and elderly people," the Yemeni News Agencyquoted an ...
Major Latin American Stock Markets Continue to Rise
Jun 22, 2001 ... Stock prices in three major Latin American markets -- MexicoCity, Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires - - continued to rise Thursdayafter a strong rebound across the board in the previous session. Mexico City's stock market IPC index closed 1.37 percent higherat 6,543.39 points. The total ...
Third Seed Johansson Reaches Nottingham Open Semifinals
Jun 22, 2001 ... Third seed Thomas Johansson of Sweden scored a hard 7-6, 7-6victory over Wayne Arthurs of Australia in the quarter-finals of theNottingham Open on Thursday. Johansson, who won on grass in Halle last week, will meet Britishwildcard Greg Rusedski in the semifinals on ...
Yugoslav Party Warns of More Protests Against Jail of Milosevic
Jun 22, 2001 ... Yugoslavia's Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) on Thursday warnedthat it will launch more large- scale protests if former Yugoslavpresident and current party leader Slobodan Milosevic is not freed. The government no longer has solid evidence to justify the arrestand detention of ...
Andean Summit to Seek Common Trade, Anti-drug Policy
Jun 22, 2001 ... The leaders of five Andean countries will seek a common policy onfree trade and illegal drugs this weekend at a summit of the AndeanPresidential Council in Venezuela. The presidents of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuelawill discuss ways of combating drug trafficking in ...
Indonesian Athletes in Good Form: Officials
Jun 22, 2001 ... All the Indonesian athletes being prepared for the Kuala LumpurSoutheast Asian (SEA) Games in September are in relatively goodphysical condition except for the soccer players, the Jakarta Postreported Friday. "It's difficult to have a general review of our athletes'physical ...
Major News in Leading Japanese Newspapers
Jun 22, 2001 ... The following are major news in leading Japanese newspapersFriday. Asahi, Yomiuri, Mainichi, Nihon Keizai: -- Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's key reform panelon Thursday unveiled a sweeping reform program aimed at putting thenation's bad loan-crippled economy in ...
Police Injured in Fresh N. Ireland Violence
Jun 22, 2001 ... Police in Northern Ireland came under fresh attack from stone-throwing youths hours after a pipe bomb was thrown at a Catholichome in north Belfast on Thursday. Sectarian violence flared after crowds took to the streets in theCrumlin Road and Ardoyne areas of the city. A ...
Spanish King's Cup Semifinal Summaries
Jun 22, 2001 ... Following are summary of a King's Cup semifinal first leg matchplayed on Thursday: Celta Vigo 3 - Eduardo Berizzo 45, Alexander Mostovoi 52, Jesuli72 Barcelona 1 - Simao Sabrosa 6 Red cards : Fernando Caceres (Celta Vigo) 82, Juan Velasco (Celta Vigo) ...
Romania, Turkey Call on Peaceful Solution to Macedonia Crisis
Jun 22, 2001 ... Romanian President Ion Iliescu and his Turkish counterpart AhmedNecdet Sezer on Thursday called on all the parties concerned tosolve the current crisis in Macedonia through politicalconsultations and peace negotiations. Both Romania and Turkey respected Macedonia's ...
Market Exchange Rates -- June 22
Jun 22, 2001 ... Market exchange rates of three major currencies against RMB yuan,announced by the People's Bank of China: Currency Unit Middle Price (in RMB yuan) U.S. Dollar 100 827.69 Japanese Yen 100 6.6802 Hong Kong Dollar 100 ...
Hong Kong Stocks Open Higher
Jun 22, 2001 ... Hong Kong stocks rose 5.68 points, or 0.04 percent, to open at13,193.13 ...
Vietnam's Seafood Exports Increase Sharply
Jun 22, 2001 ... Vietnam's seafood exports in the first six months of this year isexpected to rise 47 percent over the same period last year, reaching813 million U.S. dollars, according to a report of the local dailyVietnam News (VNS) on Friday. The country has exported more than 718,000 tons of ...
Results at World Football Youth Championships
Jun 22, 2001 ... Following are the results at the world football youthchampionships on Thursday: Group D (at Rosario): Czech Republic bt Australia 3-0 Angola bt Japan 2 - ...
Women in Tibet Enjoy Equal Political and Economic Rights (2)
Jun 22, 2001 ... A number of women of capability, literacy and achievement havebeen elected to the people's congress and people's politicalconsultative conference at all levels in Tibet, enacting their legalrights in managing public affairs and formulating developmentpolicies for the ...
Myanmar Seizes Large Amount of Ephedrine Powder
Jun 22, 2001 ... The Myanmar authorities seized 1.6 tons of ephedrine, a kind ofprecursor chemical powder used in producing stimulant drug, in thecountry's second largest city of Mandalay earlier this month,according to the country's Central Committee for Drug Abuse ControlFriday. The seizure was ...
Ronaldo Confident of Brazil's World Cup Aims
Jun 22, 2001 ... Brazilian striker Ronaldo is confident that struggling Brazil'sbid to qualify for the 2002 World Cup finals will be successful andsaid here Thursday he hopes to rejoin the squad in August. The 24-year-old Inter Milan forward has been out of competitivefootball for 14 months after ...
Indonesian Badminton Body Must Recruit Young Men's Doubles Talent
Jun 22, 2001 ... Indonesia's domination of the international men's doublesbadminton scene is in jeopardy with the Badminton Association ofIndonesia (PBSI) having difficulties recruiting new talent to besecond stringers at its training center. "We have three of the world's strongest men's ...
Domestic News Items From Xinhua -- June 21 (2)
Jun 22, 2001 ... The following are the domestic news items released by XinhuaThursday: Domestic News Items From Xinhua - June 21 (1) Taiwan Stocks Fall Below 5,000 Points China Int'l Motorcycle Tourism Festival Closes China Urges Israel, Palestine to Earnestly Observe ...
Mercosur Summit to Focus on Solutions to Economic Woes
Jun 22, 2001 ... Economy ministers of the South American Common Market (Mercosur)nations met here Thursday to prepare for a summit of the bloc inAsuncion, capital of Paraguay, according to press reports fromAsuncion. The heads of state of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, aswell as those ...
Celta Defeats Barcelona in King's Cup Semifinal
Jun 22, 2001 ... In the first leg of the second semifinal of Spain's King's Cup,Barcelona lost to Celta 3-1 on Thursday. Celta defeated Barcelona with goals scored by Eduardo Berizzo,Alexander Mostovoi and Jesuli Mora. The Catalonian's only goal camevia Simao Sabrosa. Barcelona is about to ...
Unemployment Rises to 6.9 Percent in Brazil
Jun 22, 2001 ... Brazil's unemployment rate increased to 6.9 percent in May thisyear from 6.5 percent in April, the Brazilian Geography andStatistics Institute (IBGE) said Thursday. But the figure was ...
Peru's President-elect Asks for Venezuela's Help in Hunt for
Jun 22, 2001 ... Montesinos LIMA, June 21 (Xinhua) -- Peru's President-elect Alejandro ToledoThursday asked for Venezuela's cooperation in the hunt for formerPeruvian presidential advisor Vladimiro Montesinos, Peruvian ForeignMinistry sources said. Toledo, who made a stopover in Lima on his ...
Women in Tibet Enjoy Equal Political and Economic Rights (1)
Jun 22, 2001 ... Women in the Tibet Autonomous Region enjoy equal political andeconomic rights as statistics show that currently one-third ofofficials in the region are women. More and more women have not simply stayed at home. They havegone out for their desired job, which they would not have ...
Israeli Foreign Minister to Visit Spain
Jun 22, 2001 ... Israeli Foreign Minister Simon Peres will visit Spain nextThursday to discuss with Spanish leaders the current situation ofthe Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Peres will meet his Spanish counterpart, Josep Pique, and thentravel to Lisbon to participate in the International ...
European Giants Draw With Latin Americans in World Youth
Jun 22, 2001 ... Championship BUENOS AIRES, June 21 (Xinhua) -- European soccer giants Franceand Netherlands drawed with Latin America's Paraguay and Ecuadorrespectively in the World Youth Championship. France appeared as favorite in the match against Paraguay butthey could only settled for ...
Draw for Wimbledon Tennis Championship (1)
Jun 22, 2001 ... Following is the revised draw for the men's singles at Wimbledonafter withdrawals of Magnus Norman, Nicolas Lapentti and KarolKucera late Thursday (prefix number denotes seeding): Men 1-Pete Sampras, United States, vs Francisco Clavet, Spain Barry Cowan, Britain, vs ...
Sacked Sri Lankan Minister Threat to National Unity:
Jun 22, 2001 ... President COLOMBO, June 21 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lankan President ChandrikaKumaratunga in a statement issued Thursday evening on the removal ofthe Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) leader Rauff Hakeem from hercabinet, said it was in the greater interest and the common good ofthe ...
Major News Items in Leading Indian Newspapers
Jun 22, 2001 ... The following are major news items in leading Indian newspapersFriday: The Times of India: -- India on Thursday formally congratulated General PervezMusharraf on becoming President of Pakistan. "I extended my bestwishes on your assumption of the office of President," said ...
Major News Items in Leading Pakistani Newspapers
Jun 22, 2001 ... The following are major news items in leading Pakistani Englishnewspapers on Friday. Pakistan Observer: -- General Pervez Musharraf will complete five-year tenure asPresident of Pakistan said Major General Rashid Qureshi, PressSecretary to the President and Director General ...
Kenyan Central Bank Closes Bankrupted Bank
Jun 22, 2001 ... The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has closed the troubled DelphisBank and placed it under statutory management following excessivewithdrawals by depositors on Wednesday. Local newspapers Friday quoted CBK Deputy Governor Edward Sambilias saying that the central bank has appointed ...
Nigerian Deputy House Speaker to Visit China
Jun 22, 2001 ... Chibudom Nwuche, deputy Speaker of the House of Representativesof the Federal Republic of Nigeria, will pay a goodwill visit toChina from June 26 to July ...
Major Foreign Exchange Rates in Pakistan
Jun 22, 2001 ... The following are exchange rates against the Pakistani rupeeissued by the Treasury Management Division of the National Bank ofPakistan on Friday. Selling Buying Buying TT & OD TT CleanOD/T.CHQ U.S. dollar 64.00 63.50 ...
Over 4 Million Children Die of AIDS: Report
Jun 22, 2001 ... More than 4.3 million children under the age of 15 worldwide havebeen killed by AIDS in the last decade, a report by the GlobalMovement for Children says. The 2001 report, which has been prepared by the United NationsChildren Education Fund (UNICEF) on behalf of the Movement, ...
Overseas Experts Invited to Design New Urban District in Shenyang
Jun 22, 2001 ... Designing experts from the United States, Germany, Australia,Japan, and from China's Beijing, Shanghai and Taiwan, Wednesday,signed in the task documents for designing the startup area ofHunnan New Zone in Shenyang, a well- known industrial city innortheast China. These experts ...
Major News Items in Leading S. African Newspapers
Jun 22, 2001 ... The following are major news items in leading South Africannewspapers on Friday. The Star: -- The first solar eclipse of the new millennium swept acrosssouthern Africa on Thursday, thrilling millions of people watchingone of nature's great wonders. Business ...
China Eliminates Pollution on Famous Buddhist Grottoes
Jun 22, 2001 ... Officials announced that they have successfully eased severepollution threatening the famous Yungang Buddhist grottoes in DatongCity in north China's Shanxi Province. The 1,500-year-old grottoes, which are bidding to be listed asWorld Cultural Heritage site, had been polluted by ...
Hong Kong Stocks Lower at Midday
Jun 22, 2001 ... Hong Kong stocks went down 29.07 points, or 0.22 percent, toclose the morning session at 13,158.38 ...