Xinhua News Agency back issues from Monday, July 30:
NW China Province Attracts More Overseas Investment
Jul 30, 2001 ... Qinghai, a remote plateau province in northwest China, reportedgrowing influx of overseas capital inthe first half of this year,when 26 overseas-financed ventures were approved with contractualoverseas investment up 50 percent year on year to 102.7 million U.S.dollars. Most of ...
Clijsters Wins Bank of West Classic Tennis
Jul 30, 2001 ... Kim Clijsters of Belgium defeated American Lindsay Davenport 6-4, 5-7 (7/5), 6-1 to win theBank of West Classic tennis tournamentin Stanford, California on Sunday. It is the first time that the 18-year-old Belgian beatAmericanrival in five attempts.While Davenport had ...
Taliban to Hold Talks with U.S. Official in Islamabad
Jul 30, 2001 ... Representatives of the Afghan Taliban militia in Pakistan willhold talks with American Assistant Secretary of State ChristinaRocca in Islamabad during her visit to Pakistan that begins onMonday, News Network International (NNI) reported Sunday. Quoting diplomatic sources, the ...
Highlights of Major Beijing-Based Newspapers - July 30
Jul 30, 2001 ... The following are Monday's highlights of major Beijing-basednewspapers: People's Daily -- The provincial committees of the Communist Party of China(CPC) in Guangdong and Shandong held discussions over GeneralSecretary Jiang Zemin's speech delivered on July 1, 2001, ...
20 People Missing in Landslide in Western Nepal
Jul 30, 2001 ... Floods and landslides triggeredby heavy rains swept away at least20 people Sunday in Myadi district of western Nepal and all themissing are presumed dead, said reports reaching here Monday. Six persons are feared buried under the rubble of landslideswhile the rest are swept away by ...
URGENT: Japan's Ruling Coalition Grabs 78 Seats, Gains Comfortable Upper House Majority
Jul 30, 2001 ... Japanese ruling coalition, led by Prime Minister JunichiroKoizumi's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP),gained a comfortablemajority in the House of Councillors with a total of 78 seats. The LDP itself gained 64 seats, its larger partner the ...
Agassi Beats Sampras to Win Mercedes-Benz Cup Tennis
Jul 30, 2001 ... Third-seeded Andre Agassi outplayed fourth seed Pete Sampras 6-4, 6-2 to win Mercedes-Benz Cup tennis tournament in Los Angeles onSunday. It is the fourth title that Agassi won this year. Hispreviouswins were the Australian Open, Ericcson Open and IndianWells. He also ...
News Items from Asia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua
Jul 30, 2001 ... Following are news items from the Asia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua inHong Kong Sunday: Voting Begins in Japan's Upper House Election Japan's Upper House Election Begins Voting for Japan's Upper House, a Test for Koizumi'sStructuralReform Plans Japanese Government ...
Sri Lanka's Tourism Sector Returning to Normal
Jul 30, 2001 ... Sri Lanka's Tourist Board said thatthe tourism sector in thecountry is returning to normal followinglast Tuesday's Tamil Tigerrebel attack on the main air force baseand the adjoininginternational airport. Board Renton de Alwis, chairman of the board said in a statementavailable ...
Eight Officials Sacked for Mangrove Loss in Guangxi
Jul 30, 2001 ... Eight officials from Hepu County of south China's Guangxi ZhuangAutonomous Region were recently sacked for allowing a large amountof mangrove in the county to bedestroyed. Those ousted, mostly from Zhakou Township, include Chen Jie,Party secretary of Zhakou Township; Chen ...
Major News Items in Leading Pakistani Newspapers
Jul 30, 2001 ... The following are major news items in leading Pakistani Englishnewspapers on Monday. Statesman: -- Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee Sunday said hewould visit Pakistan to meet President Pervez Musharraf because"Ihave accepted his invitation." Pakistan ...
Market Exchange Rates -- July 30
Jul 30, 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 100 827.70 Japanese Yen 100 6.6911 Hong Kong Dollar 100 ...
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Vietnam's Export Turnover Surpasses 9 Bln U.S. dollars
Jul 30, 2001 ... Vietnam has posted an export turnoverof 9.011 billion U.S.dollars in the first seven months of this year, a 13 percentincrease over the same period last year, the local daily VietnamNews reported Monday. In July, 2001 alone, the country grossed an export turnover of1.41 billion ...
Major News Items in Leading Philippine Newspapers
Jul 30, 2001 ... The following are major news items in leading Philippinenewspapers Monday. Malaya: -- The Southern Command Sunday denied a priest's story thattheArmy allowed the Abu Sayyaf bandits to escape from a seizedhospital in Lamitan town last June 3 despite a tight cordon. The ...
2001 Ramon Magsaysay Awardees Announced in Philippines
Jul 30, 2001 ... The Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation announced here Monday theseven winners of the award for this year, including two from China. Yuan Longping, director general of China's National HybridRicedeclared the awardee for Government Service. Praised as "fatherofhybrid rice," Yuan ...
Results from Superbike World Championship
Jul 30, 2001 ... Following are leading results from the 10th round of thesuperbike world championship in Brands Hatch,England on Sunday: Race one (25 laps) 1. Ben Bostrom, United States, Ducati, 36 minutes 41.759 seconds 2. Neil Hodgson, Britain, Ducati, 36:43.267 3. Colin ...
Colombia Wins Copa America
Jul 30, 2001 ... Colombia for the first time won theCopa America on Sunday when itdefeated nine-men Mexico 1-0 in thefinal. The lone goal was headed into the net by defender Ivan Cordoba inthe 65th minute of a bad-tempered final in which Paraguayan refereeUbaldo Aquino allowed punches, kicks and ...
Thai State Agencies to Upgrade Tourism Facilities in Nature Reserves
Jul 30, 2001 ... The Thai government is instructing state agencies to invest intourism facilities in national parks and other nature reserves tomaximize the country's tourism resources, the Tourism Authority ofThailand (TAT) said here Monday. So far four agencies, namely Thai Airways ...
Results of World Judo Championships
Jul 30, 2001 ... Following are the results from the World Judo Championships inMunich on Sunday: Women's 48 kgs Final Ryoko Tamura, Japan, bt Ri Kyong-Ok, DPR Korea, decision Bronze medals Giuseppina Macri, Italy and Danieska Carrion, Cuba Women's ...
International Fund Eases Clash Over Elephants
Jul 30, 2001 ... The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) will providefund to protect wild Asian elephants in southwest China, who werefacing angry local villagers' possible vengeance due to theelephants' move to cause crop damages and human deaths and injuries. More than 142,000 yuan ...
Feature: Sao Tome's Presidential Elections Goes on Calmly
Jul 30, 2001 ... by Bian Zhuodan LUANDA, July 29 (Xinhua) -- Presidential elections in Sao Tomeand Principe is going ahead in a calm atmosphere in the westernAfrican island country, without any incidents or attempted fraudregistered, as it is approaching the closure of the polling stationsin Sao ...
More Farmland to Be Returned to Woods Around Dongting Lake
Jul 30, 2001 ... China has kicked off a large "grain for green" project inDongting Lake, a major wetland reservefor winter migratory birds onthe middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Under the project, about 36,000 hectares of reclaimed land willbereturned to forest, and trees will be ...
Major News Items in Leading Japanese Newspapers
Jul 30, 2001 ... The following are major news items inleading Japanese newspapersMonday. Asahi, Yomiuri, Mainichi, Nihon Keizai: -- Japanese voters threw their support behind Prime MinisterJunichiro Koizumi's reform promises by awarding his infant coalitiongovernment a convincing victory in ...
Drought Hits Most Areas of China
Jul 30, 2001 ... Chinese people in many places of the country are making continuedefforts to fight serious drought in a view to ensuring crop harvestthis year. According to the flood control and drought relief headquarters ofWuhan, the most important industrial city on the middle reachesofthe ...
Zhang Jian Becomes First Chinese to Cross English Channel
Jul 30, 2001 ... Zhang Jian became the first Chinese to successfully cross theEnglish Channel in 11 hours 56 seconds on Sunday. Zhang, 37, started at 6:30 this morning from Dover's ShakespeareCliff and landed at Calai beach of the French side at 6:26 in theafternoon guided by a boat piloted by ...
Results from Prokom Open Tennis
Jul 30, 2001 ... Following are the results in the 570,000 U.S. dollars Idea ProkomOpen tennis Tournament in Sopot, Poland on Sunday (prefix numberdenotes seedings): Men's ...
Major News Items in Leading Indian Newspapers
Jul 30, 2001 ... The following are major news items in leading Indian newspapersMonday: The National Herald: -- Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Sunday announceda relief package of 4.35 billion rupees (nearly 100 million U.S.dollars) for the flood-ravaged state of Orissa in east ...
Final Standings in Tour de France Cycling
Jul 30, 2001 ... Following are the final standings ofthe Tour de France after the20th and final stage from Corbeil to Paris on Sunday: Overall final standings: 1. Lance Armstrong, United States, US Postal Service, 86 hours 17minutes 28 seconds 2. Jan Ullrich, Germany, Deustche Telekom, ...
Spirit Hand Beat 3-1 Loss with Three Atlanta Players Injured
Jul 30, 2001 ... A hard-fought 3-1 win by the San Diego Spirit over the AtlantaBeat saw three key Atlanta players go down with injuries in SanDiego on Sunday. The visiting first-place Beat played the Spirit, who started thegame in last place, but knew that they were in for a highly ...
Three More Hostages Believed Taken by Abu Sayyaf
Jul 30, 2001 ... The Philippine government was looking into reports that the AbuSayyaf bandits may have kidnapped three more hostages in thesouthern Philippines on July 22. The DzMM radio station Monday quoted the Southern Command DeputyChief for Operations Francisco Gudani as saying that, ...
HK Stocks Open Lower
Jul 30, 2001 ... Hong Kong stocks opened at 12,103.56 points ...
World Cup African Zone Qualifying Results
Jul 30, 2001 ... Following are the results of African Zone World Cup qualifyingmatches played over the weekend: Group A In Tripoli, Friday: Libya lost to Zambia 2-4 In Luanda, Sunday: Angola tied Togo 1-1 Final standings(tabulated under games played, ...
Voting Ends, Ballot Counting Starts in Sao Tome General Elections
Jul 30, 2001 ... All the polling stations for the presidential elections in SaoTome and Principe are closed on Sunday night and the manual ballotcounting then started in succession in the seven districts in thearchipelago country located in the western African Gulf of Guinea. President of the Sao ...
Swedish Customs Seizes Largest Amount of Heroin
Jul 30, 2001 ... The Swedish customs in Goteborg Thursday seized 17 kilograms ofheroin, the largest ever amount reportedly seized in this country,according to a network report by Goteborg Post. The report quoted customs officials as saying that they found theheroin in a car when they checked ...
Shanghai Issues Rules to Enhance Food Safety
Jul 30, 2001 ... China's leading industrial and commercial center has issued a setof tough rules restricting the use of pesticides and other chemicalsused on city farms. Being part of a national efforts, the city will step upagriculture-related inspections and impose fines on those whoviolated ...
Japanese PM Vows to Reform After Gaining Upper House Majority
Jul 30, 2001 ... Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, also president of theruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), on Sunday vowed to moveforward with structural reform afterthe ruling bloc grabbed majorityin the House of Councillors. "I think (citizens) are hoping for reform," Koizumi said ....
Xinhua World News Summary at 0030 GMT, July 30
Jul 30, 2001 ... ISLAMABAD -- Representatives of the Afghan Taliban militia inPakistan will hold talks with American Assistant Secretary of StateChristina Rocca in Islamabad during her visit to Pakistan thatbegins on Monday, News Network International (NNI) reported Sunday. Quoting diplomatic ...
Olympic Bidding Success Triggers New Wave of Investment
Jul 30, 2001 ... At least 600 foreign companies said they intend to invest inBeijing following the capital city'ssuccessful bid for the 2008Summer Olympic Games. "Beijing Daily" reported Monday the foreign companies havecontacted local government departments and institutions forinvestment ...
Thailand's Foreign Debts in Non-Banking Sector Continue to Drop
Jul 30, 2001 ... Foreign debts in the non-banking sector continued to decline asthey totaled 29.2 billion U.S. dollars at the end of March thisyear, down by 1.1 billion dollarsfrom the end of last year,according to a report of the Bank of Thailand (BOT) available hereMonday. Of this, 28.64 ...
Foreign Investment in Myanmar Sharply Up in 1st Quarter
Jul 30, 2001 ... Foreign investment in Myanmar totaled 41.49 million U.S. dollarsin seven projects in the first quarter of this year, rising by 315.2percent from the same periodof 2000, according to the latest figuresissued by the country's Central Statistical Organization. Of the investment, which ...
(Recast) URGENT: Japan's Ruling Coalition Grabs 78 Seats, Gains Comfortable Upper House Majority
Jul 30, 2001 ... Japanese ruling coalition, led by Prime Minister JunichiroKoizumi's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP),gained a comfortablemajority in the House of Councillors with a total of 78 seats. The LDP itself gained 64 seats, its larger partner the NewKomeito party ...
Nigeria Qualifies for World Cup Final
Jul 30, 2001 ... Nigeria booked a seat in neat year's World Cup finals in Japanand South Korea when they defeated Ghana 3-0 in an African Zonequalifying match on Sunday. The win gave Nigeria 16 points, one point more than Liberia, andclinched Group B's sole ticket at the end of the ...
Jordan to Fortify Flour to Combat Iron Deficiency Anaemia
Jul 30, 2001 ... The Health Ministry of Jordan will start fortifying flour withiron and folic acid to combat the iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) incooperation with the World Health Organization, the semi-officialdaily Jordan Times reported on Monday. Iron elements will be added gradually to all flour ...
New Zealand Stocks Close Almost Unchanged
Jul 30, 2001 ... The New Zealand sharemarket closed almost unchanged here Monday. The NZSE40 Index remained at 2,607 points with a tiny turnover of34.5 million NZ dollars (14.2 million U.S. dollars). Insurance company AMP gained 10 cents to 2,330 cents, Telecom 4to529 cents, and both Brierley ...
New Zealanders Asked to Curb Electricity Use By 10 Pct
Jul 30, 2001 ... New Zealanders are being urged to curb electricity use by 10percent or face blackouts. The warning was contained in a press release issued by theNewZealand government on Monday. New Zealand Energy Minister Pete Hodgson said in the pressrelease that though the country does not ...
Thai Supreme Court Upholds Verdict On Parliament President's Case
Jul 30, 2001 ... Thailand's Supreme Court ruled on Monday that ParliamentPresident Uthai Pimchaichon committed misconduct when he wascommerce minister, upholding the verdict ofthe Criminal and AppealCourts, according to a report of the Thai News Agency (TNA) The Supreme Court upheld the Criminal ...
HK Stocks Lower at Midday
Jul 30, 2001 ... Hong Kong stocks ended the morning session at ...
Standings of Women's United Soccer Association League
Jul 30, 2001 ... Following are the standings of the Women's United SoccerAssociation (WUSA) league after three games Sunday evening(tabulated under games played, won, lost, tied, goals for, againstand points): Atlanta Beat 18 8 3 7 25 19 31 Bay Area CyberRays 18 9 5 ...
China, Norway Seminar on Polar Regions
Jul 30, 2001 ... The first China-Norway international seminar on polar regionsopened Monday in Shanghai, attracting nearly 100 scientists fromChina, Norway, the United States and Sweden. In the coming five days, the participants will focus ondiscussions on the study ...
State Capital to Quit Catering Businesses in Beijing
Jul 30, 2001 ... State capital will be withdrawn from Beijing's commercialenterprises, especially small catering businesses, so that fund canbe concentrated on the establishment of 18 large commercialenterprise groups in five years. According to officials with the Beijing Municipal ...
Sao Tome Presidential Elections to Enter Second Round
Jul 30, 2001 ... Presidential elections in Sao Tomeand Principe are expected toenter the second round in less than two weeks since ...
Air Quality of Major Chinese Cities
Jul 30, 2001 ... Report on the quality of air in 47major Chinese cities (12:00a.m., July 29 to 12:00 a.m., July 30) as released Monday by theChina Environmental Monitoring Center: City Major Pollutant Air Quality Level Beijing particulate matter...
Foreign Exchange Rates in New Zealand
Jul 30, 2001 ... The following are foreign exchange rates against the New Zealanddollar here on Monday. MondayFriday Australian dollar0.8141...
CyberRays Hold off Carolina, Boston Beat Washington
Jul 30, 2001 ... Kim Clark scored one goal and had an assist to pace the Bay AreaCyberRays for a 2-1 victory over the Carolina Courage, while theBoston Breakers defeated the Washington Freedom 2-1 Sunday night. With the win, the CyberRays moved to 9-4-5 to tie for thefirstplace with the Atlanta ...
Iraq Sets Up New Team for Oil Survey
Jul 30, 2001 ... The Iraqi Oil Ministry has set up anew engineering team for crudesurvey in the oil-rich country, the official Al-Jumhuriya dailyreported Monday. The team was headquartered in the northern Neiveva Province,thenewspaper quoted Rafid Abdul Halim, an Oil Ministry official, assaying ....
6 Palestinians Killed by Israeli Tank Fire: Palestinian Sources
Jul 30, 2001 ... Six Palestinians were killed and another injured by Israeli tankfire overnight near the Farah refugee camp in the West Bank city ofNablus, Palestinian security sources said. The tanks shells were fired from an Israeli position near the settlement of Elon Moreh, the source ...
Myanmar Beats Canada's AIA in Soccer Friendly
Jul 30, 2001 ... Myanmar National team defeated the Canada's AIA Football Clubteam 5-0 in their third friendly soccermatch at the Youth TrainingCenter here Sunday evening. The host team ousted the Canadians 3-1 in the first match lastWednesday and tied a scoreless 0-0 in their ...
Major News Items in Leading Kenyan Newspapers
Jul 30, 2001 ... The following are major news itemsin leading Kenyan newspapers onMonday. Kenya Times: -- Kenya's real gross domestic product declined by 0.2 percent inthe 12 months to April 2001 compared with a decline of 0.3 percentin 2000 and a growth of 1.4 percent in 1999, according to ...
Thousand Applicants Vie for Official Posts in Beijing
Jul 30, 2001 ... More than 1,000 people have signedup to vie for official postsat the government departmental level in Beijing, according to theBeijing Morning Post. The applicants, coming from some 30 provinces, autonomous regionsand municipalities throughout the country, will compete for a ...
S.Korean Stocks Down
Jul 30, 2001 ... South Korean shares fell Monday as domestic and global economicuncertainties influenced investor confidence. The Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) dropped 7.6 pointsto 533.53, with trade volume coming to 272.69 million shares worth934.7 billion won (some 750 million ...
Four Killed, Dozens Injured in U.S. Explosion
Jul 30, 2001 ... A steam engine exploded Sunday at a county fair in Ohio of theUnited States, killing at least four men and injuring dozens ofother people including children, media reports said. The reports quoted hospital officials as saying that at least 25people were injured, many suffering from ...
Major News Items in Leading S. African Newspapers
Jul 30, 2001 ... The following are major news items in leading South Africannewspapers on Monday. The Star: -- Former South African President Nelson Mandela will be likelytoresume light work schedule by attending to two or three meetingsprior to radiotherapy treatment for prostate ...
More Jobs to Be Created in Kenya's EPZ
Jul 30, 2001 ... About 2,000 jobs will be created in the next two months followingthe clearance of seven firms to start operations at Kenya's ExportProcess Zones (EPZ). The entry of the seven companies, with a combined investment of23million U.S. dollars, brings to 18 the number of firms that ...
Typhoon Toraji Hits Taiwan
Jul 30, 2001 ... Typhoon Toraji slammed into Taiwan early Monday morning, causingat least 12 people dead and 21 missing, according to sourcesreaching here from Taipei. Toraji hit land overnight near the east-central county ofHualian, about 160 kilometers south of Taipei this morning.Mudslides and ...