Xinhua News Agency back issues from Thursday, November 29:
Major News Items in Leading Japanese Newspapers
Nov 29, 2001 ... The following are major news items in leading Japanese newspapersThursday. Asahi, Nihon Keizai, Mainichi: -- The Japanese government and ruling coalition parties agreedWednesday to reduce payments to medical institutions by healthinsurance unions after patients undergo health ...
One in 60 Thais Has HIV Virus
Nov 29, 2001 ... The 2001 global summary of theAIDS/HIV epidemic issued by UnitedNations (UN) and World Health Organization (WHO) said that one in 60Thais is infected with HIV,and AIDS has become the leading cause ofdeath among the population, the Bangkok Post reported Thursday. According to the ...
Major News Items in Leading Philippine Newspapers
Nov 29, 2001 ... The following are major news items in leading Philippinenewspapers Thursday. Philippine Daily Inquirer: -- All the hostages seized Tuesday by the Moro NationalLiberation Front (MNLF) were freed Wednesday, but the rebels gotaway with their firearms. Leaving the hostages ...
Spanish Federation Finds no Doping Case in 2000/01
Nov 29, 2001 ... The anti-doping commission of the Spanish Football Federation(RFEF) last season took 1,535 samples from first and second divisionplayers without any positive cases, it was reported here onWednesday. The sample taking, carried out by experts in pharmacology, humanfisiology, ...
Harsh Media Criticism on Intercontinental Cup Final's Referee
Nov 29, 2001 ... South American media Wednesday harshly criticized the performanceof Danish referee KimNielsen during Tuesday's Intercontinental Cupmatch, between Argentina's Boca Juniors and Germany's Bayern Munich,with a 1-0 victory for the Bavarian team. In this match between the champions of ...
Automats Gain Popularity in Beijing
Nov 29, 2001 ... Vending machines are set to become omnipotent features alongBeijing streets, said Thursday's China Daily. Automats are particularly in fashion among young people who seekfast food when hunger pangs strike. The Beijing Guard Microshop Trade Co. has already set up morethan 800 ...
France, Tanzania End Military Exercise
Nov 29, 2001 ... A French military delegation has concluded an exercise with theTanzania People's Defense Forces (TPDF) from November 19 to 28 inDar es Salaam on the final touch of preparations for a regionalpeacekeeping exercise. A joint statement issued Wednesday by the TPDF and the FrenchJoint ...
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Feature: Hostage Crisis Over in Southern Philippine City
Nov 29, 2001 ... The hostage crisis in the southern Philippine city of Zamboanga,which began predawn Tuesday,ended early Wednesday afternoon as thekidnappers reached an agreement with the government. Some 200 kidnappers, all of whom are followers of suspendedAutonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao ...
Bangkok Rice F.O.B. Prices
Nov 29, 2001 ... The following are offered Bangkok rice f.o.b. prices, as set bythe Rice Committee Board of Trade of Thailand, for the week startingThursday: U.S. Dollar/Metric Ton last week this week White Fragrant Rice 100 percent ...
Travel Industry in Canada Falters Sharply
Nov 29, 2001 ... The travel industry in Canada faltered sharply in the wave of theSeptember 11 terrorist attacks,Statistics Canada reported Wednesday. The chill cast by the attacks slashed both the number ofCanadians traveling abroad and that of foreign visitors in thecountry, research ...
Thai Trade Exhibition Opens in Myanmar
Nov 29, 2001 ... The fourth Thai trade exhibition opened here Thursday, aimed atpromoting export of Thaiproducts to Myanmar and enhancing thedevelopment of the two countries' economic and trade cooperation. The four-day Thailand Exhibition 2001, organized by theDepartment of Export Promotion of the ...
China Invests More in Pollution Control at Dianchi Lake
Nov 29, 2001 ... Southwest China's Yunnan Province will invest 9 billion yuan(1.08 billion U.S. dollars) tocurb serious pollution at DianchiLake, a famous high plateau lake,in upcoming five years. The investment will be used to build 26 projects includingconstruction of an urban sewage pipeline and ...
Nearly 3 Million Thais Use Drugs: Survey
Nov 29, 2001 ... Almost three million Thais areaddicted to drugs, with children asyoung as five years old already on the habit, the Thai News Agency(TNA) said Thursday. Speaking at a conference to reveal the results of a nationwidesurvey conducted by the Ministry of Public Health from ...
China Records Breakthrough in Hybrid Wheat Research
Nov 29, 2001 ... China recorded a breakthrough in hybrid wheat cultivationrecently with its Northwest University ofAgricultural and ForestrySciences successfully developing a hybrid wheat species which had aper-hectare output of 8,422 kg. during trial cultivation. Experts here believe that such ...
U.N. Deputy Says Bonn Talks "So Far So Good"
Nov 29, 2001 ... Afghan parties at their Bonn talks created a "warm atmosphere"but their negotiations about rebuilding their country "are not to beeasy" in the early stage, a U.N. special envoy for Afghanistan saidhere Wednesday. Frances Vendrell, deputy special representative of the ...
Guangdong Exports More Computer-Related Products
Nov 29, 2001 ... Guangdong Province, China's leading export processing base,exported 11 billion U.S. dollars worth of computer-related productsin the first ten months of thisyear. Local customs sources said that the volume represents a rise of29percent from the same period last year. And ...
U.S. Government Prepares For Bio-terrorism Attack
Nov 29, 2001 ... The U.S. government signed a contract with a British firm onWednesday to buy 155 million doses of smallpox vaccine inpreparation for possible bio-terrorism attacks. The contract with Acambis Inc. will bring the country'svaccinestockpile to 286 million doses by the end of next ...
American Coughlin Sets Second World Record in World Cup Swimming
Nov 29, 2001 ... American Natalie Coughlin set second world record at the FINAWorld Cup swimming competitions in New York on Wednesday, winningthe women's 100m breaststroke in 57.08 seconds. The 19-year-old Coughlin, who broke the 200m backstroke worldrecord on Tuesday, gathered four gold medals ...
EU Warns Montenegro Against Holding Referendum on Independence
Nov 29, 2001 ... The European Union (EU) on Wednesday Warned Montenegro, one ofthe two republics of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, againstholding a referendum on independence. Speaking to the press inPodgorica, capital of Montenegro, Javier Solana, the EU highrepresentative for security and ...
Hong Kong Stocks Down at Midday
Nov 29, 2001 ... Hong Kong stocks ended the morning session down at 10,996.25Thursday, losing 69.94 points,or0.63 ...
Baxter's Compensation for Dialysis Victims "Fair": Attorney
Nov 29, 2001 ... Manuel Mata, attorney for nine of ten Spanish patients who diedafter using flawed Baxter dialysis filters on Wednesday, describedas "fair" and "reasonable" the U.S. pharmaceutical company'sdecision to compensate the families of the victims.Sally Benjamin Young, spokeswoman for ...
Spanish King Pledges Support for Colombian Peace Process
Nov 29, 2001 ... Spain's King Juan Carlos, who is on a brief visit to Colombia,expressed his "firm intention" tosupport Colombia's peace process,but also warned against wasting time in the process. Spain will "accompany Colombia on its way toward peace," KingJuan Carlos said during a dinner speech ...
Davis Cup Final Draw
Nov 29, 2001 ... Following is the draw made Thursday for the Davis Cup finalbetween Australia and France to be played in Melbourne Friday toSunday (Australians First): Friday 1100 (2400 GMT) Lleyton Hewitt vs Nicolas ...
Canada to Work out Plan to Aid China
Nov 29, 2001 ... The Canadian government is to work out a five-year plan forassistance to China during the 2002-2006 period, according to theCanadian International Development Agency (CIDA). CIDA sources say the five-year plan will focus on providingaidfor environmental protection, ecological ...
Market Exchange Rates
Nov 29, 2001 ... Market exchange rates of threemajor currencies against RMB yuanon Thursday, announced by the People's Bank of China: Currency Unit Middle Price (in RMB yuan) U.S. Dollar 100 827.72 Japanese Yen 100 6.6926 Hong Kong Dollar 100 ...
News Items from Asia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua (Part Two)
Nov 29, 2001 ... Following are news items from the Asia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua inHong Kong Wednesday: hka -- Macao Receives More Tourists in October Xinhua Summary of Major Asia-Pacific News, Wednesday, November 28 Foreign Exchange Rates in Hong Kong hka -- Hong Kong to Launch New ...
Construction of China's Largest Urban Water Supply Project Underway
Nov 29, 2001 ... Construction began Wednesday to open a tunnel through mountainsto channel water from Zhangjiu River to Kunming, capital ofsouthwest China's Yunnan Province. The tunnel is part of a 3.9-billion-yuan urban water supplyproject, the largest in China, which will contribute 250 ...
India, Thailand Sign Memorandum on Information Technology
Nov 29, 2001 ... India and Thailand signed here on Wednesday a memorandum ofunderstanding on information technology (IT) and services and agreedto strengthen bilateral relations in diversified fields. Under the agreement, signed by Indian Information TechnologyMinister Pramod Mahajan and Thai ...
BOJ to Maintain Ultra-Easy Monetary Policy
Nov 29, 2001 ... The Bank of Japan (BOJ) policy-setting panel decided on Thursdayto maintain its current ultra-easy monetary policy, Kyodo Newsreported. After the one-day meeting of the nine-member Policy Board, BOJannounced that it will maintain its current policy to provide ampleliquidity to ...
Developing Complementary Trade With China to Benefit Region: Expert
Nov 29, 2001 ... Asian nations should adopt a complementary trade policy towardsChina, which will lead to gainsfor the region as a whole, a HongKong expert said here Thursday. Andy Xie, managing director of the Morgan Stanley Company (Asia),told an international forum that such a strategy is set to ...
Tibetan's Market Sense Enhanced
Nov 29, 2001 ... With the implementation of the west China development strategy,Tibetans' market sense has been greatly enhanced. In the past, Tibetans slaughtered animals in winter but seldom insummer. Therefore, at Tibetan livestock markets, supply alwaysexceeds demand in winter but falls short ...
Tibetans Keen on Fitness (1)
Nov 29, 2001 ... Cuomoq, a 1.56-meter-tall woman in southwest China's TibetAutonomous Region, is trying everythingshe can think of to lose someof her current weight of 73 kilograms (about 161 pounds). It was bad enough when climbing the stairs to her fourth floorapartment left her heaving. But the ...
Kunqu Opera to Be Rejuvenated Via Internet
Nov 29, 2001 ... A dozen Kunqu websites including www.beikun.com, go8.163.com/yongkun/, www.kunqu.net opened recently, giving new momentum to thisancient opera. The websites, opened by official organizations, opera troupes andKunqu lovers will play a very important role in popularizing ...
List of Prominent Nandrolone Cases
Nov 29, 2001 ... Spanish international midfielder Josep Guardiola, newly signedwith Italian Serie A clubBrescia, tested positive for the bannedsteroid nandrolone for a second time in different matches within twoweeks, the Italian Olympic Committee announced on Wednesday.Following is a list of ...
Pua Stays to Coach Uruguay in World Cup Finals
Nov 29, 2001 ... Victor Pua will stay as Uruguay's coach at the World Cup finalsin South Korea and Japan next year. Uruguay defeated Australia in a two-leg play-off to claim thelast place at the World Cup. Pua, whose contract ended with Sunday's playoff, said he waswaiting for Uruguayan ...
Results from FIDE championship
Nov 29, 2001 ... Following are the results of the first round of the FIDE worldchess championships after the round's second game Wednesday.Pairings that ended in ties will bedetermined by playoffs laterWednesday. Men 1. Olivier Touzane, France, tied Viswanathan Anand, India 2. Michael ...
American Coughlin Sets Second World Record in World Cup Swimming
Nov 29, 2001 ... American Natalie Coughlin set second world record at the FINAWorld Cup swimming competitions in New York on Wednesday, winningthe women's 100m backstroke in 57.08 seconds. The 19-year-old Coughlin, who broke the 200m backstroke worldrecord on Tuesday, gathered four gold medals and ...
Ho Chi Minh City to Become Vietnam's IT Hub
Nov 29, 2001 ... Vietnam has worked out a 450 million U.S. dollars plan to developHo Chi Minh City into an information technology (IT) hub of thecountry by 2005, local daily Vietnam News reported Thursday. The plan will aim to develop a high-tech labor force by trainingmore than 20,000 IT experts ...
Top Justice on Philippine Ex-President Graft Case Relieved
Nov 29, 2001 ... The Philippine Supreme Court Wednesday relieved top justice ofthe anti-graft court, Francis Garchitorena, in an unprecedented stepthat adds another obstacle to ousted President Joseph Estrada'scorruption trial. In a 43-page, full court resolution, the Supreme Courtindefinitely ...
Tibetans Keen on Fitness (2)
Nov 29, 2001 ... Liu Qin, an aerobics instructor, said that many Tibetans havejoined the worldwide fitness craze.In July 1998, Liu came from inland area to open aerobics classesat a gym alongside the city's central square, which faces the famousPotala Palace. "As soon as I started, ...
Quick-reaction U.S. Force Deployed in Afghanistan
Nov 29, 2001 ... The U.S. military has deployed a quick-reaction force aroundMazar-e-Sharif in northern Afghanistan, U.S. officials said onWednesday. The force, comprised of no more than two dozen soldiers, werefrom the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division across the border insouthern Uzbekistan, ...
Shanghai Vows to Curb Piracy
Nov 29, 2001 ... China's leading business center Shanghai has taken a variety ofmeasures to curb piracy of audio and visual products this year. An anti-piracy concert was held during the 2001 Shanghai AsianMusic Festival, calling on people to reject pirated audio and visualproducts. Some 12 ...
Hewitt to Face Escude in Davis Cup Opener
Nov 29, 2001 ... World No. 1 tennis player Lleyton Hewitt will face Nicolas Escudein the opening rubber of the Davis Cup final in Melbourne fromFriday to Sunday. In Thursday's draw, Wimbledon finalist Pat Rafter was named toplay French No 1 Sebastien Grosjean, who beat Rafter on his waytothe ...
Palestinian Killed by Israeli troops in southern Gaza
Nov 29, 2001 ... Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian man late Wednesday nightnear the Jewish settlement of Nitzarim south of Gaza City, Israeliand Palestinian sources said. Israeli sources said that one Palestinian walked closer to anIsraeli army tank, and when asked to stop he did not reply, ...
Sri Lankan Leftist Party Not to Take Up Arms
Nov 29, 2001 ... Sri Lanka's leftist JVP or thepeople's Liberation Front said onWednesday that they were not planning a third armed uprising butvowed to crush separatist Tamil Tiger rebels. JVP leader Somavansa Amerasinghe said that there will be no thirdrevolution and his remarks were completely ...
Foreign Exchange Rates in Philippines
Nov 29, 2001 ... The following are foreign exchange rates against the Philippinepeso released Thursday by the central bank of the Philippines: Thursday Wednesday U.S. dollar 52.024051.9950 Japanese yen 0.4227 0.4198 ...
Japan's Industrial Output Drops to 13-year Low in October
Nov 29, 2001 ... Japan's industrial production dropped a seasonally adjusted 0.3percent in October from September to a 13-year low, Kyodo Newsreported Thursday quoting apreliminary report by Japanese Ministryof Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). The index of output at mines and factories fell for ...
Major Latin America's Bourses Close Down
Nov 29, 2001 ... Latin America's three major stock markets: Mexico City, Sao Pauloand Buenos Aires closed lower on Wednesday. Buenos Aires's stock market closed with its Merval index down3.03 percent to end at 211.98 points, as compared with yesterday's218.61 points. The trade volume was 8.63 ...
Guardiola Affected by Second Nandrolone-Positive Test
Nov 29, 2001 ... Spanish international Josep Guardiola's wife Cristina Serra saidon Wednesday her husband "is deeply affected" by the new nandrolone-positive test of the November 4 Brescia-Lazio game. "Pep (Josep) does not want to talk, and his lawyers have advisedhim not to say anything. Really, ...
Xinhua World Economic News at 0500 GMT, November 29
Nov 29, 2001 ... NAIROBI -- Kenya's tea production in October this year registered24,476 tons, a 10.4 percent increase over the same period of lastyear, Tea Board of Kenya Managing Director S. K. Nkanata said hereon Wednesday. He disclosed that in the first 10 months of this year, thecountry's ...
U.S. Company to Ship Food to Cuba in December
Nov 29, 2001 ... The Cuban government signed a contract to purchase U.S. poultryfrom Florida-based Crowley Maritime Corp, with shipments beginningnext month, local media quoted an official of the company as sayingon Wednesday. Crowley, which earlier this year became the first U.S.shippingcompany ...
Canadian Parliament Passes Anti-terrorism Bill
Nov 29, 2001 ... Canada's House of Commons passed the federal government'scontroversial anti-terrorism legislation on Wednesday, over theobjections of some opposition MPs who accused the ruling Liberals oframming it through. The bill has been widely criticized by civil libertarians, Muslimgroups ...
China Adjusts Trade Laws for Final WTO Entry
Nov 29, 2001 ... China is in a critical period for amending its trade laws to meetthe requirements to become a formal member of the World TradeOrganization (WTO). Yu Mingde, an official with State Trade and EconomicCommissiontold Xinhua that according to the commitment made byChinese government, ...
World Cup Seeding Not Important: Camacho
Nov 29, 2001 ... Spain soccer team coach Jose Antonio Camacho said Wednesday thatWorld Cup seeding is not important for Spain. "If we are really aiming to do something important in the nextWorld Cup we can't be worried about whether we get a good or baddraw," Camacho said on Wednesday before flying ...
Polish, German, Czech Police Hold Joint Exercise
Nov 29, 2001 ... Police forces from Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic onWednesday held a joint exercise code-named "Trio" aimed at assessingtheir capability to trace andapprehend criminals, the Polish PressAgency (PAP) reported. The report said that 650 members ...
213 Haitian Immigrants Presumed Dead in Attempt to Reach U.S.
Nov 29, 2001 ... Some 213 Haitian immigrants departing from their country in earlyNovember are presumed drowned after a failed attempt to reach theU.S. state of Florida in two ramshackle sailboats, an official ofthe Haitian governmentsaid on Wednesday. Some 150 Haitians left Ile-a-Vache island off ...
Colombian Paramilitaries Kill 3 Kidnapped farmers
Nov 29, 2001 ... Three farmers, who were kidnapped a day earlier by allegedmembers of the right-wing United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia(AUC), were found murdered on Wednesday in southwestern Colombia,local authorities reported. Gun shots were found in the heads of the farmers, abducted ...
China Invents New Weed Killers
Nov 29, 2001 ... Two new kinds of chemical weedkillers invented by scientists ofthe Chinese Academy of Sciences have recently passed appraisal,according to the Beijing-based Guangming Daily.The two chemical formulas are used to kill two major poisonousweeds threatening livestock in pastures -- ...
Barcelona Supports Guardiola in Doping Case
Nov 29, 2001 ... Spain's Barcelona soccer club Wednesday maintained support forits former player Josep Guardiola-- now playing with Italian Serie Aclub Brescia -- who tested positive for nandrolone twice indifferent matches within two weeks. Sources of the club ratified their conviction that if ...
PLA Chief of General Staff Starts Visit to Tanzania
Nov 29, 2001 ... General Fu Quanyou, chief of General Staff of the ChinesePeople's Liberation Army (PLA), arrived here Wednesday for anofficial goodwill visit to Tanzania. Upon his arrival from Zambia, Fu, also member of the CentralMilitary Commission of China, said at Dar es Salaam ...
Domestic News Items From Xinhua -- Nov. 28 (2)
Nov 29, 2001 ... China's Top Legislator Meets Macao Delegation Beijing to Phase out Coal Consumption Four Men Sentenced for Destroying Mangrove Taiwan Stocks End Down 132.75 Points PECC's 14th General Meeting Opens in Hong Kong Website on China Shipping Opens ...
Major News Items in Leading Pakistani Newspapers
Nov 29, 2001 ... The following are major newsitems in leading Pakistani Englishnewspapers on Thursday. The Nation: -- The government decided on Wednesday to launch a country-widecrackdown on extremist elements next month, and President PervezMusharraf has called an inter-provincial meeting on ...
hka -- Hong Kong Stocks Open Lower
Nov 29, 2001 ... Hong Kong stocks decreased 91.53 points, or ...
Ecuador Presents "Galapagos 2010" Conservation Plan
Nov 29, 2001 ... Ecuadorian President Gustavo Novoa Wednesday presented thebiodiversity conservation strategy "Galapagos 2010," which will befunded by different countries and international organizations. Among the international cooperation bodies participating inthestrategy are the Inter-American ...