Xinhua News Agency back issues from Thursday, February 28:
H.K.-based Magazine Regrets Over "Misunderstanding" With Thailand
Feb 28, 2002 ... The Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER), a Hong Kong-basedmagazine, has expressed regret over what it called a"misunderstanding" with Thai authorities caused by a controversialarticle which Thailand viewed as a threat to national security, theNation TV Channel reported ...
HK Stocks Lower at Midday
Feb 28, 2002 ... Hong Kong stocks ended the morning session at ...
Williams, Hingis Advance in Scottsdale Tennis
Feb 28, 2002 ... American Serena Williams and Martina Hingis of Switzerlandadvanced to the third round after beating their respective rivals inthe 585,000 U.S. dollars Scottsdale Classic tennis tournament inArizona on Wednesday. Third seed Williams edged Alina Jidkova of Russia 6-3, 6-3 ...
Major News Items in Leading Pakistani Newspapers
Feb 28, 2002 ... The following are major news items in leading Pakistani Englishnewspapers on Thursday. The Nation: -- President General Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday directed theNational Reconstruction Bureau to expedite the work on constitutionalamendments as the government was determined ...
Security Situation Improved in Kabul: ISAF Head
Feb 28, 2002 ... The security situation in Kabul has been improved in the past sixweeks and is better now than in the past, said John McColl, head ofthe 4,500-strong multinational peacekeeping force in Afghanistan. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has had goodcoordination with the ...
Foreign Exchange Rates in Philippines
Feb 28, 2002 ... The following are foreign exchange rates against the Philippinepeso released Thursday by the central bank of the Philippines: Thursday Wednesday U.S. dollar 51.354051.3290 Japanese yen 0.3826...
Major News Items in Leading Kenyan Newspapers
Feb 28, 2002 ... The following are major news items in leading Kenyan newspapers onThursday. Kenya Times: -- Three gun-totting gangsters on Wednesday sneaked into a bankand made away with over 6.6 million shillings (about 83,000 U.S.dollars) in an early morning robbery. Daily ...
Colombia Eliminates Vat Tax on Raw Materials for Agro-Chemicals
Feb 28, 2002 ... The Colombian government started to implement on Wednesday afiscal law approved last year to eliminate the value added tax (VAT)on imported raw materials for agro-chemicals in the country. The government estimates that the elimination of VAT on theseproducts would lower annual ...
China to Expand Trade Links With Vietnam: Jiang Zemin
Feb 28, 2002 ... HANOI, February 28 (Xinhua) - Chinese President Jiang Zemin saidThursday China is fully confident of the future of trade and economiccooperation with Vietnam. Jiang, also general secretary of the Central Committee of theCommunist Party of China (CPC), expressed the belief that ...
Jiang Zemin Meets Former General Secretaries of CPV Central
Feb 28, 2002 ... Committee HANOI, February 28 (Xinhua) - The fruitful exchanges between theyoung people of China and Vietnam will help the younger generation totake on and carry forward the traditional friendship between the twocountries, General Secretary of the Central Committee of ...
Major News Items In Leading Indian Newspapers
Feb 28, 2002 ... The following are major news items in leading Indian newspapers onThursday. The India Express: -- As the conflagration in Gujarat, the worst incident of communalviolence since the religious riots in 1992, spread its shadow overthe government, Prime Minister Atal Behari ...
Bangladesh, India to set up Joint Venture in Power
Feb 28, 2002 ... Generation DHAKA, February 28 (Xinhua) -- Bangladesh has decided to respondpositively to an Indian proposal to have a joint venture in powergeneral and power export, the Financial Express reported Thursday. The first round of negotiation between the two sides on theproposal ...
Results from San Jose Open Tennis
Feb 28, 2002 ... Following are results at the 400,000 U.S. dollars San Jose OpenATP men's tournament in California on Wednesday (prefix numberdenotes seeding): First round 6-Xavier Malisse, Belgium, bt Nikolay Davydenko, Russia, 6-4, 6- 2 James Blake, United States, bt Mardy Fish, ...
China, U.S. Cooperate in Constructing Energy-saving Building
Feb 28, 2002 ... China and the United States are cooperating in constructing anenergy-saving building in which the most advanced technologies willbe employed. At the ground-breaking ceremony organized by China's Ministry ofScience and Technology, Deng Nan, vice minister of science andtechnology, ...
Mexican Open Tennis Results (Updated)
Feb 28, 2002 ... Following are the results from the 925,000 U.S. dollars AbiertoMexicano Pegaso tennis tournament, played at the Mexican resort cityof Acapulco on Wednesday (prefix number denotes seeding): Men Singles, second round:Carlos Moya, Spain, bt 5-Jose Acasuso, ...
URGENT Israeli Troops Kill 7 Palestinians in West Bank Raids
Feb 28, 2002 ... Israeli troops shot dead early Thursday seven Palestinians in therefugee camp of Balata near the West Bank town ...
114-Year-Old Mexican Seems to be World's Oldest Woman
Feb 28, 2002 ... A 114-year-old Mexican Eulalia Herrera seemed to be the world'soldest woman who is two years older than the registered Japanese inthe Genius Records Book, local media reported on Wednesday. Mrs. Herrera has lived for 40 years in Sucila in the southeasternstate of Yucatan. She got ...
Guangzhou Gambling Crackdown Cashes In
Feb 28, 2002 ... Guangdong police have smashed a total of 1,644 secret Mark Sixlottery gambling bases in the past two months, detaining 1,417suspects from 462 gangs. The crackdown was hailed by provincial security chiefs as abreakthrough in the fight against illegal gambling, Thursday's ...
Major Foreign Exchange Rates in Pakistan
Feb 28, 2002 ... The following are exchange rates against the Pakistani rupeeissued by the Treasury Management Division of the National Bank ofPakistan on Thursday. Selling Buying Buying TT & OD TT CleanOD/T.CHQ U.S. dollar 60.50 60.00 ...
NBA Wednesday's Results
Feb 28, 2002 ... Following are the results of Wednesday's National BasketballAssociation games (home team in CAPS): Portland bt WASHINGTON 105-101 CHARLOTTE bt New Jersey 104-85 PHILADELPHIA bt Miami ...
Sweden to Fund Ugandan Journalist Training Program
Feb 28, 2002 ... The Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) is to fund athree-year program to train journalists in environmental reporting inthe Great Lakes region, the Monitor newspaper reported on Thursday. The program, which is worth 5 billion Uganda shillings (about 3million U.S ....
India's Exports Up 18 Percent in January
Feb 28, 2002 ... The country's exports recorded an 18 percent growth in January forthe first time in the 2001-2002 fiscal year, according to the tradedata released by the Commerce Ministry Wednesday. Exports in January 2002 stood at 4.25 billion U.S. dollars, 18. 18percent up from 3.59 billion ...
DPRK's Supreme People's Assembly Leader Starts Visit to Thailand
Feb 28, 2002 ... Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People'sAssembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and hisdelegation arrived here Thursday, starting an official visit toThailand. According to a press release of the Thai government, Kim's four-day visit would ...
Powell Denies Plan on U.S. Military Involvement in Georgia
Feb 28, 2002 ... U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell assured his Russiancounterpart, Igor Ivanov, in a telephone conversation Thursday thatno decision has been made to send U.S. combat units to Georgia. Only a small group of military advisors are now in Georgia to helptrain Georgian special task ...
Major News Items in Leading Egyptian Newspapers
Feb 28, 2002 ... The following are major news items in leading Egyptian newspaperson Thursday. Al Ahram: -- Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher met on Wednesday withvisiting Israeli Knesset (parliament) member Ahmed Al Tibi over theprospects of development in the political process in the ...
Denmark to Play Tunisia in World Cup Warm-up Game
Feb 28, 2002 ... Denmark will play Tunisia in a World Cup warm-up friendly on May26, the Danish soccer association said on Thursday. The game will take place at the Danish training camp in ...
Mubarak, Solana Begin Talks on Mideast Situation
Feb 28, 2002 ... EDS: 1st lead, updates with background CAIRO, February 28 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak onThursday began talks with European Union (EU) foreign policy chiefJavier Solana on the worsening Mideast situation, Egypt's officialMENA news agency said. "The talks ...
URGENT Israeli-Palestinian Security Talks Begin
Feb 28, 2002 ... Palestinian and Israeli security officials began talks hereThursday in a ...
Estrada to Be Appointed With Government Lawyer for Trial
Feb 28, 2002 ... The Philippine anti-graft court said on Thursday that it willassign a government lawyer for deposed President Joseph Estrada tokeep his trial going after the Estrada fired all his lawyers onWednesday. The court said it will give Estrada enough time to find otherlegal counsels but ...
Foreign Exchange Rates in New Zealand
Feb 28, 2002 ... The following are foreign exchange rates against the New Zealanddollar here on Thursday. Thursday Wednesday Australian dollar 0.8136 ...
URGENT Mubarak, Solana Begin Talks on Mideast Situation
Feb 28, 2002 ... Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Thursday began talks withEuropean Union (EU) foreign policy chief Javier Solana on theworsening Mideast situation, Egypt's official ...
Thai Bourse Down 0.41 Points
Feb 28, 2002 ... The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) index on Thursday lose 0.41points to close at 371.81. Some 2.7 billion shares worth ...
Share Prices Continue to Rise on Singapore Stock Market
Feb 28, 2002 ... SINGAPORE, February 28 (Xinhua) Share prices continued to rise onthe Singapore stock market Thursday with the benchmark Straits TimesIndex (STI) gaining 13.21 points to close at 1715.58 points inmoderate trading. The overall volume stood at 335.59 million shares worth ...
Foreign investments in Israel Drop 60 Percent in 2001
Feb 28, 2002 ... Foreign Investment in Israel totaled 4.55 billion U.S. dollars in2001, a 60 percent decline compared with the 11.2 billion dollarsinvested in the country in 2000. The main reason for the sharp decline was the decrease ofinvestment in high-tech companies due to the world recession ...
Israel Should Encourage Saudi Peace Initiative: Peres
Feb 28, 2002 ... Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said on Thursday that Israelshould encourage a Saudi peace initiative which proposes Arabcountries to normalize ties with Israel in return for Israel's fullwithdrawal from occupied Arab lands, Israel Radio reported. However, he said that the ...
Share Prices Close Slightly Higher in Tokyo
Feb 28, 2002 ... Stock prices closed higher in Tokyo Thursday for the second day ina row but were off session peaks as investors thought the marketexhausted trade incentives after the Bank of Japan (BOJ)'s PolicyBoard meeting ended. The Nikkei Stock Average of 225 selected issues on the ...
HK Stocks End Down by 1.56 Percent
Feb 28, 2002 ... Hong Kong stocks closed lower Thursday to give back the slightincrease posted the previous day with property stocks being thebiggest percentage loser. The benchmark Hang Seng Index declined 166.16 points, or 1.56percent, to end at 10.482.55 points. Turnover was a heavy 8.022 ...
Trading on Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Feb 28, 2002 ... Following are Thursday's major Hang Seng Indexes managed andcompiled by HSI Service Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of HangSeng Bank: Index: Previous CloseCloseChange Hang Seng Index (HSI) 10,648 10,482 -166 HSI ...
FLASH: HONG KONG CHIEF EXECUTIVE TUNG CHEE HWA WON A SECOND TERM IN OFFICE THURSDAY.
Feb 28, 2002 ... FLASH: HONG KONG CHIEF EXECUTIVE TUNG CHEE ...
Jiang Zemin Leaves Hanoi for Central Vietnam
Feb 28, 2002 ... Chinese top leader Jiang Zemin left Hanoi and flew to centralVietnam to continue his official goodwill visit Thursday afternoon. Before Jiang's departure from Hanoi, General Secretary of theCentral Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Nong DucManh and Vietnamese ...
New Zealand's Largest Int'l Airport Posts Excellent Profit
Feb 28, 2002 ... The Auckland International Airport, New Zealand's largestinternational airport, Thursday reported a 23 percent rise in netafter-tax profit to 35.1 million New Zealand dollars (about 15million U.S. dollars) for the second half of last year. The company said in a press release that ...
Airbus Aims to Achieve at Least 50 Percent Market in China
Feb 28, 2002 ... A senior manager from Airbus has affirmed that his company aims toachieve at least 50 percent market share in China although it onlyenjoys 24 percent at present. "We see China over will be the second largest market in the worldafter the United States over the next 20 years and ...
Mozambique Looking Forward to New Investors For Enron Project
Feb 28, 2002 ... Mozambican Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi said here on Thursdaythat his government will make every attempt to attract freshinvestors to an iron and steel project initiated by Enron, thebankrupt U.S. energy giant. "Following Enron's bankruptcy, the agreements it signed with ...
Tung Chee Hwa Declared Winner in Chief Executive Election
Feb 28, 2002 ... Tung Chee Hwa has been elected uncontested in the second ChiefExecutive election, the Returning Officer of the 2002 Chief Executiveelection, Justice Pang Kin-kee, declared after the two-weeknomination exercise closed at 5 p.m. local time Thursday. Justice Pang said he received only ...
UN Agency Increases Refugee Funding in Uganda
Feb 28, 2002 ... The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) hasincreased support for refugees in Uganda by expanding its budget forthis year, the Monitor newspaper reported on Thursday. The UNHCR's budget has slightly gone up from 12,075,718 U.S.dollars in 2001 to 12,127,901 dollars ...
Singapore's Economic Downturn Bottoms Out: MTI
Feb 28, 2002 ... Singapore's economy has bottomed out from its ever-worst recessioncaused mainly by the slowdown in the U.S. economy and the cyclistdownturn in global electronics industry, according to the Ministry ofTrade and Industry (MTI) of Singapore. In its final report on the performance of ...
Xinhua Summary of Asia-Pacific Economic News, Thursday, February 28
Feb 28, 2002 ... BEIJING -- China's gross domestic product (GDP) of 2001 was 9,593.3 billion yuan (About 1155.8 billion U.S. dollars), an increaseof 7.3 percent over the previous year in constant terms, exceedingthe targeted 7 percent growth, according to official statisticsreleased here ...
Sharon's Advisor to Visit Jordan
Feb 28, 2002 ... Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's foreign policy advisor DannyAyalon is scheduled to visit Jordan on Thursday to discuss bilateralties, Israel Radio reported. Ayalon was invited by Jordanian Foreign Minister Marwan Moasher,the ...
Cambodia Improves Environment for Investment
Feb 28, 2002 ... Prime Minister Hun Sen said here on Thursday that the Royalgovernment has taken a number of measures to deepen the systematicreforms in order to improve the investment environment for privatesector. At the Fifth Government-Private Sector Forum held on Thursdaymorning at the ...
Israeli Troops Kill 7 Palestinians in West Bank Raids
Feb 28, 2002 ... EDS: 2nd lead, updates with Israeli casualties GAZA, February 28 (Xinhua) -- Israeli troops killed early Thursdaytwo Fatah activists in the refugee camp of Balata near the West Banktown of Nablus and five Palestinian policemen in Jenin town duringIsraeli army air and ground raids, ...
NBA Standings after Wednesday's Matches
Feb 28, 2002 ... Following are the standings after National Basketball Associationmatches played on Wednesday (tabulate under won, lost, winningpercentage, games behind): EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC DIVISION W L Pct GB New Jersey38 18 .679 _ Boston ...
Slovenian President Concludes Visit to Jordan
Feb 28, 2002 ... Slovenian President Milan Kucan ended on Thursday a three-dayofficial visit to Jordan after holding talks with Jordanian leadersover bilateral ties and the Mideast situation, Jordan's officialmedia reported. During talks with Jordanian King Abdullah Bin Hussein in ...
European Indoor Championships Timetable
Feb 28, 2002 ... Following is the timetable of events for the European indoorathletics championships from March 1 to 3 in Vienna (times GMT): Friday, March 1 0830 - Women's pentathlon - 60 meters hurdles 0830 - Women's triple jump- qualifying 0830 - Men's pole ...
Israeli Troops Kill 7 Palestinians in West Bank Raids
Feb 28, 2002 ... EDS: 1st lead, updates with more details GAZA, February 28 (Xinhua) -- Israeli troops shot dead earlyThursday seven Palestinians in the refugee camp of Balata near theWest Bank town of Nablus and in Jenin town during Israeli army airand ground raids, Palestinian medical and ...
Mexican Open WTA Results
Feb 28, 2002 ... Following are the second round results at the $200,000 MexicanOpen WTA tournament in Acapulco on Wednesday (prefix number denotesseeding, * denotes new result): * Anna Kournikova, Russia, beat Tathiana Garbin, Italy, 6-1 6-2 * Emilie Loit, France, beat Jana Kandarr, Germany, ...
Roundup: Iran Recognized for Role in Afghanistan Amid U.S. Concerns
Feb 28, 2002 ... by Jiang Xiaofeng TEHRAN, February 28 (Xinhua) -- Iran, Afghanistan's westernneighbor, has won recognition and credit for its role in thereconstruction of war-shattered Afghanistan from parties that do nothold true of what the United States is saying about Iran. Iran had ...
Foreign Languages Link China's No. 1 Village With World (2)
Feb 28, 2002 ... According to Wu, more and more Huaxi villagers have started tolearn foreign languages in recent years, particularly since China' sentry to the World Trade Organization at the end of 2001. Over 100 villagers were admitted to a three-year college Englishprogram sponsored by the ...
Province Enhances Efforts to Save South China Tigers
Feb 28, 2002 ... Hunan Province, in central China, will kick off a project whichaims to save South China tigers, an endangered species, and improvethe living environment of the creatures. The latest statistics show that at least six wild South Chinatigers are living in the province which used to be ...
URGENT Arafat to Attend Arab Summit: Solana
Feb 28, 2002 ... European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Javier Solana on Thursdayexpressed his belief that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will beable to attend the Arab summit to be held in Lebanon on March 27-28. "I certainly do believe that Arafat will ...
Weather Forecast for Major Chinese Cities
Feb 28, 2002 ... Weather forecast for 17 major Chinese cities (20:00 February 28 -20:00 March 1, Beijing time, temperatures in Celsius): Min. Max. Condition Wind scale Beijing 0009 clear/overcast <3 Harbin -13-5 clear...
Repatriation of Afghan Refugees Begins on March 1
Feb 28, 2002 ... Formal return of more than three million Afghan nationals inPakistan to their country will start from March 1, with the relevantUN agency planning to send 400,000 Afghan refugees in the first 12months of its multi-year repatriation program. According to a report by the ...
URGENT: Tung Chee Hwa Wins Second Term in Office
Feb 28, 2002 ... The Returning Officer of the 2002 Chief Executive Election,Justice Pang Kin-Kee, declared Thursday afternoon that incumbent HongKong SAR Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa won a second term in ...
Security Situation Improved in Kabul: ISAF Head
Feb 28, 2002 ... The security situation in Kabul has been improved in the past sixweeks, said General John McColl, head of the 4,500-strongmultinational peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, Kabul Radio reportedThursday morning. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has had ...
Asian Banker Summit 2002 Curtains up in Singapore
Feb 28, 2002 ... The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) will seek to facilitateconvergence in the financial services industry and other marketdriven changes, MAS Deputy Managing Director John Palmer said onThursday. In the meantime, the MAS will help preserve the safety andsoundness of ...
EU Supports Saudi Peace Proposal: Solana
Feb 28, 2002 ... European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Javier Solana said hereon Thursday that the EU supports Saudi Arabia's peace proposal, andhopes that such an initiative will help bring peace to the MiddleEast. The initiative will be developed through the approval of all Arableaders at an ...