Xinhua News Agency back issues from Friday, June 14:
3rdlead: Earthquake Jolts Eastern, Northeastern Japan
Jun 14, 2002 ... An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale jolted easternand northeastern Japan including metropolitan Tokyo on Friday, theJapan Meteorological Agency said. A man sustained injuries when a chandelier fell on his head in hishome in Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, ...
Belgium vs Russia Teams
Jun 14, 2002 ... Following are teams for the World Cup group H match betweenBelgium and Russia on Friday: Belgium Caps Goals D.O.B. Age Apps Goals Goalkeepers: 1-Geert De Vlieger 28 0 16-10-71 30 20 23-Frederic Herpoel 7 0 ...
HK Stocks Lower at Midday
Jun 14, 2002 ... Hong Kong stocks ended the morning session at ...
Indonesia's Another Legislator Shot Dead in Aceh
Jun 14, 2002 ... One of the legislative members of Aceh province, Nasri Zamzam, wasshot dead on Thursday evening by two unidentified gunmen. Zamzam, a 36-year-old representative of the Indonesian UnitedParty, was killed in his house in the rebellious province ofAceh.Four bullets were found in his ...
URGENT Huge Blast Heard in Karachi
Jun 14, 2002 ... A huge explosion was heard in Karachi, southern ...
Results from Gerry Weber Open Tennis
Jun 14, 2002 ... Following are results from the Gerry Weber Open ATP tennistournament in Halle, Germany on Thursday (prefix number denotesseeding): Second round Kenneth Carlsen, Denmark, bt Michel Kratochvil, Switzerland, 3-6,6-4, 6-4 2-Roger Federer, ...
Myanmar Holds Mass Rallies to Denounce Thailand
Jun 14, 2002 ... Myanmar has held a series of mass rallies in seven areas sincethe beginning of this month to denounce Thailand's backing of theanti-government ethnic group Shan United Revolutionary Army (SURA). The mass rallies, organized by the government and attended by over10,000 people in ...
Starting Lineups for Group H Match between Tunisia and Japan
Jun 14, 2002 ... Following are the starting lineups for the Group H match betweenTunisia and Japan: Tunisia: 1-Ali Boumnijel, 2-Khaled Badra, 5-Ziad Jaziri, 6-Hatem Trabelsi,10-Kaies Ghodhbane, 12-Raouf Bouzaiene, 13-Riadh Bouazizi, 15-RadhiJaidi, 18-Slim Ben Achour, 21-Mourad Melki, ...
Strong Performance of Thai Economy Expected
Jun 14, 2002 ... Although actual figures are yet tobe available, governmentagencies and private analysts all expect good results in Thailand'seconomic growth in the first quarter ofthis year, the Business Daynewspaper reported Friday. The National Economic and Social Development Board ...
FIFA Says Website "Most Successful"
Jun 14, 2002 ... Soccer's world governing body FIFA is calling its website the"most successful sports event website ever." A FIFA spokesman said www.fifa.com had already registered 800million "page impressions" since the opening game on May 31 in Seoul,South Korea. Stefan Schuster, director ...
Rectors Stress Human Resource Cooperation Between ASEAN, China
Jun 14, 2002 ... Intellectual exchanges and communications between universities ofChina and ASEAN would contribute to their mutual understanding andfurther cooperation, a Thai senior official said here Friday. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the First ASEAN-China RectorsConference, scheduled to ...
Representatives to Be Appointed to Promote Thai-Belgian Trade
Jun 14, 2002 ... Thailand and Belgium will appoint trade representatives to supportand promote small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the Thai NewsAgency reported Friday. Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his Belgian counterpart GuyVerhofstadt agreed during their talks in Brussels that the ...
Tunisia vs Japan Teams
Jun 14, 2002 ... Following are teams for the World Cup group H match betweenTunisia and Japan on Friday: TunisiaCaps Goals D.O.B. Age Apps Goals Goalkeepers: 1-Ali Boumnijel 17 0 13-04-66 36 2 0 16-Hassen Bejaoui0 0 ...
Britain to Host Int'l Meeting on Aiding Nepal
Jun 14, 2002 ... The British government will hostan international meeting in Londonon June 19-20 on how to coordinate international assistance to Nepal,the state-run English daily, The Rising Nepal, reported here Friday. The informal meeting will bring together representatives fromNepal, a number ...
URGENT: Earthquake Hits Southern Philippines
Jun 14, 2002 ... An earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale rocked majorsouthern Philippine cities on Friday morning. The shaking was felt across entire Mindanao in the south and areasin parts of the central Philippines, the Philippine Daily Inquirerquoted the Manila-based Philippine ...
1stlead: Five Killed in Karachi Blast
Jun 14, 2002 ... Five persons including a woman were killed and 7 others injured ina large explosion near the U.S.Consulate in the southern Pakistaniport city of Karachi on Fridaymorning, witnesses ...
Major Foreign Exchange Rates in Pakistan
Jun 14, 2002 ... The following are major exchangerates 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 60.50 60.00 ...
Counterfeiters Lose Badly in World Cup Finals 2002
Jun 14, 2002 ... Counterfeiters trying to cash in on the World Cup are losingbadly, FIFA marketing boss Patrick Magyarannounced here Friday. Magyar said co-operation from both Korean and Japanese police hadbeen excellent and thousands of fake World Cup souvenirs had beenseized. "As far as ...
Xinhua World Economic News Summary at 0500 GMT, June 14
Jun 14, 2002 ... JAKARTA -- The Indonesian Palm Oil Association (GAPKI) and theMalaysian Palm Oil Company Association (MPOA agreed to hold a jointmarketing strategy, anticipating the competition from the soybean oilon the global market. Chairman of the GAPKI Derum Bangun was quoted by ...
Explosion Killed Two in Karachi
Jun 14, 2002 ... Two were killed and one injured in an explosion near the U.S.Consulate in Karachi Friday, police said. The explosion by a bomb ...
U.S. Conducts Ship-Based Missile Test
Jun 14, 2002 ... The Pentagon conducted a sea-based missile defense test Thursdaynight in which an interceptor missile fired from a Navy ship in thePacific successfully slammedinto a dummy warhead in space. A Navy's Standard Missile-3 interceptor, launched from the USSLake Erie and guided by an ...
Heroical Funeral Given to Slain Filipino Hostage
Jun 14, 2002 ... Former Abu Sayyaf hostage Filipino Ediborah Yap was given aheroical funeral at her hometown in the southern Philippines onFriday morning, with U.S. soldiers servingas pallbearers. Over 500 people attended the mass administered in honor of Yap ina church in Lamitan town on the ...
Starting Lineups for Group H Match between Belgium and Russia
Jun 14, 2002 ... Following are the startinglineups for Group H match betweenBelgium and Russia: Belgium: 1-Geert De Vlieger, 3-Glen De Boeck, 5-Nico Van Kerckhoven, 7-Marc Wilmots, 8-Bart Goor, 10-Johan Walem, 11-Gert Verheyen, 15-Jacky Peeters, 16-Daniel Van Buyten, 18-Yves Vanderhaeghe, ...
Tunisia 0, Japan 0 - Halftime
Jun 14, 2002 ... Tunisia 0, Japan 0 - ...
Major News Items in Leading South African Newspapers
Jun 14, 2002 ... The following are major news items in leading South Africannewspapers on Friday. Business Day: -- South Africa's export growth will lie in tertiaryindustrieslike tourism, financial services, IT, consulting, tertiaryeducation, medicine and research. -- South Africa ...
No Talks With Thailand Until All Lost Outposts Recaptured:
Jun 14, 2002 ... Myanmar Official YANGON, June 14 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar will not open talks withThailand until all the four government military outposts taken by ananti-government ethnic group are recaptured, a high-ranking officialsaid on Friday In a press briefing here, Major-General Kyaw ...
Walem Lifts Belgium 1-0 Lead over Russia at World Cup
Jun 14, 2002 ... Belgium's midfielder JohanWalem struck home a brilliant curlingfree kick only seven minutesinto action, giving his side, who need awin in their last group Hmatch against Russia to qualify the secondround of the 2002 WorldCup, an ...
Russia Level 1-1 with Belgium, See Hope of Group Survival
Jun 14, 2002 ... Russia's forward Vladimir Beschastnykh scored a goal in the 52ndminute, leveling the score for his side with Belgium 1-1 in theirmake-or-break last group H match here Friday afternoon and seeing thehope of the group survival. Beschastnykh darted into the box, getting the ball ...
Belgium 1, Russia 0 -- Halftime
Jun 14, 2002 ... Belgium 1, Russia 0 - ...
Foreign Exchange Rates in New Zealand
Jun 14, 2002 ... The following are foreign exchange rates against the New Zealanddollar here on Friday. Friday Thursday Australian dollar 0.8632...
Tunisia 0, Japan 0 - Latest
Jun 14, 2002 ... Tunisia 0, Japan 0 - ...
INTERVIEW: Hong Kong Can Find New Role Under New Conditions: EU
Jun 14, 2002 ... Head of Office (1) HONG KONG, June 14 (Xinhua) -- Head of Office of the EuropeanUnion in Hong Kong David Ting said Thursday that Hong Kong will againfind a new role corresponding to the talents of many Hong Kong peopleunder the new economic conditions of global downturn. "I ...
Belgium 1, Russia 1 -- Latest
Jun 14, 2002 ... Belgium 1, Russia 1 - latest World Cup Group ...
2ndlead: Eight Dead in Car Bomb Blast in Karachi
Jun 14, 2002 ... Eight people were killed in a powerful car bomb attack on the U.S.consulate in the southern port city of Karachi Friday, but noconsulate staff were among thecasualties, officials said. "It was a car bomb ... The blast was so powerful that the vehicleflew from one side of the road to ...
China Sees Retail Consumption Boom in May
Jun 14, 2002 ... Retail consumption hit a record 320.2 billion yuan in May, anincrease of 9.3 percent over the same time last year, according tothe State Statistical Bureau (SSB) of China. Figures released by the SSB show China's seven-day Labor Dayholiday boosted public consumption, with tourist ...
Foreign Exchange Rates in Philippines
Jun 14, 2002 ... The following are foreign exchange rates against the Philippinepeso released Friday by the central bank of the Philippines: Friday Thursday U.S. dollar 50.492050.4380 Japanese yen 0.4043 ...
Belgium 1, Russia 0 -- Latest
Jun 14, 2002 ... Belgium 1, Russia 0 - ...
Sony Chairman Thanks Chinese Doctors, People for Care
Jun 14, 2002 ... Sony Corporation chairman and renowned Japanese orchestraconductor Norio Ohga has thanked the medical staff and other Chinesepeople who cared for him after he collapsed on stage in Beijing lastyear. Ohga said in a letter to Xinhua that although he cannot officiallyannounce his ...
Major News Items in Leading Turkish Newspapers
Jun 14, 2002 ... The following are major news items in leading Turkish newspaperson Friday. Hurriyet (Freedom): -- The Secretary General of the Turkish National Security Council,General Tuncer Kilinc, told Lebanese newspaper Jihad Al-Zein that aKurdish State to be founded in northern Iraq in ...
INTERVIEW: China's WTO Entry to Provide Huge Market for HK
Jun 14, 2002 ... Peter Woo Kwong-ching, chairman of Hong Kong Trade DevelopmentCouncil and head of conglomerate Wharf Group, told Xinhua thatChina's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) has provided ahuge inland market for Hong Kong. "The trade between Hong Kong and Chinese mainland ...
Chinese Red Cross Extends Aid to Flood-hit Shaanxi, Sichuan
Jun 14, 2002 ... A Red Cross inspection team left here Friday for flood-hit Shaanxito assess what the province needs in aid and relief. The team, jointly formed by the China Red Cross Society, Red Crossof Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and officials from theInternational Federation of Red ...
FIFA Credit Thursday's Own Goal to Ronaldo
Jun 14, 2002 ... FIFA has ruled that the first goal in Thursday's World Cup matchbetween Costa Rica and Brazil was not an own goal and credited it toBrazilian striker Ronaldo, FIFAspokesman Keith Cooper said here onFriday. "It had originally booked as an own goal ...Ronaldo claimed it inthe ...
Tunisia 0, Japan 2 - Latest
Jun 14, 2002 ... Tunisia 0, Japan 2 - Latest World Cup Group H ...
Sequelae of Vietnam War Take Toll on Veterans' Posterity
Jun 14, 2002 ... Children of Vietnam war veterans in Australia are paying for thecountry's involvement, an international conference has revealed. The International Child and Adolescent Mental Health ConferenceinBrisbane, capital of Queensland, has revealed that the sonsanddaughters of Vietnam war ...
Foreign Exchange Rates in Thailand
Jun 14, 2002 ... The following are foreign exchange rates against the baht onFriday as offered by the Bangkok Bank:Friday Thursday U.S. dollar 41.83/42.3841.90/42.50 British pound 60.84/62.6460.96/62.72 ...
Beckenbauer Blames Upsets on Player Fatigue
Jun 14, 2002 ... German soccer great Franz Beckenbauer blamed the surprise defeatsof pre-tournament favorites at the World Cup on player fatigue andcalled for actions to reduce the number of games. "There are billions of people watching this World Cup and they arewatching tired stars. This is not ...
Belgium 0, Russia 0 -- Latest
Jun 14, 2002 ... Belgium 0, Russia 0 - ...
100 Ugandans Freed from LRA Captivity
Jun 14, 2002 ... 100 Ugandans, including 43 women and 57 children, have been freedfrom rebel Lord Resistance Army (LRA) captivity and return tonorthern Uganda, local media reportedon Friday. These women and children were set free on Wednesday in Guludistrict of northern Uganda. Local leaders ...
Train Derails in Southern Thailand, Seven Injured
Jun 14, 2002 ... A Thai passenger train derailed inupper southern province ofPetchaburi early Friday morning, injuring seven people, according toa report of the Thai News Agency. The three-bogie rapid train from the border province of Yaladerailed at Khao Yoi intersection, near Cha-um station at ...
Velappan Says Asian Football Too Soft
Jun 14, 2002 ... Asian football is "too soft", a top official said on Friday afterChina 3-0 loss to Turkey on Thursday. Peter Velappan, the general secretary of the Asian FootballConfederation (AFC) and the World Cup Co-ordination Director,stressed that most Asian sides could not compete against ...
CPC Leader Returns to Beijing After African Tour
Jun 14, 2002 ... Wei Jianxing, standing committee member of the Political Bureau ofthe Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, returned hereFriday following a good-willvisit to Cote d'Ivoire, Gabon, Botswanaand Zimbabwe. Wen Jiabao, member of the ...
Chinese Naval Fleet Calls at Alexandria in First Visit to Egypt
Jun 14, 2002 ... A Chinese naval fleet on Friday took up a berth at the northernEgyptian port city of Alexandria at the start of a five-day visit,the first ever to the country. The fleet, composed of a missile-guided destroyer, the Qingdao,and a supply ship, the Taicang, crossed the Suez Canal ...
Most Shanghai Women Satisfied With Married Life
Jun 14, 2002 ... A recent survey in China's largest city Shanghai has found thatsome 90 percent of its married women feel "very or fairly satisfied"with married life. Only 2.3 percent of Shanghai women are "very dissatisfied"withtheir marriages, according to the 2000 Survey on Shanghai ...
Thailand to Grant Visa-Free Access to Macao Passport Holders
Jun 14, 2002 ... Macao passport holders will be granted visa-free access toThailand as of July 1, Friday's Macao Daily News quoted authoritiesfrom the Thai Consulate in Hong Kongas saying. The move of the Thai government is to facilitate holders ofthespecial ...
Belgium 1-0 Ahead of Russia at Halftime
Jun 14, 2002 ... Belgium's midfielder JohanWalem struck home a brilliant curlingfree kick only seven minutesinto action, giving his side, who need awin in their last group Hmatch against Russia to qualify the secondround of the 2002 WorldCup, a 1-0 lead at the halftime here onFriday. Russia's ...
New Zealand Stocks Close Slightly Higher
Jun 14, 2002 ... The New Zealand share market closed slightly higher here Friday. The NZSE40 Index ended 1 point higher at 2,110 with a turnoverof96.5 million New Zealand dollars (47.2 million U.S. dollars). Although market heavyweight Telecom eased 3 cents to 520cents,forestry giant Carter ...
Tunisia 0, Japan 1 - Latest
Jun 14, 2002 ... Tunisia 0, Japan 1 - Latest World Cup ...
Feature: Philippines Toughens up War vs Cyber Crimes
Jun 14, 2002 ... Alleged hackers in the Philippines may not be so lucky now as aManila college dropout who released the "ILOVEYOU" virus two yearsago that shut down tens of millionsof computers worldwide. The 25-year-old Onel de Guzman who sent out the devastating "lovebug" in May 2000 that caused ...
HK Police Defuses Bomb
Jun 14, 2002 ... The Hong Kong Police defused a bomb found at the Shatin RacecourseThursday night, Hong Kong's Jade TV channel reported. There were no ...
Interview: HK Root of Swire Pacific (2)
Jun 14, 2002 ... Hughes-Hallett, also chairman of Cathay Pacific, expressedfullconfidence in the prospects of aviation. "We will keep on investing in our products, consistently andsteadily ... We will go on doing what we do but do a bit more,steadily introducing new destinations, increasing ...
Major News Items in Leading Israeli Newspapers
Jun 14, 2002 ... The following are major news items in leading Israeli newspaperson Friday. Ha'aretz: -- The Israeli government will cut another 2 billion Israelishekels (some 400 million U.S. dollars) from the state budget for2002 in order to avoid a large deficit. The cut is most likely ...
Indonesia's Ruling Party Requests to Replace Government Officials
Jun 14, 2002 ... The Indonesian Democratic Party ofStruggle (PDI-P) that controlsmajority seats in the parliament has submitted a proposal on thereplacement of several government officials, including StateSecretary Bambang Kesowo, according to a senior leader here Friday Roy Janis, chairman of ...
Belgium 1, Russia 0 -- Latest
Jun 14, 2002 ... Belgium 1, Russia 0 - ...
Relocation Remains the Last Hope for White-Fin River Dolphins (1)
Jun 14, 2002 ... Helping white-fin dolphins escape their deteriorating naturalhabitat in the Yangtze River remains the last hope of saving theprimitive species, a group of academicians believes. With the world's only captive white-fin dolphin getting older inWuhan, capital of Hubei Province, More ...
Uganda to Launch Immunization Drive Against Hepatitis B Virus
Jun 14, 2002 ... In addition to the six killer diseases immunized during a child'sfirst year, Ugandan children will also be immunized against HepatitisB virus, Ugandan health ministry has said. Uganda National Expanded Program on Immunization (UNEPI) from theministry was quoted on Friday by the ...