Xinhua News Agency back issues from Tuesday, October 15:
Domestic news items from Xinhua -- Oct. 14 (2)
Oct 15, 2002 ... Domestic news items from Xinhua -- Oct. 14 (2)Domestic news items from Xinhua -- Oct. 14 (1) Chinese Vice-Premier meets Russian media minister CPPCC Vice Chairwoman meets Thai Princess Mass poisoning culprit executed Two killed, eight ...
Hong Kong airport cargo throughput in September hits record
Oct 15, 2002 ... Hong Kong airport cargo throughput in September hits recordHONG KONG, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- The Hong Kong Airport Authority said Monday that cargo throughput at Hong Kong International Airportamounted to 218,000 tons in September, the highest ever monthlyfigure in Hong Kong ....
Opener, Advisory
Oct 15, 2002 ... Xinhua News Agency closes its cycle of English service for Monday,October 14, 2002, and begins ...
2 boats capsize, 20 feared drowned in India
Oct 15, 2002 ... 2 boats capsize, 20 feared drowned in IndiaNEW DELHI, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- At least 20 people were feared drowned when two boats capsized following a storm in Getalsud reservoir in east India's Bihar state Monday. The boats were ferrying 30 to 35 passengers to Salhan when ...
25 dead bodies identified in Bali
Oct 15, 2002 ... 25 dead bodies identified in BaliJAKARTA, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian government has identified 25 of 181 dead bodies in the killing blasts in Bali latelast Saturday, some of whom are Indonesians, said Hasan Wirajuda,the Indonesian Foreign Affair Minister here Monday ....
Fifth Asian Arts Festival opens in east China
Oct 15, 2002 ... Fifth Asian Arts Festival opens in east ChinaHANGZHOU, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- The fifth Asian Arts Festival raised its curtains Monday in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, with a performance of "A Flower Girl", a classicopera from the Democratic People's ...
61 arrested in S.African train blitz
Oct 15, 2002 ... 61 arrested in S.African train blitz JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Sixty-one people were arrestedfor a variety of crimes during an operation at a railway station onthe Johannesburg-Pretoria main line, police said on Monday. Superintendent Eugene Opperman said that ...
Loyalist troops of Cote d'Ivoire recapture key cocoa town
Oct 15, 2002 ... Loyalist troops of Cote d'Ivoire recapture key cocoa townABIDJAN, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Loyalist troops of Cote d'Ivoire onMonday retook the country's key cocoa town of Daloa a day after itfell into the rebels' hand, state television reported. The state television said the ...
Nigerian president vows to boost cocoa industry
Oct 15, 2002 ... Nigerian president vows to boost cocoa industryLAGOS, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Nigerian President Olusegun ObasanjoMonday vowed to take measures to boost the country's cocoa industryaimed at enhancing the country's contribution to world cocoaproduction. Speaking at the ...
Nigeria, Japan sign 5.8 million US dollar agreement
Oct 15, 2002 ... Nigeria, Japan sign 5.8 million US dollar agreementLAGOS, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria and Japan have signed a 5.8 million US dollar agreement, with the latter helping the west African country to construct more water supply and sanitation facilities in the southern Nigerian state ...
News items from Asia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua (Part 2)
Oct 15, 2002 ... News items from Asia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua (Part 2)HONG KONG, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Following are news items from theAsia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua in Hong Kong Monday:News Items from Asia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua (Part 1) Foreign exchange rates in Malaysia ...
Terrorists shifting focus to Southeast Asia, Singaporean PM
Oct 15, 2002 ... Terrorists shifting focus to Southeast Asia, Singaporean PMSINGAPORE, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Singaporean Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong has said the deadly bomb attacks in the Indonesian resortisland of Bali confirm that terrorists are shifting their focus toSoutheast Asia. ...
Infiltration bid foiled in Kashmir
Oct 15, 2002 ... Infiltration bid foiled in KashmirNEW DELHI, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Indian army Monday foiled an infiltration bid by Pakistan-backed militants, killing four of themin Kupwara sector of north Kashmir, a defense spokesman said. Troops noticed a group of ...
Pakistan for peaceful solution of Iraq issue: Musharraf
Oct 15, 2002 ... Pakistan for peaceful solution of Iraq issue: MusharrafISLAMABAD, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani President General PervezMusharraf on Monday declared that Pakistan stood for a peacefulsolution of the Iraq problem and expressed the hope that the Iraqproblem would be solved ...
Market exchange rates -- Oct. 15
Oct 15, 2002 ... Market exchange rates -- Oct. 15BEIJING, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- Market exchange rates of four majorcurrencies against RMB yuan on Tuesday, announced by the People' sBank of China: Currency Unit Middle Price (in RMB yuan) US Dollar 100 827.68 ...
Xinhua World News Summary at 0030 GMT, Oct. 15
Oct 15, 2002 ... Xinhua World News Summary at 0030 GMT, Oct. 15GAZA -- ColonelMohamed Dahlan, the security advisor to Palestinian leader YasserArafat, on Monday announced his resignation from the position,Palestinian sources close to Dahlan said.The sources said that Dahlan, a senior ...
Shares close lower in Brazil, higher in Mexico
Oct 15, 2002 ... Shares close lower in Brazil, higher in MexicoMEXICO CITY, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Latin America's two major stockmarkets -- Sao Paulo and Mexico City -- closed mixed on Monday. In Sao Paulo, Latin America's biggest bourse, the leading Bovespaindex closed bearish at 8,450 ...
Australian death toll in Bali bombing rises
Oct 15, 2002 ... Australian death toll in Bali bombing rises CANBERRA, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- The official Australian death tollfrom the Bali bomb blasts had reached 20 with 160 still missing, theAustralian Associated Press reported Tuesday. Quoting the country's deputy ambassador to ...
Van Nistelrooy to miss Euro qualifier against Austria
Oct 15, 2002 ... Van Nistelrooy to miss Euro qualifier against AustriaAMSTERDAM, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Dutch striker Ruud van Nistelrooywill have to watch out the Wednesday's Euro 2004 qualifier againstAustria because of a recurring hamstring injury, the Dutch footballassociation (KNVB) ...
Thai govt denounces terrorist bomb blasts in Bali
Oct 15, 2002 ... Thai govt denounces terrorist bomb blasts in BaliBANGKOK, Oct.15 (Xinhua) -- The Thai government has denounced terrorist bombblasts which ripped through a packed nightspot on Indonesia'stranquil tourist island of Bali on Saturday night and killed almost200 people, most of them ...
Two more microchip plants open in Shanghai
Oct 15, 2002 ... Two more microchip plants open in ShanghaiSHANGHAI, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- The Shanghai-based Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, the most advanced chip maker on the Chinese mainland, said its second and third chip plantsin the city have begun operations, a year ...
Results of Swisscom Challenge tennis
Oct 15, 2002 ... Results of Swisscom Challenge tennisGENEVA, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Following are the results Monday fromthe Swisscom Challenge in Zurich of Switzerland: First Round: Jelena Dokic, Yugoslavia bt Iva Majoli, ...
Spain extradites former Colombian Development Minister
Oct 15, 2002 ... Spain extradites former Colombian Development MinisterBOGOTA, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Spanish authorities handed over theformer Colombian development minister, Carlos Arturo Marulanda, onMonday, to Colombia, in compliance with an extradition petition fromBogota. Incarcerated ...
Major news items in leading Philippine newspapers
Oct 15, 2002 ... Major news items in leading Philippine newspapersMANILA, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- The following are major news items inleading Philippine newspapers Tuesday.The Philippine Star: -- Philippine National Police chief Director General HermogenesEbdane Jr. has ordered all ...
Madrid Masters first round results
Oct 15, 2002 ... Madrid Masters first round resultsMADRID, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Following are the first round resultsat the 2.95 million U.S. dollars Tennis Masters Madrid ATP tournamenton Monday: David Nalbandian, Argentina, beat Francisco Clavet, Spain, 6-1, 6-1 Agustin ...
Olowokandi questionable for Clippers' season opener
Oct 15, 2002 ... Olowokandi questionable for Clippers' season openerWASHINGTON, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Nigerian-born center Michael Olowokandi will probably pull out of the Los Angeles Clippers' season opener because of a sore left knee. Olowokandi has been resting for bruised cartilage ....
Uruguay condemns attacks in Bali
Oct 15, 2002 ... Uruguay condemns attacks in BaliMONTEVIDEO, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- The government of Uruguay Mondaycondemned the bombing attacks on the Indonesian island of Bali thathave left more than 180 people dead and 300 injured. The Uruguayan Foreign Ministry issued a statement ...
China's largest corporate bond sales kicked off
Oct 15, 2002 ... China's largest corporate bond sales kicked offBEIJING, Oct.15 (Xinhua) -- The Hong Kong-listed subsidiary of China Mobile Communications Corp. started Monday to sell 8 billionyuan (966 million US dollars) worth of corporate bonds.The corporate bonds are reserved for ...
Japanese plane heads to Pyongyang to pick up 5 abductees
Oct 15, 2002 ... Japanese plane heads to Pyongyang to pick up 5 abducteesTOKYO, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- A Japanese government-chartered planeheaded to Pyongyang early Tuesday morning to pick up five Japanesenationals abducted by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea(DPRK) and bring them home ...
7,000-year-old relics unearthed in NW China
Oct 15, 2002 ... 7,000-year-old relics unearthed in NW ChinaXI'AN, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- About 300 pieces of pottery, jade andbone utensil relics have been unearthed in northwest China's ShaanxiProvince. Ash pits and ruins of houses and tombs dating from 7,000 to 600years ago were dug up ...
Highlights of major Beijing-based newspapers -- Oct.15
Oct 15, 2002 ... Highlights of major Beijing-based newspapers -- Oct.15BEIJING, Oct.15 (Xinhua) -- Highlights of major Beijing-based newspapers Tuesday: All the newspapers report on the frontpage the 16-day Asian Gamesclosed Monday night at Busan of the Republic of Korea (ROK) withChina ...
Latest cycling world rankings
Oct 15, 2002 ... Latest cycling world rankingsLAUSANNE, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Following are the leading world rankings issued by the International Cycling Union (UCI) on Monday: 1. Erik Zabel, Germany, 2,479.00 points 2. Lance Armstrong, United States, 2,110.00 3. Robbie ...
Canberra continues to press Indonesia to handle terrorism
Oct 15, 2002 ... Canberra continues to press Indonesia to handle terrorismCANBERRA, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- Australia is continuing to press the Indonesian government to crack down on terrorists. Prime Minister John Howard was quoted Tuesday by the AustralianAssociated Press as saying "The ...
AUM founder's wife freed from prison in Japan
Oct 15, 2002 ... AUM founder's wife freed from prison in JapanTOKYO, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- The wife of Shoko Asahara, founder ofJapan's AUM Shinrikyo cult, was released Tuesday morning from aprison after completing a six-year term, Japan's Kyodo News reported. The 44-year Tomoko Matsumoto ...
Haier rates as world's top refrigerator brand
Oct 15, 2002 ... Haier rates as world's top refrigerator brandQINGDAO, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- China's Haier has been declared theworld's top refrigerator brand in the latest ratings by Euromonitor,a leading market research institute in Europe. The same organization also rated Haier as the ...
Peru calls on OAS to help solve Venezuela's crisis
Oct 15, 2002 ... Peru calls on OAS to help solve Venezuela's crisisLIMA, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo onMonday called on the Organization of American States (OAS) to sponsor a meeting to help find a solution to the political crisis inVenezuela. Toledo made the ...
Eighty-three-year-old takes Ironman race
Oct 15, 2002 ... Eighty-three-year-old takes Ironman raceWASHINGTON, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Norton Davey set a new age recordas the oldest man in Saturday's Ironman Triathlon World Championship in Kona when the 83-year-old former vice president ofContinental Airlines took part in the grueling ...
DPRK delegation arrives in Beijing
Oct 15, 2002 ... DPRK delegation arrives in BeijingBEIJING, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- A delegation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) led by Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the ...
UN Security Council condemns deadly Bombings in Bali
Oct 15, 2002 ... UN Security Council condemns deadly Bombings in BaliUNITEDNATIONS, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Security Council onMonday condemned in the strongest terms the bombings on theIndonesian resort of Bali.In a resolution adopted unanimously at a special meeting, the ...
Ancom seeks to define common external tariff
Oct 15, 2002 ... Ancom seeks to define common external tariffLIMA, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Foreign, Economy, Trade and Agricultureministers of the Andean Community (Ancom) on Monday met here todefine the structure of the common external tariff ( AEC) of theregion. Colombian Foreign Minister ...
Major news items in leading Indian newspapers
Oct 15, 2002 ... Major news items in leading Indian newspapersNEW DELHI, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- The following are major news itemsin leading Indian newspapers on Tuesday.Indian Express: -- Omar Abdullah, whose party suffered a heavy defeat in the recently concluded assembly polls ...
Thai nutritionists to organize cooking class for children
Oct 15, 2002 ... Thai nutritionists to organize cooking class for childrenBANGKOK, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- Thai Nutritionists will organize acooking camp for high school students with an aim to teach them howto make Thai food by themselves, Thai News Agency reported Tuesday. Sa-nga Damapong, ...
Active trade expected as Thai-Myanmar border reopens
Oct 15, 2002 ... Active trade expected as Thai-Myanmar border reopensBANGKOK, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar importers have placed ordersfor Thai goods worth millions of US dollars as the Thai- Myanmarborder is set to be reopened Tuesday. According to local TV news reports here, Banpot Kork, ...
East Timor seeks Thai help in joining ASEAN
Oct 15, 2002 ... East Timor seeks Thai help in joining ASEANBANGKOK, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- East Timor, the youngest country inthe world, is seeking Thailand's assistance in national capacity-building to facilitate its access to the Association of SoutheastAsian Nations (ASEAN). The ...
Colombian Army kills 5 guerrillas
Oct 15, 2002 ... Colombian Army kills 5 guerrillasBOGOTA, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- The Colombian Army on Monday killedfive rebels and captured six others in separate operations againstleftist guerrillas and far-right paramilitaries in several parts ofColombia, military sources said.The ...
Paraguay considering recall of ambassador to Argentina
Oct 15, 2002 ... Paraguay considering recall of ambassador to ArgentinaBUENOS AIRES, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Paraguay is considering recallof its ambassador to Argentina as a response to the Argentinedecision to close its borders with Paraguay, reports from Asuncion,capital of Paraguay, said on ...
China pondering new rural welfare scheme
Oct 15, 2002 ... China pondering new rural welfare schemeBEIJING, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- China is now drawing up a new systemto provide individual farmers with a pension, China Daily reportsTuesday.The design program of the new pension system has been jointly launched by the Center for ...
Hong Kong stocks open higher
Oct 15, 2002 ... Hong Kong stocks open higherHONG KONG, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong stocks soared 187.99 points, or 2.10 percent, to open at 9,153.72 Tuesday ....
Writethru: Woman killed in possible new sniper shooting inWashington areaEDS: update with more details
Oct 15, 2002 ... Writethru: Woman killed in possible new sniper shooting inWashington area EDS: update with more detailsWASHINGTON, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- A woman was shot dead outside ashop some 10 miles (about 16 kilometers) west of Washington Mondaynight, and US Police are investigating whether ...
URGENT Suspected sniper shooting reported in Washington area
Oct 15, 2002 ... URGENT Suspected sniper shooting reported in Washington areaWASHINGTON, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- US police reported a shooting Monday night outside a shop some 10 miles (about 16 kilometers) westof Washington and started investigating whether the new shooting isrelated to the ...
One missing, 2,000 evacuated in Argentina storm
Oct 15, 2002 ... One missing, 2,000 evacuated in Argentina stormBUENOS AIRES, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- One person was missing and 2,000 others were evacuated because of a heavy downpour over the lastthree days in southern Argentina, Civil Defense sources said onMonday. A police officer fell ...
Overseas funds flow to west China
Oct 15, 2002 ... Overseas funds flow to west ChinaXINING, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- A real estate project with a total investment of 800 million yuan began here recently in the capital city of Qinghai Province, one of a growing number of overseas- fundedprojects in the northwest China province ....
Thai-US trade accord submitted for approval
Oct 15, 2002 ... Thai-US trade accord submitted for approvalBANGKOK, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- The Thai Commerce Ministry has submitted the Thai-US Trade and Investment Framework Agreement, which would lead to a free trade agreement, to the cabinet for approval, the Nation newspaper reported Tuesday ....
Woman killed in possible new sniper shooting in Washington area
Oct 15, 2002 ... Woman killed in possible new sniper shooting in Washington areaWASHINGTON, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- A woman was shot dead outside ashop some 10 miles (about 16 kilometers) west of Washington Mondaynight, and the US Police are investigating whether the new shootingis related to the ...
Foreign exchange rate in Thailand
Oct 15, 2002 ... Foreign exchange rate in ThailandBANGKOK, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) --The following are foreign exchange rates against the baht on Tuesdayas offered by the Bangkok Bank: TuesdayMondayU.S. dollar 43.72/44.32 43.63/44.23 ...
Sri Lanka Tamil party requests home guards for troubled areas
Oct 15, 2002 ... Sri Lanka Tamil party requests home guards for troubled areasCOLOMBO, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka's Tamil United LiberationFront (TULF) has requested the government to recruit some 200 Tamilhome guards to patrol the town and suburbs of northeast port city ofTrincomalee ...
New slump predicted for regional tourism industry after Bali blast
Oct 15, 2002 ... New slump predicted for regional tourism industry after Bali blast BANGKOK, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- The Asia-Pacific travel and tourismindustry was shocked by the devastating bomb blasts in Bali over theweekend and experts predicted the industry would suffer wide-ranging impact of ...
US conducts seventh ground-based missile defense test
Oct 15, 2002 ... US conducts seventh ground-based missile defense testWASHINGTON, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- The Pentagon announced late on Monday that it has successfully completed a test flight of the ground-based midcourse defense (GMD) development program, intercepting an intercontinental ballistic ...
Xinhua vice-president meets Russian guests
Oct 15, 2002 ... Xinhua vice-president meets Russian guestsBEIJING, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- Vice-president Ma Shengrong of Xinhua News Agency met here Tuesday morning with a Russian press delegation, headed by Mikhail Vadimovich Seslavinsky, deputy minister of press, television and mass media ...
Myanmar reopens border points with Thailand
Oct 15, 2002 ... Myanmar reopens border points with ThailandYANGON, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- The Myanmar authorities reopened allof its border check points with Thailand on Tuesday after unilaterally closing them due to border clashes nearly five monthsago. The reopening of Myanmar's border ...
URGENT: Five Japanese abductees arrive in Japan
Oct 15, 2002 ... URGENT: Five Japanese abductees arrive in JapanTOKYO, Oct. 15(Xinhua) -- Five Japanese nationals abducted to the DemocraticPeople's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in 1978 arrived ...
Major foreign exchange rates in Pakistan
Oct 15, 2002 ... Major foreign exchange rates in PakistanISLAMABAD, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- The following are major exchangerates against the Pakistani rupee issued by the Treasury ManagementDivision of the National Bank of Pakistan on Tuesday. Selling Buying Buying TT & OD ...
Bahrain to expand economic cooperation with Thailand
Oct 15, 2002 ... Bahrain to expand economic cooperation with ThailandBANGKOK, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- Bahrain is interested in expandingcooperation with Thailand in oil, natural gas, petroleum and financial service sectors, the Bangkok Post reported Tuesday. Somphong Wanapha, secretary-general ...
Hong Kong stocks higher at midday
Oct 15, 2002 ... Hong Kong stocks higher at middayHONG KONG, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong stocks soared 279.58 points, or 3.12 percent, to ...
Five Japanese abductees return to Tokyo
Oct 15, 2002 ... Five Japanese abductees return to TokyoTOKYO, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- Five Japanese nationals, who were abducted to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in 1978, arrived at Tokyo's Haneda airport aboard a Japanese government-chartered plane Tuesday afternoon. ...