Xinhua News Agency back issues from Friday, August 20:
UNDP assures overall support to post-flood rehabilitation in Bangladesh
Aug 20, 2004 ... UNDP assures overall support to post-flood rehabilitation inBangladeshDHAKA, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Visiting Administrator of the UnitedNations Development Program (UNDP) Malloch Brown Thursday highlyappreciated the Bangladesh government's successful handling of thefirst phase of ...
French growth remains unaffected by oil prices
Aug 20, 2004 ... French growth remains unaffected by oil pricesPARIS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- French Junior Minister of IndustryPatrick Devedjian said Thursday that France's economy was currentlygrowing at an annual rate of three percent and that growth was notaffected by rising oil prices ....
Thailand's trade surplus to drop this year
Aug 20, 2004 ... Thailand's trade surplus to drop this yearBANGKOK, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Thailand's trade surplus is expectedto drop by 1 billion US dollars this year due to the impact of globaloil price hike, according to the Bank of Thailand (BOT). Should the current oil price crisis ...
Opener, Advisory
Aug 20, 2004 ... Xinhua News Agency closes its cycle of English service forThursday, August 19, 2004, and begins ...
Roundup: China harvests first two badminton golds
Aug 20, 2004 ... Roundup: China harvests first two badminton goldsATHENS, Aug.19 (Xinhua) -- Depending on the fantastic performanceexerted by Zhang Ni and Zhang Jun/Gao Ling, the powerful Chinesenational badminton team reaped a good harvest by winning the firsttwo golds Thursday. Zhang ...
Angola comes close to first win in men's basketball
Aug 20, 2004 ... Angola comes close to first win in men's basketballATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- African champion Angola came close toits first win at the Athens Olympics men's basketball tournamentbefore going down to Puerto Rico 83-80 here on Thursday. After NBA Utah Jazz guard Carlos ...
American Beard wins women's 200 breast gold
Aug 20, 2004 ... American Beard wins women's 200 breast goldATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- American Amanda Jones won the women 's200m breaststroke gold medal ...
Pakistan regrets India's allegations of cross-LoC infiltration
Aug 20, 2004 ... Pakistan regrets India's allegations of cross-LoC infiltrationISLAMABAD, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan on Thursday rejectedIndia's allegations of infiltration across the Line of Control (LoC), a ceasefire line in Kashmir, a Foreign office spokesman said ina statement. "The ...
Xinhua world news summary at 1630 GMT, Aug. 19
Aug 20, 2004 ... Xinhua world news summary at 1630 GMT, Aug. 19MOSCOW -- Georgian officials said Thursday that Georgian troopshad killed eight Cossack fighters and had taken control of strategicheights around breakaway South Ossetia' s main city of Tskhinvali,Russian news agencies reported ....
AMERICAN AARON PEIRSOL WINS MEN'S 200M BACKSTROKE GOLD
Aug 20, 2004 ... AMERICAN AARON PEIRSOL ...
Defending champions defend Olympic honour (update with quotes)
Aug 20, 2004 ... Defending champions defend Olympic honour (update with quotes)ATHENS, Aug.19 (Xinhua) -- Mixed doubles' defending championsZhang Jun/Gao Ling of China didn't let the chance slip away fromtheir fingers after top seeds fell in quarter-finals, by defeatingNathan Robertson/Gail Emms ...
AMERICAN AARON PEIRSOL DISQUALIFIED AFTER WINNING MEN'S 200M BACKSTROKE GOLD
Aug 20, 2004 ... AMERICAN AARON PEIRSOL DISQUALIFIED ...
French president calls for development of biofuels
Aug 20, 2004 ... French president calls for development of biofuelsPARIS, Aug.19 (Xinhua) -- French President Jacques Chirac onThursday urged the installing of a new system for the developmentof biofuels. Chirac "emphasized the great importance of the development ofbioenergy to ...
Hercules Liu Chunhong lifts world record for weightlifting gold
Aug 20, 2004 ... Hercules Liu Chunhong lifts world record for weightlifting goldATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Hercules Liu Chunhong of Chinalifted three world records on her way to winning the women's 69kgcategory gold medal at the 28th Olympic Games on Thursday. Her victory in the ...
News items from Asia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua (part 2)
Aug 20, 2004 ... News items from Asia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua (part 2)HONG KONG, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Following are news items from theAsia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua in Hong Kong Thursday:hka -- HK to attract more Chinese mainland travelers to fly via HK hka -- HK's unemployment rate ...
UN wrestling with security questions, says Annan
Aug 20, 2004 ... UN wrestling with security questions, says AnnanGENEVA, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- The attack on UN headquarters inBaghdad a year ago which killed 22 staff has forced the world body towrestle with fundamental questions regarding security, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Thursday ....
Domestic news items from Xinhua -- Aug. 19
Aug 20, 2004 ... Domestic news items from Xinhua -- Aug. 19BEIJING, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- The following are domestic news itemsreleased by Xinhua on Thursday: Market exchange rates -- Aug. 19 Chinese insurers allowed to use foreign exchange for overseasinvestment Highlights ...
Results of women's 200m breaststroke swimming
Aug 20, 2004 ... Results of women's 200m breaststroke swimmingATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Following are the results of women' s200m breaststroke final at the 28th Olympic Games on Thursday: 1. Amanda Beard, United States, 2:23.37 2. Leisel Jonesm, ...
Zhan Xugang ended his Olympic dream with no lift
Aug 20, 2004 ... Zhan Xugang ended his Olympic dream with no liftATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Defending champion Zhan Xugang fromChina ended his Olympic dream with no lift in the men's 77kg ...
Peirsol reinstated as winner of men's 200m backstroke
Aug 20, 2004 ... Peirsol reinstated as winner of men's 200m backstrokeATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- American swimmer Aaron Peirsol wasreinstated as the winner of the men's 200 meters backstroke at the28th Olympic Games Thursday evening ....
Results men's 200m backstroke
Aug 20, 2004 ... Results men's 200m backstrokeATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Following are the results of men's200m backstroke final at the 28th Olympic Games on Thursday: 1. Markus Rogan, Austria, 1:57.35 2. Razvan Ionut Florea, Romania, 1:57.56 ...
AMERICAN MICHAEL PHELPS WINS MEN'S 200M INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY GOLD
Aug 20, 2004 ... AMERICAN MICHAEL PHELPS WINS ...
FRANCE WINS MEN'S TEAM SABRE OLYMPIC GOLD
Aug 20, 2004 ... FRANCE WINS MEN'S ...
American Phelps wins men's 200 IM
Aug 20, 2004 ... American Phelps wins men's 200 IMATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- American Michael Phelps won the men 's200m individual medley gold medal in a time of 1:57.14 at ...
Results of badminton tournament
Aug 20, 2004 ... Results of badminton tournamentATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Following are the collated results ofbadminton tournament at the 28th Olympic Games on Thursday ( prefixnumber denotes seeding): Mixed doubles final 2-Zhang Jun/Gao Ling, China, bt 4-Nathan Robertson/Gail ...
France wins women's sabre team Olympic gold
Aug 20, 2004 ... France wins women's sabre team Olympic goldATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- France defeated Italy 45-42 to takethe men's sabre ...
Seven weightlifters failed drug test
Aug 20, 2004 ... Seven weightlifters failed drug testATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- A total of seven weightlifters havefailed dope test at the 28th Olympic Games. The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) announcedThursday at a press conference that an Indian woman became theseventh ...
Peirsol reinstated his 200m backstroke title
Aug 20, 2004 ... Peirsol reinstated his 200m backstroke titleATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- World record holder Aaron Peirsol ofthe United States was reinstated his 200m backstroke title at theOlympic Games Thursday evening after an earlier disqualificationscare. Peirsol regained his title ...
American Beard wins women's 200m breaststroke (updated)
Aug 20, 2004 ... American Beard wins women's 200m breaststroke (updated)ATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- World record holder Amanda Beard ofthe United States won the women's 200 meters breaststroke at the 28thOlympic Games here on Thursday. Beard, who set a world record of two minutes 22.44 ...
Australian Henry wins women's 100 free gold
Aug 20, 2004 ... Australian Henry wins women's 100 free goldATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Australian Jodie Henry won the women's100m freestyle gold medal in 53.84 at ...
Results of men's 200m individual medley final
Aug 20, 2004 ... Results of men's 200m individual medley finalATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Following are the results of the men's200m individual medley final at the Athens Olympic Games here onThursday: 1. Michael Phelps, United States, 1:57.14 2. Ryan Lochte, United ...
Two more lifters suspended by IWF at Athens Games
Aug 20, 2004 ... Two more lifters suspended by IWF at Athens GamesATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- A female weightlifter from Myanmar andan Indian female lifter, both of whom failed out of competition drugstests, had been suspended by the International WeightliftingFederation (IWF), bringing the ...
Results of men's individual archery in Athens Olympics
Aug 20, 2004 ... Results of men's individual archery in Athens OlympicsATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Following are the Olympic men'sarchery results on Thursday: Men's individual Final Marco Galiazzo, Italy, bt Hiroshi Yamamoto, Japan, 111-109 Bronze medal play-off ...
Results of tennis matches in Athens Olympics
Aug 20, 2004 ... Results of tennis matches in Athens OlympicsATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Following are the Olympic tennisresults on Thursday (prefix number denotes seeding): Women's singles quarter-finals: 3-Anastasia Myskina, Russia, bt Francesca Schiavone, ...
Phelps wins fourth gold at Athens Olympics
Aug 20, 2004 ... Phelps wins fourth gold at Athens OlympicsATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Michael Phelps won his fourth goldmedal at the Olympic Games in the men's 200m individual medley hereon Thursday. The American teenager, who had vowed to win a record-equallingseven gold medals, clocked ...
Peirsol announced as winner of men's 200m backstroke (updated)
Aug 20, 2004 ... Peirsol announced as winner of men's 200m backstroke (updated)ATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- World record holder Aaron Peirsol ofthe United States, who was disqualified after winning the men's 200meters backstroke, was announced as the winner of the event at theOlympic Games here ...
TANER SAGIR OF TURKEY WINS MEN'S 77KG WEIGHTLIFTING GOLD
Aug 20, 2004 ... TANER SAGIR OF TURKEY WINS ...
SINGAPORE'S LI JIA WEI UPSETS DEFENDING CHAMP WANG NAN 4-1 IN TABLE TENNIS
Aug 20, 2004 ... SINGAPORE'S LI JIA WEI UPSETS ...
Two more lifters suspended by IWF at Athens Games (updated)
Aug 20, 2004 ... Two more lifters suspended by IWF at Athens Games (updated)ATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- A woman weightlifter from Myanmar andan Indian female lifter, both of whom failed out of competition drugstests, had been suspended by the International WeightliftingFederation (IWF), bringing ...
Turk lifter Taner Sagir wins men's 77kg weightlifting
Aug 20, 2004 ... Turk lifter Taner Sagir wins men's 77kg weightliftingATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Taner Sagir of Turkey claimed the goldmedal of the men's 77kg weightlifting at the 28th Olympic GamesThursday ...
Sydney double champion Wang Nan out of table tennis singles
Aug 20, 2004 ... Sydney double champion Wang Nan out of table tennis singlesATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Sydney Olympic double champion WangNan of China lost to ...
Top Chinese leaders visit exhibition commemorating Deng
Aug 20, 2004 ... Top Chinese leaders visit exhibition commemorating DengBEIJING, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- A group of top Chinese leadersvisited an on-going photo, dossier and relics exhibition hereThursday to mark late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping's 100th birthday,which falls on August 22 ....
Results of men's 77kg weightlifting
Aug 20, 2004 ... Results of men's 77kg weightliftingATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Following are the results of men's77kg weightlifting at the 28th Olympic Games on Thursday: 1. Taner Sagir, Turkey, 375kg (172.5/202.5) 2. Sergey Filimonov,Kazakhstan, 365 (170/195) 3. Oleg ...
AMERICAN CARLY PATTERSON WINS WOMEN'S GYMNASTICS ALL-AROUND OLYMPIC GOLD
Aug 20, 2004 ... AMERICAN CARLY PATTERSON WINS ...
American Patterson wins women's all-around gymnastics gold
Aug 20, 2004 ... American Patterson wins women's all-around gymnastics goldATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Carly Patterson of the United Stateswon the women's all-around gymnastics gold medal at the AthensOlympic ...
Standings of Olympic men's field hockey
Aug 20, 2004 ... Standings of Olympic men's field hockeyATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Following are the standings afterThursday's matches in the Olympic men's field hockey competition (tabulated under matches played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goalsagainst and points): Group A ...
Results of Olympics softball in Athens
Aug 20, 2004 ... Results of Olympics softball in AthensATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Following are the results andstandings here Thursday in the Olympics softball tournament (tabulated under matches played, won, lost, runs for, against andpercentage): Australia bt Canada 1-0 Italy ...
Results of Olympic men's field hockey
Aug 20, 2004 ... Results of Olympic men's field hockeyATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Following are the results ofThursday's matches in the Olympic men's field hockey competition: Group A Pakistan bt South Korea 3-0 Scorers: Pakistan: Rehan Butt 43, Shakeel Abbasi 56, ...
Day 6 Roundup: China back on winning track
Aug 20, 2004 ... Day 6 Roundup: China back on winning trackBy Sportswriter Cao JianjieATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- After two days of gloom, China wasback on the winning rails on Thursday with Liu Chunhong winning aweightlifting title on her record-shattering binge and its ...
Thursday's medal winners at Athens Olympic Games
Aug 20, 2004 ... Thursday's medal winners at Athens Olympic GamesATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Following are Thursday's medal winnersat the Athens Olympic Games: Archery: Men's individual: Gold: Marco Galiazzo, Italy Silver: Hiroshi Yamamoto, Japan Bronze: ...
Results of Olympic badminton tournament
Aug 20, 2004 ... Results of Olympic badminton tournamentATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Following are the Olympic badmintonresults here on Thursday (prefix number denotes seeding): Women's singles final: 2-Zhang Ning, China, bt 4-Mia Audina, Netherlands, 8-11, 11-6, 11-7 ...
Argentina crushes China and Yao 82-57
Aug 20, 2004 ... Argentina crushes China and Yao 82-57ATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Argentina bounced back from a dismalloss to Spain, crushing China and Yao Ming 82-57 Thursday in a GroupA match. Andres Nocioni led Argentina with 17 points and six rebounds, withEmanuel Ginobili scoring 14 ...
Results of women's singles Olympic table tennis quarterfinals
Aug 20, 2004 ... Results of women's singles Olympic table tennis quarterfinalsATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Following are the results of women' ssingles quarterfinals in the table tennis tournament of the 2004Athens Olympic Games on Thursday: Women's singles' ...
Fixtures of women's singles table tennis semifinals
Aug 20, 2004 ... Fixtures of women's singles table tennis semifinalsATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Following is the fixture of semifinalmatches in the women's singles event of the table tennis ...
IWF bans 7 lifters from Olympics (updated)
Aug 20, 2004 ... IWF bans 7 lifters from Olympics (updated)By Sportswriter Qi ZijianATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- A female weightlifter from Myanmar andan Indian female lifter, who both failed in out-of-competition drugstests, had been suspended by the International ...
Amateur cartoonist draws Olympic gold with barbell
Aug 20, 2004 ... Amateur cartoonist draws Olympic gold with barbellBy Sportswriter Liu YangATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Chinese women Hercules Liu Chunhonghas been enjoying a hobby to draw cartoons. While at the AthensOlympic Games, she completed the greatest work in her life, but ...
Turkish strongman Sagir wins gold in 77kg at Athens Games
Aug 20, 2004 ... Turkish strongman Sagir wins gold in 77kg at Athens GamesATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Turkey's Taner Sagir broke twoweightlifting Olympic records Thursday night to win the gold medal inthe men's 77kg category and his country's third gold of thecompetition at the Athens Games ....
Results of women's 100m freestyle final
Aug 20, 2004 ... Results of women's 100m freestyle finalATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Following are the results of thewomen's 100m freestyle final at the Athens Olympic Games hereThursday evening: 1. Jodie Henry, Australia, 53.84 seconds 2. Inge de Bruijn, Netherlands, ...
American Patterson takes women's individual all-around gymnastics gold
Aug 20, 2004 ... American Patterson takes women's individual all-around gymnasticsgoldATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- American Carly Patterson, runner-up inthe 2003 Worlds, took the women's individual all-around gymnasticsgold medal with 38.387 points at the Athens Olympics here Fridayevening ....
American Patterson takes women's gymnastics all-round gold (updated)
Aug 20, 2004 ... American Patterson takes women's gymnastics all-round gold(updated)By sportswriter Pan YiATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- American Carly Patterson, runner-up inthe 2003 Worlds, took the women's individual all-around gymnasticsgold medal with 38.387 points at the Athens ...
Olympic double champion Wang out of table tennis semifinals (updated)
Aug 20, 2004 ... Olympic double champion Wang out of table tennis semifinals(updated)By sportswriter Zhou XiaozhengATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Sydney Olympic double championWang Nan lost to Singapore's Li Jia Wei 4-1 Thursday evening andfailed to make the women's singles ...
Roundup: Audit conducted in Venezuela expected to confirm Chavez'swin
Aug 20, 2004 ... Roundup: Audit conducted in Venezuela expected to confirm Chavez'swinCARACAS, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- The audit jointly carried out byVenezuela's electoral council and the international observers overthe outcome of last Sunday's recall referendum is expected to confirmPresident ...
Haitian president pledges to call elections in 2005
Aug 20, 2004 ... Haitian president pledges to call elections in 2005BRASILIA, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Haitian President Boniface Alexandrereiterated his commitment to call "free, democratic, transparent andtrustworthy" elections in his country next year, a communiquereleased by Brazilian Foreign ...
Google shares surge in first day after IPO price cut
Aug 20, 2004 ... Google shares surge in first day after IPO price cutNEW YORK, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Shares of Google Inc. closed sharplyhigher Thursday on their first day of trading on the Nasdaq StockMarket after the company cut its IPO (initial public offering) priceWednesday. The share ...
First round scores of WGC-NEC Invitational golf
Aug 20, 2004 ... First round scores of WGC-NEC Invitational golfWASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Following are the leading firstround scores at the WGC-NEC Invitational golf tournament at the par-70 Firestone Country Club south course in Akron, Ohio on Thursday(United States unless stated): ...