Xinhua News Agency back issues from Friday, January 7:
Thousands flee from southern Philippine city due to tsunami scare
Jan 07, 2005 ... Thousands flee from southern Philippine city due to tsunami scare MANILA, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of people in the southernPhilippines city of Pagadian fled to higher ground due to tsunamiscare after the sea receded following an earthquake, officials saidFriday. Hours ...
Xinhua world economic news summary at 0500 GMT, Jan. 7
Jan 07, 2005 ... Xinhua world economic news summary at 0500 GMT, Jan. 7NEW YORK -- Crude oil prices rose about 5 percent Thursday aftertwo more members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries(OPEC) hinted to lower oil production. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, oil futures ...
Roundup: International aid continues to pour into tsunami-hit Asia
Jan 07, 2005 ... Roundup: International aid continues to pour into tsunami-hit Asia BEIJING, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- International aid continued to pourinto tsunami-hit Asia Thursday with more countries sending reliefgoods or making donation calls. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Thursday at the ...
Uganda to send peacekeepers to Somalia
Jan 07, 2005 ... Uganda to send peacekeepers to SomaliaKAMPALA, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Uganda will send its soldiers toSomalia as part of an African Union (AU) peacekeeping force to thetroubled Horn of Africa country, reported The New Vision newspaper onFriday. Ugandan army spokesman Major ...
Bureaucracy in tsunami hit Aceh, Indonesia back in action
Jan 07, 2005 ... Bureaucracy in tsunami hit Aceh, Indonesia back in actionJAKARTA, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesia's Aceh provincialgovernor office recommenced its activities, nearly two weeks aftertsunami disaster hit the province on Dec. 26, media reported onFriday. The office operates ...
UN chief arrives in Indonesia's tsunami-hit Aceh
Jan 07, 2005 ... UN chief arrives in Indonesia's tsunami-hit AcehJAKARTA, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) --United Nations Secretary General KofiAnnan arrived in Indonesian Aceh province on Friday for a tour to thehardest tsunami-hit Maulaboh district in the province. Annan touched down at 9:45 (local ...
ADB pledges more aid to tsunami-hit countries
Jan 07, 2005 ... ADB pledges more aid to tsunami-hit countriesMANILA, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Asian Development Bank (ADB) haspledged additional 500 million US dollars to the tsunami reliefeffort, the ADB said Friday. The new aid package was announced by ADB president Tadao Chino ata ...
Feature: Sri Lanka shows signs of rehabilitation despite great loss
Jan 07, 2005 ... Feature: Sri Lanka shows signs of rehabilitation despite greatlossHIKKADUWA, Sri Lanka, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- High-toned working songsand efforts on clearing up the remnant strewn along beaches areregistering for a new town blueprint. Sri Lanka starts to recuperateafter the ...
Chinese organizations in Myanmar donates for tsunami-hit victims
Jan 07, 2005 ... Chinese organizations in Myanmar donates for tsunami-hit victimsYANGON, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Chinese diplomatic personnel and someChinese business companies based in Myanmar on Friday donated over 6million Kyats (about 7,000 US dollars) for victims in tsunami-hitareas of the ...
Hong Kong stocks lower at midday -- Jan. 7
Jan 07, 2005 ... Hong Kong stocks lower at midday -- Jan. 7HONG KONG, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong ...
News Analysis: Will Nepal go to elections in April ? by Wu Haimang, Chen Qiaoyan
Jan 07, 2005 ... News Analysis: Will Nepal go to elections in April ? by Wu Haimang, Chen QiaoyanKATHMANDU, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Nextweek will be decisive for Nepali Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba'shalf-year government and the country as well, when he will have todecide the schedule for ...
Major news items in leading Pakistani newspapers
Jan 07, 2005 ... Major news items in leading Pakistani newspapersISLAMABAD, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The following are major news itemsin leading Pakistani English newspapers on Friday.Dawn: -- Talks between India and Pakistan over the disputed Baglihar damproject ended inconclusively ...
Slovakia make it to Hopman Cup finals after 3-0 win overNetherlands
Jan 07, 2005 ... Slovakia make it to Hopman Cup finals after 3-0 win overNetherlandsCANBERRA, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Slovakia breezily reached the HopmanCup finals for the second year in a row as they eased past theNetherlands 3-0 in their last group match in the tournament in perth,Western ...
Drug trafficking offenses down in Tanzania in 2004
Jan 07, 2005 ... Drug trafficking offenses down in Tanzania in 2004DAR ES SALAAM, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The number of drug traffickingoffenses went down in Tanzania in the past year when 7, 185 caseswere reported compared with 8,052 cases in the previous year,according to police statistics ...
Hopman Cup tennis results
Jan 07, 2005 ... Hopman Cup tennis resultsCANBERRA, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Following are the results in theHopman Cup tennis tournament at Perth, Australia on Friday (prefixnumber denotes seeding): Group B: ...
NBA Thursday's results
Jan 07, 2005 ... NBA Thursday's resultsWASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Following are the results ofThursday's National Basketball Association ...
Major foreign exchange rates in Pakistan
Jan 07, 2005 ... Major foreign exchange rates in PakistanISLAMABAD, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The following are major exchangerates against the Pakistani rupee issued by the Treasury ManagementDivision of the National Bank of Pakistan on Friday.Selling Buying Buying TT & OD ...
Major news items in leading Kenyan newspapers
Jan 07, 2005 ... Major news items in leading Kenyan newspapersNAIROBI, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The following are major news items inleading Kenyan newspapers on Friday. Daily Nation: -- The United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) wants an earlywarning system installed for countries ...
Ugandan rebels ambush civilian vehicle in north
Jan 07, 2005 ... Ugandan rebels ambush civilian vehicle in northKAMPALA, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army ( LRA)rebels have ambushed and burnt a civilian vehicle in the northerndistrict of Pader, The New Vision reported Friday. Ugandan army spokesman Major Shaban Bantariza ...
NBA standings after Thursday's games
Jan 07, 2005 ... NBA standings after Thursday's gamesWASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Following are the standings afterNational Basketball Association games played on Thursday: EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC DIVISION W L PCT GB New York 16 16 .500 - ...
Memphis beat Detroit 101-79 to extend winning streak to five
Jan 07, 2005 ... Memphis beat Detroit 101-79 to extend winning streak to fiveWASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Detroit Pistons were handed themost lopsided loss in two years on Thursday as the NBA defendingchampions lost 101-79 to Memphis Grizzlies at home, down 22 points inthe third quarter and ...
Music on-line to be honored in China's disc awards
Jan 07, 2005 ... Music on-line to be honored in China's disc awardsGUANGZHOU, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- China's annual Golden Disc Awards(CGD) will, for the first time in the world music history, honor theexcellence of musical works popular on the Internet, despite thecontroversies over property rights ...
Uganda loses 23 million dollars annually in poor milk handling
Jan 07, 2005 ... Uganda loses 23 million dollars annually in poor milk handlingKAMPALA, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Uganda loses 23 million US dollarsannually due to poor handling of milk at farms, during transportationand marketing, reported local press on Friday. Uganda Dairy Development Authority ...
Tokyo stocks end lower
Jan 07, 2005 ... Tokyo stocks end lowerTOKYO, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Tokyo stocks receded Friday due toselling ahead of a three-day weekend in Japan. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average fell 59.02 points, or 0.51percent, to 11,433.24. The broader Tokyo Stock Price Index of all First ...
Cambodian ruling party emphasizes cooperation with all parties
Jan 07, 2005 ... Cambodian ruling party emphasizes cooperation with all partiesPHNOM PENH, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The ruling Cambodian People's Party(CPP) on Friday emphasized the importance of effective cooperationwith political parties for the sake of nation's peace and stability. In a ...
AU offers to mediate conflict in northern Uganda
Jan 07, 2005 ... AU offers to mediate conflict in northern UgandaKAMPALA, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The African Union (AU) has offered tomediate the conflict in northern Uganda between the government andthe Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels, reported local press onFriday. AU spokesman Adam ...
Tanzania to take part in Beijing tourism exhibition
Jan 07, 2005 ... Tanzania to take part in Beijing tourism exhibitionDAR ES SALAAM, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Tanzania is set to take part inthe scheduled tourism exhibition in April in Beijing of China tofurther tap its tourism resources, according to the Tanzania TouristBoard. Plans are now ...
Japanese defense chief to visit S.Korea
Jan 07, 2005 ... Japanese defense chief to visit S.KoreaSEOUL, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Japanese Defense Agency Director GeneralYoshinori Ono will fly to Seoul next week for a two-day visit here,discussing Tokyo's newly revised defense guidelines with his SouthKorean counterpart, announced South ...
Beijing population tops 15 million
Jan 07, 2005 ... Beijing population tops 15 millionBEIJING, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The total number of people living inBeijing has reached 15.244 million, according to the BeijingMunicipal Public Security Bureau. Figures from December show that Beijing had 11.595 millionpermanent residents, ...
Indonesian tsunami death reaches 98,000
Jan 07, 2005 ... Indonesian tsunami death reaches 98,000JAKARTA, Jan. 7 (Xinhua)-- The death toll in Indonesia increasedto 98,000 people, and more than a half million others were refugeesafter tsunami hit the provinces of Aceh and North Sumatra on December26, Social Ministry told Xinhua on ...
Seoul bourses end mixed
Jan 07, 2005 ... Seoul bourses end mixedSEOUL, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's stock markets end mixed onFriday. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) closeddown 0.44 point, or 0.05 percent, to 870.84. Volume on the main Korea Stock Exchange was ...
Cape Verde judges call for better protection against possible armed attack
Jan 07, 2005 ... Cape Verde judges call for better protection against possiblearmed attackLUANDA, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Cape Verde judges have called for thegovernment action to improve their personal security amid concerns ofarmed attacks on state officials by organized criminal gangs ....
Xinhua world news summary at 0800 GMT, Jan. 7
Jan 07, 2005 ... Xinhua world news summary at 0800 GMT, Jan. 7JAKARTA --United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan arrived inIndonesian Aceh province on Friday for a tour to the hardest tsunami-hit Maulaboh district in the province. Annan touched down at 9:45 (local time) in the capital of ...
Colin Powell arrives in Sri Lanka
Jan 07, 2005 ... Colin Powell arrives in Sri LankaCOLOMBO, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- US Secretary of State Colin Powellarrived in Sri Lanka on Friday, Colombo international airportofficials said. Powell is to spend some time in Colombo, meeting Sri LankaPresident Chandrika Kumaratunga, and is to ...
Belgium blamed for lack of cooperation with UN court
Jan 07, 2005 ... Belgium blamed for lack of cooperation with UN courtDAR ES SALAAM, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The defense team of a key 1994Rwanda genocide suspect has blamed Belgium for its lack ofcooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Local newspaper The ...
Guinea-Bissau PM calls for international aid to tackle locust menace
Jan 07, 2005 ... Guinea-Bissau PM calls for international aid to tackle locustmenaceLUANDA, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Guinea-Bissau's Prime Minister CarlosGomes Junior has appealed for international assistance to combatlocust swarms that threaten crops and grazing land in the northernand eastern ...
Air quality of major Chinese cities -- Jan. 7
Jan 07, 2005 ... Air quality of major Chinese cities -- Jan. 7BEIJING, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Report on the quality of air in 47major Chinese cities (12:00 Jan. 6 to 12:00 Jan. 7, Beijing Time),released by the China Environmental Monitoring Center:City Major Pollutant Air ...
Straw: 440 British dead or missing in Asian tsunami
Jan 07, 2005 ... Straw: 440 British dead or missing in Asian tsunamiPHUKET, Thailand, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- British Foreign SecretaryJack Straw said here Friday 440 British died or were missing afterthe Dec. 26 Indian Ocean earthquake-tsunami disaster. The British Foreign Secretary told a ...
China leads world in lymphatic filariasis control
Jan 07, 2005 ... China leads world in lymphatic filariasis controlNANCHANG, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- By the end of 2005, China is expectedto be the first country in the world to completely eliminatelymphatic filariasis, a mosquito-borne disease, said an expert withChinese Center for Disease Control ...
Philippine president orders information drive on meningococcemia
Jan 07, 2005 ... Philippine president orders information drive on meningococcemiaMANILA, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Friday ordered the Department of Health to launch anaggressive information campaign on the spread of meningococcemia. Arroyo issued the ...
Indonesian banks suffer 222 million US dollar credits loss in Aceh
Jan 07, 2005 ... Indonesian banks suffer 222 million US dollar credits loss in Aceh JAKARTA, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian local banks suffered some 2trillion rupiah (some 22 million US dollars) lending loss in Acehprovince, as the affect of tsunami disaster on Dec. 26, the Bank ofIndonesia said ...
HK, France to hold copyright symposium
Jan 07, 2005 ... HK, France to hold copyright symposiumHONG KONG, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- A regional copyright symposium, co-organized by the government of the Hong Kong Special AdministrativeRegion and the French government, will be staged in Hong Kong on Jan.27 and 28, the Intellectual Property ...
Major news items in leading Nigerian newspapers
Jan 07, 2005 ... Major news items in leading Nigerian newspapersLAGOS, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The following are major news items inleading Nigerian newspapers on Friday. The Guardian: -- Many buildings, which cover two hectares of land, weredestroyed on Thursday when fire razed an area ...
Bank offers free on-line service to donators helping tsunami- hitregion
Jan 07, 2005 ... Bank offers free on-line service to donators helping tsunami-hitregionBEIJING, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Industrial and Commercial Bank ofChina (ICBC), China's biggest bank, is offering on-line services tothose who want to donate money for the tsunami-hit Asian countries ....
Haas expected to recover for Australian Open
Jan 07, 2005 ... Haas expected to recover for Australian OpenCANBERRA, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Former world number two Tommy Haas isexpected to recover for this month's Australian Open, the year' sfirst grand slam event, though to miss this week's SydneyInternational tennis tournament due to injury ....
Hopman Cup tennis results (updated)
Jan 07, 2005 ... Hopman Cup tennis results (updated)CANBERRA, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Following are the results in theHopman Cup tennis tournament in Perth, Australia on Friday (prefixnumber denotes seeding): Group B: 2-United States beat Australia 2-1 Results (United States ...
Japanese minister urges PM to be cautious on shrine visit
Jan 07, 2005 ... Japanese minister urges PM to be cautious on shrine visitTOKYO, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- A Japanese cabinet minister on Fridayurged Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to stop visiting thecontentious Yasukuni Shrine for the sake of national interest. Construction and Transport ...
Kofi Annan: "I have never seen such utter destruction"
Jan 07, 2005 ... Kofi Annan: "I have never seen such utter destruction"Banda Aceh, Indonesia, Jan.7 (Xinhua)-- "I have never seen suchutter destruction mile after mile," said UN Secretary-General KofiAnnan Friday in Indonesia's tsunami-battered Sumatra island. "You wonder where are the ...
Foreign exchange rates in Kenya
Jan 07, 2005 ... Foreign exchange rates in KenyaNAIROBI, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The following are the foreign exchangerates against the Kenyan shilling released by the Central Bank ofKenya on Friday. Friday Thursday US dollar 78.6389 ...
India, Iran agree on LNG deal
Jan 07, 2005 ... India, Iran agree on LNG dealNEW DELHI, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- India will buy 5 million tons ofLiquefied Natural Gas (LNG) from Iran annually under a 25-year dealfinalized here Friday. The two countries also appeared to reach anagreement on supply of gas by a pipeline through ...
Shanghai stock index up -- Jan. 7
Jan 07, 2005 ... Shanghai stock index up -- Jan. 7BEIJING, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Composite Stock Index on theShanghai Stock Exchange closed at 1,240.28 points on Friday, up 0. 85point from the previous ...
China offers 524 million US dollars in loans to 800,000 studentslast year
Jan 07, 2005 ... China offers 524 million US dollars in loans to 800,000 studentslast yearBEIJING, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- China offered an estimated 4.3 billionyuan (520 million US dollars) in loans to about 800,000 collegestudents in the past year, the Ministry of Finance said Friday ....
Security system of Tanzanian banks porous: police
Jan 07, 2005 ... Security system of Tanzanian banks porous: policeDAR ES SALAAM, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Tanzanian police have warnedthat porous security systems have rendered local banks "big fish" forbandits from neighboring countries. The warning came a few days after the police had ...
Shenzhen stock index mixed -- Jan. 7
Jan 07, 2005 ... Shenzhen stock index mixed -- Jan. 7BEIJING, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Component Stock Index on theShenzhen Stock Exchange closed at 3,030.92 points on Friday, up 2. 19points from the previous ...
Vice Premier asks for mechanism guaranteeing migrant workers getpaid on time
Jan 07, 2005 ... Vice Premier asks for mechanism guaranteeing migrant workers getpaid on timeTIANJIN, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Premier Zeng PeiyanThursday advocated building and improving a long-term work mechanismto guarantee migrant workers are paid on time and pledged tointensify ...
Fuel crisis feared in Rwanda
Jan 07, 2005 ... Fuel crisis feared in RwandaKIGALI, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The price increase of severalcommodities has now emerged in Rwanda due to eminent fuel shortage, asenior official said Friday. Fuel crisis in Kigali and upcountry indicates that most petrolstations in the central ...
UAE sets up polling stations for Iraqis to vote
Jan 07, 2005 ... UAE sets up polling stations for Iraqis to voteABU DHABI, Jan. 7 (Xinhua)-- Iraqi citizens living in the UnitedArab Emirates (UAE) and Gulf region will take part in Iraq'selections by casting their ballots in polling stations set up in theUAE, local Khaleej Times reported ...
Major news items in leading Israeli newspapers
Jan 07, 2005 ... Major news items in leading Israeli newspapersJERUSALEM, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The following are major news itemsin leading Israeli newspapers on Friday.Ha'aretz: -- A new Israeli government, including Likud, Labor and the UnitedTorah Judaism parties, will be ...
Major news items in leading British newspapers
Jan 07, 2005 ... Major news items in leading British newspapersLONDON, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The following are major news items inleading British newspapers on Friday: The Times: -- British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw will announce a sharp risein the number of dead and missing ...
News items from Asia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua (Part 1)
Jan 07, 2005 ... News items from Asia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua (Part 1)HONG KONG, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Following are news items from theAsia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua in Hong Kong on Friday:Lord of the Rings director Jackson eyes The Lovely Bones Major news items in leading Japanese ...
Dollar inches down to mid-104 yen ahead of US job data release
Jan 07, 2005 ... Dollar inches down to mid-104 yen ahead of US job data releaseTOKYO, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The US dollar edged down from itsovernight level in New York to the mid-104 yen level Friday in Tokyoas selling by Japanese exporters weighed on the currency, while mostother players ...
IDF to halt operations in W. Bank, Gaza ahead of elections
Jan 07, 2005 ... IDF to halt operations in W. Bank, Gaza ahead of electionsJERUSALEM, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Israel Defense Forces troops willhalt operations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as of Friday night,to avoid interfering with Sunday's Palestinian elections, IsraelRadio reported ....
Foreign exchange rates in Indonesia
Jan 07, 2005 ... Foreign exchange rates in IndonesiaJAKARTA, Jan. 7 Xinhua) -- The following are the major foreignexchange rates against Indonesian rupiah here Friday: Friday Thursday US dollar9,275/9,305 ...
Thai leader estimates 7,000 lives lost in tsunami
Jan 07, 2005 ... Thai leader estimates 7,000 lives lost in tsunami PHUKET, Thailand, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Thai Prime Minister ThaksinShinawatra who flew to tsunami-hit southern provinces on Fridayestimated the country's death toll from the disaster could reach7,000 as many people are still ...
Australian dollar closes lower
Jan 07, 2005 ... Australian dollar closes lowerCANBERRA, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Australian dollar closed lower at76.22 US cents Friday from 76.43 at Thursday's close. During the ...