Xinhua News Agency back issues from Monday, January 24:
Spurs' center Nesterovic lands on injured list
Jan 24, 2005 ... Spurs' center Nesterovic lands on injured listWASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- The San Antonio Spurs placedcenter Rasho Nesterovic on the injured list with a left ankle sprain,while activating forward/center Sean Marks, according to the teamfrom San Antonia on Sunday ....
Portuguese Premier League soccer results
Jan 24, 2005 ... Portuguese Premier League soccer resultsLISBON, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Following are the results ofPortuguese Premier League soccer matches played on Sunday: Rio Ave bt Estoril 2-1 Maritimo tied Belenenses 0-0 Gil Vicente lost to Sporting 0-3 ...
Portuguese Premier League soccer summaries
Jan 24, 2005 ... Portuguese Premier League soccer summariesLISBON, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Following are the summaries ofPortuguese Premier League soccer matches played on Sunday: Rio Ave 2 - Franco 59, Ricardo Nascimento 84pen Estoril 1 - Arrieta 2pen Red ...
Spanish first division soccer results
Jan 24, 2005 ... Spanish first division soccer resultsMADRID, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Following are the results of Spanishfirst division soccer matches played on Sunday: Albacete lost to Sevilla 0-2 Deportivo Coruna bt Espanyol 4-1 Getafe bt Real Zaragoza 3-0 ...
Norwegian FM meets with Sri Lankan PM
Jan 24, 2005 ... Norwegian FM meets with Sri Lankan PMCOLOMBO, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Visiting Norwegian Foreign MinisterJan Petersen met with Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse onSunday after holding talks with rebel Tamil Tiger leader to discussways of providing relief aid to the ...
Indonesian gov't, Aceh rebels to hold talks in Finland
Jan 24, 2005 ... Indonesian gov't, Aceh rebels to hold talks in FinlandHELSINKI, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian government andseparatist rebels from Aceh province will hold talks in Helsinki nextweek, Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja confirmed Sunday. The talks between the ...
One Chinese sentenced to death for murdering Japanese family
Jan 24, 2005 ... One Chinese sentenced to death for murdering Japanese familySHENYANG, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Yang Ning, a Chinese citizen, wassentenced to death Monday for murdering one Japanese family, robberyand theft with others during ...
Major news items in leading Philippine newspapers
Jan 24, 2005 ... Major news items in leading Philippine newspapersMANILA, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- The followings are the major newsitems in the leading Philippine newspapers on Monday:The Philippine Star: -- A ranking member of the extremist Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) wantedfor the Bali ...
Sister of Brazilian hostage in Iraq calls for mercy
Jan 24, 2005 ... Sister of Brazilian hostage in Iraq calls for mercyBRASILIA, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- A sister of the Brazilian engineerheld hostage in Iraq called on Sunday on the militant kidnappers toshow mercy to her brother, saying her brother was not an enemy ofIraq. "They know that ...
EU foreign policy chief hails Palestinian peace efforts
Jan 24, 2005 ... EU foreign policy chief hails Palestinian peace effortsMADRID, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- European Union (EU) foreign policychief Javier Solana on Sunday lauded Palestinian efforts to work forpeace in the Middle East after the death of former leader YasserArafat. "Palestinians, ...
Spanish first division soccer standings
Jan 24, 2005 ... Spanish first division soccer standingsMADRID, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Following are the Spanish firstdivision soccer standings after the matches played on Sunday (tabulated under games played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, against,points): 1. Barcelona20 15 3 ...
Earthquake flattens 100 houses in Indonesia's Sulawesi
Jan 24, 2005 ... Earthquake flattens 100 houses in Indonesia's SulawesiJAKARTA, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake measuring 6.2 on theRichter scale in the Indonesian province of Central Sulawesi earlyMonday has destroyed 100 houses, but there is no immediate report ofcasualty. The quake ...
German first division soccer summaries
Jan 24, 2005 ... German first division soccer summariesBERLIN, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Following are the summaries of matchesplayed in the German first division soccer league on Sunday: Hanover 96 0 Bayer Leverkusen 3 - Andriy Voronin 18, Dimitar ...
Quake warning system to be established in Adriatic Sea
Jan 24, 2005 ... Quake warning system to be established in Adriatic SeaTIRANA, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Littoral countries of the Adriatic Seaagreed late Saturday to establish an electromagnetic wave monitoringand earthquake early-warning system for the region, the Albaniannewspaper Korrier reported ...
Highlights of major Beijing-based newspapers -- Jan. 24
Jan 24, 2005 ... Highlights of major Beijing-based newspapers -- Jan. 24BEIJING, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Highlights of major Beijing-basednewspapers on Monday:People's Daily -- The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee issued acircular on Sunday calling for strengthening ...
Vietnam reports one more bird flu case
Jan 24, 2005 ... Vietnam reports one more bird flu caseHANOI, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- A 36-year-old man from Vietnam'snorthern Thai Binh province has just been found to have contractedbird flu virus H5N1, raising the number of bird flu infections inthe country to nine. Samples from the ...
Philippines to wait one year to see credit rating upgraded: central bank
Jan 24, 2005 ... Philippines to wait one year to see credit rating upgraded:central bankMANILA, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- There will be at least one year beforethe Philippines can see its credit rating be upgraded by Standard andPoor's, Moody's Investor Service or Fitch Ratings, the central banksaid ...
German first division soccer leading scorers
Jan 24, 2005 ... German first division soccer leading scorersBERLIN, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Following are the leading scorers inthe German first divisino soccer league after Sunday's matches:13 - Marek Mintal (Nuremberg) 10 - Delron Buckley (Arminia Bielefeld), Miroslav Klose (Werder ...
Foreign trade tops 200 million dollars in Tibet last year
Jan 24, 2005 ... Foreign trade tops 200 million dollars in Tibet last yearLHASA, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Southwest China's Tibet AutonomousRegion posted a record high 223 million US dollars of foreign tradein 2004, posing a 38.7-percent rise over the previous year. The autonomous region did 130 ...
Portuguese Premier League soccer standings
Jan 24, 2005 ... Portuguese Premier League soccer standingsLISBON, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Following are the Portuguese PremierLeague soccer standings after the matches played on Sunday (tabulatedunder games played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, against, points): 1. Porto 18 ...
Hong Kong stocks open lower -- Jan. 24
Jan 24, 2005 ... Hong Kong stocks open lower -- Jan. 24HONG KONG, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong stocks dropped 31.14points, or 0.23 percent, to ...
Leading scorers in Spanish first division soccer league
Jan 24, 2005 ... Leading scorers in Spanish first division soccer leagueMADRID, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Following are the leading scorers inthe Spanish first division soccer league after this weekend'smatches: 15 - Samuel Eto'o (Barcelona) 11 - Diego Forlan (Villarreal), Ronaldo (Real ...
Iraqi interim president calls on countrymen to vote in elections
Jan 24, 2005 ... Iraqi interim president calls on countrymen to vote in electionsBAGHDAD, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Iraq's interim President Ghazi al-Yawer has called on his countrymen to take part in the generalelections slated for next Sunday. In an interview with the Lebanese television Al ...
China pledges to strengthen ties with Ukraine
Jan 24, 2005 ... China pledges to strengthen ties with UkraineKIEV, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese leadership and thegovernment are willing to work with the Ukrainian side in advancingthe Sino-Ukraine comprehensive relations of friendly cooperation in ahealthy and steady way, a senior Chinese ...
Xinhua world economic news summary at 0410 GMT, Jan. 24
Jan 24, 2005 ... Xinhua world economic news summary at 0410 GMT, Jan. 24NEW DELHI -- India's manufacturing industry is experiencing higherexport growth, with motor vehicles, color TV sets, plastics and autocomponents driving "excellent" results, according to a survey. While 18 sectors ...
Foreign exchange rates in Thailand
Jan 24, 2005 ... Foreign exchange rates in ThailandBANGKOK, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- The following are foreign exchangerates against the baht as offered by the Bangkok Bank on Monday: Monday Friday US dollar 38.14/38.74 38.23/38.83 ...
Philippine boxers bag two golds in Hanoi tourney
Jan 24, 2005 ... Philippine boxers bag two golds in Hanoi tourneyMANILA, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- The Philippines bagged two golds andfinished runner-up in the Southeast Asian Amateur BoxingChampionships held in Hanoi, Vietnam recently. In final events Friday night, Philippine flyweight ...
Over 16,000 Iraqis in Germany registered to vote
Jan 24, 2005 ... Over 16,000 Iraqis in Germany registered to voteBERLIN, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- More than 16,000 Iraqis living inGermany have registered to vote in their country's first post-wargeneral elections, officials said on Sunday. Officials with the Berlin-based "Iraq Out-of-Country ...
English Premier League soccer results
Jan 24, 2005 ... English Premier League soccer resultsLONDON, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Following is the result of an EnglishPremier League soccer match played on Sunday: Arsenal bt Newcastle United 1-0Played on Saturday: Birmingham City lost to Fulham 1-2 Chelsea bt ...
Italian first division soccer results
Jan 24, 2005 ... Italian first division soccer resultsROME, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Following are the results of the Italianfirst division soccer matches played on Sunday: Fiorentina lost to AS Roma 1-2 Juventus beat Brescia 2-0 Lazio lost to Sampdoria ...
Cotton prices remain low in Chinese market after bumper harvest
Jan 24, 2005 ... Cotton prices remain low in Chinese market after bumper harvestBEIJING, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Cotton prices on Chinese market willstay at their current low level for a while, due to bumper domesticharvests, temporary cash shortages among spinning mills and anuncertainty about ...
China's key economic figures - land transaction price indices
Jan 24, 2005 ... China's key economic figures - land transaction price indicesBEIJING, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- The following are figures for China'sland transaction price indices in the third quarter of 2004, releasedby the National Bureau of Statistics:Price index (same period of the ...
Leading scorers in Portuguese Premier League
Jan 24, 2005 ... Leading scorers in Portuguese Premier LeagueLISBON, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Following are the leading scorers inthe Portuguese Premier League after Sunday's matches: 16 - Liedson (Sporting) 11 - Simao Sabrosa (Benfica) 10 - Antchouet Arnaud (Belenenses) ...
Filipino missing in Saudi Arabia, suspected kidnapped
Jan 24, 2005 ... Filipino missing in Saudi Arabia, suspected kidnappedMANILA, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- An overseas Filipino worker has beenmissing for two weeks and he was suspected of being kidnapped inSaudi Arabia, a local TV reported Monday. According to the ABS-CBN news channel, the ...
English Premier League soccer summaries
Jan 24, 2005 ... English Premier League soccer summariesLONDON, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Following is the summary of an EnglishPremier League soccer match played on Sunday: Arsenal 1 - Dennis Bergkamp 19 Newcastle United 0 Halftime: 1-0; Attendance: 38,137 ...
English Premier League soccer standings
Jan 24, 2005 ... English Premier League soccer standingsLONDON, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Following are the English PremierLeague soccer standings after the match played on Sunday ( tabulatedunder games played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, against, points): 1. Chelsea24 19 4 1 ...
Myanmar committed to speedy ICT development
Jan 24, 2005 ... Myanmar committed to speedy ICT developmentYANGON, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar leader Lieutenant-GeneralThein Sein has pledged the government's full commitment to the speedydevelopment of information and communication technology ( ICT),saying that it will provide full support to ...
News items from Asia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua
Jan 24, 2005 ... News items from Asia-Pacific Desk of XinhuaHONG KONG, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Following are news items from theAsia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua in Hong Kong Sunday:Major news items in leading Indian newspapers New Zealand researchers build bone from wool Major news ...
China's key economic figures - real estate selling price indices
Jan 24, 2005 ... China's key economic figures - real estate selling price indicesBEIJING, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- The following are figures for China'sreal estate selling price indices in the third quarter of 2004,released by the National Bureau of Statistics: ...
Honda seeks to boost sales in Indonesia
Jan 24, 2005 ... Honda seeks to boost sales in IndonesiaJAKARTA, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Japanese auto giant Honda Motor Corp.has projected to boost its car sales in Indonesia to 52,000 unitsthis year and to raise the capacity of its Indonesia-based assemblyplant. Indonesian branch PT Honda ...
German first division soccer standings
Jan 24, 2005 ... German first division soccer standingsBERLIN, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Following are the German firstdivision soccer standings after the matches played on Sunday (tabulated under games played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, against,points): 1. Bayern Munich18 11 ...
Roundup: Abbas says Palestinian agreement on cease-fire "near"
Jan 24, 2005 ... Roundup: Abbas says Palestinian agreement on cease-fire "near"GAZA, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas saidSunday that an agreement between the Palestinian leadership andfactions on halting attacks against Israel "is near," while sporadicviolence continued in ...
Major news items in leading US newspapers
Jan 24, 2005 ... Major news items in leading US newspapersWASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- The following are major news itemsin leading US newspapers on Sunday:The Washington Post -- The Pentagon has created the Strategic Support Branch, a newespionage arm to be under the direct ...
Venezuelan president accuses US of provoking diplomatic crisis
Jan 24, 2005 ... Venezuelan president accuses US of provoking diplomatic crisisCARACAS, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavezaccused the United States of provoking a diplomatic crisis betweenhis country and Colombia. The United States was behind Colombia's arrest of Rodrigo ...
India Manufacturing sector records higher exports
Jan 24, 2005 ... India Manufacturing sector records higher exportsNEW DELHI, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- India's manufacturing industry isexperiencing higher export growth, with motor vehicles, color TVsets, plastics and auto components driving "excellent" results,according to a survey. While 18 ...
Vietnam reports two more H5N1-positive cases
Jan 24, 2005 ... Vietnam reports two more H5N1-positive casesHANOI, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- A 36-year-old man from Vietnam'snorthern Thai Binh province has just been found to have contractedbird flu virus H5N1, while a woman who died on Jan. 21 was confirmedto be infected with the virus, raising the ...
China's first coal liquefaction scheduled to ease import burden
Jan 24, 2005 ... China's first coal liquefaction scheduled to ease import burdenBEIJING, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- China's first coal liquefactionproject is expected to begin operating in 2007 to ease import burden,with an initial annual oil output topping one million tons, Monday'sChina Daily ...
Myanmar, Philippines explore enhanced cooperation in air sector
Jan 24, 2005 ... Myanmar, Philippines explore enhanced cooperation in air sectorYANGON, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar and the Philippines areexploring enhanced cooperation in the air sector and a negotiation isto take place on Tuesday to work out an updated air servicesagreement, according to air ...
Davenport, Roddick, Schnyder into quarter finals of Australian Open
Jan 24, 2005 ... Davenport, Roddick, Schnyder into quarter finals of AustralianOpenCANBERRA, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Linsey Davenport, Andy Roddick andPatty Schnyder marched into the singles quarter finals of theAustralian Open in Melbourne on Monday. In just over one hour, Davenport, women's ...
Strong earthquake shakes Indonesia's Sulawesi island
Jan 24, 2005 ... Strong earthquake shakes Indonesia's Sulawesi islandJAKARTA, Jan. 24 (Xinhua)-- A large earthquake measuring 6.2 onthe Richter scale shook Indonesia's Sulawesi island early ...
Foreign exchange rates in Philippines
Jan 24, 2005 ... Foreign exchange rates in PhilippinesMANILA, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- The following are foreign exchangerates against the Philippine peso released Monday by the central bankof the Philippines.Monday Friday US dollar 55.5460...
Spanish first division soccer summaries
Jan 24, 2005 ... Spanish first division soccer summariesMADRID, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Following are the Spanish firstdivision soccer summaries of the matches played on Sunday: Albacete 0 Sevilla 2 - Renato 37, Antonito 45 Halftime: 0-2; Attendance: 16,300 ...
Italian opposition demands withdrawal of troops from Iraq
Jan 24, 2005 ... Italian opposition demands withdrawal of troops from IraqROME, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Italian opposition legislators demandedSunday that Italian troops be pulled out of Iraq, saying that thegovernment had "masked" the operation in Iraq as a peace mission.Opposition ...
S. China fatal expressway tragedy kills 24, injures 30
Jan 24, 2005 ... S. China fatal expressway tragedy kills 24, injures 30GUANGZHOU, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Thirteen cars collided one afteranother around 7:00 p.m. Sunday on expressway from Kaiping toYangjiang near the city of Jiangmen, in southern Guangdong Province,killing 24 ...
Freeway pileup leaves 4 dead, another 38 injured on south Chinafreeway
Jan 24, 2005 ... Freeway pileup leaves 4 dead, another 38 injured on south ChinafreewaySHENZHEN, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Four people died and 38 others gotinjured in a pileup on Shenzhen-Shantou Freeway in south China 'sGuangdong Province. According to local sources, one road mishap occurred ...
German first division soccer results
Jan 24, 2005 ... German first division soccer resultsBERLIN, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Following are the results of Germanfirst division soccer matches played on Sunday: Hanover 96 lost to Bayer Leverkusen 0-3 VfL Bochum tied Hertha Berlin 2-2 Played on Saturday: Borussia ...
Private businesses in Guangdong surpass state firms in exports
Jan 24, 2005 ... Private businesses in Guangdong surpass state firms in exportsGUANGZHOU, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Private businesses in south China'sGuangdong Province, for the first time, outdid state firms inexports, with last year's volume totaling 18.78 billion US dollars,66.2 percent higher ...
Domestic helpers in great demand in south China city
Jan 24, 2005 ... Domestic helpers in great demand in south China citySHENZHEN, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Demand for domestic helpers inShenzhen, a boomtown facing Hong Kong across a river in south China'sGuangdong Province, is placed at 120,000, said information fromDomestic Service Association of the ...
Major news items in leading Pakistani newspapers
Jan 24, 2005 ... Major news items in leading Pakistani newspapersISLAMABAD, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- The following are major news itemsin leading Pakistani English-language newspapers on Monday.Dawn: -- Most parts of Pakistan are in the grip of severe cold due towidespread torrential ...
Cellular phone users register fast growth in Indonesia
Jan 24, 2005 ... Cellular phone users register fast growth in IndonesiaJAKARTA, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Cellular phone operators in Indonesiahave reported a remarkable rise of 61.6 percent in the number ofsubscribers in 2004 to set a record high. The number of cellular phone subscribers in ...
Italian first division soccer summaries
Jan 24, 2005 ... Italian first division soccer summariesROME, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Following are the summaries of theItalian first division soccer matches played on Sunday: Fiorentina 1 - Enzo Maresca 19 AS Roma1 - Antonio Cassano 23, Vincenzo Montella 67 Halftime: 1-1; ...
Major news items in leading Japanese newspapers
Jan 24, 2005 ... Major news items in leading Japanese newspapersTOKYO, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- The following are major news items inleading Japanese newspapers on Monday.Asahi: -- The Japanese government is moving toward illegalizing narcotic-like drugs which stay out of the control ...
China's key economic figures - retail price indices
Jan 24, 2005 ... China's key economic figures - retail price indicesBEIJING, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- The following figures show China's retail price indices in November 2004, released by the NationalBureau of ...
FM confirms kidnapped Chinese return to Chinese embassy in Iraq
Jan 24, 2005 ... FM confirms kidnapped Chinese return to Chinese embassy in IraqBEIJING, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesmanKong Quan confirmed here Sunday that the eight kidnapped Chinesecitizens have returned to the Chinese embassy in Iraq at Beijing time10:25 pm Sunday ....
Yellow River Delta shrinks by 7.2 sq km a year: survey
Jan 24, 2005 ... Yellow River Delta shrinks by 7.2 sq km a year: surveyJINAN, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- The delta of the Yellow River, China 'ssecond longest waterway, is shrinking southward by an average 7. 2square kilometers a year due to seawater erosion, a geological surveyfound. The delta ...