Xinhua News Agency back issues from Thursday, August 31:
US Open men's singles first round results
Aug 31, 2006 ... US Open men's singles first round resultsNEW YORK, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Following are the results of theU.S. Open men's singles first round results (prefix denotes seeding): Ryan Sweeting, United States, beat Guillermo Coria, Argentina, 3-2, retired. 26-Olivier ...
Thai court to decide fates of anti-Thaksin leaders
Aug 31, 2006 ... Thai court to decide fates of anti-Thaksin leadersBANGKOK, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- The Criminal Court of Thailand willon Friday decide if arrest warrants should be issued against sevenkey members of the anti-Thaksin People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD)for allegedly conspiring to ...
US Open women's doubles first round results
Aug 31, 2006 ... US Open women's doubles first round resultsNEW YORK, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Following are the results of the USOpen women's doubles first round matches on Wednesday: Alona/Kateryna ...
Publisher opens a new chapter in China's cultural expansion
Aug 31, 2006 ... Publisher opens a new chapter in China's cultural expansion ByXinhua writers Zhou Lei and Wu JingBEIJING, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) --The U.S. novel "When the Purple Mountain Burns" has been drawingattention at the Beijing International Book Fair not just for itsplot set during the Nanjing ...
Brazil's Juventus pays homage to Pele's best goal
Aug 31, 2006 ... Brazil's Juventus pays homage to Pele's best goalBRASILIA, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- Brazilian soccer team Juventus havepaid homage to soccer legend Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known asPele, for scoring the best goal in his career against them, with astatue erected at their stadium ...
China's listed firms record 7.54 percent growth in net profit in 1H
Aug 31, 2006 ... China's listed firms record 7.54 percent growth in net profit in1HBEIJING, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Net profits for 1,388 firms listed onChina's Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges grew by 7.54 percentyear on year in the first half of the year, an analysis of theirinterim reports ...
Malaysian PM calls for spirit of consensus, cooperation in independence day message
Aug 31, 2006 ... Malaysian PM calls for spirit of consensus, cooperation inindependence day messageKUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Malaysian Prime MinisterAbdullah Ahmad Badawi called on the multiracial Malaysians to retainthe spirit of consensus and cooperation in his special message forthe ...
Colombia hails adoption of minors protection law
Aug 31, 2006 ... Colombia hails adoption of minors protection lawBOGOTA, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- Politicians and social groups onWednesday welcomed the congressional adoption of a law on minorsprotection which will benefit 18 million children and teenagers inColombia. Gina Parody, a senator ...
Off-shore pipelines between Ghana, Nigeria completed
Aug 31, 2006 ... Off-shore pipelines between Ghana, Nigeria completedNAIROBI, Aug. 30, (Xinhua) -- Off-shore pipelines between Ghanaand Nigeria forming the West African Gas Pipeline Project (WAGP) havebeen completed, giving indications that gas could be flowing throughto Ghana's Aboadze Thermal ...
Tokyo shares open higher
Aug 31, 2006 ... Tokyo shares open higherTOKYO, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Stocks opened slightly higher on theTokyo Stock Exchange on Thursday following overnight gains in U.S.shares. In the first 15 minutes of trading, the benchmark ...
Major news items in leading Australian newspapers
Aug 31, 2006 ... Major news items in leading Australian newspapersCANBERRA, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- The following are major news itemsin leading Australian newspapers on Thursday.The Australian: -- Australian-trained Timor-Lest rebel leader Alfredo Reinado wason the run Wednesday ...
Residents evacuated in NZ capital following gas leak
Aug 31, 2006 ... Residents evacuated in NZ capital following gas leakWELLINGTON, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- A major gas leak has led toresidents and office workers being evacuated and traffic disrupted inWellington's central business district Thursday morning. The leak was affecting about 1,000 ...
1st LD-Writethru: China Exlcusive: China to tighten control over foreign surveying, mapping
Aug 31, 2006 ... 1st LD-Writethru: China Exlcusive: China to tighten control overforeign surveying, mappingBEIJING, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- China will step up supervision offoreigners who conduct surveys and map areas of the country. Foreign organizations and individuals, who engage in ...
Myanmar charges two western embassies with interfering in internal affairs
Aug 31, 2006 ... Myanmar charges two western embassies with interfering in internalaffairsYANGON, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Government-run newspaper the New Lightof Myanmar Thursday charged the U.S. Embassy and the British Embassywith interfering in Myanmar's internal affairs through ...
Urgent: Israeli troops kill Palestinian militant leader in West Bank
Aug 31, 2006 ... Urgent: Israeli troops kill Palestinian militant leader in WestBankRAMALLAH, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Israeli troops killed the leader ofa Palestinian militant group during a raid in the West Bank town ...
China to screen digital movies in rural areas
Aug 31, 2006 ... China to screen digital movies in rural areasBEIJING, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- China will try digital movies inrural areas, with 1,200 digital movie system (DMS) machines beingdelivered to eight provinces in October. "Due to the low cost of DMS developed by the State ...
Zimbabwe cops gun down man for mistaken identity
Aug 31, 2006 ... Zimbabwe cops gun down man for mistaken identityHARARE, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- An 18-year-old Zimbabwean man was shotdead Wednesday morning along Harare's High Glen Road by plainclothespolice detectives who had mistaken the vehicle he was traveling infor one that was being used by ...
Shenzhen stock index up -- Aug. 31
Aug 31, 2006 ... Shenzhen stock index up -- Aug. 31BEIJING, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- The Component Stock Index on theShenzhen Stock Exchange closed at 4,178.84 points on Thursday, up21.27 ...
News items from Asia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua (Part 1)
Aug 31, 2006 ... News items from Asia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua (Part 1)HONG KONG, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Following are news items from theAsia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua in Hong Kong Thursday:European Commission funds renewable energy projects in FrenchPacific territories 1st Ld ...
Bomb explosion hits foreigners convoy in western Baghdad
Aug 31, 2006 ... Bomb explosion hits foreigners convoy in western BaghdadBAGHDAD, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- A roadside bomb went off near aconvoy of sport utility vehicles (SUV), usually used by westernforeigners, wounding at least two persons, an Interior Ministrysource told Xinhua. "A ...
Strong quake jolts eastern Indonesia
Aug 31, 2006 ... Strong quake jolts eastern IndonesiaJAKARTA, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- A magnitude 6 earthquake rockedIndonesia's eastern province of North Sulawesi Thursday, causingpanic among residents. The undersea quake was centered 182 km southeast of the ...
Update-1: Jade rush sparks environmental havoc in NW China region
Aug 31, 2006 ... Update-1: Jade rush sparks environmental havoc in NW China region HOTAN, Xinjiang, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Saimati Tulahon is just oneof 200,000 jade hunters desperately searching the river bed of theYurungkax River in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regionbut for the ...
Automaker FAW reports six-fold jump in profits
Aug 31, 2006 ... Automaker FAW reports six-fold jump in profitsBEIJING, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- China First Automobile Works reportsa profit of 1.61 billion yuan (201 million U.S. dollars) in the firstseven months of 2006, 6.4 times that of the same period a year ago. The automaker based in ...
Hong Kong most competitive financial center in Asia: study
Aug 31, 2006 ... Hong Kong most competitive financial center in Asia: studyHONG KONG, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong takes the lead in Asia inmost factors which are considered as important to a financial center,said the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) of Hong KongThursday. "Hong ...
Sri Lanka to ferry more civilians out of battle zones
Aug 31, 2006 ... Sri Lanka to ferry more civilians out of battle zonesCOLOMBO, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- The Sri Lankan government announcedThursday that over 3000 civilians are still trapped in the northernbattle field and it will ferry them to the south as soon as possible. S. B. Divaratne, the ...
S. Africa to launch second landline telecommunication operator
Aug 31, 2006 ... S. Africa to launch second landline telecommunication operatorJOHANNESBURG, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- South Africa's second landlinetelecommunication operator will be officially launched on Thursday,putting an end to a longtime monopoly of Telkom, the present soleservice provider in ...
Foreign exchange rates in Hong Kong -- Aug. 31
Aug 31, 2006 ... Foreign exchange rates in Hong Kong -- Aug. 31HONG KONG, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- The following are foreign exchangerates against the Hong Kong dollar released by Bank of China (HongKong) Limited on Thursday: Buying Selling Japanese yen 662.65 ...
Weather information for Asia-Pacific cities -- Aug. 31
Aug 31, 2006 ... Weather information for Asia-Pacific cities -- Aug. 31HONG KONG, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- The following is temperature andweather forecast of Sept. 1 for 22 Asia-Pacific cities dispatched bythe Hong Kong Observatory on Thursday: CITY MINIMUMMAXIMUM ...
World's oldest wooden pagoda in badly need of repair
Aug 31, 2006 ... World's oldest wooden pagoda in badly need of repairTAIYUAN, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- The world's oldest wooden pagoda, theSakyamuni Pagoda in Yingxian in north China's Shanxi Province, whichcelebrates its 950th birthday next month, is tilting. There is an obvious tilt between ...
ISF Women's Softball World Championship Pool B results
Aug 31, 2006 ... ISF Women's Softball World Championship Pool B resultsBEIJING, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Following are the Pool B results atthe International Softball Federation (ISF) Women's Softball ...
Update-2 China Focus: Jade rush sparks environmental havoc in NW China region
Aug 31, 2006 ... Update-2 China Focus: Jade rush sparks environmental havoc in NWChina regionHOTAN, Xinjiang, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Saimati Tulahon is just oneof 200,000 jade hunters desperately searching the river bed of theYurungkax River in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous ...
1st LD Writethru: Annan denounces Israel use of cluster bombs
Aug 31, 2006 ... 1st LD Writethru: Annan denounces Israel use of cluster bombsAMMAN, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Secretary GeneralKofi Annan denounced here on Thursday during a news conference theIsrael's use of cluster bombs during the war between Israel andLebanese Hezbollah ...
Vice premier urges officials to prepare for agriculture survey
Aug 31, 2006 ... Vice premier urges officials to prepare for agriculture surveyBEIJING, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu hasurged agriculture officials to begin preparations for the country'ssecond agriculture survey. "The agriculture survey is a complicated and ...
Jordan urges Israel to lift blockade of Lebanon
Aug 31, 2006 ... Jordan urges Israel to lift blockade of LebanonAMMAN, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Jordanian Foreign Minister Abdul Ilahal-Khatib on Thursday urged Israel to lift a sea and air blockade ofLebanon. Jordanian Foreign Minister's call was made during his talks withvisiting UN ...
Euro zone inflation estimated at 2.3 percent in August
Aug 31, 2006 ... Euro zone inflation estimated at 2.3 percent in AugustBRUSSELS, Aug 31 (Xinhua) -- Euro zone annual inflation isestimated at 2.3 percent in August 2006, said Eurostat, thestatistical service of the European Union (EU), on Thursday ....
S.Korea halts bid for UN Security Council
Aug 31, 2006 ... S.Korea halts bid for UN Security CouncilSEOUL, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- The South Korean government announcedThursday its decision to temporarily halt its efforts to become amember of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). The decision aimed to focus South Korea's ...
Singapore, Mideast economic ties strengthened: minister
Aug 31, 2006 ... Singapore, Mideast economic ties strengthened: ministerSINGAPORE, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Singapore and the Middle East havestrengthened their economic and trade ties in recent years withoverall trade doubled to 46 billion Singapore dollars (about 29.2billion U.S. dollars) last ...
Van-truck collision kills nine in Pakistan
Aug 31, 2006 ... Van-truck collision kills nine in PakistanISLAMABAD, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Nine people were killed and severalothers injured Thursday as a van collided with a roadside truck indistrict Attock of eastern Pakistani province Punjab, according tothe GEO Television. The traffic ...
Women's Softball World Championship standings in Pool B
Aug 31, 2006 ... Women's Softball World Championship standings in Pool BBEIJING, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Following are the ISF Women'sSoftball World Championship standings after games played here onThursday (tabulated under games played, won, lost, runs for,against): 1. Australia 5 ...
HK total deposits rise in July
Aug 31, 2006 ... HK total deposits rise in JulyHONG KONG, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong's total deposits rose 0.7percent in July as Hong Kong dollar deposits and foreign currencydeposits grew 0.04 percent and 1.6 percent, the Monetary Authoritysaid Thursday. Total loans and advances grew ...
China's Ambassador to Egypt mourns Mahfouz
Aug 31, 2006 ... China's Ambassador to Egypt mourns MahfouzCAIRO, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Ambassador to Egypt Wu Sike hassent a mourning telegraph to the wife of Egyptian Nobel prize winnerfor literature Naguib Mahfouz, who died on Wednesday morning, embassyspokesman said Thursday. "I ...
ISF awards next two World Championships
Aug 31, 2006 ... ISF awards next two World ChampionshipsBEIJING, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- The next two International SoftballFederation (ISF) world championships have been awarded, ISF PresidentDon Porter announced here on Thursday. Next year the Junior Women' s World ...
First "bluetongue" case detected in France
Aug 31, 2006 ... First "bluetongue" case detected in FrancePARIS, Aug 31 (Xinhua) -- The first case of "bluetongue" diseasehas been detected in France, the French Agriculture Ministry said onThursday. The case was detected in a cow in the Ardennes region in northeastFrance. The infected ...
China's top lawmaker advocates leading role of business-people in Sino-Brazilian trade
Aug 31, 2006 ... China's top lawmaker advocates leading role of business-people inSino-Brazilian tradeBRASILIA, Aug 31 (Xinhua) -- China's top legislator Wu Bangguo onThursday called on business-people both in China and Brazil to play aleading role in forging closer bilateral trade and economic ...
Israeli army hands out control of area near Lebanese border
Aug 31, 2006 ... Israeli army hands out control of area near Lebanese borderJERUSALEM, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Israeli army on Thursdaytransferred the control over a section near the Israeli-Lebaneseborder to the Lebanese army and the UN troops. This is the first time that Israeli army handed ...
Twenty-one doping tests to be conducted at women's softball worlds
Aug 31, 2006 ... Twenty-one doping tests to be conducted at women's softball worlds BEIJING, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) --Twenty-one doping tests are to beconducted during the women's softball worlds and all the 15participating teams will take at least one test, as the tournamentorganizers said ....
Conservationists reveal pressure on China to lift ban on tiger products
Aug 31, 2006 ... Conservationists reveal pressure on China to lift ban on tigerproductsBEIJING, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Some Chinese tiger parks are pressingthe government to lift its ban on the trade in tiger products, sixinternational conservation organizations revealed on Thursday. The ...
Turkey to appoint coordinator for countering PKK: spokesman
Aug 31, 2006 ... Turkey to appoint coordinator for countering PKK: spokesmanANKARA, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Turkey is expected to appoint acoordinator to fight against the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Namik Tan said hereThursday. The decision was ...
China to play U.S. after smashing South Africa at women's softball worlds
Aug 31, 2006 ... China to play U.S. after smashing South Africa at women's softballworldsBEIJING, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- China (5-0) swamped South Africa (0-5) 12-0 to set up a match against defending champions United States,who blanked New Zealand 15-0 Thursday at women's softball worlds ....
Palestinian denies Israeli allegation of uncovering tunnel ineastern Gaza
Aug 31, 2006 ... Palestinian denies Israeli allegation of uncovering tunnel ineastern GazaGAZA, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian officials denied on Thursdayan Israeli allegation that its army discovered a tunnel stretchingsome 150 meters between Gaza and Israel which was to be used ...
Major news items in leading U.S. newspapers
Aug 31, 2006 ... Major news items in leading U.S. newspapersWASHINGTON, Aug 31 (Xinhua) -- The following are major news itemsin leading U.S. newspapers on Thursday.The Washington Post -- President Bush and his surrogates are launching a new campaignintended to rebuild support for ...
Israel to try Palestinian officials in Dec.
Aug 31, 2006 ... Israel to try Palestinian officials in Dec.JERUSALEM, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- An Israeli military court announcedThursday that the trial of detained Palestinian officials will beheld on Dec. 12, Israel's newspaper Ha'aretz reported on its websiteediton. According to the ...
Forty missing after boat capsizes in north India
Aug 31, 2006 ... Forty missing after boat capsizes in north IndiaNEW DELHI, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Over 40 people, mostly women andchildren, were missing Thursday after their overcrowded boat capsizedin the Ganges in north Indian state Bihar, Indo-Asian News Servicereported. The accident ...
Urgent: UN, Syria stress need to preserve ceasefire in Lebanon
Aug 31, 2006 ... Urgent: UN, Syria stress need to preserve ceasefire in LebanonDAMASCUS, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Visiting UN Secretary-General KofiAnnan and ...
German jobless rate in August remains at 2-year low
Aug 31, 2006 ... German jobless rate in August remains at 2-year lowBERLIN, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Germany's unemployment rate held at atwo-year low in August after three straight declines, according todata released by the country's Federal Labor Office on Thursday. The number of the jobless ...
Tires of U.S. passenger plane catch fire, on injuries reported
Aug 31, 2006 ... Tires of U.S. passenger plane catch fire, on injuries reportedWASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- The tires of a U.S. Airwayspassenger plane caught fire at the Miami International Airport,Florida, on Thursday, forcing the evacuation of over 100 passengersand crew members, news ...
Comoros to join OPCW
Aug 31, 2006 ... Comoros to join OPCWBRUSSELS, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Comoros from Africa has ratified theChemical Weapons Convention and it will soon become a full member ofthe Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), OPCWannounced on Thursday. "The Islamic Federal ...
1st LD Writethru: Bush sees war on terror as "ideological struggle" of 21st century
Aug 31, 2006 ... 1st LD Writethru: Bush sees war on terror as "ideologicalstruggle" of 21st centuryWASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President George W. Bush saidon Thursday that the war on terrorism was a "decisive ideologicalstruggle of the 21st century," and that American troops would ...
Dutch pilot killed in F-16 crash in Afghanistan
Aug 31, 2006 ... Dutch pilot killed in F-16 crash in AfghanistanKABUL, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- A Dutch F-16 fighter plane of ISAFcrashed on Thursday in Afghanistan, killing the pilot, the NATO- ledInternational Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement. The Netherlands confirmed the ...
Sudan rejects UN resolution on Darfur
Aug 31, 2006 ... Sudan rejects UN resolution on DarfurKHARTOUM, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Sudan on Thursday rejected a UNresolution, which authorizes a peacekeeping force in Sudan's westernregion of Darfur if the country gives the greenlight, the officialSUNA news agency reported. President ...
Roundup: Deadly bombings rock Baghdad amid U.S.-Iraqi operation
Aug 31, 2006 ... Roundup: Deadly bombings rock Baghdad amid U.S.-Iraqi operationby Zhang WeiBAGHDAD, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- A spate of deadly bombings killed atleast 47 people and injured 179 in Baghdad on Thursday in defiance ofmassive military operations launched by U.S. and Iraqi forces ...
Zambian leader apologizes to Chinese gov't
Aug 31, 2006 ... Zambian leader apologizes to Chinese gov'tLUSAKA, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa hasapologized to the Chinese government Thursday over the remarks madeby the opposition Patriotic Front presidential candidate Michael Satathat he would chase away Chinese ...
Belgium to make fingerprint compulsory for U.S. visa applicants
Aug 31, 2006 ... Belgium to make fingerprint compulsory for U.S. visa applicantsBRUSSELS, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Belgium is to make fingerprintcompulsory for visa applicants from the United States, local mediareported on Thursday. A trial project is being staged at the Belgian embassy ...
U.S. stocks fall slightly on modest inflation data
Aug 31, 2006 ... U.S. stocks fall slightly on modest inflation dataNEW YORK, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks ended lower on Thursdayamid news of modest core consumer inflation. In the closing trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.76, or 0.02 percent, at 11,381.15. The Standard & ...
Space shuttle Atlantis launch set for Sept. 6
Aug 31, 2006 ... Space shuttle Atlantis launch set for Sept. 6WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- After weathering tropicaldepression Ernesto at the launch pad, the space shuttle Atlantis isset for launch from the Kennedy Space Center at 12:29 p.m. EDT onSept. 6, according to NASA TV on Thursday ....