Xinhua News Agency back issues from Saturday, July 7:
Brazilian prosecutor seeks to cancel Live Earth concert in Rio
Jul 07, 2007 ... Brazilian prosecutor seeks to cancel Live Earth concert in RioRIO DE JANEIRO, July 6 (Xinhua) -- A Brazilian prosecutor onFriday appealed against a court ruling to allow the worldwide LiveEarth concert to go ahead Saturday, saying police had failed topresent a plan to guarantee ...
1st Ld-Writethru: Roadside bombing injures 4 NATO soldiers in S. Afghanistan
Jul 07, 2007 ... 1st Ld-Writethru: Roadside bombing injures 4 NATO soldiers in S.AfghanistanKABUL, July 7 (Xinhua) -- A roadside bombing wounded four soldiersof the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force ( ISAF) onSaturday morning in Kandahar city, the capital of Kandahar provincein ...
Palestinian Bulgarian kidnapped in Gaza released: report
Jul 07, 2007 ... Palestinian Bulgarian kidnapped in Gaza released: reportSOFIA,July 7 (Xinhua) -- Khaled al-Maghir, a Palestinian holding Bulgariancitizenship who was probably kidnapped by Hamas Islamists in GazaStrip, has been released Friday evening, Sofia Focus News Agencyreported early on ...
Xinhua world economic news summary at 0400 GMT, July 7
Jul 07, 2007 ... Xinhua world economic news summary at 0400 GMT, July 7WASHINGTON -- The U.S. economy added 132,000 jobs in June, keepingthe unemployment rate steady at a relative low of 4.5 percent, theLabor Department reported on Friday. The gain in non-farm payroll employment was ...
China launches campaign to keep social order in rural areas
Jul 07, 2007 ... China launches campaign to keep social order in rural areasBEIJING, July 7 (Xinhua) -- China's Vice-Minister of PublicSecurity Liu Jinguo has ordered police to launch a month-longcampaign to combat social disorder in rural areas. Police at all levels should focus their ...
Major news items in leading Afghan newspapers
Jul 07, 2007 ... Major news items in leading Afghan newspapersKABUL, July 7 (Xinhua) -- The following are major news items inAfghan leading newspapers on Saturday:Daily Afghanistan: -- A mass grave containing remains of hundreds of people wasdiscovered outside the Afghan capital ...
China reports continuous growth in building materials sector
Jul 07, 2007 ... China reports continuous growth in building materials sectorBEIJING, July 7 (Xinhua) -- China's building materials sector sawcontinuous robust growth in the first five months of this year,causing worry about overheating in fixed-asset investment. From January to May, the ...
Firing continues during curfew relaxation around Pakistani hard-line Red Mosque
Jul 07, 2007 ... Firing continues during curfew relaxation around Pakistani hard-line Red MosqueISLAMABAD, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Firing resumed Saturday during a oneand half hour relaxation around the hard-line Lal Masjid, or RedMosque, in Pakistani capital as the standoff between the ...
Bangladeshi customs out to catch duty-evading new car importers
Jul 07, 2007 ... Bangladeshi customs out to catch duty-evading new car importersDHAKA, July 7 (Xinhua) -- The Bangladeshi government has launchedan investigation against importers of new cars amid widespreadallegation of duty evasion, local newspaper The Financial Expressreported Saturday ....
(Recast) Bulgarian, NATO military chiefs discuss Afghanistan, Kosovo issues
Jul 07, 2007 ... (Recast) Bulgarian, NATO military chiefs discuss Afghanistan,Kosovo issuesSOFIA, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Bulgaria's Defence Minister VeselinBliznakov and NATO's top military commander John Craddock Fridaydiscussed the organization's operations in Afghanistan and Kosovo,Sofia News ...
New Jersey enacts greenhouse gas reduction law
Jul 07, 2007 ... New Jersey enacts greenhouse gas reduction lawNEW JERSEY, the United States, July 7 (Xinhua) -- New Jersey onFriday passed greenhouse gas-reduction legislation requiring the so-called Garden State to cut emissions of global-warming gasessignificantly. The law requires the ...
Urgent: At least 10 killed in truck bomb attack in northern Iraq
Jul 07, 2007 ... Urgent: At least 10 killed in truck bomb attack in northern IraqTIKRIT, Iraq, July 7 (Xinhua) -- At least 10 people were killedand more than 40 ...
Xinhua Middle East news advisory -- July 7
Jul 07, 2007 ... Xinhua Middle East news advisory -- July 7CAIRO, July 7 (Xinhua) -- The following are some of major MiddleEast news stories due to be covered or pursued by Xinhua News Agencyon Saturday.-- Keeping watching the situation in Iraq as a car bomb attack ina open market in ...
Roundup: Young Japanese care little about history of invasion By Zhang Hua
Jul 07, 2007 ... Roundup: Young Japanese care little about history of invasion By Zhang HuaTOKYO, July 7 (Xinhua) -- It has been 70 years since July 7, 1937when Japan's then militarist power launched its overall invasion ofChina. The invasion and colonization ending 1945 inflicted great ...
Japan donates 18 mln U.S. dollars for Indonesia rural development
Jul 07, 2007 ... Japan donates 18 mln U.S. dollars for Indonesia rural development JAKARTA, July 7 (Xinhua) -- The Japanese government has agreed tohand 18.64 million U.S. dollars in grant to fund several ruralprojects in Indonesia, the Japanese Embassy said in a statementSaturday. Under ...
Indonesian government confident over growth target
Jul 07, 2007 ... Indonesian government confident over growth targetJAKARTA, July 7 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian government was upbeatto achieve the economic growth target of 6.3 percent this yeardespite little state spending in the first half of the year, anofficial said Saturday. "The ...
Chinese company chief abducted in Niger
Jul 07, 2007 ... Chinese company chief abducted in NigerLOMA, July 6 (Xinhua) -- A chief of a Chinese company waskidnapped in Niger on Friday, a government spokesman said in anationally televised address. The chief was abducted in the region of Agadez, about 1,000 kmfrom the ...
Cold weather kills 55 children in Peru
Jul 07, 2007 ... Cold weather kills 55 children in PeruLIMA, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Peru's Health Minister Carlos Vallejossaid on Friday that a wave of cold snaps has hit most parts of thecountry and killed 55 children under the age of five. Plateau regions across the provinces of Puno, ...
Bus plunges into river in Indonesia, kills 12
Jul 07, 2007 ... Bus plunges into river in Indonesia, kills 12JAKARTA, July 7 (Xinhua) -- At least 12 people died and scoresmore were injured when a bus with some 60 passengers aboard plungedinto a river in Indonesia's West Java province Saturday. The bus, reportedly carrying students and ...
Economic partnership scheme boosts trade between Chinese mainland, Hong Kong
Jul 07, 2007 ... Economic partnership scheme boosts trade between Chinese mainland,Hong KongBEIJING, July 7 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese mainland has become aneasily-accessible, huge market for goods made in Hong Kong undertheir closer economic partnership arrangement, or CEPA, which waslaunched in ...
Indonesian passenger plane passes safety check in Japan
Jul 07, 2007 ... Indonesian passenger plane passes safety check in JapanJAKARTA, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Japan's Civil Aviation Bureau (CAB)said a Garuda Indonesia GA-881 plane can continue to fly to Japanesedestinations following its spot checks on the plane over the weekend,Indonesian press said ...
FIFA rejects Nigeria's request for new goalkeeper (updated)
Jul 07, 2007 ... FIFA rejects Nigeria's request for new goalkeeper (updated)LAGOS, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria's attempt to replace injuredfirst choice goalkeeper Moses Ocheje, has been rebuffed by worldsoccer's governing body FIFA. Ocheje was knocked out of the tourney when central defender ...
Xinhua world news summarya at 0800 GMT, July 7
Jul 07, 2007 ... Xinhua world news summarya at 0800 GMT, July 7TIKRIT, Iraq -- The death toll rose to at least 20 killed and morethan 40 others injured when a truck bomb explosion ripped through apopular market in a town in Salahudin province north of Baghdad onSaturday, a provincial police ...
Urgent: Death toll from truck bomb attack in northern Iraq rises to20
Jul 07, 2007 ... Urgent: Death toll from truck bomb attack in northern Iraq risesto 20TIKRIT, Iraq, July 7 (Xinhua) -- The death toll rose to at least20 killed and more than ...
1st LD: At least 10 killed in truck bomb attack in northern Iraq
Jul 07, 2007 ... 1st LD: At least 10 killed in truck bomb attack in northern IraqTIKRIT, Iraq, July 7 (Xinhua) -- At least 10 people were killedand more than 40 others injured in a truck bomb explosion at apopular market in a town in Salahudin province north of Baghdad onSaturday, a provincial ...
Six U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq
Jul 07, 2007 ... Six U.S. soldiers killed in IraqBAGHDAD, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Six U.S. soldiers and an Iraqiinterpreter were killed, including one soldier died in non-battlerelated incident, during the past two days, the U.S. military said onSaturday. Two U.S. soldiers were killed and ...
FIFA rejects Nigeria's request for new goalkeeper
Jul 07, 2007 ... FIFA rejects Nigeria's request for new goalkeeperLAGOS, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria's attempt to replace injuredfirst choice goalkeeper Moses Ocheje has been rebuffed by worldsoccer's governing body FIFA. Ocheje was knocked out of the tourney when central defender ...
Retired staff of Bangladeshi national carrier to run private airline
Jul 07, 2007 ... Retired staff of Bangladeshi national carrier to run privateairlineDHAKA, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Retired officials and employees of BimanBangladesh Airlines, which will be made a public limited company(PLC), are going to float a private airline, local newspaper TheDaily Star ...
Shanghai sees slowdown in growth of fixed assets investment
Jul 07, 2007 ... Shanghai sees slowdown in growth of fixed assets investmentSHANGHAI, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Shanghai, an economic engine in eastChina, invested 151.9 billion yuan (19.99 billion U.S. dollars) infixed assets in the first five months of this year, up 10.1 percentyear on year, ...
Why Abuja should be voted for 2014 Commonwealth Games
Jul 07, 2007 ... Why Abuja should be voted for 2014 Commonwealth GamesLAGOS, July 7 (Xinhua) -- In November, the host for the 2014Commonwealth Games will be announced. The battle was reduced to two,Glasgow, Scotland and Abuja, Nigeria following the withdrawal ofHalifax, Canada. The bid ...
Major news items in leading British newspapers
Jul 07, 2007 ... Major news items in leading British newspapersLONDON, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Following are major news items inleading British newspapers on Saturday:Financial Times: -- Evidence that Iranian territory is being used as a base by al-Qaida to help in terrorist ...
At least 15 rebels killed in eastern Sri Lanka
Jul 07, 2007 ... At least 15 rebels killed in eastern Sri LankaCOLOMBO, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Some 15 Tamil Tiger rebels were killedSaturday in Sri Lanka's eastern Thoppigala region as the militarycontinued its march to capture the area, defense officials said. Officials said the militants of ...
Senior official urges local authorities to ensure people's safety in flood season
Jul 07, 2007 ... Senior official urges local authorities to ensure people's safetyin flood seasonBEIJING, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu hascalled on local governments to make the safety of the people theirpriority when fighting floods. Hui, director of the State ...
Suicide bomber kills 22 people at funeral in eastern Iraq
Jul 07, 2007 ... Suicide bomber kills 22 people at funeral in eastern IraqBAGHDAD, July 7 (Xinhua) -- A suicide bomber blew himself up at afuneral in a village near the Iranian border in Diyala province onSaturday, killing at least 22 people and wounding 15 others, aprovincial police source ...
Major news items in leading Egyptian newspapers
Jul 07, 2007 ... Major news items in leading Egyptian newspapersCAIRO, July 7 (Xinhua) -- The following are major news items inleading Egyptian newspapers on Saturday.Al Ahram: -- The third terminal at Cairo International Airport will be readyfor handling passengers by the end of ...
Attack on Turkish company kills 1 in Afghanistan
Jul 07, 2007 ... Attack on Turkish company kills 1 in AfghanistanKABUL, July 7 (Xinhua) -- One person was killed and anotherinjured as a vehicle of a Turkish construction company hit a roadsidebomb in Afghanistan's eastern Paktia province on Saturday morning, alocal official said. The ...
Japanese J-League Nabisco Cup fixtures
Jul 07, 2007 ... Japanese J-League Nabisco Cup fixturesTOKYO, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Following are fixtures of J-LeagueNabisco Cup quarterfinal matches to be played on ...
Major news items in leading Iranian newspapers
Jul 07, 2007 ... Major news items in leading Iranian newspapersTEHRAN, July 7 (Xinhua) -- The following are major news items inleading Iranian newspapers on Saturday.Tehran Times: -- A delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), led by its deputy director Olli ...
Zambian final All-Africa Games contingent off to Algiers
Jul 07, 2007 ... Zambian final All-Africa Games contingent off to AlgiersLUSAKA, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Second and final Zambian contingentleft here Friday for Algiers to participate the All-Africa Games tobe held there from July 11 to 23, according to Saturday Post. The ...
Beijing Olympic equestrian venues completed as scheduled
Jul 07, 2007 ... Beijing Olympic equestrian venues completed as scheduledHONG KONG, July 7 (Xinhua) -- The Hong Kong Jockey Club said onSaturday it had now competed all key venues for the 2008 BeijingOlympic and Paralympic equestrian events for testing as scheduled. The club will hand over ...
Major news items in leading Turkish newspapers
Jul 07, 2007 ... Major news items in leading Turkish newspapersANKARA, July 7 (Xinhua) -- The following are major news items inleading Turkish newspapers on Saturday.MILLIYET (Nationality): -- Following Turkish Constitutional Court's rejection to theappeals asking to annul the ...
Japan's farm minister found linked with fund scandal: report
Jul 07, 2007 ... Japan's farm minister found linked with fund scandal: reportTOKYO, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Japan's farm minister Norihiko Akagi,who in June replaced his predecessor who committed suicide, was foundinvolved with a political funds scandal, which might deal anotherblow to prime minister ...
Chinese actress petitions discipline watchdog as sex-for-roles furore continues
Jul 07, 2007 ... Chinese actress petitions discipline watchdog as sex-for-rolesfurore continuesBEIJING, July 7 (Xinhua) -- China's disciplinary watchdog hasrejected an actress' petition to discipline 13 film directors whoare allegedly involved in sex-for-roles scandals, but suggested shefile ...
1st LD: Death toll from truck bomb attack in northern Iraq rises to20
Jul 07, 2007 ... 1st LD: Death toll from truck bomb attack in northern Iraq risesto 20TIKRIT, Iraq, July 7 (Xinhua) -- The death toll rose to at least20 killed and more than 40 others injured when a truck bomb explosionripped through a popular market in a town in Salahudin province northof ...
Three professional hitmen sentenced to death in southwest China province
Jul 07, 2007 ... Three professional hitmen sentenced to death in southwest ChinaprovinceCHENGDU, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Three professional hitmen have beensentenced to death after being found guilty of multiple murders by acourt in southwest China's Sichuan Province. Li Qiang, Zhang Zhiqiang ...
Sri Lankan officer sentenced to death for helping rebels
Jul 07, 2007 ... Sri Lankan officer sentenced to death for helping rebelsCOLOMBO, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lankan military court martial hassentenced to death an officer who was found guilty of colluding withLiberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels, military officialssaid Saturday ....
China's education ministry bans university students from living offcampus
Jul 07, 2007 ... China's education ministry bans university students from livingoff campusBEIJING, July 7 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of Education hasbanned university students from renting private accommodation duringtheir studies, telling all students that they must share four ...
Air quality of major Chinese cities -- July 7
Jul 07, 2007 ... Air quality of major Chinese cities -- July 7BEIJING, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Report on the quality of air in 47major Chinese cities (12:00 July 6 to 12:00 June 7 Beijing Time),released by the China Environmental Monitoring Center:City Major Pollutant Air ...
Global Live Earth concerts kick off in Sydney
Jul 07, 2007 ... Global Live Earth concerts kick off in SydneyCANBERRA, July 7 (Xinhua) -- The global Live Earth concerts havekicked off in Sydney, as performers told the crowd to stand unitedand fight against global warming. The concert, which is under way in Sydney's Aussie Stadium, is ...
Cambodia opens new office building for National Assembly
Jul 07, 2007 ... Cambodia opens new office building for National AssemblyPHNOM PENH, July 7 (Xinhua) -- A ceremony was held here Saturdayto open the new building of Cambodia's National Assembly in the heartof the capital. The 300-room mansion was built on a two-hectare land at the costof ...
11 Afghan civilians, 20 militants killed by forces: governor
Jul 07, 2007 ... 11 Afghan civilians, 20 militants killed by forces: governorKABUL, July 7 (Xinhua) -- An operation by Afghan and internationaltroops killed nearly a dozen civilians and 20 Taliban militants inthe eastern Kunar province, provincial governor Shalizai Dedar saidSaturday. The ...
Pakistani gov't avoids major operation against RedMosque to save lives: official
Jul 07, 2007 ... Pakistani gov't avoids major operation against Red Mosque to savelives: officialISLAMABAD, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani government is avoidingfull-fledged military operation against the Lal Masjid mosque andseminary complex as it does not want massive bloodshed, the ...
Roundup: Women vow to lead change in response to AIDS
Jul 07, 2007 ... Roundup: Women vow to lead change in response to AIDSNAIROBI, July 7 (Xinhua) -- A week-long international women'sconference on HIV/AIDS ended in Nairobi on Saturday with participantsvowing to lead change in response to the pandemic which has claimedmany lives across the globe ....
S.Korea, DPRK agree to cooperate in light industry
Jul 07, 2007 ... S.Korea, DPRK agree to cooperate in light industrySEOUL, July 7 (Xinhua) -- South Korea and the Democratic People 's Republic of Korea (DPRK) agreed on Saturday to cooperate in lightindustry and natural resources exploration, local media reported. According to South Korea's ...
Urgent: Death toll from truck bomb attack in northern Iraq surgesto 100
Jul 07, 2007 ... Urgent: Death toll from truck bomb attack in northern Iraq surgesto 100TIKRIT, Iraq, July 7 (Xinhua) -- The death toll rose to 100 ...
2 killed, 3 wounded after shooting rampage in Philippine Army camp
Jul 07, 2007 ... 2 killed, 3 wounded after shooting rampage in Philippine Army camp MANILA, July 7 (Xinhua) -- A Philippine Army soldier went madlyinto a shooting rampage inside a military detachment on Negrosisland, leaving himself and another dead while three others seriouslywounded, military ...
Anti-AIDS law passed in Madagascar
Jul 07, 2007 ... Anti-AIDS law passed in MadagascarAntananarivo, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Madagascan parliament passed alaw here on Friday in its fight against AIDS and its efforts toprotect the rights of the AIDS patients. An official presentation of the law was held here on Friday,making ...
Urgent: London bomb plotter appears in court
Jul 07, 2007 ... Urgent: London bomb plotter appears in courtLONDON, July 7 (Xinhua) -- A suspect who was accused of plottingthe foiled ...
FLASH: UP TO 100 KILLED, 120 WOUNDED IN NORTHERN IRAQ TRUCK BOMB
Jul 07, 2007 ... FLASH: UP TO 100 KILLED, 120 WOUNDED IN NORTHERN IRAQ TRUCK BOMB ...
Calderon: Oman will definitely attack the socceroos
Jul 07, 2007 ... Calderon: Oman will definitely attack the socceroosBANGKOK, July 7 (Xinhua)-- Oman boss Gabriel Caldron has showedhis bravery, claiming that Oman will definitely go to attack theAustralians when the two sides meet in their first match on Sunday. Australia have been ...
Uganda drops in competitiveness: official
Jul 07, 2007 ... Uganda drops in competitiveness: officialKAMPALA, July 7 (Xinhua)-- A weak institutional framework coupledwith low levels of transparency and accountability within publicinstitutions have made Uganda trail in international competitivenessrankings, an official has said ....
Britain confirms soldier killed in southern Iraq
Jul 07, 2007 ... Britain confirms soldier killed in southern IraqLONDON, July 7 (Xinhua) -- The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said onSaturday that a British soldier was killed and three others wereinjured in three separate incidents in southern Iraq. "It is with deep regret that the Ministry of ...
China earns more from tourism in Jan-May period
Jul 07, 2007 ... China earns more from tourism in Jan-May periodHOHHOT, July 7 (Xinhua) -- China received 21.53 million visitorsfrom overseas in the first five months of this year, up 10.1 percenton the same period last year, according to the country's tourismchief. China earned 14.8 ...
State within state not acceptable: Pak minister
Jul 07, 2007 ... State within state not acceptable: Pak ministerISLAMABAD, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan's Federal Minister forPolitical Affairs Amir Muqam Saturday said it was not acceptable tothe government that somebody formed a state within the state andimposed his views on others ....
Mexico rout Thailand 6-0 in women's soccer friendly
Jul 07, 2007 ... Mexico rout Thailand 6-0 in women's soccer friendlyQINHUANGDAO, Hebei Province, China, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Mexicoreceived a boost as they thrashed Thailand 6-0 in a friendly here onSaturday. Mexico came to life after the break after a scoreless first half ....