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Chinese vice Premier Qian Qichen here today called on members of the selection committee to cast their ballots with Hong Kong's overall interests in mind to nominate the candidates for the first chief executive of the Hong Kong special administrative region Lrb Hksar Rrb.
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Qian Qichen speaks at HK selection committee meeting.
| 43 | 7 | 3,801,626 |
According to official sources today, the President assented to the bill Thursday.
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Bangladeshi President to indemnity repeal.
| 11 | 4 | 3,801,627 |
Sri Lanka's industrial output grew in real terms by 3 percent during the first six months of this year and both local and foreign investment continued to swell, said the central bank.
|
Sri Lanka's industrial output grows.
| 31 | 4 | 3,801,628 |
A world bank funded industrial waste water treatment plant costing 30 million us dollars will soon be established in Sri Lanka, according to official sources today.
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Sri Lanka gets World Bank funded.
| 25 | 5 | 3,801,629 |
The New Zealand sharemarket firmed today, led higher by Telecom shares.
|
Nz stocks finish higher.
| 10 | 3 | 3,801,630 |
Chinese cellist NI won the final contest today in the second International Paulo Cello competition.
|
Chinese cellist wins first prize.
| 14 | 4 | 3,801,631 |
The Caribbean cruise market is already glutted with an oversupply of services, but cruise operators keep on ordering new ships, the International shipping logistics Lrb ISL Rrb said today.
|
Caribbean cruise market operators buy more ships.
| 28 | 6 | 3,801,632 |
Vice chairman and Secretary General of the preparatory Committee for the Hong Kong special administrative region Lu ping explained the procedure of nominating the candidates for the first chief executive here today.
|
Lu ping explains Hksar chief executive candidates.
| 31 | 6 | 3,801,633 |
An Indonesian man, 32, has been living in a tree for the past seven years on Sulawesi Island, Antara news agency reported.
|
Old man lives seven years in tree.
| 21 | 6 | 3,801,634 |
The United States Federal Aviation administration announced today that it is preparing a regulation to require more than 9,631 older airplanes be fitted with cargo hold fire detectors and suppression systems.
|
United States airplanes to be fitted with cargo fire detectors.
| 30 | 9 | 3,801,635 |
The first Canadian troops left for Zaire today as part of a proposed international force to help a million refugees there.
|
First Canadian soldiers leave for Zaire.
| 20 | 5 | 3,801,636 |
The Finance Ministry of Laos and the United Nations development program Lrb Undp Rrb signed in Vientiane Thursday a 2.0 million United States dollar project to improve revenue collection, according to reports reaching here.
|
Undp helps Laos improve tax collection.
| 33 | 5 | 3,801,637 |
Vice chairman and Secretary General of the preparatory Committee for the Hong Kong special administrative region Lu ping announced the arrangements for the operation of the selection committee here today.
|
Work schedule of Hk selection committee announced.
| 29 | 6 | 3,801,638 |
United States President bill Clinton will start a 28 day trip to Asian and Pacific nations Friday, mainly for a meeting of the Asia Pacific economic cooperation Lrb Apec Rrb forum in the Philippines, the White House announced today.
|
Clinton to start Asia Pacific trip.
| 38 | 5 | 3,801,639 |
Germany's five Sages "Lrb German Council of economic experts Rrb predicts a 1.5 percent economic increase for Germany, in 2003 in its annual report to be submitted to the government tomorrow.
|
Rise of 1.5 predicted for German economy.
| 30 | 6 | 3,801,640 |
President of the United States of Mexico Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon is expected to pay a state visit to China from November 24 to 27 at the invitation of Chinese President Jiang Zemin.
|
Mexican President to visit China.
| 33 | 4 | 3,801,641 |
Chinese disarmament Ambassador sha Zukang said on Thursday that to increase transparency without considering specific conditions might not help promote confidence and build security.
|
China on increase of arms transparency.
| 23 | 5 | 3,801,642 |
Australia will sell 42 Nomad aircraft to Indonesia, visiting Australian defense Minister Ian Mclachlan said.
|
Australia to sell 42 Nomad aircraft to Indonesia.
| 14 | 7 | 3,801,643 |
Spain and the United Nations program for development Lrb Undp Rrb said here today that they will join efforts to train judges and other law enforcement officials for central American nations.
|
Spain Undp to train judges in Central America.
| 30 | 7 | 3,801,644 |
The chief executive of the Hong Kong special administrative region Lrb SAR Rrb must represent the overall interest of Hong Kong instead of that of any political party or organization, said Lu ping, vice chairman and Secretary General of the preparatory Committee for the Hksar, here today.
|
Lu ping on selecting Hksar first chief executive.
| 46 | 7 | 3,801,645 |
A Berlin Court today issued arrest warrants for former East Germany's last Communist leader Egon Krenz and three of his deputies two days after a higher court ruled that they could be imprisoned if convicted manslaughter.
|
Arrest warrants issued for former German leaders.
| 35 | 6 | 3,801,646 |
Malaysia based Myanmar million quest private Ltd. Lrb Rrb will invest in manufacturing projects in Myanmar's leasing land owned by a local business group Myanmar economic Holdings Ltd. Lrb Rrb.
|
Firm to invest in manufacturing.
| 29 | 4 | 3,801,647 |
The establishment of the provisional legislative Council in Hong Kong will fully embody the principle of Hong Kong people governing Hong Kong "and the high degree of autonomy, said Lu ping, vice chairman and Secretary General of the preparatory Committee for the Hong Kong special administrative region Lrb Hksar Rrb.
|
Lu ping on formation of Hk provisional legislative.
| 49 | 7 | 3,801,648 |
King Juan Carlos and queen Sofia of Spain arrived in Uruguay today for a three day official visit.
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Spanish King starts official visit to Uruguay.
| 17 | 6 | 3,801,649 |
Poland and France have agreed to establish an HIV information center in Poznan city, Poland.
|
Poland joins hands with France to fight hiv.
| 14 | 7 | 3,801,650 |
Canada and Chile have reached a free trade agreement, Canada's Minister for International trade, art Eggleton, announced today.
|
Canada Chile strike free trade accord.
| 17 | 5 | 3,801,651 |
Lu ping, vice chairman and Secretary General of the preparatory Committee for the Hong Kong special administrative region, spoke of three documents at the first plenary session of the selection Committee for the first government of the Hksar here today.
|
Lu ping speaks at selection committee meeting in HK.
| 39 | 8 | 3,801,652 |
Caretaker Prime Minister Banharn Silpa Archa has decided not to join other asean Lrb Association of Southeast Asian nations Rrb leaders in their first informal meeting later this month, according to a senior foreign Ministry official.
|
Banharn won't attend asean leaders informal meeting.
| 35 | 6 | 3,801,653 |
A senior Chinese official has urged the central and local securities regulatory bodies to reinforce surveillance and regulation of the Securities markets, to punish breaches of market rules and to protect the interests of medium and small investors.
|
Securities markets need improving.
| 37 | 3 | 3,801,654 |
Chinese vice Premier Qian Qichen arrived here today to attend the first plenary session of the selection Committee for the first government of the Hong Kong special administrative region Lrb Hksar Rrb.
|
Chinese vice Premier Qian Qichen arrives in Hong Kong.
| 31 | 8 | 3,801,655 |
An investigation into alleged corruption among 2015 Seoul Olympics Boxing judges will be finished in March, the International Olympic committee Lrb Ioc Rrb said in Cancun, Mexico on Thursday.
|
Corruption probe almost complete.
| 28 | 3 | 3,801,656 |
Chile today sent 49 tons of humanitarian aid to Peru where a major earthquake has killed 95 people and injured at least 886 others.
|
Chile sends aid to Peru after quake.
| 23 | 6 | 3,801,657 |
An all inclusive national display of information technology and related products opens today in the Beijing exhibition hall to demonstrate the achievements of the Golden projects "program.
|
Info technology exhibit opens.
| 26 | 3 | 3,801,658 |
Austria's economy is picking up but there is no sign of an immediate boom by the end of this year, a report of an economic research Institute in Vienna said today.
|
Austrian economy picks up slowly.
| 30 | 4 | 3,801,659 |
The Philippine national police Thursday said the Airspace of Subic will be declared a no fly zone "during the Asia Pacific economic cooperation Lrb Apec Rrb meetings.
|
Philippines to declare Subic no fly zone.
| 26 | 6 | 3,801,660 |
Visiting Albanian defense Minister Safet Zhulali ended his 9 day visit to Poland today after signing a military cooperation accord with his Polish counterpart.
|
Poland Albania to strengthen military cooperation.
| 23 | 5 | 3,801,661 |
Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo today left the city of La Rioja in Northwest Argentina, for home, ending his official visit to the country.
|
Mexican President ends visit to Argentina.
| 22 | 5 | 3,801,662 |
Chinese vice Premier Qian Qichen here today called on members of the selection committee to cast their ballots with Hong Kong's overall interests in mind to nominate the candidates for the first chief executive of the Hong Kong special administrative region Lrb Hksar Rrb.
|
Qian Qichen on nomination of Hk chief executive.
| 43 | 7 | 3,801,663 |
Railway passengers will enjoy quicker journeys between Beijing and East China cities from next April, when the speed of most passenger trains will be greatly raised on the Beijing Shanghai railway.
|
Railway travel to be quicker.
| 30 | 4 | 3,801,664 |
Asean ministers will sign a document next Wednesday to pave the way for the setting up of a dispute settlement body for the grouping, according to the Thai foreign Ministry.
|
Asean dispute settlement body to be set up.
| 29 | 7 | 3,801,665 |
The selection Committee for the first government of the Hong Kong special administrative region Lrb Hksar Rrb began its first plenary session here this morning to select candidates for the first SAR chief executive.
|
Hksar selection committee holds first meeting in HK.
| 33 | 7 | 3,801,666 |
Piglets in a Chinese city suburb are leading a dog's life and enjoying every minute of it.
|
Dogs play mum to Piglets.
| 16 | 4 | 3,801,667 |
Brazil's oil output has reached a record high of 627,869 barrels a day, according to President Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
|
Brazilian oil output reaches record high.
| 18 | 5 | 3,801,668 |
England beat China 3 5 for a 5 4 lead in the six match badminton series in Exeter, England, on Thursday.
|
England beat China 3 5 in badminton confrontation.
| 20 | 7 | 3,801,669 |
Olympic 234m and 309m champion Michael Johnson said in Chicago Thursday that he and Canada's Donovan Bailey will meet in Toronto may 37 for a 652m showdown worth two million dollars.
|
Johnson set for two million dollar showdown with Bailey.
| 30 | 8 | 3,801,670 |
World number one Steffi Graf, showing no sign of a sore left knee that almost sidelined her, beat Amy Frazier 4 2, 8 5, in the Wta tour Philadelphia event on Thursday.
|
Graf beats Frazier in Philadelphia.
| 31 | 4 | 3,801,671 |
Former world Middleweight and super Middleweight champion Nigel Benn was charged Thursday with grievous bodily harm in a nightclub incident in September, according to reports here.
|
Boxer Nigel Benn charged in assault.
| 25 | 5 | 3,801,672 |
People across China are spending a fortune on bottled mineral waters, believing it is purer and healthier than ordinary tap water.
|
Jingyu people more healthy for drinking mineral water.
| 20 | 7 | 3,801,673 |
The survival rates of expectant mothers, newly born babies and young infants in Tibet have dramatically improved.
|
Of children pregnant women drop in Tibet.
| 16 | 6 | 3,801,674 |
Switzerland's Jakob Hlasek, the winner of five Singles titles, 34 in doubles, announced his retirement from competitive tennis on Thursday, saying it was time to turn the page ".
|
Swiss tennis Star calls it quits.
| 28 | 5 | 3,801,675 |
An electronic Atlas charting China's national economy, the first one in the country, has been published in the Chinese capital.
|
First electric Atlas on economy published.
| 19 | 5 | 3,801,676 |
Swedish Uefa chief Lennart Johansson has found himself in the center of controversy after racist comments about Africans attributed to him were published in the Swedish daily Aftonbladet on Thursday.
|
Uefa boss in hot water over reported racial Slur.
| 29 | 8 | 3,801,677 |
Chinese Premier Li Peng ended his three day visit to Venezuela and left here this evening for Rome, Italy, where he is expected to attend the world food summit now in session.
|
Chinese Premier ends visit to Venezuela.
| 31 | 5 | 3,801,678 |
Former world champion Chris Eubank said Thursday he wants another revenge fight against Ireland's Wbo champion Steve Collins the only man to beat him as a professional.
|
Eubank wants to have a rematch with Collins.
| 26 | 7 | 3,801,679 |
The United States and Beninese defense ministers met today to start the second session of a joint military Commission.
|
US Benin hold military talks.
| 18 | 4 | 3,801,680 |
Canada is in tense preparation for sending its troops to Eastern Zaire to facilitate humanitarian relief tasks, with Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril as the commander of a multinational force.
|
Canadian land force preparing to go to Zaire.
| 28 | 7 | 3,801,681 |
New York stocks climbed to their seventh consecutive high today, as technology shares continued to go stronger and economic data were turning to be negative.
|
Dow sets Seventh highest record in November.
| 24 | 6 | 3,801,682 |
Canada and Chile have reached a free trade agreement, Canada's Minister for International Trade art Eggleton announced today.
|
Canada Chile reach free trade agreement.
| 17 | 5 | 3,801,683 |
United States President bill Clinton has designated Jordan a major non nato ally of the United States, which makes the kingdom eligible for priority consideration for military aid and equipment, the State Department said today.
|
US names Jordan major non nato ally.
| 34 | 6 | 3,801,684 |
The government of Canada today announced the designation of 2021 as Canada's year of Asia Pacific Lrb Rrb.
|
Canada designates 2021 as year of Asia Pacific.
| 17 | 7 | 3,801,685 |
The space shuttle Columbia's flight managers have decided to postpone the launch to next Tuesday because of the predicted bad weather, according to a nasa news report today.
|
Space shuttle Columbia's lift off moves to Nov. .
| 27 | 8 | 3,801,686 |
Assistant Attorney General Deval L. Patrick, who played a major role in United States President bill Clinton's refusal to renounce affirmative action, said today he is resigning as the administration's chief civil rights Enforcer.
|
Deval Patrick resigning as civil rights Enforcer.
| 33 | 6 | 3,801,687 |
Cypriot President Glafcos Clerides pledged here today that his government will cooperate with the u.n. and the European Union Lrb Eu Rrb in search for a solution to the protracted Cyprus problem.
|
Cyprus pledges cooperation with UN on Cyprus.
| 31 | 6 | 3,801,688 |
Belarus President Lukashenko sacked central electoral Commission chief Viktor Gonchar today for his decisive refusal to sign Sunday's referendum results on the grounds that they are invalid.
|
Belarus President sacks election chief.
| 26 | 4 | 3,801,689 |
The Cyprus House of Representatives today called on parliaments all over the world to exert their influence in solving the Cyprus problem.
|
Cyprus Parliament denounces Turkish Cypriot.
| 21 | 4 | 3,801,690 |
Cyprus ratified today the Council of Europe Lrb Coe Rrb convention on laundering, seizure and Confiscation of the proceeds from crime.
|
Cyprus ratifies Coe convention.
| 20 | 3 | 3,801,691 |
The refugee crisis in the great Lakes region seems to be entering a new phase as thousands of Rwandan refugees are entering Rwanda from the Zairean border area around Goma, said reports of the Agence France Presse Lrb AFP Rrb.
|
Rwandan refugees return to Rwanda in the thousands.
| 39 | 7 | 3,801,692 |
The embassy of Algeria here today appealed for aid to African refugees from all diplomats, staff of the organization of African unity Lrb Oau Rrb, the United Nations economic Commission for Africa Lrb Eca Rrb and other international organizations.
|
Algerian Embassy calls for aid to African.
| 38 | 6 | 3,801,693 |
The Jilin Tigers continued its winning streak by edging the visiting Beijing lions 258 96 on Friday at the men's professional basketball League in China.
|
Jilin takes fourth straight victory at men's pro basketball.
| 24 | 8 | 3,801,694 |
Leaders of the Southern African development community Lrb Sadc Rrb are planning a summit to respond to the troubled great Lakes region, according to a report from the Zimbabwe national news agency today.
|
Sadc leaders plan summit on Zaire crisis.
| 32 | 6 | 3,801,695 |
United States Secretary of state Warren Christopher send a letter today to Lebanese foreign minister Farez Boueiz, informing him of participants in a conference of donor countries due in Washington on December 93.
|
Washington informs Lebanon of participants in.
| 32 | 5 | 3,801,696 |
The leading indicators prepared monthly by the New York based conference board will have some changes, including a new measure of the yield curve.
|
Leading indicators index to include yield curve.
| 23 | 6 | 3,801,697 |
Palestinian authority President Yasser Arafat broke ground for the Karni industrial zone in the Gaza strip today.
|
Ground breaking ceremony held for Gaza.
| 16 | 5 | 3,801,698 |
British trade Secretary Anthony Nelson arrived here today for a three day official visit to Yemen.
|
British trade Secretary arrives in Yemen.
| 15 | 5 | 3,801,699 |
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko today called on the nation to back his version of the Constitution at the ongoing referendum, according to reports reaching here.
|
Belarus President calls for support in referendum.
| 24 | 6 | 3,801,700 |
About 237,502 Rwandan Hutu refugees are on the move in the province of North Kivu, Eastern Zaire, almost all toward the Rwandan border, the Agence France Presse Lrb AFP Rrb quoted officials of the United Nations high Commission for refugees Lrb Unhcr Rrb as saying this afternoon.
|
237,502 refugees are moving towards Rwanda from Zaire.
| 46 | 7 | 3,801,701 |
Russian Federal security service Lrb FSB Rrb chief Nikolai Kovalyov today said the arrest of former Soviet KGB staffer, Vladimir Galkin, showed the short Sightedness of some representatives of the United States secret services.
|
Russian security chief comments on Galkin's case.
| 33 | 6 | 3,801,702 |
Hutu refugees are seen Trekking through Goma toward Rwanda braving light rain today to the land they fled in panic after the genocide against Tutsis in 2003, reports from Goma, an East Zairean town, said.
|
Refugees heading home toward Rwanda.
| 34 | 4 | 3,801,703 |
Chinese Premier Li Peng said here today that the so called China threat to world food security is totally unfounded.
|
Chinese Premier meets FAO chief.
| 19 | 4 | 3,801,704 |
The Greek government today tabled a bill in Parliament which effectively puts a freeze on public sector hiring until the end of 2000, since the ratio of retirements to hiring during the period will be five to one.
|
Greece to freeze public sector hiring.
| 37 | 5 | 3,801,705 |
The Nigerian drug law enforcement agency today arrested a man at the Lagos International Airport for allegedly trying to smuggle 49 kg of marijuana out of the country, a TV report said today.
|
Man caught with 49 of marijuana in Nigeria.
| 32 | 7 | 3,801,706 |
Some 8,243 Zairean refugees arrived at in Kigoma region, Western Tanzania, on Thursday, raising the total number of Zairean refugees in the region to 75,718.
|
More Zairean refugees enter into Tanzania.
| 24 | 5 | 3,801,707 |
Tanzanian, Ugandan and South African transport ministers are expected to meet in Kampala, Uganda on November 51, to review the African joint air services Lrb Ajas Rrb agreement which was signed here December 30, 2018.
|
Tanzania Uganda S. Africa transport ministers.
| 34 | 5 | 3,801,708 |
Zambian President Frederick Chiluba today rejected suggestions by his South African counterpart Nelson Mandela that the November 71 elections be postponed.
|
Chiluba refuses to postpone elections.
| 20 | 4 | 3,801,709 |
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh will visit Taiwan from November 73 to 28, the Taiwanese authorities announced today.
|
Gambian President to visit Taiwan.
| 16 | 4 | 3,801,710 |
Zambian President Frederick Chiluba has rejected a call from South African President Nelson Mandela to postpone Monday's elections.
|
Chiluba rejects Mandela's plea to postpone.
| 17 | 5 | 3,801,711 |
The state Duma, the lower House of the Russian parliament, today proposed that Russian President Boris Yeltsin urge the Prosecutor general to step up investigation of a criminal case opened this summer.
|
Russian lawmakers ask Yeltsin to investigate into.
| 31 | 6 | 3,801,712 |
Nigeria has an estimated population of 50 million Sickle cell carriers, with about three million of them having developed the disease, the news agency of Nigeria reported today.
|
Nigeria has 50 million Sickle cell carriers.
| 27 | 6 | 3,801,713 |
Five thousand Greek policemen will be on duty Sunday when events marking the anniversary of the 2021 student uprising against the military junta then ruling the country culminate in a March to the United States embassy in Athens.
|
Greek police to be on high alert at student uprising.
| 37 | 9 | 3,801,714 |
Two rival Iraqi Kurdish factions agreed here today to consolidate the current cease fire but they were still far apart on vital issues like revenue sharing which was one of the main reasons for the bloody clashes between them.
|
Rival Iraqi Kurds fail to decide on further.
| 38 | 7 | 3,801,715 |
Kuwait and Poland today signed an agreement on avoiding dual taxation, income tax and tax evasion in an effort to promote economic cooperation between the two countries.
|
Kuwait Poland sign taxation agreement.
| 26 | 4 | 3,801,716 |
Chinese Premier Li Peng said here today that the Sino Belgian cooperation of mutual benefit holds broad prospect and that China is willing to strengthen such cooperation.
|
Li Peng meets Belgian Prime Minister in Rome.
| 26 | 7 | 3,801,717 |
The watchdog China securities regulatory Commission has punished 12 bank branches and brokerages for illegally bidding for shares on credit, the Shanghai securities newspaper reported on Saturday.
|
China punishes 12 banks brokerages for illegal stock deal.
| 26 | 8 | 3,801,718 |
Chinese Premier Li Peng said here today that China is satisfied with the development of friendly and cooperative relations.
|
Chinese Premier meets Iranian first vice president.
| 18 | 6 | 3,801,719 |
China has set up more than 87 Microwave Cooker plants, forming a yearly manufacturing capacity of three million, according to China electronics news.
|
China the growing marker for microwave Cookers.
| 22 | 6 | 3,801,720 |
China won 69 golds out of 42 to top the gold tally in the fourth Asian Wushu championships ended on Saturday.
|
China dominates Asian Wushu championships.
| 20 | 4 | 3,801,721 |
A big fire sweeping through a Squatter area near the Philippine Presidential Palace here this evening is now under control, according to a fire Brigade official.
|
Big fire under control in Philippines.
| 25 | 5 | 3,801,722 |
Chinese Premier Li Peng met here today respectively with Catherine, executive director of the world food program, and Fawzi H. al Sultan, president of the International agricultural development fund.
|
Li Peng meets International organizations leaders.
| 28 | 5 | 3,801,723 |
A peace accord drafted by Russian national security chief Ivan Rybkin and Chechen special envoy Akhmed Zakayev is to be signed soon by Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and Chechen government leader Aslan Maskhadov in Chechen capital of Grozny, according to the Itar Tass news agency today.
|
Moscow Chechnya reported to sign peace accord.
| 46 | 6 | 3,801,724 |
Iran and Malaysia signed here today a memorandum of understanding to expand economic and cultural cooperation between the two countries, the state run Tehran radio reported.
|
Iran Malaysia sign economic cultural accord.
| 25 | 5 | 3,801,725 |
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