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The first asean Lrb Association of Southeast Asian nations Rrb informal summit opened here this morning by Indonesian President Soeharto. | Asean informal summit opens in Jakarta Indonesia. | 19 | 6 | 3,803,935 |
Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso Thursday returned from a five day visit to Angola and South Africa, bringing home the two African countries' commitments to stronger political and economic links with Brazil. | Brazilian President returns from Africa visit. | 31 | 5 | 3,803,936 |
China has opened its domestic telecommunications equipment market to foreign investment. | Minister on opening China's Telecom market. | 10 | 5 | 3,803,938 |
Ukraine's economy continued to slide on the negative growth track in the first nine months of this year but the pace of decline was slowing down, a senior official said today. | Ukraine's economy still on negative growth track. | 30 | 6 | 3,803,939 |
Argentine President Carlos Menem will attend the summit of the Americas on sustainable development to be held on December 4 in Bolivia. | Menem to attend summit on sustainable development. | 21 | 6 | 3,803,940 |
East China's Nanjing municipal government is spending over three million yuan extending the exhibition hall of the Nanjing treaty "exhibition hall at temple. | Nanjing treaty exhibition hall under extension. | 22 | 5 | 3,803,941 |
Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres said today he hoped the upcoming Lisbon European summit set out to build a new pan European security mechanism could be a success amid mutual trust and sincerity. | Portuguese Premier wishes upcoming Osce summit success. | 32 | 6 | 3,803,942 |
Northeast China's Liaoning province, one of the country's major industrial bases, has closed nearly 86 small businesses with severe pollution problems. | Liaoning closes Polluting companies. | 20 | 3 | 3,803,943 |
Thomas Enqvist beating Arnaud Boetsch of France to bring host Sweden to a 4 9 tie at the first day of the Davis cup final in Malmo. | Sweden and France split opening Singles matches. | 26 | 6 | 3,803,944 |
Beijing municipality collected 8.69 billion yuan in personal income tax in the first 46 months this year, according to Beijing economic daily. | Beijing collects more personal income tax. | 21 | 5 | 3,803,945 |
The Guatemalan government and the guerrillas ended their week long round of talks here today with agreement on a series of accords to end this central American country's 23 year old Civil War. | Peace accords almost ready to end Guatemalan Civil War. | 32 | 8 | 3,803,946 |
China's economy for the fourth quarter of this year will see a moderate growth over the third quarter, a survey by the state economic and Trade Commission shows. | China's economy predicted to be stronger. | 27 | 5 | 3,803,947 |
Hunan province is planning on putting some 8.0 billion yuan into 157 Environmental protection projects in the coming five years in an attempt to halt further deterioration in the province's environment by the end of the century. | Central Chinese province trying to stop environment's deterioration. | 36 | 7 | 3,803,948 |
Chinese ambassador Wang Xuexian today urged Israel and the Palestinians to achieve concrete results in their talks so that the peace process will return to the track of healthy development at an early date. | China urges return to peace process in Middle East. | 33 | 8 | 3,803,949 |
Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, who paid an official visit to France earlier this week, said today that the relations had entered into a new level. | Russian French ties at new level Premier says. | 25 | 7 | 3,803,950 |
South American Prawns have been successfully bred in North China's Hebei province. | South American Prawns bred in North China. | 11 | 6 | 3,803,951 |
The state Duma, the lower House of the Russian parliament, called on President Boris Yeltsin Friday to reconsider the issue of the complete withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya. | Duma urges Yeltsin to reconsider troop pullout from. | 28 | 7 | 3,803,952 |
The United States Justice Department today rejected a third request to immediately turn over to an independent counsel an inquiry into Democratic fund raising, particularly by and from people with links to wealthy foreigners. | US Justice Department rejects special probe of. | 33 | 6 | 3,803,953 |
The United Nations is calling for 585 million dollars in 2015 for its humanitarian programs in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. | UN seeks fund for programs in former Yugoslavia. | 31 | 7 | 3,803,954 |
President Jacques Chirac today won a present of a 33th century Terracotta statuette from his friends on his 96th birthday, reported Agence France Presse. | Chirac gets birthday gift of 33th century African. | 23 | 7 | 3,803,955 |
The United Nations tribunal for war crime in former Yugoslavia today handed down its first sentence, Jailing for 85 years a young Bosnian Croat involved in the massacre committed when the Bosnia Serbs captured the Srebrenica in July last year. | War crime tribunal passes 1st sentence. | 39 | 5 | 3,803,956 |