Asia Africa Intelligence Wire articles from September 2005, page 9

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China Daily): Laundering legislation to spread net wider.
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) Anti-money laundering efforts will be extended to cover insurance and securities sectors, as well other "vulnerable fields," such as real estate, sales of precious jewellery and the private...

China Daily): IN BRIEF (Page: 10, Date: 09/30/2005).
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) BEIJING CNTIC to loan to China Exim Bank China National Technical Import & Export Corp (CNTIC) yesterday signed a loan agreement with the Export-Import Bank of China (China Exim Bank), the...

China Daily): Top Xinjiang official promises richer future.
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) URUMQI: A top official from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region vowed yesterday to more than triple its economic output by the year 2020. "Our development goal is for the gross domestic...

China Daily): Plan urges Asian area to tackle disaster risk.
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) Asian countries were called on to make disaster reduction strategies an integral part of national planning at the conclusion of the Asian Conference on Disaster Reduction yesterday in Beijing....

China Daily): Wire walker eyes 5 world records.
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) A 16-year-old Uygur tightrope walker is to attempt five world wire-walking records during the National Day holidays, balancing above the heads of lions and tigers at the Beijing Wildlife Park....

China Daily): National holidayforecast mixed.
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) Meteorologists are urging those heading outdoors for the upcoming National Day holidays to keep at least one eye on the weather. "Wherever you go, you must pay close attention to the local...

China Daily): NPC plans to revise food safety legislation.
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) China will soon revise its Food Hygiene Law to improve safety, Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) Lu Yongxiang said yesterday. A draft of the...

China Daily): Firm provides facilities for high rail.
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) The electricity supply to the Qinghai-Tibet railway in construction is safe and reliable, vowed an official from major solar electric power generation facilities and an extra-high voltage...

China Daily): IN BRIEF (Page: 2, Date: 09/30/2005).
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) BEIJING CPC major session The fifth plenary session of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) will be held in Beijing from October 8 to 11. The decision was made...

China Daily): Shanghai offers cash for tips on drug crimes.
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) SHANGHAI: Shanghai is beefing up efforts to stamp out drug pushers and users with its plans to shell out rewards of up to 150,000 yuan (US$18,500) for tips on drug-related crimes. The move...

China Daily): SMIC expects sales to rise.
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC), China's biggest made-to-order chipmaker, said it expects revenue this year to rise more than 10 per cent from 2004 as orders increase. The...

China Daily): Nation needs to tap into renewable energy sources.
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) The soaring oil prices have led many to use the opportunity to tout alternative energy sources. Kong Linhe is one of them. General manager of a Hebei-based bio-diesel producer, Kong told...

China Daily): Medical reform must ensure health for everyone.
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) In pluralistic Hong Kong, residents never hesitate to take the government to task over real or imagined deficiencies in public services. But this vocal community is rarely heard complaining...

China Daily): War plans set Tokyo at odds with China.
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) People are not foes until they see each other as such. Japan's Asahi Shimbun revealed on Tuesday that the country's Ground Self-Defence Force's (SDF) security plan maps out military...

China Daily): Pairing fengshui with Western ideas.
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) Nanjing University recently announced it will organize and host the first training seminar for "true fengshui masters" in China. The news has sparked discussion and controversy. Fengshui is...

China Daily): West.
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) Woman spurns marriage to care for parents A caring daughter in Sichuan remains unmarried at the age of 37 to take care of her bed-ridden father. Zhang Hongying completed her education in 1984 at...

China Daily): Economic report deserves attention.
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) China has continued to amaze the world with its stunning growth performance, but the Global Competitiveness Report released two days ago by the World Economic Forum has brought the country back...

China Daily): East.
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) Court holds public trial of wife of corrupt official A court in Zhejiang Province recently tried the wife of a corrupt official in a local cinema in the presence of nearly 1,000 people, most of...

China Daily): Dream started 50 years ago in that faraway place.
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) Armed with lofty ideals and with national interests in mind, hundreds of thousands of people left their hometowns in the interior of China and set out west to Xinjiang in the 1950s. In...

China Daily): Mother river is reborn as ecosystem improves.
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) The ecosystem along the banks of the Tarim River in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has been greatly improved as diversiform-leaved poplar trees and rose willows have become more prevalent....

China Daily): North.
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) Wife killer confesses after six years on the run A killer on the run for six years has confessed to the police, thanks to a radio anchor. Yu Shaoming, 36, killed his wife accidentally in a...

China Daily): South.
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) 400-year-old soy sauce store back in business A store selling sauces and named "Pin Fang Zhai," with a history of 400 years has re-opened in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, after more than 50...

China Daily): Bin Laden applied for asylum in UK.
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) He claims to hate everything the West stands for. But on Wednesday it emerged that Osama bin Laden sought asylum in Britain even as he was planning the September 11 attacks on the US. The...

China Daily): Cola, crisps and sweets banned.
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) LONDON: The extent of the ban on junk food and drink in schools emerged on Wednesday as British Education Secretary, Ruth Kelly, pledged to end "the scandal" of poor-quality meals and snacks...

China Daily): FM refutes Japan PM's criticism of China.
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) China yesterday refuted Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's remarks that China's opposition to his visit to the Yasukuni Shrine is out of political reasons, saying his visits hurt the...

China Daily): Algerians vote on plan to halt Islamist violence.
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) ALGIERS: Algerians began voting yesterday in a referendum on a partial amnesty for hundreds of Muslim militants, intended to bring an end to more than a decade of conflict that has cost at least...

China Daily): Somali enclave votes, dreams of becoming a nation.
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) HARGEISA: The breakaway enclave of Somaliland voted for a parliament yesterday, hoping a third democratic poll since 2002 would boost its case for nationhood and prove it is a model of...

China Daily): UN curbs staff after bombing in Kabul.
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) KABUL: The United Nations said yesterday it had restricted movements of its staff in Kabul after a suicide bombing killed at least 10 people, while the Taliban said it had 45 more suicide...

China Daily): IN BRIEF (Page: 7, Date: 09/30/2005).
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) LISBON Fire kills mother, 5 children A mother and her five children died in a fire in a shack in a smart district near Lisbon yesterday, a fire official said. The fire started at about 5 am...

China Daily): US House majority leader indicted.
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) A Texas grand jury on Wednesday charged Representative Tom DeLay, one of the most powerful US politicians, with conspiracy in a campaign finance scheme, forcing him to relinquish his post as...

China Daily): Google targets NASA partnership.
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) SAN FRANCISCO: Web search company Google Inc said on Wednesday it plans to partner with US space agency NASA on space research and build a new campus at the agency's research centre in the heart...

China Daily): Troubles mounting for Bush.
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) WASHINGTON: The indictment of one of Washington's most powerful politicians is the latest in a string of setbacks that could hamper US President George W. Bush's chances of pushing his agenda...

China Daily): Blair apologizes to delegate, 82.
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) BRIGHTON, England: British Prime Minister Tony Blair apologized to an 82-year-old delegate during interviews on several television and radio broadcasts yesterday morning, after he was forcibly...

China Daily): Armed dolphins may be missing.
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) NEW ORLEANS: It may be the oddest tale to emerge from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Armed dolphins, trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint spies underwater, may be...

China Daily): Four immigrants die trying to cross into Spain.
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) CEUTA: Four immigrants were killed overnight when an estimated 500 Africans stormed the border fencing separating Morocco from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, news reports said yesterday....

China Daily): UK, Irish oil workers kidnapped in Nigeria.
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) WARRI, Nigeria: Two oil workers, one Briton and the other from Ireland, were kidnapped in Nigeria's southern delta on Wednesday night, but the military said they hoped to free them later...

China Daily): Court drops suit over Koizumi's shrine visits.
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) TOKYO: A lawsuit claiming compensation from Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi for distress caused by his visits to a war shrine was dismissed by a Tokyo court yesterday. Japan's...

China Daily): Gov't sets up stock protection reserve.
September 30, 2005... (From Chinadaily.com.cn (Was: China Daily)) China has announced that a stock investors' protection fund came into operation yesterday, after three months of preparation work. The news cheered up the market, with the Shanghai Composite...

Countrywide strike, flights cancelled.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) NEW DELHI: Panicky passengers pulled out at the last moment, deciding against taking a chance in the wake of an all-India strike called by Airports Authority of India employees on Thursday. Seeing a drop in...

Army, Navy chiefs head for Myanmar.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) Byline: Rajat Pandit NEW DELHI: With both China and Pakistan continuing to make deep strategic inroads into Myanmar, the Indian Army and Navy chiefs will be visiting Yangon in the coming days to bolster...

Ban on smoking in films: Debate restarts.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) NEW DELHI: With the standoff between the I&B and health ministries continuing over the onscreen smoking ban, the October 2 deadline for effecting the regulation is sure to be extended again. Protesting a...

Neighbours envy, owners pride: The demographics of diamonds.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) Byline: Prachi Bhasin Malvika Dhawan, 34, Noida-based house maker, has an agenda up her sleeve. It's not about upgrading the scores on her 10-year-old son's report card. Neither is it about getting new...

Student rams Ikon; 1 killed.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) NEW DELHI: One person died and another was injured as the driver of a Ford Ikon car lost control and rammed into a motorcycle, a cycle and a pole in Bijwasan in southwest Delhi on Wednesday. According to the...

Father's 'torture' maims girl.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) Byline: Rumu Banerjee NEW DELHI: For little Anjali, all that paternal love means is painful bite marks. Today, the one-and-half-year-old cannot walk or speak - a condition her mother attributes to the early...

Siddhivinayak to offer terror cover.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) Byline: Yogesh Naik MUMBAI: Alarmbells are ringing so hard inside the city's famed Siddhivinayak temple that its management has got its devotees insured against a terrorist attack. In such an...

Share of migrants in Mumbai halves over 100 years.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) Byline: Vaishnavi C Sekhar MUMBAI: They are every political party's favourite whipping boys, blamed for all manner of civic disasters- from slums to floods. The migrant rush, we are told, is ruining a once...

Airports, banks, schools affected.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) MUMBAI: Services across sectors ranging from airports and banks to schools and government offices may be hit on Thursday as a slew of unions come together to protest the Centre's privatisation policies. ...

It's crowd that matters here.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) Byline: NAHEED ATAULLA BANGALORE: There is no budgeting here. Rallies - political and non political - could cost Rs 10 lakh to Rs 2 crore. Money does not matter. What ultimately matters is the crowd. ...

Aesthetic home for senior citizens.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) BANGALORE: Insulated terracotta roof and beige walls, soft white lighting and wide windows for sunlight, earthy-brown veneer with rounded off edges for the furniture, a good mix of bonsai and dried flower...

Burglary at five places.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) BANGALORE: Five places including four houses were burgled since Wednesday and valuables worth over Rs 3 crore looted. Cash and valuables worth over Rs 25,000 were stolen from a house belonging to Anand...

Pepper sprays keep women safe.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) Byline: Seethalakshmi S and Pushpa Narayan BANGALORE: Bangalore records the highest number of dowry deaths in the state, the highest number of suicides by women in the country, sees 50 per cent rise in...

Vini Vinc officer nabbed with Rs 2 cr.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) BANGALORE: The Bangalore police have netted a big fish in the Vini Vinc fraud case, taking the probe closer to a finale. The arrested, Lokesh, vice-president of Vini Vinc Inc Foundation, is the trusted...

Puneri idol to be immersed in Thames.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) PUNE: Pune's Ganapati Bappa is all set to capture British shores, where the Indian community in Southall will celebrate a belated Ganesh festival, on October 9. Interestingly, the Ganesh idol, made from...

Parking plan lies in cans.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) PUNE: The deadline set by the supreme court-appointed Bhure Lal committee to hammer out and implement a "parking policy" in Pune expired five months back, but corporators continue to sit on the proposals put up...

Pol parties to flout garba deadline.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) RAJKOT: Garba enthusiasts in Junagadh and Rajkot are likely to rock on regardless of the 10 pm deadline for loudspeakers with political parties deciding to come to their rescue and oppose the use of force by...

Five-year-old killed by lion.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) RAJKOT: The Asiatic lion continued to remain in the news this week. On Monday night, a lion is said to have killed a five-year-old girl when she was sleeping in her house at Dedhan village of Khambha taluka in...

Internships offer a windfall for IIM-A grads.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) Byline: Raja Bose AHMEDABAD: Devranjan TN can't wait to get back to London. It's not just because Goldman Sachs, the investment banking major, wants him back on its international banking desk where he spent...

Man posing as police chief nabbed.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) SURAT: A man posing as the police commissioner of Delhi was arrested by Umra police from Ecori beauty parlour at City Light road on Tuesday. The person, who was later identified as Jayesh Parikh from Raghuvir...

Excessive rain makes vegetable prices skyrocket.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) Byline: Radha Sharma and Tushar Tere AHMEDABAD/VADODARA: Housewives in Gujarat are a harried lot these days. They are badly overshooting their vegetable budget, as almost no green comes at less than Rs 50...

Unofficial 'perks' lure wannabe corporators.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) Byline: Tina Parekh AHMEDABAD: The monthly salary of an Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) corporator is a meagre Rs 1,750. Corporators do not get a house, phone or a car unless they are office bearers of...

Blow to adoptions as parents hunt for 'suitable' baby.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) Byline: Prathima Nandakumar VADODARA: Last year, only five children were adopted in Vadodara, while the waiting list of childless couples wanting to adopt a child stood at 40. Not that there is a dearth...

Organisers woo revellers with helmets.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) Byline: Prashant Rupera & Raheel Dhattiwala VADODARA/AHMEDABAD: Concessions on block booking, discounts on helmets, free passes against blood donations. You name it and it's there for garba revellers. Faced...

Blow to garba-hoppers!!
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) Byline: Narandas Thacker RAJKOT: As if the 10 pm deadline for loudspeakers was not enough, garba enthusiasts in Rajkot have to face another blow as organisers have decided to hike entry fees to the venues...

'Call the bellboy for a condom'.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) SURAT: It's that season of the year when Cupid strikes and it's time to woo and be wooed. But this also happens to be the age of casual sex and AIDS. Sensing the need to spread awareness among the youth during...

Suspensions come in plenty for babus.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) LUCKNOW: Chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, while holding a review meeting of Azamgarh, Gorakhpur and Basti divisions on Wednesday, ordered the suspension of more than two-and-a-half dozen officers and adverse...

Dream to make it big is now a nightmare.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) Byline: Pervez Iqbal Siddiqui LUCKNOW: At 22, Ram Milan came to Lucknow a couple of years ago from his native village of Kherwa Karwan in Hardoi district with the dream of a better tomorrow. Illiterate...

Hutch adds more power to recharge.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) LUCKNOW: In what could be a turning point in the prepaid mobile telephony in India, telecom major Hutchison Essar announced a top-up recharge of as little as Rs 10. With this facility, now if the talk time...

Gun for Gawli gang came from Unnao.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) LUCKNOW: The Special Task Force (STF) on Wednesday arrested an accused in Madhur Bhandarkar contract killing episode from a house in the outskirts of the state capital. The accused has allegedly helped the...

Violence, rigging mar student polls.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) LUCKNOW: The students union elections in the Lucknow University on Wednesday saw an 'obedient' district administration providing every opportunity to the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) candidates to rig the polls,...

Special schemes for drought-hit areas.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) Byline: Faizan Ahmad PATNA: The state government has directed the commissioner of Magadh division to initiate food-for-work and other labour incentive schemes in the drought-affected areas of Gaya and asked...

Colleges asked to get NAAC certification by year-end.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) Byline: Kumod Verma PATNA: Vice-chancellor (VC) of Magadh University (MU) Shamshad Hussain has directed principals of all constituent colleges to make self-assessment of their respective colleges prior to...

HC tells SSP: Produce Golu by Sept 30.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) PATNA: The Patna High Court on Wednesday directed Patna SSP Kundan Krishnan to recover the kidnapped schoolboy Gaurav Kumar alias Golu and produce him in the court by 10.30 am on September 30. Initiating suo...

Women showcase talent in udyog mela.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) PATNA: Have you ever come across a place in Patna (where women are mostly accompanied by men) being fully managed by women, selling items primarily for women and visited mostly by women? Well, if you are...

Indo-US workshop on child health.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) CHANDIGARH: Former US President John F Kennedy said, "If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich". This was quoted by PGI director Dr KK Talwar while...

Criminals get cheekier.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) PANCHKULA: Despite tight police security in the city, snatching and theft incidents are on the rise. One incident of chain snatching and another theft incident was reported again on Wednesday in the city. ...

City refuses to buy BCCI truce.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) CHANDIGARH: Majority of cricket lovers in the city refuse to buy the former BCCI chief Dalmia's cementing effort between Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly and coach Greg Chappel. They also want Ganguly...

What nervous nineties?
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) Byline: Geetika Nagpal Chandigarh: The candle of life burns bright for them, as even at an advanced age they know how to spread light in their and others' lives. The journey has been long but their spirit...

Shopkeepers gherao Sec 22 police post.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) CHANDIGARH: Hundreds of shopkeepers 'gheraoed' the Sector 22 police post on Wednesday evening for four hours, alleging that the police were favouring one party in a case of possession of two booths. Police...

Power, water won't be a problem!
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) CHANDIGARH: Worried about erratic water and power supply as employees go on a day long strike Thursday? Don't. Until and unless unscrupulous elements sabotage supply, few disruptions are likely during the day....

Woman bureaucrat slaps X-ray technician.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) CHANDIGARH: A woman bureaucrat slapped a technician, accusing him of molesting her at the Haryana MLA hostel dispensary at Sector 3 here on Wednesday morning, when the officer had gone to get herself medically...

Girl ends life after abortion.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) CHANDIGARH: A Sirsa girl hung herself to death in a Sector 21 nursing home late Tuesday night hours after an abortion. Rashi Singh (name changed) left behind a suicide note in Hindi, remorseful for being an...

New-born girl abandoned.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) HYDERABAD: A new-born female baby was found abandoned on a pavement at Gulzar Houz early on Wednesday. Mirchowk inspector D Surya Prakash said a MCH sweeper, K Bhomamma, noticed the baby and handed it over to...

Parties woo independents with cash.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) Byline: T Sunil Reddy HYDERABAD: Kaun karega raaj? Naturally, independent candidates. With municipal polls over, it is time for the newly-elected councillors to cast their own votes: to elect a mayor. Where...

Man held for 'raping' his daughter.
September 30, 2005... (From The Times of India) HYDERABAD: A 55-year-old man was arrested by the city police on Wednesday for allegedly raping his daughter repeatedly for the last few months. The incest came to light on Wednesday when the 15-year-old girl...