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ejection of muslims and serbs by the croats is continuing in the western part of mostar , the united nations high commission for refugees -lrb- unhcr -rrb- said today .

ejection of minorities continues in mostar

the annual inflation rate of the european union -lrb- eu -rrb- rose slightly to #.# percent in october , from a record low of #.# percent in august and september , the eu statistical office eurostat said today .

eu inflation up to #.# percent in october

china has published a book to commemorate peng UNK , one of new china 's ten marshals and a founder of the chinese people 's liberation army -lrb- pla -rrb- .

book published to honor marshal peng UNK

china plans to build the country 's first industrial center to manufacture UNK fabric in the southern island province of hainan .

china to build new industrial center

russia 's evgueni UNK won the men 's single title after finishing first in both short program and free program at the world junior figure skating championships here on friday .

russian won men 's title

a european space agency committee on thursday approved a move to build four spacecraft to replace those destroyed when the ariane # launcher blew up in june .

sun probes destroyed in june to be replaced

three people were killed and two others wounded in an attack by the rebels of the outlawed kurdish workers ' party -lrb- pkk -rrb- in southeastern turkey , the semi-official anatolia news agency reported today .

# people killed in pkk attack

the construction of a national cancer hospital with chinese assistance began today in west nepal 's chitwan district , about ### km west of kathmandu .

construction of china-aided hospital begins in nepal

a british science team has developed a novel treatment -- in theory -- for muscular dystrophy , the fatal muscle wasting disease , according to the latest issue of the science journal , nature .

treatment in theory found for muscular dystrophy

six actors and four actresses were named china 's `` top ten tv stars '' after a national vote that lasted several months .

china chose top ten tv stars

the bulgarian national assembly has approved an amendment to the foreign investment law , raising the minimum amount of foreign fund for a business to register as a foreign funded firm to ##,### u.s. dollars .

bulgaria amends law on foreign investment

model families in UNK county , in central china 's hubei province , reported today on their experiences at a forum sponsored by the propaganda department of the cpc standing committee .

rural families to promote ethical and cultural progress

hoping to outfox customs agents , smugglers in south china are stashing their illegal goods in container trucks , according to a customs official in shenzhen , a booming special economic zone -lrb- sez -rrb- in guangdong province .

south china smugglers use container trucks as tools

belgium opened a display conference for its first-class sea port operation technology today in shanghai , china 's largest port .

belgium displays port technology in shanghai

the rampant expansion of urban areas is eating away scarce fertile farmland in egypt where balanced development could be hard at hand with less than # percent of land cultivated and only #.# percent of the country populated .

urbanization threatens to devour farmland in egypt

hong kong police today smashed a syndicate in which drug addicts had allegedly been lured to swindle UNK -lrb- ##,###-us-dollar -rrb- loans out of banks following the arrests of seven people , a police spokesman said here today .

hong kong police smash UNK syndicate

french truckers and their bosses met again this morning while french people waited for a government decree on shorter working hours with full payment to end the ##-day-old road blockade .

french truckers bosses meet amid attrition war

on march #th next year , people in northeast china will have the rare opportunity to see a total solar eclipse and the hale-bopp comet at the same time .

comet and solar eclipse to be spotted at same time

britain has this year allocated over #.# million pounds -lrb- about ##.# million u.s. dollars -rrb- to uk military training assistance scheme and africa defense fund , a british minister said here today .

british minister on UNK ties

it seems that peace will come to sierra leone as the government and rebels have reached a peace agreement which will be signed on saturday in abidjan , cote d'ivoire , a report reaching here said today .

peace pact for s. leone to be signed in abidjan

hong kong 's position as no. # destination in asia is secure as visitor arrivals in the first ## months of this year reached record levels .

record number of visitors keeps hk on top in asia

it seems that peace will come to sierra leone as the government and rebels have reached a peace agreement which will be signed on saturday in abidjan , cote d'ivoire , a report reaching here said today .

peace pact for s. leone to be signed in abidjan

all officials should grasp the overall situation of the country , strengthen their capability in the modernization drive and further promote the coordinated development of the material civilization , and ethical and cultural progress , a senior chinese communist party -lrb- cpc -rrb- leader said here today .

party leader calls for coordinated UNK development

serbian president slobodan milosevic met with wang maolin , head of a chinese communist party delegation , here today to discussed bilateral relations .

serbian president meets chinese delegation

chinese premier li peng inspected a newly-opened express highway in east china yesterday , saying that the road will play a significant role in the economic growth of the yangtze river delta .

li peng inspected UNK expressway

kuala lumpur , november ## -lrb- xinhua -rrb- -- royal london circus ' flying trapeze artist elliot UNK who fractured his neck during a show in sembilan state , southeastern malaysia , has undergone an eight-hour surgery at a local hospital in the state .

london circus artist undergoes surgery in malaysia

the three-day question-and-answer sessions for the three candidates for the first chief executive of the future hong kong special administrative region -lrb- sar -rrb- ended this morning at the hong kong convention and exhibition center .

inquiry sessions for hk chief executive candidates end

egyptian president hosni mubarak has renewed his warning against the israeli settlement policy in a message to the hardline israeli prime minister .

mubarak slams at israeli settlement policy

china 's foreign exchange reserves reached ###.## billion us dollars on november ## , up from ##.## billion at the start of this year .

china 's foreign exchange reserves exceeds ### billion us dollars

construction work on a thermal power plant started today in xiangfan , in central china 's wuhan province , as part of the country 's largest water conservation endeavor , the three gorges project .

china starts building power plant for three gorges project

australia 's current account deficit deteriorated to #.### billion australian dollars -lrb- #.### billion u.s. dollars -rrb- in october on a seasonally adjusted basis , the worst level in eight months , the australian bureau of statistics -lrb- abs -rrb- announced today .

australian external deficit widens

the buddist association of china -lrb- bac -rrb- is going to fund the construction of a buddhist temple at the birthplace of sakyamuni , the founder of buddhism .

china to build temple at sakyamuni birthplace

the swiss government decided thursday to restrict imports of sausages and other meat products from neighboring countries starting from january # , #### in fear of the mad cow UNK .

switzerland to restrict meat imports

a national survey has shown that chinese people 's favorite colors are blue , green and white , and that their color choices have become more varied in recent years , reflecting strong personal characteristics .

chinese people prefer blue green and white colors survey says

italian president oscar luigi scalfaro arrived in the egyptian mediterranean port city of alexandria this morning on a two-day official visit to egypt .

italian president arrives in egypt

george weah said he was interested in joining his former coach at english premier league club arsenal .

weah aims at english premier league

china and india today stressed that they will seek to forge a UNK , constructive and cooperative partnership .

china india seek to build UNK

a new drama will be staged in the chinese capital this month that tells the tragic history of a politician who worked to reform china some #,### years ago .

new drama to tell tragedy of historic reformer

all the overseas participating teams are scheduled to arrive in hong kong on friday for the inaugural asian junior rugby championships from november ## to december # , the hong kong rugby football union announced here on friday .

teams arrive for asian junior rugby championships

the overall gross domestic product -lrb- gdp -rrb- of hong kong for this year will be maintained at #.# percent , which is closely in line with the growth rate of last year , according to official forecasts released today .

hk gdp growth rate for #### estimated at #.# percent

former world champion midori ito of japan announced that she was retiring from amateur figure skating for the second time .

ito again retires from amateur skating

statistics issued by the hong kong monetary authority here on friday showed that both deposits , loans and advances rose in october .

hong kong deposits loans advances up in october

hang seng china enterprises index today rose #.## points to close at ###.## .

hang seng china enterprises index up

the guangdong provincial public security bureau -lrb- psb -rrb- returned two crime suspects to hong kong police at guangdong-hong kong border this afternoon , a police spokesman said here today .

guangdong police return # crime suspects to hk

macao 's imports and exports in the first nine months of this year dropped by more than # percent , latest statistics show .

macao 's external trade down

india will bid to host the #### asian games , said india 's sports official .

india may bid for #### asian games

south korea and mexico will further enhance bilateral cooperation , said president kim young-sam while meeting with his mexican counterpart ernesto zedillo ponce de leon here today .

s. korea mexico to enhance cooperation

china and india signed four agreements here today , including one on confidence building measures in the military field along the line of actual control in the china-india border areas .

china india sign # agreements on cooperation

xerox has increased its investment by ## million us dollars in china 's inland areas and hong kong this year and become one of the leading suppliers of document products in this region .

xerox business growing in china

the sse-## index on the shanghai stock market gained ##.## points to close at #,###.## today , according to the china finance trust and investment corporation .

shanghai stock index up

the composite subindex on the shenzhen stock exchange finished at #,###.## toady , up ##.## points from the previous session , according to the china finance trust and investment corporation .

shenzhen stock index up

today 's xinhua a share index gained #.## points to finish at ###.## , while the xinhua b stock index rose #.## points to close at ##.## .

xinhua stock indices up

the hong kong amateur athletic association -lrb- hkaaa -rrb- announced here on thursday that it would send ## athletes to the sixth asian junior athletics championships slated for december #-# in new delhi , india .

hong kong athletes to compete in asian junior championships

a group of ## militiamen of south mogadishu faction leader hussein mohamed aidid have defected to north mogadishu , which is under control of another somali strongman ali mahdi mohammed .

aidid 's militia defect to north mogadishu faction

south korea 's current account deficit in the first ## months of this year amounted to ##.# billion u.s. dollars , more than twice the red-ink figure recorded for the same period last year , according to the bank of korea today .

south korea 's current account deficit increases

flocks of rwandan hutu refugees are emerging out of the forests in eastern zaire 's goma region on their way back home .

##,### rwandan refugees out of e. zaire forests

a newly-published book tells how the secret israeli spy agency , mossad , operated for ## years in iraq to help the kurds against the baghdad regime .

israeli new book reveals mossad operations in iraq

tanzania will commence a five-year program next year to support quality primary education with the unicef funding .

tanzanian primary education gets unicef aid

efforts to protect roadside cultural relics were made by highway construction and archeology departments during the building of the shanghai-nanjing highway .

jiangsu taking efforts to protect culture relics

a museum here in memory of liu shaoqi , the late chinese president , has been bestowed the title , `` national base for education in patriotism in primary and middle schools '' by china 's state education commission .

liu UNK museum becomes children 's education base

east china 's zhejiang province , one of the country 's most economically developed provinces , is to step up its effort to improve economic legislation to handle new problems cropping up during the reform and opening-up drive .

zhejiang to improve economic legislation

thailand 's oil imports were up ##.# percent in the first nine months of this year .

thailand 's oil imports soar ##.# percent in # months

northwest china 's xinjiang uygur autonomous region is to speed up its development of solar and wind energy starting soon , a local official has revealed .

xinjiang speeds up energy resources development

a new hybrid rice strain with a stable and high yield has been developed in east china 's zhejiang province .

UNK hybrid rice strain developed in east china

about ##,### coal miners in new south wales in australia launched an indefinite strike last night in protest against benefit cuts in new amendments to the workers ' compensation legislation .

australian coal miners launch indefinite strike

southeast china 's fujian province , historically vulnerable to floods and typhoons , has launched a province-wide drive to promote water conservation projects in the winter-spring period .

fujian improves water conservation facilities

service trades in central china 's hunan province has drawn surplus workers from the industry and agriculture .

service trade helps the unemployed in hunan

the ruling revolutionary party -lrb- ccm -rrb- chairman , tanzanian president benjamin mkapa , on thursday paid tribute to retired president ali hassan mwinyi , who enabled the country to undertake political and economic reforms peacefully .

tanzanian president commends predecessor for

china 's oil industry has created a string of boom towns - with one time quite villages transformed into thriving cities .

oil industry promotes china 's urbanization process

medical workers have been dispatched from UNK and mporokoso , northern province of zambia , to the cholera hit area of kaputa in the province .

zambian medics dispatched to cholera hit area

wang guangying , vice-chairman of the standing committee of china 's national people 's congress -lrb- npc -rrb- , met with a delegation from the broadcasting commission of the democratic people 's republic of korea -lrb- dprk -rrb- here today .

npc vice-chairman meets dprk broadcasting commission delegation

thousands of tons of silt carried across china along the yellow river will help save billions of yuan in the country 's oil exploration drive .

china building oilfields out of yellow river silt

the u.s. dollar was exchanged on thursday at the rate of ### tugriks , the mongolian currency , a record high registered this year .

mongolian currency UNK dramatically

shandong province , one of the major grain producers in china , has reported a record harvest this year .

east china grain producers report harvest

a sharp increase in the number of malaria cases in south africa this year has prompted the UNK of health to warn holiday-makers of taking extra precautions .

s. africa warns tourists against malaria

nearly one in ## ugandans is infected with hiv virus that causes the killer aids disease , `` the monitor '' of uganda reported today .

## percent of ugandans infected with hiv

over ### zairean refugees crossed into uganda on wednesday , fleeing the uganda rebels of the allied democratic forces -lrb- adf -rrb- , who are alleged to be based inside zaire .

### zairean refugees cross into uganda

a chinese road construction expert has come up with a way of beating traffic pollution -- sunken roads .

bury drivers below ground says chinese expert

wuhan city in central china 's hubei province is to utilize #.## billion yuan -lrb- ### million u.s. dollars -rrb- in world bank loans to build sewage disposal systems in next five years .

wuhan to use wb loans to treat water pollution

china is to build a large power plant , the first of its kind in the country to use a residual UNK as its fuel .

china 's guizhou uses UNK for electricity generating

three players were sent off as gremio beat bitter rival palmeiras on thursday in a first leg match at the quarterfinal at the brazilian soccer championship .

three sent off in gremio and palmeiras clash

the bank of thailand has revealed that the country 's exports for the first nine months this year rose less than # percent .

thailand reports #.# percent export growth in # months

sri lanka 's liberation tigers of tamil eelam -lrb- ltte -rrb- wants the liberated areas of the north vacated before peace talks commence , an ltte leader has announced .

sri lankan rebels want liberated areas vacated for

a visiting top african official said today that if incumbent united nations secretary-general boutros boutros-ghali is denied the second term , an alternative african candidate should be given priority .

oau chief calls for african candidates for top u.n. job

six bangladeshis including a child aged about # were killed and ## others injured in a road accident at UNK in the northern district of mymensingh thursday .

# bangladeshis killed in road accident

economic growth in brazil this year will only reach #.# percent , half a percentage point short of the government 's target of # percent , the brazilian institute of geography and statistics said .

brazil 's economy to grow #.# percent this year

forty-five high-ranking investigative police officers have been called into retirement because of drug consumption , the chilean government said today .

## drug-using police officers called to retire in chile

the philippine house of representatives will open discussions on a fresh proposal to amend the constitution to lift the limits on the terms of all elected officials , including president fidel ramos , local press reported today .

philippine house to deliberate constitutional changes

russia will be able to provide its gas to poland and germany from now on with the connection of its gas pipelines with those of the two countries .

first stage of east-west gas pipelines completed

at least ## people were killed and some ## more injured in an explosion and fire at a fireworks factory just outside the capital lima on wednesday , police said today .

## killed in peruvian fireworks explosion

brazil 's unemployment rate dropped to #.## percent in october from #.## percent in september as the economy registered a remarkable growth in the third quarter .

brazil 's jobless rate drops

five-times tour de france winner miguel indurain of spain is likely to retire from cycling , two team managers said on thursday .

indurain likely to retire

indonesian foreign minister ali alatas criticized western countries for campaigning for democratization in other countries and repudiating the principles of democracy in international relations .

indonesia criticizes west over democracy

indonesia 's house of representatives ' budget commission thursday proposed raising the ####\/## budget by ## percent on this year 's budget to ### trillion rupiahs -lrb- ##.# billion us dollars -rrb- .

indonesian parliament wants next budget to rise ## pc

ministers from ## central american and caribbean countries are meeting in costa rica for talks on political integration .

central america caribbean ministers debate integration

twenty chinese commercial grain production bases slated to open within five years will increase commercial grain production by five million tons .

new bases planned to boost china 's grain output

ukraine wants to pay part of its overdue debts to russia in strategic bomber planes , ukrainian defense minister alexander kuzmuk said today .

ukraine to pay russia overdue debts with bombers

former sandinista presidential candidate daniel ortega has said that his party has nominated enrique sanchez UNK , a UNK from the liberal alliance , as president of the new national assembly of nicaragua .

sandinista front nominates assembly president

china 's consumer market can look forward to a thriving season of prosperity stimulated by interest-rate cuts and crop harvests , today 's `` china daily '' said .

interest-rate cut to drive consumer market

chinese premier li peng here today extended his warm congratulations on the convocation of the conference marking the international day of solidarity with the palestinian people .

chinese premier congratulates on conference of palestinian