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China to auction copyright of sex education VCD Xinhuanet 2002-07-19 16:56:03     HAIKOU, July 19 (Xinhuanet) -- Prompted by public demand, the first sex education VCD for primary school students in China will soon be on the market. The copyright of the VCD, Lectures on the School Sex Education (primary school version), has been entrusted to a local auction company to find a competent video producer for its fast release, the producer of the VCD said in Haikou, capital city of China's island province of Hainan. With sex education inadequate in China, teachers, students and parents have been...

Nauru drops diplomatic ties with Taiwan in favor of China Sun Jul 21, 5:02 AM ET By VERNA YU, Associated Press Writer HONG KONG - China established diplomatic relations with the tiny Pacific island of Nauru on Sunday, scoring another victory in its campaign to isolate Taiwan. The joint communique was signed at China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs office in Hong Kong by Assistant Foreign Minister Zhou Wenzhong and Rene Harris, president of the Republic of Nauru. Neither officials spoke to reporters after the signing ceremony, but a Foreign Ministry press statement said Nauru — the world's smallest independent republic...

U.S. Team in China to Look for Cold War Missing Wed Jul 17, 5:51 AM ET BEIJING (Reuters) - A U.S. Army team arrived in China on Wednesday on the first mission allowed by Beijing to search for the remains of Americans who went missing in action during the Cold War, the U.S. embassy said. U.S. Army Major James R. Becker (front) from the Army Central Identification Laboratory, Hawaii (CILHI), arrives in Beijing July 17, 2002. Becker is heading an eight-person team from CILHI which will conduct a search for Robert C. Snoddy and Norman A. Schwartz who went missing...

Tokyo court rejects compensation demand by Chinese massacre survivors Fri Jun 28, 3:54 AM ETTOKYO - A Tokyo court rejected compensation demands Friday made by three Chinese survivors of an alleged massacre by the Japanese army in 1932.Presiding judge Yoichi Kikuchi rejected the claim, and Tokyo District Court spokesman Hideaki Wada declined to give details as to Kikuchi's reasoning. Yang Baoshan, 79, Mo Desheng, 76, and Fang Surong, 74, had each filed for 2 million yen (dlrs 1.61 million) in compensation.All three Chinese plaintiffs will remain in Japan to appeal the decision, their lawyer Akira Izumisawa said.In what is...

PLA reserves right to fire on threats to drill (07/10/2001) (China Daily HK Edition) The People's Liberation Army reserves the right to open fire at any targets that engage in provocative activities against PLA troops staging an ongoing military drill on Dongshan Island off southeastern Fujian Province. Targets subject to attack in the event that warnings are not effective could include fighter jets and warships from Taiwan or those of some foreign countries, Wen Wei Po reports Monday. The decision, put forward by Fuzhou Military Command headquarters, which is directing the military games, has been approved by the Central Military...

Chinese army barracks open to foreign media Xinhuanet 2002-07-10 23:42:59   TIANJIN, July 10 (Xinhuanet) -- Two army barracks of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in Tianjin were opened to 105 Beijing-based correspondents from 70 foreign media organizations on Wednesday. Kong Quan, head of the Information Department of China's Foreign Ministry, said that this was the first time for many yearsthat Chinese army barracks allowed in so many foreign journalists. Officers of the army brigade and air force division based at the barracks briefed the visitors on military history, systems, training and participation in civilian projects. The journalists visited...

Pentagon to Search Plane Site in China Mon Jul 8, 2:34 AM ET By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon ( news - web sites) is preparing to send a search team to northeastern China in hopes of recovering the remains of two American pilots believed to have been buried 50 years ago where their unmarked plane crash-landed during a failed spy mission for the CIA ( news - web sites). Norman A. Schwartz, one of two pilots shot down over China Nov. 29, 1952, is seen in this undated Pentagon photo. The U.S. government initially...

Chinese satellite TV hijacked by Falun Gong cult Xinhuanet 2002-07-08 18:07:39 BEIJING, July 8 (Xinhuanet) -- Television signals illegally broadcast by the Falun Gong cult cut into transmissions using the Sino Satellite (SINOSAT) from June 23 to 30, blocking the World Cup finals for viewers in some rural and remote areas in China. The Radio Administration of the Ministry of Information Industry said Monday that the hijacking of nine China Central Television Station (CCTV) channels and 10 provincial TV channels was committed by the overseas cult organization of Falun Gong, manipulated by its ringleader Li Hongzhi. The hijack severely interfered...

More Taiwanese settle in Shanghai Xinhuanet 2002-07-06 14:52:34 SHANGHAI, July 6 (Xinhuanet) -- The thought of settling in Shanghai had not occurred to Zhang Meifang, a native Taiwanese, when she came here four years ago to help her brother with his business. But Zhang found she could not tear herself away from this lovely city when her brother went back to Taiwan. Living in Shanghai alone is not a problem for Zhang. Her previous ten-years experience in the insurance industry soon earned her a position at the Shanghai branch of the American International Assurance Company Ltd. She even bought her...

2 GIs to face court-martial (South Korea) by Jeon Ick-jin, Kim Won-bae July 04, 2002 The driver and commander of a U.S. Army vehicle that struck and killed two 14-year-old Korean girls last month have been charged with vehicular homicide and will face court-martial, the U.S. Army announced Thursday. General Leon LaPorte, commander of U.S. Forces Korea, apologized publicly for the deaths of the girls. The indicted soldiers are Sergeant Mark Walker, 36, the driver, and Sergeant Fernando Mino, who was in a lookout position in the front of the vehicle. A spokesman said that the indictment charged the two...

Rural China faces unrest From Miriam Donohoe, in Beijing CHINA: The Chinese authorities are becoming increasingly concerned about growing unrest caused by a widening wealth gap between rural and urban areas. Senior government officials met on Monday to discuss how to deal with the emerging social instability in rural areas, where income levels lag way behind those in major urban centres. It was reported yesterday that officials at the combined State Council and Communist Party meeting warned the wealth gap could have a "big effect on social stability and economic growth". The countryside is being described increasingly as a time ...

Xinjiang, China's Restive Northwest: Production and Construction Corps (PCC) Roots of a Nationalist Movement Xinjiang (a Chinese name meaning "New Frontier") has long been inhabited by a diverse mixture of Muslim peoples, including Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and Tajiks as well as the majority Uighurs. The region enjoyed independent statehood until 1759, when it was conquered by the imperial armies of China's Manchu dynasty, and periodic attempts at armed insurrection against Chinese rule occurred well into the twentieth century. The most significant of these was in 1945, when local forces took advantage of the looming civil war between Communist and Nationalist Chinese ...

Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research "The China Hands: Profiles in Courage and Lessons for the Future" Secretary's Open Forum April 25, 2000 AMBASSADOR ROY: Good Morning, I would like to begin by thanking the Open Forum for sponsoring this program honoring the China Hands, and specifically the memory of John Davies who died in December of last year. This is not so much because James Mann, Ambassador Hummel, and I in a sense are China Hands. Rather, it is because the core issue involved in what happened to the China Hands relates to ...

Thursday November 1, 6:00 pm Eastern Time Forbes.com Political Changes Coming To China By Arik Hesseldahl China's vice president Hu Jintao tastes a glass of Chateau Margaux as he visits the famous vinyards near Bordeaux, southwestern France, Saturday, Nov. 3, 2001. Hu is on a five-nation European tour which is a carefully scripted diplomatic debut for Hu, and a sign that he is closer than ever to taking power. Hu will meet with Franch President Jacques Chirac next Monday.(AP Photo/Michel Gangne/Pool) In the days before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C., the most troubling foreign-policy ...

Hu Jintao: China's vice president Hu Jintao: China’s vice president ??? (Pronounced: "Hoo Jin-tao) Vice President, People’s Republic of China Vice Chairman, PRC Central Military Commission Member, Standing Committee of the CCP Central Committee Politburo Member, Secretariat of the CCP Central Committee President, Party School of the CCP Central Committee China began to build its own bridges to the 21st century with the election in 1998 of Hu Jintao as the new vice president. Most China experts believe Hu has already been chosen by President Jiang Zemin to succeed him when his term ends in 2003. Who's Hu and what ...