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 NAB006 eaed112914hke -- one billion people under poverty line: world bank
 17   Washington, november 29 (xinhua) -- there are one billion hungry and
 malnourished people in the developing world who are in need of additional
 aid to get out of poverty, the world bank said today.
 18    File: D:PAXINHUA BMONPAMSG209.MSG Words: 371 543006 qi eeeee hkaee .aa
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 PAB007 mee122725hke -- mideast oil reserves to last 105 more years
 19   tehran, december 27 (xinhua) -- an iranfan expert said here today that oil
 reserves in the middle east, which account for 75 percent of the world's
 total, will be used up in some 105 years.
 20    File: D:PAXINHUA BMONPAMSG138.MSG Words: 195 S43006 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
 PAB007 mee112924hke -- egypt's president urges to help expose militants
 21   Cairo, november 29 (xinhua) -- egyptian president hosni mubarak today
 called on egyptian people to help the government fight against moslem
 extremists by informing the police about their whereabouts.
 22    File: D:PAXINHUA BMONPAMSG210.MSG Words: 440 543007 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 PAB00$ mee122726h&e -- israeli, plo officials hope for success in talks
 23   Cairo, december 27 (xinhua) -- Palestinian and israeli negotiators
 expressed hope today that their talks to resume officially tuesday will
 reach agreement an implementing the peace accord which provides for
 israeli withdrawal from gaza and Jericho.
 24    File: D:PAXINHUA BMONPAMSG139.MSG Words: 521
 25   OW2812200693TAKE1
 26   543007 ql eeeee hkaee .aa PAB008 mee112925hke -- Iran's currency continues
 devaluation
 27   tehran, november 29 (xinhua) -- despite the latest government efforts to
 control free money market, the rates of major foreign currencies still
 picked up against Iran's rial on tehran money market today.
 28    File: D:PAXINSUA BMONPAMSG211.MSG Words: 449 543008_gl eeeee_hkaee .aa____
 PAB009 mee122727hc~ - Cyprus president calls for independent inquiry
 29    into killings
 30   nicosia, december 27 (xinhua) -- Cyprus president glafcos clerides said
 today he would call for an independent inquiry into a tragic event in
 which a young man and a woman were killed by police.
 31    File: D:PAXINBUA BMONPAMSG140.MSG Wordss 370 543008 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
 PA8009 mee112926hke -- Palestinian fighters postpone departure to Jordan
 32   Baghdad, november 29 (xinhua) -- some 1,500 Palestinian fighters stationed
 in Iraq has postponed their departure for Jordan because of differences
 between the Palestinian and israeli sides in their negotiations on israeli
 withdrawal from gaza and Jericho.
 33    File: D:PAXINHUA BMONPAMSG212.MSG Words: 394 543009 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 PABO11 mee122728hke -- main opposition party proposes alternative for
 34    coalition mandate
 35   ankara, december 27 (xinhua) -- a day before the turkish parliament's
 voting on the extension of the coalition mandate, the main opposition
 party +motherland+ today launched an +intermediary formula,+ which
 suggests that it should be extended for three months.
 36    File: D:PAXINHUA BMONPAMSG141.MSG Words: 516 543009 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 PABO10 mee112927hke -- +women in anatolia+ exhibition opens in Istanbul
 37   Istanbul, november 29 (xinhua) -- an exhibition featuring +women in
 anatolia+ was opened here today by turkey's first woman prime minister
 tansu tiller.
 38    File: D:PAXINHUA BMONPAM5G213.MSG Words: 292 543010 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 PAB012 mee122729hke -- turkish premier names Istanbul mayor candidate
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 39   Istanbul, december 27 (xinhua) -- turkish prime minister tansu ciller
 announced here today that her true path party (dyp) has decided to name
 bedrettin dalan as its candidate for the Istanbul mayoral post in the
 march elections.
 40    File: D:PAXINHUA BMONPAMSG142.MSG Words: 201 S43010 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
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 HAB002 afg112922hke -- crucial timefor south african
 41   (by teng wengi)
 42   Johannesburg, november 29 {xinhua) -- south africa is facing a crucial
 decision-making this week for its profound political change.
 43    File: D:PAXINBUA BMONPAMSG214.MSG Words: 435 543011 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 PAB015 mee122730hke -- kuwait appoints first woman ambassador
 44   kuwait city, december 27 (xinhua) -- nebeelay al-mulaa today took an oath
 of kuwait's ambassador to zimbabwe, becoming the first female ambassador
 in kuwait, also the first in the whole crab world.
 45    File: D:PAXINSUA BMONFAMSG143.MSG Words: 347 543011 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 PAB019 mee112928hke -- two Palestinian-israeli subcommittees hold meetings
 46   cairo, november 29 (xinhua) -- a Palestinian-israeli subcommittee under
 the gaza-Jericho committee resumed talks today in arish, northeast of
 cairo, on the transfer of civil authority to the Palestinians in gaza and
 Jericho.
 47    File: D:PA%INHUA BMONPAMSG215.MSG Words: 645 S43012 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB003 afg112923hke -- nigerian police calls for moral regeneration
 48   lagos, november 29 (xinhua) -- the nigerian police has called on the
 federal and state governments to establish a mechanism for effecting moral
 regeneration in the society.
 49    File: D:PAXINHUA BMONPAMSG216.MSG Words: 217 543012 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSB001 hke-china: exchange quotations
 50 ___beijing,_december 28 ~xinhu_a)_--_the Chinese state administration of_
 ange control published the rennin i exc ange rates against the.
 exch
 convertible currencies today. there is no change in the rates.
 51    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSGOOI.MSG Words: 162
 52   OWZ812200993TAKE2'
 53   543013 ql eeeee hkaee .aa PAB020 mee112900hke -- world bank to present
 development plan for occupied
 54    territories
 55   Jerusalem, november 29 (xinhua) -- the world bank is ready to present a
 plan for protects worth 1 billion u.s. dollars that will be carried out fn
 the occupied territories during 1994, according to a press report here
 today.
 56    File: D:PAXINHUA_BMONPAMSG217.MSG Words: 276 543013 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa SPE002 hke -- cyclist rominger voted top swiss athlete for third time
 57   geneva, december 27 (xinhua) -- cyclist tony rominger was voted swiss
 sportsman of the year for the third time in a poll of swiss sports
 writers, according to local reports on monday.
 58    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG002.MSG Words: 103 S43014 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 NAB010 eaed112915~ike -- u.n. commemorates solidarity day with Palestinians
 59   united nations, november 29 (xinhua) -- the international day of
 solidarity with the Palestinian people was observed here today, with
 speakers welcoming the september agreement between the Palestinian
 liberation organization (plo) and Israel.
 60    File: D:PAXINHUA BMONPAMSG218.MSG Words: 433 543014 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 INE007 hke -- andean pact to form anti-dumping organization
 61   quito, december 27 (xinhua) -- the Cartagena agreement commission will set
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 up a subregional entity to control dumping, unfair trade practice where
 goods are sold below cost, among andean pact members, it was learned here
 today.
 62   File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG003.MSG Words: 98 S430I5 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 PAH021 mee112930hke -- dflp urges escalated armed struggle against Israel
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 63   amman, november 29 (xinhua) -- the secretary general of the democratic
 front for the liberation of palestine (dflp), nayef hawatmeh, today called
 upon the front's militants to maintain and escalate their military
 operations against Israel.
 64    File: D:PAXINHUA BMONPAMSG219.MSG Words: 253 543015 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 INS004 hke -- 996 kg of cocaine burned in Panama
 65   Panama city, december 2? (xinhua) -- Panamanian technical judicial police
 agents burned 99b kilograms of cocaine and three kilograms of marijuana
 monday morning.
 66    File: D:PAXINHUA BTU$PAMSG004.MSG Words: 121 S43016 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 NAB012 eaed112916~ike -- east asia owes success to better government:
 67    world bank
 68   Washington, november 29 (xinhua) -- the fast-growing economies of east
 asia owe their success to governments which provided a stable political
 environment and invested in education and health, the world bank said
 today.
 69    File: D:PAXINHUA BMONPAMSG220.MSG Words: 323 543016 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa SPE001 hke -- sixth saf games conclude with spectacular ceremony
 70   dhaka, december 27 {xinhua) -- a blazing firework display marked the end
 of the sixth south asian federation (saf) games at the national stadium
 here monday night.
 71    File: D:FAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG005.MSG Words: 211 543017 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 PAB022 mee112931h~Ce -- azerbaijan urges use of force to stop armenian
 72    offensives
 73   Istanbul, november 29 (xinhua) -- azerbaijani foreign minister hasan
 hasanov today called for the use of force to stop armenian offensives in
 his country.
 74    File: D:PAXINHUA BMONPAMSG221.MSG Words: 364 543017 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 INE006 hke -- 65 percent of mexicans live in poverty
 75   mexico city, december 27 (xinhua) -- sixty-five percent of mexico's
 population, or 52.5 million people, live in absolute poverty because of
 low purchasing power and high unemployment rate, a study revealed today.
 76    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG006.MSG Words: 289 S43018 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 NAB013 eaed112917Fike -- Bosnia peace talks resume in geneva
 77   geneva, november 29 (xinhua) -- leaders of the Serbs, Croats and the
 muslims today agreed to restart the peace talks on the basis of an action
 plan proposed by the european union (eu).
 78    File: D:PAXINHUA BMONPAMSG222.MSG Words: 414
 79   OW2812201193TAKE3
 80   S43018 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe .aa SPE004 hke -- world junior ice hockey
 championship results
 81   Prague, december 27 (xinhua) -- following are the world junior ice hockey
 championship results from Sunday's competitions:
 82   in Ostrava:
 83   Canada bt germany 5-2 (1-2, 2-0, 2-0}
 84   at frydek-mistek
 85   united states tied with Switzerland 1-1 (0-0, 0-0, 1-1) enditme
 86    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG007.MSG Words: 66 543019 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
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 NAB014 eaed112918hke -- backgrounder: a glance at the poor worldwide
 87   Washington, november 29 (xinhua) -- following are the estimates of the
 current magnitude and depth of poverty in the developing world released by
 the world bank on the eve of the first major conference on hunger: region
 number of poor percentage below
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 88    in millions poverty line
 89    File: D:PAXINHUA BMONPAMSG223.MSG Words: 119 S43019 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 INE009 hke -- over 100 venezuelans killed during Christmas
 90    caracas, december 27 (xinhua) -- more than 100 people were killed by gun
 in caracas during the Christmas week, the local reported today.
 91     File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG008.MSG Words: 93 S43020 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 PAB024 mee112932hke -- Iranian opposition base near baghdad attacked
 92    baghdad, november 29 (xinhua) -- the largest military base of the iranisu
 opposition group, the people's mojahedin (holy warriors), in Iraq was
 attacked by Iranian mortar shells on Sunday night, with one soldier
 slightly wounded.
 93     File: D:PAXINHUA BMONPAMSG224.MSG Words: 426 S43020 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSE021 hke-china: rok investment surging in Shandong
 94    jinan, december 28 (xinhua) -- investors from the republic of korea (rok)
 have set up more than 500 companies in east china's Shandong province,
 becoming the province's fifth biggest investor after bong kong, japan, the
 united states and the ec.
 95     File: D:PAXINSUA BTUEPAMSG009.MSG Words: 173 543021 qI eeeee hkaee .aa
 PAB025 mee112933hke -- turkish premier discloses tax reform draft
 96    ankara, november 29 (xinhua) -- turkish prime minister tansu ciller
 disclosed here today her long-expected tax reform draft, promoting an
 equitable tax system that would correct fiscal imbalances.
 97     File: D:PABINHUA BMONPAMSG225.MSG Words: 404 S43021_gl eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSE009 hke-- china steps up pace of mingling with world economy
 98    beijing, december 28 {xinhua) -- china has been accelerating its pace of
 mingling with the world economy. its imports and exports are now the size
 of one third of its gnp (gross national product).
 99    the quicker pace is also demonstrated in the phenomenon that china is
 actually investing abroad while also attracting even bigger sums from
 overseas investors in china. active efforts have
 100    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSGOlO.MSG Words: 435 543022 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 NAB018 eaed112919fike -- steel trade protectionism hits u.s. manufacturers
 101   new york, november 29 (xinhua) -- protectionism in steel trade will cost
 u.s. steel-using manufacturers at least a billion dollars a year, the
 american institute for international steel said today.
 102    File: D:PAXINHUA_BMONPAMSG226.MSG Words: Z94 543022 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa SPE009 hke -- baggio set to extend contract with juventus
 103   rome, december 27 (xinhua) -- Italy's newly corwned european footballer of
 the year roberto baggio is negotiating a new contract with juventus which
 will see him stay with the Italian club until 1997, according to reports
 from turin.
 104    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSGOl1.MSG Words: 110 543023 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 NAB019 eaed112920Fike -- Chinese ambassador expounds positions on human
 rights
 105   united nations, november 29 (xinhua) -- a Chinese ambassador to the u.n.
 said today only dialogue on the basis of mutual respect and equality will
 be conducive to the world-wide human rights talks.
 106    File: D:PAXINHUA BMONPAMSG227.MSG Words: 349
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 108  543023 ql eeeee hkaee .aa INE011 hke -- isabel allende becomes president
 of Chile's socialist party
 109   Santiago, december 27 (xfnhua) -- isabel allende, daughter of Chile's late
 president Salvador allende, today took over as president of the socialist
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 party.
 110   Files DsPA%INHUA BTUEPAMSG012.MSG Words: 118 543024 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 PAB027 mee112934hke -- Iran demands return of hijacked plane
 111   tehran, november 30 (xinhua) -- iran today demanded the return of a
 hijacked franian plane together with its passengers, crew and the
 hijackers.
 112    File: D:PAXINHUA BMONPAMSG228.MSG Words: 193 S43024 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 IN6003 hke -- Chilean company gets 16-min-dlr loan for transformation
 113   Santiago, december 27 (xinhua) -- Chile's national mining company, "enawi
 chile," has got 16 million u.s. dollars in loan from the bank of america
 for decontamination in its smelting operation.
 114    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG013.MSG Words: 125 543025 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 HABO10 afg112922h~Ce -- crucial time for south african
 115    (by teng wengi)
 116   Johannesburg, november 29 (xinhua) -- south africa is facing a crucial
 decision-making this week for its profound political change.
 117    File: D:PAXINHUA BMONPAMSG229.MSG Words: 437 543025 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa SPB003 hke -- anand still leader in pca qualifier
 118   brussels, december 27 {xinhua) -- india's viswanathan anand spent only
 seven minutes to draw with american boric gulko to keep his lead after the
 eighth round in the professional chess association {pca) qualifying
 tournament in groningen of the netherlands on monday.
 119    Pile: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG014.MSG Words: 198 543026 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 HABO11 afg112925hke -- italy funds new dam in zimbabwe
 120   harare, november 29 (xinhua) -- zimbabwe and italy today signed an
 agreement to build the zhovhe dam on the mzingwane river.
 121    File: D:PA%INHUA BMONPAMSG230.MSG Words: 127 543026. q1 eeeee hkaee .aa
 INE008 hke -- 104 people die during Christmas in guatemala
 122   mexico city, december 27 (xinhua) -- at least 104 people died and more
 than 200 were injured during Christmas festivities in guatemala, according
 to a preliminary report reaching here today.
 123    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSGOIS.MSG Words: 152 543027 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB013 afg112924hke -- america to assist Somalia conditionally
 124   addis ababa, november 29 (xinhua) -- the united states will provide
 assistance for Somalia on the condition that the progress made under the
 presence of troops from the u.s. and many nations can be expanded and
 maintained, the u.s. government said today.
 125    File: D:PA%INHUA BMONPAMSG231.MSG Words: 253 543027 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 INE012 hke -- Colombia's mayor assassinated in boyaca
 126   santafe de bogota, december 27 (xinhua) -- Colombia's labranzagrande mayor
 maria zunilda millan wilches was assassinated in the department of boyaca
 Sunday, according to reports reaching here today.
 127    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG016.MSG Words: 140 543028 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 NAB022 eaed112921~ike -- study: no abnormality in ufo encounters found
 128   new york, november 29 (xinhua) -- a study of people who report encounters
 with unidentified flying objects (ufo) has found no tendency toward
 abnormality in them.
 129    File: D:PA%INHUA BMONPAMSG232.MSG Words: 273 543028 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
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 IAB001 hke-- Clinton to visit moscow in January
 130   moscow, december 27 (xinhua) -- united states president bill Clinton will
 make an official visit to moscow on January 12, seeking a broader
 bilateral partnership, the russian presidential press center said here
 today.
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 131   File: D:PAXINBUA BTUEPAMSG017.MSG Words: 152
 132  OW2812201593TAKE5
 133  S43029 ql eeeee hkaee .aa HAB015 afg112926hke -- Somalis urged to resolve
 their own problems
 134   addis ababa, november 29 (xinhua) -- ethiopian president melee zenawi and
 secretary-general of the organization of african unity Salim a. Salim have
 urged the Somalis to take initiatives to resolve their own problems, while
 calling for more aid to Somalia.
 135    File: D:PA%INBiJA BMONPAMSG233.MSG Words: 382 S43029 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 IUS002 hke -- major news in leading Philippine english newspapers
 136   manila, december 28 (xinhua) -- following are major news items in
 Philippine press today:
 137   manila bulletin:
 138   -- president Fidel ramos declared yesterday a state of calamity in 11
 provinces and 10 cities in visayas and mindanao which were severely hit by
 typhoon +puring+.
 139    File: D:PAXINHUA BTU$PAMSG018.MSG Words: 221 S43030 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB019 afg112927h&e -- riots erupt in maputo
 140   maputo, november 29 (xinhua) -- riots erupted today in xipam- amine
 district in maputo, capital of mozambique, when some residents attacked
 private minibuses and injured some people.
 141    File: D:PAXINHUA BMONPAMSG234.MSG Words: 186 543030 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 IWB002 hke -- french development bank authorized to help south africa
 142   Paris, december 27 (xinhua) -- the french development bank was authorized
 by the government to give financial help to south africa.
 143    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUSPAMSG019.MSG Words: 111 S43031 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB020 afg112928hke -- anc urges afrikner volkstront to stop making
 imprac-
 144    tical demands
 145   Johannesburg, november 29 (xinhua) -- time has arrived for afrikner
 volksfront (avf) to stop making impracgical demands, a statement by
 african national congress (anc) said today.
 146    File: D:PAXINSUA BMONPAM5GZ35.MSG Words: 214 S43031 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSB002 hke-china: beijing newspaper highlights
 147   beijing, december 28 (xinhua) -- highlights of today's major beijing-based
 newspapers:
 148    people's daily
 149   -- vice-premier zhu rongji has called for strenuous efforts to stabilize
 grain and edible oil prices to promote a market reform package planned for
 next year.
 150    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG020.MSG Words: 347 543032 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB022 afg112929hke -- tanzania urges coastal countries of east africa
 151    to expand tourism jointly
 152   dar es salaam, november 29 (xinhua) -- tanzania has called for joint
 efforts by coastal strip countries of east africa to develop transport to
 expand tourism in the region.
 153    File: D:PAXINHUA BMONPAMSG236.MSG Words: 213 543032 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSB003 hke-china: anhui sets up more markets
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 hefei,
 markets
 december 28 (xinhua) -- east china's anhui province has set up more
 to meet the demands of its rapid economic development.
 155
 F11e:
 D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG021.MSG Words: 148 543033 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 INE002 hke -- explosion of firedamp kills five in chile
 156
 santiago, november 29 (xinhua) -- five people were killed and six others
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 injured when gas exploded in a coal mine in the south of chile this
 morning, police said.
 157   File: D:PA%INHUA BMONPAMSG237.MSG Words: 115 543033 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSB004 hke -- Chinese voice identification technique invented
 158   Shenyang, december 28 (xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have invented a
 technique to identify voices speaking the Chinese language.
 159    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUBPAMSG022.M5G Words: 165 S43034 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 NAB028 eaed112922Fike -- china promises more effort for peace in mid-east
 160   united nations, november 29 (xinhua) -- china's ambassador to the united
 nations promised here today that it would make more effort in promoting
 the peace process in the middle east and provide mare support and
 assistance to the Palestinian people in their endeavor to rebuild their
 homes.
 161    File: D:PAXINHUA BMONPAMSG238.MSG Words: 405
 162   OW2812202093TAKE6
 163   543034 ql eeeee hkaee .aa IWE001 hke -- three killed, thousands evacuated
 in stormy weather in france
 164   Paris, december 27 (xinhua) -- three skiers were killed in an avalanche in
 the sips monday while thousands of residents were evacuated from areas
 threatened by torrential waters in northern france from a week-long stormy
 weather.
 165    Pile: D:PAXINSUA BTUSPAMSG023.MSG Words: 392 543035 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 INE003 hke -- chile, argentine cooperate in combating crimes
 166   santiago, november 29 (xinhua) -- police forces of chile and argentine
 will cooperate in controlling crimes in their countries, according to a
 document published here today.
 167    File: D:PAXINHUA BMONPAMSG239.MSG Words: 145 543035 q1 eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSB005 hke-china: materials market in china revived
 168   beijing, december 28 (xinhua) -- with the growing demand, china's
 materials market has started to recover after a long slide in prices.
 169    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG024.MSG Words: 289 S43036 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 NAB032 eaed112923Fike -- u.n. council extends undof's mandate
 170   united nations, november 29 (xinhua) -- the u.n. security council
 unanimously approved today an extension of mandate far the united nations
 disengagement observer force (undof).
 171    File: D:PAXINHUA BMONPAMSG240.MSG Words: 189 543036 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 IUE001 hke -- yugoslav president urges lifting of u.n. sanctions
 172   Belgrade, december 28 (xinhua) -- the president of the federal republic of
 yugoslavia appealed to the international community monday to lift united
 nations sanctions against his country and take immediate action to end the
 war in Bosnia-herzegovina.
 173    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG025.MSG Words: 298 543037 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSE003 hke- cfiinese scientists find substitute for tiger bones
 174   xining, december 28 (xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have found a substitute
 for tiger bones, an ingredient of traditional Chinese medicine.
 175    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG026.MSG Words: 291 543038 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WS8004 hke-- china news briefs
 176   beijing, december 28 (xinhua) -- today's news briefs:
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 280  havana, december 27 (xinhua) -- u.s. black leader Jesse Jackson said here
 today that the non-existence of u.s.-cuban contacts is something unnatural
 when old rivalries around the world are talking about ending of
 hostilities.
 181   Files D:PAXINSUA BTUEPAMSG028.MSG Words: 264 S43040 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
 HA8038 hke122803-- nepal celebrates king's birthday
 182   kathmandu, december 28 (xinhua) -- nepal celebrates king birendra's 49th
 birthday amidst a variety of programs from today on.
 183    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG029.MSG Words: 191 543041 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa SPE015 hke -- markova wins russfan figure skating championship
 184   moscow, december 27 (xinhua) -- a sensational optional program helped olga
 markova of st. petersburg become national champion on monday at the
 national figure skating championships fn st. petersburg, russia.
 185    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG030.MSG Words: 255 543042 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 INE015 hke -- cuban president confident fn better sugar output
 186   havana, december 27 (xinhua) -- Cuban president fidel Castro affirmed here
 today that the sugar output in the 1993-94 sugar cane season could top
 last year's yield of 4.2 million tons.
 187    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG031.MSG Words: 148
 188   OW2812202293TAKE7
 189   543043 ql eeeee hkaee .aa IWE003 hke -- crime in Italy down 5.9 percent
 190   rome, december 27 (xinhua) -- Italy's crime rate has declined this year by
 5.9 percent, interior minister nicola mancino announced on Christmas eve.
 191    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG032.MSG Words: 132 543044 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 IAE004 hke -- major news in pakistani press
 192   Islamabad, december 28 (xinhua) -- following are major news items in
 pakistani press today:
 193   the news
 194   -- Pakistan prime minister benazir Bhutto said Pakistan will resist all
 western moves against china.
 195    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG033.MSG Words: 120 543045 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa W5B008 hke-china: Bohai coastal cities expand urban areas
 196   Beijing, december 28 (xinhua) -- coastal cities around the Bohai bay are
 expanding their urban areas to cope with the booming local economy.
 197    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG034.MSG Words: 291 543046 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 IAE005 hke -- major news items in leading Indian newspapers
 198   new delhi, december 28 (xinhua) -- following are major news items in
 leading Indian english newspapers today:
 199   the hindustan times
 Z00   -- the congress party wanted finance minister manmahan singh not to press
 for his resignation, aicc (the all-India congress committee) spokesman
 chandulal chandrakar said yesterday.
 201    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG035.MSG Words: 138 543047 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB046 hke122804 - thai foreign minister to visit latin america
 202   Bangkok, december 28 (xinhua) -- thai foreign minister prasong soonsiri
 will make a two-week tour of latin america, aimed to boost political and
 economic ties, according to a foreign ministry source today..
 203    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG036.MSG Words: 88 S43048 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
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 HAB047 hke122805-- nepal to hold 4th national buddhist conference
 204   kathmandu, december 28 (xinhua) -- the fourth nepalese national buddhist
 conference will start in kapilbastu (western nepal) on January 4, 1994.
 205    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG037.MSG Words: 111 543049 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB049 hke122806-- thailand, Singapore plan business council
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 206  Bangkok, december 28 (xinhua) -- thafland and singapore will hasten the
 establishment of a business council to facilitate economic and trade
 cooperation between their private sectors.
 207   File: D:PAXINHUA BTUBPAMSG038.MSG Words: 183 543050 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 IAE006 hke-- major news items in leading Japanese newspapers
 208   tokyo, december 28 (xinhua) -- following are major news items in leading
 Japanese newspapers today.
 209    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAM5G039.MSG Words: 133 543051 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 INS016 hke -- clinton to visit moscow on Jan. 12
 210   Washington, december 27 (xinhua} -- u.s. president bill clinton will have
 comprehensive talks on bilateral relations with his russian counterpart
 Boris yeltsin during his visit to moscow from January 12 to 25, the white
 house announced here today.
 211    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG040.MSG Words: 222 543052 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 INE019 hke -- report: clinton to name talbott as deputy secretary of state
 212   Washington, december 27 (xinhua) -- president bill clinton will name his
 top advisor on russia and other states of former soviet union as deputy
 secretary of state, the associated press reported today.
 213    File: D:PAXINgUA BTUEPAMSG041.MSG Words: 177 543053 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB066 hke122806-- thailand, singapore plan business council
 214   Bangkok, december 28 (xinhua) -- thailand and singapore will hasten the
 establishment of a business council to facilitate economic and trade
 cooperation between their private sectors.
 215    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG042.MSG Words: 183
 216   OW2812202493TAKE8
 217   543054 qu eeeee hkaee .aa HAB068 hke122807-- japan to build nurses
 training school in sri Lanka
 218   colombo, december 28 (xinhua) -- the Japanese government has offered to
 construct and equip a modern nurses training school in the sri
 jayawrdenepura general hospital premises at kotte, 10 kilometers from
 colombo.
 219    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUBPAMSG043.MSG Words: 175 543055 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSW002 hke- s~no-russian boundary demarcation commission holds talks
 220   Beijing, december 28 (xinhua) -- the sino-russian boundary demarcation
 commission held its fourth session from december 15 to 27 here.
 221    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG044.MSG Words: 100 S43056 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSB009 hke-- china promulgates rules on natural resources tax
 222   Beijing, december 28 (xinhua) -- the state council, china's cabinet,
 promulgated the provisional regulations on natural resources tax today.
 223    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG045.MSG Words: 208 S43057 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSBO10 hke-china: electrification completed on yingtan-xiamen line
 224   fuzhou, december 28 (xinhua) -- the first electrified railway line in east
 china opened for service today after seven years of construction.
 225    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAM5G046.MSG Words: 122 543058 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB076 hke12280$-- nepalese promised to have free, fair by-elections
 226   kathmandu, december 28 (xinhua) -- the national election commission of
 nepal promised to have free and fair by-elections to be held in kathmandu
 and jhapa on february 7, 1994 for two vacant seats in the lower house.
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 227   File: U:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG047.MSG Words: 278 543059 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB079 hke122809-- special cell set up to save tigers in india
 228   new delhi, december 28 (xinhua) -- india has set up a special tiger crisis
 cell to meet the threat to the tiger population from organized poachers,
 an official release said here on monday.
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 229   File: D:PAXIN$UA BTUEPAMSG048.MSG Words: 206 543060 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB080 hke122810-- India needs dictatorship: survey
 230   new delhi, december 28 (xinhua) -- the majority of urban fndians feel that
 the country must be ruled by a dictator if it is to progress, according to
 a poll conducted by the marketing and research group (marg).
 231    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG049.MSG Words: 111 543061 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSE007 hke-china: xinjiang provides better environment for wildlife
 232   urumgi, december 28 (xinhua) -- northwest china's xinjiang uygur
 autonomous region has made unremitting efforts to provide the local
 wildlife with a better environment in recent years.
 233    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG050.MSG Words: 259 543062 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB081 hke122811-- army officers of 35 nations to meet in dhaka
 234   dhaka, december 28 (xinhua) -- army officers from 35 asia pacific nations
 will meet in dhaka from January 14-23, 1994 for the 18th pacific armies
 management seminar (pains).
 235    File: D:PAXINgITA BTUEPAMSG051.MSG Words: 190 543063 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB087 hke122812-- India offers technical aid to guyana
 236   new delhi, december 28 (xinhua) -- India has offered to assist guyana in
 its development efforts and enlarge bilateral ties between the two
 countries.
 237    File: D:PAXINBUA BTUEPAMSG052.MSG Words: 189 543064 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
 8AB089 hke122817-- public servants hold strike in vanuatu
 238   Canberra, december 28 (xinhua) -- public servants in vanuatu today turned
 down the government appeals for an end to the strike, which has hit the
 public services in the south pacific island nation.
 239    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAM5G053.MSG Words: 205
 240   OW2812202993TAKE9
 241   543065 ql eeeee hkaee .aa 8AB092 afg122801hke -- major news items in
 leading kenyan newspapers
 242   nairobi, december 28 (xinhua) -- following are major news items in leading
 kenyan newspapers today:
 243   kenya times
 244   -- the kenyan government monday lifted all restrictions on maize trade and
 will leberlize the marketing and pricing of the grain.
 245    File: D:PAXINBUA BTUBPAMSG054.MSG Words: 153 543066 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSB007 hke-china: incompetent cadres step aside for real performers
 246   hangzhou, december 28 (xinhua) -- in rural areas of east china's zheJiang
 province, officials who have failed to make achievements are being
 replaced by people who can bring benefits to the local economy.
 247    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSGOSS.MSG Words: 351 543067 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB093 afg122802hke -- kenyan police investigate fake notes
 248   nairobi, december 28 (xinhua) -- kenya police announced on monday it had
 started to track down those behind the printing of fake notes of kenya and
 tanzania.
 249    File: D:PAXINAUA BTUEPAMSG056.MSG Words: 114 S43068 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB101 hke122815-- Indonesian government closes down illegal mining site
 250   Jakarta, december 28 (xinhua) -- an illegal mining site near the Julang
 hill of cipanas district, west Java, was ordered to be closed after a
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 Christmas-eve landslide which buried alive 15 gold diggers.
 251   File: D:PAXINHUA $TUEPAMSG057.MSG Words: 294 543069 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSD008 hke- cfiina: 100 academic associations to build scientific park
 252   beijing, december 28 (xinhua) -- some 100 national academic units will
 open up china's first association-run scientific and technological park
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 here.
 253   File: D:PA%INHUA BTUEPAMSG058.MSG Words: 200 543070 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB104 afg122803h~Ce -- tamwa challenged on women meet in beijing
 254   dar es salaam, december 28 (xinhua) -- the tanzanian media women's
 association (tamwa) has been urged to disseminate in- formation concerning
 the fourth women's decade conference to be held in beijing, china in 1995.
 255    Files D:PA%INHUA BTUEPAMSG059.MSG Words: 173 543071 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB108 hke122816-= Indonesia to maintain opec-set production quota
 256   Jakarta, december 28 (xinhua) -- Indonesia's state-owned oil company,
 pertamina, will maintain its oil production capacity of 1.5 million
 barrels per ,day.
 257    File: D:PABINHUA BTUEPAMSG060.MSG Words: 221 543072 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSE004 hke-be~Jing: chinese official on human rights (1}
 258   beijing, december 28 (xinhua) -- people all over the world are striving to
 improve the human rights situation, but those who pursue. power politics
 and hegemonism in the disguise of promoters of human rights are doomed to
 fail.
 259    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG061.MSG Words: 668 S43073 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB110 afg122802hke -- kenyan police investigate fake notes
 260   nairobi, december 28 (xinhua) --- kenya police announced on monday it had
 started to track down those behind the printing of fake notes of kenya and
 tanzania.
 261    File: D:PAXINBUA BTUEPAMSG062.MSG Words: 167 543074 _ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa SPE016 hke --~yachtman rescued after three-hour ordeal
 262   Canberra, december 28 (xinhua) -- the skipper of a yacht participating in
 the sydney-to-hobart race was rescued from the chilling tasman sea monday
 night after he was washed overboard.
 263    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG063.MSG Words: 177 543075 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSE016 hke- cFiina news briefs
 264   beijing, december 28 (xinhua) -- today's news briefs
 265    local taxation reform
 266   east china's fujian province will take the lead in restructuring local
 taxation at the beginning of next year, according to official sources.
 267    File: D:PA%INHUA BTUBPAMSG064.MSG Words: 220
 268   OW2812203093TAKE1~
 269   S43076 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe .aa WSE010 hke-beijing: chinese official on
 human rights (2)
 270   when asked about the characteristics of the controversy over human rights
 worldwide in the past year, zhu said this was fully reflected at the world
 conference on human rights held in vienna in June of this year.
 271    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG065.MSG Words: 842 543077 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
 HA8119 hke122813-= yearender:
 272    pak-india remain in cold war in 1993 (part 1)
 273    (by wang hongyu, hu xiaoming)
 274   Islamabad, december 28 (xinhua) -- the year of 1993 has witnessed cold
 pak-india relations which wobbled along a rough and bumpy road.
 275    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG066.MSG Words: 269 543078 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB120 hke122813-= year-ender:
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 276   pak-india remain in cold war in 1993 (part ii)
 277  after benazir bhutto became prime minister for the second time in October,
 however, her indian counterpart narasimha rao in his felicitation message
 to benazir suggested that the two neighbors start talks +on matters of
 mutual concern, including issues related to Jammu and kashmir+.
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 278   File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAM5G067.MSG Words: 434 543079 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 PAB041 mee122801hke -- Israel to probe death of unifil soldier in lebanon
 279   Jerusalem, december 28 (xinhua) -- the Israeli military authorities has
 launched a top-level probe into a shooting incident fn south lebanon
 monday, in which a norwegian soldier of a u.n. interim force in lebanon
 (unifil) patrol was killed by an Israeli army tank fire.
 280    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG068.MSG Words: 394 543080 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa SPB002 hke -- xinhua sports year-ender (2) -- table tennis (take one)
 281    it's game that needs straightening up
 282    by sports writer yi gaochao
 283   Beijing, december 28 (xinhua) -- table tennis has come to such a crossroad
 that further progress requires improvement of the sport itself rather than
 of the ones who play it.
 284    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUBPAMSG069.MSG Words: 556 543081 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa SPB025 hke -- xinhua sports year-ender (2) -- table tennis (take two)
 285   china's deng, giao hong, Chen zihe, gao Jun and zheng yuan were all gunned
 down by Chinese nationals who now represent foreign nations.
 286    Pile: D:PAXINHUA BTUBPAMSG070.MSG Words: 357 543082 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSB012 hke-china: disabled better cared for in tibet
 287   lhasa, december 28 (xinhua) -- the tibet autonomous region has reported
 big progress in taking care of its disabled people over the past five
 years when a national five-year plan for the welfare of the disabled was
 implemented.                                        _
 288    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAM5G071.MSG Words: 261 543083 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSB005 hke-china: fujfan attracts strong foreign investment
 289   fuzhou, december 28 (xinhua) -- foreign business people are streaming into
 fujfan province to develop land.
 290    File: DsPAXINSUA BTUEPAMSG072.MSG Words: 460 543084 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSW006 hke- c~iinese, pakistan prime ministers hold talks in Beijing
 (1)
 291   Beijing, december 28 (xinhua) -- premier li peng and visiting pakistan
 prime minister benazir Bhutto spent two and half hours discussing
 bilateral ties, regional and international issues here today.
 292    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG073.MSG Words: 388 S43085 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB123 hke122818-- many blood donors carry ill germs, professor
 293   dhaka, december 28 (xinhua) -- according to official reports, 40 percent
 of professional blood donors in Bangladesh are carriers of germs of
 various diseases including hepatitis-b virus.
 294    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUBPAMSG074.MSG Words: 145 543086 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSW007 hke- cfiinese, pakistan prime ministers hold talks in Beijing
 (2) she reaffirmed pakistan's support to china's position on tibet, taiwan
 and hong kong.
 295    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG075.MSG Words: 456
 296   OW2812203293TAKEIi
 297   543087 qu eeeee hkaee .aa gAB127 hke122819-- 19 Singapore firms join
 billion-dollar club
 298   Singapore, december 28 (xinhua) -- nineteen more Singapore companies have
 joined the billion-dollar club in 1993.
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 299   File: D:PAXINBUA BTUEPAMSG076.MSG Words: 209 S43088 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 PA$043 mee122802hke -- major news items in leading egyptian newspapers
 300   Cairo, december 28 (xinhua) -- the following are major news items in
 leading egyptian newspapers today.
 301    File: D:PA%INHUA BTUEPAMSG077.MSG Words: 173 S43089 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
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 HAB138 hke122821-- sri lankan economy healthy in 1993: central bank head
 302   Colombo, december 28 (xinhua) -- governor of sri lanka's central bank h.b.
 dissananyake has said that the country's economy was healthy in 1993 and
 predicted that the economy would grow stronger in 1994, local news agency
 lankapuvath reported today.
 303    Piles D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG078.MSG Words: 174 S43090 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 PA8044 mee122803hke -- uae-russia trade to reach 1 billion u.s.dollar
 304   abu dhabi, december 28 (xinhua) -- the bilateral trade between the united
 arab emirates (uae) and russia in 1993 is expected to reach 1 billion u.s.
 dollars, according to the official uae news agency +wam.+
 305   the booming trade has been brought in by tens of thousands of russians who
 traveled to the gulf oil-rich country by air.
 306    File: D:PAXINSUA BTUEPAMSG079.MSG Words: 358 543091 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
 PA8045 mee122$04hke -- three men killed in cairo robbery
 307   cairo, december 28 (xinhua) -- three men were killed by three unidentified
 persons monday night in a jewelry shop robbery incident in Cairo's
 al-zeiton district, the official middle east news agency (mena) reported
 today.
 308    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG080.MSG Words: 173 S43092 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSDO11 hke-china: no change to nuclear industry's strategic
 importance:
 309    cnnc general manager
 310   beijing, december 2$ (xinhua) -- china will continue keeping an elite task
 force of nuclear scientists, the top executive of the china national
 nuclear corporation (cnnc) said here today.
 311    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG081.MSG Words: 386 543093 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
 PAB047 mee122805hke -- cyprus paralyzed by strike
 312   nicosia, december 28 (xinhua) -- cyprus was paralyzed today by a 24-hour
 strike launched by civil servants which has also affected all flights in
 and out of the island.
 313    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG082.MSG Words: 313 S43094 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSE019 hke-china: xinhua stock indices change mixedly
 314   beijing, december 28 (xinhua}-- xinhua a and b stocks indices, indicators
 of operation for china's securities market, underwent mixed changes today.
 315    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSGO$3.MSG Words: 106 S43095 ql eeeee hkmee hkdwe
 .aa WSW003 hke- "china's economy basically sound in 1993"
 316   beijing, december 28 (xinhua) -- china's economy was basically sound in
 1993, with remarkable results achieved in economic development, reforv and
 opening up, according to a press release from the state statistics bureau
 here today.
 317    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG084.MSG Words: 501 543096 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSB005 hke-china: hainan holds more international symposia
 318   haikou, december 28 (xinhua) -- south china's hainan province, the
 country's largest special economic zone, is becoming an important forum
 for international symposia.
 319    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG085.MSG Words: 110 543097 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSE015 hke-china: rare sturgeon flourishing
 320   yichang, december 28 (xinhua) -- there has been a sustained growth in the
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 number of Chinese sturgeon, a rare fish, thanks to a nationwide drive to
 protect endangered wildlife over the past dozen years.
 321
 File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG086.MSG Words: 255
 322
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 323
 S43098 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe .
 aa WSBO11 hke-china: guizhou speeds up
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 afforestation
 324   guiyang, december 28 (xinhua) -- southwest china's guizhou province has
 accelerated the pace of using overseas funds to green its hills, according
 to a local official.
 325    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAM5G087.MSG Words: 250 543099 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSE008 hke-china: steel complex helps poor farmers
 326   Chengdu, december 28 (xinhua) -- the panzhihua iron and steel company in
 southwest china's sichuan province has decided to spend two million yuan
 helping nearby villages develop rural industry.
 327    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG088.MSG Words: 362 543100 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSE011 hke-china: new theory for forest fire forecasts
 328   beijing, december 28 (xinhua) -- a chinese scientist has put forward a new
 theory which will be helpful in the forecasting, preventing and
 controlling forest fires, according to sources at the national committee
 for natural science funding.
 329    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG089.MSG Words: 173 543101 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 IAE007 hke -- Japanese economy crawls at bottom
 330   tokyo, december 28 (xinhua) -- 1993 remains a bad year for japan as its
 gross national product is expected to grow at a zero rate or even drop by
 0.5 percent, marking the worst record in two decades.
 331    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG090.MSG Words: 437 543102 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 IWE004 hke -- major news in british press
 332   london, december 28 (xinhua) -- following are the major news items in
 leading british newspapers today:
 333   the times:
 334   -- plo split deepens mood of despair as peace talks resume.  hopes of
 reviving the middle east dialogue appear doomed before negotiators meet.
 Israel has nothing to offer.
 335    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG091.MSG Words: 172 543103 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSB015 hke-china: fujian foreign trade sees remarkable rise
 336   Fuzhou, december 28 (xinhua) -- east china's fujian province has seen a
 remarkable increase in its imports and exports this year, local trade
 officials said here today.
 337    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG092.MSG Words: 331 543104 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 as WSE022 hke-china: weather forecast for major foreign cities
 338   beijing, december 28 (xinhua) -- weather forecast for 10 major foreign
 cities for the next 24 hours from 20:00 today to 20:00 on december 29
 issued by china's central meteorological station at 17:00 today:
 339   tokyo: min. 4 degrees c., max. 11 degrees c., cloudy.
 340    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG093.MSG Words: 171 543105 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSE021 hke-china: weather forecast for major chinese cities
 341   beijing, december 28 (xinhua) -- weather forecast for 12 major chinese
 cities for the next 24 hours from 20:00 today to .20:00 on december 29
 issued by china's central meteorological station at 17:00 today:
 342   beijing: min. -3 degrees c., max. 0 degree c., clear to light snow, calm
 to gentle breeze.
 343    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG094.MSG Words: 242 543106 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB169 afg122804hke -- uganda's cocoa future good: expert
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 344  kampala, december 28 (xinhua) -- cocoa would come out to be the leading
 foreign exchange earner for Uganda if enough support was given to fund the
 cocoa development project, director of the project j.m. muwanga has said.
 345   File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG095.MSG Vords: i93 S43107 qu eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSE02~ hke-china: airliner hijacked to taiwan
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 346  beijing, december 28 (xinhua) -- a civil airliner of the Chinese mainland
 was hijacked to taiwan today.
 347   File: D:PAXINHilA BTUEPAMSG096.MSG Words: 97 S43108 qu eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa SPE028 hke -= 14 cities eyeing 2004 summer Olympics, ioc bulletin
 348   geneva, december 28 (xinhua) -- fourteen cities on five continents are
 interested in bidding for the rights to host the 2004 olympic summer
 games, according to the weekly bulletin of the international olympic
 committee.
 349    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG097.MSG Words: 172
 350   OW2812203993TAKE1'3
 351   543109 qu eeeee hkdwe .aa SPE029
 352    s. korean boxer appeals against wbc decision
 353   Seoul, december 28 (xinhua) -- byun jung-il of south korea appealed to the
 world boxing council against his bantamweight title defeat in japan on
 december 23.
 354    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG098.MSG Words: 92 543110 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB179 afg122805hke -- police reinforcements to stop beach clash,
 355    says durban mayor
 356   johannesburg, december 28 (xinhua} -- police reinforcements are to patro
 lbeaches in south africa's port city of durban over the coming new year
 weekend to prevent a repeat of Sunday's racial clashes.
 357    File: D:PA3LINHIJA BTUEPAMSG099.MSG Words: 303 543111 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB180 hke122822 - yearender: 1993 sees mixed economic picture in nz
 358    (part 1)
 359    (by yang guojun)
 360   wellington, december 27 (xinhua) -- new zealand's economy in 1993 has
 shown strong growth at a speed higher than most of the western countries,
 while its unemployment remains stubbonly high and the overseas debt stands
 at +unacceptable+ level.
 361    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG100.MSG Words: 280 543112 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB181 hke122823-- 1993 sees mixed economic picture in nz (part 2)
 362   another +fatal threat+ to checking the projected sustained economic growth
 from a long-term perspective is the 6b billion n.z. dollars (36.3 billion
 u.s. dollars) overseas debt, which accounted for about 88 percent of nz's
 annual gdp, despite the sales of about 12 billion n.z. dollars (6.6
 billion u.s. dollars) state assets to private owners, mainly to foreign
 investors, over
 363    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSGIOI.MSG Words: 345 S43113 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB182 afg122806hke -- major news items in leading zimbabwean newspapers
 364   harare, december 28 (xinhua} -- following are major news items in leading
 zimbabwean newspapers today:
 365   the daily gazette
 366   -- the organization of african unity (oau) announced in addis ababa on
 monday it had postponed indefinitely the arrival in Bujumbura of the
 protection and confidence building force it
 367    File: D:PAXINEUA_BTUEPAMSG102.M5G Words: 133 S43114 qu eeeee hkdwe .aa
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 368    petrovic named best european player of year (basketball)
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 371   says durban mayor
 372  johannesburg, december 28 (xinhua) -- police reinforcements are to patrol
 beaches in south africa's port city of durban over the coming new year
 weekend to prevent a repeat of sunday's racial clashes.
 373   Ffle: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG104.MSG Words: 303 543116 qu eeeee hkdwe .aa
 SPE032
 374   rally cars set off in paris-dakar race
 375   paris, december 28 (xinhua) -- a pack of 259 motor vehicles zoomed off the
 starting ramp on tuesday and headed into the 1993-94 paris-dakar-paris
 motor rally race.
 376    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG105.MSG Words: 82 543117 qu eeeee hkdwe .aa
 SPB031
 377    results of junior ice hockey worlds
 378   Prague, december 28 (xinhua) -- following are the world junior ice hockey
 championship results from monday's competitions held in Ostrava, the czech
 republic (period scores in brackets):
 379   Sweden bt russia 3-0 (0-0, 3-0, 0-0)
 380   finland bt czech republic 7-3 (3-0, 1-2, 3-1) enditem
 381    File: D:PAXINSUA BTUEPAMSG106.MSG Words: 68 543118 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 IWB006 hke -- major news items in french press
 382   paris, december 28 (xinhua) -- following are major news items in leading
 french papers today:
 383   le monde:
 384   -- china celebrates centenary of the birth of late mao zedong.
 385    File: D:PA%INSUA BTUEPAMSG107.MSG Words: 138
 386   OW2812204093TAKE1~-
 387   543119 ql eeeee hkaee .aa PAB052 mee12280bhke -- grenade explosion kills
 three in iran
 388   tehran, december 28 (xinhua) -- three school pupils were killed in a
 grenade explosion in mashhad, iran's northeast province of khorasan, local
 daily +abrar+ reported today.
 389    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG108.MSG Words: 112 543120 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB194 afg122807hke -- ec grants 2.5 million u.s. dollars to ugandan silk
 390    farmers
 391   kampala, december 28 (xinhua) -- the european community (ec) has granted
 2.5 million u.s. dollars to ugandan silk farmers in a bid to diversify and
 develop the silk-farming in the country, reported the local daily +the new
 vision+ today.
 392    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG109.MSG Words: 172 S43121 ql eeeee hkdwe .aa
 WSE020 china: inland enterprises get loans from overseas
 393   guiyang, december 28 (xinhua) -- the guizhou hongyang sealing products co.
 ltd., china's leading producer of automobile sealing materials, recently
 got a loan of five million u.s. dollars from the hongkong-based nanyang
 commercial bank and the guizhou branch of the bank of china.
 394    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG110.MSG Words: 259 543122 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB195 hke122831-- yearender: Philippines sets off for new vision in 1993
 395    (part 1)
 396    (by lu xiaoming)
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 397  manila, december 28 (xinhua) -- after years of turbulence that left the
 country a laggard behind its booming neighbors, the Philippines finally
 embarked onto a catch-up track in 1993, though at a pace much slower than
 expected.
 398   File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG111.MSG Words: 338 543123 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
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 HAB196 hke122832-- Philippines sets off for new vision in 1993 (part 2)
 399   to create a broader environment conducive to development, the government
 has continued pursuing the peace process to end decades-old strifes with
 three major rebel groups.
 400    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUBPAMSG112.MSG Words: 399 543124 ql eeeee hkdwe .aa
 WSE026
 401    yearender:
 402    hong kong important to asian-pacific brisk growth (1)
 403    (by yang guogiang)
 444   hong kong, december 28 (xinhua) -- as the economic center of gravity of
 the 1990s is gradually shifting from the west to the east, hong kong, one
 of the six dynamic asian dragons leading global growth in 1993, sustained
 its unique position as anasian-pacific financial, trade and
 communications center and "the
 405    Ffle: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG113.MSG Words: 517 S43125 q1 eeeee hkdwe .aa
 WSE029
 406   hk's poster enters guinness book of records
 407   hong kong, december 28 (xinhua) -- the creation of the world's largest
 poster on October 26 this year in hong kong has been officially entered in
 the guinness book of records.
 408    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG114.MSG Words: 142 543126 ql eeeee hkdwe .aa
 WS8028
 409    yearender:
 410    hong kong important to asian-pacific brisk growth (2)
 411    (by yang guogiang)
 412   "america's future is increasingly linked with asia," u.s.  secretary of
 state warren Christopher said, adding "i'm setting a goal of trying to
 double those exports to the asian-pacific region in the next decade and to
 double the number of american jobs that will be produced by those
 exports."
 413    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG115.MSG Words: 513 543127 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 PAB053 mee122807hke -- iranian press on possible u.s. war against iran
 414   tehran, december 28 (xinhua) -- an Iranian newspaper with strong
 government background today made its first reaction to western reports
 about possible u.s. war against Iran.
 415    File: D:PAXINHUA_BTUEPAMSG116.MSG Words: 348 S43128 ql eeeee hkdwe .aa
 WSE025
 416    yunnan province builds massive hydroelectric power station
 417   kunming, december 28 (xinhua) -- preparations began today for the building
 of a hydroelectric power station with a generating capacity of 1.35
 million kilowatts on the lancang river in southwest china's yunnan
 province.
 418    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG117.M5G Words: 249
 419   OW2812204293TAKE1~
 420   543129 ql eeeee hkaee .aa IUE013 hke -- Japan's current account surplus
 turns lower in november
 421   tokyo, december 28 (xinhua) -- Japan's current account surplus fell 20.6
 percent in november from a year earlier, the finance ministry said today.
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 422   File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG118.MSG Words: 104 543130 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 PAB054 mee122808hke -- more than one ton of drug seized in Iran
 423   tehran, december 28 (xinhua) -- iranian police have seized some 1,000
 kilograms (kgs) of various kinds of narcotics in zahedan, Iran's southeast
 province of sistan-baluchestan during the past two months.
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 424   File: D:PA%INHUA BTUEPAMSG119.MSG Words: 200 S43131 ql eeeee hkdwe .aa
 WSE023
 425    beijing traditional chinese medicine college renamed
 426   beijing, december 28 (xinhua) -- the beijing college of traditional
 chinese medicine, the key national college of chinese medicine, today
 changed its name to the beijing university of traditional chinese
 medicine.
 427    Pile: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG120.MSG Words: 188 543132 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSD017 hke-chinese president meets pakistan prime minister
 428   beijing, december 28 (xinhua) -- president Jiang zemin and visiting
 Pakistan prime minister benazir bhutto had an hour-long discussion on
 bilateral relations and other issues here today.
 429    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG121.MSG Words: 260 543133 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB205 afg122808hke -- investment rises in Uganda
 430   kampala, december 28 (xinhua) -- investment projects licensed by Uganda
 investment authority (uia) have risen greatly to 317 worth 657 million
 u.s. dollars during the financial year 1992/93 from 99 projects worth 230
 million dollars during the previous year.
 431    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSGI22.MSG Words: 215 543134 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
 PAB055 mee122809hke -- Israel's peace activists to protect orient house
 432   Jerusalem, december 28 (xinhua) -- activists of gush shalom, an Israeli
 peace organization, will hold a vigil today, together with Palestinian
 activists, at east Jerusalem's +orient house+ -- headquarters of the
 Palestinian negotiating team.
 433    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG123.MSG Words: 370 S43135 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB210 hke122826-- Philippine stock market posts highest single-day rise
 434   manila, december 28 (xinhua) -- after a three-day Christmas break, share
 prices here recorded the highest ever single-day increase-today to the
 dizzying heights in both of the country's two stock exchanges as investors
 continued their buying frenzy.
 435    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG124.MSG Words: 273 543136 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 IUB012 hke -- dollar posts seven-month high in tokyo
 436   tokyo, december 28 (xinhua) -- the u.s. dollar continued to surge against
 the yen to close at 111.45 yen, a seven-month high on the tokyo foreign
 exchange market today.
 437    File: D:PAXIIJHUA BTUEPAMSG125.MSG Words: 152 S43137 ql eeeee hkdwe .aa
 WSE018
 438    china is to accelerate reform of tourism industry
 439   tafyuan, december 28 (xinhua) -- china is to speed up the reform of its
 tourist planning and investment structure next year, an official said here
 recently.
 440    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG126.MSG Words: 389 543138 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB213 afg122809h&e -- yearender: malawi on process of political
 transition
 441    by qiu xiaoyi
 442   lusaka, december 28 (xinhua) -- 1993 has witnessed the process of
 political transition in malawi from one-party rule to multi-party politics
 after a three-decade rule by the malawi congress party (mcp) led by
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 president kamuzu Banda.
 443   File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG127.MSG Words: 526 543139 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB215 hke122823-- png denies military move to recapture copper mine
 444   Canberra, december 28 (xinhua) -- the Papua new guinea (png) government
 has denied reports that its troops took military actions this morning to
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 recapture the panguna copper mine in central bougainville.
 445   File: D:PA%INHUA BTUEPAMSG128.MSG Words: 248
 446   OW2812204793TAKE1~
 447   543140 ql eeeee hkaee .aa PAB056 mee122810hke -- pullout of Iraqi families
 from kuwait extended
 448   kuwait city, december 28 (xinhua) -- deadline of pullout of Iraqi families
 from kuwaiti side, which was scheduled to be at the end of this month, had
 been delayed for another five days.
 449    File: D:PAXINSUA BTUEPAMSG129.MSG Words: 281 543141 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSD018 hke-china-pakistan:cppcc chairman meets pm bhutto
 450   beijing, december 28 (xinhua) -- li ruihuan, chairman of the national
 committee of the Chinese people's political consultative conference
 (cppec), said here today that china and Pakistan enjoy close ties, which
 have solid basis and strong vitality.
 451    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG130.MSG Words: 425 543142 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSD023 hke-ch~nese foreign minister meets Pakistan counterpart
 452   beijing, december 28 (xinhua) -- vice-premier and foreign minister gian
 gichen met with Pakistan foreign minister sardar aseff ahmad ali and they
 exchanged ideas on bilateral relations and regional issues here today.
 453    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG131.MSG Words: 214 543143 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
 PAB057 mee122811h&e -- plo, Israel resume peace talks on autonomy
 454   cairo, december 28 (xinhua} -- the Palestine liberation organization (plo)
 and Israel resumed their secret negotiations here today with both sides
 hoping to reach an agreement on the start of Israeli-withdrawal from the
 occupied gaza and jericho.
 455    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAM5G132.MSG Words: 714 543144 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 PAB058 mee122812hke -- Iran announces support for ceasefire in afghanistan
 456   tehran, december 28 (xinhua) -- Iranian foreign ministry here today
 announced the country's support for the ceasefire agreement reached
 between rival afghan mujahideen groups.
 457    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG133.MSG Words: 243 543145 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB229 hke122824-- roundup: singapore, thailand on way to partnership
 458    (by cai ximei)
 459   singapore, december 28 (xinhua) -- the relations between singapore and
 thailand are now even closer than before as an important result of prime
 minister goh chok tong's visit to thailand on december 27-28.
 460    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG134.MSG Words: 485 543146 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 IUE014 hke -- xinhua international news summary at 1400 gmt december 28
 461   cairo -- the Palestine liberation organization (plo) and Israel resumed
 their secret negotiations here today with both sides hoping to reach an
 agreement on the start of Israeli withdrawal from the occupied gaza and
 jericho.
 462    File: DsPAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG135.MSG Words: 126 543147 ql eeeee hkdwe .aa
 WSE027
 463    china's human rights society holds board meeting
 464   beijing, december 28 (xinhua) -- the human rights society of china held a
 meeting of the executive directors here today.
 465    File: D:PAXINflUA_BTUEPAMSG136.MSG Words: 184 S43148 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
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 HAB231 hke122833-- singapore volunteers to leave for botswana
 466   singapore, december 28 (xinhua) -- four volunteers will leave here for
 botswana on a two-year mission under the singapore volunteers overseas
 program.
 467    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG137.MSG Words: 103 543149 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
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 .aa WSE033 hke-hijacked airliner returned to mainland
 468   beijing, december 28 (xinhua) -- a civil airliner of the mainland hijacked
 to taiwan this afternoon was returned to the southeastern coastal city of
 xiamen tonight, according to caac.
 469    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG138.MSG Words: 82 543150 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 INE022 hke -- major news in u.s. press
 470   Washington, december 28 (xinhua) -- following are major news items in
 leading u.s. newspapers today:
 471   the new york times:
 472   -- Israel and the palestine liberation organization began a third round of
 talks yesterday in an effort to remove the remaining obstacles to an
 Israeli withdrawal from the occupied
 473    File: D:PAXINBUA BTUEPAMSG139.MSG Words: 202
 474   OW2812204993TAKE17
 475   S43151 ql eeeee hkaee .aa IWE009 hke -- prince charles wants business
 ambassadorial role
 476   london, december 28 (xinhua) -- the heir to the british throne, prince
 charles, is seeking a new role for himself as "royal ambassador" for
 british business abroad, the times newspaper said today.
 477    File: D:PAXINHUA BTU$PAMSG140.MSG Words: 232 S43152 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
 SAB235 hke122835-- sri lanky to launch poverty lifting program in 1994
 478   Colombo, december 28 (xinhua) -- over 750 community projects will be
 undertaken and completed countrywide in the year 1994. by the janasaviya
 (poverty elimination) fund to benefit some 45,000 poverty-stricken
 families of sri lanky, a senior official has said.
 479    Pile: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG141.MSG Words: 166 543153 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB236 hke122836-- 23 killed by typhoon poring in philippines
 480   manila, december 28 (xinhua) -- typhoon poring, which has hit the central
 and southern philippines since Sunday, has killed at least 23 people and
 rendered tens of thousands of people homeless.
 481    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG142.MSG Words: 164 543154 qu eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa SPE035 hke -- china win women's volleyball exhibition matches
 482   shanghai, december 28 (xinhua) -- china won two demonstration women's
 volleyball matches on tuesday, beating a world all-star and a Cuban
 squads.
 483    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG143.MSG Wordss 208 543155 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSE031 hke-china: cppcc national committee to hold second session
 484   beijing, december 28 (xinhua) -- the second session of the eighth national
 committee of the Chinese people's political consultative conference
 (cppcc) is going to be held in mid-march next year in beijing.
 485    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG144.MSG Words: 105 543156 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSE030 hke-china: establishing socialist market economy is entirely
 new
 486    undertaking: li ruihuan
 487   beijing, december 28 (xinhua) -- li ruihuan, a top Chinese leader, said
 today the establishment of a socialist market economic structure is an
 "entirely new undertaking" and a "profound revolution" as well.
 488    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG145.MSG Words: 547 S43157 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
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 HA8239 hke122838-- 5,500 cancer cases detected each year in sri lanky
 489   Colombo, december 28 (xinhua) -- cancer has ranked among the 10 leading
 causes of mortality in sri lanky with 5,500 new cases of the disease
 detected each year among its 17 million population, local news agency
 lankapuvath reported today.
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 490   Files D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG146.MSG Words: 168 S43158 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 IUSO15 hke -- yeltsin appoints russia's arms trade chief
 491   moscow, december 28 (xinhua) -- russian president boris yeltsin today
 appointed vladimir samoilov as head of a state-run corporation to handle
 the country's exports and imports of arms and military equipment.
 492    Files D:PAgINSUA BTUEPAMSG147.MSG Words: 180 543159 ql eeeee hkdwe .aa
 WSE032
 493    shenzhen opens futures exchange
 494   shenzhen, december 28 (xinhua) -- the first united futures exchange opened
 in shenzhen city in south china today.
 495    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG148.MSG Words: 123 543160 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
 BAB240 hke122839-- singapore sets up fund for manufacturers
 496   singapore, december 28 (xinhua) -- the singapore government has set up a
 one billion singapore dollars (b20 million u.s.  dollars) fund to give
 manufacturers of the country a competitive edge by developing their core
 capabilities.
 497    F11e: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG149.MSG Words: 214 S43161 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB241 hke122840-- malaysia urges israel to do more for Palestinians
 498   kuala lumpur, december 28 (xinhua) -- malaysia is holding a +wait and see+
 attitude toward israel before it recognizes the latter, said prime
 minister mahathir mohamad.
 499    File: D:PAXINSUA BTUEPAMSGISO.MSG Words: 162
 500   OW2812205193TAKE1$
 501   543162 qu eeeee hkaee .aa HAB242 hke122841-- indonesia offers cooperation
 to south pacific countries
 502   Jakarta, december 28 (xinhua) -- indonesia is ready to develop a close
 cooperation with countries in the south pacific region, president soeharto
 said here today when receiving credentials from marshall islands'
 ambassador laurence n. edwards.
 503    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG151.MSG Words: 204 543163 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSE035 hke-ch~na:adequate grain for a happy festival: li tieying
 504   tian3in, december 28 {xinhua) --a senior chinese official, li tieying,
 called for local governments to make immediate and concerted efforts to
 ensure adequate grain supplies during the chinese lunar new year festival.
 505    Files D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG152.MSG Words: 337 543164 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 PAB062 mee122813hke -- palestinian-israeli security committee meets today
 506   Cairo, december 28 (xinhua) -- the palestinian-israeli security committee,
 co-chaired by palestinian president yasser arafat's political adviser
 nabil sheath and the israeli army deputy chief of staff amnon shahak, met
 here today.
 507    File: D:PA7QNHUA BTUEPAMSG153.MSG Words: 400 543165 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB244 hke122843-- new k.l. airport cost lower than estimated
 508   kuala lumpur, december 28 (xinhua) -- the cost of new kuala lumpur
 international airport will be under 8 billion ringgit (about 3.08 billion
 u.s. dollars), much less than the original projection, deputy prime
 minister anwar Ibrahim said today.
 509    File: D:PARINHUA BTUEPAMSG154.MSG Words: 196 543166 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 PAB063 mee122814hke -- lebanon's president hopes to see south lebanon
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 510   liberated in 1994
 511  Beirut, december 28 (xinhua) -- lebanese president elias hrawi has
 expressed his hope that the year of 1994 will witness the liberation of
 south lebanon from israeli occupation.
 512   File: D:PA%INHUA BTUEPAMSG155.MSG Words: 285 543167 ql eeeee hicdwe .aa
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 WSE036
 513   biggest single-day stock index gain recorded in hk
 514   hong kong, december 28 (xinhua) -- bong kong's stock market blue chip
 indicator, hang sang index, today piled on more points than in any other
 trading session in its history with a leap of 530 to a record close of
 11,570 points.
 515    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG156.MSG Words: 169 543168 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 IWE010 hke -- key frankfort markets fixed rates
 516   Bonn, december 28 (xinhua) -- following are the major market medium rates
 in frankfort today: 1 deutsche mark 0.5879 u.s. dollar 1 u.s. dollar
 0.6644 sterling
 517    5.7981 french francs
 51$    111.2062 Japanese yen
 519    File: D:PAXINNtTA_BTUSPAMSG157.MSG Words: 77 543169 qu eeeee hkdwe .aa
 5PE036
 520    results of paris-dakar motor rally
 521   paris, december 28 (xinhua) -- following are results for tuesday's stage
 of four kilometers of the 1993-94 paris-dakar-paris motor rally:
 522. car category:
 523   1. Bruno Baby, franca, mitsubishi, 5 minutes 4 seconds
 524   2. pierre lartigue, franca, Citroen, same time
 525   3. didier auriol, franca, Citroen, at 12 seconds behind
 526    Pile: D:PAXINflI1A BTUEPAMSG158.MSG Words: 167 543170_gl eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSE034 hke-china opens first capital goods exchange in free trade
 zones
 527   shanghai, december 28 (xinhua) -- china's first duty-free capital goods
 exchange in free trade zones opened here today as part of the nation's
 effort to get in gear with the global market.
 528    Pile: D:PAXINHUA BTUBPAMSG159.MSG Words: 167 543171 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB245 hke122842-- indonesian investment board asked to increase services
 529   Jakarta, december 28 (xinhua) -- indonesian president soeharto has given
 instructions to the investment coordinating board to increase services for
 investors in the face of stiff competition.
 530    Files D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG160.MSG Words: 229
 531   OW2812205893TAKE1~3
 532   543172 ql eeeee hkaee .aa IUE016 hke -- uzbekistan parliament speaker
 resigns
 533   moscow, december 2$ (xinhua) -- the uzbekistan parliament today accepted
 the resignation of its speaker sh. yuldashev, the interfax news agency
 said.
 534    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG1b1.MSG Words: 74 543173 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB246 hke122844 - guyana hopes india to supply technical assistance
 535   new delhi, december 28 (xinhua) -- guyana requested india to give
 technical assistance in specific fields like sugar industry.
 536    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG162.MSG Words: 146 543174 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 PAB064 mee122815hke -- israeli warplanes blast south lebanon
 537   Beirut, december 28 (xinhua) -- israeli warplanes thundered suspected
 guerrilla bases of hezbollah in south lebanon twice this morning, injuring
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 three people, including two hezbollah members, according to a lebanese
 security source.
 538   File: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG163.MSG Words: 195 543175 ql eeeee hkdwe .aa
 WSW012
 539   china: civil aviation needs reorganising, say legislators
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 540  beijing, december 28 (xinhua) -- Chinese legislators said today that the
 country's civil aviation industry must adopt a new management system to
 beef up the safety control and improve air services.
 541   File: D:PAXINHUA BTUBPAMSG164.MSG Words: 386 543176 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 NAB025 eaed122801fike -- prince charley wants new ambassadorial role
 S42   london, december 28 (xinhua) -- the heir to the british throne, prince
 Charles, is engaged in talks with government ministers on developing a new
 role for himself as "royal ambassador" for british business abroad, the
 times newspaper said today.
 543    File: D:PAXINSUA BTUSPAtiSG165.lISG Words: 245 543177 ql eeeee hkaee hkdwe
 .aa WSH006 hke-china: cppcc national committee to hold second session
 544   beijing, december 28 (xinhua) -- the second session of the eighth national
 committee of the Chinese people's political consultative conference
 (cppcc) fs going to be held in early march next year in beijing.
 545    Files D:PAJCINHUA BTUBPAMSG166.MSG Words: 106 543178 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 IUB018 hke -- 100 japanese local government officials implicated in
 546    corruption
 S47   tokyo, december 28 (xinhua) -- one hundred public officials from 77 local
 government administrations in japan were implicated in bribe-taking cases
 during the fiscal year 1992 which ended march 31, the kyodo news service
 reported today.
 548    File: D:PAXINHUA BTUI~PAHSG167.MSG Words: 225 543179 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 IUE017 hke -- yugoslav military sets june 16 as army day
 549   belgrade, december 28 (xinhua) -- Yugoslavia's supreme defense council has
 set june 16 as the country's army day.
 550    File: D:PAgINSUA BTUEPAMSG168.MSG Words: 70 543180 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 BAB248 afg122810hke -- over 400 children die in mozambique every day
 551   maputo, december 28 (xinhua) -- an official from the united nations
 children's fund (unfcef) said here on monday that over 400 children die of
 various diseases every day in mozambique.
 552    Files D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG169.MSG Words: 197 S43181 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB255 afg122811hke -- world bank to co-finance gas project in nigeria
 553   lagos, december 28 (xinhua) -- the world bank is to co-finance an
 off-shore gas gathering and extraction project in nigeria with 80 million
 u.s. dollars.
 554    File: D:PABINHUA BTUSPAMSG170.MSG Wordss 178 543182 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 HAB256 afg122812h&e -- zambia fights red locusts
 555   lusaka, december 28 (xinhua) -- red locusts, which have invaded border
 regions of zambia's southern and western provinces, have been checked and
 reduced after wide-spread spraying exercises organized by the ministry of
 agriculture.
 S56    Pile: D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAM5G171.MSG Words: 168
 S57   OW281220S993TAKE2S
 558   543183 ql eeeee hkaee .aa EAB257 afg122813hke -- fao forecasts 20 percent
 decline in nigeria's
 559    rice output
 560   lagos, december 28 (xinhua) -- food and agriculture organization (fao) of
 the united nations has predicted that nigeria's paddy rice output will
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 decline by 20 percent during the current cropping season.
 561   Files D:PAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG172.MSG Words: 149 S43184 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 NAB028 eaed122602Fike -- radiation biologist warns about radiation test
 562   new york, december 2$ (xinhua) -- the u.s. government official who
 directed radiation tests on human subjects was warned that the research
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 would invite public criticism and comparison to nazi experiments,
 according to a report here today.
 563   Pile: D:PAXINSUA BTUEPAMSG173.MSG Words: 507 543185 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 NAB029 eaed122803rike -- greek mayors condemn recognition of macedonia
 564   athens, december 28 (xinhua) -- greece's thrace and macedonia mayors today
 condemned the recognition of macedonia by six ec member states.
 565    File: DsPAXINHUA BTUEPAMSG174.MSG Words: 183 S43186 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
 PAB074 mee122816h~Ce -- turkish parliament approves extension of mandate
 566    for allied air force
 567   ankara, december 28 (xinhua) -- the turkish parliament passed today a
 decision to extend for another six months the mandate for allied forces to
 protect northern Iraq's kurds.
 5b8    File: D:PAXINSUA BTU$PAMSG175.MSG Words: 244 543187 qu eeeee hkaee .aa
 PAB075 mee122817hke -- Palestinian president arafat arrives in sudan
 569   khartoum, december 28 (xinhua) -- Palestinian president yasser arafat
 arrived here today to brief Sudanese leader omar hassan ahmed al-bashir on
 the middle east peace process.
 570    Piles D:PAXINHtJA BTUBPAMSG176.MSG Words: 267 543188 ql eeeee hkaee .aa
 PAB076 mee122818h~e -- 68 kilograms of heroin seized in turkey
 571   ankara, december 28 (xinhua) -- turkish police today seized 68.3 kilograms
 of heroin in the kapikule border gate between turkey and Bulgaria, the
 state-run radio reported.
 572    File: D:PAXINBUA BTUBPAMSG177.MSG Words: 148 S43189_gl eeeee hkaee .aa
 NAB031 eaed122804Filce -- u.s. industrial outlook "quite encouraging" in
 1994
 573   Washington, december 28 (xinhua) -- nearly 90 percent of the u.s.
 manufacturing sectors will achieve broad-based growth in 1994, the
 government said today.
 574    File: D:PAXINBUA BTUSPAMSG178.MSG Words: 390 (endall~ 28/2100z Dec
 575   OW2812210093TAKE2i

