Chinese Forum: Egyptian, Chinese foreign ministers discuss ties, regional, international issues
Cairo, 13 September: Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmad Abu-al-Ghayt and his Chinese counterpart Li Zhaoxing held Monday morning [13 September] a session of talks that would deal with topics to be discussed by the new UN General Assembly session, ways to enhance bilateral ties and regional and international issues.The Chinese official arrived here late Sunday on a visit to Egypt during which he will take part in an Arab-Chinese forum, to be attended by Arab foreign ministers and...
Chinese Forum: BBC Monitoring Weekly Prospects (Sub-Saharan Africa) for 20 Nov - 1 Dec 02
Queries? Ring Duty Editor, SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA on 86254 (internal) or 0118-9486254 (externally) 17-21 SOUTH AFRICA: Russian Deputy Prime Minister Valentina Matviyenko visits (Russian news agency ITAR-TASS) 19-26 TANZANIA: The next round of cease-fire talks is due to be held in Dar es Salaam between the Burundi government and the Hutu rebel National Council for the Defence of Democracy - Forces for the Defence of Democracy (CNDD-FDD) (Radio Burundi) 25 KENYA: The ruling party,...
Chinese Forum: Oei hopes storm over DPM's Taiwan trip will pass
TYCOON Oei Hong Leong yesterday said he sincerely hoped the storm over the recent visit of Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to Taiwan will soon blow over.Speaking to about 200 people at the Third Overseas Chinese Forum Worldwide in Beijing, he said he was looking at the controversy purely from a commercial and business point of view.'The Chinese people often talk of 'peace being valuable'. I sincerely hope that this storm will soon...
Chinese Forum: Chinese trade minister urges overseas Chinese to benefit from WTO Entry
Shi Guangsheng, Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, attended the "2000 World Chinese Forum" in Qingdao today. In his speech entitled "Accession to the World Trade Organization [WTO] and Participation in Economic Globalization," he pointed out that with the acceleration of economic globalization and China's imminent accession to the WTO, overseas and ethnic Chinese can further bring their advantageous position into play,...
Chinese Forum: China: Four students arrested for founding underground group - Hong Kong report
This information centre has learned that four students of the Sichuan Teachers University were arrested by the Chengdu City Public Security Bureau on 11th May. They were accused of setting up an "illegal mass organization" and publishing an "underground publication". Although they were released yesterday (12th May), all their publications were destroyed and their equipment confiscated.Since the beginning of this year, Haiwei and three other...