20th Anniversary of Shantou SEZ Celebrated A grand gathering was held Monday to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Shantou Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in this city in south China's Guangdong Province.  |  |
Li Peng Meets Norwegian Visitors Top Chinese legislator Li Peng met in Beijing Monday with President of the Supreme Court of Norway Carsten Smith and his party, exchanging views on issues of common concern including bilateral judiciary contacts. |  |
Chinese Premier Meets Overseas Chinese Experts Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji today on overseas Chinese to share intelligence with China, October 22. |  |
Chinese, Zimbabwean Parliament Leaders Meet in Beijing Inter-parliamentary contacts are of significance for promoting state-to-state relations, and China is ready to strengthen parliamentary exchanges and cooperation with its Zimbabwean counterparts. |  |
First Concorde Trans-Atlantic Flight after Safety Modifications British Airlines Concorde lands at Kennedy Airport in New York on October 22, 2001. The flight is the first trans-Atlantic flight since safety modifications were made following the crash of one of the supersonic planes in Paris last year, killing113 people and grounding the entire Concorde fleet. [Reuters] |  |
National Games Torch Arrives in HunanThe torch of the Ninth National Games arrived in Hunan October 22. Picuture shows Xiong Ni, Olympic springboard gold winner from Hunan, leads 500 student representatives in a long-distance race. |  |
World Tourism Organization to Help Choose China's Best Tourism Cities The World Tourism Organization and the China National Tourism Administration (CNTA) will jointly select China's Best Tourist Cities next year. |  |
Kenyan Purple Jacaranda in Bloom A Kenyan man walks under a purple jacaranda tree in bloom in Nairobi, capital of Kenya��October 21, 2001, the day which marks the beginning of summer in the Southern Hemisphere. The jacaranda was brought to Kenya from Brazil in the last century. |  |
(2)Security Beefed Up in Peshawar Armed soldiers watch out passers-by in the street of Peshawar, a border city of Pakistan October 22, 2001.Security measures have been beefed up in many Pakistan cities after blast cases in Peshawar and Islamabad recently. |  |
(1)Security Beefed Up in Peshawar An old man sits beside an armored vehicle in the street of Peshawar, a border city of Pakistan October 22, 2001.Security measures have been beefed up in many Pakistan cities after blast cases in Peshawar and Islamabad recently. |  |
Business In Peshawar Gloomy A cigarette vendor morosely waits customers in the terminal market in Peshawar, October 22, 2001. Peshawar has been keeping on high alert since U.S. took military attacks on Afghanistan, and many demonstrations against war took place in the past days. All these made business in Peshawar gloomy. |  |
Late Chinese Vice-Premier's Remains Respected People queued here Monday to pay respects to the remains of Yang Jingren, former vice premier and vice-chairman of the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth national committees of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). |  |
Chinese Vice-President Meets Russian Guest Hu Jintao(R), Chinese vice-president and vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission meets Anatoly Kvashnin, Chief of general staff of Russia's armed forces in Beijing October 22, 2001. |  |
NPC Standing Committee Holds 24th Meeting The Standing Committee of China 's Ninth National People's Congress (NPC), the country's top legislative body, held its 24th meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Monday. |  |
Leaders: No Taliban in Future Afghan Government Tajik and Russian Presidents Emomali Rakhmonov and Vladimir Putin and deposed Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani said on Monday Taliban are a destabilizing force in Afghanistan and should be barred from its future government. |  |
"Children against Violence" Activity in Berlin A German girl writes down " We don't want any war" on a paper during the campaign entitled "Children against violence" launched in downtown Berlin October 21, 2001. |  |
Chinese Scientific Expedition on Arctic Pole Prof. Liu Jiaqi(2nd, R) from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, with his colleagues looks for fossils on the 170 million-year-old glacier in Longyearbyen, Svalbard Island October 21, 2001. The Chinese scientific expedition has continued its study on the Arctic Pole. |  |
Wild Animals Increase in Yunnan A kind of coucang stands on a piece of branch recently in tropical rain forest of Wenshan county of southwest China's Yunnan provicne. All kinds of monkeys amount to about 80 thousand in the province with effective measures taken to protect wild animals for a long time. |  |
