Word: xinhua
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...official Xinhua News Agency has remained silent about the quake since issuing a late-night statement Monday that Premier Li Peng expressed sympathy to the victims and that State Councilor Song Jian had been dispatched to oversee rescue work...
...Monday, Xinhua said the temblor had killed 37 people, injured more than 100 and destroyed most of the houses in Lancang and Menglian counties. Buildings were destroyed in 14 surrounding counties and road links to the outside were cut but were being repaired, Xinhua said...
...million believers, a small underground church in China, holding clandestine services in private homes, has remained faithful to Rome. A hero of this remnant has been Gong Pinmei (Ignatius Kung), the bishop of Shanghai, who has been imprisoned for treason since 1955, steadfastly maintaining his loyalty to the Vatican. Xinhua, the official government news agency, last week reported that Gong, now nearly 84, had "repented" and had been paroled after agreeing to forswear any further contact with the Vatican. Gong, the news agency said, had kissed the ring of the Patriotic Bishop of Shanghai "and promised to act under...
...engines, it seems, are switched off during the period. But concern over flagging productivity last week led the State Council to issue a directive ordering the lunch break cut to one hour, effective on New Year's Day. "Alarm for lunchtime snoozers," proclaimed the government-controlled Xinhua News Agency. "The traditional Chinese lunchtime faces the chop...
...latest indications from Peking are that China's idea of sovereignty includes a formula giving the People's Republic some measure of political control over the colony. In a shrill attack late last week, Xinhua, China's official news agency, declared that "unequal treaties forced upon the Chinese people provide an iron clad proof of British imperialism's plunder of Chinese territory. It is a sacred mission," the report added, "of the Chinese government and people to claim sovereignty over Hong Kong." But however mild, such control would mean an end to Hong Kong...