The People's Daily
Six passengers survive Indonesian plane crash
Indonesian air carrier Mandala Airlines, whose plane crashed Monday morning with 117 people onboard, claimed that six passengers survived the country's worst air disaster in five years.
The company released six names of passengers who were undergoing medical treatment at two hospitals in the North Sumatra capital of Medan.
The survivors were identified as Rohadi Sitepu, Fredy Ismail, Harapan Oloan, Jenny, Rusdi and Thomas Tendean.
Minister of Transportation Hatta Radjasa earlier estimated that all 117 passengers aboard the plane were killed.
The Boeing 737-200, shortly after take-off from the Polonia Airport, crashed into a residential area 500 meters away from the airport and hit dozens of houses and vehicles before it burst into flame.
http://english.people.com.cn/200509/05/eng20050905_206635.html
Chinese president meets Blair, Barroso and Solana
Chinese President Hu Jintao met Monday with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, President of the European Union (EU) Commission Manuel Barroso, and EU Council Secretary-General Javier Solana, who are here to attend the eighth China-EU summit.
Hu said he had "very good talks" with Blair and Barroso not long ago in Gleneagles, Scotland, and Beijing, respectively. He is very glad to meet them again in Beijing.
China-EU leaders keeping frequent exchanges is conducive to enhancing mutual understanding, expanding mutually beneficial cooperation and boosting the development of China-EU comprehensive strategic partnership, he said.
http://english.people.com.cn/200509/05/eng20050905_206600.html
Premier Wen: China poses no threat but contributes to the world
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao delivers a speech on sustainable development in a scientific way during the 21st Century Forum' 2005 in Beijing September 5, 2005.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said at the 21st Century Forum' 2005 Monday that China's development poses no threat to any country, but makes more contributions to the peace and development of the world.
In his speech to the forum, Wen said that China is a member of the world family, it would like to make its due contribution to the sustainable development of the world.
http://english.people.com.cn/200509/05/eng20050905_206581.html
Sino-US interdependence viewed from three angles
A pair of most important and complicated bilateral relations in today's world, Sino-US relationship invariably presents a prospect full of contradiction and antinomy. A correct understanding of the current Sino-US relationship requires not only close follow-up tracing from the policy angle, but also effective explanations made from a theoretical high. Theoretical value lies in whether it is possible to draw a most central and crucial variable from numerous and changeable reality, thereby bringing people's subjective understanding close to the objective reality to the greatest extent.
http://english.people.com.cn/200508/24/eng20050824_204401.html
US should weigh China ties
More than a decade has passed since the end of the Cold War. Sino-US relations have grown so much that their pace, scope and depth have exceeded all expectations.
The relationship grew out of the post-Cold War transitional period into a dynamic one that features both mutual dependence and intensifying competition. It is a relationship that is forever changing, yet has a solid foundation, and is unlikely to suffer a severe deterioration unless any very serious emergency happens.
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US requests more help from NATO
The United States asked the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Sunday to provide more assistance apart from earlier request for food supplies, the NATO headquarters announced here on Sunday night.
"Following up on the earlier request for food supplies, the United States Government has now provided to NATO a longer list of requirements for support. This list includes medical and logistical supplies," said
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Roundup: Iran rejects EU referral warning
Iran on Sunday rejected an EU warning that the Iranian nuclear case will be referred to the UN Security Council, if Tehran did not stop resumed sensitive nuclear activities in two weeks.
"We will never retreat on the uranium conversion in Isfahan, which has been an issue of the past," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi told reporters.
The EU, the longtime broker of the Iranian nuclear issue, on Saturday strongly urged Iran to re-suspend the conversion activities in the central city Isfahan, which Tehran has resumed since Aug. 8 due to its dissatisfaction with the EU's objection to its nuclear fuel cycle ambition.
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Kuwait donates 10 million dollars to Iraq
The Kuwaiti cabinet approved on Sunday a donation of 10 million US dollars to Iraq, the official KUNA news agency reported.
The cabinet said in a statement that reviewing a recent stampede on Al-Aemma bridge in Kazemiya, Iraq, which resulted in hundreds of deaths, the Kuwaiti government has decided to donate 10 million dollars to the Iraqi people.
Half of the aid will be turned over to the Iraqi Red Crescent Society, and the rest to the Iraqi government for victims of tragic incidents anywhere in the country, said the statement.
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Putin appoints navy commander
Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed Chief of the Navy Staff, First Deputy Navy Commander Admiral Vladimir Masorin as the Russian Navy commander, the Kremlin press service said on Sunday.
At the same time, Putin has removed Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov from the post of the Russian Navy commander and dismissed him from military service, the Itar-Tass news agency quoted the Kremlin press service as saying.
Putin has also appointed North Fleet commander Mikhail Abramov as the Chief of the Navy Staff -- First Deputy Navy Commander, said the report.
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Scientists forecast more US Atlantic hurricanes in upcoming months
The Hurricane Katrina, which has caused huge disaster in New Orleans, is not the last one in this blustering season, and more storms, including six hurricanes, will hit US Atlantic coast over the next two months, scientists forecast on Friday.
Five named storms, including four hurricanes, are expected to occur in September, with three named storms including two hurricanes in October, according to the forecast. The net tropical cyclone activity will go far beyond the average levels.
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NASA's Spirit sends back panaroma pictures atop Martian summit
Sitting 82 meters above the Martian plain, the rover Spirit has returned images of stunning new vistas filled with evidence of the red planet's past environments, US space agency NASA reported on Thursday.
"That's no Mt. Everest, but it's a heck of a climb for our little rover," said Steve Squyres, principal investigator of the rover's science mission. "When we first touched down at Gusev Crater on Jan. 4, 2004, the Columbia Hills looked impossibly far away."
Spirit spent 591 Martian days roving across the 3 km between its landing point and the summit of Husband Hill, one of a network of rises in the Columbia Hills chain. One Martian day is about 24 hours and 40 minutes.
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Decoded chimpanzee genome shows striking similarity with human's
A comprehensive comparison of the newly deciphered chimpanzee genome sequence and that of humans shows our closest living relatives share perfect identity with 96 percent of our DNA sequence, an international research consortium reported Wednesday.
In a paper published in the Sept.1 issue of the journal Nature, the Chimpanzee Sequencing and Analysis Consortium, including 67 researchers from the United States, Israel, Italy, Germany and Spain, described the landmark study comparing the genome of the chimp with that of human. Related papers will also appear in the journal Science.
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Taipei Times
Do not link Penghu with China
By Li Thian-hok 李天福
Monday, Sep 05, 2005,Page 8
The Pescadores, or Penghu in Mandarin, are a group of 64 small islands with an area of 80km2 situated in the Taiwan Strait, about 40km off the west coast of Taiwan.
On Aug. 1, Premier Frank Hsieh (謝長廷) announced a plan to open Penghu County for direct point-to-point shipping services across the Taiwan Strait on an experimental basis, starting early this month. The premier is proposing that the "small three links" now in effect in Kinmen and Matsu be extended to the Pescadores.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2005/09/05/2003270468
The New York Times
Bush Picks Roberts to Be Chief Justice, Replacing Rehnquist
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Moving swiftly, President Bush said he will nominate John Roberts to succeed William H. Rehnquist as chief justice.
The move would promote to the Supreme Court's top job a man who currently is being considered as one of eight associate justices.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Scotus.html
New Orleans Begins a Search for Its Dead; Violence Persists
By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
Published: September 5, 2005
Troops patrolled the streets, rescuers hunted for stragglers and New Orleans looked like a wrecked ghost town yesterday as the evacuation of the city neared completion and the authorities turned to the grim task of collecting bodies in a ghastly landscape awash in numberless corpses.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/national/nationalspecial/05storm.html?hp&ex=1125979200&en=fc76b9e1ac9f9b46&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Hurricane Forces New Orleans Newspaper to Face a Daunting Set of Obstacles
By LISA GUERNSEY
Published: September 5, 2005
Jim Amoss, the editor of The Times-Picayune, faced an ugly decision on Tuesday morning. About 240 employees and some members of their families, including one 6-month-old baby, had spent the night in the corridors of the newspaper building at 3800 Howard Avenue in New Orleans, just over a mile northwest of the Superdome.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/business/media/05picayune.html
Rescuers, Going Door to Door, Find Stubbornness and SilencSteven Pierce helped direct a boat yesterday down a flooded New Orleans street to a banquet hall where several people awaited rescue. Some in the city refused to leave their homes.
By JERE LONGMAN
Published: September 5, 2005
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 4 - The boat pulled up to the living room window on Read Boulevard early Sunday afternoon, and a volunteer rescuer, Stanley Patrick, began yelling: "Mr. Robert! Mr. Robert! Can you hear me?"
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/national/nationalspecial/05scene.html
Antidoping Agency Seeks Test for EPO That Is Definitive
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
International Herald Tribune
Published: September 5, 2005
When a drug test for the banned blood booster EPO was developed by French scientists in 2000, it was hailed as a revolution. For the first time, a potent performance-enhancing drug, which had been abused with impunity in sports like cycling and distance running for nearly a decade, could be detected.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/sports/othersports/05epo.html
White House Enacts a Plan to Ease Political Damage
By ADAM NAGOURNEY and ANNE E. KORNBLUT
Published: September 5, 2005
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 - Under the command of President Bush's two senior political advisers, the White House rolled out a plan this weekend to contain the political damage from the administration's response to Hurricane Katrina.
It orchestrated visits by cabinet members to the region, leading up to an extraordinary return visit by Mr. Bush planned for Monday, directed administration officials not to respond to attacks from Democrats on the relief efforts, and sought to move the blame for the slow response to Louisiana state officials, according to Republicans familiar with the White House plan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/national/nationalspecial/05bush.html
Gazing at Breached Levees, Critics See Years of Missed Opportunities
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
Published: September 2, 2005
As federal flood-control officials directed efforts to block the 17th Street Canal, the source of most of the water swamping New Orleans, they faced growing criticism yesterday over decades of missed opportunities to prevent precisely this type of disaster.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/02/national/nationalspecial/02levee.html
The New Zealand Herald
Paris fire kills 14, three teenage girls held
05.09.05 1.00pm
By Laure Bretton
PARIS - A fire killed at least 14 people in a suspected arson attack in a high-rise apartment block in Paris on Sunday, the third major fire in the French capital in just over a week, police said.
The police detained three teenage girls over the blaze, which they said was probably caused by a fire started deliberately in a letter box in the hallway of the 18-storey building during the night, sources close to the inquiry said.
Three children were among the dead and four people were critically injured. Most of the victims were killed by smoke and fumes that rapidly swept through the building in the southern suburbs of the city, police and fire officials said.
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Louisiana official haunted by drowned woman
05.09.05 1.00pm
WASHINGTON - A New Orleans official was overcome by emotion on national television when describing how a woman was abandoned and eventually drowned after repeated promises she would be rescued.
"The guy who runs this building I'm in, the emergency management, who's responsible for everything. His mother was trapped in St. Bernard nursing home and every day she called him and said are you coming, son, is somebody coming," Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson Parish, said as he burst into heavy sobbing on NBC's Meet the Press programme.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10344095
Hurricane political crisis deepens for Bush
05.09.05 1.00pm
By Rupert Cornwell
The Bush administration scrambled to contain the political damage from the Hurricane Katrina disaster by sending top officials to the devastated Gulf Coast region, as federal officials for the first time acknowledged that the death toll would run into the thousands.
"I think it's evident it's in the thousands," Michael Leavitt, the Health Secretary, said.
Ray Nagin, the Mayor of submerged New Orleans, where corpses are floating in the flooded streets, suggested that in his city alone, that number or more may have died.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10344089
Another hurricane may hit New Orleans
05.09.05 5.20am
There is a very real possibility that another hurricane may hit New Orleans in the weeks to come.
"We're not out of the woods yet," said Susan Cutter, director of the University of South Carolina Hazards Research Laboratory.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10343999
Putin sacks navy head after mini-sub drama
05.09.05 9.20am
MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin sacked navy chief Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov with the military facing criticism over its handling of a mini-submarine accident last month.
The Kremlin said Putin had appointed Admiral Vladimir Masorin as the new navy head. Putin did not give a reason for Kuroyedov's dismissal.
Local media had speculated that Kuroyedov could be axed after seven Russian sailors were freed last month with British help after three days trapped in an AS-28 rescue mini-submarine 600 feet down in the Pacific with dwindling air supplies.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10344069
The weather in Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime) is:
Scott Base
Clear
-24.0°
Updated Monday 05 Sep 8:59PM
The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is:
57 °F / 14 °C
Mostly Cloudy
Humidity:
63%
Dew Point:
45 °F / 7 °C
Wind:
8 mph / 13 km/h from the SSE
Pressure:
30.01 in / 1016 hPa
Visibility:
10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV:
0 out of 16
Clouds (AGL):
Mostly Cloudy 5000 ft / 1524 m
Mostly Cloudy 6000 ft / 1828 m
Mostly Cloudy 8500 ft / 2590 m
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