Reform for Chinese Soccer being fermented

Xu Ming, chairman of Dalian Shide soccer club and president of Shide Group, is surrounded by journalists at Dabao Hotel, where the joint meeting on the reform of Chinese soccer was held on Oct. 26. China Football Association (CFA) and clubs of China Super League attended the conference.

3G technology becomes highlight at PT/Expo Comm China 2004

The photo taken Oct 26 shows a corner of the PT/Expo Comm China 2004. The PT/Expo Comm China 2004 opens at the Beijing International Exhibition Center on Oct 26, 2004. The 3G technology has become a highlight that has drawn enormous attention from audience.

Powell expresses hope to resume six party talks

US Secretary of State Colin Powell (L) and South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon hold a joint press conference in Seoul Oct. 26, 2004. They expressed hope that the six-party nuclear talks would be resumed as soon as possible. Earlier Tuesday, Powell vowed that US would make efforts to resume the six-party nuclear talks after the US presidential elections. Seoul is the last leg of Powell's Asian trips, which already has been brought him to Tokyo and Beijing.

Death toll of Daping coal mine accident rises to 122

Rescuers carry the body of a victim from the pithead of Daping coal mine to a rescue vehicle, central China's Henan Province, Oct. 26, 2004. The death toll of the deadly Daping coal mine accident has increased to 122, and another 26 people are still missing, according to State Supervision Administration of Working Safety.

World Food Prize winner receives warm welcome home

China's 2004 World Food Prize winner Yuan Longping receives a bouquet while returning to Hunan Agricultural Science Academy in which he works, Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province, Oct. 26, 2004. Yuan, the second Chinese scientist winning this prize, shared the award with Monty Jones, a Sierra Leone-born biologist in Ghana, at the World Food Prize International Symposium in Des Moines, Iowa, the United States on Oct. 14, 2004.

French-German summit opens

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder (L) and visiting French President Jacques Chirac chat while waiting to have a photo with officials from both countries at the garden of the Chancellory in Berlin, Oct. 26, 2004. Chirac and French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin paid a visit to Germany on Tuesday for the fourth French-German summit.

China's crackdown on smuggling effective

Photo taken on Oct. 15, 2004 shows anti-smuggling police from Taizhou Customs investigating an oil-smuggling ship, Taizhou, east China's Zhejiang province. The departments with the Customs and the Ministry of Public Security of China have investigated more than 90,000 smuggling cases valued at nearly 200 billion yuan (24.2 billion US dollars) from 1998 to 2003, Sheng Guangzu, deputy director of the General Administration of Customs announced Tuesday.

Chinese acrobats give performance in Tirana

Acrobats from the city of Zunyi in southwest China's Guizhou Province perform in Tirana, capital of Albania, Oct. 25, 2004. Acrobats of China and Albania gave a joint performance in Tirana on Monday.

Chinese ambassador to Iraq meets Iraqi FM

Chinese Ambassador to Iraq Yang Honglin (R) presents a copy of credentials to Iraqi interim Foreign Minister Hoshiar Zibari at the Iraqi Foreign Ministry on Oct. 26, 2004. Yang Honglin, newly-appointed Chinese ambassador to the Republic of Iraq, arrived here on Tuesday to meet with Hoshiar Zibari.

Russia commemorates second anniversary of Moscow threater hostage-taking

Flowers and candles honoring the memory of 130 hostages who died at the Dubrovka theater in southeast Moscow two years ago. The sign reads "Nord Ost ¡­ Beslan."(Moscow Times Photo)

78 die of suffocation after Thai riot

Thai soldiers apprehend hundreds of men after demonstrators clashed with police outside the Tak Bai police station in Thailand's Narathiwat Province, nearly 1150 km (715 miles) south of Bangkok in this picture taken October 25, 2004. Almost 80 people died of suffocation in southern Thailand while being taken to detention at a military barracks after a violent demonstration, a justice ministry official said on October 26.