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April 29, 2005
The next launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery, STS-114, is delayed
until at least July 13. This is to be the first Space Shuttle
launch since the Columbia disaster in February 2003. (BBC) (CNN)
U.S. Congressman Rob Portman was confirmed
by the United States Senate to be United States Trade Representative.
(CBS Marketwatch)
The death toll in the Amagasaki rail crash
in Japan totals 106. Rescue efforts are over and police begin
the crash investigation. (Japan Today)
Kuomintang Chairman Lien Chan meets with
Communist Party of China Secretary-General Hu Jintao in the highest
level contact between leaders of the two parties since the meeting
of Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong in August 1945 at the end of
the Second Sino-Japanese War. [6]
A prominent article in the state-owned
China Securities Journal says conditions are ripe for changes
in the country's policy of keeping the yuan pegged to the U.S.
dollar. (Washington Post)
Three currencies join the ERM II: The Cyprus
pound, the Latvian lat, and the Maltese Lira. The ERM II is one
of the steps needed for a currency to become part of the Eurozone.
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