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730m farmers to pay no agricultural taxes
www.chinanews.cn 2005-02-28 09:07:36
(Source: Xinhuanet)
Jinan, Feb.27 - About 730 million Chinese farmers are expected to benefit
from the agricultural tax exemption this year,as 26 of its 31 provinces,
municipalities and autonomous regions have announced a termination of all
agricultural taxes, said an official with the Ministry of Agriculture.
Fan Xiaojian, vice agriculture minister of China, made the remarks at a
working conference held Friday and Saturday in east China's Shandong
Province. He said that the exemption will release about 730 million
farmers from taxes totaling more than 20 billion yuan (about 2.41 billion
US dollars).
Only four provinces -- Hebei, Shandong, Yunnan and Gansu, and Guangxi
Zhuang Autonomous Region -- continue to charge agricultural taxes. These
regions will reduce taxes by two percentage this year.
Fan Xiaojian said that China has increased the target of abolishing
farming taxes within five years. The 26 provinces, municipalities and
autonomous regions will meet the target ahead of the schedule.
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Saddam's half brother captured in Iraq
www.chinanews.cn 2005-02-27 19:21:34
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Sabawi Ibrahim Hasan, a half brother of former Iraqi dictator Saddam
Hussein, shown in this Department of Defense playing card, has been
captured in Iraq, Feb. 27, 2005. Hasan is No. 36 on the U.S. list of 55
most-wanted Iraqis. (AP Photo)
Feb. 27 - Iraqi security forces captured Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan, Saddam
Hussein's half brother and former adviser who was suspected of financing
insurgents after U.S. troops ousted the former dictator, the government
said Sunday.
Al-Hassan is No. 36 on the list of 55 most-wanted Iraqis released by U.S.
authorities after troops invaded Iraq in March 2003, and one of only 12
remaining at large. He is also suspected of financing insurgents in the
post-Saddam era, and Washington had put a million bounty on his head.
The government statement said al-Hassan had "killed and tortured Iraqi
people." It also said he had "participated effectively in planning,
supervising, and carrying out many terrorist acts in Iraq."
Two other half-brothers of Saddam, Barzan and Watban, have already been
detained at a US army-run jail near Baghdad and will be tried in the
coming months.
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