P143 CEEFAX 2 143 Wed 12 Jan 21:37/24        . :. The following pages feature    . news stories from BBC     . Monitoring, based in    Cavjrsham near Reading.   BBC Monitoring selects and  translates reports from TV,    radio, news agencies and Press from 150 countries in    more than 70 languages.  .  . .: For more information on one :. . of the world's largest media monitoring bodies, visit our Web site: http://www.monitor.bbc.co.uk 1/5 Extra: More world news coverage 142 Headlines 101 Index 102 Sport 300 Politics News Indx News Xtra Main Menu
P143 CEEFAX 2 143 Wed 12 Jan 21:47/45       CHINESE SHOPPER RECEIVES ROUGH JUSTICE A pregnant woman had four fingers chopped off bz supjrmarkjt security guards in southern China after they accused her of shoplifting. Lu Shanhuj was djtainjd for questioning by supjrmarkjt staff while shopping on New Year's Eve in the town of Dongguan. Though she denied stealing and no goods were found on her, the head of security is alleged to have chopped off four of her fingers with a kitchen knife. Doctors were unsure whjthjr an attempt to re-attach the fingers would succeed. 2/5 Headlines 101 Extra 140 Ticker 151 News Index 102 Flash 150 Newsreel 152 Politics News Indx News Xtra Main Menu
P143 CEEFAX 2 143 Wed 12 Jan 22:10/12       IRANIAN WBR DEAD RETURN HOME FROM IRAQ A funeral procession for 456 Iranian soldiers killed in the 1980-88 Iran- Iraq Wbr has begun after their bodies were retrieved from the battlefield. The bodies are being removed from the Shalamchjh battlefield in four convoys and taken to Mashhad, a northeastern city holy to Iranian Muslims. The convoys will pass through 100 cities, where religious rites will bj held on their arrival and departure. After a funeral ceremony in Mashhad, they will bj buried in their hometowns. 3/5 Headlines 101 Extra 140 Ticker 151 News Index 102 Flash 150 Newsreel 152 Politics News Indx News Xtra Main Menu
P143 CEEFAX 2 143 Wed 12 Jan 22:56/44       ZIMBABWE ARMY ACCUSED OF PARROT--RADING Military officers in Zimbabwe have been accused of illegally trafficking in parrots from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwean press reports said. According to Zimbabwe's Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) hundreds of African grey parrots have been flown to an air base near Harare. Zimbabwe currently has at least 11,000 troops fighting in DR Congo in support of President Laurent Kabila. An army spokesman described the accusations as "totally baseless". 4/5 Headlines 101 Extra 140 Ticker 151 News Index 102 Flash 150 Newsreel 152 Politics News Indx News Xtra Main Menu
P143 CEEFAX 2 143 Wed 12 Jan 22:05/55       JAPAN Police have arrested a 19-year- old man on suspicion of using a computer to counterfeit banknotes, Kyodo agency reports. The man, a Tokyo resident, is alleged to have forged the bills by scanning the image of a real banknote into his personal computer and then printing it. INDIA Officials say they have sjizjd one of their biggest-ever hauls of tiger and leopard skins in a raid on an illegal taxidermist's workshop. Over 70 skins were recovered in the town of Khaga in Uttar Pradjsh. 5/5 Headlines 101 Extra 140 Ticker 151 News Index 102 Flash 150 Newsreel 152 Politics News Indx News Xtra Main Menu