Following severe flooding of the Yangtze River basin in 1998, NEPA was upgraded to the State Environmental Protection Agency ( SEPA ) meaning that environmental protection was now being implemented at a ministerial level.

" Yangtze River Scholar Award Program " is a trans-century creative talent program funded by Ministry of Education and Hong Kong Li Ka-Shing Foundation in 1998.

Against the backdrop of the Asian financial crisis and the catastrophic 1998 Yangtze River Floods, mainland China's GDP still grew by 7. 9 % in the first nine months of 2002, beating the government's 7 % target despite a global economic slowdown.

According to statistics from the Ministry of Water Resources, China has invested () since the 1998 Yangtze River floods in repairing and consolidating the country's 9197 degraded reservoirs, of which 2397 are large or medium sized, and 6800 are key small reservoirs.

The Detroit River was designated as an American Heritage River in 1998 and a Canadian Heritage River in 2001 — the only river to have dual designations.

In other areas of the West Bank, transfer of powers took place pursuant to the Israel-PLO 28 September 1995 Interim Agreement, the Israel-PLO 15 January 1997 Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron, the Israel-PLO 23 October 1998 Wye River Memorandum, and the 4 September 1999 Sharm el-Sheikh Agreement.

* Marsden, Susan, ' Waterfront alive: life on the waterfront ', in C Hunter, ed, River Change: six new histories of the Hunter, Newcastle, 1998 ISBN 0-909115-70-2

* Hagerman, Bart, Operation Varsity: Allied Airborne Assault Over the Rhine River World War II History Magazine, ( 1998 ), pp. 1 – 5

* The River of Time, ( translated by Vitaly I. Kisin, Cambridge University Press 1998, 2001 )

On Tuesday, October 27, 1998, O ' Fallon Mayor Paul Renaud announced the new name of the team to be the " River City Rascals.

* Wye River Memorandum ( October 23, 1998 )

It is located on the Mleczna River in the Masovian Voivodeship ( since 1999 ), having previously been the capital of Radom Voivodeship ( 1975 – 1998 ); 100 km south of Poland's capital, Warsaw.

The Mount Rainier Volcano Lahar Warning System was established in 1998 to assist in the evacuation of the Puyallup River valley in case of eruption.

In 1998 the river was designated an " American Heritage River " by President Bill Clinton, and it is famed for its beautiful rural scenery, clear water, fly fishing, and kayaking and canoeing.

In 1998, then-President Bill Clinton and his Vice-President, Al Gore, held a ceremony on the banks of the scenic New River to designate it as an American Heritage River.

* Christopher Rafano ( South River ) – Director ; Chairman, Committee of Law and Public Safety ( 1998 )

Water from the Tchoutacabouffa River overflowing its banks near the intersection of Mississippi Highway 67 | Old Hwy 67 and Mississippi Highway 15 | MS 15 on September 29, 1998, after Hurricane Georges made landfall.

* Ralph Francis Baker ( 1938 – 1998 ), Madison County Sheriff from 1973 until 1998 when his automobile was swept into the White River while crossing a low water bridge, resulting in his drowning death on January 5, 1998.

The route through Toms River Township is lined with many businesses and named Little League World Champions Boulevard in honor of Toms River East Little League's victory in the 1998 Little League World Series.

The portion of Route 37 within Toms River Township was officially named Little League World Champions Boulevard in 1998 following Toms River East Little League's victory in the 1998 Little League World Series.

* 1998 Floods Surat, India

More recently, the Regiment has provided volunteers to assist during the 1997 Floods in Manitoba and the 1998 Ice Storm in Eastern Ontario and Quebec.

* 1998 – China Anne McClain, American actress and singer ( McClain Sisters )

This was accompanied by reduction of poverty from 28 percent in 1978 to 9 percent in 1998 in China, and from 51 percent in 1978 to 26 percent in 2000 in India.

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Voices from the Ming-Qing Cataclysm: China in Tigers ' Jaws ( 1998 )

Guide to Women's Studies in China ( 1998 )

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* 1998: Alibaba Group is established in China.

In particular, Kurosawa's Seven Samurai has been remade several times as Western films, such as The Magnificent Seven ( 1960 ) and Battle Beyond the Stars ( 1980 ), and has also inspired several Bollywood films, such as Sholay ( 1975 ) and China Gate ( 1998 ).

Takashi Miike launched a prolific career with titles such as Audition ( 1999 ), Dead or Alive ( 1999 ) and The Bird People in China ( 1998 ).

China instituted a ban on logging, beginning in 1998, due to the destruction caused by clearcutting.

* 1998 – China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and six more on the ground.

New World First Bus Services Limited was established in 1998, taking over China Motor Bus's franchise to provide bus services on Hong Kong Island together with Citybus.

This may even lead to an institutional variability, as in North Korea, where, after the presidency of party leader Kim Il-Sung, the office was vacant for years, the late president being granted the posthumous title ( akin to some ancient Far Eastern traditions to give posthumous names and titles to royalty ) of " Eternal President " ( while all substantive power, as party leader, itself not formally created for four years, was inherited by his son Kim Jong Il, initially without any formal office ) until it was formally replaced on 5 September 1998, for ceremonial purposes, by the office of Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, while the party leader's post as Chairman of the National Defense Commission was simultaneously declared " the highest post of the state ", not unlike Deng Xiaoping earlier in the People's Republic of China.

In 1978, market reforms led to an increase in the market and by 1995 a comprehensive Insurance Law of the People's Republic of China was passed, followed in 1998 by the formation of China Insurance Regulatory Commission ( CIRC ), which has broad regulatory authority over the insurance market of China.

Adams was the first composer to have earned the latter award three times, having previously won the award for El Dorado ( 1998 ) and Nixon in China ( 1989 ).

* 1998 – An Air China jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan.

In 1998 China purchased the discarded Ukrainian ship Varyag and began retrofitting it for naval deployment.

a flag of convenience registry ; includes ships from 20 countries among which are Croatia 17, Slovenia 7, People's Republic of China 5, Greece 5, United Arab Emirates 3, Norway 2, Japan 2, and Ukraine 2 ( 1998 est.

a flag of convenience registry ; includes ships from 15 countries among which are ships of Japan 28, India 10, US 10, Greece 3, Hong Kong 3, Australia 2, Canada 1, China 1, and France 1 ( 1998 est.

Since 1998 People's Republic of China-Venezuela relations have seen an increasing partnership between the government of the Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez and the People's Republic of China.

* July 5 – Yang Shangkun, President of the People's Republic of China ( d. 1998 )

Li Peng ( born 20 October 1928 ) served as the fourth Premier of the People's Republic of China, between 1987 and 1998, and the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislative body, from 1998 to 2003.