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FBIS3-24656_22 | FOREIGN PRESS SURVEY--FB PSE 94-006--WEST EUROPE | While EU officials "showed understanding," they expressed doubts that the 1994 budget, which promises to lower the deficit, can be adhered to if austerity is not followed. EU doubts are shared by Defense Minister Yerasimos Arsenis, Commerce Minister Kostas Simitis, and alternate National Economy Minister Ioannis Papand... |
FBIS3-24656_24 | FOREIGN PRESS SURVEY--FB PSE 94-006--WEST EUROPE | is a summary of the positions the advocate: * Mario Baldassari, Pact for Italy --Guarantee a tax ceiling, reducing tax rate from 43 to 40 percent. Broaden the tax base through agreements with the self- employed. Reduce the number of taxes from 200 to no more than 10, since 80 percent of revenues come from six taxes. --... |
FBIS3-24662_0 | Croatia--Bosnia-Herzegovina | Statements Suggest Scope of Zagreb's Intervention in Bosnia SUMMARY Zagreb has agreed under threat of sanctions to consider withdrawing forces it admits are present in border areas inside Bosnia-Herzegovina while continuing to deny that it has intervened in the Bosnian war. At the same time, some recent statements from... |
FBIS3-24663_4 | Russia: Zhirinovskiy's Vision of Russia's Future: "The Last | while eliminating internal borders drawn on ethnic lines. He will revive Russia's economy, chiefly by reconverting plants to military production and selling their products on the world arms market. Russia will be restored to the greatness it enjoyed under the tsars and the Communists. In the longer term, LDPR rule will... |
FBIS3-24663_25 | Russia: Zhirinovskiy's Vision of Russia's Future: "The Last | industry) with the south, where there is basic food stuffs and raw materials for light industry, then YES, we will have a market economy. (Zhirinovskiy article published in LDPR newspaper, Liberal, No.2, 1993) The division of spheres of influence is better [for managing world affairs]. . . . The Japanese and Chinese ca... |
FBIS3-24670_0 | Tokyo Signals Concern Over Long-Term Impact of Failed Talks | SUMMARY While Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa has won fairly broad domestic support for his refusal to accept U.S. demands to establish objective criteria to measure Japan's import performance at the failed 11 February U.S.-Japan summit, comments by Japanese political and business leaders and by the Japanese media hav... |
FBIS3-24678_77 | PACIFIC RIM ECONOMIC REVIEW -- 23 FEBRUARY 1994 | in developing countries will become another variable in the market, To cut costs, strengthen their competitiveness, and maintain their current market position, ROK steel producers must adjust their structures and develop innovative technologies, HKS concludes. POSCO, whose annual production can satisfy domestic demand,... |
FBIS3-24678_80 | PACIFIC RIM ECONOMIC REVIEW -- 23 FEBRUARY 1994 | and there are even rumors of a possible "embargo" on scrap iron exports. HKS predicts that problems with scrap iron supplies will probably continue, as the number of thick slab casters, who use scrap iron as an input, grows from two at present to an estimated 44 worldwide by 1996. The expected supply-demand imbalance f... |
FBIS3-24679_15 | FOREIGN PRESS SURVEY--FB PSE 94-007--WEST EUROPE | other benefits, then the incentive to work weakens. For the Youth SMIC, however, this is not the case since it applies to those 16 to 25, while such benefits as the RMI apply to those over the age of 26. 2. Reduce Labor Costs on Low-Wage Workers * Reducing employer social security costs does not affect the workers' inc... |
FBIS3-24680_2 | FOREIGN PRESS SURVEY--FB PSE 94-008--WEST EUROPE | plans, including the Cohesion Fund, the Structural Fund, and the Medium-Term Research Program. Additional funds, she argues, could be raised through the existing European Investment Bank and the European Investment Fund, which is to be established this year. Taken together, these financing sources could raise around 30... |
FBIS3-24680_10 | FOREIGN PRESS SURVEY--FB PSE 94-008--WEST EUROPE | 2,269,562 in a decade, indicating that between 12 and 15 percent of the Spanish work force is employed in the public sector. The CEOE notes that Spanish industry has lost 340,000 jobs and more jobs will be lost in the agricultural sector as the country adheres to EU agricultural guidelines by reducing the number of far... |
FBIS3-24682_7 | South Korea: Acquiring 'Dual-Use' Advanced Weapons Technology | would be enhanced by S and T agreements recently signed with three major arms and arms technology exporting countries--Russia, China, and Israel--a fact duly noted in the ROK press. Russia in particular has attracted South Korean media attention by its reported offers to barter advanced weapons (24 January 1994 CHUNGAN... |
FBIS3-24699_0 | Public Asked for Evidence of Dergue Regime's Crimes | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] The General Prosecutor's Office has notified the public to provide evidence, written or otherwise, of crimes committed or related to alleged criminals of the former regime. The office said that it has been gathering individual and collective evidence in a bid to prove the guilt... |
FBIS3-24702_0 | Hundreds Protest Tax Increase in Iganga District | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] In eastern Uganda, one person was killed when the police opened fire on protesters who were demonstrating in Iganga District against the rise of local taxes. A report from the area says hundreds of demonstrators tried to overrun a police station and a local authority office. Th... |
FBIS3-24703_0 | Two Killed; 77 Detained | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Two people have been shot dead in Iganga by police who were trying to disperse hundreds of rioting taxpayers who attempted to demolish a police post in Iganga District. The victims were shot as they tried to disarm the police, who were firing in the air to scare away the mob. A... |
FBIS3-24738_4 | SADF Warns of `Large-Scale Violence,' Coup Attempt | waves through far-right underground planning structures. A "tongue lashing" over the leak was delivered "from the top." It also appears that several police generals in Pretoria were caught unawares by the report. Urgent meetings were called in the capital on Sunday night, and members of the Criminal Information Service... |
FBIS3-24762_1 | New Immigration Law Would Prevent Whites From Returning | interesting of all, is [word indistinct] 10 years for immigrants to be regarded as permanent residents. At present, it only takes two years of local residence in this country, but now it is going to take 10 years. [Martin] Who do you think these laws are aimed at? [(Mgazi)] The one that has raised eyebrows is the one t... |
FBIS3-24764_0 | Three Reported Dead in 31 Jan Shooting Incident | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Mogadishu, 31 Jan (AFP)--At least three Somalis were killed and seven hurt in southern Mogadishu early Monday [31 January] by gunfire which witnesses blamed on U.S. soldiers. An AFP correspondent saw the bodies of two women and one man on the road leading to the airport. One of... |
FBIS3-24847_0 | Shooting, `Ineffective' Plots by `Enemies' Viewed | Language: Persian Article Type:BFN [Commentary by the News Research and Commentaries Group] [Text] In the name of God, the compassionate, the merciful. The vigilant people know that the enemies of the Islamic revolution have always been apprehensive about the Muslim nation's presence on the scene, especially during the... |
FBIS3-24848_0 | Papers Cited on 10 Days of Dawn Violence, Saudi Role | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Report by Laurent Maillard] [Text] Tehran, Feb 2 (AFP)--Several people were injured and others arrested in a rare outburst of sectarian violence in southeast Iran, marring celebrations for the 15th anniversary of the Islamic republic, newspapers said Wednesday. The protest on Tuesday... |
FBIS3-24850_5 | Yazdi Backs Khamene'i as Jurisconsult | Republic of Iran was founded in the name of the imam [of the age]]. [passage omitted] When the Islamic government was founded it meant that during more than 1,000 years of confrontation with rulers infidelity vanished and Islam came. It was not like a dynasty vanishing and another dynasty appearing. That is most import... |
FBIS3-24851_0 | Foreign Minister Announces Accord To Expand Irish Ties | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tehran, Jan. 30, IRNA -- Iran an Ireland have decided to expand their mutual relations in political, economic, commercial and areas, a foreign ministry source said here Sunday. He said that Foreign Minister 'Ali Akbar Velayati in his visit to Dublin in mid January called for cr... |
FBIS3-24865_0 | Opposition Attacks Train; 2 Killed, 30 Wounded | Language: English Article Type:BFN [From the "Focus on Africa" program] [Text] The cease-fire between government forces and opposition militias in the suburbs of Congo's capital, Brazzaville, came to a bloody end yesterday. The cease-fire was agreed only on Sunday [30 January] to end months of clashes following the dis... |
FBIS3-24896_0 | Four Acquitted of Smuggling Arms to Yugoslavia | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Kampala, Feb 1 (AFP) -- Four Ugandans facing charges of involvement in smuggling arms to war-torn Yugoslavia in a Ugandan Airlines plane in August 1991 have been acquitted and discharged, court officials said here Tuesday [2 February]. They said that those acquitted on Monday b... |
FBIS3-24928_1 | Opposition Leader Calls For End to Political Impasse | object. A politician cannot try to reign over skeletons or dead bodies. We engage in politics to lead human beings who are alive. The Allied Forces are proud, really proud, and we showed it in front of the cameras. We are proud to have done what we did. When things return to normal, history will someday remember that a... |
FBIS3-24974_0 | Situation Described as Tense; Death Toll Rises to 60 | Language: English Article Type:BFN [From the "Focus on Africa" program] [Text] It's today since the Burundi opposition postponed the two-day general strike call until next Monday [7 February]. [sentence as heard] The idea was to allow people in Bujumbura to get some shopping and for workers to collect their pay packets... |
FBIS3-25057_0 | Gunmen Attack ANC Homes Near Richmond; 12 Killed | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Durban Feb 6 SAPA--A bloody attack on women and children in the southern Natal village of Masunkazane outside Richmond early on Sunday [6 February] morning left 12 people dead and several injured -- among the dead, a three-year-old boy and an 80-year-old pensioner. Natal Police... |
FBIS3-25100_12 | Pimo Leader Discusses Party Policies | territorial integrity of the country, and peaceful coexistence without interference in domestic affairs of other countries, with reciprocal benefits, equality, friendship, solidarity, and cooperation among peoples. Pimo also intends to have foreign relations that result in mutual benefits. Pimo does not agree with rela... |
FBIS3-25118_0 | Human Rights Commission Reports January Violence | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Report issued by the South African Human Rights Commission on 7 February on the SAPA PR Wire Service] [Text] The January death toll, while still very high, maintained the downward trend since the highpoint of July 1993. If the trend continues, violence levels should reach manageable ... |
FBIS3-25118_2 | Human Rights Commission Reports January Violence | educational conflict did not result in any loss of life. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Incidents |Deaths |Injuries | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |General Incidents |351 |287 |185 | --------------------------------------... |
FBIS3-25204_0 | Commission Releases Initial Observations on Massacres | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Text] [Announcer] In Burundi, the 13 experts of the international inquiry commission yesterday published their preliminary observations on the massacres that took place after the aborted coup on 21 October. These experts, which were appointed by a consortium of nongovernmental organiz... |
FBIS3-25216_0 | At Least 60 Killed in Interclan Fighting in Kismaayo | Language: Italian Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] At least 60 people have been killed in clashes between rival clans in the port city of Kismaayo. The delegation led by interim President Ali Mahdi reported these latest clashes. Many people have been reported missing. Calm has now returned to the area. [passage omitted] |
FBIS3-25240_0 | Deputy Foreign Minister Attacks West for Aiding UNITA | Language: Portuguese Article Type:BFN [Report on interview with Deputy Foreign Minister Jorge Chikoti by correspondent Berenice Bettencourt in Geneva; date not given--recorded] [Text] The Angolan Government has accused Portugal of supporting UNITA [National Union for the Total Independence of Angola]. The Angolan deput... |
FBIS3-25331_4 | Chissano Discusses Peace Accord, Upcoming Elections | Chicuarra [not further identified], who had been abroad but who has come back and found himself a place to stay. There is Mr. Padimbe, who belongs to another party, and there is [Mozambican Nationalist Movement President] Maximo Dias. Thus, if Renamo had wanted to cooperate, it could have begun its work without having ... |
FBIS3-25331_11 | Chissano Discusses Peace Accord, Upcoming Elections | eat fish like any other citizen -- like you, for instance. The fact of the matter is that if I went to some province to do my party work, even if I paid for my own ticket -- and I would have liked to pay for my ticket to take an aircraft, a small aircraft -- people would say: "No, not on such a small aircraft." Were I ... |
FBIS3-25331_14 | Chissano Discusses Peace Accord, Upcoming Elections | accelerated implementation of multiparty democracy, so they start talking about the need to put the cart before the horse. All over the world, there is much talk of national unity and of national interests. I also endorse national unity views because that is the Frelimo Party's philosophy, and I grew up with it, workin... |
FBIS3-25391_0 | Foreign Affairs Minister, Opposition Leader View Talks | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Text] The first contacts between the Niger Government and the four movements of the Tuareg rebels opened yesterday afternoon in Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso. The meeting apparently satisfied both sides. The Niger minister of foreign affairs welcomed the fact that the desired dialogue w... |
FBIS3-25409_0 | Political Commentator Predicts Anarchy After Election | Language: Afrikaans Article Type:BFN [Text] Professor Willem Kleynhans, the reputed political commentator and election expert, warns in this report that no nation or party in South Africa can at this juncture be ready for an election for a unitary government. He warns that disaster awaits South Africa if the wretched e... |
FBIS3-25435_2 | Frelimo Official Responds to Dhlakama's Remarks | in place. Since then, those conditions have become more solid. You must be aware that we started preparing ourselves with a view to elections being held last year. Obviously, there are certain things that you should only do when you are certain that elections will be held at the appointed date, or you may end up wastin... |
FBIS3-25441_0 | Official Reports About 1,000 Dead in Ethnic Clashes | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] Accra, 17 Feb (GNA/PANA) -- About 1,000 corpses have been buried by security agencies in the ethnic violence in northern Ghana, a senior military officer said on Wednesday [16 February]. Brig. Joseph Henry Smith, commander of security operations in northern Ghana told a pres... |
FBIS3-25469_0 | Eight Reported Killed in 20 Feb Demonstrations | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] Eight dead, many injured, and sizeable material damage -- that is the toll of yesterday's demonstration in the town of Kigali, which was aimed against a meeting by the Faustin Twagirmungu (?faction) of the Republican Democratic Movement party, which was scheduled for the Nyua... |
FBIS3-25492_0 | ANC Canvassers Killed in Attack in Southern Natal | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Fourteen people have been killed and two seriously wounded in an attack at Creighton in Southern Natal. Our Durban news staff reports that a group of canvassers, mainly young people, were collecting fees in preparation of an ANC [African National Congress] voter education progr... |
FBIS3-25493_0 | Further on Massacre | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Durban Feb 20 SAPA -- The death toll from Saturday [19 February] morning's massacre near Creighton in southern Natal has risen to 15 after a seriously wounded victim died in Pietermaritzburg's Edendale Hospital, police said. Durban SA Police spokesman Maj Bala Naidoo said Samue... |
FBIS3-25517_0 | Two Opposition Leaders Arrested Following Riots | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] Dakar, 18 Feb (AFP) -- The two main leaders of the Senegalese opposition -- Abdoulaye Wade and Landing Savane -- were arrested this evening in Dakar, it was learned from their entourage. These same sources reported that Mr. Wade and Mr. Savane, secretary generals of the Seneg... |
FBIS3-25518_0 | Government Spokesman Explains Arrests | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Text] The two main leaders of the Senegalese opposition have been held in custody since yesterday. Abdoulaye Wade and Landing Savane were arrested at their homes, and are now being questioned on their possible involvement in last Wednesday's violence, which caused the death of six peo... |
FBIS3-25609_1 | Situation in Libreville Still Described as Tense | in its third day. Jean-Claude Franck Medome toured the streets of Libreville this afternoon and has this report. [Medome] This afternoon, Libreville looked like a ghost town. The reason for this is that cabs were hard to find. Cab drivers, who are usually victims of stone-throwing and attacks, preferred to be cautious.... |
FBIS3-25613_0 | Violence Continues in Kigali; Government Installed Offices, Shops Closed | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Text] The town of Kigali remains at the mercy of insecurity. Hospital sources inform us that since last weekend the Kigali hospital admitted around 10 dead and injured people. This morning, five dead and 22 injured people were registered, while on 21 and 22 February the hospital regis... |
FBIS3-25617_0 | Violence Continues in Kigali; Government Installed Calm Reported 24 Feb | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Kigali, 24 Feb (AFP) -- Tribal fighting in the Rwandan capital following the murder of a government minister left at least 30 people dead and some 150 wounded, humanitarian agency workers said here Thursday [24 February]. Most of the injured had been struck with pangas (machete... |
FBIS3-25667_17 | PAC President Explains Election Manifesto | be affirmatively actioned because I'm a white, aging, or middle-class male -- we hear a lot about that incidentally -- then I am being discriminated against because I am not a black, young, virile male. [Makwetu] How are you discriminated against, since you have been benefiting all along? [Bishop] No, I'm not...I'm not... |
FBIS3-25689_0 | Curfew Imposed in Dead Party Leader's Home Area | Language: Kinyarwanda Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] A curfew has been imposed in Cyimbogo commune, Cyangugu Prefecture, in southwestern Rwanda. Our colleague Nambaje tells us more: [Nambaje] The decision was prompted by the low level of safety following the killing of Martin Bucyana, who came from Cyimbogo, when some peop... |
FBIS3-25694_3 | PAC Official Explains Political Strategy | Ebrahim. Among these is the deal which effectively resulted in the decision at multi-party talks for a single ballot in the April elections, he says. Ebrahim added that, as things stand, the PAC would not participate in the Transitional Executive Council (TEC). But this is not an open and shut case -- "We are still inv... |
FBIS3-25749_0 | Report Confirms UN Personnel Involved in Prostitution | Language: Portuguese Article Type:BFN [Text] In a report distributed to the media today, the United Nations recognizes that in some areas of the country the UN Operations in Mozambique [Unomoz] personnel have been promoting prostitution. The document states that although prostitution was obvious in the society even bef... |
FBIS3-25780_0 | Government Focuses on ASEAN, Europe for Economic Ties | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Debbie Kuo] [Text] Taipei, Jan. 28 (CNA) -- The Republic of China [ROC] is focusing on countries in Southeast Asia and Europe for economic and technological cooperation, a Ministry of Economic Affairs agency reported Friday [28 January]. Through economic and technological cooperat... |
FBIS3-25819_0 | Government Cracks Down on `Fake Cigarettes' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, January 29 (XINHUA) -- The China Administration of Tobacco Monopoly (CATM) burned 30,000 cartons of fake cigarettes in public here today, as part of its nationwide crusade against production and marketing of contraband cigarettes. Jiang Ming, head of CATM, said that ci... |
FBIS3-25845_4 | Paper Sees `Growing Unrest' in Rural Tibet | detained in Gutsa Prison in Lhasa. The appeal concluded: "The village has been surrounded, with each home guarded by three soldiers. On the hill to the south of the village they have set up machine-gun posts. At present, people in this village are in a state of turmoil, living under tension and terror. All the people o... |
FBIS3-25858_0 | Government Fines, Detains `Golden Venture' Returnees | Language: English Article Type:BFN ["SUNDAY POST exclusive"] [Text] Mainlanders who gave up everything for a place on the ill-fated freighter Golden Venture and a new life in the United States seem certain to end their journey inside Chinese detention centres, the SUNDAY MORNING POST has discovered. The 118 Golden Vent... |
FBIS3-25871_0 | Radio Commentary Calls on Taiwan To Open Direct Links | Language: Mandarin Article Type:BFN [Commentary by station editor (Wang Huiqing): "Seize the Opportunity and Lift Restrictions on Three Direct Links"; from the "News and Current Events" program] [Text] Three major events in the mainland's diplomatic relationship occurred at the end of 1993 and the beginning of 1994. Th... |
FBIS3-25879_1 | Editorial Views U.S. President Clinton's Address | and create a good future. Health insurance for everyone is another issue that Clinton has insisted on. He hopes to revamp the current health insurance system so that the 37 million Americans who currently are not insured will also be taken care of. If the bill is passed, it will be the most significant U.S. social refo... |
FBIS3-25897_0 | Dissident Tries To Set Up Education Foundation | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Amy Liu] [Text] One of the top "black hands" of Tiananmen Square is back in China, promoting education and criticising the country's intellectuals. Zhou Duo who had worried about being allowed back after a year's stint in the United States is trying to set up a foundation to finan... |
FBIS3-25898_0 | Police Confiscate Journal for `Questionable' Content | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Amy Liu] [Text] One thousand copies of Tendency Quarterly have been confiscated by local police authorities because the content of the magazine smacked of rightist tendency, the editor said. Bei Ling, 34, editor-in-chief of the quarterly, said police authorities maintained the lit... |
FBIS3-25901_1 | Report on Crime, Punishment in PRC For 16-30 Nov 1993 | (Summary) (Beijing FAZHI RIBAO in Chinese 18 Nov 93; Hong Kong ZHONGGUO TONGXUN SHE in English 0932 GMT 18 Nov 93) The Beijing Evening News reported the execution of seven criminals for a range of serious offenses, including murder, arms trafficking, rape, fraud, and armed robbery. (Summary) (Hong Kong AFP in English 0... |
FBIS3-25901_11 | Report on Crime, Punishment in PRC For 16-30 Nov 1993 | more runaways. (Summary) (Beijing ZHONGGUO XINWEN SHE in Chinese 1153 GMT 24 Nov 93) Haikou City Intermediate People's Court held a public rally on 25 November, handing down death sentences to seven criminals guilty of serious crimes of murder, robbery, and illegal possession of firearms. Execution of the seven convict... |
FBIS3-25902_0 | Report on Crime, Punishment in PRC For 15-31 Dec '93 | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on crime, investigations, trials, sentencings, and other judicial-related activities in the PRC monitored during the period 15-31 December. The source and mode of processing are given in parentheses at the end of each entry. As evidenced by t... |
FBIS3-25902_9 | Report on Crime, Punishment in PRC For 15-31 Dec '93 | throughout the province and asked that they proceed in accordance with Hubei's economic construction, creating environment for reform, opening up, and economic development. (Summary) (Wuhan Hubei People's Radio in Mandarin 1000 GMT 18 Dec 93) Inner Mongolia Inner Mongolian police have rounded up 69 members of a gang tr... |
FBIS3-25927_0 | World Bank Loans Benefit Development in Xinjiang | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Urumqi, January 31 (XINHUA) -- Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China is using World Bank loans to speed up its development. By the end of 1993, the region was making use of about 300 million U.S. dollars-worth of World Bank loans for seven projects, involving the ... |
FBIS3-25954_2 | Beijing TV Airs MOFTEC's Press Conference | membership began. Hence, the negotiations have entered a substantive stage. China also submitted lists of (?samples) during the Uruguay Round of trade talks. China will ultimately sign a comprehensive agreement on the Uruguay Round and become a founding member of the world trade organization, which may be inaugurated i... |
FBIS3-25955_4 | Leaders Foreign Trade Reform | relations? [Wu Yi] China and the United States concluded a memorandum of understanding on 16 January 1992. The Chinese Government has earnestly carried out its promise. This has been acknowledged by the United States. The level of protection of intellectual property rights in China surpasses the average level of protec... |
FBIS3-26036_0 | Article Urges Increasing Peasant Incomes Enlivening the Circulation of Agricultural Products and Rural Markets Continued Efforts To Underwrite the Healthy Development of Township and Town Enterprises | Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [By Chen Junsheng (7115 0193 3932): "Rural Work Should Revolve Around Increasing Peasants' Income"] [Text] The central part of current agricultural, rural, and peasants' work is to increase peasant incomes. Why should increasing peasant incomes take center stage? One, with adequate fo... |
FBIS3-26036_9 | Article Urges Increasing Peasant Incomes Enlivening the Circulation of Agricultural Products and Rural Markets Continued Efforts To Underwrite the Healthy Development of Township and Town Enterprises | called the burden reduction policy one of the Communist Party's big services for the people. But down on the field, factors that may potentially increase the burdens for peasants remain. Some departments are thinking of restoring some financing and levy charges for some public charities. This is understandable. For a d... |
FBIS3-26090_4 | ARATS, SEF Officials Report on Negotiations Negotiations Make Some Progress | Wang-Gu Talks" should be implemented. Currently, cross-strait economic exchanges and cooperation is an important content in cross-strait relations. Last year's cross-strait economic and trade exchanges showed that increased Taiwanese investments in the mainland is helpful to the mainland's economic development. On the ... |
FBIS3-26096_0 | Li Ruihuan Addresses Religious Leaders | Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [By RENMIN RIBAO reporter Chen Weiwei (7115 4850 0251) and XINHUA reporter Zheng Qingdong (6774 1987 2639)] [Text] Beijing, 29 Jan (XINHUA) -- Li Ruihuan, member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau and chairman of the National Committee of the Chine... |
FBIS3-26097_0 | Li Lanqing Comments on Adult Education Programs | Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [By Central People's Broadcasting Station reporter Li Tao (2621 3447) and Jiang Qianfeng (3068 6929 1496)] [Text] Beijing, 28 Jan (XINHUA) -- Yesterday and today, Li Lanqing, vice premier of the State Council, inspected education programs for adults and teachers in Beijing. He also he... |
FBIS3-26100_1 | Peng Peiyun Addresses Women-Children Work Group | Plans for Chinese Women in the Nineties." The outline is intended to regulate, guide, and promote the development of Chinese women, safeguard their rights and interests, raise their standards, and enable them to participate more successfully in promoting equality, development, and peace and play a role worthy of the "o... |
FBIS3-26105_0 | Authorities Free Three Catholic Clerics | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Daniel Kwan] [Text] Three Catholic clerics have been set free by Chinese authorities after they were detained by mainland police who wanted to stop them from meeting foreign dignitaries. Informed sources said yesterday Bishop Su Zhimin of Baoding, Hebei Province, had returned home... |
FBIS3-26121_0 | Beijing Secretary Warns of `Threat of Unrest' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, Feb 3 (AFP)--Beijing Communist Party Secretary Chen Xitong has demanded tighter security measures for the Chinese capital, warning of the threat of unrest, the Beijing Daily reported Thursday. "The most important duty of all Beijing authorities this year is to protect ... |
FBIS3-26130_0 | Guangdong Officials Use Gallup Polls in Governing | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Guangzhou, February 3 (XINHUA) -- The methodology invented by the late American professor George Gallup to discover what's on the minds of the public is now helping local government officials to govern better. Public attitudes ranging from commodity prices and the image of publ... |
FBIS3-26188_0 | Article Reviews President Clinton's Address | Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN ["Roundup" by staff reporter Liu Aicheng (0491 1947 2052): "Old Problems, New Measures--Three Major Tasks Confronting the Clinton Administration"] [Text] Washington, 1 Feb (RENMIN RIBAO)--U.S. President Bill Clinton delivered his State of the Union address to a joint session of the Se... |
FBIS3-26188_2 | Article Reviews President Clinton's Address | from providing low-income families with medical subsides and the aged and disabled with medical care, the government also has to provide $350-400 of relief money to the poor families which have juvenile children, as well as food coupons of $70 to each of the destitute every month. At present, some 5 million families in... |
FBIS3-26198_2 | Editorial Attacks Patten on Airport Financing `Gift' | indeed looked like "Cleopatra's" dowry. Every person in Hong Kong was distressed at being ripped off by British Hong Kong. But Chris Patten has the nerve to describe the fourth financial package as a "spring festival gift" to the people of Hong Kong and China. Is this not utter nonsense? He is only appropriating a litt... |
FBIS3-26203_0 | Beijing Reportedly Releases Three Dissidents Justice Ministry Confirms Release | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, Feb 4 (AFP)--China's justice ministry confirmed Friday that three dissidents jailed after the crushing of the 1989 pro-democracy movement had been released. A ministry spokesman confirmed that Xiao Bin, a worker, Liao Yiwu, a leading poet from Sichuan province, and Din... |
FBIS3-26204_0 | Beijing Reportedly Releases Three Dissidents XINHUA Reports on Release | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, February 4 (XINHUA) -- Three men jailed in 1989 and 1990 for crimes in the June 1989 anti-government riot in China were recently given early releases -- in two cases many years before expiry of their sentences. Xiao Bin, Liao Yiwu and Ding Junze were recently released ... |
FBIS3-26205_0 | Column Views Improved Human Rights Conditions | Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN ["Political Talk" column by Shih Chun-yu (2457 0689 3768): "Human Rights Conditions in China Have Improved Significantly"] [Text] In the early seventies, a U.S. reporter, who had experience of covering news in old China, revisited China when Sino-U.S. relations began to thaw. When mee... |
FBIS3-26205_1 | Column Views Improved Human Rights Conditions | should be appraised realistically and should not be denied. China has made great progress and has further efforts still to make. This is the actual condition of the country, and this is also the case in the field of human rights. Old China was bullied and humiliated by foreign powers, and the people did not have any in... |
FBIS3-26211_0 | Bo Yibo Urges Development Speed, Economic Returns | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, February 3 (XINHUA) -- Bo Yibo, a retired veteran Chinese leader, said that China must combine development speed with high economic returns. In an impromptu speech at a forum here yesterday, he said that a "comprehensive understanding" of Deng Xiaoping's exposition on ... |
FBIS3-26214_0 | Article Views Restrictions on Dissident Wang Xizhe | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Daniel Kwan] [Text] As far as Chinese democracy fighter Wang Xizhe is concerned, the struggle for democracy is not confined to chanting slogans on the streets or writing big character posters. It also means how a person lives his life. One year after his release from Huaiji Prison... |
FBIS3-26226_0 | Government Announces Environmental Clean-Up Plan | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Zhu Baoxia: "State Plans for a Green China"] [Text] The government will implement a five-year environmental clean-up plan in pursuit of a "Green China", the National Environmental Protection Work Conference was told yesterday. Industrial waste treatment will be improved and biolog... |
FBIS3-26239_2 | State Council Adopts Agricultural Development Program I. Objectives and Guidelines for Agricultural Development in the Nineties II. General Arrangements for Agricultural Development in the Nineties III. Relying on Agricultural Scientific and Technological Progress, Enhancing the Unit Output Rate of Land and Other Agric... | 12 to 12.9 percent; the ability to monitor and forecast disastrous weather for agriculture was enhanced; and various applicable crop farming, forest-caring, animal farming, and aquicultural techniques were adopted and spread extensively; and the comprehensive grain and cotton production capacities increased from 300 bi... |
FBIS3-26239_32 | State Council Adopts Agricultural Development Program I. Objectives and Guidelines for Agricultural Development in the Nineties II. General Arrangements for Agricultural Development in the Nineties III. Relying on Agricultural Scientific and Technological Progress, Enhancing the Unit Output Rate of Land and Other Agric... | works, which mainly include Sichuan's Wudu and Shengzhong irrigation works and Dujiangyan transformation project; the irrigation and drainage works at the Great Bend of the Huang He in Ningxia and Inner Mongolia; Shaanxi's Donglei Waterworks; Henan and Shandong's large-scale water diversion and irrigation projects; the... |
FBIS3-26281_0 | Beijing Reportedly Releases Three Dissidents Activist Confirms Release | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] Beijing, Feb 4 (AFP)--China has released three dissidents who were jailed after the 1989 pro-democracy movement, a U.S. human rights activist said Friday. John Kamm, a U.S. businessman and human-rights campaigner, said he was told by the Chinese government that the three had... |
FBIS3-26289_0 | `Backgrounder' Notes Prospects for U.S., Vietnam Trade | Language: English Article Type:BFN ["Backgrounder": "U.S.-Vietnam Trade: How it Starts and Where It'll Go" by Wang Nan] [Text] Washington, February 4 (XINHUA) -- For Washington, which lifted its 1975 trade embargo against Vietnam on Thursday [3 February], the South East Asian nation is an emerging market worth billions... |
FBIS3-26299_0 | XINHUA Reports Hashemi-Rafsanjani Assassination Attempt | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tehran, February 6 (XINHUA) -- Iranian leader Ayatollah 'Ali Khamene'i today blamed the "satanic powers" for Tuesday's [1 February] aborted assassination of President Hashemi-Rafsanjani. He warned against plots of "satanic powers" to physically eliminate those Iranian people wh... |
FBIS3-26310_0 | Editorial Criticizes PRC, U.S. in MFN, Human Rights Debate | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Editorial: "No Time To Trivialise Human Rights"] [Text] The news that Chinese authorities have released three political prisoners is indeed welcome. But we are profoundly uneasy about how China's Western critics have been drawn into what one human rights group described as "a cynical... |
FBIS3-26316_0 | Government Views U.S. Senate Moves To Authorize Arms Sales | Language: Mandarin Article Type:BFN [Report by Liu I-mei; from the "Hookup" program -- recorded] [Text] The U.S. Senate adopted 92-8 the $12 billion State Department Authorization Act, which includes a bill submitted by Republican Senator Murkowski, chairman of the Senate Asia-Pacific Group, proposing the arms sale pro... |
FBIS3-26331_4 | Li Peng Continues Trip to Shenzhen, Zhuhai Lauds Daya Bay Nuclear Plant | when the project was under construction, many leading comrades of the party Central Committee and the State Council involved themselves personally and resolved problems as they occurred in an effort to help the project progress smoothly. Localities and departments -- including the Power Industry Ministry, the China Nat... |
FBIS3-26357_0 | Article Views Separate Taxation Reform | Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [By reporter Liu Hong (0491 4767)] [Text] Beijing, 31 Jan (ZHONGGUO XINWEN SHE) -- The reform of the separate taxation system, which is to be implemented from 1 January this year, indicates that China's financial reform has entered a new track of operation. Undoubtedly, the purpose of... |
FBIS3-26400_0 | U.S. To Boost Worldwide Population Control Aid | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Washington, February 5 (XINHUA) -- The U.S. Government is to increase its financial assistance to the worldwide population control, official sources said here today. "If we can't stabilize the world's population, we're not going to be able to control any other problems," said S... |
FBIS3-26407_0 | `Roundup' Views Impact of NAFTA on Asia | Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN ["Roundup" by Zong Wen (1350 5113): "Impact of North American Free Trade Area on Asia"] [Text] The North American Free Trade Agreement [NAFTA], signed by the United States, Canada, and Mexico in August 1992, came into effect on 1 January 1994. NAFTA countries have a population of 360 ... |
FBIS3-26412_1 | `News Analysis' Views President Clinton's Budget | for primary schools will be slightly more. Some 2.7 billion dollars with regards to fighting crime are also added. Congress republicans complained that there were only some minor changes in the new budget as compared with that of Former President George Bush. "But I still think it had teeth in it," said Senate Republic... |
FBIS3-26415_0 | Increased Sino-U.S. Cooperation Seen in Fighting Crime | Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN ["Special article" by staff reporter Chang Shao-wei (1728 1421 1218): "China and the United States Increase Cooperation in Cracking Down on Crimes"] [Text] "The Chinese and U.S. Governments have clear differences in terms of human rights, missile proliferation, and trade methods and w... |
FBIS3-26427_1 | CNA Views Indonesia as Major Target of `Southern Strategy' | Teng-hui to the Southeast Asian country. According to foreign wire service reports, Li is scheduled to visit the tourist island of Bali this week. During his three-day stay, Li will meet with Indonesian President Suharto and Minister of Research and Technology B.J. Habibie. Indonesia is one of the major targets in Taip... |
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