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FBIS3-27582_3 | Scholar Comments on Improving Economic Quality | although industrial production has become the dominant social production activities in these localities, the products turned out are mainly primary products which consume visible resources and the value added to them by means of high-technology and new-technology is quite low. They are in an unfavorable position in com... |
FBIS3-27594_0 | Qingjiang River Ship Lift Begins Construction | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Wuhan, February 25 (XINHUA) -- Construction of a ship lift at the Geheyan key water control project on the Qingjiang river, which empties into the Chang Jiang river eastward of the Three Gorges, started recently. The building of the ship lift project, which requires a total inv... |
FBIS3-27652_18 | Legislators Question Governor on Elections | of British politicians. I do not think the honorable lady is likely to secure the outcome in the next few months which she understandably and honorably has said. If she does, I will answer the question. [Emily Lau] The governor has not answered my question. My question is whether he will block it? If he blocks it, then... |
FBIS3-27662_0 | President Clinton Proposes Reform of Export Controls | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Washington, February 24 (XINHUA) -- The Clinton administration sent to Congress here today a legislation to reform the country's export administration act of 1979, which imposed "inefficient and obsolete" control of Cold War era on exports. The renewed Export Administration Act... |
FBIS3-27683_0 | U.S.-Russian Relations Strained by Espionage Allegations | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Moscow, February 26 (XINHUA) -- Relations between the United States and Russia are facing a severe test over the scandal of two Russian spies which was revealed last week. On February 22, the U.S. Government instituted judicial proceedings against Aldrich Hazen Ames, the former... |
FBIS3-27684_0 | U.S., Russia `Slinging Mud at Each Other' Over Spy Cases | Language: English Article Type:BFN [From the "World News" program] [Text] Moscow and Washington have been taking turns slinging mud at each other over alleged espionage cases recently. And ties between the two big powers are facing a rocky period. Lin Shaowen has the details. Moscow said Wednesday [23 February] that it... |
FBIS3-27686_1 | `Special Article' Views `New Trend' in Russo-U.S. Ties | this. Thus, a "crisis" occurred in the relationship between Russia and the West. Under such circumstances, German Chancellor Kohl insisted on the need to take into account Russian efforts for peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina, regardless of U.S. objections. German mediation facilitated Russian influence on the Serbs and play... |
FBIS3-27690_2 | XINHUA Denounces U.S. Report on Human Rights | million people are being imprisoned in jails and reform- through-labour farms in China. Since China's population is 4.5 times that of the United States, the U.S. proportion of imprisoned people to the whole population is four times that of China. The U.S. Government has admitted that about seven million people in the c... |
FBIS3-27690_5 | XINHUA Denounces U.S. Report on Human Rights | utilizing and distorting the issue of human rights and using the issue to impose pressure on any other state. The human rights report of the U.S. State Department violated these U.N. declarations. It shows no concern with human rights, but practises power politics. While posing as a guardian of human rights and making ... |
FBIS3-27692_3 | RENMIN RIBAO Analyzes Recent U.S. Economic Growth | pressure, but it may also increase the U.S. trade deficit and sag the momentum of economic growth. Amid general recession among Western countries, economic growth in East Asia and Latin America has injected new vitality into the world economy. Moreover, economic growth in these countries is no longer one based on borro... |
FBIS3-27715_1 | Prasong Exchanges Views With Chilean Leaders | official visit. The group was welcomed on their arrival in Chile by Acting Foreign Minister (Rodrigo Diaz Aboligo). On 26 January, the foreign minister and his party had a meeting with the Chilean acting foreign minister and delegation. The outcome of the talks is as follows: 1. Both sides agreed to expand bilateral re... |
FBIS3-27716_0 | Editorial: `Crucial Juncture' in Laos Ties | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Excerpts] Recent news on the alleged abuse of Thai prisoners in a Laos jail is worrying for two reasons. Firstly, there is the concern on a personal, humanitarian level for the welfare of approximately 100 Thai prisoners. Secondly, there is the worry about what the story, if substant... |
FBIS3-27722_5 | Aftermath of Political Reform Accord Reported Hosokawa-Kono News Conference | effective the political reform bills will be. But as the prime minister said earlier, there are a mountain of difficult issues pending, such as the Japan-U.S. economic talks and the economic stimulus measures, which have a bearing on the lives of the people, and which are still waiting to be resolved. I think, when it ... |
FBIS3-27740_2 | U.S. Radio Free Asia, Human Rights Criticized U.S., Australian Rights Faulted | are trying to perfect their mass-destruction weapons. We do not want to interfere in their internal affairs, but we are aware that the United States' Declaration of Independence of 1776 stated that everyone is born equal. But since then, African Americans in their country have continued to suffer from the bad practice ... |
FBIS3-27759_3 | Papers React to Patriot Deployment Issue | regarding North Korea's nuclear issue. The article notes that we cannot overlook the fact that the ROK may be used as a major weapons market by the U.S. defense industry. The article reports: "There are rumors that core figures of the U.S. defense industry in Washington secretly visited the ROK and met with high-rankin... |
FBIS3-27783_5 | Envoy to U.S. Interviewed on Nuclear Issue | [Han] The Department of State and we agreed at first to withhold the details of the negotiations from public circulation. However, THE WASHINGTON POST and THE NEW YORK TIMES carried a correct report or two. So, I called high-ranking State Department officials. I protested to them, saying, "We are very much embarrassed ... |
FBIS3-27786_1 | NADK Spokesman Statement on Anlung Veng | countryside and in Phnom Penh. This is an attempt by our enemies -- who are facing an impasse and are suffering serious defeats -- to fool others. The purpose of this psychological propaganda is: To threaten and frighten those who seek business contacts with Democratic Kampuchea [DK] in this zone; and to encourage the ... |
FBIS3-27795_0 | Water Management Agreement With Australia | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Thailand and Australia yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding [MoU] to exchange information and experience on water resources management for Thailand to adapt for the future use of the Mekong River, according to the Science and Technology Ministry's Department of Nation... |
FBIS3-27805_0 | Further on Visit by U.S. Religious Delegation Graham, Delegation Depart 1 Feb | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Pyongyang, February 1 (KCNA) -- U.S. religious leader Rev. Billy Graham and his party left here Tuesday, concluding their six-day visit to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. While staying in Pyongyang the pastor and his party visited different places. After going round ... |
FBIS3-27823_3 | Radio Urges Industrialization of Agriculture | the slow increase in agriculture's productive forces compared to the industrial sector. Today, our country has vigorously carried out the rural technological revolution under the party's wise leadership, and, as a result, peasants are farming using science and technology and working more easily and joyfully. The work t... |
FBIS3-27860_1 | More Commentary on Stimulus Package Issue Comsumption Tax Issue Discussed | ratio of direct to indirect tax revenues in one or two years to fund the tax cut, the sources said. This means, in effect, hiking the consumption tax rate. Hata said, "tax cuts without any future (funding) expectations are dangerous for the nation," indicating an consumption tax hike will be implemented in the future. ... |
FBIS3-27933_16 | * MOF Study on Foreign Direct Investment, Trade III. Changes in Trade Structure and Foreign Direct Investments as Seen in Different Industries V. Changes in Trade Structure as Seen From the Perspective of International Air Cargo | interest payments. Again, local sales ratios for Japanese-owned enterprises in North America are about 90 percent, and presumably having invested in order to secure a share of the local market, they may be sacrificing profits to a certain extent when they make their investments (Table 9.1). Table 9.1. Changes in Percen... |
FBIS3-27933_20 | * MOF Study on Foreign Direct Investment, Trade III. Changes in Trade Structure and Foreign Direct Investments as Seen in Different Industries V. Changes in Trade Structure as Seen From the Perspective of International Air Cargo | Asia's newly developing economies [NIE's], which received foreign direct investments from Japan, all similarly underwent rapid growth. The 1990's, however, find Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore in different political and economic environments. In other words, the economies of Taiwan and Hong Kong are in the proce... |
FBIS3-27933_40 | * MOF Study on Foreign Direct Investment, Trade III. Changes in Trade Structure and Foreign Direct Investments as Seen in Different Industries V. Changes in Trade Structure as Seen From the Perspective of International Air Cargo | statistics Table 28. Changes in International Air Cargo (Imports) 1970 1980 1985 1990 1991 1992 Volume (unit: $100 million) Air cargo 15 120 172 536 510 491 imports (A) Total imports 189 1,405 1,295 2,348 2,367 2,330 (B) Percent 7.9 8.5 13.3 22.8 21.5 21.1 change (A/B) Volume (unit: 1,000 tons) Air cargo 49 267 407 884... |
FBIS3-27940_1 | Sectarianism in Ministry Viewed | even Cabinet ministers. Therefore, it prides itself as the sole authority on policy on women. However, last year, Mariko Bando, who had climbed the bureaucratic ladder in the Prime Minister's Office throughout her career, was appointed the ninth chief of the Women's Affairs Office under the Prime Minister's Office, an ... |
FBIS3-27951_2 | * Economic Planning Agency Officials Profiled Adminstrative Vice Minister, Councilor, and Member of the Policy Board of the Bank of Japan | various difficult problems, such as the dull economic performance among the developed countries, the conversion of the former Soviet Union and Eastern European states to market economies, and environmental problems on a global scale. What path should Japanese economic development take in the course of all of this? With... |
FBIS3-28006_4 | Press Reacts to 31 Jan DPRK Ministry Statement | the IAEA's regular Board of Governors meeting slated for 21 February. The article refers to some observations on the ROK and U.S. side that North Korea will likely allow the IAEA inspection team to visit North Korea around 16 February -- Kim Chong-il's birthday. The pro-government SEOUL SINMUN publishes on page 5 a 1,2... |
FBIS3-28009_0 | U.S. Report on PRC, DPRK Human Rights Noted | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Washington, Feb. 1 (YONHAP) -- The human rights situation in South Korea since the inauguration of President Kim Yong-sam in 1993 has improved significantly except for cases involving communism and North Korea, the U.S. State Department says. In North Korea, President Kim Il-so... |
FBIS3-28015_0 | Increase in Sale of Foreign Cigarettes Noted | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Seoul, Feb. 2 (YONHAP) -- Domestic consumption of foreign cigarettes soared last year due to a strengthening of sales promotion activities by foreign cigarette makers and importers here, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday. Foreign cigarettes passing through the customs house l... |
FBIS3-28059_1 | Editorial on Dissolution of Sabah Assembly | anybody because it had been the talk of the town for some time. It is still interesting, however, to discuss the timing behind Pairin's move to dissolve the assembly and gain a new mandate from the people. [passage omitted] Politically speaking, Pairin might have believed that the earlier-than-scheduled elections would... |
FBIS3-28063_0 | Minister: No `Offensive Designs' in Arms Purchases | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Jakarta, Feb. 1 (ANEX-ANTARA) -- Defense and Security Minister Edi Sudrajat said that arms purchases being made by some Southeast and East Asian countries were not motivated by offensive designs. "So far, we do not think that certain countries in Southeast and East Asia which r... |
FBIS3-28101_2 | Controversy Over Tax Reform Proposal Reported Hosokawa Statement on Tax Reform | without saying that it will take an enormous amount of expenditure to carry out such a vlsion. In studying the existing taxation system -- in other words, the framework as to how our people share the burden of taxes -- it is noted that too much emphasis has been imposed on income taxation, and too much of a burden has ... |
FBIS3-28102_5 | Controversy Over Tax Reform Proposal Reported Hosokawa Answers Questions 2 Feb | the whole, we have come up with definite figures. [Reporter] But Mr. Prime Minister, raising the existing 3-percent consumption tax to the 7-percent national welfare tax would mean an increase of 4 percent. Based on current revenue from the consumption tax, I think there will be a revenue increase of about 9 trillion y... |
FBIS3-28102_15 | Controversy Over Tax Reform Proposal Reported Hosokawa Answers Questions 2 Feb | have to respect the Diet's deliberations. [Reporter] Does this mean that there might be some amendments? [Hosokawa] Well, I can only say that this would be like the case of the political reform bills. [Reporter] Tell us why the national welfare tax is to be implemented on 1 April 1997. [Hosokawa] It has often been poin... |
FBIS3-28127_0 | NASDA Postpones Launch of H-2 Rocket Again | Language: Japanese Article Type:BFN [From the "NHK News" program] [Text] The large-scale H-2 rocket, developed solely with Japanese technology, was schedued to be launched at 0700 [2200 GMT] this morning [3 February] at the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture. But because it was found during all-night insp... |
FBIS3-28128_4 | Daily Supports Foreign Ministry Statement | our people and the world's peace-loving people. This is why we consistently insisted on negotiations with the United States. If the United States does not have the will to resolve the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula through talks, then we have no intention of going out of our way to hold the talks. We are not ind... |
FBIS3-28147_0 | Honda, U.S. Company To Develop EV Battery | Language: Japanese Article Type:CSO [Text] Honda Motor Co, (Nobuhiko Kawamoto, president) and Ovonic Battery Co. (OBC, headquartered in Michigan), a U.S. venture company that produces electronic and electrical parts, have agreed on the joint development of a next-generation battery for electric vehicles [EV] and conclu... |
FBIS3-28149_13 | Role of New Foreign Ministry Bureau Viewed On Japan's Becoming a Permanent Member of the Security Council | any way it can. At the same time, Japan will attempt to settle territorial disputes revolving around the so-called northern territories in order to expand equilibrium. China has been pursuing reform and modernization, and seems to have achieved considerable success in improving its economy. It is most desirable for reg... |
FBIS3-28163_0 | Commentary Views U.S. Plans for Radio Free Asia | Language: Lao Article Type:BFN [Unattributed commentary] [Text] Last week, the U.S. Senate debated and endorsed the establishment of Radio Free Asia with the aim of beaming news to China, Myanmar [Burma], Tibet, the DPRK, Cambodia, Vietnam, and the Lao Peoples's Democratic Republic [LPDR]. They claimed that peoples in ... |
FBIS3-28169_1 | Executives Welcome U.S. Trade With Vietnam | the United States' higher technology. A Thai Petrochemical Industry Co executive, Prachai Leophairatana, said the lifting of the embargo, if it occurred, would greatly expand business in Vietnam because of the flood of foreign capital into that country. The end of the sanctions will enable new investors to enter Vietna... |
FBIS3-28216_2 | Daily Analyzes U.S. Lifting of Vietnam Embargo | in which they even offered prize money. Adding that, "If the United States normalizes relations with Vietnam, it will facilitate the resolution of the MIA issue," he opened a way to lifting the embargo. Lawmakers of the U.S. Senate Energy Committee Appropriations Subcommittee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee Asi... |
FBIS3-28227_1 | Minister Hata on U.S. Talks, Political Reform | "Do you think the heiritsu-sei (combining the single-seat district and proportional representation systems) is a process of going toward a complete single-seat district system or is it the ideal system which should take roots?" Hata says the heiritsu-sei can better reflect the popular will than a pure single- seat dist... |
FBIS3-28231_1 | No Participation in UNPROFOR `at Present' | Zagreb, Sarajevo and Belgrade. Hata said in the statement that Japan is not considering sending personnel to the U.N. Protection Force (UNPROFOR). The ministry officials said Japan will continue studying the nation's participation "from a mid- to long-term perspective" and closely watch regional developments, the UNPRO... |
FBIS3-28257_0 | Ambassador to U.S. Views Relations, Trade | Language: Indonesian Article Type:BFN ["Excerpts" of interview with Arifin Siregar, ambassador to the United States, by TEMPO correspondent Bambang Harymurti in Washington; date not given] [Text] [Harymurti] How are current Indonesia-U.S. relations? [Siregar] You know that relations between Indonesia and the United Sta... |
FBIS3-28257_3 | Ambassador to U.S. Views Relations, Trade | that take the initiative to have our GSP removed, but it is the U.S. Government that makes the decision. The same is true with the Feingold Amendment, namely a senator tabled the bill, but if Congress had approved it, the U.S. Government would have implemented the resolution to ban the arms sale. Therefore, they are in... |
FBIS3-28257_6 | Ambassador to U.S. Views Relations, Trade | the typical attitude of American and Western people in general. They cannot make decision quickly. They must look at many aspects first, especially the legal one. For this reason, countries like Korea and Hong Kong tend to invest more in Indonesia. [Harymurti] Some observers said that since the APEC meeting in Seattle,... |
FBIS3-28263_0 | North Official Caught Trying To Smuggle VCR's | Language: Korean Article Type:BFN [YONHAP from Cairo] [Text] A reliable source on 3 February revealed that a North Korean trade mission official was caught attempting to smuggle 10 videotape recorders into Cairo. The equipment was confiscated. According to the source, Yu Hyon-chol, member of the North Korean trade miss... |
FBIS3-28277_0 | Improving Quality of Information Analysts Urged | Language: Japanese Article Type:BFN [Interview with Ryuzo Sejima, former chairman of the Consultative Committee for Strengthening Diplomacy, by AERA editorial staff Hidetoshi Sotooka; place and date not given] [Text] [Sotooka] Last August, the Foreign Ministry started to strengthen its intelligence ability in response ... |
FBIS3-28278_6 | Intelligence-Gathering Capability Discussed The Cabinet Information Research Office Is a Small Organization Occupying Eight Rooms The Public Security Investigation Agency Turns Its Eyes to Foreign Information The Prime Minister Sometimes Receives Information Gathered by the Japan External Trade Organization | Intelligence and Research has a total staff of some 350 people, and it has access to information gathered by other huge intelligence services. A former MOFA information officer even said frankly: "Information released by the U.S. State Department is the most accurate, while information provided by Japanese private citi... |
FBIS3-28284_14 | Bureaucrats' Role in Decisionmaking Viewed | very small number of bureaucratic elite, sometimes in a very arbitrary manner and without a spirit of independence, following in the footsteps of the United States. In addition, there lies in the background the deadlock of the distinct vertical system observed by Japanese bureaucracy. The Foreign Ministry has always ad... |
FBIS3-28293_1 | Negotiators Maintain `Tough' Stand in Talks | after all." The reason why the Japanese officials are so rigid is because of their bad experiences. One of them is the Japanese-U.S. semiconductor agreement. Whereas it contained a figure of 20 percent for foreign semiconductors' market share in Japan as the U.S. industry's hoped-for figure, before one knew what was ha... |
FBIS3-28295_4 | Professors Criticize Numerical Targets Plan Japan's Conventional Response To U.S. Demands Inspires U.S. To Make More Demands Strenuous Efforts Should Be Made To Narrow Disparities Between Domestic and Overseas Prices | will lead to managed trade. The Japanese Government should resolutely say "no" to the U.S. demand. If both Japan and the United States agree on numerical targets, the following problems will arise: A) The act itself of the Japanese Government agreeing to numerical targets would be interpreted as Japan acknowledging "it... |
FBIS3-28299_0 | `Setback', U.S. Support Viewed | Language: Japanese Article Type:BFN [Text] With the Japan-U.S. summit talks on 11 February close at hand, Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa's setback on the issue of the tax cut and the accompanying tax hike at the last minute has brought about a crisis of confidence in his "management ability" of the Japan-U.S. relatio... |
FBIS3-28303_4 | Official Discusses Security in East Asia (2) Promotion Of International Cooperation For The Sake Of Regional Stability | Korean peninsula, Cambodia issue, and Northern Territories issue between Japan and the USSR are still present. "And fourth, in Europe, there is a major movement toward unification, politically and economically, with the movement of the EC union at its center. But in the Asia Pacific region, relationships of economic mu... |
FBIS3-28306_10 | Effects of Tax Cuts, Hikes Simulated | amount of increased revenue in 1996 would be 7.7 trillion yen; in 1997, 8.1 trillion yen; in 1998, 8.7 trillion yen; in 1999, 9.3 trillion yen; in 2000, 9.9 trillion yen; therefore, the increased revenue from consumption tax would exceed the amount of reduction in income tax, and in 1999 the national finance would achi... |
FBIS3-28310_2 | Draft ASDF Research Report Said Compiled | issue of procedures regarding the utilization of commercial airports and recruitment of commercial ships and other means of transport during emergency situations. Copies of the draft report are in safe-keeping at ASDF regional headquarters, as well as at the Air Defense Command Headquarters (Fuchu, Tokyo). They are bei... |
FBIS3-28311_1 | Need To Rethink Manufacturing Industry Assessed | not as dilapidated as the U.S. industries were over 10 years ago and they have not lost competitive power like the current high-tech industries of Europe. However, it is certain that they are lost in the forest and, to escape, they must examine what kind of forest it is and where they are situated topographically. To d... |
FBIS3-28311_13 | Need To Rethink Manufacturing Industry Assessed | Tokyo Metropolitan Government, numerous companies are cooperating to establish a so-called "fashion town" on the shores of Tokyo Bay. Information technologies are being used widely there and a worldwide exchange center in this field is being created. It is said that if fashion is included, the new synthetic textiles ha... |
FBIS3-28313_0 | Hosokawa Plans To Discuss PRC With Clinton | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tokyo, Feb. 7 KYODO -- Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa will urge U.S. President Bill Clinton in upcoming talks to extend U.S. trade privileges for China and support its early admission to the GATT world trade body, government sources said Monday [7 February]. Hosokawa, slated ... |
FBIS3-28368_11 | Ramos, Malaysia's Mahathir on Trade, Security | us very much aware of the need to avoid conflict. And I think this is happening in Southeast Asia and in East Asia. [passage omitted] Our experience with the Japanese is that they invested in Malaysia and their investments has enabled Malaysia to prosper. And because we are more prosperous now, we are buying a lot of J... |
FBIS3-28379_0 | Officials, Newspapers Greet End of SRV Embargo Daily Applauds `New Page' in Ties | Language: Thai Article Type:BFN ["World Window" column by Thetthat] [Excerpts] If everything went as planned, by now, on Friday in Washington D.C. (Saturday in Thailand), President Bill Clinton must already have announced a major decision to lift the trade sanctions imposed for 30 years on Vietnam, its adversary. The d... |
FBIS3-28382_0 | Paper Urges Heeding U.S. Human Rights Report | Language: Thai Article Type:BFN [Editorial: "Reflection of Human Rights"] [Excerpt] The U.S. State Department indicated in its report on human rights that the situation in Thailand is still bad. In 1993 in particular, more than 60 suspects died during detention. The report also said suspects were quite often victims of... |
FBIS3-28394_0 | Le Duc Anh Recalls War-Era Sacrifices | Language: Vietnamese Article Type:BFN [Report by station correspondent Truong Cong Hoa on a Tet get-together with fallen combatant's families by party and state leaders in the Presidential Palace on 2 February -- portions recorded] [Summary] "Dear friends, in an enthusiastic atmosphere when the country is entering its ... |
FBIS3-28411_0 | Editorial Notes `Misgivings' Over Perry Document | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Editorial: "U.S. Military Salesmanship"] [Text] As the Republic of Korea and the United States are endeavoring to bolster their combined defense capabilities amid the heightening tension over the North Korean nuclear development program, it is worried that commercial factors might pl... |
FBIS3-28412_4 | Papers Examine Perry's Letter | 5 February carries on page 3 a 1,200-word report by Washington-based correspondent Chong Chin-sok entitled "Defense Secretary's Nomination Ratified Without Mentioning His Pressure on Arms Purchase--U.S. Senate Keeps Silent in Consideration of National Interest, Arms Sale to ROK Creates 20,000 Jobs, the Press Which Crit... |
FBIS3-28434_2 | Radio Denounces `Antidemocratic' South Regime | forces, was reinforced with as many as about 17,000 new men. Special detective teams have been established in the puppet police administration of each city and province. The length of sticks carried by policemen is longer than that of ones carried by policemen in the previous dictatorial regime. Moreover, the Kim Yong-... |
FBIS3-28468_1 | Editorial Hails Embargo End | pride of American patriotism is still refusing to heal, and upon turning its back on Indochina, America found it hard to forgive and forget. Thus, the sourpuss' fault-finding denial of diplomatic and economic good sense -- since the end of Cold War rivalry, U.S. policy over Vietnam, and by extension, the whole of Indoc... |
FBIS3-28519_0 | Khmer Rouge Criticize U.S. on Sin Song Entry | Language: Cambodian Article Type:BFN [Text] People have asked this question: The United States has set itself up as the defender of human rights. Why then does the U.S. Government embrace the puppet of the Vietnamese communists named Sin Song, great murderer and criminal, and let him go to the United States? It has bee... |
FBIS3-28521_0 | Ministry Condemns Attack on Sarajevo Civilians | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Jakarta, Feb. 8 (ANTARA) -- Indonesia condemned on Monday the bombing by Serbs of a civilian target, killing 68 people in Sarajevo on Saturday last week. An official statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the shelling by Serbs of a busy market in Sarajevo... |
FBIS3-28523_1 | Ramos Discusses Oil Price Policy, Initiatives | intensive study that we made over the weekend up to early this morning, including myself, we are seeing a plus-21 centavos in all of the computations arising out of the lower price of crude oil in the world market and the stable foreign exchange rate -- the pesos versus the hard currencies including the dollar. There a... |
FBIS3-28532_0 | Editorial: Region Benefits From U.S.-SRV Trade | Language: Thai Article Type:BFN [Excerpts] The U.S. trade sanctions imposed on the SRV for 19 years have finally been lifted by the U.S. Government of President Bill Clinton. Although the war in Vietnam was over in 1975, the American people continued to feel the pain of the defeat of the U.S.-backed South Vietnam. [pas... |
FBIS3-28533_1 | Paper: U.S. Sees Gain in GATT Regulations | areas. Without well planned and effective precautions, national development will be obstructed and delayed while businesses and trade with foreign countries will be adversely affected. Based on our observation, changes in three areas will take place in the near future. They are: First, the launching of the "Thaicom" sa... |
FBIS3-28545_0 | ROK-U.S. Plan To Counter DPRK Attack Disclosed | Language: Korean Article Type:BFN [Article by Kyong Yong-won: "`ROK-U.S. Joint Operations Plan' Set Up in 1992"] [Text] It has been disclosed that the ROK and the United States, in their joint operations plan worked out in 1992 in preparation for a North Korean southward invasion, introduced the new concept of active d... |
FBIS3-28561_8 | Reportage on Tax Compromise, Stimulus Package Hosokawa Holds News Conference | but the issue was not resolved at the time. I intended to express my views concerning the current confusion when the issue was resolved and the prospects for the tax issue were clearer. [Correspondent] Do you still believe the idea of introducing a national welfare tax is right? [Hosokawa] Since last fall, from about 3... |
FBIS3-28561_10 | Reportage on Tax Compromise, Stimulus Package Hosokawa Holds News Conference | news conference to apologize to the people for what you have done. Prime Minister, you have said that it is inevitable for the coalition government to undergo a process of trial and error, while repeatedly saying you are aware of your political responsibility. I wonder if you are really reflecting on what you have done... |
FBIS3-28591_0 | Tokyo Electric Plans International Bidding | Language: Japanese Article Type:BFN [Text] In order to expand its procurement of foreign-made equipment, Tokyo Electric Co., Ltd. [TEC] will introduce a system of international bidding for procuring large general-purpose equipment, including hydraulic power generators. As the first step, TEC will invite European compan... |
FBIS3-28601_0 | Government's Tax Reform Proposal Analyzed | Language: Japanese Article Type:BFN [Editorial: "Hosokawa Needs To Take Open And Aboveboard Attitude] [Text] The government's conclusion on reforming the tax system, which has been a major point in the coming economic stimulus measures, came about in the early morning of 3 February, when Prime Minister Hosokawa made a ... |
FBIS3-28602_0 | Editorial on Income Tax Reduction Issue | Language: Japanese Article Type:BFN [Editorial: "Hosokawa Administration Urged to Return to Its Original Stance of `Implementing Tax Reductions First'"] [Text] The government and the ruling coalition parties decided to scrap the plan to introduce a "national welfare tax" and implement an income tax cut. It is unusual t... |
FBIS3-28602_2 | Editorial on Income Tax Reduction Issue | over the tax system was being promoted on the precondition that a "tax increase is a must." It is strange that we hardly heard that the debate had been held because of details of the income tax reduction plan. What we should recall is that a large-scale income tax reduction is needed for the Japanese economy, which is ... |
FBIS3-28613_2 | Spokesman Rejects U.S. Human Rights Report | unemployed people, millions of vagabonds and 35 million people living below the poverty line. And it is plagued with criminal cases of murder by arms claiming the lives of more than 38,000 people a year and drug consumption which accounts for 65 percent of the world's drug output, and narcotic-related crimes which are ... |
FBIS3-28614_0 | U.S. Paper Cited on Allegations About DPRK | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Pyongyang, February 8 (KCNA) -- The U.S. paper PEOPLE'S WEEKLY WORLD January 22 reported that U.S. figures challenged the allegations of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States about North Korea at an action forum held in Chicago under the sponsorship of the ... |
FBIS3-28687_1 | Comments on, Reaction to Tax, Stimulus Issues Income Tax Cut `Unavoidable' | handing over the report, panel chairman Kan Kato said he expressed his "regret" to Hosokawa that the panel was not given sufficient time to discuss its proposals thoroughly. The government and ruling coalition parties decided Tuesday on the 20 percent income tax cut, totaling 5.47 trillion yen, but left aside the fundi... |
FBIS3-28696_0 | Ozawa Interview on Tax, Political Reform, DPRK | Language: Japanese Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] Tokyo FNN Television Network in Japanese at 2238 GMT on 5 February carries, during its weekly "News 2001" program, a 74-minute interview with Shinseito Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa. The program, which is moderated by Yuji Kuroiwa and Kaori Matsuyama, includes reg... |
FBIS3-28714_1 | Commentary Urges More Inter-ASEAN Investment | not in line with efforts toward ASEAN economic integration. The fact is that member countries do not have to go far for investment. With regional trade expanding rapidly, there is much scope for greater intra-ASEAN investment as well. As Prime Minister Datuk Sri Dr Mahathir Mohamed noted, investment by ASEAN investors ... |
FBIS3-28715_2 | Editorial: Time for U.S. To Move Against Serbs | some responsibility for ensuring that the Balkans do not slip irreversibly out of the civilised world. Foreign Ministers of the European Union (EU) met in Brussels on Monday to issue the toughest warning heard in recent months to those strangling Sarajevo. After the usual disagreements among themselevs, they asked that... |
FBIS3-28727_0 | Officials Comment on `Wide Gap' in U.S. Talks | Language: Japanese Article Type:BFN [Unattributed report] [Text] A government official disclosed on 9 February that a U.S. official in charge of the Japanese-U.S. framework trade talks has proposed a plan to submit at the 11 February Japanese-U.S. summit meeting an "interim report on consultations" which includes a sid... |
FBIS3-28729_4 | Bureaucrats Change Trade Policy Toward U.S. | negotiations with the European Union (EU) says, "I think that although the United States talks tough, it is more pusillanimous than I had thought." Multilateral negotiations are "open negotiations" in which negotiators exchange their assertions according to rules and are a power game in which the interests of nations c... |
FBIS3-28732_1 | `High-Dimensional' Talks Urged With Clinton | as the government procurement, insurance market, and automobiles and auto parts. In particular, the dispute between the United States which demands setting specific numerical targets market shares and Japan which objects to it, saying such numerical targets would lead to managed trade is still there where it started. T... |
FBIS3-28737_0 | Prompt, Reputable Tax System Reform Plan Urged | Language: Japanese Article Type:BFN [Editorial: "Work Out Reputable Tax System Reform Plans"] [Text] The tax issue, over which political turmoil has continued ever since Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa announced his "national welfare tax" plan, has finally been settled for the time being. However, the agreement among ... |
FBIS3-28739_1 | Envoy to PRC Interviewed on DPRK Situation | up special economic zones. As for the reasons why President Kim is restoring "his direct administration," Ambassador Hwang cited the following points: members of the "interim generation," meaning the generation born between the first and second revolutionary generations and including Kim's brother Kim Yong-chu, have be... |
FBIS3-28753_1 | More on Proceedings at NAM Meeting in Jakarta NAM Calls for UN Session on Bosnia | he said. A special UN session was a last resort in case the UN Security Council proved unable to implement the resolutions it had itself issued, Alatas said. The NAM foreign ministers also asked the five Nonaligned countries that are currently member of the UN Security Council to urge the council to carry out its resol... |
FBIS3-28766_0 | Kim Il-song Sends Message to President of Iran | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Pyongyang, February 10 (KCNA) -- President Kim Il-song of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on February 10 sent a message of greetings to 'Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, warmly congratulating him on the 15th anniversary of victo... |
FBIS3-28777_4 | MITI's Kumagai on Trade Talks, Tax Reform | that in the process of formulating pump-priming measures, many political adjustments are needed. [Kumagai commenting on a retracted Hosokawa proposal to create a national welfare tax] On 3 September last year, Prime Minister Hosokawa, based on an agreement among the ruling parties, asked the Tax Commission to draw up d... |
FBIS3-28804_0 | Iran Envoy Stresses Expansion of Economic Ties | Language: Korean Article Type:BFN [Report on interview with Zabihollah Now-Forsati, Iranian ambassador to the ROK, by reporter Pak Kyong-a; place and date not given] [Text] On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the Islamic revolution on 11 February, Zabihollah Now-Forsati (45), Iranian ambassador to the ROK, stres... |
FBIS3-28807_1 | * Ex-Deputy PM Views Economic Competitiveness [25 Dec p 1] Impossible To Survive Under Old Frame [28 Dec 93 p 1] Costly, Inefficient Structure Needs Urgent Revamping [30 Dec 93 pp 1, 2] Cultivate Intellect, Train Personnel With Foresight | brain power and knowledge, and ability among nations and enterprises. Expansion of competition will pose an awesome challenge to us. Underdeveloped countries might be able to hold their own in competition in commodity trade. But they will discover that there are many areas in the software field, such as technology, bra... |
FBIS3-28810_0 | Further on Jakarta Nonaligned Movement Meeting ICO Group Offers Troops to Bosnia | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Jakarta, Feb 10 (ANTARA) -- The Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) member countries pleaded to send some 10,000 troops to be deployed as part of the United Nations peacekeepers in Bosnia-Herzegovina. "Within the U.N. system, we offer 10,000 troops which will come from Mal... |
FBIS3-28834_0 | Thailand, Burma, Laos Plan Narcotics Task Forces | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Thailand yesterday agreed to set up border task forces with Burma and Laos to improve the efficiency of local officials from the three countries in their joint campaign against illegal drugs trade. Narcotics Control Board Secretary General, Chaowalit Yotmani, said the Thai-Burm... |
FBIS3-28847_1 | Leadership Members Comment on Bosnia Issues Additional Troops May Be Sent | have discussed this issue many times before and we are ready to offer more troops for UN duty in Bosnia." [passage omitted] Malaysia has about 1,500 troops serving with the UN Protection Force (UNPROFOR) under the command of Kol. [Colonel] Hashim Hussein. Asked about the total number of troops which Malaysia was willin... |
FBIS3-28885_0 | Papers Mark 15th Anniversary of Iran Revolution | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Pyongyang, February 11 (KCNA) -- Papers here today dedicate editorial articles to the 15th anniversary of the victory of the islamic revolution in Iran. NODONG SINMUN says that the downfall of the dictatorial regime and the victory of the revolution in Iran proved again the his... |
FBIS3-28886_0 | Iranian Embassy Marks Anniversary | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Pyongyang, February 12 (KCNA) -- The charge d'affaires ad interim of the Iranian Embassy here, Seyyed Lashgari [name as received], hosted a reception Friday on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the victory of the Islamic revolution in Iran. Invited there were Vice-Premier... |
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