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FBIS3-4716_0 | Article Analyzes Serbian Fighter Shootdown | Language: Korean Article Type:BFN [Article by Yi Chin-ung] [Text] The Bosnian situation has entered a new phase because on 28 February Serbian and Croatian fighters attacked Muslin strongholds and U.S. Air Force planes under NATO command shot down Serbian fighters. The Serbian and Croatian bombings are considered to be... |
FBIS3-4717_0 | Government To Join Convention on Waste Control | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Seoul, March 1 (YONHAP) -- The South Korean Government sent an application to United Nations Secretary-General Butrus Butrus-Ghali Monday to join the Basel Convention, which controls trans-boundary movements and disposal of hazardous waste. South Korea will be regulated by the ... |
FBIS3-4719_0 | Riot Police Search University Campuses in Kwangju | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Kwangju -- Thousands of riot police stormed into two university campuses here early Sunday morning and arrested 39 students, suspected of having instigated violent anti-government protests. It was the first search of university campuses since the inauguration of President Kim Y... |
FBIS3-4724_17 | * Article Examines Future of Democratic Party | as at present, with declining public support and who, too concerned over the shape of things in the party, abandon their own districts. We must no longer put out ridiculous candidates in some districts, because of factional interests, who then loose, as in the recent special election. For the overall development of the... |
FBIS3-4724_27 | * Article Examines Future of Democratic Party | those out of office. If this is done on the premise of mutual concession, substantial compromise is possible. I know that there is opposition to this composition within the party, but it will be difficult to take office in the next presidential election if we cannot overcome the confusion in setting up an opposition ca... |
FBIS3-4725_0 | Tharin Seeks Double-Tax Talks With Bentsen | Language: Thai Article Type:BFN [Text] Commenting on the Thai-U.S. talks on a double taxation protocol, Director General of the Revenue Department M.R. Chatumongkhon Sonakun said the department is summing up the results of the talks, held in early February, for Finance Minister Tharin Nimmanhemin. Mr. Tharin will discu... |
FBIS3-4730_0 | Police Arrest 16 Burmese `Activists' 24 Feb | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Special Branch and immigration police arrested 16 Burmese activists at various places in Bangkok on Thursday [24 February]. The activists, who were detained at the Immigration Detention Centre, are alleged to be working against the Rangoon government. |
FBIS3-4737_1 | Reports of Country's `Economic Crisis' Refuted | reported by the afore-said communique, we made a new great progress in all sectors of the socialist economic construction during the Third Seven-year Plan in spite of the collapse of socialism in the former Soviet Union and other European countries, the disappearance of the world socialist market and a chain of other i... |
FBIS3-4737_2 | Reports of Country's `Economic Crisis' Refuted | up 1.5 times, their qualitative composition was further improved and solid foundations for the completion of the chemicalization of agriculture have been laid. A great progress was also made in light industry to bring about a new turn in the production of consumer goods. Garment, food and daily necessities industries r... |
FBIS3-4742_0 | Document on `Comfort Women' Distributed at UN | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Pyongyang, February 27 (KCNA) -- A document of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR) concerning the "comfort women" issue was distributed as an official document of the 50th meeting of the UN Commission on Human Rights. The document recalls that at the UN sub-co... |
FBIS3-4744_0 | Kim Il-song Receives Reply Message From Iran | Language: Korean Article Type:BFN [Text] The great leader Comrade Kim Il-song received a reply message from Islamic Republic of Iranian President 'Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani for sending him a congratulatory message on the 15th anniversary of the victory of the Islamic revolution in Iran. The reply message is as follo... |
FBIS3-4752_0 | Foreign Officials Support Ministry Statement | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Pyongyang, February 28 (KCNA) -- World political and public circles continue expressing support for the statement released by a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea concerning a solution to the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula. Ch... |
FBIS3-4761_1 | Achievements in `Rural Construction' Highlighted | nature, among them the building of the West Sea barrage and of waterways extending 800 kilometres in the western areas have successfully been carried out to complete the irrigation of agriculture at a high level. 28.7 percent of paddy and non-paddy fields had been irrigated before the publication of the theses. But all... |
FBIS3-4776_3 | * Article Advocates Better Enterprise Management | Many new problems are being posed in the payment of taxes. Nearly all units have paid commercial income, agricultural, and export-import taxes to local tax offices. Many units want to pay taxes to a single place: the Ministry of National Defense. Because of Circular 08, some problems have arisen, so the payment of inco... |
FBIS3-4780_1 | Trade Friction, Controversy With U.S. Viewed | against the dollar, disrupting the foreign exchange market. This year the United States will hold an off-year election, and the U.S. Congress is deluged with bills for retaliation against Japan. President Clinton, who prefers reality to ideology, is about to lean toward a policy favored by Congress. Claiming the Japane... |
FBIS3-4785_0 | Government Accepts Contact for Special Envoys | Language: Korean Article Type:BFN [Text] Pak Yong-su, head of our side's delegation to the contact of working-level delegates for the exchange of special envoys of the North and South, today sent the following telephone message to Song Yong-tae, the South side's senior delegate: Four months have passed since the contac... |
FBIS3-4790_1 | * Habibie: Nuclear Energy Program To Continue | Electric Generator will continue to be built even though the government has given nuclear energy the lowest priority in national energy planning. Based on studies carried out since the 1970s the Minister of Research and Technology/Chairman of the BPPT [Research and Technology Development Agency] B. J. Habibie stated th... |
FBIS3-4801_0 | Tokyo Comments on Downing of Planes Over Bosnia | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tokyo, March 1 KYODO -- Japan considers the shooting down of four warplanes over Bosnia-Herzegovina on Monday is in line with a U.N. resolution imposing a no-fly zone over the country, top government spokesman Masayoshi Takemura said Tuesday. "Japan understands that it was done... |
FBIS3-4833_0 | Vo Van Kiet Rejects Compromise With Vatican | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Hanoi, March 2 (AFP) -- Vietnamese Premier Vo Van Kiet has ruled out a compromise with the Vatican in a dispute on the appointments of priests, saying that his government must be consulted in the selection of clergy, according to an interview seen here Wednesday. Kiet told the ... |
FBIS3-4846_0 | U.S., Britain Support Permanent UNSC Seats | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] New York, March 1 KYODO -- The United States and Britain expressed support for making Germany and Japan permanent members of the United Nations Security Council [UNSC] as talks resumed Tuesday [1 March] on reform of the world body, diplomatic sources said. The support came at a... |
FBIS3-4894_0 | Sony To Use Country as Cassette Production Base | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Sony Magnetic Products (Thailand) will use Thailand as a production base for Southeast Asia for its video and audio compact cassettes. Hiroshi Takauchi, president, said the company's plant currently has an annual production capacity of 49 million audio and 13.4 million video ca... |
FBIS3-4931_3 | Reportage on National Agricultural Meeting WPK CC Congratulates Meeting | a result, the task to build irrigation systems in the rural areas has been completed on a high level and the task to use electric equipment in farming has been realized brilliantly. Great progress has been made in mechanizing farm work and using chemical fertilizers in farming, and, as a result, our peasants who had to... |
FBIS3-4961_0 | U.S. Automakers To Be Briefed on Certification | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tokyo, March 3 KYODO -- The Transport Ministry will send a senior official early next week to Detroit to tell U.S. automakers what to do to facilitate the flow of U.S. autos into the Japanese market, officials said Thursday [3 March]. The United States has criticized Japan's au... |
FBIS3-4990_1 | * Threat of DPRK Nuclear Development Examined | switch from barter trade to hard-currency settlements due to a change in its trade relations with the Soviet Union and China, the DPRK's economic situation has daily grown worse. The state of its economy is so serious that it has recorded continued negative growth for the past several years. DPRK food shortages are an ... |
FBIS3-4994_0 | * DPRK Election System Seen as Anti-Democratic | Language: Korean Article Type:CSO [Text] As the 21 November election of provincial (and directly administered city) delegates approaches, North Korea is gearing up its public agitation campaign in order to project the election as an extension of the theories of socialist superiority and systemic reinforcement applying ... |
FBIS3-5006_13 | * Article Urges Recovery of Nuclear Autonomy | a deep understanding of the reality of the nuclear world, which moves according to the principles of hegemony and the zero-sum rule, and of the double value of nuclear power. For us to pursue an autonomous nuclear policy, therefore, we must understand the economic value of nuclear power used peacefully as well as the r... |
FBIS3-5013_1 | Senate Ratifies Technology Treaties With India | nuclear accidents, Ople cited that this international agreement will place the Philippines within the protective umbrella of an international commitment to provide assistance in case of nuclear accidents. The first treaty with India concurred in by the Senate, involves economic and technical cooperation in research and... |
FBIS3-5028_3 | Singaporean Prime Minister Visit, Talks Reported Premiers Speak at Banquet | interest is to further expand and strengthen cooperation with the countries in the region, both bilaterally and multilaterally. We stand ready to be hand in hand with the Southeast Asian peoples to proceed towards a future of peace, independence, prosperity and development. `It is my firm conviction that your visit wil... |
FBIS3-5033_0 | Hoa Binh Hydropower Plant Completes Last Turbine | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Hoa Binh, Vietnam's biggest power plant has its full strength of 1,520 megawatt with the installation of its eighth and last turbine. The installation of the 670-tonne turbine was completed at the Hoa Binh plant on the Da River southwest of Hanoi on Friday. The giant hydroelect... |
FBIS3-5070_2 | N-S 3 Mar Working-Level Contact Reported | are aimed at bringing forth a turning point for peace and the peaceful reunification of the country. Our side stressed that the way of breaking through the difficulties most promptly and smoothly at a time when the threat of nuclear war is menacing the nation is exchanging special envoys of highest-level leaders of the... |
FBIS3-5076_0 | `Way To Defuse' Friction With U.S. Viewed | Language: Japanese Article Type:BFN [Unattributed article: "The Way To Defuse Japan-U.S. Friction"] [Text] The government has begun to speedily explore ways to break the impasse in the Japan-U.S. framework talks that ended in a breakdown. The government held a meeting of cabinet members in charge of foreign economic is... |
FBIS3-5076_8 | `Way To Defuse' Friction With U.S. Viewed | procurement and make it transparent. The government will publicize English-language versions of bidding advertisements and databased bidding information in an attempt to smoothly supply information to foreign contractors that have so far had difficulty obtaining such information. The government plans to announce its pl... |
FBIS3-5078_0 | U.S. Market Share of Semiconductors Viewed | Language: Japanese Article Type:BFN [Article by industrial reporter Jun Ando: "Industrial World Coolly Views Government's Movement; Impact of Debt of `20 Percent Share' Over Semiconductors Felt"; second in a series entitled "Review of the Four Areas of Japan-U.S. Friction"] [Text] "That was not an `emergency' meeting."... |
FBIS3-5080_2 | Friction With U.S. Over Phone Issue Viewed | by U.S. sanctions on Japan in connection with friction over the semiconductor issue. Japan is in the grip of U.S. suspicion. Regarding sanctions on Japan under consideration by the United States, Ryoichi Sugioka, managing director of Fujitsu Ltd, ostensibly projects a calm attitude, saying, "I cannot comment on them be... |
FBIS3-5080_3 | Friction With U.S. Over Phone Issue Viewed | would target "telecommunications equipment generally," not only mobile phones, and overseas procurement by the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) would be embroiled in the sanctions." A top executive of Oki Electric Industry Ltd has said, "The exports of facsimile machines would be hit the hardest by U.S.... |
FBIS3-5103_3 | Hosokawa Delivers Policy Speech to Diet | spending and local government projects in consideration of the state of the economy, the fiscal 1994 budget proposal represents a determined effort to promote social infrastructure improvements in preparation for the advent of the aged society, including priority investment in housing, water and sewer systems, parks, e... |
FBIS3-5103_10 | Hosokawa Delivers Policy Speech to Diet | the earliest years through university graduation. One of the areas in which it is hoped that creative economic activity will open the way to new development in the years to come is that of information telecommunications. With the recent rapid technological advances, information is no longer limited by either space or t... |
FBIS3-5103_16 | Hosokawa Delivers Policy Speech to Diet | systems to provide enhanced medical services responsive to the different needs of different patients. Likewise, I will actively promote measures for the handicapped, including enhancing community access for these people under the new long-term program for government measures for disabled persons. Health is a most impor... |
FBIS3-5105_7 | Hata Delivers Foreign Policy Speech to Diet | Japan will continue to offer positive support for the trend. While some developing nations are making incredible economic progress, most still suffer from poverty and hunger. We strongly believe the economic and social development of these nations is a necessary prerequisite for peace and prosperity in the world. To ac... |
FBIS3-5118_1 | `Statement' Decries South Dumping Nuclear Waste | the South Korean puppets dumped into the sea, will bring to the ecosystem and the frightening catastrophes it will inflict on the South Korean people, in addition to fellow countrymen and mankind in general. As is well known, if nuclear waste materials are dumped into the sea, they will contaminate or kill fish, shells... |
FBIS3-5127_0 | Ways To Increase Agricultural Production Urged | Language: English Article Type:BFN ["Technical Revolution, Important Way of Final Solution to Rural Question"--KCNA headline] [Text] Pyongyang, March 3 (KCNA) -- The great leader President Kim Il-song in his historic letter "For the Ultimate Solution of the Rural Question Under the Banner of the Socialist Rural Theses"... |
FBIS3-5131_0 | Minister, U.S. Envoy Meet on Hubbard Remarks | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Seoul, March 4 (YONHAP) -- South Korean Foreign Minister Han Sung-chu expressed regret Friday over U.S. officials' recent negative comments about Seoul's national security law, regardless of their innocent intentions. Han, meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Seoul James Laney, comp... |
FBIS3-5136_4 | Dailies Assess Working Contact With DRPK | resumed. The editorial calls on the North Korean authorities to be "keenly aware of the significance" of our government's announcement on the suspension of Team Spirit. The moderate CHUNGANG ILBO publishes on page 5 a 2,000-word article by Chon Chong, deputy editor-in-chief of CHUNGANG ILBO, under the headline, "`Exper... |
FBIS3-5150_4 | * Article Notes Changes in Student Movement | of credits required for graduation from the current 140 units to 120. It should strengthen the links between the disciplines and raise the quality of education by instituting a departmental system within each college. Son Yang-chol, elected student association president at Yonsei University, aroused interest both insid... |
FBIS3-5164_0 | Activist Gets Jail Term for `Defaming' Suharto | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Jakarta (JP) -- Human rights activist Nuku Soleiman was sentenced to four years in jail yesterday fo defaming President Suharto. The Central Jakarta District Court found the 30-year-old Nuku guilty of producing and distributing stickers insulting to President Suharto. The sente... |
FBIS3-5176_0 | Suphachai on Investment Shifts, ASEAN Trade | Language: Thai Article Type:BFN [Text] Deputy Prime Minister Suphachai Phanitchaphak reiterated the potential of Thailand in trade and investment competition as well as that of the Indochinese countries. He said that Thailand has made progress and enjoyed a 30 percent increase in its trade surplus. Speaking about the t... |
FBIS3-5187_0 | Commentary Reviews Ties With ASEAN Countries | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Station commentary] [Text] Comprehensive development has taken place in relations between Vietnam and the ASEAN member countries. Trade and economic ties between Vietnam and ASEAN countries have rapidly increased. In 1992, two-way trade between Vietnam and the Indonesia reached $220 ... |
FBIS3-5194_0 | City Government Orders Bishop To Renounce Post | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] HANOI, March 4 (AFP) -- Vietnam has warned a Roman Catholic bishop to stop his "illegal activities" and step down from a senior church post in Ho Chi Minh City as his appointment was not approved by the government, a report said Friday. The Ho Chi Minh City municipal government... |
FBIS3-5194_1 | City Government Orders Bishop To Renounce Post | Nghi's appointment as a supervising bishop was "unilateral, improper and without consultation with the Vietnamese government." Vietnam has rejected Nghi's appointment to the supervisory post, saying he should be given the more senior position of deputy and successor to the southern city's ailing archibishop in place of... |
FBIS3-5209_1 | Envoy on Tokyo's Role in United Nations Work | reluctant to go to dangerous places. The problem we face with the issue of refugees is that although Japan provides aid for their assistance, our contribution is limited as far as the acceptance of refugees is concerned. On human rights there is sharp contrast in values between Asia and the West. Asia hopes Japan is we... |
FBIS3-5209_6 | Envoy on Tokyo's Role in United Nations Work | about how the Security Council comes to a decision, about what kind of role the ambassador and the permanent mission on the spot play, and about the atmosphere of deliberations at the Security Council. [Hatano] It is said that the United Nations has three classes of members: the first class is the five permanent member... |
FBIS3-5210_7 | Information Gathering, Analysis Examined | in other nations, but for future diplomacy it is imperative to provide the ordinary people of other nations with correct information. From now on, democratization processes will make headway in many countries, including Russia and China. Unless backed up by popular consensus, other nations cannot be expected to pursue ... |
FBIS3-5210_8 | Information Gathering, Analysis Examined | a number of organizations like the foreign affairs council, and the State Department dispatches lecturers there, sponsors symposiums to discuss diplomatic and international problems among government officials and private citizens with such organizations as the core, and engages in various other activities. In addition,... |
FBIS3-5210_28 | Information Gathering, Analysis Examined | ROK, or Russia. It was always with the United States. So the future diplomatic keynote entirely lies in Japan-U.S. relations. In that connection, what Mr. Kondo said is perfectly correct in that the United States has never liked Japan. It only pretended to like Japan because the strong adversary, the Soviet Union, exis... |
FBIS3-5256_0 | Telecommunications Assistance Extended to Cambodia | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Jakarta, Mar. 5 (ANTARA) -- Indonesia's state-owned domestic telecommunication company, PT [Company Limited] Telkom assists the Cambodian Government in making a telecommunication scheme for leasing a Palapa B-4 satellite transponder, president the company Setyanto P. Santosa sa... |
FBIS3-5264_0 | Economist on Potential Power Imports From Laos | Language: Thai Article Type:BFN [Text] Reporting on the survey made by international economic institutions and himself, in the capacity as economic consultant to the Lao Government, Dr. Wiraphong Ramangkun, secretary general of the Thai-Lao Friendship Association, told PRACHACHAT THURAKIT that Laos is rich in natural r... |
FBIS3-5279_0 | Ministry Relaxes Car Inspection Requirement | Language: Japanese Article Type:BFN [Announcer-read report; from "NHK News 9" program] [Text] The Ministry of Transport announced on 3 March that Chrysler's Cherokee, a recreational four-wheel-drive vehicle, would no longer require "vehicle-by-vehicle" inspection when it is put on sale in Japan. This is part of efforts... |
FBIS3-5284_10 | Hata on DPRK Nuclear Issue, Ties With U.S. | about that? [Hata] What I want to say is that various sources of information allege that large amounts of money have flowed into North Korea from Japan -- some of them making reference to tens or hundreds of billions of yen. Some say the money has been carried by travelers in person or in their luggage, or has been sen... |
FBIS3-5327_1 | Government, Papers React to Super 301 Revival Government Expresses Regret | States intends to take retaliatory action against an country using unfair trade practices. The Korea Trade Promotion Corp. [KOTRA] and the Korea Foreign Trade Association [KFTA] made similar comments that the United States is likely to use the weapon as a means to pressure all its trading partners recording trade surpl... |
FBIS3-5369_1 | Achievements of Scientists, Technicians Noted | machine, thus making a sizable contribution to the development of the national economy and the improvement of the people's standard of living. The scientists and technicians dispatched to the Sunchon District coal mining complex introduced a method of cutting coal layers downwards so that the coal output per cutting fa... |
FBIS3-5379_1 | Super 301 `Conflicts' With GATT Principle | one nation. So the problem is rather more than simply the $60-billion trade imbalance with the United States. 2) Unlike the economic background to the 1985 Plaza agreement, Germany now has a deficit trade balance and Japan is the only country producing a huge trade surplus today. 3) Following the conclusion of the Cold... |
FBIS3-5411_0 | Daily Expresses Support for Cuba's `Struggle' | Language: English Article Type:BFN ["Cuban People Are Not Alone" -- KCNA headline] [Text] Pyongyang, March 8 (KCNA) -- NODONG SINMUN today expresses firm solidarity with the Cuban people's just struggle upon the lapse of eight years since the Korean visit of Fidel Castro, a historical event that brought Korea-Cuba frie... |
FBIS3-5440_1 | * Religion Oversight Coordination Team Formed | the job of carefully researching and evaluating developments in particular faiths to ascertain their impact on public order and security. At the central level, the team is chaired by the attorney general, with the deputy attorney general for intelligence as deputy chairman. Other members of the PAKEM Team include the d... |
FBIS3-5443_0 | NAFTA Expansion Could Hamper U.S. Investment | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] American investment in Thailand may be affected if Singapore and Korea are accepted into the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), says M.R. Napthong Thongyai, chief of the Thai Commercial Counsellor's Office in Washington. Singapore, an ASEAN member, and Korea have appr... |
FBIS3-5453_0 | Trade Talks Held With U.S. in Seoul 8 Mar | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Seoul, March 8 (YONHAP) -- The United States urged South Korea to strengthen its intellectual property protection to harmonize with the Uruguay Round agreement in trade talks here Tuesday. A delegation led by U.S. Deputy Assistant Trade Representative Peter Collins met with Seo... |
FBIS3-5457_0 | U.S. Trade `Pressure,' Super 301 Discussed | Language: Korean Article Type:BFN [Article by Kim Cha-su: "U.S. Trade Pressure and Government Countermeasures"] [Text] The United States is now stepping up the trade pressure that had abated temporarily. It appears as though U.S. trade pressure will be amplified since the Super 301 provision was revived on 3 March. Acc... |
FBIS3-5471_9 | Vu Oanh Article on National Unity, Part 2 | the right to use their land, workers will possess shares in their enterprises, and the public will be provided loans for their business operation so that everybody will have a fair chance to improve their life, making the poor become better, the average become rich, and the rich become richer. For the people who have r... |
FBIS3-5472_0 | * Hydroelectric, Powerline Projects Described | Language: Vietnamese Article Type:CSO [Article by Pham Hunh Nghi] [Text] "1994 is the year of Vietnamese electrical power and the year in which the south will finally have sufficient electricity," said Premier Vo Van Kiet on 16 November 1993 at the Thac Mo hydroelectric project located on the Be River. January: the thr... |
FBIS3-5523_0 | ASEAN To Explore `Closer Ties' With ECO | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] ASEAN Secretary-General Ajit Singh will visit Tehran in mid-April for talks with the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) secretariat on establishing economic, trade and tourism links between the two regional groupings. Ajit Singh, who is attending the three-day closed-door ... |
FBIS3-5525_0 | South Urged To Stop Dumping Nuclear Waste | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Pyongyang, March 7 (KCNA) -- Hwang Sang-chun, chairman of the State Environmental Commission of the DPRK, strongly urged the South Korean authorities to immediately stop nuclear waste dumping in the sea and take emergency measures to prevent nuclear leakage. Speaking at a press... |
FBIS3-5528_0 | * Problems in Trade With DPRK Described | Language: Korean Article Type:CSO [By reporter Kang Tae-ho] [Text] Anticipating the post-unification period, most businesses, and particularly conglomerates, view North Korea as a market they are destined to enter. This means that, although there be many obstacles and investment dangers, they are prepared to risk these... |
FBIS3-5542_2 | Poll on Public's Attitude Toward Tax Issues | consumption tax hike in exchange for a cut in income tax. As the public becomes aware of the problems of an aging society, it is beginning to take a more positive attitude toward the idea of a consumption tax increase to fund welfare programs. Among supporters of Shinseito [Japan Renewal Party], Komeito, and the Japan ... |
FBIS3-5555_0 | Paper Reports on 8 Mar Trade Talks With U.S. | Language: Korean Article Type:BFN [Text] At ROK-U.S. working-level trade talks held on 8 March in Seoul, concerning the issues of automobile and intellectual property rights, the U.S. side strongly urged the ROK side to further reduce tariffs on imported cars and to conduct a special crackdown on those who violate inte... |
FBIS3-5557_0 | Editorial Questions Stance on Rights Issue | Language: Korean Article Type:BFN [Editorial: "The World Focuses on the National Security Law"] [Text] It is deplorable that political discussion on the National Security Law [NSL], which is well known as an evil law trampling upon human rights, has not shown any progress although it has, with the domestic movement to ... |
FBIS3-5581_1 | Importance of Russian Role in Bosnia Viewed | this trend was already visible after NATO threatened to bomb the Serbs. Russia strongly opposed the threat and insisted that the settlement of the Bosnian conflict be referred to the UN Security Council. If the proposal is approved, Russia would certainly use its veto power to defend the Serbs. [passage omitted] There ... |
FBIS3-5582_0 | Editorial Discusses Solution to Bosnia Conflict | Language: Indonesian Article Type:BFN [Editorial: "We Should Consider and Champion the Fate of Bosnians"] [Excerpts] What was the reason behind the global community's previous assistance to Africa when it encountered famine? It was because the mass media, particularly worldwide television coverage, carried daily report... |
FBIS3-5588_0 | Joint Economic Committee With Thailand Meets | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] The Philippines and Thailand yesterday concluded the first round of talks of a joint committee on bilateral cooperation which led to agreements on the establishment of business cooperation councils, countertrade arrangements, an exchange of trade and investment priority lists, ... |
FBIS3-5607_0 | MITI Official on `Latest' U.S. Super 301 Move | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tokyo, March 9 KYODO -- A senior trade ministry official on Wednesday [9 March] played down the latest U.S. move on invocation of the "Super 301" trade provision. "The action does not represent a significant meaning for Japan," he said. The comment came after U.S. Trade Represe... |
FBIS3-5642_15 | Kang Song-san Addresses Agriculture Meeting | conditions: pumping stations, transportation-style, and constant irrigation. Indeed, the irrigation facilities in our rural areas provided by the wise leadership of our party are perfect [word indistinct] which guarantees the endless development of our agriculture, and are brilliant creations that demonstrate the invin... |
FBIS3-5645_0 | `Concern' Over U.S. Revival of Super 301 | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Excerpts] Trade Assistant Secretary Edsel T. Custodio said that the Philippines should be concerned over the United States' move in reviving a provision of the U.S. law known as Super 301 which if not settled could erupt into a trade war. Custodio said the "U.S. move is a discordant ... |
FBIS3-5661_0 | Editorial Views Post-Embargo Business Strategy | Language: Vietnamese Article Type:BFN [Editorial: "Form Large Economic Groups Which Are Strong Enough To Compete"] [Text] Soon after the lifting of the U.S. trade embargo, American-made Pepsi soft drinks have begun to be produced in Vietnam. For many years, they were imported from foreign countries to meet popular dema... |
FBIS3-5667_0 | International Conference on Cambodian Aid Held Marshall Plan for Cambodia Urged | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tokyo, March 10 KYODO -- A two-day international conference on the reconstruction of Cambodia opened in Tokyo on Thursday [10 March] with an appeal from King Norodom Sihanouk for a modern-day "Marshall Plan" to help put the war-ravaged country back on its feet. Sihanouk's messa... |
FBIS3-5669_0 | International Conference on Cambodian Aid Held Australia To Fund Mine Clearing | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Australia has told the Tokyo conference it is to provide an extra $700,000 [Australian dollars] to clear land mines in Cambodia, bringing its total allocation for demining in the financial year ending next June to about $1.4 million. The allocation was announced by Australia de... |
FBIS3-5683_0 | U.S. Demands at Framework Talks Detailed | Language: Japanese Article Type:BFN [Text] Details of a statement of demands on a competition policy that the U.S. Government presented to the Japanese Government at the Japanese-U.S. economic framework talks have been disclosed. One major point is a demand for intensified enforcement of the Antimonopoly Act to prevent... |
FBIS3-5698_1 | MONTSAME Carries 9 Mar Press Review | counties the two counties and is noted that an agreement is reached on holding the negotiations on renewing the treaty in the near future. In the declaration it is noted that the two sides agreed to make active exchange of views on bilateral and international issues of common interest, develop cooperation within the fr... |
FBIS3-5721_0 | `Worthwhile Life' of DPRK Women Featured | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Pyongyang, March 8 (KCNA) -- Today is the international women's day. The Korean women who had been out of society in the past are now leading a worthwhile life, sharing responsibility with men for the country. Thanks to the proclamation of the law on sex equality in 1946, the K... |
FBIS3-5724_0 | Intellectual Property Dispute With U.S. Discussed | Language: Thai Article Type:BFN [Text] An informed source in the Export Promotion Department told PRACHACHAT THURAKIT that the Thai commercial center in Los Angeles recently sent the department its report on Thai-U.S. trade issues involving intellectual property and worker rights. The report states that Thai efforts to... |
FBIS3-5726_0 | Army Involvement in Laos, Cambodia Investment | Language: Thai Article Type:BFN [Article: "The Military Readjusts To Deal With Indochina"] [Text] The opening of the door to welcome the free economy in Indochina has excited businessmen and investors who want to use the northeast as an export base for important markets of the region. In the past three months prior to ... |
FBIS3-5737_0 | U.S. Secretary of State Continues Visit Appeals for `Tangible Results' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tokyo, March 10 KYODO -- Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Foreign Minister Tsutomu Hata agreed Thursday [10 March] that the United States and Japan should make efforts to prevent existing tension from escalating and try to solve problems through negotiations, Foreign M... |
FBIS3-5764_0 | Papers on U.S.-ROK Trade Talks, USTR Report | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of articles from ROK vernacular papers published on 10 March on the U.S.-ROK trade meetings held on 8 and 9 March and the annual trade policy report released by the U.S. Trade Representative, USTR, on 8 March. The independent-moderate Seoul MAEIL KYONGJ... |
FBIS3-5765_2 | Ties With U.S. After Fall of Communism Viewed | United States is the only superpower in the world and is located outside the Northeast Asian region. In what shape should we build our relations with the United States to make them most conducive to the political independence and survival of our nation in the future? On this question, we should form a forthright, clear... |
FBIS3-5778_4 | * Former People's Party Chairman Interviewed | the influence of the nationalist-democratic movement is receding. How do you evaluate the present stage of the movement and in what direction do you think it must go to overcome this? [Chang] At present, the opposition is not much supported by the public. People commonly say that this is because it is radical and exces... |
FBIS3-5786_0 | Openness Toward Newly Liberalized Nations Urged | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] The Philippines has asked the Association of Southeast Nations, or ASEAN, to adopt a more open attitude toward newly liberalized countries in the region. These countries are Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar [Burma], and Vietnam. The call was made by the Philippine delegation to the spec... |
FBIS3-5805_2 | Further on Conference for Cambodian Reconstruction Donors Pledge Over $700 Million | 73 million dollars in new U.S. assistance to Cambodia over a two-year period. Among international financial institutions, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) announced it will provide Cambodia with some 129 million dollars in loan assistance for 1994-97, as well as technical assistance of some 28 million dollars for the s... |
FBIS3-5831_2 | Editorial Tells U.S. Not Interfere in Caning Case | and Japan) and shepherding a controversial health-reform package at home has now been compounded by a deepening personal crisis as he and his wife, Hillary, face an investigation into a land deal they were party to in their early years. But then, incredulity might turn to approval among some that Mr. Clinton, burdened ... |
FBIS3-5837_0 | Proposed Gas Pipeline Said To Raise Concerns | Language: English Article Type:BFN ["NATION report" by James Fahn] [Text] The companies planning to build a pipeline to transport natural gas from an offshore field in Burma to Thailand have for the first time revealed the route the pipeline will take. Human rights and environmental groups fear that its construction wi... |
FBIS3-5847_0 | French Minister Criticizes U.S. Trade Policy | Language: Japanese Article Type:BFN [Report on interview with French Foreign Trade Minister Gerard Longuet by NIHON KEIZAI SHIMBUN reporter Shota Kobayashi in Paris on 8 March] [Text] Paris, 8 Mar -- During the interview, Foreign Trade Minister Longuet criticized the United States for having reinstated the Super 301 pr... |
FBIS3-5850_1 | MITI To Adopt Exports `Blanket Permit System' | part of the permit-issuance authority will be transferred to local bureaus of industry and international trade. There are many varieties of materials and mechanical equipment which can be used for producing such weapons of mass destruction as nuclear weapons, biological and chemical weapons, and missiles; in addition t... |
FBIS3-5862_2 | Article Questions Motives Behind Naval Buildup | security needs will be met collectively may find Thailand's purchase of an aircraft carrier and more frigates reassuring. But Asean today remains far from any such arrangement and indeed cannot yet agree even on the establishment of a defence pact. And though the Thai navy's current chief, Adm. Prachet Siridet, has com... |
FBIS3-5866_2 | `Constructive' Mekong Committee Talks Sought | 42-Article framework accord on the sustainable use of water resources at a meeting of the technical drafting working group in Vientiane. Quang said the earlier negotiations had yet to settle the contentious question of diversion of water from, the mainstream and tributaries during the dry season, and two points in the ... |
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