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FBIS3-5917_0 | Further on Events at Cambodian Aid Conference Ranariddh Announces Mine Import Ban | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] Tokyo, March 11 KYODO -- Cambodia's First Prime Minister Norodom Ranariddh said Friday [11 March] that his country will prohibit the import and laying of land mines effective immediately. "On behalf of the royal government, I would like to say very clearly that we completely... |
FBIS3-5918_0 | Further on Events at Cambodian Aid Conference Foreign Minister Interviewed | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] Tokyo, March 11 KYODO -- Cambodian Foreign Minister Norodom Sirivut took Thailand to task Friday [11 March] for allowing an illegal logging trade to thrive along Khmer Rouge- controlled border areas. Sirivut broached the subject in an interview with KYODO NEWS SERVICE during... |
FBIS3-5921_0 | Various Sectors React to Super 301 Measure | Language: Japanese Article Type:BFN [Text] The U.S. Government identified eight Japanese industrial sectors -- wood products, paper, plate glass, computers, supercomputers, electric telecommunications, medical equipment, and insurance -- as candidates subject to retaliatory action under the Super 301 trade provision (d... |
FBIS3-5924_0 | Editorials Urge Action on Relations With U.S. `Sharpening Conflict' Viewed | Language: Japanese Article Type:BFN [Editorial: "Don't End It as a Show Performance"] [Text] "Japan-U.S. relations are the most important bilateral relations in the world," Michael Mansfield, former U.S. ambassador to Japan, used to say, and many people have thought that way and still do. While this thinking has been t... |
FBIS3-5965_0 | Increase in Electric Power Production Reported | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Pyongyang, March 11 (KCNA) -- The production of electric power is on the growth in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. According to data available at the State Commission of the Electric Power Industry, the power producers have increased the average daily load factor of ... |
FBIS3-5967_0 | Research To Improve Medical Technology Noted | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Pyongyang, March 11 (KCNA) -- New technology researches to improve medical services are brisk among the medical workers of Korea. During the past one year, many inventions and rationalization proposals have been produced in the prophylactic and therapheutic organs in Pyongyang.... |
FBIS3-5982_0 | Conference Held With Thailand on Investment Official on Amendments to Laws | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Marisa Chimprapha] [Text] VIENTIANE -- The Laotian National Assembly is considering changes in its laws to encourage foreign investment to the country. The assembly on Wednesday began a six-day meeting during which members will debate legal amendments approved recently by Cabinet,... |
FBIS3-5983_4 | Conference Held With Thailand on Investment Article on Modernization Strategy | to the hilt but the real, solid ones are more cautious, waiting in the wings, weighing the pros and cons to decide whether to spend the same amount of money in Laos or Vietnam or Cambodia. The choice is never easy considering the varying degrees of uncertainty in all the three Indochinese countries. But some "big names... |
FBIS3-5984_0 | Prasong on U.S. Sanctions Against Thai Firms | Language: Thai Article Type:BFN [Text] Foreign Minister Squadron Leader Prasong Sunsiri was asked about a report that the Khmer Rouge had forced Thai gem-miners out of Cambodia. He said that there has been no information to that effect given to the Foreign Ministry and he would like to check the accuracy of the report ... |
FBIS3-5994_0 | Editorial Terms Burma Joining ASEAN `Disgrace' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Editorial: "A Sad Day for Burmese Democracy Movement and Its People"] [Excerpts] The United Nations in Geneva last week accused Burma's military government of persistent and extremely serious human rights violations, including torture and summary execution. [passage omitted] But that... |
FBIS3-5995_0 | Western Spiritual, Cultural `Pollution' Decried | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] HANOI, March 14 (AFP) -- The Vietnamese authorities sounded an anxious new warning Monday about Western influence, with editorials declaring the communist regime must not be destabilized by "Western spiritual and cultural pollution." The editorials have been stepped up since th... |
FBIS3-5996_0 | Agreement With Vatican on Decisionmaking Noted | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Hanoi VNA March 14 -- Vatican Deputy Secretary of State Monsignor Claudio Celli left here yesterday ending a week-long working visit to Vietnam. While in Vietnam, the Vatican representative held talks with Mr. Vu Quang, head of the government Commission for Religious Affairs. T... |
FBIS3-6084_1 | Tokyo, U.S. View Phone Accord Interpretation | between Japan and the United States over the interpretation of this expression -- "all available measures." It looks clear that the Japanese Government wants to avoid giving much meaning to the expression, and Vice Foreign Minister Kunihiko Saito insists, "All this means is to do something like conducting, on a regular... |
FBIS3-6134_0 | New Streetcar, Electric Railcar Make Trial Run | Language: Korean Article Type:BFN [Text] A trial run of a new type of streetcar and underground electric railcar, produced at the Kim Chong-tae electric locomotive general enterprise, has been successfully carried out. The trial run made on several occasions covered the long distance from Mangyongdae District's Songsan... |
FBIS3-6166_2 | Editorial Seeks Greater Role for ASEAN Forum | upset its regional partners. The most significant is its declaration of sovereignty over a large expanse of the South China Sea. Asean is aware that China used force to evict the Vietnamese from some of the Paracel and Spratly Islands in 1975 and 1988. These island archipelagos extend across important shipping lanes. H... |
FBIS3-6179_1 | Vo Van Kiet Tours Hoa Binh Power Station | the north-south 500-kilovolt power line, which is of great importance to the cause of national construction. The prime minister expressed his hope that everyone will continue to complete the remaining work with the highest results. Next, the prime minister called on the Vietnamese cadres and workers and Russian special... |
FBIS3-6180_0 | Three Generators Inaugurated at Ba Ria-Vung Tau | Language: Vietnamese Article Type:BFN [Text] The No. 2 Electricity Company inaugurated three 37.5-megawatt gas turbine generators at the Ba Ria-Vung Tau Power Station on the morning of 12 March. The three generators are now safely producing more than 92 million kilowatt-hours of electricity for the national line after ... |
FBIS3-6189_0 | Visit by U.S. Defense Official Discussed | Language: Korean Article Type:BFN [Text] Frank Wisner, U.S. under secretary of defense for policy, arrived in the ROK on 14 March to discuss the North Korean nuclear issue and measures to promote security cooperation between the ROK and the United States. Visiting the ROK after accompanying U.S. Secretary of State Chri... |
FBIS3-6195_1 | DPRK Upgrades Light, Downgrades Heavy Industry | by the Information Analysis Office of the National Unification Board [NUB] from January to 10 March 1994 based on reports in North Korean newspapers, North Korea has increased the size of enterprises in light industry and trade, while reducing the size of enterprises in heavy industry. First, the "General Bureau of the... |
FBIS3-6212_0 | Ministry To Start Diplomatic Information Database | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Seoul, March 14 (YONHAP) -- Responding to the era of internationalization, the Foreign Ministry will fully computerize the jobs of sanctioning plans and managing information starting next year, ministry officials said Monday [14 March]. Computerization is considered a must to a... |
FBIS3-6268_0 | Cilreco Urges South To Stop Waste Dumping | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Pyongyang, March 15 (KCNA) -- The International Liaison Committee for Reunification and Peace in Korea (Cilreco) released a statement on March 7 urging the South Korean authorities to immediately open to the public their nuclear waste dumping into the sea and apologize to the K... |
FBIS3-6273_0 | Progress in Agricultural Science Reported | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Pyongyang, March 16 (KCNA) -- Agro-science has made progress in Korea. The variety of crops cultivated and applied in agriculture has increased three times over the past thirty years since the publication of the socialist rural theses (February 1964). Methods of farming suitabl... |
FBIS3-6279_0 | Southern Mindanao Emerging as `New Growth Area' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Malou L. Sayson] [Text] Southern Mindanao is fast shedding off its image as the country's traditional economic backdoor and in no time will emerge as the new growth area in the east of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The reason for this change is its abundant a... |
FBIS3-6280_0 | `Illegal Shipment' Clause Focus of Textile Talks | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Achara Phongwutthitham] [Text] In an attempt to conclude the long-awaited bilateral textile agreement during the round of talks to take place at the end of this month, Thai officials are considering the wording of the illegal shipment circumvention clause. Thai and US officials ar... |
FBIS3-6281_1 | Editorial: U.S. Preparing `Economic War' | play a productive role in the making of the new international economic order with a collective consensus and to refuse to play into American hands. This is a time for the most creative ASEAN initiatives for a productive role and continued progress. Our joint collaboration should extend beyond the ASEAN and the ASEAN su... |
FBIS3-6298_2 | Government Said `in a Quandary' | the other two main areas of bilateral relations -- and thus wants to avoid seeming too restrained in persuading China on human rights improvement. But Japan also does not want to upset Beijing, which insists that human rights are an internal affair, by pushing the issue too hard lest it damage Sino-Japanese relations. ... |
FBIS3-6310_0 | Southern Mindanao Emerging as `New Growth Area' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Malou L. Sayson] [Text] Southern Mindanao is fast shedding off its image as the country's traditional economic backdoor and in no time will emerge as the new growth area in the east of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The reason for this change is its abundant a... |
FBIS3-6316_0 | NHAN DAN Reviews Ties on Chuan Visit | Language: Vietnamese Article Type:BFN [Editorial from 16 March NHAN DAN: "Vietnamese-Thai Relations of Friendship and Cooperation Are Developing"] [Text] Thai Prime Minister Chuan Likphai's official friendship visit to Vietnam today follows the recent visit to our country by Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. It i... |
FBIS3-6339_1 | Thai Delegation Visit, Leadership Meetings Noted Kiet Holds Talks With Chuan | informed the guests of Vietnam's achievements in the present renovation, and stressed that Vietnam would continue that direction and be persistent in its foreign policy of independence, sovereignty, openness, multilateralisation, and attach importance to its relationship with countries in Southeast Asia and the Asia- P... |
FBIS3-6381_0 | Immigration Minister Discusses Refugee Problem | Language: English Article Type:BFN [From the "International Report" program] [Text] Australia will next month play host to a regional conference on the issue of illegal movement of people -- so-called people smuggling. Eighteen Asian and Pacific nations are expected to take part as well as representatives from internat... |
FBIS3-6388_0 | South Urged To `Sincerely Come Forth' at Contact | Language: Korean Article Type:BFN [Commentary by Chong Pong-kil: "Foot-Dragging Tactic Aimed at Attaining Sinister Purpose"] [Text] The South side's maneuvers to use the issue of exchanging special envoys as a means to attain its sinister political aims are all the more viciously carried out. As it has already been kno... |
FBIS3-6398_2 | Papers React to IAEA Inspections of DPRK | if the continuity of safeguards is confirmed in the report or if North Korea's conversion of nuclear materials to military purposes is discovered, a special IAEA Board of Governors meeting will be automatically held regardless of whether or not the ROK and U.S. Governments want and, accordingly, the issue of imposing s... |
FBIS3-6426_0 | Cuban Minister Meets Chea Sim, Concludes Visit | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Text] Phnom Penh 18 Mar (AKP) -- Samdech Chea Sim, acting head of state and chairman of the Kingdom of Cambodia National Assembly, received Roberto Robaina Gonzalez, visiting Cuban minister of foreign affairs, in Phnom Penh on 16 March. Gonzalez said he was glad to see the Cambodian p... |
FBIS3-6436_0 | Tokyo Objects to USTR Call for Guarantees | Language: Japanese Article Type:BFN [Text] The Japanese Government is reluctant to accept a U.S. Government demand to further open Japan's markets to U.S. products in the automobile and auto parts and semiconductors sectors, in addition to the mobile telephones (portable and car telephones) sector. It says this would c... |
FBIS3-6455_4 | Alatas Interviewed on NAM, Bosnia, Timor | begin the normalization process. Of course, we had to hold secret talks at first. Finally, in July 1990, I went to Beijing with President Suharto's message and tried to negotiate and sign a memorandum of understanding [MOU] with them. In August 1990, I signed the MOU with PRC officials. Therefore, I am amazed to hear s... |
FBIS3-6466_0 | Bunchu, PRC Envoy Discuss `Asia for Asia' Plan | Language: Thai Article Type:BFN [Text] Speaking to reporters after his meeting with the Chinese ambassador to Thailand on 17 March, Deputy Prime Minister Bunchu Rotchanasathian said he and the envoy had discussed economic and trade cooperation between Thailand and China and efforts to improve the living standards of th... |
FBIS3-6471_0 | ROK Creating `Deliberate Obstacles' to Exchange | Language: Korean Article Type:BFN [Text] The South Korean puppet clique's insincere attitude lacking will for dialogue [taehwa uijiga omnun pulsongsilhan taedo] has created severe obstacles [omjunghan nangwan] to North-South working-level contacts for an exchange of top-level special envoys, which have been arranged af... |
FBIS3-6511_0 | Further on Visit of Thai Prime Minister Witnesses Signing of Joint Ventures | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Hanoi -- After being put off from Wednesday due to coordination problems Prime Minister Chuan Likphai yesterday witnessed the signing of four Thai joint-venture projects in Vietnam with a combined investment of Bt [baht] 12 billion. The four projects include Vina Siam Bank, a j... |
FBIS3-6522_0 | Tokyo Discusses Auto Export `Voluntary' Ceiling | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tokyo, March 18 KYODO -- Japan's trade minister hinted Friday [18 March] that Tokyo may cancel self-imposed restrictions on automobile exports to the United States, 13 years after their introduction. "The government has not yet decided, but the U.S. apparently does not apprecia... |
FBIS3-6524_0 | Life Insurer on Retaliatory U.S. Finance Bill | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tokyo, March 18 KYODO -- A Japanese life insurance leader said Friday [18 March] he cannot understand a fresh U.S. move that could target his industry for trade retaliation. Responding to Senate passage of a bill that would allow U.S. retaliation against financial services, Tos... |
FBIS3-6545_0 | Five New Electric Power Projects Planned | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tokyo, March 17 KYODO -- A government advisory panel Thursday [17 March] recommended that five new construction projects for electric power generation, including one nuclear power generator, be added to the current fiscal 1993 plan. The five new facilities would have a combined... |
FBIS3-6547_2 | Trade Friction With U.S. Over Markets Analyzed | the United States, and Europe. The share of European-built cars is about 4 percent in Japan and the United States, and that percentage has not changed greatly. This is evidence there is no difference between the openness of the Japanese and American auto markets." As reasons why American-built automobiles are not sold ... |
FBIS3-6547_5 | Trade Friction With U.S. Over Markets Analyzed | in the multimedia age." The article adds: "Japan is denying U.S. charges that the Japanese market is closed, citing the growing number of telecommunications companies in which foreign firms hold more than 20 percent of their capital." It goes on to concede: "There are many regulations in the Japanese telecommunications... |
FBIS3-6547_6 | Trade Friction With U.S. Over Markets Analyzed | "The Japanese Government's procurement of supercomputers has become a symbol of high-tech friction between Japan and the United States." Stating that the government has already decided in this year's supplementary budget to procure 11 supercomputers--six American-built and five Japanese-built supercomputers--through bi... |
FBIS3-6547_9 | Trade Friction With U.S. Over Markets Analyzed | Glass Company, is quoted as saying: "Japanese glass manufacturers have done what is necessary to open the Japanese glass market. What remains to be done is for American firms to make the effort." A survey by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry shows "three-fourth of glass wholesalers that do not deal in im... |
FBIS3-6554_1 | Vatican Reassignment of Bishop Criticized | selection of clergy, a source of tension between the church and Vietnam for some time. The Vatican has so far refused to comment on statements by the Vietnamese government, saying it was waiting for Celli's return to Rome. "As far as the case of Bishop Nguyen Van Thuan is concerned we were informed that the Holy Father... |
FBIS3-6608_1 | Government Decides on Market-Access Measures | relations with the United States before the industrialized nations summit in July (Naples summit) by coming up with a series of measures. The overall foreign economic policies are composed of: 1) macroeconomic measures; 2) voluntary liberalization plans having four points: deregulation, import and investment promotion,... |
FBIS3-6610_0 | Air Rights Issue Intensifies Friction With U.S. | Language: Japanese Article Type:BFN [Unattributed "Undercurrent" column article: "Danger Signal for Japan-U.S. Aviation Friction"] [Text] Just before its inauguration, the United States notified Japan that it would postpone approval for a regular Sendai-Honolulu flight by Japan Airlines [JAL]. It was also disclosed tha... |
FBIS3-6618_0 | Defense Agency Studies Use of Satellite Imagery | Language: Japanese Article Type:BFN [Text] The Defense Agency [DA], which has studied ways to improve its capability of collecting military information, has begun to examine specific ways to purchase sophisticated photos taken by highly efficient satellites developed by American firms for military reconnaissance throug... |
FBIS3-6628_11 | * Magazine Assesses Hosokawa Character, Ability | rather than substance, and on hypocrisy. [Watanabe] They think that they're getting an education by watching Hiroshi Kume [a popular newscaster who interprets current events]. [Hayasaka] Yes. When election time comes around, more women than men go to the polls. Now the "female culture" is upon us with a vengeance. Poli... |
FBIS3-6628_13 | * Magazine Assesses Hosokawa Character, Ability | the verge of becoming a "sand society" like the United States. The United States is a society of drifters. Without self-assertion, it would collapse. Everything has to be sharply defined. All the young Cinderellas and their male counterparts are dreaming of success. That trend is swiftly encroaching on Japan. The mass ... |
FBIS3-6651_1 | KCNA Reports Delegate's Statement | public opinion at home and abroad, the South side hampered the exchange of special envoys by repeatedly creating artificial obstacles and difficulties in the way of the contact. What must not be overlooked is that the South Korean ruling quarters have repeatedly resorted to such insidious intrigues as abusing the worki... |
FBIS3-6657_1 | Daily Accuses South of Human Rights Violations | NODONG SINMUN in a by-lined article today. The article goes on: In South Korea the population are deprived of even their freedom to see, hear and speak as they please, to say nothing of the freedom of ideological choice and political activity, and not only their material and cultural life but their right to live are ru... |
FBIS3-6660_0 | Japan's Plans To Host Security Forum Decried | Language: English Article Type:BFN ["Ridiculous and Impudent Behavior"--KCNA headline] [Text] Pyongyang, March 21 (KCNA) -- The Japan Defence Agency decided to convene a "forum" on the security of Asia-Pacific countries in Tokyo this fall and is now sounding out defence ministry officials of the United States, Russia, ... |
FBIS3-6678_0 | Anniversary of Law Abolishing Taxes Marked | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Pyongyang, March 19 (KCNA) -- March 21 is the 20th anniversary of the proclamation of the law on the abolition of taxation in Korea. With the enforcement of the law Korea became the first tax-free country in the world. The Workers' Party of Korea and the government of the Democ... |
FBIS3-6685_0 | Dailies View Prime Minister's Visit | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] Two Bangkok Chinese-language dailies -- ZHONG HUA RIBAO and XING XIAN RIBAO -- on 17 and 18 March carry editorials commenting on Prime Minister Chuan Likphai's visit to Vietnam. ZHONG HUA RIBAO's 17 March editorial on page 1, entitled "the Significance of Prime Minister Chuan's Visit... |
FBIS3-6687_0 | Finance Minister Says Nation Richest in ASEAN | Language: Thai Article Type:BFN [Text] Speaking to reporters in Vietnam yesterday about the Finance Ministry's plan to give loans to the Indochinese countries for infrastructure development, Deputy Finance Minister Trairong Suwannakhiri said: [Begin Trairong recording] Our foreign reserves now amount to over 600 billio... |
FBIS3-6731_3 | Radio Reports 19 Mar North-South Contact | be imposed on someone else. This is, indeed, an act that destroys [pagoe] the contact of working-level delegates for the exchange of special envoys and brings our country's situation to a very dangerous touch-and-go phase. These acts the South side has committed against its dialogue partner graphically show that the So... |
FBIS3-6734_3 | Reportage, Commentary on Bombing Continue Linked to World Trade Center Bomb | is we are not sure if they are still in Thailand," said Pol. Lt. Gen. Chaiyasit, who on Thursday said he was "50 percent" sure the terrorists are still in the Kingdom. The officer said he was confident the terrorists were foreigners who had chosen the Israel Embassy as their target because the truck carrying the bomb w... |
FBIS3-6777_0 | Report Surveys Opposition Sentiments | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Report by Aung Zaw] [Text] At noon, the riot police began to enter Rangoon University while Burmese army troops surrounded the campus, easily crushing the peaceful pro-democracy demonstrations. Female students ran to escape arrest, but they were caught by police and beaten. As the wo... |
FBIS3-6792_0 | `Political Prisoners' Used in Tests | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Seoul, March 22 (YONHAP) -- A North Korean Army sergeant who defected to the South last week said on Tuesday that the People's Army has bio-chemical weapons so toxic that they may kill or paralyze the whole 40 million South Korean people in the event of war. Sfc. Yi Chung-kuk f... |
FBIS3-6805_2 | `Escapees' Describe DPRK Economic Difficulties | was tunneling. My mother was arrested on 21 April 1987 because she said it is as hard to live at present as it was in the days under Japanese domination. [Yi] This difficult situation of North Korea is more vividly told by the Korean residents in Yanbian, who often visit North Korea. [Unidentified Korean resident in Ya... |
FBIS3-6821_0 | Authorities Arrest Leading Dissident | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Philippe Agret] [Text] Hanoi, March 20 (AFP) -- Vietnamese authorities, signalling that they do not intend to let the lifting of the US economic embargo threaten political stability, have arrested a leading dissident, Vietnamese sources said Sunday. Nguyen Ho, one of the most prom... |
FBIS3-6876_3 | Editorial Urges Action Against Terrorists | and attacks have cost several dozen innocent lives. Authorities pledged after the deadly 1988 Kuwait Air hijacking from Bangkok that anti-terrorism procedures would be tightened. During the Gulf War, when suspected terrorists were poised to make attacks in Bangkok, they were intercepted and sent packing. Of course, the... |
FBIS3-6884_8 | Kenichi Ohmae Views Economic Restructuring I Beg Off Fighting a Decisive Battle With the United States on the Japanese Homeland | States by shutting down their plants." The only solution left to them is to reduce their exports from Japan. Unfortunately, no corporate executives are ready to give up exports and tackle the employment issue at home. They have a glib tongue; all they can do is stress the need for originality and ingenuity, while their... |
FBIS3-6941_3 | Editorial Views Cuban Minister's Visit | was brought to the fore. The United States then announced its economic blockade against Cuba in 1962. Presently, there are no more missiles in Cuba and the Soviet Union has ceased to exist. Therefore, animosity should not exist between the two countries anymore. But according to a statement reported by Carlos Batista o... |
FBIS3-6945_0 | Australian Minister on Energy Cooperation | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Australia and the Philippines have agreed to cooperate closely on energy to help boost trade and investments between the two countries, Australian Trade Minister Robert McMullan said. He said an Australian energy mission will visit Manila in May to coincide with the first meeti... |
FBIS3-6948_0 | Envoy to U.S. Comments on Textile Issues | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] A group of 75 US congressmen, led by John Spratt, Head of the Congressional Textile Caucus, has urged US Trade Representative Mickey Kantor to take retaliatory measures against nine major textile exporters, including Thailand, charging them with failing to satisfactorily open t... |
FBIS3-6949_1 | Prime Minister's SRV Trip Marked as Successful | of Thailand's policy of allowing qualified Vietnamese companies and Thai-Vietnamese joint ventures to be listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand in the future. They say the move will be an incentive for local firms to invest more outside Thailand. Dr Som Chatusiphithak, chairman of the Thai Bankers' Association, and W... |
FBIS3-6951_0 | Industrialist, PRC Mission on Trade Talks | Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [Text] Chokchai Aksoranan, chairman of the Thai Federation of Industries, received a trade delegation from China's Jiangsu Province led by Hong Zhenxin. Chokchai said there are bright prospects for Thai investment in China in areas such as factory development, infrastructure construct... |
FBIS3-6987_0 | Workers Strive To Meet Power Project Schedule | Language: Vietnamese Article Type:BFN [Text] According to Quoc Ha of Electricity-Generating Corporation No. 3, for the first group of generators to be tested on 30 June, building units and French specialists in charge of the Vinh Son Hydroelectric Power Plant construction project are actively responding to the last pha... |
FBIS3-6989_0 | Kantor Interviewed on Resuming Framework Talks | Language: Japanese Article Type:BFN [Interview with U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor by unidentified NHK reporter at his office in Washington on 21 March; from "NHK News" Program; Kantor's comments are in English -- recorded] [Text] In an interview with an NHK reporter on 21 March, U.S. Trade Representative Mick... |
FBIS3-6998_0 | Envoy on U.S. Private Sector Pressure on IPR | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Private sector groups in the US have asked the US Trade Representative (USTR) to keep Thailand on the Priority Watch List (PWL) of countries monitored for their protection of intellectual property rights [IPR], because the amendment of the Thai draft Copyright Bill is still pen... |
FBIS3-7010_13 | MOFA Officials Review Ex-Yugoslavia Policy What Are the Opinions of Other Countries About Japan's Concern? | of WHO. As WHO is also offering humanitarian aid with medical supplies and more, it turns out that the three organizations are coincidentally headed by Japanese. Although not because of this fact, we tend to feel like cooperating with these leaders. Yugoslavia in East Europe [GAIKO FORUM] By the way, in a sense the Col... |
FBIS3-7010_14 | MOFA Officials Review Ex-Yugoslavia Policy What Are the Opinions of Other Countries About Japan's Concern? | because of the miserable situation taking place in Yugoslavia. A potentially most serious problem besides that of Yugoslavia is that of the Hungarian people who are in foreign countries. In particular, about 600,000 Hungarians are included in the 5.3 million population of the new Slovakia, and nearly 2 million Hungaria... |
FBIS3-7015_2 | Editorial Urges Politicians To Look Outward | because regarding the consumption tax issue in particular, the Social Democratic Party of Japan [SDPJ], which is the largest among the ruling coalition parties, would persist in expressing "opposition" to it, considering it wholly as a domestic issue -- and as a rather short-sighted election campaign slogan, at that. E... |
FBIS3-7083_0 | Evans, Thailand's Prasong Discuss ASEAN Treaty | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] AUSTRALIA has expressed interest in acceding to the ASEAN's Treaty of Amity and Co-operation (TAC) in talks with Foreign Minister Prasong Sunsiri, according to a Foreign Ministry statement yesterday. Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans raised the issue during his meeting w... |
FBIS3-7091_0 | Suharto Refuses Aid With Strings Attached | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Probolinggo, Mar 23 (ANTARA) -- President Suharto reiterated Wednesday that Indonesia will be firm in refusing foreign aid that has strings unfavorable to Indonesian interests tied to it. "Should no foreign aid be available because of this policy, we will be ready to carry on o... |
FBIS3-7104_0 | Paper Condemns Australia's Immigration Policy | Language: Thai Article Type:BFN [Editorial: "Australia Is Overdoing It"] [Text] Australia has said publicly on many occasions that its survival and future interests depend on Asia, particularly Southeast Asia, whose 350 million population possesses considerable buying power. With this in mind, Australia has strengthene... |
FBIS3-7109_3 | Do Muoi Interviewed Prior to Malaysia Visit | Vietnam and Malaysia are geographically close and share many similarities in culture as well as traditional practice and customs. Malaysia has carried out excellently its strategy of socio-economic development and has drawn many precious experiences, which are highly appreciated internationally. At present, Malaysia ra... |
FBIS3-7110_0 | NHAN DAN Welcomes Do Muoi's Visit To Malaysia | Language: Vietnamese Article Type:BFN [NHAN DAN 24 March editorial: "Great Potential in Vietnam-Malaysia Relations"] [Text] Ties between Vietnam and Malaysia and other nations in the region have developed positively in the past. Vietnam has joined the Bali Treaty, become observer to ASEAN, and participated in various A... |
FBIS3-7129_0 | Further Reportage on PECC General Meeting Singapore Minister's Address | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Douglas Wong] [Excerpts] Kuala Lumpur -- Singapore is prepared to develop linkages with regional economic groupings such as the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to help take forward the process of open regionalism, Trade and Industry Minister Yeo Cheow Tong said yesterda... |
FBIS3-7154_0 | Industrial Output Up 50 Percent `87-`93 | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Pyongyang, March 25 (KCNA) -- The achievement in the fulfilment of the Third Seven-Year Plan (1987-1993) in the DPRK is that the industrial output increased 50 percent and its annual average growth rate reached 5.6 percent. It is thanks to the mighty independent national econom... |
FBIS3-7158_0 | Bishop Huynh Van Nghi's Activities Denounced | Language: Vietnamese Article Type:BFN ["Text" of Announcement No. 19/TB-UB issued by Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee on 2 March: "Illegal Activities of Bishop Huynh Van Nghi in Ho Chi Minh City"] [Text] The SRV Government already expressed its views to the Vatican about the latter's unilateral appointment of Bishop... |
FBIS3-7158_2 | Bishop Huynh Van Nghi's Activities Denounced | 28 September 1993, the HCMCPC Religion Department sent a letter to Bishop Huynh Van Nghi reminding him not to conduct any religious activities in Ho Chi Minh City pending an agreement between the SRV Government and the Vatican. Regretfully, Bishop Huynh Van Nghi has not reciprocated the Ho Chi Minh City government's go... |
FBIS3-7186_0 | Foreign Ministry on U.S. Exploitation Charge | Language: Thai Article Type:BFN [Text] Pratyathawi Tawethikun, deputy permanent secretary of the Foreign Ministry, commented during a press briefing this afternoon on the U.S. citing Thailand as a country where the sex trade and the exploitation of women and children are rampant. He said that the Thai Government has be... |
FBIS3-7222_0 | Editorial Views Economic Frictions With U.S. | Language: Japanese Article Type:BFN [Editorial: "Think of Japan-U.S. Relations--Break the Deadlock in Relations With Speedy Action"] [Text] Japan-U.S. economic frictions are heightening tensions in the two countries' relations. While it is said that the two nations are increasing their interdependence, they are deepeni... |
FBIS3-7251_0 | Columnist Criticizes U.S. Human Rights Policy | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Phaisan Sicharatchanya "From The Editor's Desk" column: "Clean Up Your House, Mr Shattuck, Before Telling Us What To Do"] [Text] The U.S. government once again is wielding the big stick as the global moral-standard bearer on human rights. After castigating countries in Asia and ot... |
FBIS3-7251_1 | Columnist Criticizes U.S. Human Rights Policy | have achieved little tangible progress after having served 18 months. An initial series of police blitz on brothels catering children for sex was said to have resulted in some temporary improvement but industry experts say child prostitution in general has since resumed by taking on new guises. In the meantime, new leg... |
FBIS3-7251_2 | Columnist Criticizes U.S. Human Rights Policy | to serve the flesh trade here should, hopefully, also prompt some corrective government action. While it is unfair to make generalised accusations against the integrity of the Thai police force, corrupt police elements extracting gains from illegal gambling dens and brothels around the country are a well-known systemic... |
FBIS3-7325_1 | Ramos Previews Vietnam Visit, Bilateral Issues | national societies. The Cold War and the Indo-China [words indistinct] raised even greater barriers between our two countries. Today, mutual goodwill between our two countries have brought down those barriers. Our paths converge again on the road to self-sustaining economic growth, and our two countries today seek nati... |
FBIS3-7350_0 | ROK Clergy Opposition to U.S. War Aid Noted | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Pyongyang, March 25 (KCNA) -- The strained situation on the Korean peninsula caused by the unreasonable pressure on the North from the International Atomic Energy Agency and the rupture of the working-level contact for the exchange of presidential envoys between the North and S... |
FBIS3-7377_1 | Editorial Hails Visit by Malaysian Delegation | sectors of the two countries. Therefore, it can be said that the visit to the LPDR by H.E. and speaker and the high-level delegation of the HRM tomorrow is very significant and will contribute to strengthening the long-standing relations of friendship and cooperation of good neighborliness between the two countries and... |
FBIS3-7400_2 | Editorial: U.S. `Pressuring' Seoul To Buy Arms | at that time toward the plan to deploy Patriot missiles to the ROK-based U.S. forces because it was aware of the people's anxiety. The situation, however, has changed. The International Atomic Energy Agency's [IAEA] inspection of North Korean nuclear facilities ended in dissatisfaction, and the North Korean nuclear iss... |
FBIS3-7404_0 | Singapore's Goh Begins Official Visit | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong is in Yangon [Rangoon] on a three-day official visit aimed at promoting economic links. He is among the first heads of government to visit Maynmar [Burma] in recent years. Mr. Goh, who arrived in the Myanmar capital today, has called on his counterp... |
FBIS3-7410_1 | Do Muoi Continues Official Visit to Malaysia Delivers Banquet Speech | industrious, dynamic and creative people of Malaysia, under the clear-sighted leadership of your excellency the Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, and the other leaders of the national alliance, will certainly bring about prosperity for Malaysia and make important contributions to the common prosperity of our region... |
FBIS3-7419_13 | `Text' of Mahathir's PECC Meeting Speech | the European Coal and Steel Community, through the Treaty of Rome and Maastricht, fails the test of intent. The desire to open to those outside need not be the primary intent. But the desire must be there. As for the test of outcome, I believe it demands that what actually results is trade liberalisation within the reg... |
FBIS3-7421_0 | Singapore's Prime Minister, Delegates Arrive | Language: Burmese Article Type:BFN [Excerpts] A delegation led by the Singaporean prime minister, Mr. Goh Chok Tong, arrived at Yangon [Rangoon] airport by special aircraft at 1235 for an official visit to Myanmar at the invitation of Senior General Than Shwe, chairman of the State Law and Order Restoration Council [SL... |
FBIS3-7426_0 | U.S. Urged To Delink Trade From Other Issues | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] THE United States should separate trade matters from issues of human rights, labour rights and the environment, according to Deputy Prime Minister Suphachai Panitchaphak. These issues should be left to the international organisations that are already dealing with them, Mr Su... |
FBIS3-7432_0 | Cambodia To Honor Thai Trade Contracts With KR | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] The Cambodian Government has assured Thai businessmen that trade agreements they made with the Khmer Rouge [KR] will be honoured, except in cases where some minor details may be changed in accordance with government policy. Suwit Wangli, the chairman of the Thai Chamber of Comm... |
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