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FBIS4-42_106 | PACIFIC RIM ECONOMIC REVIEW -- 20 APRIL 1994 | Advanced countries allegedly are using exceptions in the GATT relating to environment and safety as a means of excluding ROK exports, according to two Seoul press reports. South Korea's Trade Ministry is responding by devising quality standards that will enable exporters to prepare for these "technical barriers" in adv... |
FBIS4-42_114 | PACIFIC RIM ECONOMIC REVIEW -- 20 APRIL 1994 | will be equipped with modern devices, including global positioning system navigators and pollution prevention devices. (Seoul MAEIL KYONGJE SINMUN 11 Apr 94 p 11) Firms Invest in Overseas Spinning Plants - The Kabul Spinning Company will increase its production capacity by building four more overseas plants. These incl... |
FBIS4-42_119 | PACIFIC RIM ECONOMIC REVIEW -- 20 APRIL 1994 | able to participate. PHILIPPINES: International Consortium Seeks To Operate Bataan Nuclear Plant - A Malaysian-U.S. consortium has submitted a proposal to the Philippine Government to convert the $2.3 billion Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) with a capacity of 600 MW, into a 1,890- MW power facility, on a 25-year buil... |
FBIS4-44_1 | FOREIGN PRESS SURVEY--FB PSE 94-016--WEST EUROPE | contents in no way represent the policies, views, or attitudes of the U.S. Government. All comment or analysis contained herein is attributable to the cited media source, unless otherwise indicated. TABLE OF CONTENTS EU Brittan Comments on U.S., Kantor FINLAND Report Proposes Reducing Unemployment Compensation FRANCE E... |
FBIS4-53_0 | Beijing Angles for MFN Renewal, Makes Gesture on Human Rights | SUMMARY With the deadline for a U.S. decision on renewing most-favored- nation (MFN) trading status for China fast approaching, Beijing has made a gesture on human rights by releasing Tiananmen-era dissident Wang Juntao even while continuing to reject formal linkage between MFN and human rights. Seeking to influence th... |
FBIS4-53_3 | Beijing Angles for MFN Renewal, Makes Gesture on Human Rights | be in a state of chaos or weakness." Images of Compliance In an apparent effort to demonstrate Beijing's compliance on other MFN-related issues of concern to Washington, even while rejecting Washington's demands on human rights, PRC media have claimed progress in protecting intellectual property rights (IPR), stemming ... |
FBIS4-53_7 | Beijing Angles for MFN Renewal, Makes Gesture on Human Rights | their illegal textile exports. -- Two companies in Guangdong Province's Shantou City--Shifa Dressmaking Company, Ltd. and the Yongjia Garment Manufacturing Company, Ltd.--had their goods seized and their textile export rights "suspended" for two years. In addition, Guangdong's textile quota for 1995 was "reduced" and M... |
FBIS4-85_0 | Court Silences Scientists on Nuclear Weapons Projects | BFN [Report by Stephanie Bothma] [Text] Pretoria -- The Transvaal Supreme Court has placed a gagging order on former Armscor [Armaments Corporation of South Africa] nuclear and rocket scientists, preventing them disclosing details about the supply, export, import, manufacture or research of any armaments. Armscor broug... |
FBIS4-121_5 | Chief Minister, Others on Lebowa Corruption | down here for a political ploy and political posturing, then he would like to control everything. The decisions he is referring to -- there is no decision that we can take and it doesn't interfere with our decisions. For an example, the items of expenditure -- very important, essential services that are to be rendered ... |
FBIS4-123_4 | Poll Predicts ANC Victory; 17 Percent `Undecided' | IFP showed a one percent increase in voter support. Separate articles on this page spell out the other detailed findings of the survey. In the first survey 19 percent of people said they were undecided and 6 percent refused to name their choice. How the poll works The second phase of The Star-Marketing and Media Resear... |
FBIS4-124_1 | Factors Affecting Voting Outcome Assessed | uncertain about their choice? The two main reasons are uninterest and ignorance. These were the answers by people who are still undecided about their choice: I'm not interested in politics or the election (25 percent, who were more likely to be coloureds or Indians). I don't know what is going on politically (19 percen... |
FBIS4-155_0 | Violence Increasing in Natal; 19 Killed | BFN [Text] Nineteen people were killed in incidents of violence in Natal last night. Forty people have been killed in the province since the declaration of a state of emergency on Thursday [31 March]. Nine of the latest victims were killed in Port Shepstone and another four died at Eshowe. The others were killed in kwa... |
FBIS4-156_0 | Further Details on Violence | BFN [Text] Durban April 3 SAPA -- Nine African National Congress supporters were massacred in their kraal outside Port Shepstone, Natal South Coast, on Saturday [2 April] and an Inkatha Freedom Party [IFP] supporter was allegedly shot dead by ANC supporters while praying in Durban's Bhambayi shack settlement on Sunday,... |
FBIS4-194_0 | Human Rights Groups Report Massacre in Eastern Town | BFN [Text] Ndjamena, April 1 (AFP) -- Human rights groups here Friday [1 April] deplored a massacre in the eastern town of Abeche which left over 200 dead and missing in January. A report issued by a commission of enquiry set up by five human rights groups said 201 people had been killed and 23 were missing in the wake... |
FBIS4-236_0 | 88 Killed in KwaZulu Since State of Emergency | BFN [Report by Craig Doonan and Clive Govender] [Excerpts] Durban April 5 SAPA -- At least 88 people have been confirmed killed in six days as violence continues to sweep the politically charged Natal/kwaZulu region despite last Thursday's declaration of a state of emergency. The toll could climb as reports from far-fl... |
FBIS4-237_0 | 13 More Killings Reported | BFN [Text] Durban April 6 SAPA -- Police have reported 13 further killings in Natal this week, pushing the death toll since last Thursday's declaration of a state of emergency in the region to at least 101. It emerged on Wednesday that there were some overlaps in violence reports from the kwaZulu Police, SA Police [SAP... |
FBIS4-241_4 | Parties' Views on Wealth, Capital Gains Tax | either a wealth or capital gains tax. Generally speaking, the IFP is against increasing the already high tax burden. High taxes serve not only to destroy entrepreneurship and initiative, they also encourage the hoarding of resources and thus stunt potential for growth. While the IFP is keenly aware of the need to narro... |
FBIS4-277_0 | Citizen Force Deploying 850 Soldiers in Natal | BFN [Text] The South African army has strengthened its force in the volatile kwaZulu-Natal area. Eighty-eight people have died in the area since the state of emergency was declared last month. Seven hundred members of the Citizen Force Unit have arrived in Ladysmith and 150 more are expected tomorrow. [Begin recording]... |
FBIS4-320_0 | Low Turnout Reported in Constituency By-Elections | BFN [Text] Voting in the Lukasha constituency by-elections started at (?a) low key this morning, with some polling stations recording as few 38 voters by midday. A ZANA survey revealed that (Chikambi) had the highest number of voters by noon, having a relatively good turnout at 69 votes out of 1,664 registered voters. ... |
FBIS4-355_0 | Kigali Erupts in Violence; Ministers Killed `At Least' 22 Clergy Killed | BFN [Text] Paris, April 8 (AFP) -- At least 22 priests and nuns have been killed in Rwanda since clashes began there Thursday [7 April], church officials said Friday in Kigali, reached by telephone from Paris. Six priests and nine nuns were killed in Kigali itself and six priests and a nun in the town of Nyundo, in the... |
FBIS4-380_0 | Aid Group Reports 8,000 Killed in Kigali | BFN [Excerpt] The Medecins Sans Frontieres organization says that in the past few days 8,000 people have been killed in Kigali alone. It is said that throughout Rwanda several tens of thousands of people have been killed in the troubles. Refugees who have crossed the border with Zaire speak of brutal massacres by the g... |
FBIS4-381_0 | Massacres, Manhunts Continue | BFN [By Marie-Goretti Uwibambe] [Text] Kigali, April 10 (AFP) -- Ethnic killings, mainly of the Tutsi minority, and manhunts were still under way in the Rwandan capital Kigali on Sunday [10 April], leaving many bodies lying in the streets. The massacres were taking place mostly in working-class districts, an AFP corres... |
FBIS4-384_0 | Resumption of Artillery Fire Reported in Kigali | BFN [Text] There was another day of man-hunts and looting in Kigali on Sunday [10 April]. The corpses lying around on the ground are being picked up in vans and buried in common graves. Alongside these ghastly events, there has been fierce fighting on the outskirts of Kigali between the army and the Patriotic Front. Je... |
FBIS4-398_0 | Correspondent on `Hunt for Belgians' in Kigali | BFN [Excerpt] The night seems to have been calm in Kigali, although some sporadic fire is reported. Yesterday, 400 Belgian paratroopers took off to take part in the evacuation. The Rwandan Government has officially authorized our planes to land, but, according to the Belgian Defense Ministry, it is not at all clear whe... |
FBIS4-463_0 | Citizens Return From Kigali, Recount Atrocities | BFN [Text] Nairobi, 11 Apr (KNA) -- The first batch of over 20 Kenyans from Kigali, Rwanda, arrived in Nairobi today with horrifying accounts of the carnage in that country. The Kenyans, who were evacuated by the U.S. Air Force plane, included Kenya Airways employees, embassy officials and their dependents. Also in the... |
FBIS4-511_0 | HRC Reports Deaths From Political Violence Double | BFN [Report by M Merten] [Text] Johannesburg April 10 SAPA -- Five hundred and fifty two people died in politically related violence during March, reversing a seven month-long downward trend, the latest Human Rights Commission [HRC] report said on Sunday [10 April]. It was more double the 245 deaths recorded in Februar... |
FBIS4-512_0 | 34 Killed in kwaZulu/Natal Over Weekend | BFN [Text] Durban April 11 SAPA -- The kwaZulu Police [KZP] on Monday [11 April] reported 10 weekend murders in the homeland while the SA Police [SAP] in Natal reported at least 24 deaths, pushing the violence toll in kwaZulu/Natal since Friday to at least 34. The number of reported killings in the province since the s... |
FBIS4-515_0 | SACOB to Businesses: Plan for `Worst Case Scenario' | BFN [By Sean Feely] [Text] Johannesburg April 8 SAPA -- The SA Chamber of Business [SACOB] has alerted its 40,000 member enterprises to set up contingency plans in the run up to and after the April elections, SACOB legal affairs Director Ken Warren said on Friday [8 April]. Speaking in Johannesburg, Mr Warren said busi... |
FBIS4-519_0 | Mercenaries in Angola Said Threatened With Death | BFN [Report by Nick Bezuidenhout] [Text] Mercenaries serving in the controversial company Executive Outcomes have reportedly been threatened with death should they "speak out" about the war they are conducting with the Angolan MPLA [Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola] government against the rebel group, UNIT... |
FBIS4-529_8 | President Issaias Discusses Political Issues | country. [Dahli] What reasons led you to disband the party at the end of 1989? [Issaias] When we reached the firm conclusion that there were no fundamental differences dividing the members of the People's Front and those of that party, we decided to disband it, to avoid getting into the predicament of duplication, and ... |
FBIS4-541_0 | Fighting Between Army, RPF Continues in Kigali RPF Radio Reports on Clashes | BFN [Text] Reports reaching us say that heavy fighting took place yesterday in the areas of Mutara, Byumba, and Ruhengeri. In the Mutara Zone, our forces inflicted heavy casualties on government forces. Some of the government soldiers surrended to our forces voluntarily. Many were taken as prisoners of war, while other... |
FBIS4-554_2 | Monsengwo on Law on Premiership, Rwanda Crisis | presidential circles of this, was voted on in the normal way. That left a minor point of disagreement on the fact that the HCR takes control of the issue if there is disagreement within the political class; it has been removed because we found a compromise wording which satisfied the concerns of all sides. The disputed... |
FBIS4-560_0 | Rwandan Shells Hit Southwest Areas; Border Calm | BFN [Text] Kampala, 12 Apr (KNA) -- Ugandan border villages in Ntungamo and Kabale districts came under attack from Rwandan troops on Sunday [10 April], the independent MONITOR newspaper reported Tuesday. Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda, works, transport and communications minister and National Resistance Council (NRC) (Parliamen... |
FBIS4-648_0 | `At Least 20 Dead' in Renewed Cuito Fighting | BFN [Text] There has been a revival of the war in Angola. This afternoon Cuito, the capital of Bie Province, was the scene of heavy fighting between government and UNITA [National Union for the Total Independence of Angola] forces. At the moment no one has given an explanation for the flare-up, which has already caused... |
FBIS4-711_0 | Massacres Continue as Fighting Enters 2d Week | BFN [Text] The killing of innocent people in Kigali by MRND [Republican National Movement for Democracy and Development] youthwingers and Presidential Guards continues. In commune Bicyumbi, Kigali Prefecture, 350 people have been killed. The organizer is the chief of commune Bicyumbi, Mr. Juvenal Rugambarara. Yesterday... |
FBIS4-714_0 | 1,200 Reported Massacred in Church | BFN [Excerpts] Heavy fighting took place last night in the Rwandan capital, Kigali. [passage omitted] The situation is confused. Some parts of the city are in the hands of government troops, others in the hands of the rebel Patriotic Front or civilian militias. Yesterday afternoon more foreigners were evacuated from Ki... |
FBIS4-729_0 | Reports Nearly 30 Employees Killed | BFN [Text] Geneva, April 14 (AFP) -- Nearly 30 Red Cross workers have been killed in the recent carnage in Rwanda, the relief organization said Thursday [14 April]. Rwanda has born torn by ethnic bloodletting since its president and the president of neighboring Rwanda died in a plane crash last week. |
FBIS4-768_1 | Potential Disorder in Election Process Examined | lower key -- the breaking up of NP [National Party] and DP [Democratic Party] meetings. Next is the polling period when intimidation is likely to intensify (especially if the IFP [Inkatha Freedom Party] stays out of the election and the very act of voting becomes a public political statement). Confusion and panic are p... |
FBIS4-804_0 | RPF Radio Says Death Toll Exceeds 26,000 | BFN [Text] As the war continues in the country, a sense of insecurity has gripped the nation. Many people continue to die under the hands of the Presidential Guards, the MRND-CDR [Republican National Movement for Democracy and Development-Coalition for the Defense of the Republic] youth wingers and some elements of the... |
FBIS4-839_0 | Security Committee: 20 Killed in Natal Over Weekend | BFN [Text] Durban April 18 SAPA -- The Natal Security Committee on Monday [18 April] reported at least 20 killings in the province at the weekend, raising to at least 237 the toll from violence in Natal since a state of emergency was declared 18 days ago. Most of the weekend killings were in townships north of Durban a... |
FBIS4-863_0 | Kigali Battle Intensifies; Heavy Shelling Reported | BFN [Text] Kigali, 19 Apr (AFP) -- Fighting intensified in Kigali early Tuesday [19 April], with "heavy shelling and lots of gunfire" as rebels battled government forces for control of the body-strewn Rwandan capital, a United Nations official said. The increase in fighting followed an admission by Army commanders Mond... |
FBIS4-872_1 | President Ousmane Speaks on First Anniversary | livestock rearers, and workers and employers. On the economic scene, the report on the ad hoc commission's review of the country's economic situation revealed the catastrophic situation in which our country found itself on the advent of the institutions of the Third Republic. This report stated, first of all, a great i... |
FBIS4-880_3 | Prime Minister Discusses Economic Measures | decision to devalue the CFA franc was made on 12 January. Considering the fact that these mining companies import a great quantity of other materials, they were obliged to review their production costs. Generally, the price of uranium is [word indistinct] price which is fixed according to the production cost of the min... |
FBIS4-912_0 | Government Forces Shell Stadium; 25 Killed | BFN [By David Chazan] [Excerpts] Nairobi, April 19 (AFP) -- At least 25 civilians were killed and nearly 60 wounded when Rwandan Government forces shelled a Kigali stadium sheltering thousands of displaced people Tuesday [19 April], a UN official said. Most of those killed were members of the minority Tutsi tribe which... |
FBIS4-913_0 | RPF Assails Stadium Shelling | BFN [Text] Widespread acts of violence continue in Rwanda. Massacres are presently being committed in Gitarama, Butare, Gikongoro, and Kibuye prefectures. Calls for extermination are made unceasingly by those in power in Kigali, calls for the extermination of Rwandan Patriotic Front [RPF] supporters, or presumed RPF su... |
FBIS4-931_0 | Wrap-Up of Thokoza Violence; 5 Killed, 40 Wounded | BFN [By Jono Waters] [Excerpts] Johannesburg April 19 SAPA -- At least five people were killed and more than 40 were injured in running battles between hostel dwellers and Thokoza township residents on Tuesday [19 April]. But by mid-afternoon calm had returned to the strife-torn East Rand township as the SA [South Afri... |
FBIS4-974_0 | Fresh Ethnic Clashes Erupt Near Bujumbura | BFN [Text] Bujumbura, April 19 (AFP) -- New clashes erupted on the outskirts of Bujumbura Tuesday [19 April] between Tutsi-dominated army forces and Hutu militants, shattering several weeks of relative calm, official sources said. The clashes broke out in Hutu-dominated areas of the city, the sources said. A government... |
FBIS4-983_3 | Article Views Role of Former SADF Soldiers | include Angolans who formerly served with the SADF's 32 Battalion and with Koevoet [crowbar; former South-West African police counterinsurgency units] in Namibia. Executive Outcomes' manager, Lafras Luitingh, was recently quoted as saying: "The successes that the government soldiers in Angola have had against UNITA are... |
FBIS4-1034_0 | Armscor Employees To Testify in U.S. Weapons Case | BFN [Text] Seven Armscor [Armaments Corporation of South Africa] employees were sent by government to the United States to give evidence in a case in which it is alleged that American firms and individuals contravened the ban on exporting weapons to South Africa and Iraq. The questioning of the seven men about their in... |
FBIS4-1109_0 | Massacres Spread to Butare; Militia Bars Roads | BFN [Excerpts] In Rwanda, the Patriotic Front still has the military intiative on the ground. Kigali is still subject to shelling and sporadic gunfire. In the north of the country, the Patriotic Front has taken the town of Byumba, an important strategic center. This time the news has been confirmed by the United Nation... |
FBIS4-1132_0 | Federal Party Releases Political Manifesto | BFN [Report by S Denny] [Text] Johannesburg April 21 SAPA -- The Federal Party [FP] stands for maximum devolution of power, direct democracy and entrenched fundamental freedoms. Releasing its election manifesto in Johannesburg on Thursday [21 April], the FP said devolution forced local governments to compete for invest... |
FBIS4-1141_3 | * ANC Policy Guide: `Bill of Rights' | persons of unsound mind. (10) No persons shall be arrested or detained for any purpose other than that of bringing them to trial on a criminal charge. (11) Arrest shall take place according to procedures laid down by law, and persons taken into custody shall immediately be informed of the charges against them, shall ha... |
FBIS4-1141_13 | * ANC Policy Guide: `Bill of Rights' | pay and holidays. (11) There shall be equal pay for work of equal value, and equal access to employment, training and advancement. (12) The State shall make provision by way of legislation for compensation to be paid to workers injured in the course of their employment and for benefits to be paid to unemployed or retir... |
FBIS4-1186_0 | 10 Reported Killed | BFN [Text] The death toll from the blast at the Golden Walk shopping center in Germiston this morning has risen to 10 with the death of two victims in hospital. The superintendent of the Willem Cruywagen Hospital said that another victim was undergoing an emergency operation, and a number of other people were in a crit... |
FBIS4-1249_0 | Foreign Ministry Reviews Talks With Sudan | BFN [Statement issued by the Foreign Ministry in Asmara on 23 April] [Excerpts] It is obvious that the relations between the people of Eritrea and Sudan are historical and long standing. On the basis of this view, and believing that the government of the national salvation revolution of Sudan would place its national i... |
FBIS4-1273_1 | Kodjo Views Current Political, Economic Issues | fresh consultations in such a way as to make progress on the problems we face. [Mariot] But does the UDT-CAR coalition still exist, Mr. Prime Minister? [Kodjo] Of course it does. And it is this coalition which is the fruit of the victory of the Togolese people during the recent parliamentary elections. We cannot get aw... |
FBIS4-1381_0 | RPF-Government Clashes Continue Throughout Country RPF Evacuates Thousands to North | BFN [Excerpt] Yesterday, the Rwandan Patriotic Front [RPF] president, His Excellency Colonel Alexis Kanyarengwe, together with other officials, visited people residing in Byumba. In Byumba, they found many Kigali citizens. Between 4,000 and 5,000 people took refuge in the Amahoro Stadium in Kigali. Selfless RPF fighter... |
FBIS4-1386_0 | Foreign Minister Discusses Situation | BFN [Report on interview with Jerome Bicamumpaka, foreign minister of transitional government, by Dominique de Courcelles in Paris; date not given] [Text] Our guest this morning is Jerome Bicamumpaka, the foreign minister of the transitional Rwandan Government. The transitional government, which is based some 40 km sou... |
FBIS4-1390_1 | Scene at Airport Described | people had been injured, but according to the managing director of the airport, Mr. (Braam Loots), only nine people were injured and only one of them seriously injured. And the police say there were no fatalities. Now at this stage everybody who has been injured has been removed. The airport has actually been opened, a... |
FBIS4-1415_0 | IEC Orders Urgent Printing of 5.4 Million Ballots Helicopters Distribute Ballots in Natal | BFN [Text] Durban April 28 SAPA -- A helicopter from 15 Squadron in Durban left Newcastle on Thursday to distribute ballot papers throughout the rural areas of northern Natal, SABC [South African Broadcasting Corporation] radio news reports. An estimated 600,000 ballot papers will be distributed, following a massive sh... |
FBIS4-1421_2 | Mentions Possible Pullout | to what is being suggested now that our people should just scribble IFP at the bottom of the paper without the IFP sticker, because this has been a complaint of people everywhere, even in Cape Town. There are people who wanted to vote me in Cape Town. This morning I received some faxes from overseas, from Portugal and ... |
FBIS4-1434_4 | Comments on Election Process | what was originally called a council of state -- now it is the social and economic council -- in which various organisations, traditional leaders, religious leaders, women and student bodies and workers will be represented. The church and religious groups are going to be represented in that body. What I'm stressing is ... |
FBIS4-1455_0 | Red Cross Comments on Situation | BFN [Report by Chris Lewis] [Excerpts] You're listening to Swiss Radio International. This is Red Cross Review. [passage omitted]. We begin this month's program with Rwanda where the death of President Juvenal Habyarimana in a suspicious plane crash has plunged the country into an inferno of ethnic and political violen... |
FBIS4-1467_1 | Rwandan Emissary Meets With Eyadema, Comments | government, which was formed in accordance with the Rwandan Constitution, is doing everything to stop the interethnic conflict. The Rwandan Government's second ultimate objective is to sign a cease-fire agreement with the RPF as it is convinced that the RPF can never seize power in Rwanda. The people do not support it.... |
FBIS4-1497_0 | Violent Incidents Reported at Polling Stations NP, ANC Supporters Clash | BFN [Report by W. C. Blumenfeld] [Text] Cape Town April 28 SAPA -- Police and peace monitors had to intervene when stone-throwing occurred between African National Congress and National Party [NP] supporters in Mitchell's Plain on Thursday [28 April]. An ANC spokesman alleged the election information desk near the poll... |
FBIS4-1534_0 | Shanghai Police Detain Activist Zhu Fuming | BFN [By Willy Wo-Lap Lam] [Text] Police have detained Shanghai activist Zhu Fuming for taking part in the waves of pro-democracy protests that have hit the administration this spring. And security officials in the east China city are trying to track down the identities of the 54 signatories to a petition on political r... |
FBIS4-1540_1 | `Secret Report' Tells of Disturbances in 1993 | riots were recorded in the entire country in 1993. The statistics in the above report were made according to the following standards to be determined as illegal parades (demonstrations), illegal assemblies (sit-in protests), illegal strikes, and disturbances, as revised by the Ministry of Public Security in November 19... |
FBIS4-1556_0 | Ministry News Briefing on Computer Security Regulations | BFN [By reporter Zhou Lixian (0719 4539 2009)] [Text] Beijing, 3 Mar (XINHUA) -- The Ministry of Public Security today held a news briefing on the "Regulations for Security Protection of Computer information Systems" recently promulgated by the State Council for implementation. The person in charge of the Ministry's Co... |
FBIS4-1561_0 | BEIJING REVIEW on Expansion of Key Projects | BFN [Text] China is currently carrying out large-scale infrastructure construction as part of its efforts to ensure sustained national economic growth. The annual plan for capital construction drafted by the State Planning Commission includes several hundred large and medium-sized projects which are funded by either ce... |
FBIS4-1563_13 | Newspaper Views Development of Large Enterprises | a greater extent than those not listed: The textile industry (11 less), the coalmining and dressing industry (10), and the electronics and tlecommunications equipment producing industry (9). Other industries worth mentioning are the oil and gas exploration industries and the oil refining industry. Although they have 13... |
FBIS4-1575_1 | `Roundup' Views Singapore Prime Minister's Burma Visit | here believed that through the visit of Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, the relations between Myanmar and Singapore especially in the fields of economic cooperation, investment and trade are now entering a new stage this year. At the invitation of Myanmar Prime Minister and Chairman of the State Law and Order Restoration... |
FBIS4-1616_0 | Article on Detentions During Hosokawa's China Visit | BFN ["Reference News" by Ta Ta (6671 6671)] [Text] On 19 March when Japanese Prime Minister Morohiro Hosokawa began his China visit, the General Office of the State Council sent a decree to 10 cities ordering that they prevent turmoil and guarantee a successful China visit for the prime minister. The 10 cities were Bei... |
FBIS4-1620_1 | Paper Cites Internal-Circulation Police Handbook | handle the messy paperwork required to send a detainee to a labour camp. But at least 20 pages are devoted to secrecy. Police officers are instructed "never to sell secret documents to scrap paper merchants, never use them as wrapping paper, and never use them as wallpaper". Secret documents must never be sent through ... |
FBIS4-1620_3 | Paper Cites Internal-Circulation Police Handbook | copies or scraps of waste must be carefully destroyed. When there is to be a meeting at which secrets may be discussed, all arrangements "from decorating the room to purchasing necessary items to the preparation of the teapot and cups" must be made by police officers. Such meetings must never be held in hotels which re... |
FBIS4-1621_1 | Deng's Daughter Pursues Publishers of Pirated Biography | factory only RMB 20,000 earlier this year after it admitted printing 30,000 illegal copies of the popular book. Private investigators hired by Deng Rong later discovered that more than 100,000 copies had been run off. "Mao Mao [her pet name] felt it was useless to rely on the Shandong authorities because this factory i... |
FBIS4-1624_0 | Younger Clergy Involved in Religious Affairs in Beijing | BFN [Text] Beijing, March 31 (XINHUA) -- Three young priests have been elected vice-chairmen of the Beijing Patriotic Catholic Association or the Beijing Religious Affairs Committee, marking the entry of a younger generation of clergy. Officials of religious affairs said that more younger clergymen have been trained in... |
FBIS4-1627_5 | Report on Economic, Social Plans | and the water diversion and canal dredging work were carried out smoothly; resettlement work has being carried out in full swing; good results were achieved in raising and securing funds for the project; new progress was made in the study of relevant major equipment and technical problems. Completion of key state const... |
FBIS4-1627_24 | Report on Economic, Social Plans | importance to and earnestly strengthen safety in production. (3) We shall maintain a rational scale of investment in fixed assets and vigorously optimize the investment structure In light of the currently overextended scale of investment in fixed assets that are under installation, we must strictly control excessive in... |
FBIS4-1628_28 | Supreme Procuratorate Work Report to NPC | orders in civil, economic and administrative lawsuits, and to cases of wrong judgment during civil and administrative lawsuits due to the judges' self-seeking misconduct or their asking for or accepting bribes. In 1993, the procuratorial organs lodged protests against wrong trial decisions in 310 civil, economic, and a... |
FBIS4-1640_1 | Authorities Ban Wei Jingsheng Seeing Foreign Journalists | banning those deprived of their rights from meeting journalists. The Foreign Ministry also refused to say whether the ban extended to foreign diplomats and government officials. China severely criticised United States Assistant Secretary of State, John Shattuck, for meeting Mr Wei in February, claiming he had violated ... |
FBIS4-1641_0 | Pro-Democracy Activists Placed Under `Strict Control' | BFN ["Report from Hong Kong" by reporter Huang Tien (7806 1131) ] [Text] On the eve of the Ching Ming festival, Beijing's situation has become increasingly tense. According to a source from Beijing, yesterday state security and public security departments in Beijing once again received instructions from their higher au... |
FBIS4-1647_1 | Article Notes Kuwait's `Uncertain' Future | was rejected by the latter, even though it is risking serious international pressure. Iraq has also refused the compensations paid by the Kuwait Government for Iraqis who withdrew into Iraq to follow the new border demarcation rules. Iraq's strong stance has shocked Kuwaitis, and may ruin their confidence in a safe and... |
FBIS4-1660_3 | PRC Trade Union Role in Market Economy Viewed | standstill. Fang Jiade, vice president of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, informed this reporter: Currently, in giving publicity to enterprise reform, undue emphasis is laid on property rights relationship to the neglect of labor relationship and on funds and equipment to the neglect of the role of laborers i... |
FBIS4-1662_0 | Anhui Leads Nation in 36 Confirmed Mineral Deposits | BFN [By Xu Donqin (6079 2639 0530): "Providing Sufficient `Grain' for Industrial Development, Anhui Leads Other Provinces in Confirmed Mineral Resources"] [Text] After years of arduous struggle, geological workers have discovered over 90 various categories of minerals -- of which 64 have their deposit volumes ascertain... |
FBIS4-1669_3 | Shandong Economic Development Communique | power of farm machinery was 35.18 million kilowatts, of which, the power of tractors for agricultural use was 8.38 million kilowatts, up by 3.6 percent. Rural consumption of electricity was 10.66 billion kilowatt hours, up by 6.4 percent. The acreage effectively irrigated was 4.624 million hectares, up by 0.6 percent. ... |
FBIS4-1674_0 | Fujian To Produce Electricity With Overseas Funds | BFN [Text] Fuzhou, April 3 (XINHUA) -- The electricity-short Chinese province of Fujian will utilize overseas capital to build more power stations in the years ahead. In the past, only state or collectively-owned organizations were allowed to construct and run power plants. This policy hampered the development of Fujia... |
FBIS4-1704_1 | Beijing-Affiliated Paper Urges Sino-U.S. Cooperation | renew China's MFN status, expressing the hope that the United States and China will strengthen cooperation and will jointly make efforts to safeguard the security of the Asia-Pacific Region. Thanks to its growing economic strength and stronger international position, China is playing a more and more important role in t... |
FBIS4-1704_2 | Beijing-Affiliated Paper Urges Sino-U.S. Cooperation | China has already taken "significant steps" in fulfilling "most of its obligations" stipulated in the Sino-U.S. trade agreement. The report noted that China has also increased the transparency of its import examination and approval procedures by a large margin. The day before yesterday, the U.S. Government announced it... |
FBIS4-1717_5 | Editorial on Importance of Social Stability | getting their thinking straightened out. For example, while carrying out housing reform, a number of people may have no money to buy their own houses for a period of time; they will complain about this. With regard to the reform of the medical system, some people who see doctors frequently must pay part of the medical ... |
FBIS4-1745_0 | UK Businesses `Eager' for Improved Relations | BFN ["Special article" by reporter He Chong (6320 3095): "UK Business Community Eager To See Improved PRC Ties"] [Text] Hong Kong, 17 February (ZHONGGUO TONGXUN SHE)-- According to reports published by London newspapers, UK industrial and commercial circles have recently and repeatedly warned John Major's government th... |
FBIS4-1752_0 | Beijing Bank President on Social Security System | BFN [By Reporters Sun Yushan (1327 3768 1472) and Chen Weiguang (7115 4850 0342): "Shao Yunjie, President of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of Beijing Municipality, Talks About the Issue of Positively Carrying Out the Social Security System"] [Text] Enlivening state-owned large- and medium-sized enterprises is a to... |
FBIS4-1775_0 | New Regulations To Simplify Port Inspections for Ships | BFN [By Xie Yicheng: "Simplified Port Checks Due For Ships"] [Text] China is ready to reform its decades-old system of port inspections to bring procedures in line with international norms. As proposed before the State Council, the new rules cancel the need for harbour officers to always conduct on-board inspections of... |
FBIS4-1783_0 | Wei Jingsheng Detained Upon Return to Beijing Police Force Dissident From Car | BFN [Text] Beijing, April 1 KYODO -- China's most famous dissident Wei Jingsheng was detained for yet another time Friday [1 April] while returning to Beijing, his secretary said. Wei was coming from the port city of Tianjin when at least seven police vehicles stopped the car he was riding in and took him away, his sec... |
FBIS4-1786_0 | Wei Jingsheng Detained Upon Return to Beijing Wei `Violated' Parole | BFN [Text] Beijing, April 4 KYODO -- Dissident Wei Jingsheng has violated the conditions of his parole and is being investigated by Chinese security departments, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Monday [4 April]. "Wei Jingsheng, during the period of his parole and deprivation of his political rights, has violated the ... |
FBIS4-1822_0 | Survey Favors Government Move To Cool Property Prices | BFN [By Political Editor Danny Gittings and Dick Chan] [Text] Hong Kong has overwhelmingly thrown its support behind Governor Chris Patten's proposed crackdown on property speculation. An exclusive SUNDAY MORNING POST opinion poll reveals that 79 per cent of those surveyed believe the Governor was right last week to id... |
FBIS4-1842_10 | Shanghai People's Procuratorial Work Report | Third, various procuratorates struggled against specific crimes in light of special characteristics of different trades. They publicized education on the tax law 63 times while investigating cases of tax fraud. Meanwhile, they helped concerned units establish and improve operational and tax management systems. Fourth, ... |
FBIS4-1859_0 | Japanese Air Unit Apologizes on Plane Interception | BFN [By reporter Fang Yang-chung (2455 0111 1813) in Taipei] [Text] An official for the Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) pointed out in the morning of 26 March: Regarding an incident in which Japanese fighter planes scrambled to make an "identification check" on a CAA test plane on the morning of 25 March, the wh... |
FBIS4-1861_57 | Governor Delivers Hebei Government Work Report | between most schools being run by the government and social participation in schooling being realized. A good job should be continuously done in grasping the "educational project of hope" and realistically resolve the problem of the school-age children in rural areas being unable to enter schools. Efforts should be mad... |
FBIS4-1863_7 | Heilongjiang Procuratorate's Work Report | 59 cases of relieving reform-through-education sentences and reducing set terms of sentences, 43 cases of seeking medical advice on bail, and more than 10 cases of wantonly collecting charges. We concentrated efforts to solve the problems that criminals were still detained after completion of their fixed terms of impri... |
FBIS4-1865_3 | Shanxi Procuratorate Issues Work Report | tax evasion and refusal to pay tax, among these cases, 34 cases involved more than 100,000 yuan each, while 104 cases involved counterfeit trademarks. Use of tricks to deceive the state in order to get reimbursement of export taxes is a new form of crime which has emerged after the country carried out reforms of the ta... |
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