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FBIS4-4360_0 | * Energy Minister on Achievements, 1994 Plans | CSO [Article by Kieu Xuan Sang] [Text] Editor's note: At the end of 1993, Minister of Energy Thai Phung Ne answered a number of reporters' questions about the implementation of the 1993 plan and the 1994 tasks of the energy sector. The following are some of the ideas of the minister. I. The Implementation of the 1993 P... |
FBIS4-4360_4 | * Energy Minister on Achievements, 1994 Plans | number of shafts in accord with the technical requirements in the mining process, and this has affected the preparation of natural resources. 3. On capital construction: In 1993, with the concentration of state investments, the energy sector implemented a large number of capital construction projects: Sources of electr... |
FBIS4-4371_2 | Article Views Participation in UN Peacekeeping | peacekeeping and would-be peacekeeping operations which has put not only an unprecedented strain on the UN's budget but has also taxed the tempers of its members. The US-led coalition's actions against Iraq during the Gulf War of 1991 generated angst among Muslim populations, including Malaysians, and this has now grav... |
FBIS4-4375_1 | President Comments on Results of SRV Visit | the emphasis on our relations with our neighbors in Southeast Asia -- both the members and the non-members of the Association of Southeast Nations or ASEAN. My journey to Vietnam continues this effort in a new way, since this is my first visit to a Southeast Asian state that is not a member of ASEAN. For reasons of geo... |
FBIS4-4382_0 | Suphachai on Australia, New Zealand in AFTA | BFN [Text] Deputy Prime Minister Suphachai Phanitchaphak wants the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to include Australia and New Zealand in the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA), without giving them membership of the association. Dr Suphachai revealed yesterday it was possible Australia and New Zealand would b... |
FBIS4-4385_0 | Tokyo To Voluntarily Limit Technology Transfer | BFN [Text] Tokyo, March 31 KYODO -- Japan will continue to restrict exports of technology to countries that are considered likely to be involved in regional conflicts, after the disbandment of Cocom [Coordinating Commitee for Multilateral Export Controls], the western monitoring body of sensitive technology exports, go... |
FBIS4-4386_0 | MITI To Amend Export Control Order | BFN [Text] Tokyo, March 31 KYODO -- Japan is preparing to revise its export control order in April as the 17 members of Cocom [Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls], the Western agency to monitor sensitive technology and equipment exports, have agreed to terminate the organization on Thursday [31 Mar... |
FBIS4-4388_0 | Backs Bid for UNSC Veto Power | BFN [Text] Tokyo, March 31 KYODO -- French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe voiced support on Thursday [31 March] for Japan's bid for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council [UNSC] with veto rights, Foreign Ministry officials said. Juppe, who arrived in Japan earlier in the day for a four-day stay, expresse... |
FBIS4-4421_2 | Editorial Eyes Lessons of U.S. Economic Recovery | economic structures during a recession in a relatively short period. Major U.S. industries, including the automobile industry, have studied the management strategy of Japanese enterprises from various angles. They have thoroughly restructured themselves to improve productivity and to bolster competitiveness with the ai... |
FBIS4-4428_2 | MONTSAME Publishes Press Reviews Press Review for 31 Mar | that the party General Council has adopted a resolution, concerning activity of the State Great Hural. In the resolution it is noted that the supreme legislative organ of the country does not reflect a real balance of political forces, because of which the parliamentary crisis is continuing, the state democratic system... |
FBIS4-4462_3 | Maintaining Political Stability Deemed Crucial | socioeconomic situation and encouraging activities that violate the law and good ethics (including tax evasion, production of fake goods, embezzlement, smuggling, and so forth). This only benefits opportunists and speculators who work hand-in-glove with degenerate officials in various state agencies. It should be noted... |
FBIS4-4464_0 | Editorial on Western Perception of Human Rights | BFN [Editorial: "The Human Rights Dilemma"] [Text] When President Suharto once again criticized certain developed countries for linking aid programs with environmental and political conditions in an address the other day, he was joining the increasingly louder chorus of Third World leaders who steadfastly stand against... |
FBIS4-4464_1 | Editorial on Western Perception of Human Rights | an American teenager to six strokes of the cane and four months in jail for spray-painting cars. While we acknowledge that human rights conditions in many Asian countries, including Indonesia, need much improvement, and that foreign pressure has helped the situation to improve, there are reasons to be concerned that wi... |
FBIS4-4510_0 | Finance Minister Attends Bangkok Conference | BFN [Text] A Myanmar [Burmese] delegation led by Brigadier General Win Tin, finance and revenue minister, has departed Yangon [Rangoon] on a Thai Airways International flight for Bangkok. They will attend a conference on capital management in the Indochinese countries to be held in Bangkok, Thailand on 1 April. |
FBIS4-4548_0 | Editorial Urges Burma To Return Positive Response | BFN [Editorial: `The Ball Is in Myanmar's Court'] [Text] Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong's recent three-day visit to Myanmar [Burma] must rank as one of the more significant development for that country in its efforts to rejoin the world community. For 26 years to 1988, Myanmar had shut out the world and attempted to purs... |
FBIS4-4554_0 | Reaction to U.S. Report on Trade Barriers Industries Refute Content | BFN [Text] Japanese industries have unanimously expressed dissatisfaction with the U.S. Government's having listed 43 items deemed to be Japanese trade barriers in its "1994 Report on Foreign Trade Barriers." The telecommunications, medical equipment, and electric power industries, which are newly cited in the report, ... |
FBIS4-4575_5 | Cambodia-Vietnam Summit Held in Phnom Penh Joint Communique Signed | good neighborliness, the two sides agreed to (?urgently and correctly solve) all remaining issues concerning bilateral relations through negotiations and on the basis of mutual respect for each country's independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, and legitimate interests. This is for the two countries' interests... |
FBIS4-4599_0 | Global Support Against U.S. Pressure Reported | BFN [Text] Pyongyang, April 2 (KCNA) -- Political and public circles of the world denounced the United States' unjustifiable pressure on Korea and expressed solidarity for the Korean people's cause of justice. Juan Ramos, general secretary of the Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain, expressed firm solidarity for th... |
FBIS4-4621_1 | Daily Expresses Optimism in Socialist Ideal | misfortune into a blessing." This proposition arms all of us with great optimism, the political essay says, and goes on: Let us display such intelligence and courage as to turn misfortune into a blessing and more vigorously advance towards the bright future of humanity. This is the unshakable faith and iron will of the... |
FBIS4-4664_2 | U.S. Human Rights Policy for PRC Criticized | have a punishing effect on the remarkable economic expansion led by southern China. But there would also be collateral damage to Hong Kong (the conduit for Sino-US trade) and Taiwan (which has invested heavily on the mainland). The stakes are also high for the US. While trade sanctions might pressure China into a posit... |
FBIS4-4682_3 | Miyazawa Assesses Hosokawa's Performance | to spread its values, because it wants to make its values common to all, and because it wants to foster its values in the four corners of the world," Henry Kissinger has said seriously in the past. Despite the end of the cold war, or I should rather say because of the end of the cold war, Japan and the United States sh... |
FBIS4-4695_1 | Article Criticizes `Self-Centered' Delegates | the public, I believe that the National Convention must implement its work step by step. If retrospection, criticism, and blame for past events are accepted, then the implementation of the original objective will be marked by confusion and slowness instead of progress. It will be viewed as excessive magnanimity and con... |
FBIS4-4707_1 | Daily Advocates Role of `Traders' for Envoys | Department and which can transform it into an executive branch. The time has come for the Indonesia's Foreign Department and its diplomatic representatives abroad to change their image to suit new global needs and changes that give priority to economic interests [preceding two words in English] and all issues related t... |
FBIS4-4755_0 | Prime Minister Leaves on Southeast Asia Tour | BFN [Text] The prime minister, Paul Keating, has left Australia for Laos to start his Southeast Asian tour. The eight-day visit to Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam is aimed at improving Australia's trade relationship and developing the vision that Mr. Keating sees of Australia forging closer ties with Asia. Mr. Keating says... |
FBIS4-4764_1 | Newpapers Continue To Report on Bombing Issue `Special Report' on Motives | bound to undermine the confidence of the people in the government's ability to maintain law and order. If apathy is allowed to set in, when considering the attitudes of the citizens of the country and the government to the bombings, there would seem to be little hope of locating those responsible and stamping out the a... |
FBIS4-4784_0 | Paper Recounts 4 Apr U.S. Meeting on Trade | BFN [Report by Washington-based correspondent Chin Chang-uk] [Text] The U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) on 4 April said that it will be prudent in applying the recently revived Super 301. Peter Collins, assistant deputy representative of the USTR, said this at the ROK-U.S. trade talks held in Washington that day. He s... |
FBIS4-4816_56 | Kim Ki-nam Gives Report at Party Cell Meeting | to produce various quality consumer goods at a large scale, upholding the party's light industry-first policy. Party cells in various sectors of the national economy should actively support light industry and drastically increase the production of daily necessities and 3 August people's consumer goods in all units. Par... |
FBIS4-4824_0 | Differing North, South Social Systems Viewed | BFN [Text] Pyongyang, April 1 (KCNA) -- The diametrically different social systems in the North and South of Korea represent a sharp contrast in the morality of the people. In the Democratic People's Republic of Korea which is based on collectivism all the members of society devote their all for the country and people,... |
FBIS4-4832_2 | Article Views Mekong's Economic Potential | by the United Nations. In the face of this dithering, the well-fleshed out economic zones will have to bide their time. The first one, called the Upper Mekong Navigation zone lying up-stream in the north, consists of Myanmar, Laos, and small parts of Thailand, Vietnam, and China's Yunnan province. The concept to build ... |
FBIS4-4832_7 | Article Views Mekong's Economic Potential | with a new 1,500-km power line connecting the Hoa Binh hydroelectric plant, 74 km north of Hanoi to Phu Lam in Ho Chi Minh City. The 500 kv [kilovolts] transmission line will supply 2.5 billion kwh [kilowatt hours] for Vietnam's southern cities. While large projects are the order of the day, the Mekong countries are al... |
FBIS4-4868_0 | Official Wants Investment in `Strategic Minerals' | BFN [Text] Jakarta, April 5 (ANTARA) -- The investment in the non-oil/gas mining accounted only for 3.8 percent of the total investment of 415.4 trillion rupiah in the period of 1967 to March 1994. The investment in the minerals processing sector reached 7.4 percent, or 31 trillion rupiah, head of the Investment Coordi... |
FBIS4-4948_0 | Trade Meeting With U.S on 4,5 Apr Reported | BFN [Text] Washington, April 6 (YONHAP) -- South Korean and U.S. officials held a trade subcommittee meeting here to discuss pending issues on Monday and Tuesday. According to the South Korean Embassy, the United States expressed disappointment that no progress had been made on Korea's opening its market to American au... |
FBIS4-4980_2 | Article Views Fate of Economic Talks | hardline view calling on Japan to come up with numerical targets that Japan will achieve to promote a share of foreign products in Japan's market, saying: "Japan will not seriously come to grips with the issue of expanding imports unless clear targets are set." While saying that the United States "will not call for set... |
FBIS4-4992_0 | Article Views Political Issues, U.S. Ties | BFN [Discussion between Hisahiko Okazaki, former ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Thailand and currently adviser to the Hakuhodo Advertising Agency, and Motoo Shiina, independent member of the House of Councilors; place and date not given: "A Time of Ordeal for the U.S.-Japan Alliance"] [Text] We Could Not Use "Rice" as ... |
FBIS4-4992_9 | Article Views Political Issues, U.S. Ties | is facing collapse. It is an issue which takes precedence over the election system. [Okazaki] I have the impression that they are acting that way because they believe that if the party is going to collapse anyway, then it is better not to compromise their principles. [Shiina] But even were the party to collapse, the in... |
FBIS4-4992_15 | Article Views Political Issues, U.S. Ties | having started to talk about "raising the consumption tax rate." [Shiina] A lucky accident. [Okazaki] Now it has been mentioned, everyone will expect it to happen in the future. [Shiina] And they will begin discussions about how to do it. [Okazaki] When a party is in the position the LDP used to be, with three hundred ... |
FBIS4-4997_0 | Key Points for GATT Marrakech Talks Viewed | BFN [Unattributed article] [Text] Ministerial talks will be held in Marrakech, Morocco, for four days beginning 12 April to sign the final agreement document that was hammered out last December at the Uruguay Round (the multilateral trade negotiations of GATT]. The ministerial talks are expected to adopt a declaration ... |
FBIS4-5021_0 | Finance Minister, Delegation Return | BFN [Text] A Myanmar [Burmese] delegation led by Finance and Revenue Minister Brigadier General Win Tin returned to Yangon [Rangoon] by a Thai Airways International flight after attending the Conference on Capital Management of Indochina countries held in Bangkok, Thailand, on 1 April. |
FBIS4-5067_7 | Radio Reports on Speech | people who are heading for socialism. [applause] We should successfully carry out the tasks for the period of adjustment of socialist economic construction with a great pride and self-respect in struggling with the revolutionary economic strategy under the leadership of the great leader and great party. The agriculture... |
FBIS4-5095_0 | KCNA Marks 14th Year of Public Health Law | BFN [Text] Pyongyang, April 5 (KCNA) -- Today marks the 14th anniversary of the enforcement of the law on public health in Korea. This law adopted at the fourth session of the Sixth Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK in April 1980, codifies the brilliant achievements made in the health care in the country and gives ... |
FBIS4-5102_0 | Thai Daily Views Lao Political Direction | BFN [Text] CHATURAT: Laos is a country rich in natural resources, especially timber and minerals. However, it has no money to tap these treasures. Will your government accept foreign investment and on what conditions? Kaysone: Our government is ready to cooperate in economic development with all countries on the princi... |
FBIS4-5167_5 | Reportage on Proceedings of SPA Session Economic Development Measures | production, and improve the quality of export items of large foreign demand, including steel material, nonferrous metal, machinery equipment, batteries, magnesia clinkers, cement, processed stone, silk products, and traditional Koryo medicine. Overseas markets will be actively developed, credit will be earned, and exte... |
FBIS4-5167_6 | Reportage on Proceedings of SPA Session Economic Development Measures | precedence in tunneling and removal of soil and rocks, modernizing mining and transportation equipment, accelerating construction of new mines and new pits, carrying out construction work ahead of schedule, and giving priority to providing materials and equipment. Investment in the crude oil industry will be increased ... |
FBIS4-5202_0 | More Reportage on Australia's Keating's Visit Multilateral Trade Practices Viewed | BFN [Text] During their formal meeting at Government House today, Prime Minister Chuan Likphai and Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating discussed expanding bilateral trade and investment cooperation and promoting free trade practices. Aphisit Wetchachiwa, spokesman of the Prime Minister's Office, disclosed that in ad... |
FBIS4-5259_0 | Article Outlines Lao Economic Prospects | BFN [Article: "Laos... The Gold Mine on the Mekong River's Bank"] [Summary] "Somphong Mongkhonvilai, vice chairman of the Laos Commission for Cooperation and Planning, confirmed that the LPDR [Lao People's Democratic Republic] is quite rich in natural resources compared to other countries in this region. At present, fo... |
FBIS4-5290_3 | SDPJ Releases Draft Policy on Tax Reform | discussion on whether to make a consumption tax rise the centerpiece of taxation reform once its shortcomings have been corrected. In the recent uproar over the announcement of a national welfare tax, the SDPJ opposed its introduction, saying "it has not been discussed sufficiently." In particular, the party firmly ass... |
FBIS4-5300_6 | Telecommunications Sector Enters Multimedia Age Industry Structure Slows Progress | other computers, information can be processed as it is being exchanged; therefore, it is an excellent communications (media) tool. In U.S. workplaces, local area networks (LAN) linking workers, each with a personal computer on his or her desk, are used in communicating through such means as electronic mail, facsimile, ... |
FBIS4-5319_1 | Commentary Applauds Visit by Cambodia's Sirivut | training and cooperation in agriculture, tourism, and forestry apart from the exploitation of oil and minerals. Cambodia has also requested Malaysia's assistance in the formulation of trade and investment policies for the country. Ever since the two-decade-old civil war was brought to an end, Malaysia has been in the f... |
FBIS4-5323_0 | Singaporians Largest Foreign Investor in Burma | BFN [Text] Singapore, with investment commitments of US$260.8 million [(Singapore dollar] S$406.7 million) to date, is now Myanmar's [Burma] largest foreign investor overtaking Thailand and the United States, Myanmar's [Burma] Minister for National Planning and Economic Development Brigadier-General [BG] David Abel sai... |
FBIS4-5383_0 | Australian Adviser on Investmennt Prospects | BFN [Summary] In his article entitled: Vietnam's Economy and Its Investment Prospects, Mr. Graham Alliband, an Australian adviser and director general of Asia-Indochina Limited, analyzes Australia's opportunities for trade cooperation with and investment in Vietnam. According to Mr. Alliband, Australia made its first i... |
FBIS4-5441_0 | Secretary Perry Castigated on Recent Remarks | BFN [Commentary by Kim Ho-sam: "The U.S. Scheme for Provoking a Korean War Is More Conspicuous Than Ever"] [Text] According to a foreign press report, U.S. Defense Secretary Perry said in an NBC television interview on 3 April that if the situation in the Korean peninsula does not change in six more months, the United ... |
FBIS4-5448_0 | Editorial Urges Demand for U.S. Gun Control | BFN [Editorial: "Asia should pressure US to impose gun control"] [Text] As the Marrakech talks on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt) approach, developing countries are becoming increasingly anxious. Many of their governments, including Thailand's, fear the negotiations and the planned creation of a World... |
FBIS4-5448_2 | Editorial Urges Demand for U.S. Gun Control | bureaucrats. It should be democratized, perhaps by creating a sister organization whose members are elected directly by the people, as with the European Parliament. Our government should certainly continue defending our right to make our own decisions. But sooner or later, all the countries which sign the Gatt -- or an... |
FBIS4-5455_0 | Possible Exclusion of Petrochemicals From AFTA | BFN [By Wichit Sirithawiphon] [Text] Thailand may elect to exclude some petrochemical products from AFTA [ASEAN Free Trade Area] liberalisation if Indonesia and Malaysia insist on doing the same said an informed Finance Ministry source. Thailand keeps petrochemical industries under the ASEAN Free Trade Area normal trac... |
FBIS4-5476_1 | Grain Shortage, Hunger Cited in Nghe An Province | An Province's Dien Chau district has a population of 260,000, most of whom engage in agricultural production, planting various crops on a total area of 23,000-24,000 hectares of land. Among them 14,000 hectares are planted with rice and 3,000 hectares with peanuts. In the most productive year, the district can produce ... |
FBIS4-5478_3 | Further on Hanoi Midterm Congress Resolution Resolution, Part V | care, nurture, and develop the human factor, which is both a motive and an aim of the revolution. The important issues in these domains at present are employment, social equity, level of public knowledge, a healthy and clean society, the development of national culture, and health care and protection. -- What are the m... |
FBIS4-5596_18 | President Consolidates Authority Over Military | handle such difficult problems well. Therefore, he, more than anyone, has to be in harmony with the minister. Choe Tong-chin (25th term, brigadier general) a newly appointed aide is said to have conducted these duties well while in the office of the chief of staff of the Army Capital Garrison Command. It appears that c... |
FBIS4-5607_2 | `Social Clause' in GATT Agreement Disputed | include social clauses or workers rights in trade talks." "Our labour is cheap, but that does not mean it is exploited," Buencamino said, noting that workers in the export industry often earned much more than the mandated minimum wage. Despite the uproar in Asia, chief US trade negotiator John Schmidt, declared before ... |
FBIS4-5612_1 | Article on Procurement Frictions With U.S. | personal relationship with them. Medical equipment has only recently surfaced as a trade friction between Japan and the United States. The United States raised medical equipment as a bilateral trade issue for the first time at the Tokyo summit last July, and the issue was later taken up for discussion at the Japan-U.S.... |
FBIS4-5614_0 | Editorial Urges Review of U.S. Security Treaty | BFN [Editorial: "Do Not Be Afraid of Dialogue on Japan-U.S. Security"] [Text] A supposedly nightmarish scenario is being talked about by Diet members and government officials. The scenario is that trade frictions between Japan and the United States go from bad to worse and that the two countries square off not only on ... |
FBIS4-5614_2 | Editorial Urges Review of U.S. Security Treaty | Japan-U.S. Security Treaty and its ancillary agreements are products of a bipolar world centered on the United States and the former Soviet Union. Consequently, although problems may remain on the Korean peninsula, the end of the cold war made the original reasons for their existence irrelevant, as Kennan says. In disc... |
FBIS4-5616_0 | Debate Continues on U.S. Bases in Okinawa Editorial Urges Mondale's Help | BFN [Editorial: "What We Want the VIP Ambassador To See"] [Text] U.S. Ambassador to Japan Walter Mondale is here in Okinawa. Governor Masahide Ota has asked him to help resolve issues related to U.S. military bases. Mondale has come at a time when people all over Okinawa are fiercely protesting the crash of an F-15 Eag... |
FBIS4-5711_0 | DPRK Reportedly Pursues Southeast Asia Markets | BFN [YONHAP from Tokyo] [Text] According to Japan's KYODO on 12 April, North Korea has turned its attention to Southeast Asia and the Middle East and is making efforts to explore new markets in these areas. Citing the Workers' Party of Korea's organ NODONG SINMUN dated 7 April, KYODO reported: In his report delivered a... |
FBIS4-5757_0 | U.S. MIA Specialists Examine Several Remains | BFN [Text] Hanoi VNA April 12 -- The Vietnamese and US MIA [missing in action] specialists on April 9-11 examined a number of remains and personal effects believed to belong to American servicemen missing in action in the Vietnam war. The belongings were collected by the searching groups or handed over by the local peo... |
FBIS4-5759_5 | Risk Sharing `Inevitable' in U.S. Alliance | responsibility for maintaining the world order because no other country is willing to take the responsibility. However, since the United Nations is functioning at the moment, it is possible to maintain world order under the umbrella of the United Nations with the United States as leader. The question is to what extent ... |
FBIS4-5759_8 | Risk Sharing `Inevitable' in U.S. Alliance | Forces face the danger of being driven into the sea as in former times, if Japan, which has 200 F-15 fighter planes, remains an idle spectator despite a joint U.S.-South Korean request for Japan's assistance, the Japan-U.S. alliance will never hold out. Can Japan afford to destroy the Japan-U.S. alliance and lose the p... |
FBIS4-5762_0 | MOPT Moves To Establish Internet Group | CSO [Text] The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications [MOPT] has begun to move on establishment of a commercial Internet group. The move is viewed as an attempt to gain a leadership role by establishing an industry group because of the expected rapid growth in new information-communications businesses. Services conne... |
FBIS4-5763_6 | NTT Strategies for New Information Age Viewed | technological innovation." We must attain developmental speeds reached by U.S. venture firms. The same applies to the Multimedia Promotion Section, under the direct control of President Kojima, which is reviewing the developmental concepts centered on ATM systems. In the past, the communications world was not so concer... |
FBIS4-5763_11 | NTT Strategies for New Information Age Viewed | firms and poorly situated firms will benefit greatly, but large firms that fail to change will not be able to keep pace with the new competitive world created by the information highway. Failure to change will cause many problems. Firms which fail to build competitive capabilities suitable for the information highway a... |
FBIS4-5812_0 | Kato: Tax Increase Needed for Aging Society | BFN [Text] Tokyo, April 14 KYODO -- A consumption tax hike is needed to finance a possible increase in social security costs in the face of Japan's rapidly aging society, the chief of a key government advisory panel on tax affairs said. Kan Kato, chairman of the Tax Commission, said his panel will provide options such ... |
FBIS4-5860_30 | Relationship Changing Between Companies, Banks | Nippon Seiko | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Sumitomo Bank |Sanyo Electric, Sumitomo America, Maz-| | |da, Kao Corp., Hankyu Railway, Sumito-| | |mo Electric Finance | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daiwa Bank |Osaka Ga... |
FBIS4-5862_0 | Mahathir's Official Visit Continues Ranariddh, Hun Sen Host Banquet | BFN [Excerpt] Prime Minister Datuk Sri Dr. Mahathir considers his visit to Cambodia a historical event because he is the first Malaysian leader to visit the country in 30 years. This is because the conflict that took place in Cambodia following the visit by the late Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia's first prime minister, ... |
FBIS4-5863_0 | Mahathir's Official Visit Continues Malaysian Business Investment Urged | BFN [Text] Datuk Sri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed has urged Malaysian businessmen to seriously consider investing in Cambodia. The prime minister said they should particularly go into the tourism sector, such as hotel and resort projects as well as road construction, power generation, telecommunications, and resource exploitat... |
FBIS4-5890_0 | Strategic Importance, Future of DRAM Industry Discussed | CSO [Report by Mitsubishi Bank Research Section] [Text] Growing Strategic Importance of DRAM Industry 1. Problems Surrounding DRAM Industry 2. Increasing DRAM Standing as a Strategic Commodity 3. Demand for Improvements in Efficiency Introduction In the midst of an unprecedented slump, the industrial world is undergoin... |
FBIS4-5913_0 | Further on Hoa Binh Hydroelectric Plant Ceremony | BFN [Text] Hanoi VNA April 15 -- The Hoa Binh Hydro-Electric Plant, the largest in Vietnam, has reached its full designed output of 1,920 mw [megawatts], with the launching of its eight and last turbine on Thursday morning. Construction of the plant was started on November 6, 1979, with assistance from the former Sovie... |
FBIS4-5915_0 | Joint Development of Oil, Gas Discussed With India | BFN [Text] India has offered to put up a modern gas-based thermal power plant in Vietnam. The Indian power minister, Mr. N.K.P. Salve, heading the Indian delegation to the Joint Commission meeting in Hanoi also offered to take up more exploration work for oil and gas in Vietnam. The Vietnamese foreign minister, Mr. Ngu... |
FBIS4-5946_23 | Political Styles of Hosokawa, Ozawa Assessed | people and democracy. And those in the LDP who advocate constitutional amendments are also believed to be observing what is said in the preamble. Such a simplified classification of either safeguarding the Constitution or advocating constitutional amendments is no longer so clear-cut, and today versatile views are held... |
FBIS4-5952_2 | * General Criticizes U.S. Economic Embargo | our country. And in addition, this is harming American businessmen. I think that with an independent foreign line that desires to be friends with all countries that are striving for peace and stability and the development of our country and with the struggle of the wholesome forces in the world, including those in the ... |
FBIS4-5953_1 | * Explosives Industry Description Reported * Industrial Explosives in Vietnam | the production of industrial explosives is coordinated closely with the production of military explosives, with those production installations directly subordinate to the military or to industrial ministries. The production of explosives (both military and non-military) involves special techniques, many years of experi... |
FBIS4-5953_5 | * Explosives Industry Description Reported * Industrial Explosives in Vietnam | and circulation of industrial explosives, both within and outside the military, are to be monitored by the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Environment, the State Labor Safety Inspection Committee, and the Fire Protection Department, and things must be done in accord with Explosive Materials Standard TCVN 4586-88 a... |
FBIS4-5957_0 | Paper Assesses Relationship With Singapore | BFN [Perspectives: "To Strengthen Existing Ties"] [Text] Singapore is our friend. The leaders and the peoples of Myanmar [Burma] and Singapore enjoy close affinity in that they were under colonial rule, and had shaken off the shackles not just once. Today, Singapore is a shining example of success through sheer dint of... |
FBIS4-5960_1 | Commentary Hails Mahathir Visit to Cambodia | existing interaction. Cambodia has always remained close to the hearts of Malaysians. The civil war that had raged in that country with the government facing the lots of the three guerrilla factions had been a matter of deep concern for the Malaysian Government and people. Malaysia was in the forefront among countries ... |
FBIS4-5961_1 | Commentary Views Mahathir's Visit to Laos | Laos. Malaysia is not contented with enhancing only bilateral links with the Indochinese nation. It wants Laos to be an important part of Southeast Asia, thereby positioning itself to contribute significantly to ASEAN. To this end, Malaysia will do its utmost best to facilitate its entry into the six-member grouping. B... |
FBIS4-6036_0 | Kim Il-song's `Deteriorating' Health Described | BFN [Article by Yu Yong-ku: "Kim Il-song's Health Deteriorating With Geriatric Diseases"] [Text] Although North Korean President Kim Il-song, who has just turned 82, is still continuing political activities, he is suffering from various geriatric diseases. He often falls into a comatose state these days, thus signaling... |
FBIS4-6039_0 | International Trade Order `Mixed Blessing' | BFN [Article by Kim Chang-yong] [Text] The newest chapter in the international trade order will be a mixed blessing for the Korean economy and its advantage, or disadvantage, will be chiefly dependent on how the nation copes with it. It will ease all tariff and non-tariff barriers, making the world a border-less market... |
FBIS4-6058_0 | Reportage on Labor Riots, Ethnic Unrest 40 Arrested in North Sumatra | BFN [Text] Jakarta, April 16 KYODO -- Arrests have increased to 40 after two days of labor-related riots in North Sumatra province, a labor activist said Saturday, though police denied the report. Independent unionist Hasby Ansyori told KYODO NEWS SERVICE that some 40 people had been arrested by Friday night, following... |
FBIS4-6060_0 | Reportage on Labor Riots, Ethnic Unrest Armored Vehicles Deployed | BFN [Text] Medan, Indonesia, April 16 (AFP) -- Armoured vehicles and thousands of police and military officials were deployed Saturday in Medan, North Sumatra, one day after labour protests turned into ethnic violence against the Chinese minority, a military official said. "Four batallions of police and military offici... |
FBIS4-6082_0 | MITI Supports Technological Aid in ASEAN | BFN [Text] The Ministry of International Trade and Industry [MITI] will assist the six ASEAN nations in developing industrial technology. First, a plan for cooperation will be worked out to introduce the TQC [total quality control] system, which is a typical method of production management adopted by Japanese companies... |
FBIS4-6118_2 | MONTSAME Publishes Press Reviews Press Review for 16 Apr | of the board D. Samdag a number of inquiries made by members of the parliament. Speaking at the session D. Samdag said that in the line of the organizations he heads there are not any documents corroborating the preparations for such a coup-d'etat. The session regards as being expedient to consider the answers by the p... |
FBIS4-6120_0 | Report Views Increasing Problems of Children | BFN [Text] Ulaanbaatar, April 13 (OANA-MONTSAME) -- Mongolia is the fifth Asian country joined the convention on the rights of children, said today the head of the National Children's Centre N. Bolormaa at the press conference. Speaking with Mongolian and foreign newsmen she said about the measures supposed to be done ... |
FBIS4-6125_0 | Tokyo Rebuffs Washington Objection to Iran Aid | BFN [Text] The United States has informally asked Japan to suspend the yen-based loans to Iran Japan resumed last year. The U.S. Government has taken the position that "it is undesirable to provide economic aid to Iran that has been supporting terrorism and has been uncooperative in the Middle East peace process." In r... |
FBIS4-6139_0 | Indian Economic Delegation Arrives in Hanoi Energy Minister Meets Vo Van Kiet | BFN [Text] India and Vietnam are to set up an experts group to find ways to step up bilateral economic ties on par with political relations. This was decided at a meeting the power minister, Mr. N.K.P. Salve, had with the Vietnamese prime minister, Mr. Vo Van Kiet, in Hanoi today. Our Southeast Asia correspondent repor... |
FBIS4-6144_1 | Vu Quang Interviewed on Relations With Vatican | all issues relating to Vietnamese Catholics, and only make a decision upon agreement reached with the Vietnamese Government. These issues include Vatican policy, the consecration of cardinals, bishops, and issues of mutual concern. When there are contradictory opinions, the two sides will meet for discussion. Up to now... |
FBIS4-6156_0 | G-7 Urged To Coordinate Monetary Policy | CSO [Excerpts] Editorial Urges Policy Coordination To Prevent Repeated U.S. Interest Hikes Hikes in U.S. interest rates have adversely impacted upon world currency and capital markets. The modification of financial policy on the part of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board (FRB) was a logical measure to prevent an overheatin... |
FBIS4-6156_1 | G-7 Urged To Coordinate Monetary Policy | the former East European nations and Africa to which large sums of U.S. capital were flowing. [passage omitted] The fact that changes in policy in the United States had a worldwide ripple effect attests to the fact that national barriers no longer exist in terms of the flow of capital. Moreover, the computer dependence... |
FBIS4-6168_8 | * Social Insurance Agency Head Discusses Mission | pension system itself is one of the projects. At the same time, we are implementing the so-called welfare facilities project through pensions or medical-care insurance. One example is the home-care support program which has been newly implemented since 1992 as part of medical-care insurance. This is a project that supp... |
FBIS4-6172_0 | ROC Strives for `Stronger Role' in Region | BFN [By Peter Chen] [Text] Brisbane, April 18 (CNA) -- The Republic of China [ROC] is striving to play a stronger role in the Asia Pacific as its economy becomes more closely enmeshed with the region's economy, the ROC's top economic planner said today. Speaking at the Asia-Pacific Insight 1994 meeting in Sydney on Mon... |
FBIS4-6206_0 | Iraqi Foreign Minister Continues Official Visit Meets With Suharto | BFN [Text] In his capacity as chairman of the Nonaligned Movement and president of the Republic of Indonesia, President Suharto has promised to work for the lifting of UN economic sanctions against Iraq. Foreign Minister Ali Alatas said this to reporters after he accompanied his Iraqi counterpart Sa'id al-Sahhaf who pa... |
FBIS4-6213_0 | Further Reports on Labor Strikes, Ethnic Unrest Commentary Urges Reconciliation | BFN [Station commentary] [Text] The demonstrations by workers in Medan, North Sumatra, that degenerated into ugly riots should serve as a lesson to all groups in the country. We all regret demonstrations that deteriorate into destruction. The uncontrolled demonstrations would have become more serious if the security au... |
FBIS4-6214_0 | Further Reports on Labor Strikes, Ethnic Unrest Demonstrations Continue in Medan | BFN [By Bhimanto Suwastoyo] [Text] Medan, Indonesia, April 19 (AFP) -- Fresh anti-Chinese sentiments flared again here Tuesday with thousands of people sacking and looting a downtown ethnic Chinese-owned commercial mall, witnesses said. Between 1,000 and 2,000 people, armed with machetes, iron picks and stones, attacke... |
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