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FBIS4-26586_0 | Nongovernmental Trade Promotion Body Established | BFN [Article by Li Wen: "Trade Promotion Body Set Up"] [Text] A nongovernment organization aiming to promote economic cooperation between China and other Northeast Asian countries was founded in Beijing yesterday. The Chinese Association for the Promotion of International Technological and Economic Cooperation in North... |
FBIS4-26603_3 | Hu Qili on Development of Information Services | national economy. Today, social and economic development increasingly depends on information resources, information technology, and the information industry. The information industry is a leading industry for the modern economy. Its importance is reflected not only by its daily increasing output value in the national e... |
FBIS4-26603_10 | Hu Qili on Development of Information Services | that the various applied information systems are mutually linked and connected through the public information channel, thus fully exploiting and utilizing information resources and achieving the common use of resources. If we roughly compare basic communication facilities to an "expressway," then the various applied in... |
FBIS4-26651_0 | Source: Dissident To Be Released in `Near Future' | BFN [By Willy Wo-lap Lam] [Text] Beijing has been more forthcoming in providing information about prisoners of conscience, according to veteran human rights lobbyist John Kamm. And a senior source in the human rights movement has indicated China may release famous dissident Ren Wanding in the near future. In meetings o... |
FBIS4-26699_0 | Taipei Leading Beijing in Trade With ASEAN | BFN [By Debbie Kuo] [Text] Taipei, June 27 (CNA) -- Taiwan's U.S.$2.27 billion in exports to Association of Southeast Asian Nations [ASEAN] members in the first quarter of the year more than doubled Mainland China's exports to those countries, the Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD) reported Monday [27... |
FBIS4-26738_6 | Outline of State Industrial Policy | ensure a coordinated development of energy sources, the economy, and the environment. Of them, the coal industry should accelerate the construction of key state-owned coal mines and promote the transformation and improvement of local mines, including township and town mines. The petroleum industry should stabilize the ... |
FBIS4-26738_10 | Outline of State Industrial Policy | exchange for key technologies and equipment. IV. Active Efforts Should Be Taken To Develop Foreign Economic Ties and Trade We should continue to expand our foreign trade, actively readjust the trade structure, bring our advantages into play, and greatly enhance the economic performance of our exports to facilitate and ... |
FBIS4-26743_1 | Article on Need for Industrial Policy | industries; and that there will be a big leap in the level of industrial technology. All of these will become materialized under the guidance of industrial policy, the target that the macroeconomic regulation and control is aimed at. China has launched an important program of applying industrial policy to guide the nat... |
FBIS4-26743_6 | Article on Need for Industrial Policy | Thus, the formulation of an industrial policy for long-term allocation of resources was placed on the State Council's agenda. In line with the State Council's decision, the State Planning Commission took the lead in studying and coordinating the formulation of an industrial policy. As the commission has been changing i... |
FBIS4-26743_7 | Article on Need for Industrial Policy | 3) they underscore the key areas and focus on solving major issues having a vital bearing on the overall situation of the national economy; and 4) they are feasible and can guarantee the implementation of industrial policy through economic, legal, and necessary administrative means. In the process of formulating indust... |
FBIS4-26748_1 | Article Refutes Linkage Between Trade, Workers' Rights | Western nations to make up for the decline in their economic competitiveness. In the name of showing concern for the interests of laborers of the developing nations, they are actually practicing trade protectionism. As everyone knows, for various reasons, the wages of laborers of the developing nations have always been... |
FBIS4-26748_2 | Article Refutes Linkage Between Trade, Workers' Rights | increase exports and take part in international competition, which brooks no outside interference. To increase remuneration of their laborers, the developing nations must expand trade, develop their economies, and increase incomes of their people. It would be unrealistic to raise the wages of the developing nations to ... |
FBIS4-26779_1 | Wei Jianxing Praises Shanghai Post, Telecommunications | held by the ministry's leading party group in Shanghai yesterday. In recent years, the Shanghai Post and Telecommunications Administration has provided quality services as part of its intensive efforts to remedy unhealthy practices. It has taken the initiative in serving the telecommunications market, tried its best to... |
FBIS4-26781_0 | Dissident Li Guiren Released From Prison in Xian | BFN [Text] Beijing, June 26 (AFP) -- Chinese dissident Li Guiren has been released from prison after serving a sentence for his role in the 1989 pro-democracy movement, friends said Sunday. Li, 51, was released Saturday from his prison in the central city of Xian. The sources said he was weak and in poor health. The fo... |
FBIS4-26809_0 | Japanese Newspaper Office Attacked by Ultra-Rightist | BFN [Text] Tokyo, June 26 (XINHUA) -- A loudspeaker truck driven by a member of an illegal ultra-rightist group hit the front door of the office building of the ASAHI SHIMBUN newspaper in Osaka on Saturday [25 June], causing no casualty, local media reported today. The truck smashed the windows of the front door of the... |
FBIS4-26814_2 | `Roundup' Views Russian Rapprochement With West | a first tactical step. "When Russia really enters Europe, becomes a European country then it can only gain from this," he pointed out. The 10-year partnership and cooperation agreement that Yeltsin signed with the EU sets the seal on economic cooperation after more than 18 months of negotiations. Moscow has frequently ... |
FBIS4-26820_2 | PRC-Affiliated Paper Views Korean Situation | analysis of Clinton's sanctions program against the DPRK indicates that the United States is at a disadvantage and that there is too much risk involved. 1) The United States is making all-out efforts to pursue a foreign policy of participating in Asia-Pacific economic cooperation, but sanctions will cause confrontation... |
FBIS4-26851_1 | Border Trade With Russia, DPRK Said To Decrease | the situation becomes critical and this would in turn affect China's stability. So, China only gave political support to North Korea. Jin Zongzhu, former mayor of Tumen City, an open border town in Jilin and current director of the Economic and Trade Commission of the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, said that bei... |
FBIS4-26866_2 | `Talk' Views U.S.-Russian Military, Space Cooperation | beforehand, and therefore it expressed discontent with the United States and voiced objection to the U.S. action. Russia's purpose is to fight for a say in world affairs which is equal to that enjoyed by the United States. Following the end of the Cold War, the world situation has been developing in a diversified manne... |
FBIS4-26871_6 | Reception Marks Principles of Peaceful Coexistence `Practical Significance' of Principles | that time, they mainly stressed independence and sovereignty in national relations, but also applied to the economic field calling for equality and mutual benefits in international economic relations. The economic imbalance between South and North has long been serious, and many developing countries are faced with soci... |
FBIS4-26873_29 | Li Peng Delivers Report at Education Conference | initiative and creativity of teachers. Since China started reform and opening to the outside world, the party and government has upheld the policy of respecting education and teachers and made great headway in building up the ranks of teachers and in continuously improving their social status and material benefits. Pro... |
FBIS4-26875_0 | Huang Ju Addresses Education Conference | BFN [Unattributed article: "Speaking at a National Education Conference, Huang Ju Stresses the Need To Seize the Opportunity To Deepen Reform and Build a First-Class City and Develop First-Class Education"] [Text] Shanghai Mayor Huang Ju, who is attending the national education conference, addressed the conference on 1... |
FBIS4-26883_3 | Dissident Lin Muchen Comments on Arrest, Detention | activists Yang Zhou, Wang Fuchen, and Li Guotao were preparing to set up in the summer of 1993. He was very frank about this because they did not violate the current law. The authorities only made a vain attempt. He said: There is a huge potential danger behind the mainland authorities' nature of knowingly violating th... |
FBIS4-26901_0 | Tibet To Use More Hydroelectric Power | BFN [Text] Lhasa, June 27 (XINHUA) -- The Tibet Autonomous Region will use hydro-power in a bid to quadruple its current electric power generating capacity by the end of the century, according to local government sources. Figures from the regional industrial electricity department show that Tibet has one-eighth of Chin... |
FBIS4-26901_1 | Tibet To Use More Hydroelectric Power | to quadruple its current electric power generating capacity by the end of the century, according to local government sources. Figures from the regional industrial electricity department show that Tibet has one-eighth of China's total area, but its entire electric power generation is only 173,400 kw, 0.096 percent of th... |
FBIS4-26915_0 | Firm Signs Contract for Tanzanian Power Project | BFN [By Pei Shanqin] [Text] Dar es Salaam, June 27 (XINHUA) -- The Chinese Sichuan Corporation for International Techno-Economic Co-Operation (Sietco) and the Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco) signed here today a contract for phase one of the multi-million dollar Kihansi hydro-power station in Iringa region, c... |
FBIS4-26927_0 | HKMA Pumps $2.67 Billion Into Banking System | BFN [By Noel Fung] [Text] The plunging U.S. dollar sent the Hong Kong dollar bond and equity markets tumbling yesterday and prompted the territory's Monetary Authority to pump $2.67 billion into the banking system. The injection was the biggest in Hong Kong's history. The overnight inter-bank market rate was pushed up ... |
FBIS4-26928_0 | Editorial Views Impact of Dollar's Devaluation | BFN [Editorial: "U.S. Dollar Declines, Hong Kong Dollar Also Declines"] [Text] Last week, global money and stock markets experienced major fluctuations. The U.S. dollar hit a record post-war low and fell below 100 yen. Although there was certainly some rebound afterwards, the market is still generally taking a bearish ... |
FBIS4-26928_1 | Editorial Views Impact of Dollar's Devaluation | dollar has declined continuously. It has fallen below the symbolic 100 yen mark and has reached another significant milestone. Last August, the dollar once dropped to the low level of 100 yen. Two days after this fall, the U.S. Federal Reserve intervened in the market and forced the dollar to rebound by 5 yen after sel... |
FBIS4-26946_1 | Methods To Train Laborers To Serve Abroad | establish training centers according to their specific conditions. They may establish training centers according to different professions and trades -- depending on their different conditions -- or they may establish comprehensive training centers. These training centers must possess the necessary educational condition... |
FBIS4-26954_1 | Provincial Reporters Comment on Agriculture | kilograms. Not only is this enough for local consumption but there is also some for export. At the beginning of this year, for the first time in history, 500 million kgs of husked and unhusked rice were sold to Japan, and more than 600,000 live pigs and several hundred million kgs of vegetables were sold to neighboring... |
FBIS4-26963_2 | Wu Yi on Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Organization | development and achieve economic progress. Soon afterwards, the Latin American Free Trade Association, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the West African Economic Community, the Caribbean Community, and other regional economic integration organizations of developing countries came into being. After the 1970's... |
FBIS4-26965_1 | Jiang Zemin Inspects Fujian 22-27 June | the government's overall work and provide a reliable guarantee of reform and development. From 22 through 27 June, General Secretary Jiang Zemin -- accompanied by Fujian Provincial Party Secretary Jia Qinglin, Governor Chen Mingyi, Nanjing Military Region Commander Gu Hui, and Fujian Provincial Military District Comman... |
FBIS4-26983_3 | Commentator on Safeguarding Social, Political Stability | be given to that part of the masses which is not yet well-off or which even faces considerable financial hardship. They should be given earnest help in overcoming financial hardship, and their basic needs should be guaranteed. At present, some places have adopted a compensation system that links basic old-age pensions ... |
FBIS4-26985_25 | Hu Sheng on Nature of Socialism Part 1 | cause as if they are capitalist. This practice is incorrect" (Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping (1975-1982), p. 298). III. Reform -- Liberation of Productive Forces A socialist society can never be full-grown and perfect at birth; in the process of its growth and development, it is bound to undergo various changes in its... |
FBIS4-26989_0 | Environmental Agency Organizes Three Gorges Survey | BFN [Text] Wuhan, June 28 (CNS) -- The National Environmental Protection Administration has recently organized renowned experts and leading officials to conduct surveys on environmental protection, water pollution and environmental administration in the Three Gorges area along the Yangtze River. The survey group arrive... |
FBIS4-27016_0 | XINHUA `News Analysis' on Upcoming G-7 Summit | BFN ["News Analysis" by Wang Nan: "What To Expect From G-7 Summit?"] [Text] Washington, June 28 (XINHUA) -- The annual summit of the Group of Seven industrialized countries next month will be the first such meeting in four years when all of the seven nations are experiencing positive economic growth. Although such summ... |
FBIS4-27020_0 | Major Computer Firm Signs Agreement With U.S. Company | BFN [Text] Beijing, June 28 (XINHUA) -- The Beijing Legend Computer Group and the U.S. Intermec Corporation, a world leader in automated data collection technology, signed an agreement here today to jointly develop bar code technology and market it in China. The Legend Group is to be responsible for distributing Interm... |
FBIS4-27090_0 | Conference on East Timor Opens in Philippines Mrs. Mitterrand Banned | BFN [Text] MANILA, May 29 (AFP) - French First Lady Danielle Mitterrand is named on a list of foreigners banned by the Philippines from entering the country to attend a conference on human rights in East Timor. Officials are under orders to refuse entry to anyone of the 36 peopled named on the list, a copy of which was... |
FBIS4-27112_0 | ROK Foreign Minister Southeast Asia Tour Noted | BFN [Text] According to reports, South Korean puppet Foreign Minister Han Sung-chu recently went to a certain country in the Southeast Asia and made an ugly and mean scene by begging the country to take the role of mediator between the United States and the DPRK in the resolution of the North's nuclear issue. Here lies... |
FBIS4-27128_0 | Conference on Lifting Iraq `Blockade' Opens | BFN [Text] An international conference on lifting the unjust blockade on Iraq opened its meetings yesterday in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur. The conference is organized by governmental figures and organizations under the patronage of Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamed. Abdul Ghani bin Othman, the Mala... |
FBIS4-27259_0 | Japan `Could' Guide Asia Toward Market Economies | BFN [Text] Foreign Minister Prasong Sunsiri yesterday said Japan, with its economic strength and technical expertise, could further help Indochinese countries and Burma move towards free-market economies. "The idea of Former Prime Minister (Kiichi) Miyazawa to hold a forum for the comprehensive development of Indochina... |
FBIS4-27261_1 | Burma Investment Called Risky | to deal with oppressive regimes is not by head-on confrontation with them but by communication, probably through free trade," said Adrian Topham, managing director of Thai British Security Printing Limited. Countries such as Singapore seem to have adopted this principle. Six Singaporean banks have gone into Burma, and ... |
FBIS4-27314_0 | Achievements in Medical Science Highlighted | BFN [Text] Pyongyang, May 31 (KCNA) -- Medical workers of Korea have produced many inventions and new technical innovation proposals over the last one year. Nearly 40 kinds of tonics and medicines of 400 categories and new rational technical proposals have been produced by pharmaceutists. Noteworthy among them are Chin... |
FBIS4-27325_0 | Editorial Views Clnton's MFN Renewal for PRC | BFN [Editorial: "Painful Choice Between Human Rights and Trade"] [Text] The renewal of most-favored-nation (MFN) trade status for China has become an annual issue. This time President Clinton has, in effect, unconditionally extended MFN for China by announcing that his administration would in future remove the link bet... |
FBIS4-27325_3 | Editorial Views Clnton's MFN Renewal for PRC | rights and trade. More important, China's cooperation is needed in dealing with the issue of North Korea's suspected development of nuclear weapons. The Clinton administration, therefore, has chosen to renew MFN in exchange for the "long-term improvement of human rights in China." It admits, though, that China's improv... |
FBIS4-27326_0 | Plan for Radioactive Waste Disposal Agreed With Moscow | BFN [Text] Both the Japanese and Russian Governments, which have been discussing measures to prevent Moscow from resuming dumping of radioactive waste into the sea, have agreed to dispose of radioactive waste by constructing small facilities which float on the water. The design is currently being worked out. Constructi... |
FBIS4-27342_2 | Samsung Buys Alps Electric Subsidiary | but the "Luxman" brand is famous in the United States, Europe, and throughout the world. Samsung Electronics, on the other hand, is a large firm that deals in computers, communications, and home electronics; December 1993 quarter sales were about 8,155 billion won (about 1.06 trillion yen), and the ordinary profit was ... |
FBIS4-27352_0 | Sharp, Tomiken Cooperate on Solar Power System | CSO [Text] (Nagasaki) Tomiken (Omura, Nagasaki Prefecture; chairman, Hideo Tominaga), a building materials and home construction equipment sales and operations firm, announced on 19 May that it will begin joint development and sales with Sharp of a solar power system incorporated in the roof of homes. They judge that a... |
FBIS4-27381_10 | * Uruguay Round Renegotiation Said Possible | the idea of disparity in ability between the weak and the strong? No other country has ever opened its markets for a greater number of goods at greater rates and at a faster pace than the ROK did in GATT history. The ROK is among the countries subject to the greatest trade pressures from the United States. But never, n... |
FBIS4-27389_5 | National Assembly Meeting Reportage Continues Phan Van Khai Report, Part 1 | investment procedures, and establish order and discipline in economic activities in the market mechanism have not scored significant progress. Second, together with economic development and increasing incomes, cultural and social activities have progressed with more students registered at all education levels and bette... |
FBIS4-27392_2 | National Assembly Meeting Reportage Continues Part 4 | phenomena and gradually solve fundamental issues relating to regulations and mechanism. The result of our efforts depends firstly on the responsibility and conscientiousness of heads of government organs from the central to grassroots levels and the role of all mass organizations in each locality. What is abnormal is t... |
FBIS4-27410_0 | APEC Senior Officials Meeting Opens in Bali | BFN [By Meidyatama Suryodiningrat] [Text] Nusa Dua, Bali (JP) -- The second Senior Official Meeting (SOM) of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) began here yesterday with a call to narrow the economic gap between the developed and developing member nations. "It is crucial for the developing economies in APEC t... |
FBIS4-27411_0 | Three-Day Meeting Closes | BFN [Text] Nusa Dua, Bali (JP) -- Senior officials of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum have agreed to recommend improved cooperation on infrastructural development and on the nurturing of smaller-scale businesses. At the close of the second three-day APEC senior officials meeting (SOM) on Friday, dele... |
FBIS4-27413_0 | Experts Discuss Safety Measures in Malacca Straits | BFN [Text] Singapore, May 28 (OANA-BERNAMA) -- Navigational safety and pollution-control mechanisms in the Straits of Malacca need to be updated to keep pace with development. This was one of the recommendations made by Southeast Asian coastal and sea management experts at a three-day conference on sustainable developm... |
FBIS4-27418_1 | Framework Talks Led to Temporary Halt in Yen Hike | loss of confidence in the dollar and a widespread decline in the dollar amidst rising U.S. interest rates. Shigetada Nakajima, chief economist of the foreign exchange-securities department of Itohchu, comments, "It was a case where the United States had no choice but to recognize that use of foreign exchange rates to d... |
FBIS4-27430_0 | Tokyo's Handling of DPRK Issue Editorialized | BFN [Editorial: "The Confusion of Emergency Bill With Measures To Deal With Economic Sanctions Against North Korea"] [Text] The issue of North Korea's suspected development of nuclear weapons has now entered a new phase now North Korea has begun removing fuel rods at an experimental nuclear reactor. The issue has obvio... |
FBIS4-27450_4 | Khieu Samphan Interviewed | repeatedly stressed that the key to the problem is national reconciliation. All Cambodian parties must do their best to forge national reconciliation in order to end the war at its roots. The cease-fire issue should be settled within the framework of a solution on national reconciliation. We should not have a cease-fir... |
FBIS4-27455_0 | Radio VGNUFC Says Troops Continue To Desert | BFN [Text] It was reported that on 25 May, 240 soldiers of the puppet units in Takeo Province who were sent by the two-headed government to fight on the Route 10 battlefield deserted the action. The report said that these soldiers who were sent from Takeo Province to Route 10 by their puppet commanders did not want to ... |
FBIS4-27550_0 | Defense Agency To Promote Exchange With U.S. | BFN [Text] Tokyo, May 29 KYODO -- The Defense Agency will set up a new working-level group with the U.S. Depertment of Defense to promote reciprocal bilateral exchange of military technology, agency officials said Sunday [29 May]. The agency expects the group to help make unilateral military technology transfer between... |
FBIS4-27556_0 | Traders' Import, Export Contracts Down in April | BFN [Text] Tokyo, May 30 KYODO -- Both import and export contracts concluded in April by 19 major Japanese trading houses fell from a year earlier, an industry group reported Monday [30 May]. The Japan Foreign Trade Council, which groups major trading companies, said the export contracts were down 18.0 percent in value... |
FBIS4-27579_1 | Reportage, Commentary on President's Russia Visit Summit Affirms Stance on DPRK | of participation if the U.N. Security Council decided to impose sanctions on North Korea as a last recourse. Such pledges are reassuring, especially because Russia is one of the five permanent members of the Security Council and can still exert influence on North Korea. The degree of sanctions Russia would support rema... |
FBIS4-27593_1 | UN Report Shows Progress in Human Development | France, Australia, the United States, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Germany, in descending order. The new index shows that Korea, following Malaysia and Botswana, has made the most progress in human development since 1960. "They started from very low levels, but managed as a group to increase their HDI values... |
FBIS4-27610_0 | * Farming Strategy Reacting to UR Pact Discussed | CSO [Excerpts] The strong winds of the Uruguay Round [UR] talks concluded last December are bringing a great shock to our farming villages, and movements are vigorously arising to overcome this. These movements, being conducted in the direction of producing value-added products based on scientific agriculture, are here... |
FBIS4-27613_0 | Further Reportage on On-Going Framework Talks Cooperation on Communication Plannned | BFN [Text] The Japanese and U.S. Governments have decided to cooperate in building next-generation communications networks. The two countries have agreed to include telecommunications as a "cooperation sector" in Japan-U.S. economic framework talks. A Japan-U.S. roundtable on telecommunications policy may be set up in ... |
FBIS4-27615_8 | Sihanouk Views Outcome of Roundtable Talks | like to tell the clergy. Anyway, we hope that there would be some good results on 15-16 June. But, is our optimism reasonable? From what I know about the Khmer Rouge, I have little hope. Nonetheless, the Triple Jewel will not forsake us, the supreme patriarchs and clergy will not abandon us. Their teaching about compas... |
FBIS4-27640_1 | * President Cites Issues in Development Phase | coordination conference theme, which relates to the strengthening of discipline in the apparatus and improvement of service to the public. According to the chief of state, public services and discipline in the apparatus are two very important elements in the administration of government and development. A high level of... |
FBIS4-27645_1 | Opening of Waste Treatment Plant Reported | That is, the bigger the factory and its operations, the lighter the cost burden which the manufacturer has to bear relative to the volume of goods produced. Such an argument, therefore, seems valid, especially since small-scale industries comprise an important segment of this country's industrial sector. They not only ... |
FBIS4-27658_0 | Daily Fears Blame for Losses Against Khun Sa | BFN [Editorial: "The Burmese Border Situation"] [Text] Thailand must keep a close watch on all developments in connection with the ongoing fighting between the Burmese Government troops and the Shan force under the leadership of the world infamous drug kingpin Khun Sa or Chang Sifu. This is to avoid falling into any un... |
FBIS4-27668_0 | Security Meeting Studies Sanctions Issue | BFN [Text] Seoul, June 3 (YONHAP) -- The South Korean Government is preparing for the imposition of sanctions on Pyongyang, judging that punishment of North Korea has become inevitable since the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) officially announced that later measurement of discharged fuel rods at a disputed r... |
FBIS4-27688_0 | Quang Tri Province Faces Crop Failure | BFN [Report by Le Anh Dung] [Text] The 1993-94 winter-spring rice crop of Quang Tri Province has been a serious failure. More than 50 percent of 20,372 hectares of the crop have been completely damaged due to low temperatures (16-18 decree Celsius) caused by a cold spell and prolonged bad weather in March this year. Th... |
FBIS4-27693_0 | Losses Due to East Timor Meeting Detailed | BFN [Text] Malacanang [presidential office] disclosed the economic repercussions of an impairment in Philippine-Indonesian relations as a result of the staging at the University of the Philippines of the Asia-Pacific Conference on East Timor. Presidential Assistant for Mindanao Paul Dominguez said that the joint fishin... |
FBIS4-27697_0 | Do Muoi: Full U.S. Ties Without Human Rights | BFN [Text] Hanoi, June 3 KYODO -- Vietnamese Communist Party chief Do Muoi says Hanoi wants to have fully normalized ties with the United States as early as possible but without any linkage to human rights. "As for when our relations with the United States can be normalized, that is up to the American side," Muoi said ... |
FBIS4-27705_1 | Business Practices Behind Domestic-Foreign Price Gap | 1.31 times higher than that of New York and l.12 times and 1.l4 times higher than that of London and Paris, respectively. Tokyo is one of the cities in the world with the highest prices. Due to the yen's rapid appreciation from 1993 to 1994, EPA sees "a strong possibility of further widening in the difference" between ... |
FBIS4-27706_23 | Financial Regulators Profiled | establishing and maintaining relationships with Asian countries. In the past, economic diplomacy has been directed mainly toward Europe and the United States. This "Asia effort" means broadening Japan's economic ties with its more immediate neighbors through technical assistance and meetings with the heads of the centr... |
FBIS4-27750_0 | Reportage on Spratly's Issue Continues Foreign Minister Speaks | BFN [Text] Hanoi VNA June 5 -- Foreign Minister Nguyen Manh Cam highlighted the active, important roles of the Non-Aligned Movement [NAM] in the present world situation, and its two main goals namely cooperation for peace, stability and development, particularly the trend for stability and development, in Southeast Asi... |
FBIS4-27761_0 | National Assembly Proceedings Continue 4 Jun Proceedings | BFN [Summary] "Dear friends: The Ninth National Assembly's fifth session entered its ninth day today. "The National Assembly worked at the conference hall in the morning under the direction of National Assembly Vice Chairman Dang Quan Thuy. "The deputies debated a revised draft law on the amendment of and supplement to... |
FBIS4-27771_11 | Policy of Trade Concessions to U.S. Criticized | foreigners, it says, should be given preferential treatment. It's hard to believe, but after the Uruguay Round was concluded, the Japanese Government announced it would deregulate financial services based on this "article of agreement." This is truly to practice reverse discrimination. In short, what's in this article ... |
FBIS4-27771_15 | Policy of Trade Concessions to U.S. Criticized | to the level of a pact between the two governments. If this hadn't been done and the United States imposed sanctions against Japan through Super 301, the Japanese Government was afraid even if it appealed the case to GATT, without an existing agreement between governments, the case wouldn't constitute a GATT violation ... |
FBIS4-27771_21 | Policy of Trade Concessions to U.S. Criticized | prove where and in what way Japan's markets were closed. The reason I say I'm in the minority is that Japan's economists take it for granted that Japan's markets are relatively closed in nature. [Ishiguro] I can't understand that. However, in terms of distribution, I have a feeling that the tenor of debate has changed ... |
FBIS4-27776_0 | `Source': Tokyo To Offer Economic Aid to DPRK | BFN [Text] On 1 June, the government conveyed its intention to the DPRK that Japan is ready to give economic aid to it through international organizations even before normalizing its diplomatic ties with the DPRK should the DPRK diplomatically settle the nuclear issue by returning to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treat... |
FBIS4-27797_3 | Steel Industry Continues To Face Hard Times | being, it is difficult to anticipate expansion of consumption or of plant and equipment investment. In addition, difficult-to-handle structural problems have arisen which are more important than this kind of problem; they are the following three points: first, that a difference between foreign and domestic prices has b... |
FBIS4-27797_22 | Steel Industry Continues To Face Hard Times | invites excessive competition. Furthermore, in portfolio management, in which profitable products compensate for unprofitable sectors, one delays disposal of unprofitable products as a result, so it becomes impossible to make use of assets effectively. Big cost reductions will probably be possible if companies narrow t... |
FBIS4-27818_0 | EPA Chief on `Old-Fashioned' Hiring of Women | BFN [Text] Tokyo, June 3 KYODO -- Japan's economic planning chief Yoshio Terasawa lamented Friday [3 June] as "old-fashioned" and a "waste" the nation's male-dominated hiring practices. The director general of the Economic Planning Agency (EPA) said he told other cabinet members that "Japan is strange" in not hiring la... |
FBIS4-27903_0 | Ministry Criticizes U.S. Demands on Securities | BFN [Text] It was learned on 4 June that the United States asked Japan at the bilateral financial talks to amend the Securities and Exchange Act [SEA] and the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Control Act [FEFTCA]. This was revealed by an international financial source. The United States reportedly wants to broaden th... |
FBIS4-27904_2 | Nissan Increasing Imports of U.S. Auto Parts | Machida, chief officer, International Procurement Department). Nissan's purchase policy on overseas parts manufacturers is strict control of local manufacturers on cost, differing somewhat from the Toyota Motor style which does basic retraining. That position can be perceived in the MIG (manufacturing improvement group... |
FBIS4-27910_2 | Editorial on Outlook for Economic Recovery | have determined the ultimate performance of individual corporations. Firms that took early remedial and bold actions to restructure have succeeded in producing minimally acceptable results. Additionally, skills exercised in responding to "price destruction measures" such as the procurement of materials and products fro... |
FBIS4-27917_0 | Tokyo Electric To Build Generator in Tokyo Bay | CSO [Text] Tokyo Electric Power is proceeding with a plan to establish a new large thermoelectric power station that will use liquid natural gas (LNG) as the heat source in newly reclaimed land in Tokyo Bay. Possibility of realization suddenly increased with the specific mention by Tokyo Prefecture of the power station... |
FBIS4-27917_2 | Tokyo Electric To Build Generator in Tokyo Bay | was a dispute on the self-supply rate for each ward on garbage incineration. As a result, garbage incineration sites have been built in almost every ward. A power plant is a public works facility with an order given to a construction company and a location subsidy. It brings a huge economic effect, such as property tax... |
FBIS4-27938_1 | Official Discusses Socioeconomic Development | Comrade General Secretary Do Muoi's visit to Son La, the province started to improve its economy with a quicker changing pace from an autarkic economy to a commodity production economy. Presently, Son La enjoys great potential in industrial trees, fruit trees, and livestock breeding. To further increase its economy, So... |
FBIS4-27941_1 | Volunteers Start Trial of AIDS Vaccine | the UBI-1 candidate vaccine is produced by United Biomedical Inc in the United States. The vaccine has been tested experimentally in China and Australia, and on animals and about 100 people in the United States. The human trials in Thailand, the first of a four planned programmes in developing countries, are under Prah... |
FBIS4-27954_2 | Dailies Assess Issue of Sanctions Against North | article adds that these plans must be carried out while keeping the door open for dialogue. The article notes that apart from the UN sanctions, the ROK, the United States, and Japan are holding a meeting to deal with the North Korean nuclear issue. It concludes that in addition to international cooperation, the governm... |
FBIS4-27974_0 | Amnuai, U.S. DEA Chief Discuss Narcotics | BFN [Text] The Thai deputy prime minister confirms that Thailand is prepared to cooperate with the United States in narcotics suppression. After a meeting with the visiting director of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency [DEA], Deputy Prime Minister Amnuai Wirawan said that there should be greater international cooperatio... |
FBIS4-27999_3 | Reversal of `Negative' Policies Hailed | to a total denial of the role of private enterprise. Slorc's switch from command to market economy has done some good for the country: life has returned to normal. Food and consumer goods have filled up the once-bare shelves. The people eat and dress better. The markets and bazaars are bustling. The sidewalks are full ... |
FBIS4-28016_0 | Rengo Adopts Platform With Indirect Tax Raise | BFN [Text] Rengo [the Japanese Trade Union Confederation headed by Akira Yamagishi] held a Central Committee session in Fukuoka city on 2 June. In the session, the Central Committee discussed ways to reform the current tax system and adopted a platform supporting the future raise of the indirect tax rate to secure fina... |
FBIS4-28030_1 | Policemen Top List of Human Rights Abuse Cases | number of cases has been noted. Policemen were named as the alleged perpetrators in 118, or 51 percent, of 232 human rights cases filed before the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) from January to March 1994, a CHR report revealed yesterday. The report approved for release by Human Rights Commission Chairman Sedfrey Ord... |
FBIS4-28035_1 | ASEAN Urged Not To Water Down ILO Safeguards | in developing countries means that firms are able to compete unfairly against employers in more advanced lands, who must provide more benefits for their workers. ASEAN leaders, whose countries have prospered as sources of cheap labour, claim this as a disguised form of protectionism. ASEAN officials were correct to res... |
FBIS4-28035_2 | ASEAN Urged Not To Water Down ILO Safeguards | international arena it is unfortunate it has chosen an area where it has such a bleak record. After coming off a year in which it posted a record for the number industrial accidents including the world's worst ever factory fire, it would have been hoped Thailand would be more circumspect about lending its support to an... |
FBIS4-28039_1 | Editorial Urges Attention to Foreign Policy | in the eyes of foreign countries appears to have suffered a great deal. There is the internal pressure created by the hunger strike and associated protests. Regarding external pressure, the International Labor Organization [ILO] condemns child labor and child prostitution, and the United States views Thailand suspiciou... |
FBIS4-28040_0 | Minister Discusses Investment With UK | BFN [Text] British business people have shown increased interest in investing in Thailand. British Deputy Trade Minister Richard Needham and leading business executives from 33 companies paid a courtesy call on Minister of Industry Major General Sanan Khachonprasat this week during their visit here. Industrial developm... |
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