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FBIS4-28050_0 | Delegation Attends Manila Meeting | BFN [Text] Hanoi VNA June 7 -- A Vietnamese delegation led by Pham Van Chuong, deputy head of the external relations commission of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee attended the unofficial meeting between Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar held in M... |
FBIS4-28056_3 | Report Says Dam May Harm Delta Fertility | solely for the purpose of supplying energy without thought given to the effect dam operations will have on the delta region. "If I were the director, and those dams were designed for generating electricity, I would keep this function as my priority when operating the dam. In the dry season, I would retain water to secu... |
FBIS4-28066_0 | U.S. Embassy `Under Fire' for Refusing Visas | BFN [Text] The United States Embassy in Fiji has come under fire for refusing to issue visas for 70 soccer fans who have already paid travel packages to attend the world cup in Los Angeles later this month. The Fiji Football Association, while expressing disgust at the Embassy's refusal, said it would take the matter u... |
FBIS4-28067_0 | Aviation Crime Prevention Bill Passed | BFN [Text] The Fiji Parliament has passed the bill aimed at preventing possible terrorist attacks in Fiji aviation industry. The bill led by the tourism and aviation minister, Harold Powell, provides for life imprisonment as a maximum sentence for people convicted of hijacking, sabotaging, or endangering an aircraft. M... |
FBIS4-28106_0 | More Foreign Access to Nation's Technology Urged | BFN [Text] Tokyo, June 8 KYODO -- Japan should give wider foreign access to its technologies and a new "technology-oriented society" with a freer outflow of technology, a government panel report said Wednesday [8 June]. According to the report by an advisory body to the minister of international trade and industry, the... |
FBIS4-28157_0 | Increased Output of Power Stations Reported | BFN [Text] Pyongyang, June 7 (KCNA) -- A remarkable increase has been registered in the output of electric power at the power stations of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. According to data available at the State Commission of Electric Power Industry, the hydraulic power stations chalked up of late the peak in... |
FBIS4-28163_0 | DPRK `Transferring' Weapon Technology to Mideast | BFN [Text] It was revealed that North Korea is transferring [chonsu haejugo issomi] manufacturing technology for up-to-date biochemical weapons to the Middle East. It is likely, therefore, that the German cabinet meeting today will work out appropriate measures against the threat of such mass lethal weapons imposed rec... |
FBIS4-28164_0 | Minister Han Discusses Possibility of Sanctions | BFN [Interview with Foreign Minister Han Sung-chu by ROK correspondents in New York on 7 June] [Text] "China's role, too, is important in applying pressure on and persuading North Korea to accept the issue of nuclear transparency. China's cooperation is essential also in achieving a concerted action at the UN Security ... |
FBIS4-28202_0 | Article on Composition of Democratic Kampuchea | BFN [Station editorial: "What is Democratic Kampuchea? Is It a Group of a Dozen Persons or 10,000-20,000 Persons as Claimed by the Enemies of the Nation?"] [Text] The enemies of the nation have always cursed Democratic Kampuchea, a force that has been fighting the aggressor Vietnamese to defend the Cambodian nation, ra... |
FBIS4-28230_2 | Paper Views U.S. Foreign Policy | Workers' rights is one of a number of sensitive issues where the US has shown an apparent disregard for the views of Asian nations or given a relatively unsophisticated response to any alternative opinion. Relationships with Burma's military regime is another. Again, there are no shades of grey in Washington's foreign ... |
FBIS4-28237_0 | U.S. Embassy `Under Fire' for Refusing Visas | BFN [Text] The United States Embassy in Fiji has come under fire for refusing to issue visas for 70 soccer fans who have already paid travel packages to attend the world cup in Los Angeles later this month. The Fiji Football Association, while expressing disgust at the Embassy's refusal, said it would take the matter u... |
FBIS4-28239_0 | Aviation Crime Prevention Bill Passed | BFN [Text] The Fiji Parliament has passed the bill aimed at preventing possible terrorist attacks in Fiji aviation industry. The bill led by the tourism and aviation minister, Harold Powell, provides for life imprisonment as a maximum sentence for people convicted of hijacking, sabotaging, or endangering an aircraft. M... |
FBIS4-28315_0 | Daily on Importance of Railway Electrification | BFN [Article by Yi Sang-su: "Important Issues Arising From Making Further Achievements in Electrification of Railway Lines"] [Text] To solidify the material and technological foundation of railway lines is an important demand to guarantee the successful accomplishment of the party's revolutionary economic strategy by s... |
FBIS4-28316_0 | Scientific, Technical Inventions Highlighted | BFN [Text] Pyongyang, June 3 (KCNA) -- Inventions produced by Korean scientists and technicians are popular in the international arena. Inventions of Korea was highly appraised as peculiar, rich in scientific and technical contents and very high in economic value at the 22nd Geneva international exhibition of invention... |
FBIS4-28319_0 | Surin Hails Australian Stand on Arms Aid | BFN [By Marisa Chimprapha] [Text] Deputy Foreign Minister Surin Phitsuwan yesterday welcomed a report that Australia is likely to turn down a request by Cambodia for weapons, saying that Thailand's position on the issue has been seriously taken into consideration. Surin said, however, that Australia and other countries... |
FBIS4-28322_0 | More Reports on On-Going U.S.-Japan Trade Talks `Reverse Engineering' Plan Dropped | BFN [Text] Washington, June 8 KYODO -- Japan told the United States on Wednesday [8 Jun] it has decided to shelve plans to authorize "reverse engineering" of computer software, a move that effectively removed a thorny trade issue between the two countries, Japanese officials said. "We consider the matter as more or les... |
FBIS4-28338_1 | Further Reports on Reaction to DPRK Related Issues Possible Sanctions Effects Analyzed | sanctions are a trade embargo, a ban on capital transactions, a freeze on assets and means of payment, and the halt of remittances to the DPRK by ethnic Koreans residing in Japan. North Korea's trade with China, Russia, and Japan accounts for more than 60 percent of its total trade. The DPRK's imports from the three na... |
FBIS4-28344_3 | Editorials Discuss Issues Related to DPRK: Tokyo Remains Uncertain Over Issue | A senior International Financial Bureau official said: "This is completely different in terms of the extent of the sanctions imposed in the past. We hope that we can find a political settlement, if that is possible." The United States pointed out that funds from Japan are a "major source of finances" for the Kim Il-son... |
FBIS4-28361_2 | * Politicians' Dependence on Bureaucrats Viewed | of national debts" or the "welfare revenue sources in an aging society," and have devoted their efforts toward the suppression of social expectation levels vis-a-vis policy benefits. A strategy existed of coexisting with interests politics on the one hand, and forcing declining benefits and rising burdens onto the gene... |
FBIS4-28362_9 | * Restraints on Bureaucratic Monopoly Proposed | all-purpose remedy to cope with the monopolist abuses of the bureaucracy. However, in the sense that there is no system with an aspect of using its authority to force its monopolist services, and scrutinizes and copes with the abuses, the first step in coping is to recognize that the decisive lack of cost-awareness is ... |
FBIS4-28365_0 | Higher Indirect Taxes for Welfare Spending Favored | BFN [Text] "The Subcommittee on Pensions, Medical Care, and Other Welfare Work" [name as published] (chaired by Minoru Yanagida) under the ruling coalition's Tax Reform Committee [name as published] has disclosed the contents of its draft report on a vision for the social safety net and expenditures for the social net.... |
FBIS4-28368_0 | Ministerial Meeting of IMTGT Cooperation Held | BFN [Text] Medan, Jun 2 (ANEX/ANTARA) -- Indonesia on Thursday asked Malaysia and Thailand that a joint planning and studies should be conducted for the basic infrastructure development of the Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand Growth Triangle (IMTGT) cooperation project. Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Industry an... |
FBIS4-28388_1 | Article Outlines United SE Asian Concept | community that would bind the ten nations together. The proposed forum would discuss joint approaches on political, economic, and social issues. Deputy Foreign Minister Surin Phitsuwan said the forum, dubbed the "SEA-10", will be an alternative source of cooperation among countries in Southeast Asia. "It will be a plac... |
FBIS4-28462_0 | Paper Questions Impartiality of IAEA | BFN ["IAEA Must Not Pursue Sinister Purpose" -- KCNA headline] [Text] Pyongyang, June 10 (KCNA) -- Hans Blix, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA], in a report submitted to the United Nations Security Council on June 2 brought forward again "the necessity" of "a special inspection" of two m... |
FBIS4-28468_1 | Further Reports on U.S.-Japan Economic, Trade Issues `Reverse Engineering' Project Postponed | for the approval of RE because "RE is indispensable for the development of compatible products." The RPC, a private advisory body to the ACA director general, has been studying the propriety of the use of RE in computer software development since last July. RE generally means analyzing the structure of software develop... |
FBIS4-28476_2 | * National Debate on UNSC Permanent Seat Urged | is what functions the United Nations should carry out for the security of the world. If the United Nations does not intend to assume the shape that Japan wants it to, Japan should decline to become a permanent member no matter how eagerly it is asked to do so. It is said that with the end of the cold war, the United Na... |
FBIS4-28481_1 | * Editorial Views Nation's Nuclear Stance | the most, that is... North Korea's possession of nuclear bomb, East Asia becoming unstable, Japan's nuclear development becoming justified, Japan's becoming a militaristic giant. Why is Japan's nuclear armament so often discussed in the United States? One reason is because of the strategic necessity of the U.S. hardlin... |
FBIS4-28485_1 | Editorial Criticizes MOF Tax Reform Estimate | the case for a real tax increase is very weak, and that it would be difficult to gain approval of the public for such an increase. As a result, we fear that tax reform itself will not be achievable. The recent estimates were premised on 1) continuation of the 6 trillion yen income tax cut; 2) implementation of public f... |
FBIS4-28489_10 | Flaws in Public Works Bidding System Examined | to prevent the abuse of this discretionary power in the form of bribe-taking. Politicians have also been implicated in public procurement corruption scandals, because it is difficult to penalize them for overstepping their authority. If something is not done to strengthen jurisdictional barriers, political-influence sc... |
FBIS4-28494_0 | Falling Sales Force Mazda To Reorganize Domestic Production, Sales Fall | CSO [Text] Mazda published their April production and sales status on 25 May. For 19 consecutive months, both its production and domestic sales have fallen below the results for the previous year, and it continues to break its worst record of the past. In production, however, although passenger cars fell mroe than 20 p... |
FBIS4-28567_0 | APEC Urged To Accelerate Economic Integration | BFN [Text] Former Prime Minister Anan Panyarachun urged leaders in the Asia Pacific region to accelerate the process of regional economic integration under the framework of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum to achieve broader regionwide liberalization and to provide political leadership towards free tr... |
FBIS4-28568_2 | OECD Seeking New Role in Post-Cold War Era | the OECD signed a cooperation pact with Russia, aimed at smoothing its shift to a market economy through an increased flow of assistance from the OECD. Russia's integration with the West could be "the best investment we can make in our security and in the security of all the peoples of Europe," Christopher said. The co... |
FBIS4-28576_1 | U.S. Advisers, `Agression' Protested | [late Cambodian general] Lon Nol and (Thieu-Ky) [former South Vietnamese leader]. Then, the entire Cambodian territory was the victim of bullets, shells, and all sorts of bombs dropped from aircraft. Some of the bombs weighed up to 1,000 kilograms and made craters as big as ponds and reservoirs. Some bombs damaged the ... |
FBIS4-28599_0 | Pham Van Dong Interviewed on Renovation | BFN [Report on 2 June 1994 interview by AFP correspondent (Avreck) with Pham Van Dong, adviser of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee; place not given -- read by announcer] [Text] [Correspondent] How does your excellency view the current renovation process? In your excellency's view, are there any obstacle... |
FBIS4-28601_0 | Reportage on National Assembly Continues Industrial, Agricultural Debate | BFN [Text] Deputies to the Ninth National Assembly while attending the fifth session in Hanoi have agreed that industrial and agricultural production are expected to achieve and surpass the yearly plan. Discussing the implementation of socioeconomic tasks in the first six months of 1994, they said that external economi... |
FBIS4-28604_0 | Ministry Gives War Death Toll Statistics | BFN [Text] The Ministry of Labor, War Invalids, and Social Welfare held a news conference on 10 June on issues related to war victims in Vietnam. According to incomplete statistics, almost three million people were killed in the war including one million soldiers from throughout the country and more than four million p... |
FBIS4-28605_0 | Minister Lifts Restriction on Electricity | BFN [Text] After the official operation of the North-South 500-kilovolt power line, the Minister of Energy has decided to lift the restriction on the use of electricity by households and production units in Southern Vietnam. In the North, the restriction on electricity consumption has been lifted since the Hoa Binh Hyd... |
FBIS4-28618_1 | Possible Effects of Sanctions Analyzed | between states and blocking the flow of capital. Discussion of sanctions against North Korea that the UN Security Council undertook on a full scale this week is to pursue the same strategy. Its strategic goal is to work out measures to ascertain North Korea's nuclear transparency. The question is whether economic sanct... |
FBIS4-28672_2 | Foreign Ministry Issues Statement | brought the situation to such an extent where they took "sanctions" this time. In this the United States and the IAEA Secretariat openly revealed their attempt to encroach upon our sovereignty and stifle us by using the leverage of inspection. The conclusion at which we have arrived today when some quarters of the agen... |
FBIS4-28692_0 | India Asked To Begin Hydroelectric Projects | BFN [Text] Myanmar [Burma] has invited India to invest in hydroelectric projects. The country's minister for planning, Brigadier General Abel told our Southeast Asia correspondent that India can also use the electricity generated from such projects for its northeastern states. General Abel said Myanmar wants to develop... |
FBIS4-28712_5 | Reportage on Issues Related to DPRK Continues `Top Secret' Paper on Sanctions Made Public | Using a sea blockade to prevent freighters carrying on this trade requires not only vigilance but powerful military strength. The term "sea blockade" is easily used in the press, but in Japan there is little recognition that this is the final stage of "economic sanctions," meaning a "state of war." On top of this, ther... |
FBIS4-28713_6 | NHK Carries Full Interview With Jiang Zemin | mentioned are connected with each other. First, further efforts should be made to build a clean government and to get rid of corruption. These are the conditions required for establishing the socialist market economic system, and at the same time, they will affect the success or failure of our reform policy. Our party ... |
FBIS4-28714_2 | * Focus of Policy Toward Asia Pacific Viewed | has lost its original meaning. In today's Thailand, because things that were originally from India or China have been completely absorbed into Thai society, it is almost meaningless to search for things Indian or things Chinese. Though influenced by both India and China, as the word "Indochina" suggests, this country h... |
FBIS4-28717_5 | Factors Affecting Tax System Reform Examined | Looking back, many cases can be found where political regimes and parties campaigning for tax reforms lost elections. It is still unclear as to whether the next government can really carry out the reforms. [15 Apr 94 p 5] [Text] MOF Prepares Strategy Carefully--7-Percent Consumption Tax It it were "a measure to cope wi... |
FBIS4-28719_10 | Life Insurance Management Criticized | is not the largest insurance company, it is the Ministry of Finance. Many firms converted to mutual companies in the aftermath of World War II. Soon thereafter, the Insurance Commission passed reform measures concerning the structure of membership representative boards and the method of electing representatives. This i... |
FBIS4-28730_0 | Mahathir Urges Continued Investment | BFN [Text] Melaka (Malaysia), June 13 (OANA-BERNAMA) -- Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamed said Monday that foreign investors particularly those from Taiwan should have no fear about investing in Malaysia as it does not oppress the Chinese community. Some of the Taiwan investors had such fear and even considered Malays... |
FBIS4-28790_14 | Reportage on National Assembly Continues Voters Present Views | those paid to teachers. Voters in a number of localities, particularly mountain provinces, suggested that the state provide adequate budget allocations to compulsory elementary education and anti-illiteracy activities, particularly in high-altitude areas where the illiteracy rate remains very high. Voters in other loca... |
FBIS4-28795_0 | Southeast Asian Nations Hold `Secret Meeting' | BFN [Text] Ten Southeast Asian nations agreed at a secret meeting in Manila last month not to interfere in each other's problem with separatist movements. They are the six ASEAN countries as well as Vietnam, Myanmar [Burma], Laos, and Cambodia. A Philippine official said experts and officials from the 10 countries also... |
FBIS4-28796_0 | Thai Deputy Prime Minister on Regional Transport | BFN [Text] Improving the transport system will be a first and crucial step in the promotion of trade and investment to support growth and diversification in the sub-region, Deputy Prime Minister Suphachai Phanitchaphak said yesterday. Mr Suphachai was speaking at the third Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand growth triangle (I... |
FBIS4-28798_5 | Statement Issued at Southeast Asian Meeting | and information networks, -- promote Southeast Asian studies and languages in educational institutions, -- establish a Southeast Asian university system, -- establish a Southeast Asian Cultural Centre in each of the Southeast Asian countries, and -- set up a Southeast Asian disaster relief mechanism. Flagships To achie... |
FBIS4-28899_0 | More on Issues Related to Bilateral Trade Talks Automobile, Parts Talks Stalled | BFN [Text] Negotiations on the automobile and automobile parts sector in the Japan-U.S. framework trade talks have been stalling as negotiators have failed to start discussions on core matters, such as defining objective criteria for gauging the openness of Japanese markets to foreign access. Division chiefs participat... |
FBIS4-28900_0 | More on Issues Related to Bilateral Trade Talks Sector Trade Talks Analyzed. | BFN [Unattributed article: "A Heated Exchange Inevitable Over Objective Criteria"] [Text] Japan and the United States will hold vice ministerial negotiations on automobiles and auto parts beginning 10 June in Tokyo under the resumed Japanese-U.S. economic framework talks. Working-level negotiations on the three priorit... |
FBIS4-28923_0 | Official Reports on ASEAN Meeting | BFN [Text] ASEAN has agreed on group cooperation in the areas of telecommunications and transportation. An agreement was reached at the meeting of ASEAN senior economic officials in Indonesia on the setting up by ASEAN of a department to study group cooperation in telecommunications and transportation; a proposal on th... |
FBIS4-28931_0 | Christian Groups Reported To Object to Sanctions | BFN [Text] Pyongyang, June 13 (KCNA) -- The National Council of Christian Churches of South Korea in a policy discussion of the reunification committee June 10 said that the U.S.-led move of "sanctions" against the North might get on its nerve and demanded that "the United States stop utterances and acts creating tensi... |
FBIS4-28944_0 | South Koreans Praising Kim Chong-il Reported | BFN [Text] Pyongyang, June 11 (KCNA) -- The book "21st Century and Leader" is now being widely read by people in Seoul and Kyonggi Province, South Korea, according to radio Voice of National Salvation from Seoul. The book deals with the greatness and leadership feats of the dear leader Comrade Kim Chong-il. A professor... |
FBIS4-29007_1 | ASEAN To Cooperate, Not Compete for Investors | press after inaugurating the ASEAN working group on the promotion of foreign direct investment here on Monday. He expressed the hope that the meeting would yield a mechanism for foreign investment among the ASEAN member countries aside from the foreign investors. "We need a certain promotion campaign among the ASEAN me... |
FBIS4-29010_1 | 15 Jun Newspapers Comment | the withdrawal. The article reports that the government believes North Korea's withdrawal is a strong political and psychological attack aimed at restraining further resolutions and leaving the U.S.-North Korean talks as the only communications channel. The article reports that the government plans "to include a measur... |
FBIS4-29037_2 | * Tighter Control of Secret Information Urged | will thoroughly liquidate the military culture." "Do you think that you should be allowed to do things like this already?" President No demanded. The revelation enraged YS. He summoned the aide and told him to "get lost--to America or wherever." There was a time YS implicitly showed off his information gathering power ... |
FBIS4-29053_0 | Police Recapture 3 Chinese `Illegal Immigrants' | BFN [Text] Fukuoka, June 14 KYODO -- Police Tuesday [14 June] recaptured and took into custody three more Chinese suspected of being illegal immigrants who fled the Fukuoka Immigration Bureau on Sunday. The three are among the 26 Chinese minors who fled the bureau en masse, of whom a total of 22 have been recaptured, p... |
FBIS4-29080_0 | U.S., PRC, Russia, Tokyo React to DPRK | BFN [Article by Takushi Kawada from Seoul; part two of three-part series entitled "North Korea's Suspected Development of Nuclear Arms: The Crisis Structure: Involvement of the United States, China, Russia, and Japan Deepens"] [TEXT] On 6 June, the United States, the Republic of Korea, and Japan conferred in Washington... |
FBIS4-29088_1 | Economic Measures Sought To Reduce Surplus | floating exchange rate system, and during this time economic interchange domestically and abroad has become quite activated. Impacts that Japanese economic policies have on other nations' economies can no longer be disregarded. The comprehensive economic measures announced February 1994 have drawn attention not only at... |
FBIS4-29088_6 | Economic Measures Sought To Reduce Surplus | how the effects are apportioned to each nation. In cases such as in the Mandel-Fleming model where they are balanced and internal and external interest rates are in accord, the distribution from measures stimulating internal demand will be determined by a nation's size. Hence, when a major nation puts internal-demand e... |
FBIS4-29091_8 | * Ozawa's Misjudgment, Realignment Discussed | virtually identical. The shifting alignment of the political parties should have inherently depended on their policies." It is reported that Watanabe, who ended up staying within the LDP, still gripes about his indeterminate feelings to the members of his faction. Watanabe's abandonment of his decision to leave the LDP... |
FBIS4-29097_5 | Economic Revival Through `TPC' Encouraged | and persons in charge, or to subsidiaries, plants, and responsible sectors. Although this will incur greater responsibility, it will also invoke greater initiative and volition. 5) Emphasize results through work evaluation. For the intellectual workers, "creativity" through "concentration" is the decisive factor betwee... |
FBIS4-29100_0 | U.S., PRC, Russia, Tokyo React to DPRK | BFN [Article by Takushi Kawada from Seoul; part two of three-part series entitled "North Korea's Suspected Development of Nuclear Arms: The Crisis Structure: Involvement of the United States, China, Russia, and Japan Deepens"] [TEXT] On 6 June, the United States, the Republic of Korea, and Japan conferred in Washington... |
FBIS4-29108_1 | Economic Measures Sought To Reduce Surplus | floating exchange rate system, and during this time economic interchange domestically and abroad has become quite activated. Impacts that Japanese economic policies have on other nations' economies can no longer be disregarded. The comprehensive economic measures announced February 1994 have drawn attention not only at... |
FBIS4-29108_6 | Economic Measures Sought To Reduce Surplus | how the effects are apportioned to each nation. In cases such as in the Mandel-Fleming model where they are balanced and internal and external interest rates are in accord, the distribution from measures stimulating internal demand will be determined by a nation's size. Hence, when a major nation puts internal-demand e... |
FBIS4-29111_8 | * Ozawa's Misjudgment, Realignment Discussed | virtually identical. The shifting alignment of the political parties should have inherently depended on their policies." It is reported that Watanabe, who ended up staying within the LDP, still gripes about his indeterminate feelings to the members of his faction. Watanabe's abandonment of his decision to leave the LDP... |
FBIS4-29117_5 | Economic Revival Through `TPC' Encouraged | and persons in charge, or to subsidiaries, plants, and responsible sectors. Although this will incur greater responsibility, it will also invoke greater initiative and volition. 5) Emphasize results through work evaluation. For the intellectual workers, "creativity" through "concentration" is the decisive factor betwee... |
FBIS4-29150_0 | MONTSAME Carries Press Review for 15 Jun | BFN [Text] Ulaanbaatar, June 15 (OANA-MONTSAME) The central official newspaper "ARDIYN ERH" publishes the greetings by the Mongolian leadership addressing the authorities of Russia on the occasion of the day of approving the declaration of state independence of the Russian Federation. The central official newspaper inf... |
FBIS4-29167_3 | Article Discusses Clinton Presidency | in history" ranging from big corporation heads to small and medium businessmen." He has a superb memory. An American journalist said: "He can recall the name of a reporter whom he met more than a year ago, after staring at him for a while. From him emerges an image of "a political robot equipped with high-tech componen... |
FBIS4-29186_0 | Fujii on Increased Tax Rate in Reform Package | BFN [Interview with Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii by unidentified YOMIURI SHIMBUN reporter; place, date not given] [Text] [YOMIURI SHIMBUN] Do you think the ruling and opposition parties can agree on tax reform? [Fujii] I have read a newspapers' serial interviews with party officials in charge of tax affairs, and rea... |
FBIS4-29214_0 | Nguyen Manh Cam Interviewed on ASEAN Ties | BFN [Interview with Foreign Minister Nguyen Manh Cam by Minh Ha, correspondent of the SAIGON GIAI PHONG, on relations between Vietnam and Southeast Asian countries] [Text] With the recent friendly official visit to Myanmar [Burma] by Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet, our leaders have thus far visited all countries in the Sou... |
FBIS4-29251_2 | * Paper Reports Worldwide Grain Shortage | every three Africans is suffering from malnutrition. The hunger in capitalist countries is also serious. In the United States more than 30 million people go hungry. The number of hungry people is also increasing in the former Soviet Union now under capitalism and in East European countries as well. The food shortage is... |
FBIS4-29273_11 | * Foreign Minister Han's Nuclear Policy Viewed | helped him as much as they could, reports one senior government official. However, although positions are commonly classified as hard-line and moderate for convenience, those concerned are not too happy about being called hard-line or moderate. Minister Han says of himself, "I'm neither hard-line nor moderate, but a re... |
FBIS4-29307_0 | Ramos Approves Amount for Rural Development | BFN [Text] Another P [Philippine peso] 8.7 billion will be pumped into the agriculture and irrigation sectors in the coming months as the Ramos government primes up its countryside development program. In a statement released yesterday, National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Director General Cielito Habito ... |
FBIS4-29384_4 | ROK Professor's Article on Nation Reviewed | the greatest wealth of the nation. Such a unity in which all the people are united with the same purpose and obligation and harmonized with each other on the basis of virtues is a product of the extraordinary leadership of secretary Kim Chong-il. With this unity, the North, being a half of a divided small country, demo... |
FBIS4-29389_3 | White House National Economic Council Analyzed | economic policy consistent." In other words, the NEC was to be "the U.S. version of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry [MITI]." President Clinton, although a Democrat, quickly latched onto the concept. Soon after assuming office, he set about establishing the NEC. In late April, President Clinton gave a h... |
FBIS4-29395_5 | * Hata's Priority Includes Budget, U.S. Ties | in considering politics in the future, the central problem is to select which are truly urgent problems and to consider the response to them. First, as a problem which must not be dealt with hastily, there is the question of cooperation in elections because hurrying the creation of that system for next few months would... |
FBIS4-29415_0 | USTR To Cite Sausage Issue To Pressure Country | BFN [By correspondent Chong Yon-chu from Washington] [Text] In connection with the fact that the ROK Government had recently decided that U.S.-made sausages were not appropriate for imports, the U.S. Trade Representative Office determined that there exists a secondary import barrier in the ROK for imports of agricultur... |
FBIS4-29434_2 | * Government, Business Figures Discuss Exports | to South America, and 150,000 to East Europe. We plan to focus more on countries where we already set up our operations, exporting an additional 1.5 million circuits by the end of this year. Samsung plans to export a small-type set, TDX-1B, to China, and the large 100,000-circuit system to Russia. --Kim Chong-nam: Tell... |
FBIS4-29434_3 | * Government, Business Figures Discuss Exports | Because of this, Samsung suffered a defeat in Hungary. At the last minute of signing the contract, Hungary turned us down in favor of Germany. They told us then that their was no problem with our offer, the model and everything else, but the terms of funding. It shows what is the biggest difficulty in TDX exports. Also... |
FBIS4-29442_1 | Commentary on U.S. `Rejection' of EAEC | promotion of the EAEC is a natural step forward in view of the rapid pace of economic integration in the region. What is more remarkable is that the integration has been driven by market forces. In the process and without doubt, East Asia has become an important economic entity in the global scenario. As a mere consult... |
FBIS4-29482_0 | Prasong To Push for ASEAN-SAARC Ties | BFN [Text] Foreign Minister Prasong Sunsiri says he will push to establish links between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the South Asian regional grouping. The minister said yesterday that as ASEAN chairman he would consult his counterparts at the ASEAN ministerial meeting in July in Bangkok on ways to s... |
FBIS4-29493_3 | Report on Dam Projects Near Burmese Border | the projects located in Burmese territory, such as the Upper Salween Project, unless Burma wants such projects implemented in order to sell water and electricity to Thailand. Only under these conditions should Thailand negotiate with Burma on a government-to-government level. "The source said: `This policy was reached ... |
FBIS4-29540_1 | Minister Praises U.S. `Patience' With DPRK | than in the past. The possibility that North Korea will use nuclear weapons as soon as it has them cannot be ruled out. And even if this does not happen, nuclear weapons could become a means of permanent blackmail. Then one must expect the danger of military provocations with conventional weapons to grow. However, the ... |
FBIS4-29591_0 | MITI Drafts Guidelines To Replace Cocom Rules | BFN [Text] Tokyo, June 20 KYODO -- The Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) said Monday [20 June] it has crafted a provisional legal framework on export controls for strategically-sensitive products. The move follows the international scrapping of Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Control (C... |
FBIS4-29619_4 | Reports on U.S.-Japan Trade Talks Continue U.S. Strategy To Open Market Reviwed | a model for charting their own strategies to pry open the Japanese market. Mark Holland [name as published], author of the book "Top Management Goes To Washington," has written in the NEW YORK TIMES that "the Clinton administration's intervention in economic matters means that all American businesses can reap profits i... |
FBIS4-29668_3 | New Deregulation Package Issued Editorial: Need More Debates | be involved in discussions, particularly in issues pertaining to the implementation and supervision of mutual interests. If a serious concern prevails on the part of the public regarding such matters, then important and pertinent issues should not be brushed aside. The public's principal concern was that there was no c... |
FBIS4-29676_0 | Houa Phan Province Installs Power Grid | BFN [Text] Vientiane, June 17 (KPL) -- The installation of 35-kv power grid stretching more than 100 km from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to three districts of Houa Phan Province of Laos has started. Houa Phan is a Lao northeastern province bordering with Son La of Vietnam. The three beneficiaries are Siangkho, Sa... |
FBIS4-29692_0 | Taihei Dengyo Wins Hong Kong Power Plant Order | CSO [Text] Taihei Dengyo, a plant construction company, has received an order from Hong Kong Electric Power for construction work on coal thermoelectric power plants. Hong Kong Electric Power is building two 350,000 kilowatt electric power facilities as part of the electric power base that it has been developing on Lam... |
FBIS4-29694_0 | Kansai Electric Testing New-Energy Home | CSO [Text] Kansai Electric Power has completed the next-generation energy residence, "The Horone," and, with solar batteries and storage batteries installed, has begun corroborative testing. It is an all-electric residence designed with a coffee shop on the first floor and so that a family of four can live on the secon... |
FBIS4-29696_0 | MITI Foundation To Build `Solar Island' by 2010 | CSO [Unattributed article: "New Energy Foundation and 14 Companies Conceptualize Ocean-Floating Energy Base"] [Text] To float a huge solar battery with a diameter of 3 km in the Pacific Ocean to supply energy equivalent to a large nuclear power plant is the concept which the New Energy Foundation (Toshikazu Hashimoto, ... |
FBIS4-29716_1 | ROK President Previews Talks With Chuan | As part of its New Foreign Policy, our Government is attaching great importance to Southeast Asia. As a key member of ASEAN Thailand is playing a major regional role. I applaud your countries for taking the initiative in creating the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) and for having striven so hard to promote stability on In... |
FBIS4-29778_0 | Students' Demonstrations, Countermeasures Cited | BFN [Text] Following the incident in which train operations were stopped in Kwangju due to the sit-in demonstration by students from the Federation of Students Councils in Kwangju and South Cholla Province [Namchongnyon], train operations were interrupted again at Yongdungpo Railway Station in Seoul today for 40 minute... |
FBIS4-29781_0 | Continued Reports on U.S.-Japan Framework Talks Government Procurement Discussed | BFN [Text] Of the three priority sectors, Japan and the United States are expected to reach an agreement on the government procurement sector in the Japan-U.S. economic framework talks prior to Japan-U.S. summit to be held during the industrialized nations' summit talks (the Naples summit) scheduled for July. During ne... |
FBIS4-29799_1 | Khieu Samphan Statement on Office Closure | who continue to fuel the communist Vietnamese war and annex Cambodia at will. IV. As for the Party of Democratic Kampuchea [PDK], it does feel the need to leave its office in Phnom Penh for the following reasons: 1. The PDK is not afraid of the puppets' fascist police and troops -- the lackeys of communist Vietnam. The... |
FBIS4-29806_0 | Paper Reports Increased Textile Investment | BFN [Summary] An official at the Ministry of Industry, Mines, and Energy, has disclosed that by mid-June nearly 10 garment-producing factories, among those that have submitted applications to do business, have started their operations. Companies investing in other sectors have not yet begun their operations. According ... |
FBIS4-29816_0 | China Advises Cautions in Plan for Arms | BFN [Text] China has cautioned the Philippines to go slowly on its proposal for an arms registry in Southeast Asia because it might raise "suspicions" among the countries concerned and depict an arms race in the region, Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Rodolfo Severino said over the weekend. "They (China) said we should ... |
FBIS4-29838_4 | Dao Dinh Luyen on Selective Service Law | in the army? In fact there are a large number of youth in this category who pose a pressing problem in the annual troop induction work. What are the measures to resolve this problem to ensure social justice? [Dao Dinh Luyen] To ensure social justice for those who serve in the army and those who do not is an essential t... |
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