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FBIS4-44291_0 | Turkish DEP Members Meet With Council of Europe | BFN [Text] Strasbourg, France June 28 (A.A.) -- Five members of the abolished Democracy Party (DEP) arrived here today to hold contacts at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. The six deputies fled Turkey June 15, one day before the Constitutional Court banned the party on the grounds that it supposedly... |
FBIS4-44301_0 | OeVP, Greens Protest Visit | BFN [Report signed "a.s.": "China's Premier Li Peng To Visit Vienna -- Protests, While Industry Is Hoping"] [Excerpts] Vienna -- The visit by Chinese Premier Li Peng, starting on Wednesday [29 June], is meeting with increasing protests in Austria that seem to be having some effect: Li Peng has canceled a severely criti... |
FBIS4-44306_11 | Officials Address Bundestag 29 Jun on EU Issues SPD's Klose Criticizes Summit | the necessity for a European immigration and asylum policy. And we also agree that labor permits should be issued only restrictively now. However, this cannot be everything. Unless people's hopes for better lives in their own countries can be fulfilled, the pressure of immigration will increase on West Europe. Legal me... |
FBIS4-44307_4 | Officials Address Bundestag 29 Jun on EU Issues Waigel Addresses European Unemployment | the first time a joint border between the EU and Russia, and when these deeply European states such as Austria and the Scandinavian states fulfill their functions as a bridge and central countries this is a very important time for Europe, of which we all, and especially the Federal Government can be proud. [applause] A... |
FBIS4-44307_6 | Officials Address Bundestag 29 Jun on EU Issues Waigel Addresses European Unemployment | stage of Monetary Union, we will make sure that the criteria are observed strictly. And this must concern everyone, including us. A watering down will not take place, stability criteria have priority. [applause] Regarding expenditure programs, these will be available. And it cannot be true that all the programs that ev... |
FBIS4-44310_0 | U.S. Interest Rate Hike Awaited From Dollar Fall | BFN [Commentary by Dietrich Zwaetz: "Speculation About Interest Rates"] [Text] Sheer terror enters the pen of even sober commentators when they write about the latest weakness of the dollar. "One cent," that is, one-hundredth of a dollar, renowned Washington writer Hobart Rowen whines, "is now worth no more than one Ja... |
FBIS4-44316_0 | Giscard Comments on Rwanda Operation | BFN [Studio interview with Valery Giscard d'Estaing, president of the French Democratic Union, by Franz-Olivier Giesbert -- live] [Excerpts] [Giesbert] Now a word about Rwanda and the French operation or this humanitarian invasion, as Info Matin calls it -- is it a good thing? [Giscard] [passage omitted] I think we hav... |
FBIS4-44339_1 | Columnist Views Government Actions Against DEP | an American ally nor a member of NATO," he had said. The complex relationship between countries of the world, the greater business and defense interests as well as future plans of influence would indeed make this very difficult. But if for a second one could forget Turkey's claims of being a democratic country and its ... |
FBIS4-44339_2 | Columnist Views Government Actions Against DEP | Turkey's Political Parties Law and the Turkish Penal Code are based on the assumption that "crimes of opinion" exist and bring about the harshest punishment for such crimes. In other words, the recent development has shown that Turkish democracy is substandard and that civil rights in this country are subject to the ha... |
FBIS4-44344_0 | Daily Views U.S. Relations, Aid Conditions | BFN [Article by Hasan Cemal: "What Might Happen If the U.S. Aid Package Is Rejected or Accepted?"] [Text] Ankara -- We met many of our high-ranking diplomats during [journalist] Fatih Cekirge's cocktail party in the SABAH office in Ankara on Tuesday evening [21 June]. We held talks with Minister of Foreign Affairs Hikm... |
FBIS4-44344_4 | Daily Views U.S. Relations, Aid Conditions | the problem. Looking at the relations between Turkey and the United States only from that angle would be wrong. Let us consider the matter from a wider perspective. Dangerous trends -- such as chauvinism, extreme nationalist-conservative forces, and religious trends -- are gradually strengthening in Turkey.... Those fo... |
FBIS4-44348_1 | Low Dollar `Weapon in Trade War' | is a blessing for the U.S. economy, which suffered a more than $60-billion record deficit last year in trade with Japan. The lower the dollar falls, the more expensive Japanese cars become, for example, on the American market. Or vice versa: To remain competitive, the Japanese must put up with losses in sales -- they g... |
FBIS4-44350_5 | Officials Address Bundestag 29 Jun on EU Issues Kinkel Briefs Legislature on Summit | We Germans are very far advanced and are international leaders in this field. [applause] It is clear for the German presidency that a carbon dioxide tax needs a European solution. In the field of domestic and legal policy, Ladies and Gentlemen, a report on the prevention of international crime, terrorism, and the drug ... |
FBIS4-44355_0 | Reaction to, Details of EU-Russia Agreement | BFN [EC Press Release No. IP/94/39: "Russia and European Union Reach Historic Agreement To Deepen Trade and Political Ties"] [Text] Introduction The European Union and the Russian Federation have reached a major agreement that will boost their economic and political ties, increase trade and hold out the prospect for a ... |
FBIS4-44356_33 | European Council Issues Corfu Summit Conclusions | - Widening consensus on the aim of indefinite and unconditional extension of the NPT. m. Former Yugoslavia The European Council is deeply concerned by the continuation of the conflict in former Yugoslavia and particularly in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Geneva on 13 May, the European Union along with Russia and the Unite... |
FBIS4-44356_40 | European Council Issues Corfu Summit Conclusions | UK - Netherlands: B/NL border-Rotterdam-Amsterdam NL - Germany: Aachen-Cologne-Rhein/Main - High speed train South - Madrid-Barcelona-Perpignan-Montpellier E/F - Madrid-Vitoria-Dax E/F - High speed train East The following sections of the project are included - Paris-Metz-Strasbourg-Appenweier-Karlsruhe F with junction... |
FBIS4-44368_0 | Clarke Offer `Very Tough' on Government Spending | BFN [Article by Stephen Bates and Larry Elliott: "Clarke Tries To Clear Path to Tax Cuts"] [Text] Kenneth Clarke, the Chancellor, offered the Cabinet a "very tough remit" on government spending in the coming year as ministers met in Downing Street yesterday to launch discussion on the targets to be agreed for announcem... |
FBIS4-44373_1 | Ulster Peace Initiatives Fail To Halt Violence | in disagreement as to their understanding of how the peace process is working. Both sides see the British government as making concessions to nationalists out of anxiety to be rid of the problem, and in the hope of buying off the IRA. But their feelings about this are radically different: nationalists are encouraged, a... |
FBIS4-44384_0 | Inflation `Main Risk' for Asia | BFN [Text] Paris, June 30 (AFP) -- Asia's "Dragons" will be spitting fire over the next 18 months, with growth in their economies picking up steam to reach a rate of nearly 7.0 percent through 1995, the OECD said Thursday [30 June]. The main risk to their outlook now is inflation, the Organization for Economic Cooperat... |
FBIS4-44385_1 | Sees Slow Progress in East Europe | than continued contraction was expected for 1994 in the Slovak Republic, Bulgaria and Romania. In the latter two countries, however, stagnation could continue in 1995, the OECD said in its semi-annual Economic Outlook. However, it said, in addition to Poland, with 1993 GDP growth of 4.0 percent, Hungary and the Czech R... |
FBIS4-44389_0 | Improving Employment Boosts Women's Status | CSO [Article by Xu Yanhong (6079 1750 7703) "Employment -- Important Route to Raising Women's Status in Society: Interview with State Statistical Bureau, Social Department director Wu Jun (0702 6511)"] [Text] In September 1995, the United Nations Fourth World Women's Congress will be held at Beijing -- the largest inte... |
FBIS4-44390_0 | Labor Export Develops Rapidly | CSO [Article by reporter Chen Jianzhong (7115 1696 0022): "China's Labor Export on Contractual Basis Develops Rapidly"] [Text] China's system to sign contracts to provide labor service for construction projects abroad and cooperate with foreign countries in the field of labor service is developed under the guidance of ... |
FBIS4-44396_0 | Article Views Law Enforcement Organs Abuse of Position | CSO [Article by Zhang Jianwei (1728 0256 0251): "Law Enforcement Organs Abuse Office for Profits"] [Excerpts] [passage omitted] After lying dormant during the drive to improve the economic climate and rectify the economic order, the economy rebounded before long and bold reform slogans replaced the debate over whether ... |
FBIS4-44401_0 | Article on Taking Charge of Public Security | CSO [Text] "The time has come to take overall charge of public security. The matter must be put on the agenda and energetically handled." This was a forceful call to the people's representatives attending the second plenary session of the eighth autonomous region people's congress. In 15 years of reform and an open doo... |
FBIS4-44404_2 | Editorial on U.S. Market Analysis for Local Products | products. Those industries which Taiwan merchants moved to the mainland or Southeast Asia were mostly labor-intensive industries, which had been gradually losing their competitive strength on Taiwan. On the other hand, overseas industries initiated by Taiwan merchants were purchasing Taiwan products, which were mostly ... |
FBIS4-44407_12 | CASS Research Group Analyzes Current Reform | public-private ownership, with the private share being 60 to 80 percent, and these had a 100 percent rate of success. At present, individual business and private owned business are not only knocking at the doors of big cities, but also at the door of the state-owned and collective economies, and their developmental tre... |
FBIS4-44407_17 | CASS Research Group Analyzes Current Reform | through bankruptcy and the system of the excellent winning while the inferior are deleted; on the other hand, it is difficult for surplus people to find new job positions, as well as their family members not having protection. While this will not be a difficult point in this and the next year's reform, it will be a maj... |
FBIS4-44407_32 | CASS Research Group Analyzes Current Reform | to the state, while less taxes mean more benefits go to the people. Before the implementation of reform, the tax system in China was very simple, having a very small number of varieties, low tax rates and little change. The major reasons for this were: one, there were no privately owned enterprises, and the state-owned... |
FBIS4-44416_0 | Building Major Infrastructure With Foreign Funds | CSO [Article by Li Jian (2621 0256) of the International Trade Research Institute, Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation: "Problems in Building China's Infrastructure, Using Foreign Funds"] [Excerpt] [passage omitted] I. Plans to develop China's infrastructure and basic industries Infrastructure chiefly re... |
FBIS4-44417_3 | Direction for Sino-Indonesian Relations | transformation of Indonesia's production enterprises. At present Indonesia's major economic and trade partners are Japan, the United States, the EC, the ROK, Taiwan and Singapore and other ASEAN countries (regions). To develop its economic might swiftly, while actively developing its import and export trade, Indonesia ... |
FBIS4-44419_0 | Improved Employment Opportunities Boost Women's Status | CSO [Article by Xu Yanhong (6079 1750 7703) "Employment: -- Important Route To Raising Women's Status in Society: Interview With State Statistical Bureau, Social Department Director Wu Jun (0702 6511)"] [Text] In September 1995, the United Nations 4th World Women's Congress will be held at Beijing -- the largest intern... |
FBIS4-44420_7 | Labor Ministry Bulletin on Labor Development in 1993 | highway incidents remained high in 1993. There were 242,343 traffic accidents leaving 63,508 people dead and 142,251 people injured and causing direct economic losses of 1 billion yuan. There were 38,094 fire hazards in the country during 1993, leaving 2,467 people dead, an increase of 27.4 percent over 1992. The fire ... |
FBIS4-44424_6 | Impact of GATT on Agricultural Development | concluded, making farm product trade more liberal, all measures that impact market access and export competition will fall under stronger and more effective GATT regulations and disciplines. In which case, faced with trade liberalization and open farm product markets, with Chinese agriculture unable to be protected mor... |
FBIS4-44433_5 | Journal Lists 10 New `Contradictions Among People' | objective as well as subjective factors. The poor should not be jealous of the rich, just as the rich should not discriminate against the poor. The poor should trace the root cause of their poverty, and the rich ought to help the poor. The rich also have a problem of being very wealthy materially and spiritually, but p... |
FBIS4-44433_9 | Journal Lists 10 New `Contradictions Among People' | But the heads and tails have a common fate. When the heads are lifted, the tails raise up. The heads and tails are tied together by production relations. How high either the heads or the tails can be lifted depends on the role of the productive forces and overall national might. A dragon can do without neither a head o... |
FBIS4-44438_1 | KMT Tolerance for Rigged Elections Criticized | to be "strong" is to be like Chiang Kai-shek and Sun Yat-sen. If you are not "strong," how can you be elected? Take the present election of county and city assembly chairmen and vice-chairmen, for example. It was really extremely coincidental that before balloting all the assemblymen were surprisingly so wholehearted i... |
FBIS4-44438_2 | KMT Tolerance for Rigged Elections Criticized | chairmen and vice-chairmen, for example. It was really extremely coincidental that before balloting all the assemblymen were surprisingly so wholehearted in their great interest in group tours for their constituents. But no one knew anything about this coincidence. Rubbish. However, in Taiwan, hard evidence is importan... |
FBIS4-44439_12 | Peng Ming-min Interviewed on Political Idealism | not necessarily the most important. Besides ideals there are several more practical and realistic issues. Question: How do you place your own role? Will you get directly involved in politics or not? Answer: I study politics and criticize from a political perspective. I do not necessarily want to directly participate in... |
FBIS4-44440_0 | Cold War's End Presages Improved Sino-Indian Relations | CSO [Article by Ma Jiali (7456 0502 0500): "Post-Cold War Era India's Relations With China"] [Text] Enormous changes have occurred in the international situation in recent years. A post-Cold War era, in which a multi-polar trend is an important mark, has begun. How to regard the effect of the post-Cold War era on India... |
FBIS4-44440_7 | Cold War's End Presages Improved Sino-Indian Relations | a foundation for building a new post-Cold War international order. On the human rights issue, both sides believe that the right to develop is an important aspect of human rights, and that human rights are a matter legally within the purview of a nation's sovereignty. Both sides oppose a small number of western nations ... |
FBIS4-44441_1 | Assessment of Economic Potential of Cambodia | the most luxurious four-star hotel in Phnom Penh, the Jin Baodian Hotel, is a joint venture of a private Singaporean company and the Kampuchean government tourism bureau. It officially opened in 1991 with an investment of S$40 million [Singapore dollars]. Thailand is Kampuchea's greatest investor. Thai businessmen were... |
FBIS4-44443_8 | Minister Views Propaganda Resolving Minority Problems | in border residents a sense of national pride is to study the political, economic, and cultural conditions in neighboring countries regularly and make propaganda work more proactive. As for national separatists at home and abroad, we must try to understand their motives, familiarize ourselves with their methods, and ex... |
FBIS4-44454_7 | Article Urges Pressing On With Stock Markets | a major element in stock market stabilization. 6. Open and Fair Issuance of Subscription Forms. The shortage of shares and the even worse shortage of subscription forms led directly to the "10 August affair." In 1993, subscription forms were issued openly and fairly, most forms being issued in unlimited numbers so that... |
FBIS4-44457_7 | Traditional Moral Concepts on Decline | feat, then "the gauze cap will be carried away," there will be a deep feeling of being wronged, and people will think that whatever one does is for the purpose of becoming an official and making money. Misplacement of uncorrupt and corrupt. The practice of entertaining guests and sending presents, which is now in vogue... |
FBIS4-44457_8 | Traditional Moral Concepts on Decline | repeatedly carried reports of evildoers committing in broad daylight physical assault, murder, rape, and robbery. In addition, in places where there are more people, there is more news about evildoers, and the more people there are who are armed the more the victims are isolated and cut off from help. There are also in... |
FBIS4-44459_0 | Liaoning's Economic Ties With Northeast Asia | CSO [Article by Liaoning Provincial Social Sciences Academy, Economic Research Institute Director Li Xiangping (2621 0686 1627): "Liaoning and Economic Cooperation in Northeast Asia: Opportunities and Policy Recommendations"] [Text] Today, the world economy is undergoing readjustments and regionalization of the interna... |
FBIS4-44461_0 | Article Deems Foreign Enterprises Tax Evasion `Serious' | CSO [Article by Ho Kang-hua (0149 1660 5478)] [Text] Since China initiated reforms and opened up to the outside world, she has attracted a large volume of foreign investment. This has had a great effect on China in the way she has changed. However, official circles are also aware how this foreign capital, in a covert w... |
FBIS4-44468_9 | Procedures for Implementing Tax System Discussed | implementation of our reform should be gradual and gentle. This will reduce friction and avoid shock, so that we can smoothly attain our reform goal. To uphold the above five principles, we must accomplish the "six conducive" and "two guarantees." That is, everything must be conducive to the construction of a unified s... |
FBIS4-44474_32 | Current Income Distribution, Policy Analysis | incidence of disease, due to poor natural and geographic conditions, residents who are dependent mostly on farming and livestock-raising income have generally lower incomes, having become a group of households and populations that can hardly escape their poverty. 2. In ordinary areas, certain peasant populations are la... |
FBIS4-44474_34 | Current Income Distribution, Policy Analysis | collective interests; others exploit their commodity-distribution authority in domestic commodity transactions, in violation of national policy, to distribute certain planned-target commodities in short market supply to nonplanned-distribution partners, taking bribes for this; and yet others exploit their job responsib... |
FBIS4-44484_3 | Official Views Heilongjiang Water Problems | water conservation-based industries and turn around the passive economic development that had resulted from sluggish buildup of irrigation and water conservancy projects. To logically open up and effectively protect the water resources in Heilongjiang, we must start with basic tasks by initiating an overall survey and ... |
FBIS4-44496_3 | Editorial on Exports, Economic Situation | 1987, but dropped to $2.8 billion in 1993, suffering a decline of $1.6 billion. However, the export of cotton yarn rose from $2.8 billion in 1987 to $7.4 billion in 1993, marking an increase of $2.8 billion and far exceeding the decline in the garment export industry. The export of cotton yarn during the first quarter ... |
FBIS4-44497_1 | Article Views Economic Development in South, West | view of the fact that the enthusiasm of Taiwan businessmen for the mainland is on the ascendant, is to avoid vis-a-vis the mainland excessive reliance on political bargaining chips which can be lost, and successfully adopt a policy of distributed investment in Southeast Asia. In order to "go south," Taiwan is anxious t... |
FBIS4-44500_3 | Hong Kong Investor Interviewed | resources, it will probably be around five years before development is likely to take off. Airport, Expressway Opening Mid-year Why has Sanya not been developed before now? Xiao Jixin points out that the major problem is transportation. Because Sanya is situated on the southern tip of Hainan, it does not have an airpor... |
FBIS4-44502_0 | Editorial Views Market Beyond Southeast Asia | CSO [Editorial: "Southbound Policy and Market Expansion Beyond Southeast Asia"] [Text] The most prominent characteristics in Taiwan's society in the past several years is that most of the major changes invariably start from the civilian sector which often plays the dominant role in developing the whole situation. The r... |
FBIS4-44502_3 | Editorial Views Market Beyond Southeast Asia | suddenly broke out recently in Indonesia with a population of 200 million which has always regarded itself as the leader of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Even now, riots have not been completely controlled. Such riots pose a direct threat to the Taiwan investors' lives and properties. As a result, their i... |
FBIS4-44504_6 | Analysis of Clinton Administration Foreign Policy | democracy and human rights policy, the Clinton Administration has applied pressure through bilateral and multilateral channels, by means of ideological infiltration through cultural exchanges, and by using assistance and most-favored-nation treatment to foreign countries and the State Department's annual human rights r... |
FBIS4-44504_11 | Analysis of Clinton Administration Foreign Policy | must play a leading role in the world; this is the core of Clintonism,"[.sup]13[/] but taken deliberate actions to show America's strong image and active engagement in international affairs. Chief among them are: At the Tokyo summit of the G-7 nations, the United States displayed a leading role in reducing deficits, pr... |
FBIS4-44504_13 | Analysis of Clinton Administration Foreign Policy | attention-drawing speeches in late September 1993. Two notable ideas were set forth. One was the "enlargement strategy" expounded by Lake. It consists of four points: 1) consolidating cooperation and unity among those democracies that have instituted the market system as a core force in carrying out this strategy; 2) a... |
FBIS4-44505_6 | Party School Professor Looks at Post-Deng Era | the law. No wonder that during a visit to a certain county in Hunan Province, when Jiang Zemin asked a peasant what he needed most, the reply he received was, "What I need most is Chen Sheng and Wu Guang." Once social contradictions intensify, they generate a large scale popular reaction that is bound to create a revol... |
FBIS4-44505_10 | Party School Professor Looks at Post-Deng Era | each of these civil rights forces was fighting its own war prior to "June 4th," the "June 4th" repression made them unite and set up a "civil rights association front" overseas. The civil rights movement in China is fairly quiet today because of severe repression and strict control, but it does not lack a small number ... |
FBIS4-44512_4 | Work of Gansu Courts During 1993 Reviewed | of sentence, or release on parole, according to law, of offenders sentenced to labor reform who showed evidence of repentance and intention to change their ways, or who had performed meritorious deeds. II. Harsh Crackdowns on Serious Economic Crimes; Resolute Punishment of Graft and Corruption During 1993, peoples cour... |
FBIS4-44525_6 | Statistical Bureau Releases 1993 Labor Statistics | accidents that caused the death of three or more persons in the same accident. In these accidents 3,819 persons have been killed, and the number of such accidents and the number of killed had increased 0.2 and 3.8 percent, respectively, compared with the preceding year. During 1993, road and traffic accidents nationwid... |
FBIS4-44548_0 | More Reports on ``Information Highway'' Campaign GE Subsidiary Enters Competition | CSO [Article by Song Ning: ``GEIS Teams Up to Explore Data Networks''] [Text] General Electric Information Services (GEIS) entered [into] a partnership agreement yesterday with the Great Wall Computer Group, marking a major step by the US company in joining the Three Golden Projects, China's colossal information networ... |
FBIS4-44549_2 | More Reports on ``Information Highway'' Campaign Update on Chinapac | annual rate of 30 percent between 1996 and 2000. With the further upgrading and expansion of China's public telecommunications network, more and more data communications will become possible, such as videotex, E-mail, EDI [Electronic Data Interchange] and other services. Videotex integrates data transmission and data p... |
FBIS4-44552_0 | 540MW Hongjiadu Station in Guizhou Approved | CSO [Text] Guiyang -- The central government has approved the construction of the Hongjiadu Hydropower Station on the Wujiang River, a major tributary of the Yangtze River, in Southwest China's Guizhou Province. The station will have a generating capacity of 540,000 kW. Experts calculate that the Wujiang River represen... |
FBIS4-44553_1 | `Electric Power Corridor' for the Southwest | engineer in the Guangxi Hydropower Engineering Bureau, told reporters that construction of the southwest China energy resource base area will mainly be focused on cascade development of six large river basins in the region, the Jinsha Jiang, Yalong Jiang, Dadu He, Lancang Jiang, Wu Jiang, and Hongshui He, and that a cl... |
FBIS4-44554_0 | Decision Made To Install 700MW Units in Three Gorges Station | CSO [Article by reporter Zou Qingli [6760 3237 7787]: "Decision Made on Supply Arrangements for Three Gorges Hydropower Generators That Combine Solicitation of Bids From Foreign Countries With Domestic Cooperation"] [Text] I learned on 26 March 1994 from the State Council's Three Gorges Project Construction Commission ... |
FBIS4-44555_0 | Nine Big Stations To Be Built on Wu Jiang | CSO [Article by reporter Fang Fang [2075 2455]: "Guizhou Accelerating Development of Wu Jiang's Hydropower, Nine Large Hydropower Stations To Be Built on the Trunk of the Wu Jiang"] [Text] Construction and development of southwest China's Wu Jiang Hydropower Energy Resource Base Area will be further accelerated. The St... |
FBIS4-44564_0 | Nuclear Power Update Harbin Becomes Base for Nuclear Power Plant Turbines | CSO [Text] The China Nuclear Power Corporation and the Qinshan Nuclear Power Joint Operations Corporation recently signed an R&D contract with the Harbin Steam Turbine Plant for the two turbines for the second phase of the Qinshan nuclear power plant. This demonstrates that the Harbin Steam Turbine Plant has become Chi... |
FBIS4-44569_0 | Provinces To Build Nuclear Power Plants | BFN ["Special Feature" by reporter Lin Ying [2651 7751]] [Excerpts] Hong Kong, 18 May (ZHONGGUO TONGXUN SHE) -- Since Zhejiang's Qinshan nuclear power plant and Guangdong's Daya Bay nuclear power plant went into operation, the Beijing authorities have started preparations for more nuclear plants to be built across the ... |
FBIS4-44580_0 | More Reports on ``Information Highway'' Campaign GE Subsidiary Enters Competition | CSO [Article by Song Ning: ``GEIS Teams Up to Explore Data Networks''] [Text] General Electric Information Services (GEIS) entered [into] a partnership agreement yesterday with the Great Wall Computer Group, marking a major step by the US company in joining the Three Golden Projects, China's colossal information networ... |
FBIS4-44581_2 | More Reports on ``Information Highway'' Campaign Update on Chinapac | annual rate of 30 percent between 1996 and 2000. With the further upgrading and expansion of China's public telecommunications network, more and more data communications will become possible, such as videotex, E-mail, EDI [Electronic Data Interchange] and other services. Videotex integrates data transmission and data p... |
FBIS4-44584_0 | 540MW Hongjiadu Station in Guizhou Approved | CSO [Text] Guiyang -- The central government has approved the construction of the Hongjiadu Hydropower Station on the Wujiang River, a major tributary of the Yangtze River, in Southwest China's Guizhou Province. The station will have a generating capacity of 540,000 kW. Experts calculate that the Wujiang River represen... |
FBIS4-44585_1 | `Electric Power Corridor' for the Southwest | engineer in the Guangxi Hydropower Engineering Bureau, told reporters that construction of the southwest China energy resource base area will mainly be focused on cascade development of six large river basins in the region, the Jinsha Jiang, Yalong Jiang, Dadu He, Lancang Jiang, Wu Jiang, and Hongshui He, and that a cl... |
FBIS4-44586_0 | Decision Made To Install 700MW Units in Three Gorges Station | CSO [Article by reporter Zou Qingli [6760 3237 7787]: "Decision Made on Supply Arrangements for Three Gorges Hydropower Generators That Combine Solicitation of Bids From Foreign Countries With Domestic Cooperation"] [Text] I learned on 26 March 1994 from the State Council's Three Gorges Project Construction Commission ... |
FBIS4-44587_0 | Nine Big Stations To Be Built on Wu Jiang | CSO [Article by reporter Fang Fang [2075 2455]: "Guizhou Accelerating Development of Wu Jiang's Hydropower, Nine Large Hydropower Stations To Be Built on the Trunk of the Wu Jiang"] [Text] Construction and development of southwest China's Wu Jiang Hydropower Energy Resource Base Area will be further accelerated. The St... |
FBIS4-44596_0 | Nuclear Power Update Harbin Becomes Base for Nuclear Power Plant Turbines | CSO [Text] The China Nuclear Power Corporation and the Qinshan Nuclear Power Joint Operations Corporation recently signed an R&D contract with the Harbin Steam Turbine Plant for the two turbines for the second phase of the Qinshan nuclear power plant. This demonstrates that the Harbin Steam Turbine Plant has become Chi... |
FBIS4-44601_0 | Provinces To Build Nuclear Power Plants | BFN ["Special Feature" by reporter Lin Ying [2651 7751]] [Excerpts] Hong Kong, 18 May (ZHONGGUO TONGXUN SHE) -- Since Zhejiang's Qinshan nuclear power plant and Guangdong's Daya Bay nuclear power plant went into operation, the Beijing authorities have started preparations for more nuclear plants to be built across the ... |
FBIS4-44603_0 | Reports on Fiber Optic Sensors Vibration Testing, Analysis System | CSO [Article by Deng Xianchun [6772 6343 2504]: ``Large Fiber Optic Vibration Testing and Analysis System Unveiled in Chengdu''] [Summary] Chengdu (ZHONGGUO KEXUE BAO wire report) -- The YM1000 large-scale fiber optic dynamic vibration testing and analysis system--jointly developed by the University of Electronic Scien... |
FBIS4-44637_2 | France: Latest Ada 9X Norm's Chances To Challenge C++ | since Ada will now have more robust inheritance capabilities and polymorphisms of execution, two essential characteristics for valid support of the object archetype. Prototyping tests, which in particular enabled the DOD to launch the Ada Gnu product, revealed compaction gains by a factor of 5 with respect to the code ... |
FBIS4-44644_0 | Rafale Program Overview Advanced Technologies in Preparation | CSO [Article by Jean Dupont: "Rafale's Mission Equipment Begins to Take Shape"; first paragraph is AIR & COSMOS/AVIATION MAGAZINE INTERNATIONAL introduction] [Text] The No. 5 RBE2 and No. 1 SPECTRA countermeasures prototypes have just been delivered. The Front Sector Optronics will not fly until 1996. As of February, 1... |
FBIS4-44650_4 | France: Advanced Automatic Planetary Vehicle Research Program | is the system's mechanical fragility. If the "Mars landing" turns out to be too abrupt, the telemeter will be rendered inoperable, at least in the current state of technology. Hence the warp-free stereoscopy that is under research by the team under Olivier Faugeras, director of research at the Sophia-Antipolis INRIA. L... |
FBIS4-44651_5 | Declining Competitiveness in Semiconductors | and control and automation. When these devices, which control currents, voltages and frequencies in circuits, are monolithically integrated with signal processing capabilities, engineers speak of "smart power devices." The world market volume for power semiconductors is estimated to be about $6 billion, roughly one-ten... |
FBIS4-44702_0 | Germany: Genetic Engineering R&D Funds To Be Increased | BFN [Text] According to Federal Research Minister Paul Krueger (CDU) [Christian Democratic Union], speaking in Bonn on Tuesday, the federal government intends to increase the funding for genetic engineering research and to turn research results more rapidly into practice. Krueger said there are already signs that impor... |
FBIS4-44703_0 | Germany: Biological Remediation of Military Areas | BFN [Article by Nicola Siegmund-Schultze: "Microbes Eat Up Explosive Materials -- Scientists Test Methods of Biological Soil Remediation on Military Site"] [Text] "Zuendhuetle," meaning ignition cap, is the name of a residential area in Karlsruhe, and not without reason: Percussion caps, detonator caps and munitions fo... |
FBIS4-44704_0 | France: Human Genes Implanted in Animals | CSO [Unattributed article: "Mutant Rabbits in the Year 2000, the Future of Human Medicine"] [Text] Paris--Thanks to new animal-genetics techniques, researchers are about to manufacture mutant rabbits and pigs capable of producing molecules that will cure human diseases, or whose organs can be transplanted in man. The k... |
FBIS4-44721_1 | Germany: BASF Inaugurates Plastics Recycling Factory | benches, flowerpots, and noise insulation panels, yogurt pots, detergent bottles, and similar waste will be used as sources of raw materials. This week, the BASF chemicals group (on whose board Eckell sits) is bringing on stream a pilot plant in Ludwigshafen, where ground-down plastic waste will be liquefied at 400C th... |
FBIS4-44723_3 | Germany: Recycling Lead Batteries in Freiburg | and cast along with the grid metal; most of it is put back into battery production. Polypropylene, from which the battery cases are made, can be recovered with a purity of 99.5 percent. In the form of compounds, which correspond to new materials in quality, they go out to plastics processors and are reused, for example... |
FBIS4-44724_1 | Germany: Recycling, Waste Management | managers lies in one small, but very important detail. The chemistry professor insists on gentle, product-oriented, material-specific recycling, while the industrialists want chemical and raw-materials recycling. The difference is that the Kaeufer approach calls for the old plastics to be reformed directly into new pla... |
FBIS4-44726_1 | Germany-Saudi Arabia: Joint Research Project to Produce | CSO ["German-Saudi Arabian Research Project `Hysolar' Reports First Success"] [Text] Stuttgart--The German-Saudi Arabian research project "Hysolar" has reported its first success. For the first time ever, in the Arabian desert, 40 kilometers northwest of the Saudi capital Riyadh, hydrogen has been produced technically ... |
FBIS4-44730_3 | Elf Petroleum Creates Marine Pollution Research Center in | extract the hydrocarbons in drillings and oil sludge (introduced through the drag bit, they do not dissolve salts and thus prevent the formation of cavities in the rock). An extraction and cleanup process using supercritical CO2 is under study. The technique will enable oil companies to send drilling waste from which a... |
FBIS4-44739_2 | France: Snecma Automates, Integrates Design, | are to improve the traceability of the documents, reduce the cycles involved in the creating of production data, and avoid the problem of retrieval of documents. For the moment, it is yet too early to know if these objectives will be fully attained. The project is still in midstream. After having "polished up" the docu... |
FBIS4-44752_4 | Microsystem Technology Status, Prospects Assessed | corresponding products are not [as written] lacking which can be used in industrial and everyday life." The practical Hund sees Germany's biggest current problem here. "In every possible presentation and in the technical journals there is talk of insulin pumps, of miniature robots and of micromechanical drive systems,"... |
FBIS4-44781_21 | LUXEMBOURG PTT 1992 Management Report | available, time and time again, even before some interlocutors who vary dramatically on the topic of certain propositions in the cited book that could occasion serious economic consequences for the Enterprise. Moreover, a liberalization of intra-EC and international mail would bring with it a skimming of the mail excha... |
FBIS4-44789_0 | EU Task Forces Pave Way For Trans-European Information | Highway BR0704153094 Brussels EUROTECH FORUM JOURNAL in English Mar 94 pp 3-4--FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY BR0704153094 Brussels EUROTECH FORUM JOURNAL English BFN [Unattributed article: "White Paper Gives Technology Leading-Edge Role"] [Text] Commission President Jacques Delors' White Paper on Growth, Competitiveness, Emplo... |
FBIS4-44813_5 | UK: British Industry Works Toward Voluntary Environmental | moisture and water content of foods: no determination process with this level of precision and operating in real time has been available until now, as Grant said. For example, radiometric microwave analyses can be made without touching or destroying [the object of measurement] in the range between 100 to 200 ppm in the... |
FBIS4-44815_5 | Germany: Automation, Robotics Seen as Keys in Industrial | nitrite eliminated the need for coolant-lubricant fluids. Great emphasis on thin-film technology is put by the Plasma Technology Initiative NRW, also called Pla Tin for short, and the registered Thin Films sponsoring company in Dresden, along with its member enterprises on company-owned sites in Halle 6. The electrical... |
FBIS4-44830_2 | Italy: National Telecom Company Projects Described | than to relaunching. It is a story that deserves being told, in an Italy where the "little bosses" of the public sector seem to be the order of the day, and where only bankruptcy and crime make the news. It is a story about men, about a group of managers who are professionals and have known how to interpret the desire ... |
FBIS4-44837_0 | Germany: Fiber-Reinforced Heavy-Duty Ceramics Envisioned for | Materials Development 94WS0372B Frankfurt/Main FRANKFURTER ZEITUNG/BLICK DURCH DIE WIRTSCHAFT in German 26 May 94 p 8 94WS0372B Frankfurt/Main FRANKFURTER ZEITUNG/BLICK DURCH DIE WIRTSCHAFT German CSO [Unattributed article: "New Materials Offer Advantages to General Mechanical Engineering"] [Text] Frankfurt. Germany's ... |
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