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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 07:20:56 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      PNG: 3rd Party for Bougainville?
X-To:         seasia-l@msu.edu

/* Written 11:03 pm  Jul 28, 1992 by PACNEWS@f990.n900.z90.pegasus.oz.au in
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/* ---------- "PNG - BOUG - UN" ---------- */
PNG - BOUG - UN:  PACNEWS,  PACNEWS ED-1,  JULY 27 1992

The self-styled Bougainville interim government representative to the United
Nations Mike Forster says the Bougainville situation is one which requires
third party intervention.

Mr Foster says both the Papua New Guinea Defence Force and the Bougainville
Revolutionary Army can be disarmed and a democratic solution sought if the
United Nations is brought into the crisis.

He says the interim government has asked for a ceasefire but  fightingstill
continues with the use of Australian supplied  helicopters because Prime
Minister Wingti has still not "taken back control of the PNG  army which Mr
Namaliu had lost".

Mr Forster says despite Prime Minister Wingti's good intentions, it  may not be
easy for him to take full control of his security forces, and therefore it is
better to involve the UN now rather than later.

Meanwhile the Interim government's international representative  based in
Sydney, Moses Havini is now in Port Vila, Vanuatu to see if he can  beadmitted
to the extraordinary summit of the Melanesian Spearhead  Group as an observer.

The interim government has requested observer status at the summit  which will
discuss the Bougainville crisis among other regional political
developments....ends.

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From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad)
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Subject: Razif&Jailani won 15-12,15-6
Date: 31 Jul 92 12:07:44 GMT
Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore

They have just won against a European team. Can't remember names, one of
them called Lund. It was not so exciting and looks easy to the Malaysian pair.

I do not know what round it is now.

--
Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263.
Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg
Bitnet Email: eoahmad@ntuvax.bitnet
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:57:19 PDT
From:         "Human Rights Coordinator" <hrcoord@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Burma/Thailand: AIDS and prostitution

I know the story may sound suspicious but it isn't. The latest
newsletter from the Anti-Slavery Society mentions the topic and
also has a quote from the Evening Standard, a newspaper in the UK.
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 17:21:20 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      BU: AI Magazine on Burma
X-To:         seasia-l@msu.edu

Forwarded from the new Amnesty International SAY magazine
courtesy of hrcoord@igc.apc.org. -- John (apakabar@igc.apc.org)

And BTW,

SAY
AIUSA
1118-22nd St., NW
Washington, DC 20037

It sells for $15 a year for 6 issues.

John

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/* Written  3:16 pm  Jul 28, 1992 by hrcoord in cdp:ai.general */
/* ---------- "SAY Magazine" ---------- */
SAY
June 1992

BURMA/MYANMAR: Amnesty Calls for Release of Prisoners of Conscience

The ruling military State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC)
began to release some political prisoners on April 25, 1992. Prisoners
of conscience who have been freed include 84-year-old U Nu, the
last democratically elected Prime Minister of Burma, who had been
held under house arrest since December 1989 and Ma Theingi, an NLD
information officer, who had been imprisoned in Insein Prison since
July 1989.

There is no indication that Aung San Suu Kyi, who won the 1991 Nobel
Peace Prize, will be released from house arrest where she has been
detained without charge or trial since July 1989. She is now allowed
visits from her family, which she was denied for over two years.

In May 1990, the National League for Democracy (NLD) won the first
general elections in Burma/Myanmar for many years. However, the
military refused to give up power and retained control of the country.
Prior to the elections it had imprisoned many prominent members of
the NLD, including Aung San Suu Kyi, its leader.

Amnesty is still concerned about hundreds of other prisoners of
conscience who have not been released. More than 1,500 political
prisoners have been arrested since the coup d'etat in September 1988.
Amnesty also remains concerned about massive human rights violations
committed by the Myanmar security forces against members of ethnic
and religious minorities, particularly the deliberate killings
and ill-treatment of Muslims in southwestern Rakhine State.
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 14:44:56 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: VN PM Vo Van Kiet discussed economic cooperation with
              Thais
X-To:         FISHLM%SNYBUFVA@pucc.princeton.edu, scv@media.mit.edu,
              seasia-l@msu.BITNET, vietnam@cco.caltech.edu, vn-news@saigon.com

07/28

Vietnamese leader to discuss economic cooperation with Thais

 	BANGKOK, Thailand (UPI) -- Vietnam's Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet
 arrived Tuesday in Thailand for high-level talks expected to focus on
 ways of enhancing economic cooperation between the two former Cold War
 rivals.
 	Kiet flew in to Bangkok's airport and promptly departed again by
 plane for the eastern beach resort of Pattaya for a meeting with interim
 Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun.
 	The two leaders are holding their third official meeting since Kiet
 first visited Thailand in October. That trip was the first by a
 Vietnamese prime minister in 13 years and marked the start of a new era
 in relations between the Southeast Asian nations.
 	Thailand sent troops to fight with the U.S.-backed government in
 Saigon during the Vietnam War and provided bases from which U.S.
 warplanes bombed Vietnam.
 	After the war, Thailand quickly recognized the communist government,
 but fell out with Hanoi over the 1978 Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia.
 The withdrawal of Vietnamese troops from Cambodia in 1989 and the
 signing of a peace agreement last year have markedly improved ties
 between the two countries.
 	Anand visited Vietnam in January, the first such trip by a Thai prime
 minister since the communist victory in 1975.
 	Talks between the two leaders during Kiet's two-day visit are
 expected to focus on economic issues.
 	Thailand's fast-growing economy needs Vietnam's natural resources,
 cheap labor force and potentially large market, while Vietnam needs the
 capital, managerial expertise and technical know-how of the Thais as it
 attempts to liberalize its economy.
 	Business relations, however, have not always gone smoothly due to
 differences in the cultures and legal systems of the two countries.
 	Analysts said Bangkok is also concerned that other Southeast Asian
 nations, such as Malaysia and Singapore, have overtaken Thailand in
 forging closer economic links with Hanoi.
 	Disputes over fishing rights and differences over the development of
 the lower Mekong River basin have also clouded Thai-Vietnamese relations
 recently.
 	Hundreds of Thai fishermen are currently in Vietnamese jails charged
 with fishing illegally, while Thai authorities are holding 30 Vietnamese
 fishermen on piracy charges.
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 14:12:31 -0700
From:         tun@PHY.UCSF.EDU
Subject:      Burma/Thailand: AIDS and prostitution
X-To:         seasia-l@msu.edu

Article: 3029 of soc.culture.thai
From: ymey@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.thai
Subject: Re: AIDS/Prostitution in Thailand
Date: 26 Jul 92 23:45:10 EDT
Distribution: soc
Organization: Cornell University

Here's the whole news on the murdering of 25 Burmese women who were killed
after being deported from Thailand.
Reply-To:     Women's Studies List <WMST-L@UMDD.BITNET>
From:         Gabi Kreutzner <GKREUTZ@DS0LILOG.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Responses to women and mourning query
To:           "Jayati Lal" <KX8J@CORNELLA.BITNET>,
              Titiporn Siriphant <YMEY@CORNELLA.BITNET>

 TAZ, July 24th, 1992:
 Terre des Femmes reports that 25 HIV positive prostitutes
 have been executed through injections of potassium cyanide
 over the past months in Burma. Burmesian security forces
 are said to have tracked down the women after they had been
 freed from brothels in Thailand and were sent back to their
 villages in Burma says Terre des Femmes, pointing to press
 releases in Thailand and to reports by the ecumenical
 coalition on 3rd world sex tourism (Bangkok). According
 to the reports, most of the Burmese women had previously
 been abducted to brothels in Ranong, a city in Southern
 Thailand located on the border to Burma. There, the women
 had been forced to practice unprotected sexual intercourse
 without condoms.
 Terre des Femmes has meanwhile appealed to the German govern-
 ment to direct a note of protest to the Burmese government
 against the internment and murdering of HIV positive girls
 and women. Thailand was asked to retreat from its practice
 of deportation to Burma.

 I felt I had to share this shocking news with WMST-L.
 Gabriele Kreutzner, Stuttgart, Federal Republic of
 Germany
 GKREUTZ at DS0LILOG
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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 03:40:19 -0700
From:         RLYSLOFF@POMONA.CLAREMONT.EDU
Subject:      Re: Burmese prostitutes and AIDS
X-To:         SEASIA-L%MSU.BITNET@VM.USC.EDU

Does anyone out there know the address of the Francois-Xavier
Bagnoud Organization?  This is the organization that originally
reported the Burmese prostitutes in Thailand and related abuse
by Burmese authorities when they were repatriated.

Please write to me directly.  Thanks,

Rene T.A. Lysloff
RLYSLOFF@POMONA.CLAREMONT.EDU  or RLYSLOFF@POMONA.BITNET
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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 04:22:12 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      PNG: Ted Diro Hearings
X-To:         seasia-l@msu.edu

/* Written  9:03 am  Jul 31, 1992 by PACNEWS@f990.n900.z90.pegasus.oz.au in
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/* ---------- "PNG - DIRO - COURT" ---------- */
PNG - DIRO - COURT:  NBC/PNG,  PACNEWS ED-2,  JULY 29 1992

The Papua New Guinea National Court today started formal hearings  at the
Boroko District Court into criminal charges against former Deputy  Prime
Minister Ted Diro.

Mr Diro was charged in April this year for attempting to pervert the course of
justice after months of police investigations following  the1987 Barnett Forest
Inquiry which found him guilty on 72  corruption charges.

He first appeared in court last May but sought an adjournament on personal
grounds and to allow time for his lawyers to make  preparations.

Counsel for Mr Diro have named three witnesses one of whom is former Forest
Minister, Jack Genia and two senior police officers.

Charges against Mr Diro arose from a letter he wrote to the then  Forest
Minister, Jack Genia demanding that the Forest Inquiry be stopped in return for
political support. ...ends.

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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 17:10:12 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      IN: Info Needed - Chinese Muslims
X-To:         seasia-l@msu.edu
X-cc:         SEANET-L@nusvm.BITNET

Forwarded from islam-l (address below).  Please reply to original
poster, perhaps drop SEASIA-L a cc, if you're so inclined.  :-)
  -- John (apakabar@igc.apc.org)

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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 20:39:49 +0200
Reply-To: History of Islam <ISLAM-L@ULKYVM.BITNET>
From: Wang.Jianping@TEOL.LU.SE
Subject:      Chinese Muslims in Java
To: Multiple recipients of list ISLAM-L <ISLAM-L@ULKYVM.BITNET>

Hello, dear friends:

I ran into an article of Islam in Java, which
cited a piece of information from "Chinese Muslims
in Java in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries:
The Malay Annals of Semarang and Cerbon", edited
by M. C. Ricklefs. It says "the first Chinese
Muslim settlements (in Java) as Hanafi in legal
orientation and Yunnanese in origin". Since my
project is about Muslim communities in Yunnan,
China, could I ask the Indonesian scholars who
participate the discussion of Islam history on
this network for their help on the more detail
information of the Annals' reference to the
Yunnanese Muslims in Java? Any comments on the
Indonesian sources are  sincerely welcome!

Regards,

Wang Jianping
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Date:         Sat, 25 Jul 1992 12:03:34 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      FIJI: Rabuka's 'Devotion'
X-To:         seasia-l@msu.edu

/* Written 11:02 pm  Jul 25, 1992 by PACNEWS@f990.n900.z90.pegasus.oz.au in
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/* ---------- "FIJI - RABUKA" ---------- */
FIJI - RABUKA,   FM-96  ; PACNEWS ED-2,    JULY 24,1992

Fiji's Prime Minister Major General Sitiveni Rabuka has vowed to  devote the
rest of his service to helping those who feel they have been  wronged by his
military coups of 1987.

In his maiden speech in parliament today, General Rabuka said he is  now
devoted to the emotional, cultural and physical rehabilitation of disgruntled
citizens.

Earlier in his speech, General Rabuka was moved to tears when  delivering an
eulogy to Fiji's previous elected Prime Minister Dr Timoci  Bavadra.

General Rabuka also said he really believed people had been too  critical of
the constitution and delivered a lengthy outline of racial  tension in western
nations.

But he assured the House that the machinery for constitutional  reviewwould be
ready by September and the Great Council of Chiefs  which had been instrumental
in the creation of the constitution would be fully consulted on all aspects of
the review.

General Rabuka also promised a review of the Sunday ban legislation  and has
advocated one possible change to the constitution... that Fiji  begoverned by
the principles lived by Christ.

The leader of the opposition Jai Ram Reddy also spoke today  advocating obvious
changes to the constitution, adherence to a recent document  in relation to the
public service and condemning, like many MP's Nationalist leader Sakeasi
Butadroka's call for the expulsion of Indians....ends

--- FD 1.99c
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 04:03:07 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      TH: Telecoms at Chula
X-To:         seasia-l@msu.edu

/* Written  9:55 pm  Jul 26, 1992 by ssg9328@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu in
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/* ---------- "E-mail Network at Chula" ---------- */
A friend from Chula wrote me the following message. Though he might
have intended to privately inform me, his message has some information
about the e-mail network someone had asked in the s.c.t some time ago.
I hope this friend of mine would be mind if I quoted the part that
concerns this particular issue.


'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''

....I forgot to tell you last time that the email access that I'm
using is an experimental project going on at the main library here
in Chula. If this project gets through, we will also have
ftp (file transfer), news and BBS. Right now the connection is a
lease telephone line directly connected to somewhere at virginia.
The cost is high since we use lease line (due to the reliability
problem). The system load is light, hope that it will get heavier
in the future when it is put to work, so that the admin. will
realize the importance of having this world-wide information access....

'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 06:56:32 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      IN: The Great Greenwash
X-To:         seasia-l@msu.edu

/* Written 11:13 am  Jul 23, 1992 by gn:fmartone in cdp:rainfor.timber */
/* ---------- "Bob Hasan's greenwashing" ---------- */


    Timber King Denies Rape Reuter, Bogor, Jonathan Thatcher, July
20 Indonesia's timber king,  Bob Hasan, on Monday denied his
country was raping one of the world's last great rain forests,
saying the accusation came only after the government banned log
exports.
    "In the 1960s we were selling our unprocessed logs for $10 a
cubic metre and nobody said we were destroying our forest," Hasan
told reporters at a conservation conference in Bogor, near the
capital Jakarta.
    In the mid-1980s, Indonesia banned exports of unprocessed
timber and rattan, setting up its own manufacturing industry to
boost income and jobs.
    "Now we're selling at $300 and higher everybody is saying we
are raping the forest," said Hasan, who is known to be close to
President Suharto and heads most of the Indonesian associations
related to the timber and rattan industries.
    Of its 143 million hectares (353 million acres) of tropical
forest, the largest after Brazil, Indonesia has set aside 49
million hectares (121 million acres) to be preserved.
    Another 64 million hectares (158 million acres) are for
selective logging, a policy Hasan said had ensured much of the
forest was left intact. He denied charges that areas such as
Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo, were being denuded.
    Hasan has frequently been the butt of charges that Indonesia
is allowing its forests to be destroyed too quickly, a point he
noted in his speech to the conference.
    "I don't need to introduce myself because I am very famous,"
he said. "As you know, newspapers like to say I am damaging and
raping the forest."
    Hasan also questioned World Bank estimates that Indonesia was
cutting down trees at a rate of nearly one million hectares (2.5
million acres) a year, but added he would have no estimate of his
own until current studies were completed.
    The World Bank, in a still-quoted report written some three
years ago, said loggers were less to blame for the destruction of
forests than farming communities opening up new land.
    Hasan pointed to Indonesia's replanting of three billion
trees as an example of careful management of a resource essential
to reduce poverty and create jobs. Up to 15 million Indonesians
owe their livelihood to the timber industry.
    Hasan said he had urged loggers operating in protected
forests to return their concessions to the government and
expected them to do so within the next two to three weeks.
[Entered Greenbase July 22, 1992 ]
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Date:         Sat, 25 Jul 1992 12:00:17 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      NZ/TONGA: Discrimination?
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/* ---------- "TONGA VISAS" ---------- */
TONGA VISAS,  PACNEWS/RNZ NEWS;  PACNEWS ED-1,  JULY 24,1992

The family of a Tongan woman killed in a car crash while visiting New Zealand
last Friday have put off her funeral till Monday in the hope that four of her
children will be able travel to Auckland to be present.

Earlier the children were denied entry visas by the senior immigration officer
at the New Zealand High Commission in Nuku'alofa.

The denial sparked off anger in the kingdom and among the Tongan community in
New Zealand and led to a protest this morning by Tongan MP's in Nuku'alofa.

As well, there were heated exchanges in the New Zealand parliament last night
with opposition MP's deploring the denial of the visas.

Opposition Leader Mike Moore and shadow Attorney General David Lange said the
Tongan community would always take good care of the  children.

Immigration Minister Bill Birch agreed that the applications would  bereviewed
if certain conditions regarding the care and return of  thechildren were met.

The immigration officer in Nuku'alofa David Curtis told Pacnews this afternoon
that he was still waiting for sponsorship for the care and return of the
chidren and a report on the medical condition of their father who was also
injured in the Auckland car crash.

He said he would review his decision once he received the  information.

Meanwhile, South Auckland undertaker Fusi Ligaliga has offered to pay for the
children's air tickets to enable them to attend their mother's funeral.

Mr Ligaliga said although he was a Samoan he could understand the anguish of
the children at being denied the chance to be present.

The family of the dead woman have now put off the funeral from  tomorrow till
Monday in the hope that the children will get visas in time to travel to
Auckland....ends

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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:04:38 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      PNG: Opposition Defections
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/* ---------- "PNG - DEFECTIONS" ---------- */
PNG - DEFECTIONS:  RA,  PACNEWS ED-1,  JULY 20 1992

A number of defections from Opposition ranks have given Papua New Guinea's new
Prime Minister Paias Wingti a comfortable majority in parliament.

Mr Wingti says since his election as prime minister on Friday on the casting of
vote of the speaker, six opposition members have joined the government.

He says he will now have a workable majority of 60 members to the Opposition's
48 which will allow his government to pass all  legislation in parliament.

Mr Wingti says the defections mean that there will be no  instability in his
government and his plans to revitalise Papua New Guinea won't be frustrated by
the Opposition.

He also says he is confident that his government will be able to  remain in
office for the full five year term of the parliament without  beingworried by
Opposition attempts to move votes of no confidence  against him.

Mr Wingti says the defections should assure investors in Papua New Guinea that
his term as prime minister will be very stable. ...ends.

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