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Date:         Wed, 9 Sep 1992 17:43:43 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: British minister in VN for boat people

09/09

British minister in Vietnam for boat people

    HANOI, Sept 9, Reuter - Britain's minister for Hong Kong arrived in Hanoi on
Wednesday to visit British-funded projects to help reintegrate Vietnamese boat
people sent back from the colony.
    A British embassy spokesman said Alastair Goodlad would review progress on
the return of boat people in talks with Vietnamese Deputy Foreign Minister
Nguyen Dy Nien and Minister of Labour, Social Welfare and War-Invalids, Tran
Dinh Hoan.
    Hong Kong's boat people population has fallen to about 51,000 from 64,000
last year, when the British colony resumed forced repatriation flights for
Vietnamese who refuse to go home but fail to qualify as genuine refugees.
    Under agreements between London and Hanoi, more than 1,000 Vietnamese have
been returning voluntarily each month from Hong Kong.
    Goodlad will also meet Vice Premier Tran Duc Luong as well as officials
responsible for trade and tourism to discuss broadening economic and political
ties.
    His four-man delegation will visit Quang Ninh and Ho Chi Minh City before
leaving Vietnam on September 13.
    The embassy spokesman said Hong Kong's Secretary for Security Alistair
Asprey would visit Vietnam from September 12 to 20. The two sides are expected
to discuss the Chinese interception of Vietnam-bound ships from Hong Kong.
    Earlier this month, Hong Kong mustered British navy ships to protect the
colony's waters from incursions by Chinese security forces after raids on two
Vietnam-bound ships.
    Shipping agents say Chinese officials have raided at least 14 ships carrying
goods to Vietnam in the past few weeks, and confiscated cargoes and registration
papers.
    Industry sources say the raids could be an official crackdown on the
smuggling of luxury goods into China through Vietnam's northeastern port of Hon
Gai in Quang Ninh Province.
    During his visit, Asprey will also meet Nien and Hoan and Vietnam's interior
ministry to talk about the boat people issue, the spokesman said.
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 18:09:36 -0400
From:         Gires Usup <usup@BU-BIO.BU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Stamford College in SEA

I always thought Stamford College was affiliated with universities in
Australia and the U.K.  I am not aware of ties with colleges in the US.
It has quite godd good reputations in accountancy, secretarial
courses and the like, and also pre-law I think.
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Date:         Sun, 13 Sep 1992 19:31:53 EDT
From:         "John A. MacDougall" <apakabar@ACCESS.DIGEX.COM>
Subject:      BOUGAINVILLE: Drama

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From apakabar@igc.apc.org Sun Sep 13 11:29:43 1992
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 08:31:23 PDT
From: Indonesia Publications/Task Force <apakabar@igc.apc.org>
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To: apakabar@access.digex.com
Subject: NEWS FLASH - BOUGAINVILLE RAID

/* Written 11:06 pm  Sep 13, 1992 by Brian.Brunton@f204.n900.z90.pegasus.oz.au
 in cdp:reg.newguinea */
/* ---------- "NEWS FLASH - BOUGAINVILLE RAID" ---------- */
This report is sourced with the Solomon Islands News
Service. The allegation is extremely serious. If it is true
it shows that the Papua New Guinea Defence Force is
completely out of control, or some very senior members of
the Wingti cabinet are implicated. Either way the minister
for Defence should resign, and the Defence Force Commander
should be sacked. Legal proceedings should be taken against
the soldiers concerned. There can be no justification in
international law ( either the Law of Peace, or the Law of
War ) for killing civilians in this way. If it was war,
which it is not, then the Geneva Convention would be
violated. Certainly the allegations would support murder
charges in the Solomon Islands.

These alleged killings raise the issue of what is the role
of the Australian Government in all this. We know that
Australia has a Signals listening post
on Cape York, which monitors signals traffic from
Bougainville.  But what constructive role is Australia
taking to settle the Bougainville conflict in a meaningful
way ? It seems to be locked in with the PNGDF, training them
and by its silence, supporting them . There always have been
major problems with this policy. Not the least is the 40,000
refuguees in "care centres" ( concentration camps ) on
Bougainville, which even Tohian , the Minister for Defence
admits cannot be fed ).

There can only be one solution to Bougainville : stop the
fighting, withdraw the troops, insert an international peace
force, negotiate the peace.

--- FD 1.99c
 * Origin: B.Brunton (90:900/204)
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Date:         Tue, 8 Sep 1992 10:11:09 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: Taiwan restores air links with VN

09/06

TAIWAN RESTORES AIR LINKS WITH VIETNAM

    TAIPEI, Sept 6, Reuter - Taiwan restored air links with Vietnam on Sunday as
a Boeing 747 operated by Taiwanese flag carrier China Airlines flew to Ho Chi
Minh City, the airline said.
    Taiwan's EVA Airways will also begin services to Vietnam later this month
and two Vietnamese airlines, flag carrier Vietnam Airlines and Pacific Airlines,
are expected to fly the route, officials said earlier.
    Air links were briefly resumed last year for the first time since the end of
the Vietnam War in 1975, but were suspended again after only two days at Hanoi's
request.
    Taiwanese media said pressure from China, which views Taiwan as a renegade
province, forced the suspension. Hanoi does not have diplomatic relations with
Taipei, recognising Beijing instead.
    Flag carriers flying between Taiwan and Vietnam cannot use their own planes
and must lease them from other companies because of the lack of diplomatic ties.
    Taipei and Hanoi were bitter enemies until the late 1980s but Taiwan is now
the largest foreign investor in Vietnam, pouring in more than US$750 million.
    In July, Taiwan said it had agreed to exchange trade offices with Vietnam
and that the two sides would sign an investment guarantee pact.
    Taipei has also said it will give Vietnam low-interest loans worth $40
million to $45 million.
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Date:         Tue, 8 Sep 1992 10:01:41 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      CAM: Khmer Rouge no longer demand UN verify Vietnamese troops

09/07

Cambodia-Khmer Rouge

Copyright, 1992. The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

   PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- The Khmer Rouge guerrilla group said Monday that
it would no longer demand U.N. verification that all Vietnamese troops have left
the country.
   The rebel group had previously included the demand among its conditions for
cooperating with the Cambodian peace process.
   But the group still insists on having a greater role in the country's
administration, a demand the Vietnamese-installed government has rejected
because it is not provided for in the October peace accord.
   Khmer Rouge official Tep Khunnal said his group would cooperate if committees
were established to advise Cambodia's Supreme National Council and U.N.
peacekeepers on administrative matters and to supervise the government's
administration and police force.
   Under the peace accord signed by the Khmer Rouge, the Vietnamese-installed
government is to administer the country in the period before elections to be
held by the middle of next year. The U.N. peacekeepers are to supervise the
government with advice from the mostly symbolic Supreme National Council.
   Strengthening the national council would mean giving more power to the Khmer
Rouge because the group is one of the four factions represented in it.
   At a news conference, Tep Khunnal said the condition concerning Vietnamese
troops was dropped because Cambodians would turn in Vietnamese troops once the
national council was strengthened and a neutral political environment created.
He maintained that Vietnamese troops have been disguised as civilians.
   He said two Vietnamese officers in civilian garb are living in Kompong Cham,
45 miles northeast of Phnom Penh, and that several more are living in Phnom
Penh. He declined to provide further details.
   The Khmer Rouge and two smaller guerrilla factions fought the government for
nearly 13 years before the peace accord was reached. But the Khmer Rouge has
refused to disarm or abide by other provisions of the accord.
   The Khmer Rouge massacred hundreds of thousands of people during its brutal
Communist rule from 1975 to 1979. Vietnam, which ousted the group from power in
a late 1978 invasion, says it withdrew its last troops in 1989. U.N. officers
say they have no evidence that any remain in Cambodia.
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Date:         Wed, 9 Sep 1992 15:36:47 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: VN seeks nuclear technology from India

09/09

Vietnam seeks nuclear technology from India

	NEW DELHI, India (UPI) -- A visiting Vietnamese delegation headed by
Communist Party General-Secretary Do Muoi is seeking Indian nuclear
technology, officials said Wednesday.
	Meanwhile, Muoi, holding a second round of talks with Indian Prime
Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao, supported India's claim for a permanent
seat on the United Nations Security Council.
	``India, as a leader of the non-aligned movement, can play a vital
role in the Security Council,'' Muoi told reporters.
	Indian officials said New Delhi was willing to consider peaceful
nuclear cooperation with Vietnam.
	They declined to disclose the nuclear technology Vietnam was seeking
but said any joint atomic project the two countries would undertake
would be open to international inspections to ensure it was for peaceful
purposes.
	India and Vietnam have had close ties and share some common security
concerns, particularly over Chinese nuclear might.
	China, which invaded India in 1962 and Vietnam in 1979, is central to
the security planning of both countries. Vietnam currently is locked in
a territorial dispute with China over islands in the South China Sea.
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Date:         Tue, 8 Sep 1992 10:07:00 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: Canadian trade minister to visit VN

09/04

CANADIAN TRADE MINISTER TO VISIT VIETNAM

    HANOI, Sept 4, Reuter - Canada's trade minister will lead a wide-ranging
business delegation to Vietnam on Sunday, a sign of growing interest in one of
Asia's last unexplored economic frontiers, Ottawa's office in Hanoi said on
Friday.
    Michael Wilson will be accompanied by firms involved in oil and gas
exploration and production, engineering, transportation, telecommunications,
banking and power.
    "Canadian companies have also shown significant interest in Vietnam's
initiatives to reform its economy and promote development," he said in a
statement.
    "Canada has much to offer Vietnam in the areas of telecommunications,
transportation systems and infrastructure development. Our priority is to
support and encourage this interest."
    Trade between Canada and Vietnam rose to Canadian $30 million (US$25
million) in 1991 from Canadian $23 million ($19 million) in 1990. Canadian
investment in Vietnam reached over $115 million dollars ($96 million) last year.
    Some of the 170,000 Vietnamese who have settled in Canada since the Vietnam
War ended in 1975 have recently returned in search of business deals.
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Date:         Tue, 8 Sep 1992 10:22:46 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: VN seeks oil where China signed US deal

09/04

VIETNAM SEEKS OIL WHERE CHINA SIGNED U.S. DEAL

    HANOI, Sept 4, Reuter - Vietnam is trying to persuade foreign companies to
explore for oil off its southeastern coast in an area overlapping a
controversial Chinese oil drilling concession, industry sources said.
    Two officials of state-run Petrovietnam went recently to the United States,
Japan and Britain to promote a seismic survey being done on the area, said
Vietnamese and western oil executives who asked not to be identified.
    In meetings with petroleum firm representatives, the two reasserted
Vietnam's claim to that part of the South China Sea.
    A Petrovietnam official said the company signed a contract with Nopec A.S, a
Norwegian exploration consultant, this summer to do seismic surveys off Vietnam
in exploration blocs that Hanoi had not yet awarded to foreign companies.
    Companies from Britain, Canada, France, India, Malaysia and elsewhere are
already exploring for oil off Vietnam.
    The Petrovietnam official said recently that part of the survey area covered
an oil exploration concession that china signed in may with <Crestone Energy
Development Corp> of Denver.
    Hanoi protested to China, saying the exploration area lay on Vietnam's
continental shelf.
    The Crestone concession covers an area between Vietnam's southeastern coast
and the disputed Spratly islands, which are claimed by Vietnam, China, the
Philippines, Malaysia and Taiwan.
    The Petrovietnam official said Crestone recently sent letters of protest to
Petrovietnam and Nopec over the seismic survey agreement.
    A western oil executive said Petrovietnam was already negotiating with Nopec
earlier this year to do the seismic survey and was caught off guard when China
struck an agreement with Crestone covering the same area.
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Date:         Tue, 8 Sep 1992 10:23:17 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: US envoy urges peaceful end to Spratlys issue

09/04

U.S. ENVOY URGES PEACEFUL END TO SPRATLYS ISSUE

    MANILA, Sept 4, Reuter - The new U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines, Richard
Solomon, spoke out on Friday against the use of aggression to control the
disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.
    "It is very clear that the United States strongly believes that the
conflicting claims over the Spratlys should be resolved peacefully," Solomon
told reporters after presenting his credentials to President Fidel Ramos at the
presidential palace.
    "We stand behind our defence commitment to the Philippines and we don't
believe anybody should encourage a solution by muscle or force," he declared.
    The Spratlys are claimed wholly or in part by China, Taiwan, Vietnam,
Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines.
    Officials have warned that the Spratlys -- atolls believed to be rich in gas
and oil -- may become the next flashpoint in the region.
    Solomon, who arrived in Manila on Tuesday night, did not say what role the
United States would be willing to play in resolving the dispute.
    The former assistant secretary of state said he and Ramos discussed for 90
minutes a broad range of international and bilateral issues, including the U.S.
withdrawal from the Subic Naval Base by the end of December.
    "Our focus at the moment is on an orderly and dignified phasing down of
Subic Base," Solomon said.
    He and Ramos talked about efforts "to turn this valuable asset into an
economic area of benefit to the people. That is something that we will do our
best to support."
    The government plans to transform the sprawling Subic base into a commercial
port and industrial centre and has invited foreign investors to take part in the
venture.
    The withdrawal by U.S. troops from Subic follows rejection by the Philippine
Senate almost a year ago of a new bases treaty with Washington.
    The U.S. government pulled out of its Clark Air Base last year after it was
badly damaged by huge amounts of sand and ash spewed out of the nearby Mount
Pinatubo volcano.
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Date:         Sat, 5 Sep 1992 08:52:38 EDT
From:         "John A. MacDougall" <apakabar@ACCESS.DIGEX.COM>
Subject:      BOUGAINVILLE: PNG Invasion Plan?

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From apakabar@igc.apc.org Sat Sep  5 08:05:30 1992
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 92 05:07:24 PDT
From: Indonesia Publications/Task Force <apakabar@igc.apc.org>
Message-Id: <9209051207.AA19558@igc.apc.org>
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Subject: BOUG - ONA

/* Written  4:16 pm  Sep  5, 1992 by PACNEWS@f990.n900.z90.pegasus.oz.au in
 cdp:reg.bougainvil */
/* ---------- "BOUG - ONA" ---------- */
BOUG - ONA       PACNEWS         PACNEWS ED-1       SEPT 01, 1992

The Bougaiville successionist leader and commander of the BRA,  Francis Ona
says Papua New Guinea has moved forward its plan for the  invasion of Central
Bougainville.

In a broadcast over Radio Free Bougainville, Mr Ona said the  originalinvasion
plan had to be put forward because of the United  Nations resolution against
its conduct on Bougainville.

The BRA disclosed the alleged invasion plan at the weekend, saying  its
intelligence network had uncovered it.

Mr Ona said instead of a political solution, Papua New Guinea is  using its
military to crush the people before the United Nations Special Rapporteur on
Treaties can visit PNG to facilitate peace  negotiations.

He's called on the BRA and people of Bougainville to prepare to  defend
themselves and their land and property against the the PNG soldiers.

The secessionist leader also appealed to the United Nations, human rights
organisations and people of goodwill around the world to  condemn the alleged
invasion plan by the PNG defence forces.

Other secessionist leaders say the invasion plan must not be taken lightly in
view of PNG's track record of human rights violations on Bougainville.

They say the visit to PNG by Australila's Foreign Minister Senator Gareth
Evans, and the cancellation by Port Moresby of the border surveillance talks
scheduled for this week in Honiara, could have  some bearing on the planned
invasion. ....ends.

--- FD 1.99c
 * Origin: Pactok Project (90:900/990)
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Date:         Wed, 9 Sep 1992 10:49:12 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      CAM: Sihanouk defends UNTAC chief

09/08

SIHANOUK DEFENDS UNTAC CHIEF

    BANGKOK, Sept 8, Reuter - Cambodian leader Prince Norodom Sihanouk on
Tuesday rallied to the defence of the head of the U.N. peace-keeping mission,
who has been under fire from the Khmer Rouge guerrilla faction.
    "In my view Mr. Akashi is doing a good job but the Khmer Rouge are not
satisfied," Sihanouk told reporters at Bangkok airport on his arrival from the
Non-aligned Summit in Jakarta.
    Khmer Rouge radio last week broadcast demands for the resignation of Yasushi
Akashi, the Japanese head of the U.N. Transitional Authority in Cambodia
(UNTAC).
    It accused him of being biased towards the Phnom Penh government and its
Vietnamese allies. The Khmer Rouge were ousted from power by Vietnam in 1979
after a four-year reign of terror that cost a million lives.
    The Khmer Rouge statement was attributed to a previously unknown group of
Cambodian exiles said to be based in Canada, but it reflected earlier attacks on
Akashi by the radical guerrilla group.
    Akashi has criticised the group for its refusal to honour the peace accord
it signed along with the three other Cambodian factions in Paris last October.
    Sihanouk, the former king and guerrilla leader now acknowledged by all as
neutral head of state, said the Khmer Rouge interpreted the accord differently
from UNTAC.
    He was satisfied with the peace-keepers' performance, he said.
    The Thai foreign minister, who was at the airport to greet Sihanouk, also
criticised the Khmer Rouge.
    "It is not appropriate for any Khmer faction to demand the resignation of
the UNTAC chief, who has been appointed by the U.N. secretary general. It is not
the Khmer duty to call for the ouster of any U.N. official," Arsa Sarasin said.
    The Khmer Rouge, alone of the four factions, have refused to lay down their
arms.
    But Sihanouk said they seemed to be honouring a ceasefire as they had not
launched any serious attacks for two months.
    "So I prefer to let them live their own lives...but in the limit of their
zone," he said.
    He repeated his suggestion that the Khmer Rouge should be excluded from
elections planned for next  May if they failed to get back on board the peace
process.
    The rest of the country -- 90 per cent of the population -- could benefit
from the international rehabilitation and reconstruction effort, Sihanouk said.
    Sihanouk is to hold discussions with Thai leaders on Tuesday evening and
will visit the Khmer Rouge stronghold of Pailin near the Thai border on
Saturday.
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Date:         Tue, 8 Sep 1992 20:27:44 EDT
From:         "David Wyatt" <RF4J@CORNELLA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: TH: Bangkok telecomm project (fwd)
              8 Sep 1992 08:36:18 EDT from <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>

THAILAND ELECTIONS ON SEPTEMBER 13TH
.
Crucial national elections will be held in Thailand on Sunday, 13
September, surely determining the immediate fate of democratic
institutions in Thailand. I am sure I am not alone among the avid
readers of this LIST in hoping that timely election news will appear
here.
.
Knowledgeable observers expect that the elections will return mostly the
same old gang of politicians, and there will be little change. I am
inclined to give Thai voters more credit for intelligence and good
sense, and I expect that the Phalang Dhamma and Prachathipat parties
will do rather better than expected--and not just in Bangkok.
.
And is there any further news about the missing 450 bodies?
.
I will anxiously wait to see what appears here.
.
David Wyatt