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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 11:03:19 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      LAOS: Thai police generals suspected in $2 mil Laotian bank
              robbery
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09/02

THAI POLICE GENERALS SUSPECTED IN $2 MILLION LAOTIAN BANK ROBBERY

BANGKOK (SEPT. 2) DPA - Three high-ranking Thai police officers are being
investigated for involvement in the cross-border bank robbery of 2 million
dollars of United Nations development funds in Laos in July, police sources
said Wednesday.

One suspect, Police Major General Sayant Sangsayant, commander of Thailand's
northeast region, held a press conference Tuesday to deny involvement in the
heist, press reports said. Another unidentified police general and a colonel
have also been implicated in the case.

A joint Thai-Lao investigation into the cross-border bank robbery has already
led to the arrests of four Lao suspects and six Thais, including five Thai
policemen.

Thai Police Captain Pallop Polyiam, who was arrested last month, has identified
his superiors as the masterminds behind the robbery. Altogether 1.38 million
dollars of the stolen money has been tracked down in northeast Thailand and
returned to Laos.

The robbery took place in Vientiane, capital of Laos, on July 28 when employees
of the Lao foreign trade bank went to collect a delivery of 2 million dollars
in U.N. development funds at Wattay airport.

Instead of returning to town the bank officials hijacked the delivery van, sped
to the Mekong River and fled into northeast Thailand.

''This is the first large bank robbery in Lao history,'' said Chaisompheng
Suriyawong, police director general of Vientiane.

Laos, a communist country, has only recently opened its economy to western aid
and investment.
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 11:03:47 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      CAM: Boutros-Ghali confident of Cambodia elections
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09/02

BOUTROS-GHALI CONFIDENT OF CAMBODIA ELECTIONS

    JAKARTA, Sept 2, Reuter - The United Nations secretary-general said on
Wednesday he was confident Cambodia would be able to hold elections next year as
planned.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali told reporters he had met Cambodian head of state
Prince Norodom Sihanouk during the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Jakarta this
week.
    "I can say the talk was positive and constructive and there is a political
will among the different factions to reinforce the Paris agreements and to
cooperate with the United Nations," he said.
    The country's four warring factions formed a shaky alliance under a peace
agreement forged in meetings chaired by France and Indonesia in Paris last
October. U.N. troops and civilian officials are due to oversee elections planned
for next May.
    The Khmer Rouge, which put Cambodia through a reign of terror in the 1970s
that killed a million people, has refused to accept the crucial disarmament
phase of the U.N. peace plan, saying Vietnam is still militarily active there.
    The Khmer Rouge was ousted by Vietnamese troops in 1979.
    "After the talks I have had in Jakarta I am more optimistic and I believe
that we will be able to carry on the peace proces and we will be able to have
the elections in Cambodia we agreed next year," Boutros-Ghali said. He gave no
details.
    Sihanouk's son, Prince Norodom Ranariddh, told Reuters in Jakarta he wanted
the Indonesian and French governments to resume a more prominent role in the
peace process, saying quiet diplomacy was not effective.
    A senior U.N. official close to the peace talks, who declined to be named,
said he supported Ranariddh's proposal.
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 06:55:31 EDT
From:         Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Subject:      TH: Police protect academics/media
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Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 23:32:09+0700
From: kamol@munnari.oz.au (Kamol Hengkietisak)

     DEPUTY Prime Minister Pow Sarasin said yesterday that police
protection for 17 prominent academics and radio and television
presenters is a measure to prevent untoward incidents during the
run-up to the September 13 general election.
     Gen Pow said the 17 are not being provided protection because
they are somebody's enemy, "but prevention is better because there
is no cure."
     Pol Gen Pow, who is also interior minister, denied
speculation that there would be bomb attacks in Bangkok.
     Asked about progress of the investigation into the recent
bombings in Hat Yai and Narathiwat, he said some clues have been
unearthed but the information obtained so far is insufficient to
pinpoint the culprits.
     He said some incidents taking place these days such as
murders might not be related to the forthcoming election at all.
     Gen Pow said it might just be a coincidence that such things
had happened at this particular point in time.
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 09:39:18 PDT
From:         Coban Tun <tun@QUARK.SFSU.EDU>
Subject:      ASEAN: flesh trade
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Article: 11230 of soc.culture.asean
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Wednesday, 2 Sep 1992 17:52:18 MST
From: Chee Ng <ASCKN@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.asean
Subject:    Schoolgirls in flesh trade

New Straits Times, August 13, 1992, reported the following:

Title:  Some schoolgirls involved in flesh trade, says Farid

   There are schoolgirls who have turned part-time prostitutes and
exposed themselves to the risk of contracting AIDS, Deputy Health
Minister Datuk Mohamed Farid Ariffin told Dewan Negara.
   He said there were two other categories of prostitutes -- full-time
call-girls and others engaged in the illicit activity because of
boredom.
   "It is difficult to wipe out the oldest profession in the world as long
as there is demand for their services."
   He said parents had an important role in educating their children to
prevent them from being involved in vice and dadah activities.
   "The bottom line why these people take dadah or are involved in vice
is because they lack love, care and knowledge," he said in reply to a
parliamentary question by Senator Johan B.O.T. Ghani.
   Johan Ghani asked whether the ministry planned to counter the threat
posed by prostitutes because they could spread AIDS.
   Farid said the ministry had no plans to register prostitutes but it
would advise them to refrain from activities that could expose them to
the risks of contracting the AIDS virus.
   He said the ministry did not force anyone to undergo medical
examination but encouraged suspected carriers to seek medical assistance
voluntarily.
   He said that as long as men patronised prostitutes, this vice could
not be eradicated.
   The Ministry had so far detected 60 prostitutes who are infected with
the AIDS virus, he added.
   Replying to another question by Senator Abdul Majid Abdullah, Farid
said the Islamic authorities would issue a fatwa on the use of condom
by Muslims soon.
   He said that generally, it was accepted that condom could be used to
prevent the spread of diseases.
   Replying to a supplementary question by Senator Law Jack Yoon, he said
condoms had 99 percent reliability rate in preventing the spread of
veneral diseases, including AIDS, if used properly.

^^^^^^^^^^^^  End of reproduction from the NST, Malaysia.  ^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 1992 16:32:00 +8
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Subject:      Re: NEWS/VN: China may be behind shipping raids on VN ships

There has been a lot in the local press recently about the ships that have been
impounded by chinese authorities working from shekou, zhuhai, etc. there is also
the danger that public security organs along the south chinese coast towards hai
   nan island will take up the same tick.
the view here is that it is no more than corrupt officials trying to cash in
on the lucrative trade. one ship, east wood, is still under arrest
in shekou harbour, on the opposite side of deep bay, i.e.
only a few miles from hong kong and reportedly its cargo has been seized -
the cargo is cars, air conditioners, etc. another ship bound for vietnam
whose seizure was documented earlier had its crew arrested and the burmese
captain had to sign a statement (of smuggling?) under threat of
a 10 year jail sentence.
ships bound for vietnam have now ceased sailing until the matter is
resolved and the 3 royal navy ships stationed in hong kong,
as opposed to the tens of marine police vessels, are reported to be patrolling t
   he area, though whether they would provide more than psychological
protection is unsure.
at present, 20 vessels are stranded in the harbour, waiting to proceed to
vietnam, along with their vietnamese crews, who are understandably
unwilling to sail.

more as it appears - the above from the south china morning post, as i recall
it and hence abridged.
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 17:45:23 -0700
From:         DWONG@POMONA.CLAREMONT.EDU
Subject:      Query: Mon communities in Thailand

I'm planning a research trip to Thailand to look at a Mon
ensemble that was incorporated into Thai music about fifty
years ago.  I thought I'd heard that there are Mon communities
in Thailand--does anyone know where?  I'd appreciate any leads
or suggestions.  Please reply to me privately.

Deborah Wong
DWONG@POMONA.CLAREMONT.EDU
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 14:11:21 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      CAM: Taiwan to launch direct flights to Cambodia
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08/31

TAIWAN TO LAUNCH DIRECT FLIGHTS TO CAMBODIA

TAIPEI (AUG. 31) DPA - Taiwan, which recently air links with Vietnam, will
launch direct flights to Cambodia in September to promote investment in the
Indochinese nation, reports said Monday.

Taiwan's Mandarin Airlines will use an A-320 airbus to service the twice-weekly
Taipei-Phnom Penh flight starting September 25, said a Civil Aeronautics
Administrator.

According to Vietnamese official figures, Taiwan has overtaken Hong Kong,
Australia, France and Britain to become the top foreign investor in Vietnam. An
average of 6,000 Taiwanese visit Vietnam each month, accounting for half the
tourists to that country.
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Date:         Sun, 30 Aug 1992 13:12:14 PDT
From:         Charles Scheiner <cscheiner@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      Upcoming US East Timor events
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/* Written  1:11 pm  Aug 30, 1992 by cscheiner in cdp:reg.easttimor */
/* ---------- "Upcoming US East Timor events" ---------- */
Upcoming events from the East Timor Action Network/U.S.

                                                        August 30, 1992

     ***** Hear a fresh report from inside East Timor!

Matthew Jardine, an organizer of the East Timor Action Network in Los
Angeles, visited East Timor during July and August. He will report on his
observations and the people (both Timorese and Indonesian) he encountered,
followed by discussion and questions.

Join ETAN/NY activists on Wednesday September 2 at Asia Watch (a division of
Human Rights Watch), 485 Fifth Avenue (at 41 St.), Manhattan. We have set up
meetings for 2:00 and 7:00 pm; come to whichever is easier. If you can't
come, write ETAN for a copy of Matthew's written report.

     ***** It's not to late to write Senators on IMET

There's still time to urge Senators to take military training for Indonesia
out of the foreign aid appropriations bill. New York area Senators Alfonse
D'Amato and Frank Lautenberg are on the key subcommittee, and chairmen
Patrick Leahy and Robert Byrd are also important. Please write or call
before the Senate takes this up starting the week of September 14.

     ***** Next East Timor Action Network organizing/planning meeting

Saturday, September 19, 1:00 pm at the home of Max Surjadinata, 100 LaSalle
Street Apt 21B, (east of Broadway near 123 St.), New York City. We'll
preview our new video (see below) and plan events for the fall. Max's number
is 212-222-1899.

     ***** Teach-in/public meeting on East Timor

At Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY. Monday evening, September 21. For
information call Eleanor Hoffman at 914-235-1797.

     ***** Upcoming national video broadcast

"Aggression and Self-Determination: Massacre in East Timor," a half-hour TV
program produced by ETAN, will be nationally distributed by Deep Dish TV via
satellite.

The program can be downlinked from SATCOM F4, Transponder 20 on Tuesday,
September 29 at 1:00 pm and Thursday, October 1 at 6:00 pm. (Times are
Eastern.) Aggression and Self-Determination: Massacre in East Timor is the
second half of an hour long transmission, "News You Can Use." The first half
hour is a program on Salvadoran refugees.

This program can be picked up for broadcast on local public access cable
television, and you should call the public access programmer for stations in
your area to ask them to downlink it, for either live or taped broadcast.
Call Cynthia Lopez at Deep Dish (212)473-8933 or John M. Miller at
(718)788-6071 if you have questions.

East Timor Action Network / U.S.
P.O. Box 1182, White Plains, NY 10602.  (914)428-7299   fax (914)428-7383
cscheiner@igc.apc.org
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 06:58:53 EDT
From:         Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Subject:      TH: Police beef up security for Nukul
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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 00:27:10+0700
From: kamol@munnari.oz.au (Kamol Hengkietisak)


     POLICE bodyguards have been assigned to Communications
Minister Nukul Prachuabmoh following his transfer of former
Telephone Organisation of Thailand director Paiboon Limpapayom
pending a corruption probe.
     Mr Nukul, who has never been assigned a police officer
before, is now guarded by four policemen, one in uniform and three
in plain clothes, from the Thong Lor Police Station where his
house is located.
     A Highway Police car was also parked at ministry headquarters
to accompany Mr Nukul's vehicle whenever he leaves the ministry.
     The minister told reporters he has been warned to be wary of
physical harm and decided to request police protection.
     Mr Nukul said Mr Paiboon has not yet reported to the ministry
and this may take some time. Mr Paiboon may want to consult the
permanent secretary for communications first.
     He declined to say whether or not there will be more
transfers in the TOT or if disciplinary action will be taken
against workers who protested against the transfer.
     He said these matters will be handled by the TOT
administration and he will no longer have anything to do with
them.
     Ministry officials yesterday prepared a desk for Mr Paiboon
in a room for state enterprise advisers where other transferred
officials from other agencies have also been placed.
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 14:04:45 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      CAM: Radical Khmer Rouge faction charges UN of stalling peace
              process
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08/20

RADICAL KHMER ROUGE FACTION CHARGES UN OF "STALLING" CAMBODIAN PEACE PROCESS

BANGKOK (AUG. 20) UPI - The radical Khmer Rouge faction in Cambodia, which has
refused to cooperate with U.N. peacekeeping efforts in the war- battered
nation, Thursday accused the United Nations of "stalling" the peace process.

"UNTAC has not executed the Paris accord in accordance with its spirit and
essence, but in an irresponsible manner," Khmer Rouge radio said, referring to
the U.N. Transitional Authority in Cambodia.

"This is aimed at keeping the Vietnamese aggressors' puppet regime in power,
thereby allowing the Vietnamese aggressor forces to further invade and occupy
Cambodia."

UNTAC is overseeing implementation of a peace accord signed in Paris last
October aimed at ending 13 years of conflict in Cambodia. Under the peace plan
UNTAC is to disarm soldiers of the four former warring Cambodian factions.

However, the Maoist Khmer Rouge faction has refused to take part in the
operation until UNTAC verifies the withdrawal of all Vietnamese troops from
Cambodia and power is transferred from the Vietnamese- installed government to
the Supreme National Council, which groups leaders of the four factions.

Hanoi has repeatedly denied Khmer Rouge charges it has retained military
personnel in Cambodia after it withdrew its occupation troops from the country
in 1989.

UNTAC has set up border checkpoints in response to the Khmer Rouge complaints,
but UNTAC officials say they need more information on the location of the
Vietnamese troops allegedly in the country in order to take action. They say
that for practical reasons the current Phnom Penh administration must remain
until after elections scheduled for April next year.

"The Cambodian nation and people as well as the international community can
definitely see that it is UNTAC that has stalled the process of implementing
the Paris accord," Khmer Rouge radio said in a Cambodian-language broadcast
monitored in Bangkok. "UNTAC cannot deny this...

"The Cambodian people ... demand that UNTAC verify the withdrawal of all
categories of Vietnamese aggressor forces from Cambodia and hand over the role
to the SNC, so that the latter can carry out its task as the unique legitimate
body and source of authority in Cambodia during the transition," the radio
said.

The Khmer Rouge, under notorious former leader Pol Pot, has been blamed for the
deaths of hundreds of thousands of Cambodians during a reign of terror from
1975-79. The Khmer Rouge has denied recent reports that Pol Pot continues to
control the group from behind the scenes.

Invading Vietnamese troops ousted the Khmer Rouge regime, and the Maoist
faction and two non-communist resistance groups then fought the Hanoi-installed
government in Phnom Phen until last year.
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Date:         Sun, 30 Aug 1992 16:04:44 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: Minister warns of plots against VN communism
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08/28

MINISTER WARNS OF PLOTS AGAINST VIETNAM COMMUNISM

    HANOI, Aug 28, Reuter - Vietnam's Defence Minister General Doan Khue has
urged young people to defend socialism, saying hostile forces at home and
overseas are trying to destroy the country's communist system, an official daily
said on Friday.
    Khue, 68, told a conference for army youth organisations on Thursday that
the collapse of socialism around the world had filled young Vietnamese with
doubt.
    "This system has brought us a new life, one which is still difficult, but
that really makes people the masters of themselves and of the country," Quan Doi
Nhan Dan, the army newspaper, quoted him as saying.
    Khue said unidentified enemies were trying to sabotage the Vietnamese
government and ruling Communist Party with "peaceful evolution," a term
describing Western moves to impose pluralism on communist countries.
    "The enemy does not leave us in peace and stability, but rather every hour,
every day, intends to sabotage through strategies and plans of 'peaceful
evolution'," he said in an unusually strongly-worded speech.
    "Enemies abroad link up with reactionary forces inside the country, with
many subtle, wicked and artful tricks, they rabidly fight to destroy our
revolution," he said.
    Foreign diplomats say party circles have been referring increasingly to the
supposed threat of enemies from all sides following the collapse of the Soviet
Union, Vietnam's old mentor.
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 14:43:00 CDT
From:         HASANAH SJACHRANI <SJACHRAN@MACC.WISC.EDU>
Subject:      Re: news about Indonesia

>Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 09:52:41 EDT
>From: daniel saputra <AGE137@UKCC.UKY.EDU>

>Hallo
>I guess why nobody talk about Indonesia
>Even right now nobody talk about the meeting of the non-aligned movement (NAM)
>which were held in Jakarta
>
>Or is this disscussion net only talk about indochina, if it is then
>the name should be change from seasia to indochina-asia
>
>any reply?
>Daniel Saputra (age137@ukcc.uky.edu)


Well, Daniel, I guess everyone is free to post any news (including
about Indonesia) if you have one. In the past John (apakabar!) always
posted news or issues concerning Indonesia, but I suppose he will
one day explain why he stops now.

I read about the meeting in the local paper, it said more than 100
countries sent their delegates. They repsresent nearly half the
world population and two thirds of the UN membership, but account
for only 9 percent of the world's economic output, the AP said.
You could ask of course is this the meeting of the all poor nations
in the world?

The article is by Kenneth L. Whiting, AP, titled Non-aligned nations
face strange new world.

Roni Sjachrani
(SJACHRAN@macc.wisc.edu)
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