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Date:         Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:25:38 -0500
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      CAM: Khmer Rouge accused UN siding with pro-Hanoi government

01/02

Cambodia-UN

Copyright, 1993. The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

By ROBERT H. REID
 Associated Press Writer
   PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- Khmer Rouge guerrillas, who have refused to
disarm and abide by a peace agreement, accused U.N. peacekeepers Saturday of
siding with the Vietnamese-installed Cambodian government.
   The statement criticizing the U.N. Transitional Authority in Cambodia, or
UNTAC, highlighted the Khmer Rouge's intransigence in implementing the peace
accords it signed.
   "UNTAC has not been neutral," the statement said. "UNTAC has been totally,
bluntly and shamelessly siding with Vietnam and its puppets."
   The Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia for three years before Vietnam invaded in
1978 and drove it from power. By then, the Khmer Rouge had killed more than a
million people in a campaign to create an agrarian society.
   Under peace accords signed in Paris in 1991, all factions that fought in
Cambodia's 13-year civil war must disarm ahead of elections in May.
   Also Saturday, the Khmer Rouge denied its forces shelled a U.N. position in
northwestern Siem Reap province.
   The United Nations evacuated 45 people, including 27 Bangladeshi soldiers,
on New Year's Eve from their position northeast of the famous Angkor Wat
temple ruins.
   There were no casualties in the incident, which U.N. officials described as
the first direct attack against a U.N. position by the Khmer Rouge.
   The Khmer Rouge statement said media reports about the attack were
"ill-intentioned and deliberately distorted news."
   The U.N. military spokesman, Lt. Col. Richard Palk, said U.N. troops will
redeploy to nearby areas to continue registering voters.
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Subject:      TH: judge resigns for striptease incident

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From: Kamol Hengkietisak <kamol@ipied.tu.ac.th>


THE chief of the Dusit District Court has asked for a transfer to
take sole responsibility for allowing a sexy transvestite show at
a New Year party for his subordinates last week.

Justice Minister Suvit Khunkitti, commending Nurak Mapraneet's
move, said: "It's difficult to find a senior official who has the
spirit to show responsibility for this type of incident."

The Dusit District Court chief made the headlines in some
Thai-language newspapers after a photo photo showed him being
embraced by a transvestite who was a me- ar of a dancing troupe
performing at the judges' party held at the Chanthaburi Residents'
Association on Saturday night.

Some members of the dance troupe took off their clothes during the
show's finale and came down from the stage to embrace and kiss
party-goers and ask for tips.

Permanent Secretary for Justice Supradit Hutasing said the party
was supposed to be for the court's staff members who invited Mr
Nurak as a guest of honour.

The dance troupe was arranged for the party because one of the
officials knew the troupe manager personally.

"It [the show] was supposed to be a sort of comedy, but at the end
of the show the dancers took off their clothes and rushed down
from the stage and some photographs were taken," Mr Supradit
explained.

Mr Suvit and Mr Supradit said they did not understand why
photographers had been present at the party.

Mr Supradit said no complaint had been lodged with the local
police against the dancers who performed the nude show.
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Date:         Sun, 10 Jan 1993 13:43:00 GMT
From:         "Vietnam Publications" <0004741206@MCIMAIL.COM>
Subject:      VN Price Weekly, No. 36 (1993)

VN Price Weekly, No. 36 (1993)
Copyright (c) 1993 by Vietnam Publications (email: vinexco@mcimail.com)

Prices in Hanoi, Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh City, Can Tho as of January 9, 1993

         Notes: "0", "+", "-", "unchanged", difference since
                previous VN Price Weekly report, in parentheses.
         All suggestions for improvement are welcome.

*** US dollar and gold fell sharply
*** European currencies continued to fall
*** Urea fertilizer price decreased

1. US Dollar:
   ForEx HCM: buy 10,530 dong/US (-50) since 1/08/93.

   Vietcombank (buy/sell):
           HANOI        DANANG      HCM         CANTHO
   ----------------------------------------------------------
   01/08 10290/10530  10200/10520  10130/10550  10100/10560
         (-150/-50)   (-270/-60)   (-300/-60)   (-280/-100)

   Market (buy/sell):
           HANOI        DANANG      HCM         CANTHO
   ----------------------------------------------------------
   01/08 10260/10310  10180/10200  10190/10210  10160/10180
         (-140/-110)  (-260/-260)  (-190/-190)  (-220/-220)

   Vinexco NY exchange rate (dong/US dollar):
           HANOI   DANANG   NHATRANG   HCM     CANTHO
   ----------------------------------------------------
    01/09  10150   10150    10150      10200   10200
           (-250)  (-310)   (-290)     (-300)  (-300)

2. Other currencies at Vietcombank (buy/sell):

          Swiss Franc   French Franc   Deutsch Mark
   --------------------------------------------------
    01/09  6858/7256     1821/1927      6180/6604
          (-157/-94)     (-48/-31)     (-177/-58)

3. Gold:
   State (Gold 99% Au, retailed buy/sell in thousand dongs per 1/10th tael):
            HANOI     DANANG    HCM      CANTHO
   -----------------------------------------------
    01/08  428/438   424/434   414/424   408/416
           (-6/-11) (-11/-10) (-11/-11) (-11/-9)

   Market (Gold 99% Au, buy/sell in thousand dongs per 1/10th tael):
            HANOI     DANANG    HCM      CANTHO
   -----------------------------------------------
    01/08  418/425   414/423   416/422   407/415
           (-5/-5)    (0/+3)  (-13/-12) (-12/-11)

4. Other prices in HCM City (unchanged except for urea)

   Average rice            d 2,200 / kg [ga.o te? thu*o*!ng]
   Pork [ham]              d20,500 / kg
   Sugar [Grade 1 white]   d 3,900 / kg [crystalized, produced locally]
   Fish sauce (15%)        d 2,000 / liter
   Gas [A72-A76]           d 2,300 / liter
   Fertilizer [urea-type]  d 1,660 / kg (-190)
   Cement                  d41,000 / 50 kg bag.
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From:         William Mckee <wsmckee@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject:      Fate of Filipino Evangelist

     Is there any word of the Filipino Evangelist that was scheduled to be
executed on 25 December, 1992 in Saudi Arabia for preaching Christianity
in Saudi Arabia? Was President Ramos successful in gaining his release or
at least in obtaining a stay of execution?
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Date:         Sun, 3 Jan 1993 23:04:49 PST
From:         Coban Tun <tun@QUARK.SFSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Info (CORRECTION to my previous reply)

 >Newsgroups: bit.listserv.seasia-l
 >Date:         Sun, 27 Dec 1992 00:00:50 EST
 >Sender:       Southeast Asia Discussion List <SEASIA-L@MSU.BITNET>
 >From:         Verdi Yusuf <verdi@PHOENIX.PRINCETON.EDU>

 >I got impression that the news you've been distributin
 >are dominantly about Thailand and Cambodia (?) and less
 >on other South East Asia countries. Am I wrong ?

     [...text deleted...]

and I replied:
No - you are not wrong. There are too many people who post to this list
regularly except news on Indonesia (apakabar@igc.org), burma (myself)...

What I meant to say was
No - you are not wrong. There are NOT too many people who post to this list
                                  ^^^

Coban
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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 10:04:36 -0500
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      CAM: Sihanouk ends threat to boycott UN

01/10

CAMBODIAN LEADER ENDS THREAT TO BOYCOTT UN

    PHNOM PENH, Jan 10, Reuter - Cambodian head of state Prince Norodom
Sihanouk has withdrawn his threat to stop working with United Nations forces,
removing a major obstacle to the success of the multi-billion dollar peace
mission.
    Sihanouk, in a statement released in Phnom Penh after his meeting in
Beijing on Friday with U.N. Cambodia chief Yasushi Akashi, also announced he
would be a candidate in presidential elections planned for later this year.
    The prince said he would host a special meeting of Cambodia's Supreme
National Council, which represents the four factions who signed the October
1991 peace pact, at his Beijing residence at the end of this month and invite
U.N. officials.
    In a letter to Akashi on Monday, Sihanouk cited continuing violence against
Cambodia's biggest opposition party, the pro-royalist FUNCINPEC led by his son
Prince Norodom Ranariddh, as the reason for ceasing cooperation with UNTAC and
the Phnom Penh government.
    Ranariddh later also announced he was withdrawing support from the U.N.
Transitional Authority in Cambodia.
    "His Excellency Mr Akashi told me that UNTAC was doing everything possible
to give me satisfaction but that for technical reasons some problems could not
be resolved exactly to my wishes and to the demands of the compatriots," a
statement from Sihanouk said.
    Sihanouk said he would also invite representatives of the five permanent
members of the Security Council to the meeting in Beijing, to be convened on
January 28.
    "This meeting is necessary because important problems remain to be solved
in Cambodia before the elections."
    Sihanouk says he is in Beijing for health reasons.
    The U.N.'s biggest-ever peacekeeping operation, involving some 22,000
soldiers and civilians, is designed to culminate in elections in May for a new
government.
    But the peace plan is threatened by the refusal of the Khmer Rouge
guerrilla faction to disarm its men or let U.N. vote registration teams into
areas it controls.
    It has briefly detained U.N. troops and fired on helicopters of the
peacekeeping force.
    The U.N. Security Council imposed limited sanctions this month on the Khmer
Rouge and warned it had only until the end of this month to decide to join the
elections -- or the polls would go ahead without them.
    More than a million people died under a Khmer Rouge reign of terror which
was ended by a Vietnamese invasion in December 1978. The Maoist guerrillas and
two allied groups, including one loyal to Sihanouk, battled the government
installed by Vietnam until the 1991 peace accords ended the fighting.
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Date:         Wed, 6 Jan 1993 08:14:29 EST
From:         Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Subject:      TH: Bomb case still unresolved

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Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 22:47:17+0700
From: Kamol Hengkietisak <kamol@ipied.tu.ac.th>


INTERIOR Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh said yesterday the
mastermind of the Thon Buri bus terminal bombing last week was
believed to be hiding in the provinces.

He urged members of the public to be patient while the police
search for the culprit.

In his capacity as interior minister, Gen Chavalit will provide
security to people and their property.

He also said the Police Department needed to be revamped but did
not elaborate.

Meanwhile, the Police Department is considering setting up a unit
to train personnel from government and private agencies on how to
handle objects suspected of containing explosives and how to
recognise the characters and appearances of persons suspected of
carrying dangerous objects.

Speaking after a meeting of police officers of the Special Branch,
Crime Suppression, Foreign Affairs, Immigration and Scientific
Crime Detection divisions and other units concerned, Police Chief
Sawasdi Amornvivat said the training will be given to personnel of
such units as the Post and Telegraph Department, security guards
of department stores and schools, and employees of the Bangkok
Mass Transit Authority.

He said Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai has also pledged to provide
the police with modern equipment to increase efficiency in
detecting explosives.

Two centres for taking public reports on objects suspected of
being explosives have been set up, one at the Police Department
and the other at the Metropolitan Police headquarters.

Each centre is manned by police equipped with bomb detectors.

Pol Gen Sawasdi said there are four Border Patrol Police teams and
four Ordnance Division teams that will be immediately despatched
on receiving an emergency call in Bangkok.

In the provinces, there are 48 teams of provincial and Border
Patrol Police.
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Date:         Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:23:07 -0500
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      CAM: Kampuchea airlines to fly to Singapore, Malaysia

01/04

Kampuchea airlines to fly to Singapore, Malaysia

    SINGAPORE, Jan 4, Reuter - <Kampuchea Airlines>, Cambodia's national
carrier, said it will launch services to Kuala Lumpur and Singapore this month.
    Kampuchea Airlines will inaugurate a weekly service to Kuala Lumpur on
January 11 and thrice weekly services to Singapore on January 13, it said in a
statement here.
    The airline also plans to fly to Jakarta, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Manila and
other Asian cities in the near future, said Liao Khoon Ngain, manager of
Kampuchea Airlines in Singapore.
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Date:         Sun, 3 Jan 1993 22:28:04 PST
From:         Coban Tun <tun@QUARK.SFSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Info

 >Newsgroups: bit.listserv.seasia-l
 >Date:         Sun, 27 Dec 1992 00:00:50 EST
 >Sender:       Southeast Asia Discussion List <SEASIA-L@MSU.BITNET>
 >From:         Verdi Yusuf <verdi@PHOENIX.PRINCETON.EDU>

 >I got impression that the news you've been distributin
 >are dominantly about Thailand and Cambodia (?) and less
 >on other South East Asia countries. Am I wrong ?

     [...text deleted...]

No - you are not wrong. There are too many people who post to this list
regularly except news on Indonesia (apakabar@igc.org), burma (myself)
and afew other people on other seasia country. Of course we always welcome
more news. Everynow and then, war broke out between opposing point-of-view.

It is hard to get news regularly on countries other than Thailand, Vietnam
and Cambodia.

Coban Tun
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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:07:39 PST
From:         Coban Tun <tun@QUARK.SFSU.EDU>
Subject:      Burmese generals adjourn constitution debate

Executive News Svc.($)

RTw  01/11 0532  BURMA GENERALS ADJOURN CONSTITUTION DEBATE

    RANGOON, Jan 11, Reuter - Burma's ruling generals are adjourning a national
convention called to start work on a new constitution after just three days,
they announced on Monday.
    The meeting of some 700 delegates, which began on Saturday, would adjourn
from Tuesday until February 1 to allow them time to study proposals, convention
chairman Major-General Myo Nyunt said.
    The ruling military junta called the convention to lay down the principles
for a new constitution. It portrayed this as a move towards democracy but
opponents and independent observers see it as a means to consolidate military
power.
    The junta has already told the convention it must ensure that the right of
the armed forces to participate in political leadership is enshrined in a new
constitution to replace the one it abolished when it seized power in 1988 by
brutally crushing a pro-democracy uprising.
    Diplomats contacted in Rangoon from Bangkok said delegates had been given
copies of 150 different national constitutions to study and discuss with
groups they represent.
    They included the constitutions of Thailand, Indonesia, the United States,
France and Egypt.
    "It's a lot of homework," said one diplomat, adding that the adjournment
had taken most delegates by surprise.
    Chief Justice Aung Toe told delegates they should consider the pros and
cons of federal and central control. The current system of central control is
opposed by many ethnic groups, some of which have fought for self-rule for
decades.
    Aung Toe stressed the need to consider "how firm stipulations ought to be
included in the constitution for the (armed forces) to legally participate and
carry out duties in all sectors of national affairs."
    The junta made a new constitution its condition for transferring power to
an elected government after ignoring the result of a May 1990 general election
which the main opposition party, the National League for Democracy, won by a
landslide.
    Diplomats say the process of approving a new constitution could take
several more years.
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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 12:58:36 PST
From:         Coban Tun <tun@QUARK.SFSU.EDU>
Subject:      Burma: comment

 >APn  01/09 1047  Burma
 >
 >Copyright, 1993. The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
 >
 >   RANGOON, Burma (AP) -- A member of the military dictatorship told delegates
 >who gathered Saturday to draft a new constitution that they should give the
 >military a lead role in the government to maintain peace and stability.
 >Diplomats from the United States and the European Community refused to attend
 >Saturday's opening ceremony for the constitutional convention, which critics
 >charge is a sham.

  [...text deleted ...]

 >   "To put it frankly, the maintenance of national stability, peace and
 >tranquility without the participation of the military is extremely risky and
 >dangerous," he said.
 >   The 702 convention delegates include 106 elected members of Parliament who
 >have never been seated, 48 other representatives of political parties and 215
 >representatives of ethnic minorities. The rest are representatives of the
 >security forces, workers, peasants, technocrats and civil servants.

The very fact that convention was held on Jan 9, and 702 delegates
hint that despotic crazy old man Ne Win, who is obsessed with number '9' , who
also issued 45 and 90 Kyat denomination, is still pulling the strings behind
the scene.
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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 07:43:36 PST
From:         Coban Tun <tun@QUARK.SFSU.EDU>
Subject:      Burma: National Convention -

APn  01/09 1047  Burma

Copyright, 1993. The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

   RANGOON, Burma (AP) -- A member of the military dictatorship told delegates
who gathered Saturday to draft a new constitution that they should give the
military a lead role in the government to maintain peace and stability.
   Diplomats from the United States and the European Community refused to attend
Saturday's opening ceremony for the constitutional convention, which critics
charge is a sham.
   The military junta, which came to power in a September 1988 coup after
killing hundreds of pro-democracy protesters, has refused to allow a coalition
that won a landslide victory in parliamentary elections in 1990 to take power.
   The coalition, the National League for Democracy, is headed by Nobel Peace
Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been under house arrest since July
1989.
   A European diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said there was
deep, widespread skepticism about the constitutional convention because of the
junta's poor record on human rights and on instituting democratic reforms.
   The junta has described the convention as a step toward democracy.
   No timetable has been given for the convention, and there has been no
suggestion as to when the constitution drafting process might be completed.
   Burma has had no constitution since 1988, when the military came to power
and abolished a one-party socialist charter that went into effect in 1974.
   In the meeting's opening address, Maj. Gen. Myo Nyunt, a member of the junta,
told delegates it would be "timely to bestow" a national leadership role on
the military.
   "To put it frankly, the maintenance of national stability, peace and
tranquility without the participation of the military is extremely risky and
dangerous," he said.
   The 702 convention delegates include 106 elected members of Parliament who
have never been seated, 48 other representatives of political parties and 215
representatives of ethnic minorities. The rest are representatives of the
security forces, workers, peasants, technocrats and civil servants.
   The country's dissident and armed rebel groups, barred by the government
from participating unless they lay down their arms, say the proceedings are an
attempt to disguise continued authoritarian rule.
   About three dozen rebel groups gathered this week at a rebel base on the
Thai border to draw up a plan of action against the Rangoon government.
   A resolution agreed upon on Friday at the Manerplaw base urged the United
Nations to take action against the government's "crimes of torture, arrest and
brutalities."
   Last month, a U.N. committee demanded that Burma release Suu Kyi and end
persecution of minorities and other human rights abuses.
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Subject:      TH: Soldiers testify about May event

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From: Kamol Hengkietisak <kamol@ipied.tu.ac.th>
Subject: Bangkok Post Jan 9: Soldiers testify about May event


SEVEN middle-ranking and junior army officers yesterday gave
their accounts of the May 17-21 bloody incidents to a working
committee of the Interior Ministry assigned to trace missing
people as a result of the tragic events.

An informed source in the Interior Ministry said the Army's
acquiescence to allow its men to testify to the committee was in
response to a request from Interior Minister Chavalit
Yongchaiyudh.

Most of the officers testified were colonels who commanded army
units involved in the crackdown of the pro-democracy protesters.

They included commanders of the First Infantry Battalion of the
Royal Guards, Anti-Aircraft Company and Second Battalion of the
Ninth Infantry Regiment.

Air Force officers who were involved in the suppression are
scheduled to testify to the committee on Monday to be followed in
the following day by members of the Royal Thai Navy.

Deputy Interior Permanent Secretary Aree Wong-araya, chairman of a
sub-committee to trace missing people, said there are 56 people
still unaccounted for out of some 1,000 people originally reported
missing in the bloody crackdown.

He said he believed the actual number of missing people would
reduce further.
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