From: gaojeng@durras.anu.edu.au (J. Gao)
Subject: China News Digest (Europe/Pacific), Tue, 10/6/1992
Summary: CND
Keywords: CND
Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
Date:  6 Oct 92 01:36:17 GMT

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===================  Europe / Pacific Section (CND-EP)  ===================
                              October 6, 1992

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1. News Brief (3 items) ................................................ 25

2. Portugal and China Agree on Macau Human Rights Law .................. 31

3. Tianjin Asks Hamburg to Aid in Creation of Free Trade Area .......... 24

4. China Firms Picks Singapore for Regional Base ....................... 50

5. Russia, China to Bridge Far East Border River ....................... 26

6. Australian Minister to Make Unofficial Visit to Taiwan .............. 22

7. Tiananmen Square Remembered
   Fang Lizhi, Famous Chinese Dissident, Speaks out .................... 49

8. Job Opportunities in Hong Kong ...................................... 36
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1. News Brief (3 items) ................................................ 25
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[Wall Street Journal, 10/2/92] HONG KONG -- Jardine Fleming Holdings Ltd., a
merchant bank and fund-management group, said it opened an office in
Shanghai, its first in China. The group, a venture of conglomerate Jardine
Matheson Holdings Ltd. and Robert Fleming Holdings Ltd., has 19 other Asian
offices in 15 countries. Jardine Fleming manages a Hong Kong unit trust that
raised $22 million (U.S.) in May as well as a closed-end fund listed on the
New York Stock Exchange that raised $101 million in June. (From: Huijie)
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[BBC Monitoring Service, 9/29/92] Chinese citizens are going on a
spending-sprees in Khabarovsk, much to the surprise of local people,
according to a Mayak radio report of 27th September. In addition to
officers' greatcoats and woollen scarves, rouble coins with Lenin's image
are selling "like hot cakes", the radio said. Most in demand are Soviet
medals which can command up to R30,000 a piece. (From: A CND Reader)
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[AP-DJ, 10/1/92] London -- A electrical power line from the former Soviet
republic of Kyrgyzstan to China was put into operation Thursday, the
ITAR-Tass news agency reported. In a dispatch from Bishkek, monitored in
London, ITAR-Tass reported that the 12-kilometer-long power line will send
Kyrgyzstan electrical power to a northwest China area which had previously
only counted on a small diesel electric power station as its main power
source providing just two hours of power a day. The two countries are also
planning to build a powerful electrical power station on the Sary-Dzhaz
river on their mutual border. (From: Huijie)

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2. Portugal and China Agree on Macau Human Rights Law .................. 31
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From: A CND Reader
Source: Reuter 9/30/92

HONG KONG -- China and Portugal signed a protocol on Wednesday incorporating
two United Nations human rights conventions into Macau law after it returns
to Beijing rule in 1999, the Portuguese news agency Lusa reported.

However, diplomatic sources told Lusa that it contained provisos which
excluded the right to full democracy.

Macau, a tiny Portuguese-administered enclave on the south China coast,
returns to China two years after Hong Kong, its British-ruled neighbour
about 60 km (40 miles) to the east.

The protocol was signed by Carlos Nunes Portela, Portugal's head on the Sino
Portuguese Joint Liaison Group and his Chinese counterpart Kang Jimin. The
group is charged with settling practical problems surrounding the enclaves's
handover.

It incorporates the U.N. conventions on civil and political rights and on
economic, social and cultural rights, into the Basic Law, Macau's post-1999
constitution.

"The protocol was signed after complex negotiations with the Chinese side,"
Portela said after the signing ceremony, adding that the accord had fewer
provisos than a similar agreement covering Hong Kong.

The full text was not released and Portela refused to give details of the
provisos. But the diplomatic sources said they were the renunciation of the
right to universal suffrage and self-determination.

Like Hong Kong, Macau currently has a system of only limited democracy. The
Macau Basic Law is scheduled to be promulgated by China's National People's
Congress in the spring of next year.

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3. Tianjin Asks Hamburg to Aid in Creation of Free Trade Area .......... 24
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From: A CND Reader
Source: Lloyds List  10/2/92

The port of Hamburg has been invited by the Chinese Port of Tianjin to
assist in the creation of a planned free trade area.

Dr Hans Ludwig Beth, who heads the Hamburg Port Sales and Promotion Office,
already serves as official consultant for the Port Free Trade Zone
Commission of Tianjin.

He recently addressed the "International Symposium on Reform, Open Policies
and Economic Development of Tianjin".

Subsequently he was invited to travel to China with a group of Hamburg port
experts to advise Tianjin authorities as well as those in several other
cities on how to establish and administer free trade zones or free ports.

Hamburg has had free port status for just over 100 years and is now to
provide this expertise gained to help Chinese ports.

A delegation from Tianjin is due in Hamburg in October to study free port
issues here.

In November, China Portex 92, developed by the Hamburg Fair and Congress
Center and to be held for the third time in Shanghai, is to serve as a forum
for additional contacts and information.

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4. China Firms Picks Singapore for Regional Base ....................... 50
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From: A CND Reader
Source: Reuter 9/30/92
By: Fidelia Chau

SINGAPORE- More Chinese firms will pick Singapore as a base to expand into
Southeast Asia, a Chinese embassy official in Singapore said.

"We are encouraging all the Chinese companies in Singapore to develop to be
regional offices, expanding to the markets outside Singapore such as other
Southeast Asian countries, the Middle East, the United States and Japan,"
Commercial Counsellor Zhu Zhen-yuan said.

Three-quarters of Singapore's 2.7 million people are ethnic Chinese. Zhu
said Singapore had been neglected by Chinese firms before it established
formal diplomatic ties with the communist mainland in October 1990.

About 10 Chinese firms have opened subsidiaries in Singapore this year,
making a total of 70 Chinese companies here.

China National Textile Import and Export Corp, China State Construction
Engineering Corp and China Marine Bunker Supply Co opened Singapore
headquarters in the past three months.

Singapore "can be a springboard for Chinese companies to expand to other
markets because of its good connections to the international markets", Zhu
said.

Trade between China and Singapore dropped about 4.15 pct for the first seven
months this year to S$2.96 billion, compared to S$3.08 billion in the same
period last year.

"I think the drop is partly because Indonesia deals with China directly now
after building (Indonesian) diplomatic ties two years ago," Zhu said.
"Singapore's role as a middleman between China and Indonesia trading is
diminishing."

Lower oil prices were another factor that cut bilateral trade value, as
Chinese petroleum products and crude oil exported to Singapore dropped about
33 pct to S$535 million in the first seven months of 1992 from a year
earlier.

Zhu said Singapore's domestic market was limited. "Chinese and Singapore
firms should cooperate to explore other markets."

Beijing is considering building a distribution centre for Chinese mechanical
and electrical products, and a sales service centre for those products in
Singapore, Zhu said.

Singapore has agreed to let China National Machinery Import and Export Corp
and China National Native Produce and Animal By-products Import and Export
Corp set up regional bases soon.

Lang Chao Electronic Information Industrial Corp, one of three big computer
makers in China, has decided to upgrade its Singapore subsidiary to oversee
its U.S. and Hong Kong offices.

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5. Russia, China to Bridge Far East Border River ....................... 26
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From: A CND Reader
Source: Reuter 10/1/92

HONG KONG -- China and Russia plan to build a bridge across the Heilongjiang
river to accommodate booming border trade between Siberia and China's
north-east, a Chinese government news agency reported on Thursday.

The span will be built near Heihe, the Heilongjiang province river port that
handles one-third of regional cross-border commerce, the Beijing-controlled
China News Agency said.

No details of the bridge's design or financing were given.

"Transport industries in the Chinese and Russian Far East are unable to meet
the demand caused by sudden development of border trade," CNS said.
"Construction of a bridge at Heihe is one of many measures being adopted to
cope with the transport volume," it said.

Air transport links also are being developed, it said.

Heihe is separated from the Siberian city Blagoveshchensk by the
Heilongjiang river, known in Russia as the Amur.

Border trade has boomed along the Heilongjiang in the three years since
Moscow and Beijing normalised relations, ending decades of bitter and
sometimes bloody socialist rivalry.

Trucks cross the river when it freezes over in winter but a bridge would allow
year-round transport.  

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6. Australian Minister to Make Unofficial Visit to Taiwan .............. 22
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From: Huijie
Source: AP-DJ 10/2/92
 
CANBERRA -- Alan Griffiths, Australia's Minister for Tourism and Resources,
will visit Taiwan later this month.

While the visit to Taiwan won't be official, it will be the first by an
Australian government Minister since Australia established relations with
mainland China in 1972.

Griffiths' office said in a statement Friday the Minister has accepted an
invitation from the Taiwan/Australia business council to visit Oct. 27-31.

He will lead an Australian business and tourism delegation, and will pursue
a number of tourism and trade matters. The statement said the visit "will be
aimed at strengthening and giving greater breadth to our relationship with
Taiwan."

Taiwan is Australia's seventh largest trading partner.

A spokesman for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said Griffiths'
visit to Taiwan isn't a departure from Australia's "One China" policy,
"which remains firmly in place." He said the ban on official and diplomatic
visits to Taiwan hasn't been lifted.

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7. Tiananmen Square Remembered
   Fang Lizhi, Famous Chinese Dissident, Speaks out .................... 49
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From: George Zhu
Source: The Massachusetts Daily Collegian, 9/29/1992
By George Zhu, Collegian Correspondent

Three years after the Chinese army tanks crashed the Tiananmen Square
pro-democracy demonstration, in which the Chinese army killed hundreds of
innocent students and civilians, China's best-known dissident Fang Lizhi has
not forgotten.

"The Chinese government should release all student demonstrators that have
been arrested."  Fang said.

Fang, often referred to as China's Sakharov, topped the Chinese government's
most-wanted list following the June 4th massacre in 1989.

He was then forced to take refuge at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing for over a
year before the United States finally negotiated a settlement with Chinese
authorities for Fang to leave China.

"I hope to go back China one day, but for the time being I don't see what I
can do there." Fang said.

Fang critized the Bush Administration's foreign policy on China, describing
it as a "failure".  President Bush, once a U.S. envoy to Beijing, has
pledged to veto legislation which would require China to satisfy a number of
human rights and trade conditions for its most-favored-nation tariff status
to be renewed. Bush believes this would isolate China.  "It has done little
to help improve China's human rights situation." Fang said.

Fang, a world renowned astrophysicist, is a member of the International
Center for Theoretical Physics at Trieste, Italy. He is also a recipient of
the 1989 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award in honor of his dedication and
commitment to democracy and human rights in China.

Earlier that year, Fang wrote to Chinese senior leader Deng Xiaoping
petitioning for the release of jailed dissident Wei Jingsheng and other
political prisoners.  The Chinese government abruptly rejected Fang's
appeal.

"Economic prosperity does not necessarily lead to democracy and freedom,"
Fang said. "All concerned people and international community should exercise
pressure and influence on the Chinese regime to improve its human rights
record."

Fang laments about the growing trend in China where intellectuals are
leaving their academic positions for more profitable ventures.

"I'm worried this may cause the shortage of education and research
professionals in China," Fang said. "However, it is their rights to choose
what to do."

Fang first became known to the West when he was invited to visit President
George Bush for a state dinner in Beijing three-and-half years ago, but he
was stopped by the Chinese security police.

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8. Job Opportunities in Hong Kong ...................................... 36
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From: Lui Tang Y.P. (EA II) <rebecca@cuse1.se.cuhk.hk> 

Faculty Position in Systems Engineering Department, CUHK:

The Chinese University of Hong Kong invites applications for several
positions in the Systems Engineering Department with specialities in
automation & manufacturing technologies, robotics, control systems and
instrumentation, Operations Research and management information & decision
support systems.  Both tenure-track and term appointments will be
considered.  Candidates are expected to have outstanding qualifications,
with earned doctorate degrees in related fields, and a strong commitment to
excellent teaching and research.  Salaries for the positions lie
approximately between US$45,000 and US$94,000 per annum.

The University receives strong support from both the government and the
private industries of Hong Kong and is strongly committed to quality
teaching and research.  Faculty appointment are on a full 12 month basis
with 2 1/2-month leave with full pay for every year of service.  The
official teaching languages are English and Chinese.

The department offers Bachelor, Master and Doctorate Degrees' programmes.

Provided for the qualified appointees are many generous benefits, including
strongly subsidized housing, medical care, children education allowance,
superannuation based on last month's salary, air passage and moving
allowance.

All applications together with complete CV and inquiries can be directed to:

    Prof Vincent Lum
    Chairman
    Systems Engineering Department
    Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Shatin, Hong Kong

    FAX: (852) 6035505

    EMAIL: recruit@se.cuhk.hk

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