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Date:         Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:24:04 -0500
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      CAM: Cambodia logs still exported despite UN ban

01/04

Cambodia logs still exported despite U.N. ban

    By Mark Dodd
    PHNOM PENH, Jan 4, Reuter - Logs are still being trucked across the
Cambodian border to Thailand despite a ban on such exports, with U.N.
peacekeepers unable to enter Khmer Rouge guerrilla enclaves, a U.N. spokesmen
said on Monday.
    "I understand there is still some illegal movements across the border," the
U.N Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) spokesman said.
    In Bangkok, however, the Thai armed forces commander said no logs had been
brought into Thailand since the ban began on the first day of the year.
    The moratorium on log exports, which came into effect on January 1, is
aimed at pressuring the Khmer Rouge to cooperate with the U.N-sponsored
Cambodian peace agreement to which the guerrilla faction is a signatory.
    The spokesman admitted that he knew of no U.N monitors inside territory
controlled by the Khmer Rouge guerrillas.
    He said UNTAC was preparing a detailed report on the effectiveness of the
moratorium which would be released on Wednesday. Resolution 792 banning the
export of uncut logs from Cambodia was adopted by the U.N Security Council on
November 30, 1992.
    Of the four political factions who signed the October 1991 Paris peace
agreement, only the Khmer Rouge have failed to fully cooperate.
    The spokesman said UNTAC was unable to physically enforce the logging ban.
"We don't have the power to stand in front of a truck," he said, adding that
U.N monitors could record the names of companies and their employees engaged
in any illegal export activities.
    UNTAC military teams had begun a one week reconnaisance of border areas to
check on possible violations, he said.
    A U.N military spokesman confirmed that aerial surveillance along
Cambodia's borders had been stepped up.
    "There's been increased aerial reconaissance," he said.
    At least 17 border checkpoints are to be established along the
Thai-Cambodian frontier, including nine in zones under the control of the Khmer
Rouge.
    Similar monitoring posts will be established at crossing points along
Cambodia's common border with Vietnam and Laos as the ban includes the export
of logs from all four existing administrative zones. Three of these are
controlled by the guerrilla factions and one by the Phnom Penh government.
    The spokesman said the head of UNTAC, Yasushi Akashi, wrote a letter on
January 1 addressed to the heads of Cambodia's four main political factions
"reminding them of the modalities of the moratorium and the obligations they
have to enforce the ban."
    The spokesman quoted Akashi as saying: "UNTAC staff and military personnel
were on hand to monitor the implementation of the moratorium."
    Notices in Khmer, Thai, Lao, Vietnamese, French and English advising of the
U.N sanctions would be distributed at the checkpoints and to ships entering
Cambodian waters, he added.
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Date:         Sun, 10 Jan 1993 11:19:18 EST
From:         Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Subject:      TH: Ngernmuen trip to win back favor

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Subject: Bangkok Post Jan 9: Trip to win back favour

DEPUTY Interior Minister Suthas Ngernmuen said yesterday he will
visit the Middle East and ASEAN nations in an effort to expand
Thai labour exports.

Addressing a meeting of the representatives of 46 job placement
agencies, Mr Suthas said his tour will start late this month and
will include Saudi Arabia, Singapore and Brunei.

The trip aims to restore good relations and to secure labour
market in Saudi Arabia and hopes it will be able to send as many
as 60,000 Thai workers to the oil-rich kingdom.

He said he was confident the Government can achieve these goals if
the Thai police make progress in their investigation of the Saudi
royal family jewellery theft and the murders of Saudis in
Thailand.

The unsolved cases have caused bilateral relations to sour.

Mr Suthas reminded the job agencies yesterday to follow the
regulations for exporting Thai workers to Taiwan and warned he
will take strict legal action against violators.

He said the ministry will closely watch the agencies to prevent
them from overcharging job seekers.

He said the normal commission charged to workers seeking jobs in
Taiwan should not exceed 28,000 baht.

He had heard that some agencies are charging as much as 40,000
baht.

The ministry will strictly deal with these companies later, he
said.

Mr Suthas said Taiwanese authorities have also promised to take
action against Taiwanese job brokers for charging Thai placement
agencies a commission on jobs provided to Thais.

The Thai job brokers claimed they had to overcharge Thai workers
applying to work in Taiwan to make up the commission.

The Interior Ministry is considering arranging for Thai workers to
work in Taiwan on a government-to-government basis.
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Date:         Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:22:25 -0500
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      CAM: Sihanouk stop cooperate with UN

01/04

Cambodia-Sihanouk

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

   BEIJING (AP) -- The Cambodian peace process suffered another blow Monday
when Norodom Sihanouk declared he would no longer cooperate with the U.N.
peacekeeping mission or Cambodia's Vietnamese-installed government.
   Sihanouk, chairman of a reconciliation council set up under a peace treaty
signed by the government and three rebel factions, cited violence aimed at
political parties organizing for a U.N.-supervised election in May.
   The attempt to bring peace to Cambodia after 13 years of civil war already
is threatened by the refusal of Khmer Rouge guerrillas to disarm. The group,
which was driven from power by Vietnam, has accused U.N. peacekeepers of being
biased in favor of the Phnom Penh government.
   Sihanouk said in a letter to Yasushi Akashi, head of the U.N. peacekeeping
operation in Cambodia, that "I am obliged to cease to cooperate" because of the
U.N. mission's failure to halt politically motivated violence.
   He cited attacks on members of a party led by his son, Ranariddh. The letter
said at least six people died in the attacks since Thursday.
   Political leaders have accused the Cambodian government of using violence to
try to intimidate the opposition. U.N. observers have blamed some attacks on
government supporters.
   The letter from Sihanouk could seriously damage the peace process. He is
perceived by Cambodians and the international community as the only person able
to unite the nation.
   It was not immediately clear what his action would mean in practice,
however.  Sihanouk said he would continue "strictly personal" cooperation with
Akashi and the Phnom Penh government.
   Sihanouk's office in Beijing said Akashi planned to come to China to meet
with the prince Friday.
   Sihanouk has a home in Beijing and is being treated by Chinese doctors for
heart, liver and lung ailments.
   The prince had threatened in December to stop working with the U.N. mission
because of the political violence, saying the U.N. was "not capable of setting
up true democracy and peace" in his country.
   Under the Paris peace agreement signed by the four factions, the United
Nations is to guide the administration of Cambodia and stabilize the political
atmosphere before the election.
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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:27:25 EST
From:         Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Subject:      TH: Space for 34K new university students

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Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 00:34:06+0700
From: Kamol Hengkietisak <kamol@ipied.tu.ac.th>



THE Ministry of University Affairs will admit 34,089 new students
to 35 state and private universities in the new academic year
beginning in June next year, Ministry Permanent Secretary Prof Dr
Wichit Srisa-ant announced yesterday.

All 19 state universities will admit 21,829 students while eight
private universities and eight private colleges will admit 12,260
students.

He said these institutions of higher learning will admit about
5,000 more students than they did last year.

Dr Wichit said Mathayom Suksa 6 students, or the equivalent, are
eligible to apply for seats at these institutions by sitting for
the entrance examination which will be held during April 3-27 next
year.

The ministry will provide students with application forms, via the
postal service, at a cost of 65 baht each during January 1-31.

Application forms will also be distributed to applicants at a cost
of 50 baht each at Chulalongkorn University from February 26 to
March 10.

The forms will also be available at seven state universities in
the provinces during March 4-10.

Results of the written entrance examination will be announced by
May 8, Dr Wichit said.
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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 11:06:44 EST
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From:         mulliner@OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU
Subject:      SEA Internet Resources

                   Ohio University Electronic Communication


   Date:  11-Jan-1993 10:47am EST

     To:  Southeast Asia Listers               ( _MX%"SEASIA-L@MSU.EDU" )
          Southeast Asia Net                   ( _MX%"SEANET-L@NUSVM.BITNET" )
          Remote Addressee                     (
 _MX%"CORMOSEA@OUCSACE.CS.OHIOU.EDU" )

   From:  Kent Mulliner                              Dept:  Library
          MULLINER                                 Tel No:  614-593-2707

Subject:  SEA Internet Resources


        CROSS-POSTED TO SEASIA-L, SEANET-L & CORMOSEA
                PLEASE FORGIVE DUPLICATION

        The manuscript of an article, "Southeast Asia Collections
and Resources on the Internet," has been posted for retrieval
on the listserve at Michigan State University.

        The article will appear in the December 1992 issue of
the CORMOSEA [Committee on Reserarch Materials on Southeast
Asia] BULLETIN, which will be distributed in the next
couple of weeks.  The print, as opposed to this electronic
version, uses typefaces to make the information clearer.
The CORMOSEA BULLETIN is a publication of CORMOSEA and is
issued twice per year ($10 per year).  Subscriptions should be
sent to the Association for Asia Studies, 1 Lane Hall, Ann Arbor,
Michigan 48109.  [I have no financial interest in the BULLETIN.]

        The article is intended for novice internet users
and provides background information and a glossary as well as
a directory of catalogs of libraries with substantial
Southeast Asia Collections and other resources.  The directory
is likely useful for internet users of any degree of
sophistication.

        To retrieve the manuscript, send a message to:
LISTSERV@MSU.EDU, with no subject and a single line:
GET MULLINER CORMOSEA.  The list server will then send
the document to you as electronic mail.  It is eight
single-spaced pages in length.

        Two changes have been made since the document was
posted.  In the entry for Usenet, soc.culture.singapore,
has been added.  The entry for Washington, University of,
should be replaced with the following:

"Washington, University of.  Telnet to UWIN.U.WASHINGTON.EDU.
This connects you to the University of Washington Information
Navigator, which offers a series of menus.  From the Index Menu,
you can choose LIBS and then the University of Washington Catalog.
To exit, type quit."

        With the rapid changes in resources and technology,
the article represents a snapshot of what was available
in Dec. 1992.  An effort will be made to periodically update
it.  If you have any problems or questions, please let
me know & I'll try to help.

        K. Mulliner, Ohio University Libraries
        mulliner@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu




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Date:         Wed, 6 Jan 1993 23:06:21 PST
From:         Coban Tun <tun@QUARK.SFSU.EDU>
Subject:      Burmese Nobel Laureate donates 15,200 to NGOs

APn  01/06 1237  Burma-Suu Kyi

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

   BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Aung San Suu Kyi, the detained leader of Burma's
democracy movement, has donated money from her Nobel Peace Prize and other
awards to help Burmese prostitutes in Thailand, a Thai official said
Wednesday.
   Saisuree Chutikul, an adviser on women and children's issues in the prime
minister's office, said Suu Kyi's husband, Michael Aris, had sent her a check
for $15,200 in October. Saisuree said she did not announce the gift earlier
because she wanted to clear it with Thailand's new government.
   In a statement with the check, Aris said his wife, now in her fourth year of
house arrest in Burma, "wishes to make a financial contribution toward the
vocational training and medical care of Burmese girls and women who have been
rescued from brothels along the Thai-Burmese border."
   He said the donation, from Suu Kyi's Burma Trust for Health and Education,
was made of money from her 1991 Nobel Prize and other awards.
   Suu Kyi, 47, was arrested by Burma's military junta in July 1989 after she
founded the National League for Democracy. The party won 82 percent of the
contested seats in elections in 1990, but the junta prevented it from forming
a government.
   Saisuree said the money would be channeled through non-governmental
organizations working with girls from Burma, China's Yunnan province and Thai
minority groups.
   The girls would be provided with medical checkups, vocational training and
AIDS information before being sent home.
   Saisuree said there are an estimated 2,000 or more Burmese girls working in
brothels along the Thai border. Most go there voluntarily because of poverty,
but others are lured by false promises of jobs or are kidnapped, she said.
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Date:         Sun, 10 Jan 1993 11:17:21 EST
From:         Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Subject:      TH: PDP decline predicted if Chamlong quits

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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 02:43:33+0700
From: Kamol Hengkietisak <kamol@ipied.tu.ac.th>
Subject: Bangkok Post Jan 9: PDP decline predicted if Chamlong quits


IF Maj-Gen Chamlong Srimuang refuses to return as Palang Dharma
(PDP) leader, the party will have great difficulty and will
decline in popularity, chief party adviser Deputy Prime Minister
Boonchu Rojanasatien said yesterday.

Asked about the chances of him becoming leader, Mr Boonchu said it
is unlikely.

He wants Chamlong to make a sacrifice for the party and return as
leader.

"If Maj-Gen Chamlong does not, it may cause the party difficulty
because the people believe in him greatly," Mr Boonchu said.

Maj-Gen Chamlong has become a farmer and started a leadership
school for villagers in Kanchanaburi.

Mr Boonchu said Chamlong may feel frustrated that he has worked
and apparently accomplished nothing.

This may be why he is trying to build a good political base in the
countryside, Boonchu said, adding that this will benefit the
democratic system.

Mr Boonchu said the party was born out of the practice of Buddhism
and good deeds.

Its founder has a character that has inspired confidence.

He lives modestly and is honest, and no one has been able to do
what Maj-Gen Chamlong has done.

If no one can be found to replace Chamlong then public confidence
in the party will decline, he said.

Asked if PDP can survive only with Maj-Gen Chamlong as leader, Mr
Boonchu said no, but without him, it will probably not be able to
increase public support.

Asked why he himself does not take the post since he has
experience leading a political party, Mr Boonchu said he cannot
inspire the same type of confidence as Maj-Gen Chamlong.
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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 21:46:10 EST
From:         Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Subject:      TH: Chavalit to decide fate of expressway

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Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 22:45:52+0700
From: Kamol Hengkietisak <kamol@ipied.tu.ac.th>


INTERIOR Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh is expected to decide by
next week if the Expressways and Rapid Transit Authority of
Thailand will build an expressway between Urupong and Pratunam.

Gen Chavalit and ETA Governor Charan Buraparat yesterday discussed
the project, which is strongly opposed by the Muslim community in
Ban Krua.

The Interior Minister said the expressway project has been delayed
for five months and he will decide by next month whether to allow
it to go ahead.

Ban Krua residents have said the project is designed to serve a
major shopping centre located nearby.

The Urupong-Pratunam project would be the second stage of an
expressway linking Bangkhlo and Chaeng Wattana.

The ETA has nearly completed the northern span of the project from
Phaya Thai to Chaeng Wattana but opposition by the Ban Krua
residents has delayed land expropriation for the Phaya
Thai-Bangkhlo section.

Gen Chavalit reaffirmed that the Phaya Thai-Bangkhlo section,
which cuts through Ban Krua, will be constructed.

Land Department chief Phan Chantharapan, who is also an ETA board
member, was appointed yesterday to head a committee to study ways
to help Ban Krua residents whose land will be expropriated for the
expressway.

Mr Phan said there has been no order from the ministry to suspend
the project between Urupong and Pratunam.

ETA Governor Charan said the expressway must be built, and the ETA
would build new apartments for the residents if they insist on
staying there.

However, the residents may have to move out of the area for two
years during construction of the expressway and the housing
project, he said.
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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 21:48:59 EST
From:         Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Subject:      TH: New prostitution bill proposed

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Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 22:44:01+0700
From: Kamol Hengkietisak <kamol@ipied.tu.ac.th>


A NEW prostitution bill has been submitted to Parliament which
will make customers who have sex with children or women forced to
serve as prostitutes liable to prison terms and a heavy fine.

The bill was proposed by Palang Dharma Party MP for Bangkok Ms
Sudarat Keyuraphant and was seconded by 20 other MPs.

Altogether the bill contains 17 articles and seeks to replace the
existing Prostitution Act of 1928 which is regarded as outdated
and does not correspond with today's actual situation whereby
countless women and children have been lured into the flesh trade
because of social and economic problems.

Under the bill, persons who patronise a brothel which provides sex
with boys and girls or women who have been forced to serve as
prostitutes will face jail terms ranging from 1-5 years and/or a
fine ranging from 20,000 to 100,000 baht.   Supporters of this
kind of brothel will also face similar punishment.

Persons who lease out their premises to be used as brothels
providing child or forced prostitution face prison terms from 5-10
years and/or a fine ranging from 150,000 to 400,000 baht.

As for procurers -- whether women or children are smuggled into
the country or exported for prostitution purposes and whether the
children or women are willing or not -- the punishment will be
prison terms from 5-10 years and/or a fine from 150,000-400,000
baht.

Owners of brothels which have child prostitutes or forced
prostitutes will also face jail terms from 5-10 years and/or a
fine from 150,000-400,000 baht.

Harsher penalties are advocated for those who brutally maltreat
prostitutes. Punishment for this offence ranges from 10-20 years'
imprisonment and/or a fine ranging from 200,000-500,000 baht.

If the prostitutes are seriously injured or die from beatings
inflicted by pimps or procurers, the penalty will be death or life
imprisonment.
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Date:         Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:24:37 -0500
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      CAM: Japan considers pullout from Cambodia

01/03

Japan considers August pullout of troops from Cambodia

   TOKYO (UPI) -- Japan is considering withdrawing its peacekeeping troops from
Cambodia to coincide with the scheduled end of a United Nations peacekeeping
mission, government sources said Sunday, according to the Kyodo News Service.
   In doing so, the Japanese troops might pullout a month before their original
schedule and maybe before the peace process is finished in the war-ravaged
country.
   Despite strong protests from some quarters, Japan decided last September to
send a 600-member engineer unit from its Self-Defence Forces to Cambodia, the
first military expedition from the country since World War II.
   The Japanese Cabinet originally planned for the SDF engineer units to work
on road and bridge repairing projects in the war-ruined country to the end of
October 1993.
   The government had planned to rotate fresh engineer units every six months.
The unit currently serving in Cambodia is expected to be replaced by April.
   SDF engineers might face danger if the infantry corps of the United Nations
Transitional Authoritiy in Cambodia leaves Cambodia in August. The UNTAC
infantry has provided protection for the Japanese engineers and has served as a
deterrent to actions by the Khmer Rouge guerrilla group, which has objected to
the U.N. mission. The Khmer Rouge refuses to comply with a U.N.-negotiated
peace accord signed in Paris in October 1991.
   The accord states that UNTAC will end its mission after the enactment of a
new Cambodian constitution and establishment of a government three months after
a May 1993 general election.
   The Khmer Rouge is militarily the stongest of the three guerrilla groups
involved in the peace accord that fought against the Vietnam- installed
government in Phnom Penh.
   Kyodo said that Yasushi Akashi, a Japanese national who heads UNTAC, once
spoke of the possibility of the U.N. troops remaining beyond August, but there
are problems in financing the mission, the govenrment sources said.
   The 20,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping operation in Cambodia was started in
March last year, and by October had cost some dlrs 800 million, most used to
pay the salaries of 16,000 military personnel.
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