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From: UC580503@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Albert Foo)
Subject: SG: Newsbrief (Jan 5) "Goh Flexes His Muscles"
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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 05:16:56 GMT
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Here's an article I found relating to Singapore while perusing thru
the School of Journalism's newswire archive.  Permission has been obtained
to post to SEASIA-L.
 
 
*** Article 432:993:Politic/Singapore ***
 
"GOH FLEXES HIS MUSCLES"  - Choices (Asiaweek Jan 5 1993)
 
    The main issue in Singapore's DEC. 19 by-election, which Prime
Minister Goh Chok Tong and his team won with 72.9% of the vote, was
a perenial one.  Should there be a viable opposition in Parliament?
Goh made no bones about where he stood.  Said the PM: "The two-party
system doesn't necessarily work for Singapore."  Goh's main opponents
in the Singapore Democratic Party, of course, saw things differently.
 
    During the 1991 general election, Goh had promised to hold future
by-elections to bring new talent into the government.  The exercise has
taken on added urgency with the illness of both deputy prime ministers.
The premier fulfilled his promise by resigning from Parliament and
calling a special election in his own group constituency.  Since four
candidates were elected as a team, he was able to bring a new
man in:  Commodore Teo Chee Hean, 38, who resigned as chief of the
navy to run.
 
    During the campaign, Goh displayed new confidence.  He conceded
that Lee Kuan Yew had preferred ex-education minister Tony Tan as his
successor.  But Goh said he had his colleagues' support -- "and that's
what counts."  Lee had said that Tan would return to the cabinet, but
Goh said he had no immediate plans to bring him back.
 
    However, Goh wasted no time in promoting his own people.  No sooner
had Teo won his seat than he was moved off the back benches.  He was
appointed to hold two important junior posts in the communications
and finance ministries.
 
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From:         Coban Tun <tun@QUARK.SFSU.EDU>
Subject:      Th: ARMY COMMANDER DEPARTS FOR SRV, COMMENTS

01/19 2135  THAILAND - ARMY COMMANDER DEPARTS FOR SRV, COMMENTS

(JAN. 19) PAC RIM INTELLIGENCE REPORT - Army Commander General Wimon Wongwanit
spoke yesterday with reporters before leading an Army delegation on a visit to
Vietnam. He said during the visit there will be discussions aimed at enhancing
understanding and strengthening relations between the lower levels of the two
countries' military establishment now that the two countries have exchanged
military attaches, with emphasis on the role of the military and bilateral
relations. He was confident that inter-military relations between the two
countries will improve steadily. He said Vietnam wanted peace in the region,
and he believed that the chances of a strong dispute will diminish if the
respective
military establishments have good relations with each other as a result of
dialogue. Regarding whether good relations between the military would benefit
other areas of relations, Gen. Wimon said in the  discussions could solve
matters in areas where the military has a role, adding that the military will
not meddle in areas which belong to the Foreign Ministry.
   Asked about the role of military relations with foreign countries, Gen. Wimon
said the military establishment in every country has similar thinking and
traditions and it is easier for the soldiers to understand each other due to
similar philosophy. If soldiers can talk to each other directly many problems
could be solved. He said soldiers will not meddle in the political issues,
except if they are security-related. The lessons learned from the problems
with Burma, Malaysia, and Laos have shown that the problems can be solved more
easily if the respective military establishments can talk with each other.
   From THAI RAT in Thai
   Date 15 January 1993
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From:         Joyce Brabner <ah881@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Topics

PLEASE do not lump Cambodia, Viet Nam and Laos together.

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Date:         Thu, 28 Jan 1993 11:28:11 EST
From:         Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Subject:      TH: Helmet law protest

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From: Kamol Hengkietisak <kamol@ipied.tu.ac.th>
Subject: Bangkok Post Jan 28: Planned protest about helmet law

ABOUT 200 operators of motorcycle taxis are expected to rally at
Sanam Luang on Sunday to protest against the compulsory use of
crash helmets which begins on February 1, an Interior Ministry
source said yesterday.

According to the crash helmet law, from February 1 all
motorcyclists, including operators of motorcycle taxis and pillion
riders, are required to wear crash helmets on all Bangkok roads
except in small sois and in major ones specified by traffic
police.

The source said the protesters will be the same group which
protested in front of Parliament early last month. Some of them
will be wearing a jacket bearing the name of Interior Minister
Chavalit Yongchaiyudh's New Aspiration Party despite the fact that
the party has nothing to do with them, the source said.

In another development, Special Branch police commissioner Pol
Lt-Gen Phiboon Kullavanijaya yesterday briefed Gen Chavalit on the
situation.

To reporters, Pol Lt-Gen Phiboon said Special Branch police are
closely monitoring reports that farmers, with financial support
from some political parties, will arrive in Bangkok early next
month to protest against the low paddy prices.

Meanwhile about 500,000 crash helmets sold to motorcyclists have
not passed standard tests, and half of these are thought to be
below standard, Deputy Industry Minister Pornthep Techapaibul said
yesterday.

Mr Pornthep was viewing standard tests of crash helmets yesterday
at the Industrial Standardisation Testing and Training Centre at
Bang Pu Industrial Estate in Samut Prakan.

He said most of the locally-made and imported helmets on sale now
are up to standard and bear stickers issued by the Thai Industrial
Standards Institute. About 10,000 sub-standard helmets had been
seized from factories and stores.

The crash helmet regulation comes into force on February 1. About
200,000 motorcyclists in the city still do not have helmets, Mr
Pornthep said.

Sub-standard helmets have these features: if you press the two
sides they bend easily; the foam is easily dented when pressed;
and there are no holes for ventilation or listening.
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Date:         Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:54:23 PST
From:         Coban Tun <tun@QUARK.SFSU.EDU>
Subject:      BURMA - NEWSMEN VISIT YINBYU REPATRIATION CENTER

01/19 2111  BURMA - NEWSMEN VISIT YINBYU REPATRIATION CENTER

(JAN. 19) PAC RIM INTELLIGENCE REPORT - A delegation led by Mr. Omar Farooq,
Commissioner of Chittagong from Bangladesh, and which included three members
from the BPP (expansion unknown) news agency; four members from the relief
department, home affairs department, and foreign affairs department of the prime
minister's office; and 12 newsmen and journalists from REUTER, BBC, VOA, AP
news agencies, broadcasting stations, and newspapers visited Yinbyu repatriation
center at 1200 on 7 January and inspected repatriation works and interviewed
some families.
   They were welcomed by U Than Aye, director of the immigration and manpower
department; U Tin Maung Lwin, deputy director; and employees of the reception
centers. U Maung Maung Swe, staff officer of the reception center, explained
the repatriation matters to the newsmen.
   The Commissioner of Chittagong and party next went to Kyaukhlegar village,
met with elders of the local mosque, and interviewed some of the returnees.
They returned to Bangladesh at 1400.
   In accordance with the bilateral agreement on the repatriation of those who
illegally left Myanmar (Burma) for Bangladesh, three delegations led by
respective camp officials of the country on the other side yesterday transferred
2,364 returneesl,151 males and 1,213 femalesfrom 512 households.
   It has been learned that, from 22 September 1992 to 13 January 1993, a
total of 14,485 persons7,094 males and 7,391 femalesfrom 3,199 households, who
illegally left the country, have been repatriated so far.
   From Radio Burma in Burmese
   Date 14 January 1993
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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 12:02:30 -0500
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      CAM: Khmer Rouge release 3 UN peacekeepers

01/19

KHMER ROUGE GUERRILLAS RELEASE THREE U.N. PEACEKEEPERS

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA (JAN. 19) UPI - Khmer Rouge guerrillas Tuesday freed three
U.N. naval personnel and a Cambodian interpreter they had been holding two days
in central Cambodia, a U.N. spokesman said.
   The two Britons, one Chilean and the Cambodian were released at about 2 p.m.
local time Tuesday "and are safe and well," said Eric Falt, spokesman for the
U.N. Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC).
   The three UNTAC naval personnel went up the Sen River by boat on Sunday with
the interpreter to attend a pre-arranged meeting with a group of Khmer Rouge
guerrillas at a site about 90 miles north of Phnom Penh.
   However, the Khmer Rouge detained the men, who were all unarmed, at a camp
on the banks of the Sen River about 20 miles west of the provincial capital of
Kompong Thom.
   The four men were freed Tuesday after more than 48 hours of negotiations
between UNTAC officials and Khmer Rouge representatives in Phnom Penh and in
Kompong Thom.
   The captives were Lt. Comm. Alex Manning of the British Royal Navy, Lt. Alan
Mettle of the Chilean Navy, Sgt. David O'Connor of the British Royal Marines
and Cambodian interpreter Chea Narin.
   It was the fifth time that Khmer Rouge guerrillas have seized U.N. personnel
in Cambodia since the U.N. Security Council on Dec. 1 imposed sanctions against
the radical faction to force it to comply with a peace agreement signed in
Paris 15 months ago. All the captives have been released unharmed.
   The Phnom Penh regime, installed with the help of Vietnamese occupation
forces, the Maoist-inspired Khmer Rouge and two non-communist resistance groups
signed the U.N.-brokered accord, under which UNTAC is to take the country to
elections scheduled for April or May.
   But the Khmer Rouge dropped out of the peace process in June, charging
Vietnamese troops have secretly remained in the country after Hanoi's official
withdrawal from Cambodia in 1989 and demanding more power be transferred from
the government to the four-faction Supreme National Council.
   The Khmer Rouge was responsible for the deaths of more than one million
Cambodians during a four-year reign of terror before being ousted by invading
Vietnamese troops in 1979.
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Date:         Thu, 28 Jan 1993 08:06:14 EST
From:         Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Subject:      TH: News postings may be suspended

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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 00:38:30+0700
From: Kamol Hengkietisak <kamol@ipied.tu.ac.th>
Subject: One-month leave

I am taking one-month leave from Bangkok Post starting Feb 1-28. I will
be in Singapore for the whole month to attend Regional Language Centre's
seminar/workshop on Teaching English for Technology and Business. As some
regular readers of s.c.t may have been informed that I am holding two jobs:
at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology North Bangkok during the day time
and at Bangkok Post during the night time. I also open my own BBS at KMITN.
So during my absence, I have asked khun Trin to find a replacement for news
feed.
        Will resume news posting in March.
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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 10:37:38 -0500
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      CAM: 2 new casualties

01/15

 U.N. REPORTS TWO NEW CASUALTIES FROM CAMBODIAN ...

PHNOM PENH (JAN. 15) DPA - Two new Cambodian casualties confirmed in a United
Nations report bring to three dead and six wounded the casualty toll from an
attack on an UNTAC location in northeast Siem Reap province on January 12, a
U.N. spokesman said Friday.
   Two Cambodian girls aged seven and 17 sustained bullet wounds from the
attack by 40 unidentified armed assailants on the U.N. Transitional Authority
in Cambodia facility, the spokesman said.
   Two Cambodian U.N. personnel died, a Ghanaian and an Indian - both members
of the civilian police - were wounded, a 72-year-old local man hurt and his
daughter aged seven were killed during the 30-minute attack in which rocket and
small arms fire were used.
   "It is still unclear why this attack occurred on the night of the 12th to
the 13th of January and who perpetrated it," the spokesman said.
   In eastern Pursat province earlier this week an office of the royalist
FUNCINPEC party was rocketed and hit by 30 rounds. Four people were wounded.
All were recovering in hospital, the spokesman said.
   A rocket-propelled grenade was fired near a FUNCINPEC party office in the
provincial capital of northwest Battambang province and three suspects were
later arrested by local authorities, he said.
   In another attack Thursday, the Buddhist Liberal Democratic party office in
Battambang took five rounds of fire but no casualties were reported, he added.
   Two weeks ago Khmer Rouge guerrillas fired 80 mortar rounds on an UNTAC
electoral team and Bangladeshi peacekeepers in Siem Reap province some 40
kilometres northeast of Tuesday night's attack.
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Date:         Sun, 24 Jan 1993 22:53:28 PST
From:         Coban Tun <tun@QUARK.SFSU.EDU>
Subject:      more info on Burma-China relations

MORE INFORMATION BURMA-CHINA RELATIONS:

FROM: SOUTH EAST ASIAN INFORMATION NETWORK

24TH JANUARY 1992

Information obtained by reliable border sources have confirmed
that on the night of 9th and 10th January 1993, approximately 100
Chinese army trucks travelled from Mang Shi in Yunnan province to
Shwe Li in Burma. These trucks were carrying a shipment of
military equipment.  Witnesses on the Burma side then reported
that the equipment was transferred to a waiting Burmese army
convoy.

This is further confirmation of information obtained earlier that
the PRC and SLORC had agreed upon the transfer of arms and
ammunition from the PRC for use on the Thai Burmese border.

Arrangements between SLORC and the PRC for payment of the
military equipment includes payment over a period of three years,
permission for China to extract natural resources from Burma, and
continuation of military training from China . The Burmese army
is currently partcipating in military training in Chen Du,
Sichuan Province, the training is said to be for the use of
sophisticated weapons.

In November 1992, two meetings were held between SLORC and Yunnan
officialsanf the following was agreed to:

1.There will be a motorway built between Ta Haw Hka in Yunnan
province and Hka Shang in Kachin state undertaken by authorities
in Teng Chung district, Yunnan province.

2.The construction of a Burma-China motorway across Sima, which
will be undertaken by Yunnan province.

3.Construction of the Myitkyina-Nam Si Aung motorway will also be
undertaken by Yunnan province.

4.Construction of a hydroelectric station by the Chinese to
supply power to Myitkyina and Bhamo.

5.Both sides have agreed that there should be no KIO presence 40
miles either side of the Myitkyina-Bhamo motorway.

6.SLORC have agreed to allow Chinese businesses to set up in
Myitkyina and Bhamo.

7.SLORC will allow Chinese experts to help extract Burma's
natural resources.

8.Household goods will be imported from China.
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:58:34 MST
From:         "noel margate" <U5337101@NMSUVM1.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Topics
              21 Jan 1993 14:29:19 EST from <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>

can i set my topic to the phillippines?


                                    thanx,
                                       noel margate  :-)
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:05:27 -0500
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Subject:      Re: Is There a "List" for E. Asia?

The address for Association of Japanese Business Studies is as follows:

        listserv@ncsuvm.cc.ncsu.edu

Zamzuri
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Date:         Sun, 24 Jan 1993 20:35:17 -0500
From:         purwinto@MAILBOX.SYR.EDU
Subject:      Peace: To whom it may concern

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Some of you may be interested, so I thought I would send this along to
the crowd and hope to catch a few possible participants.  Peace, I think
that's what this is about, Fay

____________________________________________________________________________

To all supporters of peace and justice in former Yugoslavia:

Action for Peace in the Balkans, a multiethnic, San Francisco Bay
Area-based peace group, has organized a nationwide telegram hotline to
President Bill Clinton, urging him to seek a peaceful solution to this
conflict. The telegram reads:

"I oppose military intervention or lifting the arms embargo in the civil war
in former Yugoslavia.  Such action will fuel the fighting, prolong civilian
suffering, and lead to an even wider conflict in the region. Exercise
evenhanded diplomacy and pressure the three warring sides in Bosnia and
Hercegovina to negotiate a mutually acceptable political solution."

The procedure for using the hotline is as follows:

1. Call (800) 372-2626 (Western Union, Telegram Hotlines)

2. Ask for hotline no. 9337; it will be identified as "Peace in the
Balkans"; the recepient and begining of text will be confirmed (full text
also read on demand; however, note that within this hotline the text is not
alterable)

3. You will be asked for a name and address of the sender, as well as your
home phone number; a $6.95 charge will appear on your next telephone bill
(however, you can call from any phone)

4. You may (optionally) provide your name and address to the organizers.


We urge you to take part in and advertise broadly this action, which will
be taking place for a limited time after inauguration. Our new
administration's policy on this issue has apparently not been set yet, but
defining it is its highest foreign policy priority. This is why it is of
paramount importance to immediately  let them know that military
intervention is *not* a viable option. This message must be sent in a
clear, visible and organized way, and this action serves that purpose.
Certainly, other means of voicing your opinion on the subject remain
equally important as before. But we ask you to take this action seriously,
since only many thousands of telegrams can make a difference.


ACTION FOR PEACE IN THE BALKANS

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Date:         Sat, 23 Jan 1993 00:10:08 PST
From:         andras@GATEKEEPER.CALERA.COM
Subject:      Machine-readable text, dictionaries

As a new subscriber I guess I should introduce myself: my name is
Andras Kornai, and I'm working as a computational linguist at
Calera Recognition Systems, an optical character recognition
company. I joined the list to find out what electronic resources
are available for those interested in Burmese, Khmer, Laotian,
in the form of word-processors, spell-checkers, dictionaries,
screen fonts, or just on-line text. Are there ftp sites for
such material, or people who could make something available
(possibly for a fee) over the net? I am particularly interested
in machine-readable texts in any of these languages, and in
learning about ascii transliteration schemes (if there are
more or less standard ones) -- any help would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks in advance,
Andras Kornai (andras@calera.com)
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From: Lynn.E.Noel@dartmouth.edu (Lynn E Noel)
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Subject: Songs of the Subcontinent?
Date: 28 Jan 93 02:20:00 GMT
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At a recent sing party, we got on a roll of "exotic-destination" songs
-- Away Rio, Bound for South Australia, Old Maui, &c &c. This led
naturally to "colonies" songs: Black Velvet Band, CaneCutters' Lament,
Scarborough Settler's Lament, Queensland Drovers, &c &c. Our host's
mother, an East Asian scholar of some repute, wondered why there were
so few songs in the British Isles tradition from British India -- after
twenty of us had been unable to come up with a single example. 
Australians, Canadians, even us Yanks have our collections of
Anglo-Celtic lore and songs written in the British Isles tradition; and
the rich cross-pollination of Africa, South America and Europe have
given us North Americans plenty of gospel, Latin, calypso and reggae in
our "traditional" harmony singing.

Where is India? As a geographer, singer and collector, this intrigues
me. Was the work so different that the work songs didn't travel, or
didn't get written? (Sheep don't do well in the jungle, we understand.)
Where are the songs of the tea plantations, or of the soldiers marching
to war during the Raj? Was the conflict, culltural or political, so
distasteful that the folk history has been suppressed? Did the
bourgeois class that went out to India just not sing/write folk songs?
Was the music so different that there was no cross-cultural balladry or
harmony? Were the forms too foreign to adapt? Or am I missing
something? India was Britain's largest possession for a long time.
There is white space on my musical and mental map.

Can anyone give examples of any of the following? We are particularly
interested in songs that have survived, or been revived, in the oral
tradition. "Mirrors" of any of these genres in Asian languages would be
most interesting as well!

%  songs written in English in India during the British Raj
%Jwork songs of British workers in India, or of workers in colonial
activities 
%Jsongs that mention India as a destination or an origin, or contain
Indian placenames
%Jmodern songs that deal with colonial society in British India
%Jsongs in the Indian tradition(s) that touch on the colonial period

If there are empty categories, why? RSVP to end our bafflement! Thanks.
Please e-mail me directly as I don't check some of these lists
regularly.

Lynn E. Noel
Research Fellow, Atlantic Centre for the Environment
lynn.e.noel@dartmouth.edu

"The care of rivers is not a question of rivers, but of the human
heart."  Tanaka Shozo
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