From: elelyc@nuscc.nus.sg (Y.C. Liang)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.taiwan
Subject: News 5/9/92
Date: 5 Sep 92 04:15:56 GMT
Organization: National University of Singapore


UNDERSTAND CHINA'S HUMAN-RIGHTS POLICY

TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa has urged US to try and
understand China's human rights policy.  "I often tell Americans that
there are various ways of interpreting human rights, depending on the
stage of economic development", Mr. Miyazawa said in an interview with
Japan Broadcasting Corporation on Thursday.

"According to the Chinese, the most fundamental human right is to be
able to live, not to die of hunger, to have a house to live in and
clothes to wear .... I think it is half true" he said.

"I am not saying that's enough but it's a respect of human rights".

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STUDENT ACTIVISTS FREE TO RETURN DESPITE ARREST OF DISSIDENT: BEIJING

BEIJING -- China says student-activist exiles who fled after Beijing
crushed the 1989 pro-democracy movement are free to come home despite
the arrest of dissident Shen Tong this week.

The official Xinhua news agency said late on Thursday: "China's policy
on welcoming overseas students will not be changed because of the
incident".

Mr. Shen's detention has drawn wide condemnation oversea and called into
question China's recently-renewed appeals for students to return home to
take part in the country's economic development.

Only a third of the 170,000 students and researchers who have gone
overseas since the late 1970s have returned.

The latest government statement acknowledged their fears, trying to
again reassure students that they could return without retribution.

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CHINESE ARE NATURAL CAPITALISTS: THATCHER SAID	

SEOUL -- Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher described the
Chinese yesterday as natural capitalists and said that market forces
would inevitably lead to political change in the communist nation.

"People can see for themselves that markets work and give a higher
standard of living.  Chinese people know about markets, they are natural
capitalists", she said.

Mrs. Thatcher, on a three-day trip to South Korea, said that she was
more convinced than ever that the Pacific Rim would be the world's
economic centre of gravity well into the next century.

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ONE WOMAN AND HER BABY

CBS -- Television viewers in the United States will be treated to a
fifth season of the popular show Murphy Brown, starring Candice Bergen,
when it returns to CBS with a special one-hour premiere on Sept 21.  The
new season revolves round Mother Murphy as she copes with big changes in
her life while forging ahead as a journalist.

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S. KOREAN RULING PARTY TRIES TO APPEASE TAIPEI OVER BEIJING TIES

SEOUL -- The ruling Democratic Liberal Party will send a high-level
delegation to Taiwan on Sept 15 to appease Taipei over Seoul's
diplomatic switch to Beijing.

A party spokesman said the delegation would be led by Mr. Kim Jae Soon,
former parliamentary speaker, and comprise several lawmakers.

The mission would stay three days in Taiwan for talks with top officials
in the Nationalist Party and seek ways to expand private-level exchanges
between the two long-time allies, he said.

The Seoul government had said it would send a similar mission to Taiwan
but Taipei reportedly reject it.

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