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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 15:00:25 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      PNG: Abuse of Visas
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/* Written 11:04 pm  Aug 20, 1992 by PACNEWS@f990.n900.z90.pegasus.oz.au in
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/* ---------- "PNG - IMMIGRATION" ---------- */
PNG - IMMIGRATION:  RNZ NEWS,  PACNEWS ED-1,  AUGUST 19 1992

The Papua New Guinea government says it plans to mount a campaign against
foreign nationals who abuse the country's visa and  immigration system.

The Foreign Minister, John Kaputin, says the government will start a system of
spot checks to make sure foreigners comply with visa regulations and don't
overstay their time in Papua New Guinea.

Mr Kaputin also says he will change immigration policies so that potential
business migrants will be required to show evidence of  assets and cash
deposits before being allowed into the country.

Meanwhile, he says foreign citizens doing menial jobs, which could be done by
Papua New Guineans, will have their employment visas  cancelled.

Mr Kaputin says he will present details of his new immigration  policy to
Parliament during the budget session in November. ...ends.

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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 13:40:57 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: Thailand, VN to sign rice agreement
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08/17

THAILAND, VIETNAM TO SIGN RICE AGREEMENT

    BANGKOK, Aug 17, Reuter - Thailand and Vietnam will sign an agreement this
week on exchanging information on rice prices, production and exports in a move
to protect their trade interests.
    Commerce ministry officials said Thai Commerce Minister Amaret Sila-on is
due to conclude the bilateral agreement during his visit to Vietnam on August
18-22.
    They said the countries hope the agreement will benefit their rice exports
by sparing them the problem of price undercutting experienced in recent years.
    Vietnam, which in the last few years has emerged as the third biggest
exporter after Thailand and the United States, has become Thailand's main
competitor in the low grade rice sector.
    The officials said the pact will help prepare both exporters to deal with
international grain traders.
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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 17:03:25 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      PNG/BOUG: No Church Amnesty
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/* ---------- "PNG - CHURCH OBJECTS AMNESTY" ---------- */
PNG - CHURCH OBJECTS AMNESTY:  NBC/PNG,  PACNEWS ED-1,  AUGUST 12  1992

The Catholic Church in Papua New Guinea says it will not support  total amnesty
for members of the Bougainville Revolutionary Army as a move to achieve peace.

The Archbishop of Port Moresby, Peter Kurongku, a Bougainvillean,  says people
on the island have been badly treated by the BRA rebels and justice should take
its course.

He says those who deserve to be punished should face the challenge and
consequences of their actions.

Archbishop Kurongku was responding to calls by the former United  Church bishop
in the North Solomons, Reverend Jone Moce for total amnesty to the BRA.

He says those from outside North Solomons do not really know what is happening
to the people on the island and how they would react if amnesty was granted.
...ends.

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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 10:49:40 -0500
From:         chai@CS.UIUC.EDU
Subject:      Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism and Hinduism
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I would like to learn more about the religions of my fellow Malysians.
I believe that when one better understands ones neighbours, one is less
likely to offend them and more likely to live harmonious lives.

Last year I spent a lot of my free time studying Islam, and I am a
Christian, so now it's on to Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism and
Hinduism.

If any Buddhists, Taoists, Confucianists and Hindus would like to
discuss their beliefs with me via email, please write to
chai@cs.uiuc.edu, and hopefully we can learn from each other about each
others' beliefs.

Note: I am interested in these religions as they are practiced by the
regular people of Malaysia, India and China, and much less interested
in modern millitant versions like Nichiren-shoshu and Hare Krishnas.

Thank you.

Ian Chai
chai@cs.uiuc.edu
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 09:34:57 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject: Re: Exaggerated bombing statistics?

This is likely another example of the many errors in IPS
news stories -- not to mention entirely erroneous stories.
This is one of the main reasons I've forwarded them only
rarely and warily to seasia-l.  My own advice is to read
them with great care and a sketical eye.

John (apakabar@igc.apc.org)
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 11:37:17 EDT
From:         Jody.Diamond@DARTMOUTH.EDU
Subject:      Harrison Gamelan CD

There is a new CD out on Music Masters that might interest some of you. "Lou
Harrison: Gamelan Music" is a recording of many of Harrison's works for
gamelan and western instruments (violon, sax, piccolo trumpet) as well as a
large suite for gamelan and chorus written in honor of the new radio Pacifia
building in Berkeley. The instruments are Harrison and Colvig built -- the
aluminum gamelan Si Betty.

If anyone finds the notes lacking, please ask me any questions you might
have. I was co-director of the ensemble and consulted on the editing. I would
have liked the notes to be more extensive. Lou Harrison wrote a short
introduction, and gave the texts for the pieces in "Homage to Pacifica" but
there is little information on the other pieces. Perhaps the music can speak
for itself.

This is the first of a two CD set planned by Music masters. The second CD,
already recorded, will have music by K.R.t. Wasitodiningrat, Mantle Hood,
Virgil Thomson, Trish Neilsen (the other direcotr of the group, and myself.

Looking forward to your questions and feedback!
Jody Diamond
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 14:09:00 -0500
From:         IDKS500@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU
Subject:      Request for contacts
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Date: 19 Aug 1992 08:52:47 -0400
From: Gires Usup <usup@BU-BIO.BU.EDU>

Assalamualaikum,
I am interested to get in touch with fellow Malaysians who are
currently pursuing degrees in the marine sciences /oceanography.
I think it would be better to get in touch through personal
e-mail.
Sekian.
Gires Usup, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.
E-mail: usup@bu-bio.bu.edu
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 08:51:39 -0400
From:         "Abdul K. Rony" <aron@SEQ1.LOC.GOV>
Subject:      no mail
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 15:18:06 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      FIJI: US Defense Ties
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/* ---------- "FIJI - US DEFENCE" ---------- */
FIJI - US DEFENCE:  RNZ NEWS,  PACNEWS ED-1,  AUGUST 19 1992

The United States has resumed limited defence ties with Fiji.

Two American warships have visited Fiji in the past week and another warship is
expected in Suva today.

A spokesman for the American embassy in Suva says a detachment of  naval staff
will be based in Fiji for the next week to help with a number  of community
service projects, including the extension of an orphanage.

Defence links between the two countries were suspended after the two military
coups in Fiji in 1987.

Soon after the country's general election in May, the American government
indicated that it was prepared to resume full defence  tieswith Fiji.

Radio New Zealand says it's understood that substantial American  defence aid
to Fiji will be made available in the next 12 months.

The American move follows an announcement by Australia last month  that it was
resuming its defence links with Fiji immediately.

New Zealand has also indicated it will resume military ties with  Fiji but has
said it won't be rushed into implementing any plans  concerning this. ....ends.

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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 10:20:11 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: VN charges Hollywood created MIA "myth"
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08/16

Vietnam charges Hollywood created MIA ``myth''

   BANGKOK, Thailand (UPI) -- Vietnam has blamed Hollywood for creating the
"myth" that U.S. servicemen are still being held in Indochina and charged
American movie makers have "distorted" events from the Vietnam War.
   "The Vietnam war is not completely over yet," state-run Radio Hanoi said in a
commentary. "And the Americans have tried to win a victory through movies in
order to save face.
   "This fact was made obvious when the advertisement for the film  "Missing in
Action" was revealed with the sensational words: 'The war won't be over until
the last American returns home,"' the Vietnamese- language broadcast said
Friday. A transcript of the broadcast was made available in Bangkok Sunday.
   "The effort to revive the myth about the war is totally premeditated," Radio
Hanoi said. "The basic goal of this is to revive those scenes of war already
rooted deep in the hearts of the Americans and then to completely distort them."
   The radio described scenes from one movie, which it did not name, of a
soldier throwing a hand grenade into an underground shelter and of another
soldier shooting a woman with her baby in her arms.
   "These suggest the My Lai massacre," the radio said, referring to the 1968
killing of Vietnamese civilians by American troops. But it said the scenes "have
been doctored to change the soldiers in question into North Vietnamese instead
of American."
   The radio also charged that "the story about American prisoners being left
behind in Southeast Asia would not have become a top-hit myth in the United
States had it not been for a factory, namely the Hollywood film industry,
churning out imaginary stories on this subject...
   "The POW-MIA myth reached its peak with the introduction of the second
installment of the Rambo series titled "First Blood" starring Sylvester
Stallone, who has become a contemporary superman," the radio said.
   The Pentagon says more than 2,000 American servicemen are still missing in
action in Indochina since the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, the majority of
them in Vietnam.
   The fate of the missing servicemen is a key issue holding up the
establishment of full diplomatic relations between Washington and Hanoi and the
lifting of a U.S. embargo against Vietnam.
   "The POW-MIA myth has had a profound political, cultural, and psychological
impact on American society," Radio Hanoi said.
   "In reality, there are thousands of homeless American Vietnam war veterans
now living on the streets of the United States. They should not be called
missing in action, but rather missing in America -- they are the ones who have
been let down by the United States."
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Date:         Sat, 15 Aug 1992 22:13:00 GMT
From:         "Vietnam Publications" <0004741206@MCIMAIL.COM>
Subject:      VN Price Weekly No. 19 (1992)
X-To:         Southeast Asia Discussion List <seasia-l@msu.edu>

VN Price Weekly, No. 19 (1992)
Copyright (c) 1992 by Vietnam Publications (email: vinexco@mcimail.com)

Prices in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Da Nang, Can Tho as of August 15, 1992:

*** US dollar and gold fell.
*** Price of fertilizer fell slightly.

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

1. US Dollar:
   ForEx HCM: buy 10,970 dong/US (-30) since 8/14/92.

   Vietcombank (buy/sell):
           HCM         HANOI        DANANG       CANTHO
   ----------------------------------------------------------
    08/15 10780/10950  10770/10970  10780/10970  10830/10980
           (-90/-50)    (-30/-30)    (-70/-80)   (+330/-20)

   Market (buy/sell):
           HCM         HANOI        DANANG       CANTHO
   ----------------------------------------------------------
    08/15 10930/10950  10960/10990  10930/10950  10920/10950
           (-20/-20)    (-20/-30)      (0/-10)    (-30/-20)

   Vinexco NY exchange rate (dong/US dollar):
           HCM     HANOI   DANANG   NHATRANG   CANTHO
   ----------------------------------------------------
    08/15  10880   10750   10750    10800      10880
           (-80)   (-250)  (-100)  (-100)      (-70)

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

     Swiss Franc   French Franc   Deutsch Mark
   ---------------------------------------------
     7853/8360     2091/2226      7086/7543
     (-71/-100)      (0/-6)       (+21/+1)

3. Gold:
   State (Gold 99% Au, retailed buy/sell in thousand dongs per 1/10th tael):
           HCM       HANOI     DANANG    CANTHO
   -----------------------------------------------
    08/15  470/478   465/485   474/482   454/459
           (-6/-4)  (-11/-3)   (-1/0)   (-14/-14)

   Market (Gold 99% Au, buy/sell in thousand dongs per 1/10th tael):
           HCM       HANOI     DANANG    CANTHO
   -----------------------------------------------
    08/15  455/465   467/474   462/470   455/460
          (-15/-13)  (-9/-8)   (-5/-7)  (-12/-13)

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

   Average rice            d 2,100 / kg        [ga.o te? thu*o*!ng]
   Pork [ham]              d21,500 / kg        [thi.t lo*.n mo>ng sa>'n]
   Sugar [Grade 1 white]   d 4,000 / kg        [crystalized, produced locally]
   Fish sauce (15%)        d 2,000 / liter
   Gas [A72-A76]           d 2,300 / liter
   Fertilizer [urea-type]  d 2,100 / kg (-100)
   Cement                  d39,500 / 50kg bag.
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 11:25:44 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: VN says Perot assassin claim is ridiculous
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08/13

VIETNAM SAYS PEROT ASSASSIN CLAIM IS RIDICULOUS

    HANOI, Aug 13, Reuter - Vietnam dismissed a claim by American billionaire
Ross Perot that Hanoi sent agents to kill him years ago as absurd.
    "The report saying Vietnam sent agents in 1970 to kill Mr Perot and his
family is so ridiculous, it's like a story about James Bond -- 007," the foreign
ministry said.
     The ministry also denied claims made by Perot in Washington that Hanoi kept
some American prisoners after the Vietnam War. It said all prisoners were freed
in 1973 after Vietnam signed the Paris Peace Accord.
    The ministry again firmly denied it was still holding Americans captive.
"The recent reports saying Vietnam is still holding American prisoners of war
are fabrications with ill intent."
    Perot told a U.S. Senate committee on Tuesday he was convinced that Laos,
along with Vietnam, kept U.S. prisoners to help obtain $3.25 billion in
reconstruction aid they believed President Richard Nixon had promised.
    Richard Armitage, the U.S. Defence Department's coordinator on the issue
during the 1980s, told the Senate committee on Wednesday he believed Americans
were left behind in Indochina.
    Armitage said Nixon's administration was so eager to get out of the Vietnam
War that it prematurely closed the book on evidence that U.S. prisoners were
still being held in Laos.
    Diplomats, businessmen and aid workers based in Vietnam, including several
who have travelled extensively and some who were here during the war, say they
think U.S. rumours of American servicemen still being held are unfounded.
    U.S. teams of military and civilian experts investigating the fate of
missing American servicemen have said they found no evidence American prisoners
were left behind.
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 10:18:40 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: China's Li Peng to visit VN despite tension
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08/14

CHINA'S LI PENG TO VISIT VIETNAM DESPITE TENSION

    HANOI, Aug 14, Reuter - Li Peng will become the first Chinese premier to
visit Vietnam for over 20 years when he travels to Hanoi later this year,
diplomats said on Friday.
    "Regarding the visit by Chinese Premier Li Peng, both sides are now
preparing," the Hanoi foreign ministry ministry said without confirming the date
of his visit.
    A dispute over the potentially oil-rich Spratly islands in the South China
Sea has fuelled tension between the nations.
    But Li wrote to Vietnamese Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet last week in
conciliatory terms and confirming he will visit this year, diplomats said.
    Li will be the first Chinese prime minister to visit Hanoi since Chou Enlai
in 1971.
    Tensions rose after China signed an agreement with a U.S. company in May to
explore for oil off Vietnam's southern coast and occupied an island in the
Spratlys archipelago in July.
    Diplomats say Vietnam and other southeast Asia countries are worried by
moves on the archipelago and a law China passed in February claiming the
Spratlys, other island groups and territorial waters.
    But one Hanoi official said China had made some recent friendly gestures
towards Vietnam.
    "It is a sign that China has realised its too aggressive, too brutal
approach in this issue has placed China in an unexpected isolation. Even the
United States will not support such aggression," the official said.
    Vietnam, which normalised relations with China last November, has been keen
to avoid any conflict.
    It was angered and humiliated when China signed the oil agreement with the
U.S. company in Beijing on May 8. On the same day Vietnam's foreign communist
party chief, Nguyen Van Linh, visited the city to meet Chinese communist party
head, Jiang Zemin.
    "Vietnamese people are so angry about that. That was a typical thing for
China to do," one Hanoi civil servant said.
    The Spratlys are claimed wholly or in part by Taiwan, Malaysia, Brunei and
the Philippines as well as China and Vietnam.
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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 17:02:30 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      PNG/BOUG: PNGDF vs BRA
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/* ---------- "PNG - BOUG GRIP" ---------- */
PNG - BOUG CRIP:  RA/PACNEWS,  PACNEWS ED-1,  AUGUST 12 1992

The Papua New Guinea military is tightening its grip on Bougainville.

Radio Australia's Port Moresby correspondent, Sean Dorney reports  that only
about one quarter of the island now remains under the control of the
secessionist Bougainville Revolutionary Army.

Dorney reports that the PNG military has troops within a few  kilometres of the
secessionists stronghold of Arawa and the BRA territory has shrunk to a
corridor across the island that takes in the abandoned Panguna copper mine and
part of the island's south-east.

But in a rebuttle, the Bougainville interim government  representative in
Honiara, Martin Miriori says the report was a deliberate and  blatant lie to
the world ...trying to mislead the public about the real situation on
Bougainville.

Mr Miriori says Dorney was out of touch with the real sitution on Bougainville
and that he was only being "brain-washed by the lies  of the PNG security
forces propaganda machinery."

Mr Miriori also says that such "arrogant reports" only undermine  efforts by
the new Wingti government to establish dialogue for peace on the island.
...ends.

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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 19:21:40 EST
From:         MALAYSIA@MTUS5.CTS.MTU.EDU
Subject:      Re: Malaysia Embassy in United States

     Anyone out there knows any embassy in San Francisco ?
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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 17:04:44 PDT
From:         "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" <apakabar@IGC.APC.ORG>
Subject:      SOLOMONS/BOUG: Zale Passport Held
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/* ---------- "SOLOMONS - ZALE - PASSPORT" ---------- */
SOLOMONS - ZALE:  RNZ NEWS,  PACNEWS ED-1,  AUGUST 11 1992

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Solomon Mamaloni reportedly has not released the
passport of a leading member of the secessionist  interim government of
Bougainville, Bishop John Zale.

This has prevented from attending a attending a United Nations  meeting in
Geneva.

Bishop Zale says no reason has been given for withholding his  passport.

Radio New Zealand's correspondent quotes the minister responsible  for
immigration and officials in Honiara as saying they too have  been given no
explanation for Mr Mamaloni's not handing the passport over.

He says it's understood the prime minister was forced to take the  action
following his recent meeting in Vanuatu with Papua New Guinea's new Prime
Minister, Paias Wingti.

At their meeting, the two leaders agreed to normalise relations  between their
two countries.

These had been strained as a result of the spill-over of the Bougainville
crisis onto Solomons territory.

Papua New Guinea has cancelled Bishop Zale's PNG passport, but last month, he
was given a Solomon Islands passport after proving that his father was from the
western part of the Solomon Islands.

This was withdrawn for amending after the meeting between Mr  Mamaloniand Mr
Wingti. ...ends.

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