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Date:         Sat, 2 Jan 1993 23:10:00 GMT
From:         "Vietnam Publications" <0004741206@MCIMAIL.COM>
Subject:      VN Price Weekly No. 35 (1993)

VN Price Weekly, No. 35 (1993)
Copyright (c) 1993 by Vietnam Publications (email: vinexco@mcimail.com)

Prices in Hanoi, Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh City, Can Tho as of January 2, 1993

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

*** US dollar and gold fell sharply, esp. in free market
*** European currencies continued to fall
*** Urea fertilizer fell slightly

1. US Dollar:
   ForEx HCM: buy 10,580 dong/US (-110) since 12/30/92.

   Vietcombank (buy/sell):
           HANOI        DANANG      HCM         CANTHO
   ----------------------------------------------------------
   12/31 10440/10580  10470/10580  10430/10610  10380/10660
         (-120/-95)    (-30/-110)  (-150/-90)   (-180/-70)

   Market (buy/sell):
           HANOI        DANANG      HCM         CANTHO
   ----------------------------------------------------------
   12/31 10400/10420  10440/10460  10380/10400  10380/10400
         (-200/-200)  (-140/-140)  (-190/-190)  (-180/-180)

   Vinexco NY exchange rate (dong/US dollar):
           HANOI   DANANG   NHATRANG   HCM     CANTHO
   ----------------------------------------------------
    01/02  10400   10460    10440      10500   10500
           (-150)  (-120)   (-110)     (-115)  (-120)

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

          Swiss Franc   French Franc   Deutsch Mark
   --------------------------------------------------
    01/02  7015/7350     1869/1958      6357/6662
          (-190/-133)    (-44/-29)     (-167/-114)

3. Gold:
   State (Gold 99% Au, retailed buy/sell in thousand dongs per 1/10th tael):
            HANOI     DANANG    HCM      CANTHO
   -----------------------------------------------
    12/31  434/449   435/444   425/435   419/425
           (-8/-7)   (-3/-4)   (-8/-3)   (-5/-7)

   Market (Gold 99% Au, buy/sell in thousand dongs per 1/10th tael):
            HANOI     DANANG    HCM      CANTHO
   -----------------------------------------------
    12/31  423/430   414/420   429/434   419/426
          (-14/-13) (-17/-19)  (-4/-4)   (-5/-6)

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

   Average rice            d 2,200 / kg [ga.o te? thu*o*!ng]
   Pork [ham]              d20,500 / kg
   Sugar [Grade 1 white]   d 3,900 / kg [crystalized, produced locally]
   Fish sauce (15%)        d 2,000 / liter
   Gas [A72-A76]           d 2,300 / liter
   Fertilizer [urea-type]  d 1,850 / kg (-50)
   Cement                  d41,000 / 50 kg bag.
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Date:         Thu, 24 Dec 1992 09:13:26 EST
From:         Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Subject:      TH: Permanent election body urged

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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 00:31:53+0700
From: Kamol Hengkietisak <kamol@ipied.tu.ac.th>


THE House special committee studying constitutional amendments
yesterday agreed to propose the establishment of an independent
organisation to take over responsibility for holding and supervising
general elections from the Interior Ministry.

Committee spokesman Pinit Charusombat said most of the committee
members felt the Constitution should be amended to enable the setting
up of an independent election supervision body.

The organisation will assume the duties of both the Election Watchdog
Commission (PollWatch) and the Interior Ministry to ensure clean and
fair elections, he said.

A sub-committee will be set up to work out the details.

The special committee also considered the electoral system with the
majority deciding they should be held under the multi-constituency
system with only one MP elected for each constituency, or a
one-man-one-vote system.

The meeting also discussed a suitable number of MPs but could not
reach a conclusion.

Mr Pinit said the committee would hold a public forum on January 16
similar to the "Mong Tang Moom" (Different Perspectives) television
programme to sound out opinions on constitutional amendments.
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Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 13:14:14 -0600
From:         Ian Chai <spectre@UIUC.EDU>
Subject: Re: SG: By-election results (fwd)

>PAP won by a majority vote of 72.9%.
>The SDP got 24.5% of the votes.
>The SJP and NSP both received less than 1.5% of the vote each.
>
>Biggest news is...Mr. Chiam See Tong claim that voters in Saturday's by-electio
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>endorsed his Singapore Democratic Party as the second force in a two-partty
>political system. Opposition leaders dismiss Chiams 'arrogant' claim.etc..etc..

>
>from Straits Times dtd December 21.

Wow! I think this is a definitely democratizing trend in Singapore.
Remember how "Lee Kwan Yu fell out of his tree because 2 opposition MPs
got elected" only a few years ago? But now it's perfectly acceptable,
etc.

The question of course now is this: Can Singapore mantain its high
standards in other areas, in the transition from a one-party oligarchy
to a multi-party democracy? Singapore, IMO, is the prime example of
autocracy done right. It has been very fortunate to get a totalitarian
government that actually had both the good of the people in mind, as
well as competence. This has done Singaporeans much more good than what
I would expect a democracy could have, in its crucial formation stages
as a developed country.

(The above are musings.)

Ian
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Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:50:11 EST
From:         Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Subject:      SG: By-election results (fwd)

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From: hamdan@iti.gov.sg (Outlander(KSL))
Subject: Singapore by-election results.
Originator: hamdan@atlas.iti.gov.sg
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 02:16:34 GMT



PAP won by a majority vote of 72.9%.
The SDP got 24.5% of the votes.
The SJP and NSP both received less than 1.5% of the vote each.

Biggest news is...Mr. Chiam See Tong claim that voters in Saturday's by-election
endorsed his Singapore Democratic Party as the second force in a two-partty
political system. Opposition leaders dismiss Chiams 'arrogant' claim.etc..etc..

from Straits Times dtd December 21.

Thx u!

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Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:09:31 EST
From:         Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Subject:      TH: BKK assured of enough water

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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 00:05:48+0700
From: Kamol Hengkietisak <kamol@ipied.tu.ac.th>


THE Metropolitan Waterworks Authority yesterday assured Bangkok
residents of uninterrupted water supplies during the dry season next
year.

But, in a sobering note, the authority said the supplies could only be
assured at the cost of farmers who will be unable to plant a second
rice crop next year.

The MWA said the Irrigation Department had agreed to allocate 1,000
million cubic metres of water from the Sirikit and Bhumibol dams next
year for tap water supplies to Bangkok.

MWA Chairman Chaiwat Hutacharoen said the water reserves behind the
country's two major dams, Sirikit and Bhumibol, had fallen to 5,000
million cubic metres.

The setting aside of the 1,000 million cubic metres for Bangkok will
mean farmers will be barred from planting a second rice crop.

The MWA is expected to boost its daily tap water output from the Bang
Khen water plant, providing 1.2-1.4 million cubic metres, when it
reopens next February after repairs to its underground water tunnel
are completed.

Mr Chaiwat said the increased output would return water supplies to
subscribers in outlying areas to normal after lengthy repair work
required the temporary closure of the tunnel.

 The closure led to a drop in water pressure in remote areas.

The MWA closed its main underground water tunnel several months ago to
repair leaks.

Mr Chaiwat said the authority originally planned to resume normal
operations in March but the repairs are now expected to be finished a
month earlier.

He said the MWA was expected to boost production from the Bang Khen
plant from one million cubic metres to 1.2-1.4 million cubic metres
once the repairs were completed.

The overall production output for Bangkok from the different plants
will increase to 3.7 million cubic metres a day next year, a rise of
400,000 cubic metres.

The MWA is investing 30,000 million baht over five years to 1997 to
build a canal which will draw water from Mae Klong River to supply its
new production plant in Taling Chan to further boost tap water
supplies in Bangkok.
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Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 08:44:51 -0400
From:         ZAIGI@AC.DAL.CA
Subject:      Another earthquake

CNN reports that there was another earthquake in the middle of Bangdan Sea:)
between Flores Island and Australia. It scales 7.3 on Richter Scale. No
casulties reported yet. Any detailed news, please send to me at zaigi@ac.dal.ca
Nick at Halifax
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Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 1992 11:26:26 -0600
From:         Ian Chai <spectre@UIUC.EDU>
Subject:      PH: ------ Imelda Marcos' jewels to be auctioned in May 1993

MANILA, Philippines (UPI) -- The Philippines will auction off former first
lady Imelda Marcos' jewels in May 1993 and expects to earn as nuch as $18
million, a senior official said Tuesday.

Magtanggol Gunigundo, chairman of an agency formed to recover wealth
allegedly plundered by Mrs. Marcos and her late husband Ferdinand, indicated
Christies will conduct the auction in Geneva, Switzerland.

The jewels include those being kept inside a vault at the Philippine Central
Bank and items seized by customs authorities in Honolulu, where the Marcoses
fled after the 20-year ruler was deposed in a popular army revolt in 1986.
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Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 1992 12:20:14 -0500
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: court jails 4 film-makers

12/21

VIETNAMESE COURT JAILS FOUR FILM-MAKERS

    HANOI, Dec 21, Reuter - A court in Ho Chi Minh city has jailed four
Vietnamese film-makers for working with a Hong Kong company that produced a
film alleged to have contained anti-government propaganda, a spokesman for the
court said on Monday.
    Two of the film-makers, Pham Cong Canh and Pham Kim Thanh were sentenced to
three years imprisonment by the People's Court on November 25. Nguyen Quoc Minh
was sentenced to two years and Huynh Xay for 16 months.
    They were convicted of "violating the law, irresponsibility and
anti-government propaganda," the spokesman said.
    The Vietnamese army newspaper, Quan Doi Nhan Dan, reported earlier that
Canh, a former head of the state-run Union of Video-Cinematography Enterprises
signed a contract in 1989 with Hong Kong's Chun Sing Film Co (CSF) to provide
services for a film called "Loving the Song from Vietnam."
    The newspaper said the union "lost its sense of vigilance" and allowed CSF
to use "sophisticated and wicked tricks to violate the contract, making a film
with reactionary content to smear the Socialist Republic of Vietnam."
    No other details were immediately available.
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Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 1992 11:26:13 -0600
From:         Ian Chai <spectre@UIUC.EDU>
Subject:      MY: ------ Two Malaysians jailed for heart surgeon murder

SYDNEY, Australia (UPI) -- Two Malaysians were sentenced to long jail terms
Tuesday for the murder last year of renowned Australian heart surgeon Dr.
Victor Chang.

The nation was shocked when Chang, 54, who became a national hero as
Australia's leading heart-lung transplant surgeon, was gunned down in a
suburban street last July after a bungled extortion attempt by the two
Malaysians. Chiew Seng Liew, 48, was sentenced to 20 years for Chang's murder
and a further six years for unlawfully detaining Chang for financial
advantage. Philip Choon Tee Lim, 37, was sentenced to 18 years for murder and
a further six years for unlawful detention.

Evidence at their trial showed they planned to kidnap Chang on his way to
Sydney's St. Vincent's Hospital and extort money from him.
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Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:10:00 EST
From:         arusydi@SUVM.SYR.EDU
Subject:      ID: Earthquake struck South East Maluku islands on 12/21/1992

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Newsgroups: syr.indonesian
>From: purwinto@rodan.acs.syr.edu ()
Subject: Earthquake struck South East Maluku islands on 21 December
Distribution: syr
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 10:06:16 EST

Dear folks,

----translation:

According to the BBC London news at 8:00AM-EST, a 7.3 on the
Richter scale earthquake struck South East Maluku Islands.
Its epicenter was located under the Banda Sea. No further
information on casualties. The BBC interviewed the local daily
newspaper reporter who mentioned that the earthquake measured 6.8
on the Richter scale struck at 5:25AM East Indonesian Time on
21 December.

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Message-Id:   <PBDLIST%92122109072202@SUVM.SYR.EDU>
Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 08:57:00 EST
Reply-To: Indonesian Development Studies <PBDLIST@SUVM.SYR.EDU>
>From: EKUNCOR@CLEMSON.CLEMSON.EDU
Subject:      Gempadi Maluku
To: Multiple recipients of list PBDLIST <PBDLIST@SUVM.SYR.EDU>

Rekan-rekan yang budiman;
Tadi pagi (pukul 8 EST) saya mendengar berita dari BBC London
yang mengabarkan bahwa di Indonesia bagian timur, tepatnya di
daerah Maluku Tenggara telah terjadi gempa.  Kekuatan gempa
adalah 7.3 skala Richter, pusat gempa berada di laut Banda,
Tidak ada laporan mengenai korban yang tewas maupun bangunan
yang hancur.
Dalam wawancara BBC dengan harian setempat dikatakan bahwa
gempa terjadi pada pukul 5.25 pagi WIT dan berkekuatan
6.8 skala Richter.
Salam,
Endo (Dec 21, 1992)

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Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:58:24 EST
From:         mulliner@OUVAXA.UCLS.OHIOU.EDU
Subject:      Re: Soc.Culture.Thai query

                   Ohio University Electronic Communication


   Date:  21-Dec-1992 10:28am EST

     To:  Southeast Asia Netters               ( _MX%"SEASIA-L@MSU.EDU" )

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

Subject:  Re: Soc.Culture.Thai query


        On Fri, 18 Dec 1992 13:06:35 CST,
Cliff Sloane, Metro State University, Minneapolis, MN
(cesloane@staff.tc.umn.edu, Subject: Re: TH: usenet group
inquiry) asked:

>How can I get Thai newsgroup releases? I cannot find anything
>for soc.culture.thai in LISTSERV, but found VIETNET and others.
>Is there a sourc other than LISTSERV? Thanks.

        I earlier sent the list owner, Elliott Parker, a copy
of a forthcoming article in CORMOSEA Bulletin entitled
Southeast Asia Collections and Resources on the Internet
which includes the following Directory & Glossary entries:

Directory:
>Usenet.  Described in Glossary, usenet news groups of relevance
>to Southeast Asia include alt.culture.indonesia,
>soc.culture.asean, soc.culture.filipino, and soc.culture.thai.
>Access to usenet news groups should be arranged at your local
>institution or may be available through a Freenet.

Glossary:
>Usenet.  An electronic network news bulletin board system,
>similar to listserves on BITNET, in which persons interested in
>a topic exchange information, views, and "flames" (attacks).
>Unlike listserves, communication is maintained on a shared
>machine and no mail is sent to a personal account.  This is
>a distributed system which is passed, usually among UNIX
>machines, although some institutions load news readers on other
>machines. See Ed Krol [The Whole Internet User's Guide &
>Catalog (Sebastopol, CA: Oreilly & Associates, 1992)] for more
>information.

        Simply put, Usenet is different from listserves.
Krol notes that it is available through the World Wide Web
as well as the information above.  So you have really
two options:  1) local access by having your computer
people providing a news reader to which you have access
on a local machine or 2) national access, possibly by
dial access but preferably through telnet to a freenet
or World Wide Web.

        Krol's book and discussions with your local
computer people should be your next steps.

        K. Mulliner, Ohio University Libraries




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Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:41:24 -0500
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      CAM: Khmer Rouge release peacekeepers

12/20

U.N. OFFICIAL SAYS KHMER ROUGE REBELS RELEASE GROUP OF PEACEKEEPERS UNHARMED

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (DEC. 20) UPI - Khmer Rouge guerrillas Sunday released a
group of peacekeepers they had earlier threatened to kill, a United Nations
official said.

The release was secured after several U.N. officials and Khmer Rouge Gen. Nuon
Bunno traveled by helicopter to the hostage site for talks with the guerrillas
holding the peacekeepers and their MI17 helicopter.

''It is confirmed that both helicopters took off from the location at 4:45 p.m.
with all men aboard and landed safely in Kratie,'' the U.N. spokesman said,
referring to the provincial capital, 110 miles northwest of Phnom Penh.

The 11 U.N. hostages were part of a group of 14 detained Friday at a Khmer
Rouge base about 90 miles northeast of Phnom Penh.

Those held were nine Uruguayans, one Russian soldier and a Russian helicopter
crewman.

The captors released three captives Saturday - a Uruguayan soldier and two
Russian airmen - and ordered them to take a warning to Bunno in Phnom Penh that
if the United Nations tried to rescue the men, the Khmer Rouge would destroy
any aircraft and kill all the hostages.

The message also asked Bunno to go to the hostage site and take away the men.

Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan told Cambodian leaders in a telegram made
public Sunday in Phnom Penh he ordered his soldiers to release the men as soon
as possible.

It was the fourth seizure of U.N. personnel in less than three weeks.

The Khmer Rouge, in a statement issued by its Phnom Penh office Sunday,
rejected claims that the peacekeepers had been detained and accused the
U.N.personnel of entering a no-go area.

''It is not the (Khmer Rouge) which has sent its forces to arrest or detain
(U.N.) personnel...It is (U.N.) personnel that have entered the (Khmer
Rouge)-controlled ones without informing beforehand,'' the statement said.

The Khmer Rouge letter said the incidents were propaganda aimed at misleading
public opinion to get the U.N. Security Council to enforce sanctions against
the Khmer Rouge.
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Date:         Sun, 3 Jan 1993 12:37:09 CST
From:         Gee Ekachai <GA4006@SIUCVMB.SIU.EDU>
Subject:      Request for names of PR in SEA

I need to obtain names, titles, and addresses of public relations leaders
in Southeast Asia and South Asia. I would appreciate your kindness if you
would e-mail me those names to me personally to ga4006 at siucvmb (or
ga4006 at siucvmb.siu.edu   for bitnet address). This is part of the
efforts of the Association for the Journalism and Mass Communication's
Public Relations Division's International committee to establish linkages
with public relations practitioners around the world. Thank you for your
cooperation.    Gee Ekachai       Department of Speech Communication
                GA4006@siucvmb    Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
                                  Carbondale, IL 62901
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Date:         Sun, 3 Jan 1993 03:49:24 PST
From:         Coban Tun <tun@QUARK.SFSU.EDU>
Subject:      Burma: Prisoners sentences reduce

APn  01/01 1218  Burma-Prisoners

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

   RANGOON, Burma (AP) -- The military junta announced Friday it was reducing
the sentences of prisoners convicted since soldiers crushed pro-democracy
demonstrations in 1988.
   The order, effective Friday, reduces death sentences to life imprisonment
and any sentences of more than 10 years to 10 years.
   It is the second time the junta has reduced sentences. A similar order was
decreed in July 1989.
   The junta said the move was to mark a national convention, starting Jan. 9,
that will draw up guidelines for drafting a new constitution.
   The junta seized power on Sept. 18, 1988 after soldiers killed hundreds, if
not thousands, of pro-democracy demonstrators. It has said it will not hand
over power to a civilian government until a constitution is drafted.
   Large numbers of political prisoners have been released since Gen. Than
Shwe became the new junta leader in April. But the human rights group Amnesty
International said in October there are still at least 1,500 political
prisoners.
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Date:         Thu, 24 Dec 1992 09:00:00 EST
From:         Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Subject:      TH: Chuan urges silence on military bldg.

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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 00:38:10+0700
From: Kamol Hengkietisak <kamol@ipied.tu.ac.th>


TO end confusion over the new Supreme Command Headquarters building,
Prime Minister Chuan Li]eekpai has asked parties concerned "not to
talk about it any more", according to Deputy Defence Minister Sombat
Rodphothong.

Those who still have doubts should speak to Mr Chuan directly, Maj-Gen
Sombat said.

The controversy over the 10-storey building, which Maj-Gen Sombat
described as "no big deal", will be discussed by senior officials next
week.

Opposition MPs have criticised the planned location of the building --
next to the Royal Plaza and the Ananta Samakhom Throne Hall in the
royal precincts.

Meanwhile, Defence Minister Vijit Sookmark said the Supreme Command is
considering carefully proposals that the title of supreme commander be
replaced by that of chairman of the joint chiefs-of-staff.

Gen Vijit said the proposal will be forwarded to the Cabinet through
himself soon.
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Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 1992 10:37:26 +1100
From:         i-macfarling@ADFA.OZ.AU

set seasia-l nomail.
ps. merry christmas & a happy new year.
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