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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 15:18:00 EDT
From:         kohli@UMBC1.UMBC.EDU
Subject:      RE: Malaysian Sites
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Can you please delete my name from the mailing list.  Thanks.
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Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 1992 23:07:00 CDT
From:         HASANAH SJACHRANI <SJACHRAN@MACC.WISC.EDU>
Subject:      Re: address of AA-1 Program?

After I talked to the Official who is in charge for ZIP CODE
at the Main Post Office in Madison, Wisconsin, I was told
that the address of
                      AA-1 PROGRAM
                      P.O. BOX 1993, Dulles, VA 21301-1993

is correct. That zip code is unique for that program, therefore
does not appear in the Zip Code cities book. Apparently he said
someone in Virginia was not aware of this program and returned
my mail and others. He was sorry for that, and suggest me to
send another letter before deadline August 28, midnight.

Hope this makes clear now.

Roni Sjachrani
(SJACHRAN@macc.wisc.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 14:11:00 CDT
From:         HASANAH SJACHRANI <SJACHRAN@MACC.WISC.EDU>
Subject:      address of AA-1 Program?

Anyone knows the correct address of AA-1 PROGRAM?
My application to  P.O. BOX 1993, Dulles, VA 21301-1993
has been returned with the remark INSUFFICIENT ADDRESS.
After I talked to the Postmaster
and checked the ZIP CODE CITIES,  there is no Dulles in
Virginia. The closest name is Dulles in DC with the
zip code  20041.

Thanks for your help.   Roni Sjachrani
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 14:48:00 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: VN refugee stabbed to death in Malaysia camp
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08/27

VIETNAM REFUGEE STABBED TO DEATH IN MALAYSIA CAMP

    KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 27, Reuter - A Vietnamese refugee was stabbed to death and
his girlfriend wounded in an attack at a camp for boat people near the Malaysian
capital, police said on Thursday.
    Police detained a 30-year-old refugee, also Vietnamese, for questioning
after the incident at the Sungei Besi camp late on Wednesday, the national
Bernama news agency said.
    The dead man was identified as Vu Quang Minh, 21, a police spokesman was
quoted as saying. No further details were given.
    Malaysia is home to about 12,000 Vietnamese refugees.
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 09:52:41 EDT
From:         daniel saputra <AGE137@UKCC.UKY.EDU>
Subject:      news about Indonesia

Hallo
I guess why nobody talk about Indonesia
Even right now nobody talk about the meeting of the non-aligned movement (NAM)
which were held in Jakarta

Or is this disscussion net only talk about indochina, if it is then
the name should be change from seasia to indochina-asia

any reply?
Daniel Saputra (age137@ukcc.uky.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 14:08:17 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      CAM: Tripartie talks on Cambodia end in Bangkok
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08/23

TRIPARTITE TALKS ON CAMBODIA END IN BANGKOK

BANGKOK, Thailand (AUG. 23) UPI - The leader of Cambodia's radical Khmer Rouge
faction returned to Phnom Penh Sunday after talks with Japanese and Thai
officials aimed at breaking an impasse in the U.N.-brokered peace process.

Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan said he exchanged proposals with Tadashi
Ikeda, head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs bureau, during
four hours of talks at the Thai Foreign Ministry late Saturday.

He said texts of the two proposals were compared at the meeting, but he gave no
further details.

The Japanese plan would establish a consultative body to work with Cambodia's
Supreme National Council, which is composed of leaders of the country's four
former warring factions, and handle administrative tasks.

The proposal goes some way toward meeting one of the key demands of the Khmer
Rouge - that power be transferred from the Phnom Penh government to the SNC.

The Maoist Khmer Rouge, two non-communist resistance groups and the
Vietnamese-installed government in Phnom Penh signed a peace accord in Paris
last October aimed at ending 13 years of war in Cambodia.

But the Khmer Rouge has refused to cooperate with U.N. peacekeeping efforts
until the United Nations verifies the withdrawal of all Vietnamese troops from
Cambodia and the SNC is given more authority.

Hanoi has repeatedly denied Khmer Rouge charges it left some troops in Cambodia
when it withdrew militarily from the country in 1989.

The Khmer Rouge presented its own proposal Saturday calling for the formation
of consultative committees to supervise key ministries in the Phnom Penh
administration.

''These consultative committees will help the United Nations in its task of
controlling and-or supervising the existing structures and police forces of all
Cambodian parties in order to create...trust between the Cambodian parties and
to realize a true national reconciliation and a neutral political
environment,'' the Khmer Rouge proposal said.

A Khmer Rouge spokesman in Bangkok said Khieu Samphan returned to Phnom Penh
Sunday. There was no indication if talks would be resumed later.
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 09:57:29 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: Average per capita income in Saigon was $495 in 1991
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08/25

AVERAGE PER CAPITA INCOME IN VIETNAM'S HO CHI MINH CITY WAS $495 IN 1991

BANGKOK (AUG. 25) DPA - The average per capita income in the Vietnamese capital
Ho Chi Minh was 495 dollars last year, more than twice the national average, a
news report said Tuesday.

Citing a recent survey conducting by the city statistics agency the Truoi Tre
Vietnamese newspaper said that a large portion of the income came from the
remittances of Vietnamese living abroad.

Some 25 percent of a total of 900,000 households were receiving assistance from
overseas Vietnamese relatives, the newspaper said.
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Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 1992 16:09:09 PDT
From:         Larry Engelmann <ENGELMAN@SJSUVM1.BITNET>
Subject:      subscription

please immediately add the following subscriber to your list.  His e-mail addre
ss is george.crane at williams.edu.  Thank you.
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 10:48:14 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: British minister to visit Hongkong, Indochina
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09/01

BRITISH MINISTER TO VISIT HONG KONG, INDOCHINA

    HONG KONG, Sept 1, Reuter - Britain's minister responsible for Hong Kong,
Alastair Goodlad, will visit the colony this week to prepare the ground for
high-level talks with China, a British diplomat said on Tuesday.
    Britain and China are at loggerheads over the financing of a new airport and
London's desire to push for greater democracy for Hong Kong before it is handed
back to China in 1997.
    Goodlad, whose September 4-9 visit will overlap with a one-night stopover
for former British prime minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher, will meet members
of the colony's legislative and executive bodies before touring Vietnam and
Cambodia.
    The diplomat said Goodlad's visit, his second to Hong Kong, would prepare
for a meeting between foreign ministers Qian Qichen and Douglas Hurd during the
U.N. General Assembly in New York this month. REUTER JW JXK JS
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 11:01:43 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: Singapore opens embassy in Hanoi
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09/02

SINGAPORE OPENS EMBASSY IN HANOI

    SINGAPORE, Sept 2, Reuter - Singapore has opened an embassy in Hanoi
following an agreement with Vietnam last year to establish bilateral diplomatic
relations, state-run Singapore Broadcasting Corp said on Wednesday.
    It quoted the Singapore foreign ministry as saying the embassy, now in
temporary quarters, would move into the former Bulgarian Embassy once
renovations there are completed.
    Singapore and Vietnam agreed to exchange diplomatic missions last November
during a visit here by Vietnamese Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet. Vietnam opened its
embassy here early this year.
    Two-way trade between the two countries stood at Singapore $1.5 billion
(US$943 million) at the end of last year, compared with S$1.3 billion ($818
million) a year earlier, Singapore government trade figures show.
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Date:         Tue, 25 Aug 1992 13:28:14 EDT
From:         mulliner@OUVAXA.UCLS.OHIOU.EDU
Subject:      SN: NEWS: Press Freedom
X-To:         SEASIA-L@MSU.EDU

                   Ohio University Electronic Communication


   Date:  25-Aug-1992 01:19pm EST

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

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

Subject:  SN: NEWS: Press Freedom


AsiaWeek, Aug. 28, 1992, p. 29 reports:
	(following a summary to avoid copyright problems)

	On June 29 the Singapore BUSINESS TIMES carried a report
that 2nd quarter 1992 growth would be between 4.6% and 4.8%,
compared to 5.1% in the first quarter.  The government announced
growth at 4.7% on Aug. 8.  Five days later [unclear if 5 days
after June 29 or Aug. 8], the Internal Security Department
raided the BUSINESS TIMES offices and questioned 3 journalists.
Under the Official Secrets Act, any who obtains or uses
confidential information "in any manner prejudicial to the
safety or interests of Singapore" is liable to two years in
jail and a fine of $1,240.  [The implication is that
the June 29 story was obtained from a leak.].  Former
Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew is quoted as commenting that,
if he were still the Prime Minister, "I doubt the
BUSINESS TIMES would have used illegally obtained or leaked
official figures."
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 14:47:08 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: Brothel owner got 10 years sentence
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08/26

VIETNAM BROTHEL OWNER JAILED FOR 10 YEARS

    HANOI, Aug 26, Reuter - A Vietnamese court has jailed a woman brothel owner
for 10 years for supplying prostitutes to foreign and local customers, an
official Hanoi newspaper said on Wednesday.
    The woman, Nguyen Thi Tot, lured young virgins to her two brothels in Ho Chi
Minh City and got hotel employees and tourism company staff to help organise sex
tours, the Communist Party newspaper, Nhan Dan, said.
    "It is an extraordinarily serious case which damages society and social
order and has many other severe consequences," it said.
    Police in Ho Chi Minh City have recently cracked down on prostitution and
sex tours involving visiting businessmen, some from Taiwan and Hong Kong.
    Communists clamped down on the booming prostitution industry in what used to
be called Saigon after the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. But the sex trade has
re-emerged following government free market reforms that encourage foreign
investment.
    Nhan Dan said Tot was tried by the People's Court of Ho Chi Minh City
between August 19 and 22. Some other people were jailed from one to seven years
in the case, which was uncovered in January, but the newspaper gave no details.
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:05:59 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: Hanoi approves $3.5 billion in foreign investment
              projects
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08/31

VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT APPROVES $3.5 BILLION IN FOREIGN INVESTMENT PROJECTS

BANGKOK (AUG. 31) UPI - The Vietnamese government has approved more than 450
foreign investment projects worth $3.5 billion in the past five years, the
official Vietnam News Agency reported Monday.

''In the five years since the promulgation of the law on foreign investment,
461 foreign invested projects with a total registered capital of $3.5 billion
have been licensed,'' VNA said.

It quoted Dau Ngoc Xuan, chairman of the Vietnam State Committee for
Cooperation and Investment, as saying 300 of the projects are joint production
ventures, including 245 industrial projects.

The agency did not report how much of the investment in the joint ventures was
from the Vietnamese side.

But Xuan told VNA ''only one-third of the total registered capital has been put
into actual operation and only 20 percent of the projects are new projects.

''Among the licensed projects, 210 have yielded satisfactory results, creating
14,000 more jobs,'' the agency said.

It said 75 percent of the projects are in the south of the country, chiefly in
Ho Chi Minh City.

As part of a series of economic reforms, the communist government introduced in
January 1988 a code of foreign investment to attract funds from Western and
non-communist Asian countries.

Under its market-oriented policies, Hanoi has encouraged the private sector,
increased the autonomy of state enterprises, reduced price controls and
devalued the national currency, the dong.

However, many foreign businessman continue to complain of stifling bureaucracy.

U.S. firms have been barred from investing or trading with Vietnam since the
collapse of the Washington-backed Saigon government in 1975.
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Date:         Sat, 29 Aug 1992 18:55:00 GMT
From:         "Vietnam Publications" <0004741206@MCIMAIL.COM>
Subject:      VN Price Weekly No. 21 (1992)
X-To:         Southeast Asia Discussion List <seasia-l@msu.edu>

VN Price Weekly, No. 21 (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 29, 1992:

*** US dollar fell slightly, European currencies jumped
*** Gold fell
*** Price of gasoline and urea fertilizer fell

         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 (0) since 8/14/92.

   Vietcombank (buy/sell):
           HCM         HANOI        DANANG       CANTHO
   ----------------------------------------------------------
    08/29 10770/10970  10700/10870  10800/10970  10770/10970
             (0/0)      (-70/-100)     (0/-10)      (0/+20)

   Market (buy/sell):
           HCM         HANOI        DANANG       CANTHO
   ----------------------------------------------------------
    08/29 10960/10980  10970/11000  10950/10970  10950/10970
           (-40/-40)      (0/0)        (0/0)      (-30/-30)

   Vinexco NY exchange rate (dong/US dollar):
           HCM     HANOI   DANANG   NHATRANG   CANTHO
   ----------------------------------------------------
    08/29  10870   10750   10750    10800      10850
            (0)     (0)     (0)      (0)        (0)

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

     Swiss Franc   French Franc   Deutsch Mark
   ---------------------------------------------
     8254/8763     2163/2296      7386/7842
    (+160/+170)    (+48/+50)     (+204/+217)

3. Gold:
   State (Gold 99% Au, retailed buy/sell in thousand dongs per 1/10th tael):
           HCM       HANOI     DANANG    CANTHO
   -----------------------------------------------
    08/29  458/468   463/473   462/470   451/456
            (0/0)    (-2/-7)   (-6/-8)   (-4/-4)

   Market (Gold 99% Au, buy/sell in thousand dongs per 1/10th tael):
           HCM       HANOI     DANANG    CANTHO
   -----------------------------------------------
    08/29  457/465   462/468   454/463   450/456
           (-1/-1)   (-4/-3)   (-3/-5)   (-5/-4)

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

   Average rice            d 2,050 / 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 2,200 / liter (-100)
   Fertilizer [urea-type]  d 1,950 / kg (-150)
   Cement                  d39,000 / 50kg bag.
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 10:09:28 +1000
From:         POLAPM@LURE.LATROBE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Alleged Illness of President Suharto

I have heard that President Suharto suffered a mild stroke recently.  Is
this story true?  If so, can anyone provide details?

	POLAPM@lure.latrobe.edu.au
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Date:         Sun, 30 Aug 1992 16:05:52 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: Australian sets up ruby joint venture in VN
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08/28

AUSTRALIAN SETS UP RUBY JOINT VENTURE IN VIETNAM

    HANOI, Aug 28, Reuter - An Australian businessman launched a joint venture
in rubies in Vietnam on Friday, saying the country had enormous potential but
had to curb rampant smuggling that could cripple its emerging precious stone
industry.
    Raymond Eaton, the Australian chairman of the Bangkok-based Export
Development Trading Corporation, told Reuters that Vietnam might have some of
the best rubies in the world.
    Rubies were discovered there in 1989, in the northern town of Luc Yen.
    "It has huge potential. It may have the world's largest deposits of what
might be the world's finest rubies, even better than Burmese," he said before
the launch of the new joint venture, Vietnam Gems Technology Co Ltd, or Gemtec
Vietnam.
    Gemtec's Vietnamese partner in the $1 million deal is Electronic and Optical
Instruments Corp, a state-owned company under the National Centre for Scientific
Research.
    Eaton said Hanoi's plan to impose an export tax on polished rubies, and its
tight restrictions on buying, selling and dealing in rubies, had driven the vast
majority of the industry into the hands of smugglers.
    "We have to compete with the smugglers to get access to the raw materials
(uncut rubies). It's actually advantageous to do things illegally, since you get
penalised when you do things legally," he said in an interview.
    Vietnam sold about $900,000 in uncut rubies at its first international ruby
auction in Hanoi in May.
    Eaton said Hanoi could choke the growth of legal trade if it keeps its plan
to impose a five to eight per cent export tax on polished rubies, and to require
a special state certificate to deal in gems and a different permit to buy uncut
stones.
    The discovery of rubies in 1990 in the central town of Quy Chau attracted
tens of thousands of prospectors from around Vietnam. About 100 people died in
collapsed mines and turf fights in 1991 until troops and police were sent in.
    Gemtech, which plans to buy, cut, polish and sell rubies, will set up a
factory and trading house with a staff of 100 people in Hanoi, he said.
    Eaton's Export Development Trading Corporation is a general trading company
dealing mostly in garments.
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 09:34:29 +1000
From:         pol@POP.CC.ADFA.OZ.AU
Subject:      Re: NEWS/VN: British minister to visit Hongkong, Indochina
X-To:         Southeast Asia Discussion List <SEASIA-L@msu.edu>

Dear Mr. Nhan Tran,

Please will you re-address all correspondence to ian macfarling at
Department of Politics Australian Defence Force Academy on e-mail
i-macfarling@adfa and not at this e-mailing address. My e-mail is being
blocked with messages and I'm having problems with my system.  Ian
MacFarling has, I believe, asked for all multiple recipients of list
SEASIA-L to re-address  him at his e-mail address of i-macfarling@adfa,
please would you be kind enough to process all messages through this e-mail
address immediately.

Many thanks.
Shirley Ramsay
Secretary, Department of Politics
ADFA
3 September 1992
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 14:45:29 -0400
From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      NEWS/VN: VN air line resume flight to China
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08/26

BRF--Vietnam-China

Copyright, 1992. The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

   BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Vietnam's state airline has resumed flights to
China after a 13-year suspension, the official Voice of Vietnam radio reported
Wednesday.
   A Vietnam Airlines flight from Hanoi arrived Tuesday in the southern Chinese
city of Guangzhou, formerly known as Canton. The radio station said there will
be monthly flights until October, then two or three flights a week.
   Vietnamese and Chinese leaders agreed to restore transportation and other
contacts during a summit last November. The summit officially ended the open
hostility that started with Vietnam's invasion of Cambodia in late 1978 and its
ouster of the pro-Chinese Khmer Rouge government.
   Earlier this year, China resumed flights from Guangzhou to Vietnam's Ho Chi
Minh City and from Beijing to Hanoi.
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