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FBIS3-1483_0
Events Surrounding 28 Mar Zulu March Detailed 31 Killed, 276 Injured in Clashes
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Johannesburg March 28 SAPA -- At least 31 people died in violence in central Johannesburg on Monday and 276 people were injured severely enough to warrant hospital treatment. A total of 31 bodies related to Monday's violence have been accounted for by the Hillbrow mortuary. At ...
FBIS3-1485_0
Events Surrounding 28 Mar Zulu March Detailed Armed Men Seen Entering City 29 Mar
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Johannesburg March 29 SAPA -- Bands of armed men were on Tuesday morning reportedly entering Johannesburg city centre. On Monday a march by tens of thousands of Zulu royalists in the city centre ended in many deaths and hundreds of injuries. Some reports put the death toll at 3...
FBIS3-1503_6
ANC Issues Statement on Johannesburg Violence
began to coalesce, and to advance on the building for what appeared to be a concerted frontal assault on the entrance. Shots were heard, apparently from automatic weapons somewhere west of the entrance. ANC security personnel fired into the advancing ranks, inflicting a number of casualties, the IFP gangs broke and fle...
FBIS3-1509_38
NP's Botha, ANC's Thabo Mbeki Debate Issues
some sinister motive in some of these additional powers. And you may well reach the stage where we may have to give far more powers to the police, but then it must be done in terms of the TEC. [Venter] Mr. Botha, thank you very much. Your minute is up. And this time, an opportunity to Mr. Mbeki. [Mbeki] Part of the pro...
FBIS3-1512_2
IEC Releases List of Election Monitoring Groups
(Switzerland); 33. World Alliance of Reformed Churches, Switzerland; 34. Howard University School of Law Student Bar Association; 35. Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (Harare); 36. Central Electoral Commission of the Russian Federation; 37. South African Initiative, University of Michigan; 38. Norwegian Confederation ...
FBIS3-1563_0
Negotiators Discuss Intellectual Property Rights
Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Bear Li] [Text] Taipei, Feb. 28 (CNA) -- Delegates from Taiwan and the United States Monday began three days of negotiations on the protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) in Taipei. Discussions are expected to focus on inspection of Taiwan's software exports and proposed...
FBIS3-1574_1
Reportage on Leaders' Activities 19-24 Feb
Junsheng sent a letter to a national work conference on rural electrification by means of hydropower which opened today, urging further efforts to accomplish the task of electrifying 200 counties these two years to help more impoverished mountainous areas break away from poverty and to develop the rural economy. (Beiji...
FBIS3-1576_0
Dissidents Warned Not To Contact Foreign Reporters
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [Report: "Mainland Dissidents Have Been Warned Repeatedly; Wei Jingsheng Refuses To Yield to Pressure, His Present Whereabouts Are Unknown"] [Text] Before the visit to China by U.S. officials responsible for human rights affairs, THE NEW YORK TIMES published a report saying that Wei J...
FBIS3-1577_0
Dissidents Barred From Wang Dan's Birthday Party
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [By reporter Huang Tian (7806 3944): "Wang Dan Is Forced by the Authorities To Withdraw Invitations Issued to 200 Democratic Activists To Attend His Beijing Birthday Party"] [Text] Wang Dan, leader of the student-led democratic movement in 1989, celebrated his 24th birthday yesterday....
FBIS3-1588_0
Commentary Views Developing High-Tech Industries
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [Commentary by unidentified XINHUA commentator: "Develop New Industries, Nurture Modern Enterprises"] [Text] Beijing, 26 Feb (XINHUA) -- With the passage of time and the development of economic and scientific and technological trends worldwide, Comrade Deng Xiaoping's call for "develo...
FBIS3-1608_2
Chen Junsheng Addresses Poverty Reduction Forum
poverty reduction target, China should reduce the poverty-stricken population by an average 11 million each year in the coming seven years, nearly twice as quickly as it has done in the past seven years. During the 1986-1992 period, poverty was eased among about 45 million poor people, an average of 6.8 million each ye...
FBIS3-1622_0
Beijing To Borrow $1 Billion for River Dam
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, February 25 (XINHUA) -- China plans to borrow 1.076 billion U.S. dollars of foreign loans to build a huge water conservancy project designed to generate power and control flood of the Yellow River [Huang He]. Work on the Xiaolangdi project, a site on the Yellow River 4...
FBIS3-1640_0
Guangdong Encourages Growth of Private Schools
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Guangzhou, February 26 (XINHUA) -- Private schools, which have been mushrooming throughout China in recent years, have been given greater importance in promoting education in south China's Guangdong Province. A meeting in this provincial capital decided that private schools wou...
FBIS3-1644_0
XINHUA Notes Wealth of Hainan's Resources
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Haikou, February 26 (XINHUA) -- Hainan, an island province in southernmost China, has turned out to be rich in minerals as well as tropical and oceanic resources. Prospecting by the province's geological and mineral departments has discovered 88 kinds of minerals, of which 59 a...
FBIS3-1651_0
Inner Mongolia Improves Telecommunications
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Hohhot, February 24 (XINHUA) -- Two major railway lines are nearing completion while all counties (banners) [as received] have installed urban automatic telephone exchanges in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. This is part of the achievements the autonomous reg...
FBIS3-1654_0
Non-Metallic Industry in Shanxi Province Grows
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Taiyuan, February 28 (XINHUA) -- Rich in coal and other energy resources, north China's Shanxi Province is also a leader in the fast-growing non-metallic minerals world. The province plans to invest more than six billion yuan in development of non-metallic minerals with 54 expl...
FBIS3-1659_1
XINHUA Commentary on Hong Kong White Paper
the "three violations" stand. They amply demonstrate that Britain alone has closed the door to negotiations and has taken the road of all-out confrontation with China on the question of Hong Kong's political system. All Chinese people, including the people of Hong Kong, absolutely cannot tolerate Britain's long-premedi...
FBIS3-1674_0
Journal Views Deng Xiaoping's State of Health Wan Li and Liu Huaqing Testify That Deng Has Trouble With His Legs Ding Guangeng Indicated That Allowing Deng Xiaoping To Appear on TV in a Senile and Weak Condition Was an Inappropriate Decision Jiang Zemin: The Political Bureau and I should Bear Certain Responsibility Bo ...
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN ["Notes on a Northern Journey" by staff reporter Lo Ping (5012 0393): "State of Deng Xiaoping's Health and Controversy Over His Public Appearance"] [Text]Deng Xiaoping Has Contracted Myopathy in the Leg "One of the purposes of Deng Xiaoping's recent trip down south (Shanghai and other...
FBIS3-1674_2
Journal Views Deng Xiaoping's State of Health Wan Li and Liu Huaqing Testify That Deng Has Trouble With His Legs Ding Guangeng Indicated That Allowing Deng Xiaoping To Appear on TV in a Senile and Weak Condition Was an Inappropriate Decision Jiang Zemin: The Political Bureau and I should Bear Certain Responsibility Bo ...
legs and is under medical treatment now. He still likes to stroll for an hour or so every day. The Central Committee has decided to reduce the effects on Comrade Deng Xiaoping's rest as best it can. Veteran Cadres's Minds Are Overshadowed When veteran cadres heard the briefings of Wan Li and Liu Huaqing, they started g...
FBIS3-1689_0
Owen, Stoltenberg Defend NATO's Downing Serb Planes
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Geneva, February 28 (XINHUA) -- The co-chairmen of the international conference on the former Yugoslavia, Thorvald Stoltenberg and David Owen, said today that the NATO action of shooting down four Serb warplanes was "entirely justified". The co-chairmen said in a statement that...
FBIS3-1690_0
International Mediators Justify NATO Attack
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] United Nations, February 28 (XINHUA) -- The presence of six military jet aircraft detected and engaged by NATO aircraft this morning was a violation of UN Security Council resolution, the spokesman for the co-chairmen of the international conference on the former Yugoslavia sai...
FBIS3-1691_0
New Zealand Backs NATO's Shooting Down of Serb Jets
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Wellington, March 1 (XINHUA) -- New Zealand today voiced its backing for NATO's action yesterday in shooting down four military planes said to be flown by Bosnian Serbs. Foreign Minister Don McKinnon said NATO was acting within the mandate of the Security Council resolution pas...
FBIS3-1698_0
Bulgaria Concerned Over Violation of Bosnian No-Fly Zone
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Sofia, February 28 (XINHUA) -- The Bulgarian Government said Monday [28 February] that it is deeply concerned over the violation of the no-fly zone imposed over Bosnia by the United Nations. It was reported earlier today that two NATO F-16 fighters shot down four alleged Bosnia...
FBIS3-1738_0
Police Patrol System Implemented Nationwide
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, February 26 (CNS)--A police patrol system is now in place nationwide with 88 medium- and large-sized cities, including 23 municipalities and provincial capitals, introducing this practice with a patrol force of 15,000 in various police units. The practice has enabled t...
FBIS3-1748_4
Tibet's Private Sector Enterprises Viewed
15,000 types of commodities, which are distributed to most prefectures and counties in the autonomous region. The rapidly developing individual sector of the economy contrasts sharply with state-run enterprises, which are struggling. Some people feel individual businesses have edged out state-run enterprises and taken ...
FBIS3-1789_3
MOFTEC Revokes 2d Batch of Internal Documents Announcement No. 2
No. 10) 24. Circular on the Publication of "Request for Instruction on Several Urgent Problems Regarding the Setting Up of Joint Venture Enterprises Abroad and in Hong Kong and Macao" ([86] MOFERT Cooperation Code No. 16) 25. Circular on Consolidating Our Contracting Companies in Thailand ([86] MOFERT Cooperation Code ...
FBIS3-1790_3
MOFTEC Revokes 2d Batch of Internal Documents 4th Batch of Documents Revoked
of Finished Products, MOFERT Zongjizi No. 123/82 20. Measures of Trial Implementation of the State Administrative Commission on Import and Export Affairs [SACIEA] and MOFERT for Management of Customers, SACIEA Chuzi No. 025/80 21. Measures of Trial Implementation of the State Administrative Commission on Import and Exp...
FBIS3-1803_2
Columnist Views Nuclear Inspections in DPRK
Japan. But the DPRK has consistently denied it is developing nuclear weapons and says that its nuclear technology only serves the construction of nuclear power plants. The DPRK used to have close ties with the former Soviet Union, and it is entirely possible that Soviet nuclear and missile experts have helped Pyongyang...
FBIS3-1813_0
U.S. Accused of IPR Infringements
Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Debbie Kuo] [Text] Taipei, March 2 (CNA) -- Several Republic of China [ROC] legislators Wednesday [2 March] quoted US customs statistics which show that the US is the world's sixth largest source of intellectual property rights (IPR) infringements and demanded the US better police...
FBIS3-1844_12
Scholars Urge End to Corruption, Part 1 The Extent of Corruption Has Become Cancerous I. The Institutional Root Cause of Corruption: Economic Rent To Find a Radical Cure for Corruption, the "Rent" Must Be Abolished Worsening of Rent-seeking Activities Because of Intervention
the trade in tobacco, or in the operation of telephone and telegram services are on lease with a special permit issued by the government. When those enterprises acquire the monopoly, they willreceive monopolized profits, namely profits exceeding the normal level. When the government allows some special interest groups ...
FBIS3-1845_8
Scholars Urge End to Corruption, Part 2 VI. Institutional Upgrading Is the Fundamental Way of Opposing Corruption V. Suggestions for Major Institutional Upgrading Measures To Cure Corruption Permanently
in a relatively short time, say, two or three years, and, further, to roughly establish the framework of the socialist market economic system in a relatively short time, say, 10 years or a little longer. We Do Not Oppose the Use of Ethical Restraining Forces. Finally, what needs pointing out is that we favor curing cor...
FBIS3-1862_0
Trade, Production Statistics Issued for 1993 Mineral Exploration Noted
Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Xie Yicheng: "134 Mineral Sites Discovered or Confirmed in '93] [Text] To meet its rapidly growing needs, China intensified the exploration of energy reserves, minerals and groundwater in 1993. As a result, the Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources reported 134 sites where ind...
FBIS3-1866_0
Mining Industry Council Urges Development of Minerals
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [By GUANGYE BAO (Mining Industry Paper) reporter Li Hongbing (2621 3163 0393) and XINHUA reporter Li Guangru (2621 0342 5423)] [Text] Beijing, 25 Feb (XINHUA) -- According to the second executive meeting of the first council of the Mining Industry Association held in Beijing on 25 Feb...
FBIS3-1890_1
Envoy to UN Criticizes `Politicizing' of Rights Issues
countries, in contemporary history China was subjected to aggression and plundering by foreign powers. Before 1949, the Chinese people were for a long time victims to the enslavement and oppression in the hands of imperialists, feudalists and bureaucratic-capitalists. They lived in dire misery without any human right o...
FBIS3-1916_1
Article Attacks Patten's Trip to Australia Being Extremely Dishonest for Criticizing Others Without Any Reason Throwing Dirty Words on Others Only To Betray His Own Ugliness
to refute others' views. In his speeches, he criticized Asian countries for not advocating democracy, and condemned this approach as "not only erroneous, but bearing the color of pride and racial discrimination." May we ask Mr. Patten: Which country in Asia does not openly favor developing democracy? Is it India, the P...
FBIS3-1916_2
Article Attacks Patten's Trip to Australia Being Extremely Dishonest for Criticizing Others Without Any Reason Throwing Dirty Words on Others Only To Betray His Own Ugliness
the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives are different from the UK's upper and lower houses in the composition of members and possession of powers. The House of Lords in the UK, a so-called democratic state, practices an appointment system, and only those with titles of nobility can be appointed. Therefore, som...
FBIS3-1916_3
Article Attacks Patten's Trip to Australia Being Extremely Dishonest for Criticizing Others Without Any Reason Throwing Dirty Words on Others Only To Betray His Own Ugliness
internal affairs of other countries under the cover of human rights issues. He said that "he would recognize the sovereignty of every country," but "also would worry about whether or not the rights human beings should enjoy have been confirmed and respected." As the concept on human rights is one relating to historical...
FBIS3-1919_1
Says Efforts `Should Avert' U.S. Sanctions
Taiwan and the United States. Taiwan attached great importance to the negotiations as results of the meeting will help determine whether Taiwan will be removed from the "Special 301 Priority Watch List" and no longer be targeted by the United States for trade retaliation. The US will make a final decision on the issue ...
FBIS3-1933_0
Li Peng Sends Message to Population, Development Meeting
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 3 (XINHUA) -- The 10th Asian Parliamentarians' Meeting on Population and Development (APPD), whose purpose is to strengthen and promote cooperation among parliamentarians of some Asian countries, opened here today. A message of congratulation from Chinese Premier...
FBIS3-1941_0
Videotape of Dissidents Celebrating New Year Shown
Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Amy Liu] [Text] China has shown a videotape of four prominent dissidents celebrating the Lunar New Year in an apparent move to refute Western speculation of their poor health and having been abused. Meanwhile, police in central Xian city released another dissident four days ago. T...
FBIS3-1942_1
Daily Views Detention of Hong Kong Christians
80 people for overnight gatherings inside and outside a citizen's house in Fangcheng County, Henan Province. They preached the Bible among the local people, taught them to sing religious songs, prayed, and disseminated religious material they had illegally carried into the mainland. They yelled recklessly, made audio a...
FBIS3-1943_2
Beijing Said To Earmark Funds, Deploy Police To Keep Order
said the managers of 88 large-scale state enterprises recently petitioned the State Council for special relief funds so that they could pay their workers up to 75 percent of regular wages. The sources said that instead of paying salaries, many state factories had from last year issued workers goods from storehouses, wh...
FBIS3-1945_14
Survey Shows Abuses in Foreign Firms, Part 1
which a human was kept in a cage together with dogs, happened in a Taiwan-funded enterprise in Fuzhou, China, today in the 1990's. On the evening of 7 November 1993, Yu, a woman worker from Jiangxi Province, were caught when she tried to take away two pairs of shoes from Yongqi Company. Managerial personnel from Taiwan...
FBIS3-1945_20
Survey Shows Abuses in Foreign Firms, Part 1
cutting happened later. A Taiwan-funded enterprise in Xiamen City has experienced 43 cases of severed arms and fingers and other injuries, in which the worker victims lost a total of 38 fingers! A survey conducted among five township and town clinics in Baoan District, Shenzhen City, shows that they received a total of...
FBIS3-1948_1
`Specialist' Views Development of Nuclear Power Industry
and views regarding the installed capacity of Guangdong's third nuclear power plant (that is, the Yangjiang Nuclear Power Plant). Some specialists want to install four 900,000 kw generating units, while others think that it is advisable to first install four 600,000 kw generating units. The specific plan for the Yangji...
FBIS3-1948_2
`Specialist' Views Development of Nuclear Power Industry
think that it is advisable to first install four 600,000 kw generating units. The specific plan for the Yangjiang Nuclear Power Plant has not yet been determined. He also said that the second phase of the construction of China's Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant includes the construction of two 600,000 kw generating units. M...
FBIS3-1950_6
Ministry Promulgates Satellite Receiver Installation Rules
Transmitting the received foreign television programs through units' cable (closed-circuit) television systems is prohibited. It is prohibited to show or transmit by other methods foreign television programs at railway stations, wharfs, airports, commercial shops, movie theaters, television theaters, singing halls, bal...
FBIS3-1979_1
Qinghai Plans To Improve Minorities' Educations
to promote education among the people of minority nationalities. With 42 percent of its population being of the Tibetan, Hui, Tu, Salar and Mongolian nationalities, Qinghai has made much headway in education. The province now has 1,598 schools for people of minority nationalities with a total enrollment of 250,000. The...
FBIS3-1991_32
Article Views Reform Tasks for 1994 I. With the Transformation of the Enterprise Operational Mechanism as the Focal Point, Exploring Effective Avenues for Establishing a Modern Enterprise System II. With Reform of the Revenue, Financial and Investment Structures as the Focal Points, Accelerating the Building of Macroec...
staff and workers will, at set intervals, pay in a certain amount of their wages to supplement the individual medical and health accounts, and these will be used for general medical and health expenditure. The reform of the medical and health system will be quite complex, and quite difficult. All areas must actively de...
FBIS3-2004_0
Nonferrous Metals Industry Makes `Brilliant Achievements'
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [By reporter Sun Jie (1327 2638) ] [Text] Beijing, 26 Feb (XINHUA)--Our country's nonferrous metals industry scored brilliant achievements last year: The output of 10 common nonferrous metals reached 3.268 million metric tons, thus surpassing the output target of nonferrous metals ind...
FBIS3-2020_0
Li Peng Urges Regional Cooperation in Family Planning
Language: English Article Type:BFN [By staff reporter Ma Chenguang: "Asian Family Planning Urged--Conference Pushes More Regional Cooperation"] [Text] Premier Li Peng yesterday called for greater regional cooperation to stem the population tide sweeping across Asia -- home to 60 percent of the world's populace. He pled...
FBIS3-2029_0
Pro-Beijing Column Views Christopher Visit
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN ["Political Talk" column by Shih Chun-yu (2457 0689 3768): "Crucial Talks Between Chinese Foreign Minister and U.S. Secretary of State in Middle of This Month"] [Text]Sino-U.S Relations Enter a New Stage The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced yesterday that U.S. Secretary o...
FBIS3-2029_2
Pro-Beijing Column Views Christopher Visit
to extend its MFN status in June. Obviously, this means continuing to bring pressure to bear on China. On this issue, a Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman reiterated China's position yesterday: Opposing U.S. linkage of the human rights issue with MFN status. However, the purpose of Shattuck's visit to Beijin...
FBIS3-2042_0
Leading Dissident Wei Jingsheng Held by Beijing Police
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 4 (AFP)--China's most celebrated dissident Wei Jingsheng was taken from his elder brother's house by Beijing police Friday morning, his secretary Tong Yi said by phone. He was taken away at 10 a.m. (0200 GMT) by three police officers, Tong said, adding that Wei h...
FBIS3-2043_0
Dissident Zhou Guoqiang `Being Interrogated'
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, 3 Mar (ZHONGGUO TONGXUN SHE)--This reporter has learned from the relevant department in Beijing that Zhou Guoqiang [0719 0948 1730], who has colluded with hostile forces outside the border in carrying out lawbreaking activities such as opposing the government, instigat...
FBIS3-2044_1
Police Detain Lawyer, Others in Beijing, Shanghai
on China to improve its human rights record in order to secure an extension of its trade privileges. Mr. Zhou is a close friend of Mr. Han, who was leader of the outlawed Beijing Workers' Autonomous Federation, formed at the height of the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations. Mr. Han, who was prevented from entering China...
FBIS3-2045_0
Further on Dissident Arrests in Beijing
Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Amy Liu and Angel Lau] [Excerpt] Four prominent dissidents have been detained in Beijing in advance of next week's convening of the national legislature. Two dissidents, Zhou Guoqiang, an outspoken member of the political reformist Peace Charter group, and Yuan Gongbing, an editor...
FBIS3-2047_14
Hong Kong Journal Previews NPC Session
value for future economic development. The total deposits of iron, petroleum, and natural gas, and three of the 110 kinds of minerals discovered so far, respectively account for 44 percent, 37 percent, or 24 percent of the country's totals; while deposits of gold and diamonds amount respectively to 20 percent and 97 pe...
FBIS3-2052_0
Poverty Conference Held, 15 Ministries Pledge Support
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 2 (XINHUA) -- Leading officials from 15 key ministries pledged to do their part in implementing the central government's plan to wipe out abject poverty by the year 2000. The ministries, including major economic decision-makers, told the National Conference on Po...
FBIS3-2057_1
RENMIN RIBAO Commentary on Helping Former Prisoners
[gong zuo yi jian 1562 0155 1942 6015] for solving this problem after investigation and research. This is of great significance to maintaining social stability. Helping those who have been released after serving prison sentences or who have been relieved of reform-through-labor terms to find means of livelihood is a ke...
FBIS3-2058_0
State To Aid `Resettlement' of Convicts
Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Ma Chenguang: "Convicts To Get More State Aid After Prison"] [Text] Local governments and Party committees are being encouraged to step up efforts to bring released inmates into the mainstream of society rather than turning back to a criminal life. Ex-inmates will be treated with ...
FBIS3-2061_0
Bishop Attacks Cadres `Biased' on Religion
Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Chan Wai-Fong] [Text] A Chinese Christian leader urged the Government to protect unregistered church activities and strongly criticised biased cadres who abused religious rights of the Chinese people. In a speech given at a Spring Festival gathering in Beijing in January, Bishop D...
FBIS3-2070_0
Document Notes `Key Technologies' for Economic Development
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [By reporter Li Anding (2621 1344 1353)] [Text] Beijing, 1 Mar (XINHUA) -- This reporter learned from the State Planning Commission that the State Planning Commission, the State Science and Technology Commission, and the State Economics and Trade Commission had jointly issued a docume...
FBIS3-2081_0
Meeting Discusses Progress in Rural Hydroelectricity
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, February 28 (XINHUA) -- China's rural waterpower generating capacity has reached more than 2,000 kw, with an annual electrical energy production of over 59.4 billion kw. An on-going meeting on national rural hydropower construction revealed that 14 out of 200 counties ...
FBIS3-2082_2
Beijing To Curb Inflation, Strive for Stability
19.5 percent in May to 22 percent in August in 35 major cities. Then, last November, the country experienced a drastic increase in the prices of grain, edible oil, and foodstuffs, with grain prices alone rising by over 40 percent in some localities. Although grain prices were temporarily stabilized after 5 billion kg o...
FBIS3-2128_1
Financial Secretary Releases `Generous' Budget
dream of. It was, said Sir Hamish after delivering his speech to the Legislative Council, a "pretty historic Budget" and almost certainly contained a record amount of concessions on salaries tax. The number of individuals who will not be paying income tax will jump from an already high 43 percent to 58 percent, describ...
FBIS3-2175_2
RENMIN RIBAO Views Zhu Rongji's Japan Visit
the two countries. From Vice Premier Zhu's current visit to Japan we can see that the world, especially Japan, is trying to reunderstand China -- a "Chinese fever" of being willing to broaden the scope of cooperation with China has surfaced in Japan. The surfacing of this fever is not an accident but a product of the c...
FBIS3-2216_0
XINHUA Reports Wei Jingsheng `Summoned' Paper Reports on Detainees
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN ["Special dispatch": "Beijing Detains Eight Dissidents; Wang Dan Later Released, But Wei Jingsheng's Whereabouts Are Still Unknown"] [Text] In the past few days the Chinese authorities have taken sudden action to deal with dissidents. The authorities detained and took away eight dissi...
FBIS3-2217_1
XINHUA Reports Wei Jingsheng `Summoned' Ministry Confirms 3 Arrests
Beijing on Thursday [3 March] and is being seen as part of a concerted effort to keep Beijing's dissident community quiet during the forthcoming session of the National People's Congress [NPC]. Wei was taken away from his office at 10 am yesterday by three plain-clothes police officers. Former student leader, Wang Dan,...
FBIS3-2219_0
XINHUA Reports Wei Jingsheng `Summoned' Further on Release
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 5 (AFP)--China's most prominent dissident Wei Jingsheng has been released after being detained for more than 24 hours by public security officials, a friend of Wei's said Saturday. The friend said Wei had telephoned at 12:20 p.m (0800 GMT) [time as received] to s...
FBIS3-2220_0
XINHUA Reports Wei Jingsheng `Summoned' AFP Reports Release
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 5 (AFP)--China's most prominent dissident -- Wei Jingsheng -- has been released after he was detained for more than 24 hours by public security officials, a friend of Wei's said Saturday. The friend told AFP that Wei had telephoned at 12:20 p.m (0800 GMT) [time a...
FBIS3-2222_0
XINHUA Reports Wei Jingsheng `Summoned' Wei, Others Comment
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [Report: "Chinese Dissidents Wei Jingsheng, Bao Ge, and Yang Zhou Have Been Released After Detention, at Least Other Four Are Still Under Detention"] [Excerpts] Democracy activists Wei Jingsheng, Bao Ge, and Yang Zhou have been released after a short detention by the Chinese authoriti...
FBIS3-2223_3
XINHUA Reports Wei Jingsheng `Summoned' Further on Detentions
member of the "Peace Charter" group, was accused of "colluding with hostile foreign forces" and "disturbing social order". Yuan and Wang were accused by the Chinese Foreign Ministry of unspecified "criminal" activities. Shanghai's most prominent dissident Yang Zhou and at least five other local activists were rounded u...
FBIS3-2224_0
XINHUA Reports Wei Jingsheng `Summoned' AFP Reports Zhai Weimin Arrest
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 6 (AFP)--Chinese police detained 1989 pro-democracy movement student leader Zhai Weimin on Sunday [6 March], continuing a crackdown on dissidents ahead of the US secretary of state's visit this week. A friend of Zhai said by telephone that the dissident, who was ...
FBIS3-2225_0
XINHUA Reports Wei Jingsheng `Summoned' More on Student Leaders
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [Report: "Two Former Leaders of Beijing Students Campaign Are Again Detained by Public Security Authorities"] [Excerpts] John Shattuck, U.S. assistant secretary of state for human rights and humanitarian affairs, yesterday released a statement in Hong Kong, condemning China for detain...
FBIS3-2226_1
XINHUA Reports Wei Jingsheng `Summoned' Wei Leaves Beijing `Voluntarily'
China's best-known dissident, Wei Jingsheng, "voluntarily" left Beijing yesterday for an undisclosed destination because of his "poor health", his secretary said last night. Mr Wei, who had been detained by police for 24 hours two days ago, told his secretary Tong Yi that he would be leaving Beijing for a few days and ...
FBIS3-2227_0
XINHUA Reports Wei Jingsheng `Summoned' Ministry Denies Reportage
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 7 (XINHUA) -- The Chinese Ministry of Public Security denied here today that some "dissidents" have been detained as reported by press units in Hong Kong and overseas. In recent days, Hong Kong and foreign press units carried reports saying that China has "detain...
FBIS3-2256_0
XINHUA Notes U.S. Pledge of Aid to Georgia
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Washington, March 7 (XINHUA) -- U.S. President Bill Clinton announced here today that the U.S. will provide 70 million dollars in technical and humanitarian assistance to the former Soviet republic of Georgia. During a joint press conference with visiting Georgian President Edu...
FBIS3-2257_4
Article Views President Clinton's Asia-Pacific Policy
administration believes there are four priorities for the security of the New Pacific Community. First, a continued American military presents in this region; second, stronger efforts to combat the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; third, new regional dialogues on the full range of the common security chall...
FBIS3-2258_2
`News Analysis' Views Group of 7 Job Summit
good but irrelevant for the depressed labor market in Western Europe. "I would doubt that the Europeans are very enthusiastic about the jobs summit," said Peter Richards, a Geneva-based ILO economist, in an interview. "They see the problem very much on their own." Practically half of the 35 million unemployed in Wester...
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Editorial Criticizes MFN-Human Rights Link
harming others, will end in self-destruction. The linkage of MFN treatment with human rights is a violation of the principle of respecting other countries' sovereignty that is stipulated in the "United Nations Charter." Clause 7 of Article 2 stipulates: "Nothing contained in the present Charter shall authorize the Unit...
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Editorial Criticizes MFN-Human Rights Link
rule has been proven time and again by the history of many countries. If a country is deprived of its sovereignty, its people's personal rights cannot possibly be safeguarded. It seems difficult to understand why the United States, while posing as a "fighter for human rights," refuses to sign some international convent...
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Tax Losses Attributed to `Many Causes'
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN ["Random Talk on Hot Points of Reform" column by Zheng Qi (6774 3823): "An Opinion on Deepening Reform in the Tax Collection and Management System"] [Text] At present, the issue of the loss of taxes has attracted extensive attention from various circles in society and has become one o...
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Journal Examines Commodity Price Situation 1993: A Quite Large Increase in Prices But the Growth in People's Income Was Greater 1994: The Pressure of Inflation Will Still Exist But the Price Situation Does Not Look Too Pessimistic Implementation of the Many Reform Measures Will Result in Some Changes in Prices But Will...
also afraid that the grain prices would increase this year and, as a result, they made panic purchases of grain. These factors obviously induced a rise in the price of grain. Some people also thought that home-use electrical appliances and other commodities would also rise in price and in some areas the phenomenon of p...
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Official Views Hong Kong Transition Without UK Cooperation
stand firm together with the large number of Hong Kong people who love China and Hong Kong in the recovery of Hong Kong's sovereignty, following the principles of `one country, two systems,' and `Hong Kong people ruling Hong Kong' set out in the Basic Law." At a ceremony to issue letters of appointment to advisers to H...
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Paper Previews Work Report Li Peng To Deliver at NPC
But Britain is not mentioned in this regard. Mr Li sets the national growth rate this year at nine percent, and vows to keep inflation within 10 percent. While indicating that major achievements have been made in a wide range of areas, Mr Li concedes much still needs to be done in economic and social spheres. These inc...
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XINHUA Views Steps in Eradicating Poverty
of the areas. Compared with the poverty eased among about 45 million poor people during the 1986-1992 period, the remaining poverty facing 80 million Chinese is much more difficult to wipe out than the steps taken by China in 1978-1985. The population of the poor decreased from about 200 million in 1978 to 125 million ...
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Return to Beijing Expected by End of March
forces and organizations abroad. He revealed that the Chinese side had set up an organization recently to investigate these organizations and contacts among democratic activists and dissidents, and this led to some strong actions afterwards. The Chinese side does not want to see social "stability" upset by any activiti...
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LIAOWANG Interviews Science Academy President
the highest labor productivity was no longer workers who controlled machines, or American-style centralized command systems, but the Japanese system of worker participation in innovation which stressed coordination. Today, with the introduction of computerized automation and production systems, and the popularization o...
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LIAOWANG Interviews Science Academy President
preparing this year and will submit to the state for inclusion in the "Ninth Five-Year Plan": Coal purification, combustion and conversion. Since the early 1980's, five or six institutes under CAS have been engaged in research on technologies aimed at raising combustion efficiency, reducing pollution, and developing co...
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Dam Sturgeon Rescue Holds Lessons for Three Gorges Plan
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 7 (CNS) -- According to a survey by relevant research institutions, Chinese sturgeons have extricated themselves from a predicament as a result of the construction of the Gezhou Dam at the river's upper reaches, with the young sturgeons now appearing in many plac...
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Article Views Possible U.S. Sanctions on Japan
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN ["Special dispatch" by staff reporter Xu Changyin (1776 7022 6892): "U.S.-Japanese Trade Frictions Will Aggravate"] [Text] Washington--U.S. President Clinton and Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa held a meeting at the White House on 11 February. This was the first formal meeti...
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LIAOWANG Views PRC Foreign Relations
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN ["International Commentary" by Wei Guoqiang (7614 0948 1730): "PRC Active Diplomacy"] [Text] The year 1994 has just begun and a situation of unprecedented vigor has appeared on China's diplomatic front. Qiao Shi, National People's Congress [NPC] Standing Committee chairman; Liu Huaqin...
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Article Views U.S. Secretary's Visit, MFN, Human Rights Part Two
People Unemployed If the United States revokes China's MFN status over human rights issues and if China responds with trade retaliations by doubling import duties on imported U.S. goods, U.S. goods will lose their competitiveness in the Chinese market, which in turn will cost 170,000 to 200,000 jobs in the United State...
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Editorial Views Human Rights, U.S. Secretary's Visit
United States not only makes demands verbally, but at the same time supports some troublemakers in intentionally making trouble within the territory of China. With voices from the outside and the inside, they create all kinds of so- called "human rights" incidents in a planned way as a pretext for taking further interf...
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Editorial Views Human Rights, U.S. Secretary's Visit
different periods. As they would not listen to the warning by the quarters concerned, action was taken to enforce the law, but the Americans immediately responded by lumping that togethre with the MFN status. A few days ago, the United States sent Assistant Secretary of State Shattuck to Beijing to "prepare" for Christ...
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Editorial Views Human Rights, U.S. Secretary's Visit
country to support political dissidents in making trouble, let alone Wei Jingsheng, who is a parolee who still has to observe parole regulations. Now that he has violated the regulations, the Chinese public security authorities, naturally, could take legitimate summoning measures in accordance with law. The fact that t...
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Guangdong Sees `Record Growth' in Foreign Trade
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Guangdong Province posted record growth in foreign trade last year. The province's two-way trade hit US$46.9 billion (about HK$362.06 billion [Hong Kong dollars]), which breaks down to $19.9 billion worth of imports and $27 billion worth of exports This is an increase of 71 per...
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Yunnan To Introduce Measures To Boost Foreign Trade
21st Century, Southeast Asia will be one of the world's most vibrant economic centres. With its advantages in geography and natural resources, Yunnan wants to develop its economy so that it capture its share of the trade in the Asian-Pacific Region. To reach this objective, the province will take the following measures...
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Yunnan Secretary Views Plan To Develop Export Industries
Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Pu Chaozhu, secretary of the Provincial CPC Committee: "Province To Develop Its Export Industries"] [Text] Yunnan hopes to rejuvenate its economy by developing export-oriented industries and opening up domestic and world markets. The province has set up the Beijing Yunnan Economic...