chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (01/05/90)
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Developments in EE and SU: New Laws in New Year for Romania ...... 36 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brief News ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: lin@Neon.Stanford.EDU, wang@lys.uio.NO and tang@riscc1.scripps.edu Source: Associated Press (1/1/90), Direct E-mail and Recent World Journal AP, Hong Kong -- About 10,000 people staged a noisy but peaceful demonstra- tion Monday outside the Xinhua News Agency office in Hong Kong in support of democracy in China. The demonstrators shouted slogans and carried banners that read: "We Love China, Not Communism" and "Today Romania, Tomorrow Chi- na." The demonstration was staged by the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of the Patriotic Movement in China. A visit to China last week by Valentin Falin, head of the Soviet Commun- ist Party's International Department and the highest party official in China since May, went unnoticed in the official Chinese press until he met on his final day with party General Secretary Jiang Zemin. Reports on that meeting had Jiang lecturing Falin that socialist reform must "take the right route." The Soviet side had no comment on the talks, and Falin declined even to talk to the Soviet press. Norwegian Television Network -- According to Nobel Peace Prize Committee, M. Gorbachev, Czeck President Havel and Miss Chai Ling are among the nominees for Nobel Peace Prize 1990. World Journal -- Dalai Lama donated $10,000 to Romania people, from his No- bel Prize. Taiwan actress Lu Xiaofeng won the title of The Best Actress in last year's Asia-Pacific Film Festival, unprecedentedly, for the second time. She also won the same title in the year of 1988. Chinna's famous ping-pong player Jiao Zhimin became a Korean citizen and married to her South Korean husband in a traditional Korean wedding. Their five-year love marathon, bumpy and fussy, finally hit a happy end. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Political Fixing in Colleges Stepped up Further ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: IZZYQ00@OAC.UCLA.EDU Source: Associated Press, 1/3/89 Beijing -- Li Tieying, head of the State Education Commission, in a report on future educational goals delivered to the national legislature, em- phasized that the sharp increase in political education since the June crackdown on the student-led pro-democracy movement has not gone far enough. "At the present time the tendency to not pay attention to moral education is fairly prominent: ideological education is weak; administration is lax; schools, especially institutions of higher learning, have to varying degrees received the corrosive influence of 'bourgeois liberalization' and the situation is fairly serious." Li said that as a result of the Communist Party's "warm loving care and strict demands," the atmosphere on campus is "comparatively stable." But he said the problems are deep-rooted, and will require a long period of hard work to overcome. Li said China's student exchange programs with foreign countries will continue and gradually expand. But students selected for academic work abroad generally will be "in front-line work or those who have superior political and vocational credentials." "I want to especially point out that those students sent abroad to study must return and serve the country," Li said. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Heavy Ax Waiting Beijing Party Members ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: IZZYQ00@OAC.UCLA.EDU Source: United Press International, 1/3/89 Large numbers of Communist Party members in Beijing will be forced to reapply for membership in the latest bid to purge those who participated in or supported last year's pro-democracy movement, the official press reported Wednesday. The re-registration ordered by the Communist Party Central Committee and the municipal party unit is the latest attempt by the government to push through a sweeping purge of Beijing party ranks that began last summer but has met with stiff resistance. The article did not elaborate on the process of re-registration, but government sources said it would begin in early February after the Chinese New Year holiday. Officials are engaged in preparatory work, the sources said. Each member reapplying will have to appear before a review panel and detail his or her experiences during the unrest, accounting for individual actions during the period and detailing personal knowledge of the events, the sources said. If approved by the examiners, the application will still face review by the applicant's workplace and then by senior party officials before approval, said the sources. The Beijing party's purge campaign has so far been frustrated by resistance among the large numbers of people who supported the aims of the protests. Officials had to order a second round of investigations in November after an initial drive sputtered. The Beijing party secretary, Li Ximing, was said to have been angered by mid-fall reports from Beij- ing workplaces estimating that only 5,000 party members had taken part in the demonstrations. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Children of High Ranking Chinese Officials in Panama ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: USERFP1C@MTS.RPI.EDU Source: The Times Union (Albany, NY), 12/29/89 by Peter Copeland. Panama City, Panama -- Manuel Noriega agreed to allow about 12,000 children of high-ranking Chinese officials to move to Panama, then charged each one $5,000 for an entry visa, U.S. officials said Thursday. The visa moneymaking scheme was among dozens of unsavory activities un- covered by officials as they looked through Panamanian government records and Noriega's personal files. Officials said the files exposed a country run by Mafia type trafficking in drugs, financial services and immigrant vi- sas. Curious about the large number of young Chinese in Panama "wearing $500 suits and $200 shoes," the officials were told by Chinese sources that be- ginning last May, an estimated 12,000 children of Chinese government and Communist Party officials had come to Panama to live. Noriega charged them $5000 each for a visa, a U.S. officials told re- porters. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Help Wanted! A Student Family in Tragedy ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: GHUANG@ecs.umass.edu Source: Soc.Culture.China, 1/4/89 On Jan. 1, 1990, a fatal car accident occurred on Main Street in Amherst [Massachusetts, USA] in which Mr Damin Shi, a Ph.D candidate at the Dept. of Economics, UMass. Amherst, from U. of Liaoning was seriously in- jured and has remained in deep coma, his chance of full, recovery being slim. His wife, Ms Jie Sun, was instantly killed. Mr Shi and Ms Sun have a 13-year-old boy, Zhongyue Shi, in Amherst Junior High. They have no other relatives in US. The CSSA at UMass Amherst has been doing all they can to straight out the situation, to help out the family, and to launched a campaign for the relief of the tragedy of the Sun's family. We ask all netters for help. Contribution is needed to cover the funeral expenses of Ms Sun, the travel expenses for their family members from China and the immediate relief for the child. Checks should be made to the order of "ACS (for Damin's family)" and sent to: Assoc. of Chinese Students of UMass. c/o Yi Fang, Dept. of Maths. GRC Tower, UMass., Amherst, MA 01003, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. Developments in EE and SU: New Laws in New Year for Romania ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: IZZYQ00@OAC.UCLA.EDU Source: Associated Press, 1/2/90 By William B. Ries Bucharest -- Romanians toasted the end of 25 years of dictatorship Monday in New Year's revelry made even brighter by government declarations abol- ishing capital punishment and proposing an end to the six-day work week. Interim President Ion Iliescu announced in a New Year's address that Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, were the last to face execution in Romania, indicating that the lives of other family members and aides to the ousted dictator would be spared. In another proclamation aimed at promoting private enterprise, the government authorized the dismantling of state-run cooperative farms and the assignment of plots of land to individual farmers for private use. The proposal for a five-day work week and other measures benefiting Romanian workers follows the new government's pattern of striking down some of the more unpopular laws of the Ceausescu regime and liberalizing economic and labor policies. The provisional government also has taken fresh steps toward dismantling one-party rule, announcing Sunday that political groups were free to form parties and run for office in democratic elections promised for April. In another development, the provisional government Monday invited Romanians living abroad to return to Romania and help rebuild the country. A decree issued by the National Salvation Front "guarantees the right to repatriation" to all Romanians living in other countries, as well as their children, the news agency Agerpres said. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Executive Editor: Sanyee Tang, tang@riscc1.scripps.edu | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (or) ----------------------- --------------------- NDCadada Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fri Jan 5 11:39:06 EST 1990
chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) (01/05/90)
* C h i n a N e w s D i g e s t *
(ND Canada Service)
-- Jan. 5 (II), 1990
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by Dennis Lu, in name of SAG of FCSSC
lidenni@jhevax.McMaster.ca
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FCSSC == Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars, Canada
== Quan Jia Xue Lian (2,1,2,2) (in Chinese)
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There was a recent telex dated on Dec.27 to regional head-
quaters (in Ontario, it is Toronto) and dated on Jan.3 to dis-
trict office (e.g.Hamilton CIC) regarding the PROCESSING OF THE
CHINESE DEPENDENTS IN CHINA.
This telex was directly from the Immigration headquater-
Ottawa- the Immigration Department.
Please refer to this telex, when you are going to cousult the
local CIC officers.
The basic information is:
When a chinese who has obtained AIP (Approval In Principle)
letter requests his or her dependent(s) for unification, He or
she should contact the local CIC office and provide the
dependent's name, address including post code IN CHINESE. The
local CIC will forward the related information to the visa office
in Beijing and HongKong. Then it is up to the visa office to con-
tact with your dependent(s) in China for the processing of appli-
cation for family reunification.
Basically there is not much difference to what we got before.
But this time it is from the Immigration Headquater.
There are several cases where the dependents who hold Minister
Permit have come to Canada without difficulty.
the advice for you is: Go to local CIC to request your depen-
dents for unification and provide the necessary information.
Please refer the telex date and title to them. Some of the off-
icers might not be aware of this telex, since this is a fairly
recent one.
Best regards and wish you all good luck. Take your
actions fast if you want to.
We are still waiting for the response from the Minister to
FCSSC's inquiry.
Dennis Lu
on behalf of SAG of FCSSC
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