Subject: CND-EP Weekly Posting, February 12, 1991

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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 91 23:46:26 -0500

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=====================  Europe / Pacific Section (CND-EP)  =====================
			       February 12, 1991
 
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1. Celebrate Chinese New Year in UK: Music & Dance Show.................15

2. Taiwan: KMT Says the War with Mainland Is Technically Not Over Yet...35

3. Hong Kong Tourist Industry Reeling From Gulf War.....................55

4. News and Comments from A CND-EP Reader:
   Japan Compensates Australian POW's for World War II..................25
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1. Celebrate Chinese New Year in UK: Music & Dance Show
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>From: [email-masked] (Rachel Lau)  Date: 11 Feb 91 10:38:18 GMT
Source: soc.culture.china

There will be a Chinese "Music & Dance" show in Manchester on 13 Feb 91, that
is next Wednesday. The purpose of the show is to celebrate Chinese New Year.
It is organised by Chinese Association of Performing Arts and the programme
will include sword dance, Chinese flute solo, drama (story based on Poon Gum
Lin and her brother-in-law, the famous hero who beat the tiger to death), too
numerous to mention all of them. 

The venue will be at Green Room, 54-56 Whitworth Street, Manchester (opposite
to the Ritz disco and few yards from the Cornerhouse theatre). The show will
begin at 8pm. Ticket price is 3.8 (2.8 for concessionary) pounds.

Wish to see you there. :)
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2. Taiwan: KMT Says the War with Mainland Is Technically Not Over Yet
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>From: CND Correspondent  [email-masked] Tue Feb 12 13:02:34 1991
Source:  UPI, Feb. 12, 1991  By JEFF HOFFMAN

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Premier Hau Pei-tsun said Tuesday that despite steadily
warming relations with mainland China, Taiwan remains technically in a state
of war with its giant communist neighbor.

While Taiwan intends by May to end a 43-year-old Period of Mobilization for
Suppression of the Rebellion, which many oberservers say could pave the way
for Taipei's recognition of communist authority in China and for negotiations
on reunification, Hau told reporters that the move is simply a necessary step
in Taiwan's democratization.

The ending of the Period of Mobilization will nullify a set of temporary
provisions to the island's Constitution that give the president and the
military extrordinary powers and compromised constitutionally guaranteed
rights.

The ending of the period of rebellion does not mean Taiwan is abandoning its
anti-communist stance, nor does it mean it is no longer at war with the
communist authorities on the mainland, Hau said.

War could errupt at any time, he said, until both sides have agreed to a
permanent cease-fire. Taiwan's Kuomintang government, which retreated here
from China in 1949, has said it will not negotiate with Beijing until
democratic reforms have been adopted on the mainland.

Hau said Taipei would adjust its position as the situation changes, but
stressed that the road from mutual non-recognition to mutual recognition will
be a long one.

Hau said Taiwan would only agree to reunification under a democratic system.

Hau, 71, a former defense minister and Taiwan's highest ranking general,
assumed the premiership in June.
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3. Hong Kong Tourist Industry Reeling From Gulf War
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>From: CND Correspondet [email-masked] Thu Feb  7 01:42:07 1991
Source: KYODO 02/06/91

    HONG KONG, Feb. 6 Kyodo - Hong Kong's tourist industry, the colony's third
largest earner of foreign exchange, has been badly affected by the Persian
Gulf War, according to local industry sources.

     ''Sales are down 20% on the same time last year,'' said Neil Hucksteppe,
sales and marketing manager of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group Hong Kong.
''Not only have there been cancellations, but reservations have dropped off
dramatically.''

     Tourism is Hong Kong's third largest earner of foreign exchange, worth 37
billion Hong Kong dollars in 1989.  And 1989 was not the best year for tourism
in Hong Kong.

     ''Our long-haul markets had just about recovered from June 4 when we were
hit by the Gulf War,'' said Stephen Wong of the Hong Kong Tourist Association,
referring to the suppression in June, 1989 of pro-democracy protesters in
Beijing, which had a major impact on the territory's tourist trade.

     Economic worries, as well as the threat of terrorism, means travellers
coming from the United States is the market most affected, but the numbers of
European tourists and Japanese business travelers are also down significantly,
said Hucksteppe.

     Japan aside, the regional Asian market is the least affected worldwide,
Hucksteppe added.

     Karina Leung, public relations manager for Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific
airline, agreed with this assessment.

     ''Long-haul business travel is especially affected,'' Leung said. Cathay
Pacific worldwide passenger figures were down about 15% over last year.

     ''But we are putting on extra services during Chinese New Year. There is
still demand for travel within this region,'' said Leung.

     ''The average load factor on Japan-Hong Kong flights is down about 9%,''
said Tadashi Yamanouchi, Japan Airlines' regional manager for Hong Kong and
Macao.

     This compares very favorably with average passenger numbers on European
and trans-Pacific flights, which are down ''tremendously,'' Yamanouchi said.

     ''There is an image of Hong Kong as a safe destination, there are no
signs of terrorist activity, and the government has stepped up security,'' he
said.

     In a related development, 72% of Hong Kong residents support the war to
drive Iraqi forces from Kuwait, according to a survey published Tuesday.

     The survey, commissioned by the South China Morning Post and conducted
by Asian Commercial Research (ACR) last week, found only 19% of some 634
respondents opposed to the launching of Operation Desert Storm.

     Approval for the war was stronger among men, the young, the better
educated, and those with higher incomes, the Post reported.
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4. News and Comments from A CND-EP Reader:
   Japan Compensates Australian POW's for World War II
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>From: [email-masked] Wed Feb  6 01:35:27 1991

According to Canberra Time (Feb. 6, 1991), Australian prisoners of the
Japanese during the World War II are part of an internation claim for more
than $25,000 each in compensation from the Japanese Government.

The International Red Cross has backed a claim before the International Human
Rights Commission for several billion dollars in compensation for allied
prisoners of war. The statement, lodged in Geneva by Canadian veterans' group 
on Monday also covers POW's from the US, Netherlands and New Zealand. The 
statement claim notes that Japan maintains it is not liable now as any 
compensation to be paid was provided for in the 1952 Peace Treaty entered into
between Japan and the allied powers. The POW submission argues that the
indiindividual human rights of allied POW and civilian interness were not
affected by the peace treaty. The basis of argument is that the allied
governments, as signatories to the treaty, had no legal authority or mandate
to remove the basic legal rights of the citizens. The submission further
contends this has support in international law because individual human rights
were not bound by the actions of his or her government.

Comments: During the anti-Japanese War in China, millions of Chinese lost
their life by barbarous Japanese slaughter. Economic damage was also
countless. However, both nationalist and communist government, for their
own political purpose, gave up China's just claim in compensation at the
cost of the Chinese people's life and property. Why we Chinese should not
organized and claim compensation against Japan in order to defend our human
rights.
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