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Vietnamese statement The Vietnamese Foreign Ministry replied promptly to the charges regarding the three former Vietnamese soldiers. A spokesperson said that "UNTAC itself and Prince Norodom Sihanouk himself have more than once confirmed

South Korean socialist jailed Ilbung Choe, a South Korean socialist, publisher and political prisoner since October 1992, was not among thousands of people granted amnesty by the South Korean government last month. Choe, who had published

Cuba solidarity conference in Mexico Ciudad Juarez — Cuba solidarity groups from Mexico, the USA and Canada are planning a new drive to send $180,000 of donations to Cuba. The decision came out of a trilateral solidarity conference held in

MOSCOW — Antinuclear activists in Russia plan a vigorous campaign against a new government program which would increase sharply the number of nuclear power reactors operating on Russian territory. The government's plans

Greenhouse over SwedenSTOCKHOLM — A series of dramatic shipping accidents and near misses has occurred in the Baltic region since the Shetlands disaster. It is apparent that the north European transport infrastructure

PHNOM PENH — The United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) recently made public the presence in Cambodia of three former Vietnamese soldiers. One is an ethnic Khmer from southern Vietnam now in the Cambodian

Indonesia defeated over East Timor at UN The Indonesian government suffered a major defeat at the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva on March 11, as 22 member states voted in favour of a resolution on East Timor. The

Rubbery figures LONDON — It has been revealed in an internal British Labour Party document, leaked to the media, that financial membership, contrary to public pronouncements of 280,000, really stands at less than 90,000. Further, there has

Students arrested as Suharto accepts Try Forty students demonstrated outside the Indonesian parliament on March 10 to protest against the nomination and election of ex-general Suharto as president. The demonstrators, carrying placards

MOSCOW — When perestroika began, the environmental movement in the USSR grew strongly. But the movement has tended to die away as anger at the damage wrought by the old order was swamped by the difficulties of surviving

STOCKHOLM — The Swedish government has landed in one of its biggest crises to date with plans to build a permanent road and rail link over the resund to Denmark. This engineering monsterpiece, intended as a symbol of new and

'Gross human rights violations' in Sudan Alarming reports of gross human rights violations continue to emerge from Sudan, said Amnesty International in a report issued on February 19. "There are especially disturbing reports of mass