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China News Digest - Canadian Regional Services (Bo Xiong ) --------------- Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 09:40:45 -0300 Sender: FCSSCN-L stands for FCSSC News Release Subject: FCSSC News Release 6-48, Monday May 15, 1995 To: Multiple recipients of list FCSSCN-L ******************************************************************** # FCSSC News Release 6-48 Monday, May 15, 1994 # # # # m"m D mm" "m" ""D mmmmmmm m"m m"m # # m" "m mmmDmmmm mmmmm D""" D D """D D D "D" "D" # # m" "m D D D D D""" m"m """D D"""D mDmD DmDm # # n" mmmmmmmmm "m D D D D D"""""""""""""D DmmmD mmmD Dmmm # # D D D D D " """""D" " D D D D D D # # mmmmDmmmm D D D D "D DmmmD"DmmD D D # # D m" m" DmmmD """""""D""""" "" D " D D"" # # mmmmmmDmmmmmm m" mm" " " "Md D m" D # # # # # # Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars in Canada # # # ******************************************************************** Table of Contents ============================================================================ 1. Letter To FCSSC President From Citizenship and Immigration Canada 2. New Issue of FCSSC's Chinese Magazine "Feng Hua Yuan" FHY9505B 3. WWW Servers in Mainland China 4. World Today - Killer virus spreads in Zaire ============================================================================ +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 1. Letter To FCSSC President From Citizenship and Immigration Canada +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Forwarded by: Yuchen Zhu Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 00:30:00 -0300 Citizenship and Immigration Canada Ottawa, K1A 1L1 Yuchen Zhu, President Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars, Canada 14 Summerwind Crescent Nepean, Ontario K2G 6G6 Dear Yuchen Zhu: The Honourable Sergio Marchi, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, has asked that I respond to your letter of April 30, 1995, concerning emigration from the People's Republic of China (PRC). The Chinese authorities have advised our officials in Beijing that Chinese citizens currently residing in the PRC who wish to emigrate are required to submit their applications to the representatives in the host country situated in the PRC. While we are unaware of any official law pertaining to exit visa regulations, it appears that officials of the Public Safety Bureau have been following the practice outline above. In view of your concerns, I would like to confirm that the Chinese government has been facilitating outbound travel of their nationals and that procedures have been streamlined for the issuance of passport and exit visas. The apparent aim of the Chinese government in this situation is not to restrict the exit of their nationals for emigration purposes, but to ensure that the procedures are being uniformly applied. As you indicated, some clients have approached Canadian visa officials in Beijing to formally request letters to authenticate offshore-issued immigrant visas. While a few letters were issued on a limited basis when this situation first came to light, the practice had to be halted due to the profusion of forged letters that were turning up at airline counters. You will be pleased to know that Chinese authorities have never indicated they consider the visas issued by Canadian visa offices in the United States to be invalid. Rather, they have stated that the exit procedures are part of the normal process for all PRC citizens who seek to exit the country, and that everyone is subject to the same requirements. Unfortunately, legal and operational constraints prevent the issuance of immigrant visas to the dependents of individuals processed by third country visa offices. In early January 1995, Canadian visa offices in the United States were notified of the Chinese government's policy and were requested to counsel their affected clients accordingly. You may wish to ensure your members are aware of this. Thank you for taking the time to share your concerns. The Minister appreciates hearing from your organization and is interested in kept apprised of any problems being experienced by those Chinese nationals desiring to immigrate to Canada. Yours sincerely, L.E. Hunter Ministerial and Executive Services Citizen and Immigration Canada [Words From FCSSC Immigration Center] Since Feb. 1995, a few of dependents of some FCSSC members, residing in the PRC and holding the immigration visa issued in the United States, have got problem to leave at the Chinese Custom(now Shanghai only, as we know). FCSSC has been very concerned about this and made some efforts including a letter to the minister of Citizenship and Immigration written from FCSSC president, Mr. Yuchen Zhu. It is pleased that we got the reply from the Canadian Government soon. Now the Immigration Service of FCSSC is contacting with the Chinese Authorities regarding to this matter. If you met the same problem, please report your situation with a brief message to the Immigration Centre, FCSSC. Also it will be very appreciated if you send us your suggestions or comments. Our address is: fcssc-imm@uwalpha.uwinnipeg.ca or Tel/fax (819) 246 9298 Changming Yan Immigration Centre, FCSSC +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 2. New Issue of FCSSC's Chinese Magazine "Feng Hua Yuan" FHY9505B +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ >From: Zheng Huang Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 03:54:07 -0300 FENG HUA YUAN (Chinese Maple Garden) Issue 56 (FHY9505B) May 10, 1995 ====================== --------- Your Friend in Cyberspace! ============================================================================ "Feng Hua Yuan", with its first publication on September 20, 1993, is FCSSC's comprehensive electronic Chinese magazine. It is published as a ten-day periodical on the first, the tenth, and the twentieth day of each month. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TABLE OF CONTENTS (FHY9505B) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. [Forum] Traitors ..................................................... Yi Bao 2. [China, the Divine Land] De-Dengism Emerging in China ................................. Bai Ye On the Pressured Resignation of Chen Xitong .................. Yi Bao 3. [Life Kaleidoscope] Farewell, My Toronto ......................................... Qi Yao Uncle Ding ................................................. Jie Bing 4. [Music] Mozart and the Chinese Nationality ........................ Ye Mingmei 5. [Modern Idioms] Self-righteousness ...................................... Wang Huiyun 6. [Special Report] Echoing of Wars .............................................. Hui Ze 7. 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WWW Servers in Mainland China +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ >From: Ji Zhang Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 14:02:00 -0300 Since 3 Gold Projects to be launched, more and more universities and research institutions have gotten internet accesses. In the past few months, World Wide Web servers in Mainland China have being increasing rapidly. Some servers use clickable graphics by means of httpd Common Gateway Interface technics and make their home pages fancy enough. Most Web pages have links to both China and overseas. Multimedia has been used in those Webs. There is a daily up-date World Ping Pong Game (WTTC95) news provided by students at Tianjin University with URL http://www.tju.edu.cn Mosaic and Netescape are good browsers for you to visit those Webs. Unfortunately, some servers only run during working hours on Monday through Friday in Beijing Time, and some servers are very slow. Following is a collection of WWW servers in mainland China: China Education and Research Network http://www.cernet.edu.cn/ Chisa E-Magazine http://www.chisa.edu.cn/ IHEP Beijing http://www.ihep.ac.cn/ihep.html Beijing Univ of Chemical Technology http://202.38.145.2/ TianJin University http://162.105.6.2/ www.net.edu.cn http://166.111.1.16/ www.icm.ac.cn http://159.226.63.190/ www.cnc.ac.cn http://159.226.2.8/ sun.im.ac.cn http://159.226.250.12/ panda.ioz.ac.cn http://159.226.67.61/ www.sti.ac.cn http://168.160.1.25/ www.math.ac.cn http://159.226.47.65/ These links have been added to FHY home page, URL: http://uwalpha.uwinnipeg.ca:8001/fhy.html you may click "A Collection of WWW Servers in mainland China" to access the list. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 4. World Today - Killer virus spreads in Zaire +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Forward By: Xinlei Wang (xwang@ug.cs.dal.ca) Date: May 12, 1995 KINSHASA (9:17 a.m.) - The deadly Ebola virus, one of the most lethal diseases known to man, has spread to a third town in Zaire and a leading official expressed concern that families of victims were dumping them in hospital and fleeing. But the World Health Organisation and the aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), who have foreign experts battling the disease on the ground, remained confident they would be able to contain the outbreak which has killed at least 29 people. Two medical experts from the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and one from the Institut Pasteur in Paris rushed from Kinshasa to Kikwit, where the virus surfaced in March. "We will stay for as long as it is necessary," one of the three told Reuters. He declined to be named. "The situation is so urgent," said a U.S. embassy spokesman in Kinshasa, adding that foreign embassies were pledging aid. The virus, named after a river in north Zaire, normally hits monkeys and other animals but sometimes jumps to humans. Outbreaks in Zaire and Sudan in 1976 and 1979 were contained by public health measures, but still killed hundreds of people. With Kikwit under quarantine and the authorities in the teeming capital blocking roads from the affected region, the WHO said in Geneva on Friday that the virus had spread. It listed four hospitals where it had been identified. Two in Kikwit, a town of 500,000 people some 500 km (310 miles) from Kinshasa, one at Mosango 100 km (60 miles) away and one at Yassa Bonga, 250 km (160 miles) from Kikwit. "The pattern is of infectious patients being transferred to these hospitals from the 350-bed Kikwit General Hospital where most of the initial cases appear to have occurred," a WHO statement said. Health workers are particularly at risk. The virus, which causes a form of haemorrhagic fever and for which there is no known cure or vaccine, kills as many as nine out of 10 people who contract it. "Transmission of the virus through close contact is continuing to occur," the WHO said. Kinshasa governor Bernadin Mungul Diaka said the authorities were concerned that families were dumping sick relatives in hospital and fleeing. "Those who have died from the disease were abandoned by their families," he told Reuters. The WHO and MSF say public health measures can contain the virus, which spreads through close contact with blood or bodily fluids. "I think it can be confined and there will not be a large outbreak all over the place," Dr Eric Verschueren, the head of the MSF medical mission to Zaire, said in Brussels. The WHO's Geneva statement, based on a report from its team in Zaire, said 27 people had died from Ebola and 22 others were hospitalised, "many of them in terminal stages of illness." MSF put the death toll at 29. Three Italian nuns are among the dead. Kinshasa's governor has closed roads to the city from Bandundu province, which produces almost half of its food. "I have barred all movement of people into Kinshasa from Bandundu (province)," Mungul said on Thursday, adding that he had stopped small aircraft flying in from the zone. "If the disease penetrates to Kinshasa that will be a catastrophe," he said, adding that the mortuary in the city of five million people had room for only 150 corpses. The government declared Kikwit a disaster zone and slapped a quarantine order on the town. "The movement of people either entering or leaving is subject to sanitary control," it said. Zaire's old colonial ruler Belgium has taken steps to ensure passengers arriving by plane from Zaire do not bring the virus. 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