Campaign to persuade HK boat people: British advertising group Saatchi 1s working on a campaign to persuade Hong Kong boat people that life is fetter in communist Vietnam than in a refugee camp, a British newspaper reported. reports Reuter from London.
The Sunday Times said the European Commission was paying the advertising firm 350.000 pounds sterling (592.500 dollars) to draw up a poster, video and leaflet campaign to encourage Vietnamese refugees in the British colony to return to their native land.
There are not going to be any fancy pictures or clever slogans.' the Saatchi executive in charge of the campaign Roderick Moore, was quoted as saying.
Avalanche kills 5 in Philippines: a 15-foot (5-meter) high wall of steaming debris from the Mount Plnatubo volcano thundered down rivers 1n central Luzon. Early reports Indicated four people were killed and three others injured, police said Sunday, reports AP from Philippines
The volcanic avalanche poured down rivers and gullies near Bacolor, about 50 miles (110 kilometers) north of Manila, during heavy rains late Saturday, police at regional headquarters here said.
The Philippine Insiltutc of Volcanology and Seismology said sensors reported the debris slides along two major river systems, but reports of damage and casualties were Incom ptete due to poor communications
Referendum on Macedonia's independence: Voter* in Macedonia. Yugoslavia a southernmost republic, go to the polls Sunday for a referendum on whether the region should declare independence. as Slovenia and Croatia did not June 25. reports AFP from Belgrade
A majority of the republic's 1.3 million voters will tick yes.' against the question 'are you for a sovereign and Inde pendent republic of Macedonia having the right to belong to an asaociatton of sovereign Yugoslavia states', according to
Promoting the vote for independence are fears that Macedonia will And itself in a Yugoslavia abandoned by Slovenia and Croatia and dominated by Serbia
Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic is known to con sider that Macedonia should be annexed to the southern part of Sotto.
5 Croatian guards killed in clashes: P»W Croatian National Guards died in clashes with the Federal Army on Saturday as leaders of Yugoslavia s feuding republics outlined their grievances at the start of a European Community peace conference, reports Reuter from Belgrade
Zagreb radio said the men were killed tn villages around Okucani where the army and Serbian guerillas have blocked the last remaining road link between central and eastern Croatia.
Attacks intensified during the afternoon following an overnight luO in anticipation of the peace talks in the Hague
Hospital sources at Ostjek. the capital of eastern Croatia, 22 pcopk^tociuding a 90 yearwoman were killed in
580,500 prostitutes caught in China: Chinese police have caught more than half a millton people rngagnd tn prostitution as vice made a spectacular comeback in the last decade, the official press here said Saturday, reports AFP from Beijing.
A subtle security ministry ottcisl was quoted as saying that 580.600 people were caught in police crackdowns on prostl tutlon since 1982
Saturday's reports gave the most complete picture yet of a vice problem that has returned with the last 12 years of economic reform in China. The ruling communists claimed to have eradicated prostitution after they took power la 1949
But the official. U Jtzhou. was quoted by the semi-official Chino News Service (CMS) as saying. 'China's prostitution ae-tMMes are increasin* in the cities with ne sign of let-up. at gto Mt Ums spreading to towns and villages along traffic
He added that a rising nun foci of well organized criminal *ngs were spsctafcMig in prostitution with more than 3.300 mm* groups broteen in the trot seven months of 1MI, the ^Kn^M-Innguage China daily reported