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JANUARY 1988 management at the Far Eastern Economic Reuiew pay a memorable tribute to Derek Davies as he completes 25 years as
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trust. Checked and double-checked. Elementary? Perhaps. Yet no other magazine in Asia goes to the lengths that Asiaweek does to ensure that its inlormation is correct. The process begins with the correspondents in the field. Asiaweek has some of the best, and like all good correspondents, they pride themselves on getting things right. It continues with the editors and writers who work on the story at Asiaweek's headquarters. There is a constant dialogue between field and desk. And then, backstopping both editors and correspondents, comes the third leg: Asiaweek's Research Department. Before a story is published, a researcher checks each word literally, with a little tick mark above it. All possible original sources, many not available in the field, are consulted in the quest for complete accuracy. And at the same time, the story goes back to the correspondent to ensure that none of those dreaded 'processing errors', beloved of chagrined editorial replies, has crept rn. The process may sound cumbersome. We don't hnd it so. It is the reason Asiaweek is so trusted a name throughout this region. And, we feel, it advances the interests of all of us in this profession. For in building people's confidence in the information they read, we are strengthening their belief in the value of a free press.
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For a newsmagazine, that word says everything. It is the touchstone of our task, the measure of our achievement. At Asiaweek, it is the asset we prize most. For we know that what readers want is, very simply, reliable information. Inlormation they can
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Remembered
Yesterdays
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Nuri Vittachi recounts his experience in lndia where
ushered in 1988 in
Reporting
he maintained a perilous existence as a freelance
writer.
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traditional gala celebration Cover Club members and friends that lasted almost 12 hours. (See also P. 10-11) bid farewell to 1987 and
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Malaysia has tightened its press laws; but M.G.G. Pillai, reporting from Kuala Lumpur, says "it is not always the government's fault that these measures are taken".
Letter from
America
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former president of the Club, Donald Wise enters the road to st¿rdom. (Photo:
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annual tradition, the 28-man Welsh choir was in the Club again this year to present an evening of melodious
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Asian leaders are entering the US university lecture circuit. And they are encountering an upscale Hyde Park speakers' corner.
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footpads for going round cultural centres asking unsuitable questions. But he is a fr¡rtive, secretive fellow who, if you ask for the time of day, will turn his back and check the watch, tuck it under his shirtsleeve out of sight and say: "I'll tell you later." And when he startled the loungers in a Patpong watering hole two months ago by offering to buy them a drink, a giant Boeing-sized moth flew out of his purse. My staff were caused much inconvenience by his multiple visits at dead of night; and be warned, we could do nothing for him. Doctor Wise
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gave up a comfortable Fleet Street niche to see if he could peddle his skills further afield. Before taking up his current post as managing editor of,Hong Kgng's Ex¿cutiue magazine, ñe maintained a perilous existence as a freelance writer in India.
]VT H J:ås":iå#;xi,î- få,3 LVlstories that upser rhe resicient constabulary. Few police retaliate by burning down the newspaper offices. But then this was India a land where the impossible happens twice before breakfast and the "human story" is scratching at your retreating elbow every time you step outdoors. Of course, it is not regularly that newspaper buildings are set alight, and anlnvay, the police claimed that they didn't torch the offices of the Gujarat Samachur it was a mob of former subscribers who wanted to express their disagreement with the current line taken by the editorial writer. That is not unbelievable. Visitors to India and Sri Lanka will probably only remember that the sub-continent's newspapers are full of highly complex local politics, and that the English used is
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IITTLE C,0ES A LONG WAy: But dig a little deeper and you will find a press which is lively and thriving undei conditions which would break the spirit of the Hong Kong journalist, used to his expense acl coult, easy transport system and function_ ing telephone. Throughout India there are some 20,000 newspaper titles with a total circulation estimated at 50 million. Delhi alone sees the publication of newspapers in lb of the 16 . And the country cations in at least
When in Delhi I started my day between
10 and 11 am. Only those at the-top of the profession can afford a car, so I travelled on
formal, quaint and faintþ Edwardian:
"Policemen nabbed the miscreants as they hot-footed out of the bank."
The senior correspondents use auto rick- a sort of flightless, wingless mic-
shaws
rolite aircraft which rattles along the fast lane, propelled by an engine similar to one
I
have in my Braun shaver. From the
weight feature published in a national publication. A qualified senior joining a national daily such as the Indinn Ex,þress will starl at | ,Z 00 rupees (HK$1,020) a month. To get some idea of what such a sum will get you, a basic two-bedroom flat in the suburbs can be had for 1,000 rupees a month (HKg600), but it \Mill cost you 2,000 rupees (HK$l,200) if you want to live in the city centre. Even a[ter many years service, a journalist's pa¡' is Lntlil<ely to rise to more than 2,500 rupees (HK91,500) a month. Few journalists can afford to buy a flat or a car without financial help from relatives, and to raise a family is extremely difficult. On the plus side, clothing and food are
very cheap.
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A
cotton suit (cool, loose
national dress) is 36 rupees (HKg21) and you can have a good meal out for ten rupees (HK$6). Cooking for yourself, as long as you don't expect meat, is too cheap to be
expressed
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in
Hong Kong dollars:
the
ingredients of a chapati cost a fraction of a cent. Beer and scotch are strictly for the rich, so reporters tipple on arrack, a delicious coconut-based spirit. Some of the newspapers were stafted by British expatriates, and the offices are often the spitting image of newspapers in Britain gr Hong Kong of say, 30 or 40 years ago. Furniture is solid wood rather than stéel tube, but there are the same old Remingtons and Imperials, the same dog-eared piles of "library copy" newspapers, and the word most often on the lips of the staff is
"chai"
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column treatment.
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suburbs, that is a hefty 20 rupees (HKg12) for the same journey. A freelance (like me) can hope for around 300 rupees (HK$180) for a fairly hear.y-
rHE NEWS EDITOR
It is often these short dismissive tales for which newseditors of popular newspapers in Hong Kong are searching: they contain the heights and depths of pathos, tragedy, comedy and heartache. Yet in India they don't even warrant the front page. For instance, what would Hong Kong's press make of these?
A large group of religious men and women decided to hold a nude worship
festival, a naked celebration \Mith a history that went back centwies. Male and female police officers, plus guardians of the public morality, were despatched to halt the proceedings - and were promptly stripped naked and made to join in. In another story, an 11-year-old girl was kidnapped from a poor family by a heartless gang, who blinded her and sent her to work
as a child-beggar, collecting money for them. Eleven years later, she and one of the gang came begging to her original village, where she was recognised and rescued by
INFTUENCE THE INFLUENTIAL
Do you have something to say but nowhere to say it? How about writing a guest column?
The Correspondent invites all who have an opinion on anything from the Hong Kong Basic Law
-to the international arms race, from women's rights to women's hemlines, from the value of lawyers to the value of no lawyers to try their hands at expressing
-themselves. All members, writers or nonwriters, are welcome to hammer out a piece to influence the influential.
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her stunned family.
A horrific report recently told of a man with venereal disease who was told that the only way to cure himself was to have sex
with a pre-pubescent girl.
So he raped his
youngest daughter. He failed to shake off the disease, but passed it on to her. Subsequently, he sold her to a pimp at a bargain price. He put her to work as a child prostitute. India is no place for the squeamish.
PROFITING
could buy a national newspaper for g0 paise (HK$0.55 cents), and a colour news-weekly such as 'f'he Week costs just two rupees (HK$1.20). But to look on the bright side where else can you sit under a palm tree, chew a betel leaf, chat to passers-by, and guarantee thai one of them will give you an amazing
human story, the like of which you would never hear in London or Hong Kong in a dozen vears?
FROilI
As in Hong Kong, the major newspapers are PRINT:
closely linked to big business, with all the ¿rttendant diff iculties oI ihe maintenance of editorial freedom.
But an additional problem proprietors face in India is that the government is very keen to rake off its share ofanyprofit.
So they keep the price of newsprint high, and have introduced customs duties
rangingfrom 180% to 200%
of
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imported goods
such as photo-typesetting materials.
The Indian newspaper industry claims
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By M. G. G. Pillai
Beating the coffespondents attheir own game
LETTER FROM AMERICA
Rumpus on the Campus Vrsiting Asian leaders on the US university lechlre cr: encountering an upscale Hyde Park speakers' corner.
Malaysia has tightened its press laws but information can still be gathered and reported if you know how to work the system. ALAYSIA, among countries in Southeast Asia, perhaps throughout Asia, allows the easiest access to the "movers and shakers"
in the corridors of power. Paradoxically, it also has the toughest laws against the press,
made tougher by recent amendments. A repofter for a local or a foreign publication theoretically has to manoeuvre through a nlinefield of do's and don'ts that are often not codified and sometimes followed through with mandatory jail sentences for transgressions.
The authorities tend to believe that tighter laws will help to overcome immediate problems, cow opposition and show that ihe government means business. The Official Secrets Act was amended to provide for mandatory jail sentences after lwo journalists, including James Clad of the Far Eastern Economic Reuizw, pleaded guiltv to having classified official documents on them. The latest amendment, this time to the Printing Presses and Publications Act of 1984, are much more restrictive and poten-
tially more inhibiting to the growth of
a
responsible press. What worries editors and publishers is that civil servants are to decide every year whether a licence is to be continued. That decision will involve a potitical
review. DAMOCLES' SIVORD: Before the amendments, the only hurdle to obtaining a licence was the steps to get a licence. Renewals were virtualiy automatic. Now, one has to apply for a fresh licence every year, with all the bureaucratic and political hassles that it
causes. This alone would inhibit editors more than any other impediment in the new law. For instance, the government can act
against any publication that carries "any article, caricature, photograph, report, notes, writing, sound, music, statement or any other thing...likely to be prejudicial to
cannot prove that he had taken reasonable steps to verify his information. Punishment includes suppression of the publication for up to six months and fines up to 20,000 Malaysian dollars. The ministerial decision is final and no appeal is allowed. If strictly
applied, almost every publication in Malaysia would be in trouble at one time or another.
However, the saving grace is that these tough laws are rarely invoked. There is an essential sense off¿ir ptay in the exercise of power in Malaysia, ensuring that a repofter knows much earlier than in many other countries, that he or she is heading for trouble, and to take evasive action. Often,
that means finding out what is irking the authorities, and puttingyourside ofthe case to them. In almost every case, the explanations are
accepted...but sometimes not. One parti-
cular foreign correspondent who
was ordered to leave the country had a penchant
for conducting affairs with the wives of prominent officials, the civil ser-vice believed. So he would have got into trouble no matter what he wrote. CAUSE FOR CONFLICT: The foreign correspondent, fresh from his battles with the mayoral administration of Bowling Green, Tennessee, or from journalism school with preconceived notions of press freedom and the desire to win a Pulitzer prize before he is 30, does not always want to engage in this
bureaucratic give-and-take. He proclaims
loyalty to different laws than his host cowrtry enjoys, and believes in his defi-
nition of press freedom. And the battle is started before he commences work; he is often cutting his journalistic teeth as well.
complaint among foreign conespondents is that they do not have ministerial access. In
many cases, it is the fault of the correspondents themselves. The restrictive laws have nothing to do with access to officials. A telephone call or two, and some persistence, almost always gets you the desired official. I make it a practice to hang around the lobby when Parliament is sitting, to meet officials, ministers, members of parliament. I find it extremely useful, though little may come in the way of stories. But I have rarely seen foreign correspondents doing that. They crawl out of the woodwork when something dramatic happens in Kuala Lumpur, like the incident last October wh en a half-crazed
soldier ran amok with an M-16. Far too often, access is measured in terms of how quickly one can get to interview the prime minister; but there are many below him who are often of better value. The collective approach of foreign cor-respondents taking subjective common positions - Lee Kuan Yew is a dictator; Mahathir is comrpt; Cory is weak - and the increased militancy of publicinterest groups, whose views foreign corespondents are only too quick to accept
More and more Asian studie:nts are enrol-
ling in American universities, to such
an
extent that educators can see the day when they will no longer be minorities on Californian and Hawaiian campuses. Han Xu, the Chinese ambassador to the United States, flew to Cornell from Washington DC, and spoke on November 18 to about 400 students and faculty members, most of them Chinese, on economic developments in China since 1979.
Outside the lecture hall and at a later wine-and-sandwich reception, about 80 students, most of them not Chinese, demonstrated against China because of its role in Tibet. Carrying Tibetan flags; candles; and banners lettered "Save Tibet", "China Out
of Tibet" and "Stop Torture of Monks";
the protesters chanted: "Stop killing monks", "Religious freedom in Tibet" and "Human rights in Tibet". Yuri F. Orlov, the dissident Soviet scientist who nou'is doing research at Cornell, was one of the speakers at the outdoor rall¡,, u'hich continlred while Han spoke inside.
PEOPIE IN GTASS HOUSES: Uniformed campus secwity officers stood by, and there was no trouble. But Ambassador Han met an unexpected guest when he was shaking
hands after his lecture. "I'm Dr Kerr," Blake Kerr told the ambassador, "and I have just spent 10 weeks travelling in
ambassador. But Han kept his cool. He replied to Kerr: "First you look after your own affairs. Then
style. One should keep one's lines of communication open, to use that horrid cliché. The foreigner often does not attempt to understand the country where he works
1977, ìs a freelance journalist in Kuala Lumþur on Southeasl Asian affairs for American, Euroþean and Asian newsþaþers and magazines
nriting
parts". In 1971 as director of protocol in China's ministry of foreign affairs, Han greeted Henry Kissinger at Beijing airport when
Kissinger arrived to arrange President Nixon's visit to China the following year. Afterhis speech at Cornell, the ambassador flew to another academic meeting and a reunion with Kissinger. No protests occurred at Coiumbia University in New York City nor at fümell when Claudio Teeha¡kee, the chief REAGAN'S PATRON?:
Aquino reforms. Speaking in the Law School, Teehankee said that "communist insurgents have been trying since the 1930s to impose their godless ideology", and they grew in numbers from 500 to 20,000 "during the oppressive regime of the Marcos dictatorship." "The ousting of the dictator did not end
M. G. G Pillaì, a Nieman Fellow at Haruard in
do find these restrictions irksome, to put
China, such as drugs and pornography, we will not let it enter. We will absorb the good parts of Hong Kong and reject the bad
justice of the Philippines, spoke on the
the twoAmericans arrested in Lhasa during
it miidÌy, but they have never cramped my
universities", he replied, "We now are drafting the basic law to keep Hong Kong prosperous and stable. We've already set up an economic zone connected with Hong Kong. If something is not beneficial to
Kerr, who formerly lived in Ithaca, New York, where Cornell is located, was one of
Malaysia has tightened its laws and other courrtries take different routes; but it is not always the government's fault that these lneasures are taken.
sian whose views sometimes drive officials through paroxysms of frustration and anger,
others". Later at the reception, a glass of red wine in hand, the ambassador answered my question about the demonstrators: "I paid no attention to them. They do not represent the American people". In a question-and-answer session following his lecture, Han defended China's role in Tibet. "Tibet has been a part of China since the 13th century, before the birth of the United States of America", he said, adding that China has liberated Tibetans from "slavery" under the Dalai Lama. "We restored human rights in Tibet", he said. One student asked Han how communist China will be able to absorb five million capitalists when Hong Kong returns to Chinese rule in 1997. "Questions about Hong Kong are popular whenever I visit American
Tibet".
foreign publications since 1971, a Malay-
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though he is one of Malaysia's most important cabinet ministers. Yet one major
States.
as gospel, has caused governments to react.
lationship with any foreign country", on its subjective definition of what these mean. Publishing false news, a leaf out of Hong Kong's Public Order Ordinance, is now an offence, with guilt presumed if the repofter
1988
\\/HOSE FAULT?: One cabinet minister tolcl me that he took it upon himself to invitc the resident correspondents to lunch, in the hope that they would come and see him tcr talk about matters of government and politics. Six months later, not one had;
ND on and on they come, a parade of Asian officials. The deputy principal private secretary to the king of Thailand. The chief justice of the Philippines. The ambassador of the People's Repubiic of China to the United
For one who has worked solely for
public order, morality, secwity, the re-
8 leNuenv
and is often surprised when officials refuse to talk to himwhen he needs an urgent comment for one of his stories.
the October disturbances. He returned to Cornell to join the protesters. "There are human-rights violations that you have to acknowledge", Kerr told the
you poke your head into the affairs of
our problems," Teehankee said, "Ow nation had been plundered of US$10 billion. Do we despair? We are the 16th govern-
ment to return to democracy from dictatorship in the past 40 years, and only one has reverted. "Except for a few malcontents, the great majority of our people are united behind Aquino to make democracy work. We were the first to revolt against colonial rule. We learned Jeffersonian democracy under US
rule". In his lecture, the chief justice referred to Marcos as a "patron of Ronald Reagan".
From Thailand came Prince Tongoni Tongyai to tour several US universities as a Fulbright lecturer on the Thai monarchy, in commemoration of the 60th birthday of King Bhumiphol AduJyadej. In wet Seattie in the state of Washington, ROYAL JIJDGEMENT:
Tongnoi, the king's deputy principal private secretary, picked up a cold. But he soldiered on during October and November through a speaking schedute which included: the University of Washington; Corneil; the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University; the Asia Society in New York City; the University of Michigan; Northern Illinois University; the University of Wisconsin; the University of California at Berkeley; and the East-West Center in Hawaii. At Cornell, the prince digressed from the monarchy for a couple of minutes to report that Bangkok views some US universities as being radical left-wing institutions. This judgment, he said, developed after some Thai students returned home from university studies in America and promptly joined anti-government movements. "Thai students are usually out of step with the government, but even the left wing has ties with the monarchy," Tongnoi told a small group of students and faculty who attended what the school calls a brown-bag lunch (bring your own sandwich). A professor of Southeast Asian studies told me: "He's really a monarchist." Al Kaff, þresidenl of
the Foreign Corresþondents'Club
oftaþan, 1967-68, and þresident ofthe Hong Kong Foreígn Conespondents' CIub 1974-ZS, was a IIPI cor. resþondent and news executiue in Asia from 1gS2 to 1 9 83 He now i s busine s s and inlernationa I edil or for I he nrws seruirc al Cornell Uniuersily, Ithat:a, New Yorlt
JANUARY 1988 THE CORRESPONDENT 9
CLI]B NEWS NEW YEAR'S EVE
A of The Club bid farewell to 1987 and welcomed 1988 with the traditional New Year's Eve dinner and disco. Of course, only about 35O people could be accommodated for the dinner; but many more took part in the night-long celebration.
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JANUARY 1988 THE coRRESpoNoBNr 11
rCLUB NE\A/S
CLUB NEWS
The visit of the men with sweetly warbling voices
Daya Bay
ajourney to remember! A group of Club members recently
The 28-man Welsh choir sang at the Club on December 28 as part of an annual tradition. f f
ventured across the China border, on a dusty, bumpy road, to see the consh:uction of the Daya Bay nuclear
ThenbasssingerTerry Brewster
W'åfl;f, ;:Äli,"lf.$,Y{:i
dry throat in the house. The event was
x a
visit by Hong Kong's very own Welsh male choir - melodious singers from that scenic land where women wear top hats and men
(^1 OME 30 people accepted \¡rhe open invitation rhe \-f Daya Bay nuclear power
are known for their sweetly warbling
plant authorities
volces.
- 28 of them turned up in regal splendour, their generous midriffs encircled with red cummerbunds
say, a memorable ordeal took place last month. Starting from the Club around 7.30 on a cool morning, the bus ride wasn't a very pleasant experience. China's country road
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ratherlike Christmas ribbons around gently curving rugby balls on the touchline at Cardiff Arms Park. They hailed from places with exotic names such as Llanpumpsaint and Llansollen (which would sound romantic except
for the fact that pronunciation of Welsh affricative double-Ls by amateurs in-
evitably involves the emission of large volumes of saliva in the direction of the listener's beer).
byllllandysylyolgogogoch,
s3
by the pond where the typesetter and the proofreader hanged themselves".
join. He added: "After a while, most of
WELSH AT HDART: Choir chairman Elfed
them get to understand what most of the little black dots on the pages mean."
which
translates, so rve were told, as "The church
members cannot read music when they
Grabner was "one rare occasion
when just the sight of toilet equipment stacked up in front of a village store made many very happy." They hoped that there
would soon be relief to their
leading from the Man Kam To agony. But an end to the "enborder post is not built for air- dura¡ce test" was not to be found conditìoned tourist coaches. So if that easily. the group of newspeople and Daya Bay came into sight other inquisitive fellow travellers hours later. The driver, realising found the ride rather bumpy, that he had driven for a much that's understandable. After all, longer time than necessary to they're more accustomed to reach Daya Bay, sought the Hong Kong's creature comforts advice of villagers about the route than China's proletarian sim- to the nuclear plant site.
plicity. And this
and sometime I¿tter From Hong Kong presenter on RTHK, admitted: "Actually,
lasted longer than normally ed lunch for the visitors. But necessary because of the bus arriving there hours behind driver's unfamiliarity with the schedule, the group, though terrain and the lack of
homesick for the sweet harmonies of the valleys, sang a selection of seasonal songs, including an impressive version of tingle Bells in four-part harmony. Conductor John Edwards, former conductor of the Saudi Arabian Symphony, whose daytime business is investment and insurance, presided over some fine performances - especially solo work by tenor Richard Davis and bass Terry Brewster. This had the remarkable effect of lowering the Raucous Prattle Level at the bar from its normal 120 decibel level to a never-before-heard 119 decibels. If any FCC member is tempted to join, the choir welcomes new members, said John. The auditions are not formal, and many
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experience
a
road map.
The Chinese hosts had organis-
hungry, was more interested in
But if you are a lover of the seeing
the construction
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site
countryside, the beauty of before sun down. Using scalemountains, sea and long sandy models, officials briefed the beaches, none of these irritations group, reassuring that the
1978 by ten Hong Kong-based Welshmen
1988
members ofthe group depended
Vaughan Roberts, Club member, Iecturer
we've got one Irishman and three Americans - but their hearts are in Wales." The 28-strong choir, which was started in
12 J¡Nuenv
early without any brealdast, most
extended on a liquid diet as the bus speeded recentþ to all Club members for along a route that never led a site visit. And the visit - some to Daya Bay. And this, says
These Men of Harlech
One portly supporter claimed to come from Llanfairpychgyllgolgerochgwynchro-
A RARE OCCASI0N: Starting out
of the plant is now Heinz Grabner who travelled being made even stronger than with the group. It's an enchanting initially intended. wor¡ld matter, says Club manager foundation
vå '1 J ,-4 ^ ll
v\
sight, he says. "High mountains on the one side and long sandy beaches and deep blue sea on the other.Ideal for building resorts and holiday carnps". But, then, even he agrees that
After the briefing and a quick look at the site, the group hurried
the long hours of discomfort
course faster. And about a dozen
back to cross to Hong Kong before the Ma¡ Kam To border post closed at 6 p.m. The return journey, says Grabner, was of
could have been reduced had members of the gl:oup were seen there been facilities somewhere later that evening resting their along the road to deal with certain elbows on the bar and reflecting
inevitable biological urges.
on their experience.
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JANUARY 1988 THE CORRESPONDENT 13
_]l--
HAPPENINGS
1,300 weeks...Íuld still going strong!
By Donald Wise
0n the long road to stardom
As Derek Davies completed 25 years as its editor, the hacks and management at the Far Eastern Economic Reuiew collaborated in unprecedented camaraderie in paying the Great Helmsman a memorable tribute.
Former Club president Donald Wise (known to aficionados as the working man's David Niven), emerged from retirement recently to try his luck as an actor. The confesses Wise, confirmed that he couldn't smile to order.
OW do you recognise the resili-
I I
ence of a man who has lasted 25 years as the filling in the sandwich
HAD always been tickled by former president Lyndon Johnson's unkind
between (until recently) bottom{ine management, a bunch of prima donna journalists, and their attendant schizophrenic editors and sub-editor's? Rcuiett' staffers tried, at the Hilton Den on December 3, by "roasting" editor and FCC
jibe about senator Gerald Ford (later to become President Ford), that Ford was too stupid to walk the street and chew gum at the same time. But now after playing a tiny role in a
-
Cathay Pacific publicity film designed to persuade Australian television viewers to fly Cathay (not Qantas as now seems their wont) and spend their spare cash in Hong Kong - I have stopped smiling. The experience left me with the unshakeable belief that walking and talking to order at the same time is cerebral workevenwithoott chewing gum simuitaneously. To put it differently, I think I coulcl be excellent US presidential nraterial, since Gerqr Ford made it to the White House.
president Derek Davies with an editon of Not The Far Eastern Economic Reuiew. Friend of the Journalistic Fringe, longtime FCC member and secretary-general of
the Hong Kong Internationai Arbitration Centre, Brian Tisdall, set the tone of the
publication (and the evening) with his opening lines in a letter to the editor. "The Welsh are Man's equivalent to the Pinto," he wrote. "They have a basic desigr fault that should have led to their recall centuries ago." From there on it was all downhill.
BETTER SUITS, LOUD TALK: The party was graced with the presence of visiting luminaries from the board of The Reuiew's new masters, Dow Jones. They were easily distinguishable in that they were sporting better suits than the rest of the herd, by
their ability to talk at Ìength and by the clutch of "enthralled" listeners they attracted. The evening was (in a way) presided over by managing director Charles (callme Chuck) Stolbach who, in addition to the above-lnentioned attributes - which should assure him a board seat - could talk louder. The air was rent with hearty "Enjoy, enjoys" and "Oh, reallys". Spark for the evening came from Sydney Morning Herald correspondent, Eric Ellis,
REPEAT, REPEATI:
The Great Helmsman with some of the well-wishers at the celebration part¡'. u'ho occupies (amazing that he slill does) a spare office on the Reuiew writers' floor. Ellis turned up after a long afternoon search in Wanchai for his mutual apologist Ronnie Li. He claims he thought the Reuiew parly vlas a news conference put on by the comrtlittee of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong and that he had every right to ask questions from the back of the room during the chairman's speech. EVERYONE PITCHED IN: Nol The Far Eastern Economic Reuieu featured most of the regular sections of the Reuiew; a leader from Dow Jones complimenting Davies on
THFBOSS
his unstinting cooperation rvith
the
advertising department; a Wankers Wails produced by chairman of the Reui¿w board Peter Kann, collecting together some of the readers' offerings that were considered too base for the regular magazine (that takes some doing); and a regional lead story in which Emily (Basic) Law, section editors Sir Ralph Richardperson and Suzuki Toyota and others paid dubious tribute to the great leader's tenure. The business section was very much an in-house diatribe, concentrating on Davies' empire in global properties and shipping,
including Erect Construction's bid for Dusky Virgin. Having survived the Dirty Digger's bid to control his operations earlier in the year,
Dirly Derek apparently went all-
out to induce influential personages to The Great Helmsman
SUlvtIMASENI
participate in the Po Toi Gmlet run. He was exposed (so to say) by that piilar of the main bar, Mike Keats. The publication should become a collectors' item for those who do not know better, and will ensure "The Great Helmsman's" name is kept off the honours list for years to come. MiþeBisharais
the deþuly business editor of the
Eastern Economir Reuiew.
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1988
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Far
Before the Australian
crew started filming, no one had really told me that multiple takes would be required for each of my (approximately) eight-word one-liners. Or that I'd have to go through acts such as picking a credit card from an inside pocket again and again. I'd never even thought of my walking speed, of the different combinations of direction I could walk in at a series of different speeds; or that the smoke machine and spotlight could turn a dreary day into a generous waterfall of sunbeams and golddust behind me as I read the paper indoors. I could hardly believe the endless retakes of me making stabbing motions at a wonderful magret de mtwrd and glass of Cotes du Rhone, netther of which I was aliowed to touch with knife and fork - let alone put the lot down my throat. Add to that my constant fluffing of my microlines and I began to believe that the rising mega-score of retakes emphasised
Wise (right) receiving last-minute instructions. and San Francisco. Worst of all, I could not smile to order. Never have been able to, even for happy snaps. Couldn't now.
TIME AFTER TIME: One sunny afternoon Nancy Chong, the dishy Chinese presenter I
might have packed some extra Chinese wisdom in her make-up box to deal with my lines, which now sounded to me like a phono needle stuck deep in a groove. "Were you brought up in Hong Kong?'' I asked her. "Naow," came the Cockney reply, "born in Kent and only came here four months
"Most people seem to be moving in the I said, abandoning
opposite direction," hope.
only my amateur incompetence, until
So it was back to the starting gate for another go on the rickshaws. I turned
director John Callinan eased the pain by saying that camera and soundman and himself were responsible for many of the retakes. But I was jittery. At one stage I had to say "Hong Kong some say it is like a collision between Shanghai and New York"; and I
miserably to Nancy. "Can you do something funny to make me laugh?" I asked. And she pulled one of the funniest faces I have ever seen; but, by then, it was all too
-
found myself rabbitting on about Peking
of the film, and I were whirled time after time along the Kowloon esplanade, each in our own rickshaw alongside one another. This was easier but when the hairdressing/ make-up duo of Janet and George started patting and combing again and opened their tenth (it seemed) can of hairspray, I thought I'd chat up Janet before I lost my bottle: she
After the loth can of hairspray.
late.
Bad light stopped play.
JANUARY 1988 THE CORRESPONDENT 15
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MEMBERS
NE\ry Mark Baker
York six years ago and was transferred to Hong
Hong Kong recently as the
Asia
correspondent of
Kong last September.
Melbourne Herald. Winner
of two journalism awards
Terence J. Nealon, a former member of the
this year - Canadian Award for Journalistic
Australian Walkley Awards - Baker
was the diplomatic corres-
in Canberra for The Age (Melboume), before moving to Hong
fuker
Chulani
Hong Kong
worked briefly with RTHK before joining Reuters in January
Stephen Proctor,
formerly worked with Marral
G¿ml
fessor and
Proctor
Nealon
an
Weir
Voertm.ann
NewsPaPers
Hong Kong in late 1985
Jean Pierre Guay came to Hong Kong a year ago as first secretary (trade) at the Hong Kong office of
and worked for a year as a
the Quebec Government. Guay spent the first 10
âc:
researcher
has also worked
&
David W. Maguire the editor of. the
Zucconi
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1988
is Sunday
Mmning Posl. He was assistant editor and chief sub-editor of the Daily Sun
then worked as assistant the
During 1980-82, he work-
with Hill
Knowlton âs ârì
counts executive.
and later went to studY
Afred Ko studied photography in Canada and started as a freelance photographer in 1977.
for
Legco member Richard Lai. She
years of his working life as a teievision film producer
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CST SEARCHES AS we go to press, we are awaiting the usual crop of reports and gossip from what has been traditionaþ the Club's annual high spot - the celebration of New Year's Eve. Judging by the numbers still cavorting at daybreak, the evening was a success... We do not promise to draw a veil over the proceedings in the next issue oÍ The Corresþondznt.
IT IS reliably reported that Ted ("I'm as young as you are, and I'm prepared to prove it") Thomas is planning to get his characteristic message over - Get StuffedlThis, in fact, is being actively considered as the title of a new publication Ted is launching which will not deal with his favourite subject, but with food and restaurants. THE so-far successfü re-re-re{aunching o1 Thc Conesþondzøl has put the Club and its members in touch with many old friends. Russell Svvr (ex-Visnews, ex-Reuial, now prospering in Sydney) writes to remind us that a very old Hong Kong hand and pressman celebrated his golden wedding on December 4,7987.
He is Stan Knowles, formerþ of the Shanghai police. Stan was interned by the Japanese during the war. After working post-war for the British Consulate in Shanghai, he came to Hong Kong and
became Number Two at the Government Information Services under the late Jock
(Abominable No-Man) Murray. There, he and his wife Fay became extremely well known to foreign correspondents and a frequent visitor to the spiendid old FCC on Conduit Road. More usualh',he could be discovered in the rooftop bar of the long-demolished Gloucester Hotel. He retired in the mid-50s and moved to Australia where he u'orked for Reuters. Serious eye trouble, brought on by wartime malnutrition has lately restricted his activities; but at the age of 76, Stan is stiÌl an active gardener in his comfortable villa in the Sydney suburb of St. Ives. He keeps in regular touch with the swindling band of associates dating back to the early 1950s. Typically, when contacted, the Government Information Services said they could trace no record and had no photograph of Stan.
THE Club received the following telex from a Mr. Francis Joseph Dean, of Deanþress- Im.ages,
Denmark:
"Today I found a copy of your magazine in our ìnternational press centre in Copenhagen, Denmark. I enjoyed it very much. "I am active photo-journalist, run my own pix agency and correspondent for
various photo-agencies, slmdicate pictures to Japan, Australia, USA and many European countries. I would appreciate if you kindly send me membership form, I would like to be member of the FCC."
THE Board
has recently clarified the
Club rules about children - when and in what circumstances they are welcome on the Club premises (see the Club notice board). And at the same it has been explained to Club servants (who at times understandably have found it difficult to differentiate between soccer shorts and a school uniform).
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