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LETTERS Sinclair and the Xiamen experience

back room and

I READ with great amusement and interest Kevin Sinclair's piece about tracking down the facts in China (The Corresþondent,Feb'9O). Who else could compose such a glorious sentence as: "...trying to make logical sense out of 1,000 kilos per mou of crop at RMB52 (in 1978 figures) per bushel delivered to

of the front-office staff that is all too familiar to China travellers they put us in a room on

the first floor overlooking the Xiamen mini-bus rank. There stood more than 20 mini-buses

which attracted custom by the simple expedient of honking their horns. Not one at a time, but all together. And when one

the railhead at Nanning for bus took in its accepted

20 or

shipment at 23 US cents per

so passengers (theywere, after

mile over 650 kilomehes of rail to Guangzhou, there to be load-

all, l4seaters), off it roared, to be replaced by another horn-

ed at a cost of RMB149 per con-

honkingbus.

tainer on a Polish ship which

gets paid n zloty lor delivery to a customer in Japan..."?

Now the photo of my old

mate "kiss of Death Kev" (ah yes, he was a great trier atThe SÍørinthe old days) showshim in typical pugnacious mood atop the Lujiang Hotel in Xiamen, whereby hangs a tale...

By the time we got into the

pub (the experience with the taxis at the airport was just a pale imitation of what we were

it was that this

now encountering)

almost 9 p.m., but there was

suggestion

appalling din might faintly

taper off. So I stacked on the Angr y - G w e ilo- at-Re cepti o ndemanded another double room. Cun-

Desk act and

shuddup?

staff where they straggled in

Even more cunningly, I moved

two large and well padded

for a smoke, a glass of tea and a kip in place of doing anything

lounge chairs into position in

but the most minimal

few

front of the desk, and prepared to bed down until I got

strokes of work.

another room. "Can not do must move - very bad, blah blah", I was told by some agi-

of the pirate chief, Ko>o<inga,

that dominates Xiamen's har-

"No go

stay until get room

where ca¡ sleep; no noise."

Eventually an English speaker came to the phone, entreated me to move, promised action in the morning. Not one room left, I was told for the

hundredth time. Then

I'11 take the difference, I replied for the hundredth time. The Voice finally relented, and l¡isa and I got a beautiful suite on the corner of the hotel facing the inevitable Chung Shan Lu, with a wonderful view of

a suite and pay

bour. The tugs nudged it into place almost below our suite, and soon the passengers were streaming off in their hundreds. It was Easter, and the ship had been jam-packed.

I¿ter, breakfasting in the coffee shop, we heard a famil-

iar gruff voice arguing at the reception desk "I don't care a

fourpenny four-letter word, we're not staying in rooms on top of a mini-bus stand with a

governor and so on, including visits to the fast growing Economic Zone and new port. But these appointments - all so carefully arranged to include transport to and from VIP offices and factories - never materialised. The irrepressible Kev, however, had little trouble in finding a great news-gathering spot, the rooftop bar of the Lujiang, which was the meeting place of a raft of interesting res-

idents of Xiamen including

scious that he carried his own

of Tsingtao the redoubtable

chopsticks in his vest pocket;

China reporter gleaned stories from the people setting up the

and so on.

ally they were given rooms a

Kev's bluff technique in

úinued.

set-up

extracting one story after

for the kids. Mum and Dad ended up with a reasonable

(Kodak's big China venture); the man who ran a big porcelain factory ("Every time some housewife breaks a plate it's like the cash register ringing for us"); the Filipino-Chinese who had returned to Fujian to

another from his fellow quaffers was a special delight for me since he was stringing for

cabin, but the kids were allocat-

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I knew that I'd be getting the cream of them. During one pause in the conversation Kev recounted his experiences aboard the Reuiew, and

good ship Xiamen that brought the family up from Hong Kong. He'd booked a super first class

double deluxe cabin for Kit and himself, but just an adjoining fìrst class double deluxe cabin

ed a

broom-cupboard type space you wouldn't use for a chickencoop, so they slept with the folks. Kev's rage during this shipboard drama helped him work up a king-size thirst, so he set off along decks, through companion-ways and up and down scores of neck-breaking stairs

in search of the bar. Everywhere he had

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Kev had arranged interviews

reclaim the ancestral home only to find a dozen families ensconced unbudgingly in it;

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noisepolluted rooms atwe had ected the previous day. Eventu-

the lay-off room for the hotel

4 rst

had been dumped into the

spoke English, so please go

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Gulangyu Island across the

the Lujiang.lryith the panache

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businessmen, exporters, manufacturers, traders and teachers. Over many a foaming glass

was told, nobody

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noise like that!" Kev, Kit, and their children David and Kiri

ningly,

with the governor, the deputy

"We call manager." Replied I:

where we were booked into

men one holiday weekend

large white liner headed majestically past the imposing statue

tated non-English speakers.

water. W'e had to wait half an hour until it was prepared for us, for it seemed that this was

My wife dnd I went to Xia-

The following morning we watched from our suite as a

couple of floors up, and away f¡om the dreadful din. The hotel staff now had reason to dislike another Gweilo family, specially since we were all friends. Efficient reporter that he is,

700

through

sengers. The ed;

everlwhere the

except

lifeboats

had

been allocated as accommoda-

tion. Overcom-

ing all

cles,

obsta-

the

doughty

Sin-

clair eventually

found the bar,

plonked

his weary bum into a barstool

and his

"Punyau, Tsingtao bee-chau, ho tung, fei dee, m'koy." The "barman" gave him a cool stare; a Singaporean gentleman polite-

ly tugged at his

sleeve.

"Excuse me," he said. "That's not a barman; that's a passenger. And could you kindly get up, you're sitting on my bed!"

One evening a new

face

appeared at the rooftop bar. Introductions over, he suddenly squawked: "You're no| the Kevin Sinclair who writes the food column, are you - that chap from the Standard?" Kev modestly allowed that he was

indeed a bon viveur of mild local fame. "Then," replied his new-found friend, "you are in extreme luck. We have here in

Xiamen a restaurant that serves the most exquisitely sup erb food ever to be found on the China coast, and I am a good friend of the proprietor. And so that you might do this magniÍcent restaurant fuIl justice - and let its praises rightly be sung wherever your column

is read - I will hie myself off there right now and arrange for you a repast fit for an emperor, a meal the likes of which has never before titilated your tastebuds, and never, I assure you, ever will again." At

last he left, shouting over his

croaked

shoulder "Oh frabjous day, that

order:

my restaurant will at last find

THE CORRESPONDENTAPRIL 1990 5

LETTERS the fame it so richly deserves."

We had to give Xiamen's self-styled resident gourmet extraordinaire three-quarters of an hour that all might be in readiness, then arrived at the premises to be seated at a large banquet table the tablecloth of

which was only a little less squishy with spilt tea and other liquids than the soggy carpet beneath us. One very commonplace dish followed another on

COVER STORY diminishing edibility. Suddenly our friend appeared: "Superlative, isn't it - f,t for a king, I'11 wager. But just wait within minutes you'll be getting the þiece de resistance." He capered off happily, and soon with a Gallic flourish Mine Host produced his masterpiece - a a scale of

tiredJooking lobster with red and green lights blinking from . either side of its scaled skull,

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B, 18/F Harvard House, 105-111 Thomson Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong (Fax 838 7262) and bear the name, address and telephone number of the writer. Letters will be edited for clari$ and space. "This is fourletter word outrageousl" The bill for the six of us v/as almost 1,000 RMB. We pooled our cash - men, women a¡rd children - and just scraped up the fulI amount.

Kev's luck didn't improve much on the way back to Hong Kong. The plane was delayed

The story finishes there. The dauntless Sinclair had tracers sent off to the governor's office, the deputy governor's office and so forth. What happened to the interviews, he wanted to know. No car, no nothing. Did they all take a hol-

you'd booked out."

yet another beer and then Kev - '"This shout's on me, Geffo" - called for the

plenty of time to pace the 15 x 15 metre waiting room at Xiamen International Airport with

So the staff of Lujiang got square with the Sinclairs. I guess they're still waiting for

about one thousand other

our return visit.

resignedly gulped down

Seconds later the

whole

establishment of astonishment, rage and

echoed

to the roar

disbelief that emerged

from his empurpled face:

The T,anonitouch Australian-born artist Murray Zanonitook a long time getting to Hong Kong - via Britain, Jeddah, Italy, Sweden - but he wasted no time capturing the FCC in his unique lithographs.

iday? "Oh, no," came the replies. "We sent cars to the hotel but Reception told us

bit of tough, sourish for six or seven hours (he craymeat out of this inde- wasn't returning by ship, and scribable delicacy, that's for sure), and he had

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Zanoni's FCC, July 1989

N October last yeaç when the Foreign Correspondents' Club celebrated its 40 years in Hong Kong, Murray Zanoni, a l¡ndon-based Australian artist of Italian descent, was commissioned to do a watercolour portrait of the club's premises in the heritage-rich Dairy Farm building

The portrait, which has since graced as

memento postcards that have travelled to

the far corners of the world, brought Zanoni another commission: to do an origi. nal lithograph of the FCC building.

The 12-colour litho, in a numbered, limited edition of 150 copies, is priced $1,000 a piece, a collector's item for anyone lucky enough to draw one in a raffle-style sale. The work itself will be exhibited at an offi-

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colour and there are 12 for them in this lithograph. 'That took," says Zanoni "the best part of three months, working three or four days

week."

Before this assignment, Zanoni had

on Ice House Street.

the Club's Christmas cards as well

cial launch at the FCC on April 25. The unique thing about it is that all the plates are drawn by hand: a plate for each

done several lithographs in Britain, usually

on commission by print publishers from original prints. One of the more important and better-known of the assignments was the job for British Telecom: a lithograph of the Telecom Tower in I¡ndon in 1987. Another was a set of prints of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, a sequel to a book of drawings of old Jeddah thatZanoni had done earlier. These are now on sale at the Thumb Gallery in Soho, lnndon, the retail

outlet for Zanori's works. Asked to explain the attraction of a lithograph as opposed to a painting or a photograph, Zanoni says. 'IÃtren one talks of a print, it is a photo

mechanical reproduction. Picture postcards come under this category. As against

this, an original lithograph involves the drawing of all the plates and colours by hand. They are then printed by the lithographerwho does one colour and plate at a

time. By the very nature of the process, this is regarded as an original work of art as against, say, a poster."

Because of the limited print run - in the case of the FCC lithograph, it is 150 - the

value of the lithograph is enhanced. The challenge, according to Zanoni, is that one never knows what the lithograph is going to look like until the final colour is put on.

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COVER STORY "In the present case, it was a combination of 12 colours, hopefully working together. Until you had the whole combination together, you could not teÌl what the final product was going to look like." Bob Davis of Stock House, the Hong

Kong photo agency which acts

Zanoni's Asian representative, secured for the artist his fìrst as well as his latest FCC

commission. On a personal level, the shy and reclusive Zanoni gives little away about his artistic lifestyle. Except perhaps, his admission that he was smitten by the travel bug soon after graduation as a graphic designer from a fine arts institute in Geelong, near Melbourne. Zanoni took himself through Europe

doing odd jobs like picking grapes and

sketching. Then came three years of sustained freelance work in I¡ndon while looking out for the big break that all aspiring artists hope for. "Gefting the commission that people notice is not always easy and it can also be so time consuming." The big break for Zanoni came when Penguin looked at some of his sketches done in India and asked him to do the cover illustration for Ruth Prawer Jhabwala's Esntond In India. "That was how I came to illustrate the remaining series of works by Ms Jhabwala. The added bonus was the credit, alongside the author, at the back of the book, a sign of recognition that brought me more commissions."

1981, a

esting commission and I spent around three months there. And because it was so hot out there in the desert, I used to start work around four or five in the morning and retire as soon as the sun was up to my studio, which was air-conditioned, to finish my drawing." Soon afterwards, an advertising agency in I¡ndon was looking for visuals to launch a campaign to promote Spanish wines in Britain. "The agency wanted a soft, sophisticated and inviting image of the Spanish landscape, and through it, for Spanish wines. It looked at some of the drawings I had done in Tuscany and Sienna that were then on view at the Thumb Gallery. The agency seemed to like the work and I got the commission." The result was a series of watercolours on the winegrowing regions of Spain, an ongoing exercise that continrred for close to fìve years. A spin-off from the Spanish commission was that the advertising agency subsequentþ adapted an animatecl version of the Zanoni landscapes with movements, images and music superimposecl on them

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Clockwise from aboue: Andalucia scene, 1986; Old Delhi: detail from an earlier Zanoni work.

property developer commis-

sioned Zanoni to supply illustrations for a book on Jeddah, highlie'hting the traditional lifesffle of the place. "It was a very inter-

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Macau scene, 1983

for a TV commercial. 'That was very interesting and it was the first time I had ever seen my work in that context." Another commission Zatori enjoyed was a series of 12 drawings in Sweden in 1986. 'That was for a paper manufacturing company that sought to promote its prod-

uct by producing a calendar using my watercolours of the Swedish landscape. It was a nice commission in the sense that I went all over Sweden in my own time and also got paid for my efforts," The efforts, even for a lay observer,

Titnes tewspaper to do a series of sketches

and watercolour prints of Hong Kong scenes and landmarks. The artist revelled

in the exercise. "I like", Zanoni says, "the hustle and bustle, and the energy of the place, the bird shops and teahouses, the tai-chi shadow boxers in the early morning lig'ht and offbeat scenes away from the routine familiar to tour groups."

Earlier, Zanot'ti had put together a portfolio of 12 sketches of his impres-

are very impressive indeed. Zanoni's watercolours and sketches of street scenes, Ìandscapes and buildings have a

same publication.

certain glow. The artist accomplishes

About his trade secret, Zanoni says: '"fhe longer I can be at a place, the more I can get out of the drawing in terms of evoking a feeling for the place." Given the duration of his latest visit to Hong Kong, Zanoni might have got himself a

and a sense of visual poetry. Hence their haunting quality. On his last visit to Hong Kong, Zanoni had been commissionedby The Swnday

sions of Macau for Cathay Pacific for its

inflight magazine. On his present trip Zanoni would like to revisit Macau for an update of that experience for the

this with an economy of lines as he goes to the core of his subject with simplicity

.lÍçr

bargain.

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GRAHAM JENKINS REMEMBERED YESTERDAYS

big gold chain (meat-tag style) on the

0f l]nusual datelines

other. He had my message on his desk in front of him. The secretary of state asked, in pretended unazement, however did I manage to hear of the Firestone rumour so quickly after my arrival; and, why had I written such rubbish without checking the facts

and unhappy rulers Graham Jenkins was a Reuters correspondent and later its bureau chief in Hong Kong before he became, successively, general manager of the Straits TimesinSingapore and general manager of the Hongh,ong Standard. Subsequenth he founded and edited Hong Kong's now defunct tabloid daily, The Stør, for nearþ two decades.

with him. Didn't I know that spreading rumours in Liberia was against the law and that I should write only what was offi-

ciaþ

stated?

He said anything else could land me in jail. But he would let me go on this occasion if I told him where I heard the rumour.

CAN RECALL, in 55 years of reporting, only three times being officialþ browbeaten in an attempt to restrict me to filing onlywhatwas officially stated. But, I should add, that excludes wartime reporting where I have been accredited to sources on one side of a conflict and subject to security censorship. Then, I suppose, I really did churn out ammunition for one side of the teleprinter battle that has become an integral part of modern warfare. This sort of experience is perhaps useful in teaching people who reach senior

editorial newspaper posts to be wary about the subtler teleprinter skirmishes on international political issues that are

also commonplace nowadays. And in deciding how to aim their headlines in the general interest of the communities they serve.

The recent visit to Hong Kong of the British foreign minister, Douglas Hurd, was perhaps a case in point.

One newspaper, in an editorial, had Hurd in a corner, while just as good a case could have been argued why it was Beijing that was against the ropes. It must have even surprised Beijing how little powder was needed daily to deflate the visiting foreign secretary who, for once at least, did seem to be fighting the teleprinter battle

for a very modest target - just two more directly elected seats in the local legislature in 1991. And, incidentally, using about an equally small amount of powder. Perhaps Hong Kong has too many Doubting Thomases to provide the sort of leadership needed to produce a really robust teleprinter skirmish. However this is not what I was asked to write about. The three people who told me, in my time, to write only what was officially stated were the secretary of state in Liberia, South Vietnam's president, Ngo din Diem, and, some years ago now an acting director of Hong Kong's Marine Department, long-since retired.

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1990

There was laughter all round the oval table in the information director's offlce in Hong Kong when, in an argument over the reporting of some accident at sea, I told the acting director of marine the names of the other people who had said

should only report what had been officially stated. Nigel Watt, who was then information director, came to the rescue and asked the man from the Marine Department if he

could have a personal chatwith him athis earliest convenience. The Department has only had a public relations unit in rela-

tively recent years, subsequent, if I'm not mistaken, to that inquiry into the loss of a

yachtin

þphoon.

Tiny Ngo din Diem, resplendent in Vietnamese costume and towering over me from a high chair, gave me the same advice when his sister-in-law was in the news. He was complaining about the late Jacques Mootoosamy's reporting of the corruption allegations made against Madame Nu.

My best story about reporting only what had been officiaþ stated happened when I was given a wonderful six-months assignment in west and eastAfrica to look for stories with unusual datelines. I had to consult an atlas to decide where to go. In l¡ndon the Liberians refused me a visa. But in Accra (Ghana) I met a ship ping man who was the Liberian honorary vice-consul. He gave me a visa for a fort-

was welcome to a bed.

In the morning the local stringer for the newsagency I worked for turned up to collect me and we drove to Monrovia over one ofthe worst roads I've ever covered. Along the way he pointed out the Firestone Rubber and Tire Company's plantation where, he said, the workers had gone on strike and rioted. No, he hadn't filed the story. He said he was too frightened to. I asked why? And he said he was out on bail for some criminal offence. He said he had fired a couple of his warehouse Ærican staff for stealing and that had

somehow escalated into.a question of

national honour. He said, as an Australian, I should understand the situation. Liberia was the White Australia policy in reverse. A European could get himselJ arrested for even accidentaþ bumping into an African in the street.

on a Pan Am plane about

three in the morning. Near panic broke out at the immigration desk at Robertsfield when they discovered I was a foreign correspondent. I was questioned and fingerprinted for about an hour or more. After quite a bit of telephoning they chopped my quite valid visa. But they weren't at all helpful when I asked how I could get to Monrovia, 53 miles away. The pilot of the Pan Am slip crew who was being held responsible for flying me in was more sympathetic. He said the slip

I said, where I got my information was my business not his. Technically I had committed no offence. My message was still on his desk, much to my amazement. The secretary of state then picked it up, tore it into pieces and threw it into his wastepaper basket. He said now the message didn't exist and he could let me go with a warning not to attempt again to write anything other than what was offi-

ciaþ

stated.

Back at the Liberia Cold Storage Com-

pany that night, was a greatjoke.

Only that day, he had got the new lino-

type machine working and immediately he was asked to setan Extraordinary Gouernment Gazette declaring martial law on

away.

Next morning

Two hundred pounã. was a lot of

'|he Gazette preambled the reasons leading to the declaration of martial law in much more graphic terms than I had used in my message which the secretary of state tore up. I wrote a couple of fast takes carefully quoting the words of l}:'e Gazett¿. Sure enough, next morning I was summoned by the secretary of state. This time he had my two-page message before him and wasin a rage.

He told me

would go to jail for

attempting to spread this preposterous rumour. There was no strch Extraordinary Goaernment Gazette! I waved my copy under his nose and he

was somewhat taken aback. I said, I

demanded my messages go at once and, if they don't I would catch the next plane to Freetown in Sierra Leone and file a lot more from there, including how he had lied to me. The secretary of state dismissed me saying he would be very pleased to see me leave for Sierra l-eone. Back at the Cold Storage Company I didn't know whether or not my messages would be transmitted to l¡ndon until that night I received a cable saying: "Best thanks your so-and-so and so-and-so cost us more than €200. Please do not cable again while

competitors. My mistake was that I hadn't specified that I wanted my messages sent to Freetown for onward transmission to London at the cheaper Commonwealth press rate.

This omission enabled the Liberians, either by accident or by design, to send my messages via Paris, the most expensive full-rate routing. The secretary of state apparentþ had the last laugh. He didn't summon me again while I was in Monrovia. He undoubtedly was monitoring my incoming messages and knew I didn't have a wing left to fly with. The ruler of Liberia at that time was President Tubman. I¡[is successor was Liberia's Mr Fix-it Carol. But he met a rather sticþ end at the hands of the current President, Sergeant Doe. What happened to President Tubman's secretary of state I don't know Sergeant Doe had a clean-sweep when he gained power in a bloody coup. Buthe mighthave been a good man for Sergeant Doe to have around now. Reports recentþ have leaked out of Liberia that there has been an insurrection up north thafs worrying Sergeant Doe. He's had to hrrn out the Army. Happy hqnting to whoever it was that filed a couple of takes on this latest story I from Liberia.

ANOTHER NNN/ERSARY ON ICE Afun-filled frolic is planned by the FCC on Friday, 20 April. (A glass of Austrian wine to the first person to guess whose birthday it was.)

Fantastic Food

Genuine Indian food by an Indian chel including Tandoori, on the Verandah I Italian and German Cuisine in the Main Dining Room and Main Bar I Oyster Bar I Raclette

moned by the secretary of slate. He was a

well-fed, burþ Creole with a big diamond tie-pin on a flamboyant tie knotted at the third buttonhole on his open-necked shirl a style I had never seen before or since. He smoked a big cigar, wore a heavy gold watch-and-braclet on one wrist and a

the next evening. And he did.

money in those days and my story was not worth its unusual dateline, seeing I had no

got from the

was urgently sum-

in Monrovia. Use airmail",

EIGHT GREAT

State Department. Yes, he knew about the strike and riot at the Firestone plantation.

stringer and from the Frenchmen I filed a short take to l¡ndon. It was a story with an unusual dateline and I knew myAmerican competitors \¡/ere hundreds of miles

I told the Frenchmen

what had happened to me. He thought it

Our stringer, who managed Lever Bros'interests in Liberia, deposited me at the Liberia Cold Storage Company - bedrooms and a sitting room upstairs and refrigerators below. There was one other guest, a Frenchman from the Merganthaller Co, Paris branch. He told me he was installing Liberia's first linotype machine in the government printers, which oddly was in the basement of the

With the information

nlCht.

I arrived

crew slept in one of the huts the US Air Force built at Robertsfield in wartime. I

I shouted the Frenchmen a couple of drinks and he agreed to bring me a copy of the Gazette

the I'irestone Plantation.

]

Fabulous music Main Dining Room:YictoriaJazz Band <) Main Bar: Disco

The Dungeon:

larryAllen

The Great Eight starts at7.30 p.m. Admission byTicket only. Club closed from 6.00 p.m. Price $280 including standard drinks.

THE CORRESPONDENT APRIL1ggO 11

GEORGE S. MACKENZIE

A LETTER FROM TTIE NAGA HILIS

Remember Kohima Kohima on the Naga hills of northeastern India had witnessed a two month-long ferocious and successful battle against the Japanese advance into India during the Second \Morld \Mar. But now it is a sprawling township and, apartfrom the war cemetary and an old Japanese tank, there is little left to remind anyone of the 1944 battle. HE last part of a grand tour I made to India and Nepal in 1989 took me

to the northeast region, to what was previousþAssam. Today it consists of several autonomous states within India.

My mission was threefold - to visit my father's regiment, the Assam Regiment, visit Kohima and return to the oil town of Digboi, near lædo, where I was born.

Permission to make such a trip was given little chance by diplomats in New Delhi, but I was extremely lucþ and quickly issued with a'golden'permit in order to achieve my aim. When the colonel of your father's regimentis also deputy chief of the army staff, mountains can be moved! After a most enjoyable and interesting week at the Assam Regimental Centre in Shillong, where I was warmly welcomed and accorded every courtesy, I moved on to

Kohima. This was where the youngAssam Regiment won its spurs and gained its first two battle honours. Its heroic stand against the Japanese 31st Division, east of Kohima, before the main battle, probably saved the then small, beleaguered garrison. I flew from Gauhati to Dimapur. The latter has been included in the state of Nagaland in order to give it a commercial cenfe and link with the outside world, for it has the only aþort and railhead in the state. The two hour journey up to Kohima at 5,000 feet was very pleasant. Itwas a good

road and there was little traffic, Much of the rugged green land reminded me of the wilder parts of Sarawak. My Kohima base was the new Hotel Jafu Ashok, which commands a good view of the area. It had been built in record time, I was informed, to accommodate a large Russian cultural show that had visited in 1988. Apparently, when the Russians were shown the war cemetery, they asked questions like,'T[hat war?.......Who between?.........\{ho were the Allies?" For those of the Burma Star Association who have never returned, it might be hard to imagine Kohimatoday. Whatwas a

muddy scrapheap

of devastation

and

destruction is now a sprawling township, spread out in disorderþ confusion over the hill features they fought for and across the adjoining valleys. Apart from the regimen-

r:l¿.a coRRESPoNDENT APRrL 1990

tal memorials, the war cemetery and an old Japanese tank, there is little left to remind one of the ferocious 64-day battle that took place in 1944 and halted the Japanese advance into India.

But nature has not changed. The howling winds and driving rain can still arrive as quickly as they depart. The changing colours of the hills at sunset, as the light recedes, as subtþ as it had first arrived with abeautiful dawn, remain the same. For security reasons, few foreigners are allowed to visit Kohima and the lucþ ones normally only get to stay lor 24-36 hours. Even Indian nationals have to obtain an'inner-line' permit. However, with my flexible 'golden' pass, I was able to stay for ûve days and do some justice to this historic place. All this made me a bit of a rarily and more so, perhaps, being a kilted Scot with bagpipes!

The local Nagas, many of whom are staunch Christians, put it down to divine

intervention and requested that I play 'Amazirrg Grace' at an Angami dialect church service. Welsh missionaries of many moons ago have left a legacy. The Nagas are wonderful singers and practise

with

zeal. Their harmonising would win acclaim - even in the Rhondda. The W'ar Memorial Cemetery is situated on the terraced slopes of a once wood-

bungalow Itwas around this area ofgarden and, in particula¡ the tennis court that witnessed one of the fiercest closequarter battles in history.

- built on a knife ridge, it overlooks all approaches. LEFT: A,vtew from Assarn Rifle Ridge, Mount Phulabazæ in the bacþround.

Kohima (aboue)

The Cross of Sacrifice stands in the centre of the reconstructed tennis court. A few yards from the cross is a cherry tree used as a sniper's post by the Japanese. Both sniper and tree were obliterated, but a shoot from the original tree was replanted and is, today, a healtþ tree. Some 1,421 are buried in Kohima, and within the cemetery are several regimental

memorials, while a few remain where the regiments fought. At the top end is a large memorial to soldiers of Hindu faith who were cremat-

ed. However, amongst the graves of an

English county regiment lies L/Cpl Samuel, an Indian Hindu. He was in England when war started and joined the Royal

ed ridge, leading down from the old

Berkshire Regiment. His father decreed that his son should not be cremated, but

deputy commissione/s (Charles Pawsey)

laid to rest amongst his comrades.

Photo: George Mackenzie

Sadly, there are many graves to an "Only Son' and others who just remain, A Soldier of the 1939-1945 War'. Many of the

inscriptions on the bronze plaques are deeply moving; some are very simple -

like,'Goodnight Daddy'. The most famous monument, possibly

of the whole war, is the Naga memorial to the heroes of Kohima, which stands out-

side the entrance to the cemetery. This large piece ofrough stone, dragged up the hillside from a local quarry, is striking in its simplicity, as is the evocative inscription: When yu go home TeIl them of us ønd sag

Foryourtomorrow We

gaae our today.

Overlooking Kohima is the Naga village, now called Bara Basti. It is reputedly

the largest and most populous village in Asia today. This is where the Cameron Highlanders, wearing sandshoes, crept on to the Japanese HQ during the night. Wittt the help of guides, I managed to find their memorial amongst the rabbit warren of houses, pigs and chickens. A bronze plaque on a rough stone lists the fallen, surmounted by a piper and the words'l¡chaber No More'- the Cameron

lament. Beside and above, the villagers have erected a scimiter of buffalo horns on top of a long pole - an Angami Naga tribute to bravery and valour. I piped my tributes and, after some rice beer with the locals, I was whisked off to an Angami wedding in the village. Talk about a small world. I sat next to a Naga who had recently been to Glasgow,

so he almost understood, "See you

Jimmy..yerra' wee stotter"

was allowed to go, with guides, to Khonoma, some 20 miles away. This fortress-like village has seen much fight-

THE CORRESPONDENT APRIL 1990 13

overwhelming. I was presented

with

so many Naga shawls had to buy another bag.

thatl

I)on't lose your oaerseøs contøcts !

On my last day, a special Dawn Service was organised for my benefit in the Wa¡ Memorial Cemetery. For me, this was the most memorable event and, indeed, a wonderful grand finale. Hundreds of Nagas attended in their colourful tribal shawls.

As the sun came up over the hills, the solemn peace of the chill airwas shattered by the g1o

rious voices of a Naga choir. It was a very moving scene. Cecil B. de Millewouldhave approved. To have the honour of piping a lament in such a setting and

atmosphere was something I shall notforget. With a Sema shawl over my shoulders, I piped, very slowly, over the graves. As I read their inscriptions, my thoughts went out to all those brave men and

Kohima War Cemetary on 1989 Easter Sunday, Hundreds ofNagas attend the special dawn service. - Photo: George MacKenzìe.

Remember Kohima

kontinued)

ing over the centuries and, once visited, you can see how easy it must have been to defend. It was the scene of the last battle that

the British fought in the Naga hills, in 1879, before peace '!¡¡as established in those far off days. In more recent times, the village was the hotbed of the Naga

underground movement, during their

con-

their families and my eyes became blurred with emotion. As I left Kohima, a signwriter was putting the fìnal touches to yet another of Nagaland's ubiquitous roadside messages. It reads; You only liue r)nce But if you liue right

frontation with the Indian government. Ironically, I had tea with the headman in

house.

the exiled leader's old Thanlúilh these troubles are now past and it is to be hoped that peace will endure, for the Naga hills have seen enough bloodshed to last many generations. The whole visit was a wonderful and

moving experience. Throughout my stay, the kindness and hospitality extended to me by all the Nagaland government officials and many other Naga friends was

Once is enzugh so sa.y all of as. Amen.

And

trAgM trAtrtrtrNG

Geo czm

born ín Uþþer Assam, India, and Sandhurst, serued 70' z yars as an fficer of the 7th DEO Gurkha RiÍles in India, Neþal and the Far East. He retired in Hong Kong at the end of 1972 and went into business in the territory for the netct ei.ght years, mai.nly marketing liquor for the Inchcaþe Grouþ. A member ofthe FCC, Mackenzie now lhes in Australia.

DAMAEtr

Easy Dialling Day may be past but don't forget to once again remind your overseas contacts about the changes. Since I April, 1990, " dual access " by which they had been able to get through using both the old and new number

formats, is no longer available. T

This is especially important for fax users as fax messages cannot get through using the old format, from I April. A recording now informs phone users of the change, but this is not possible with fax.

)

The Naga memorial (lefi) and, the cross of the cherry tree at the War Cemetary (aboue) the cross looking towards the Naga Village. - Photos: ceorge Mackenzie.

14 TIIB CORRESPONDENTAPRIL

1990

Remember how it works? Seven-digit numbers dropped the area code and six-digit numbers incorporated the previous area code as the first digit of a new seven-digit number. Area codes are no longer used. Also remember, conforming with world standards, numbers are written as XXX XXXX with a space after the third digit. For your overseas callers, your number should be + 852 XXX XXXX.

Follow these pointers and keep in touch with your overseas contacts.

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MEDIA

FRANCIS PEARCE

TECHNIOLOGY

Dateline: outer space

Much more than mere

Itto journalist has ever been on an assignment to outer space, but a Soviet space mission from Baikonour in July may change a1l that.

virility symbols

"The Earth reminded us of a Christmas-tree ornament hanging in the blachness ofsþace. As u)e got farther and farther away, it d.itninished in size Finally it shranþ to thc size ofa ntarble, the ntost beautiful marbLe you can imagine. That beautiful, warm Liuing object loohed so fragile, sr.t delicate, that if you'touched it with a finger it would crumble and

fall aþart

- I imagine

O DESCRIBED Apollo 15 astronaut James Irwin of his view of the Earth from the depth of space.

from the Jet Age; all chrome and fins. The misunderstanding arose when my father, who ran a British pub, explained to me why he was happy driving a lowly BMC Mini van, while, Keith, the landlord of a rival establishment always had his expensive Jaguar saloon parked squarely in the centre of his forecourt. "I don't need an ostentatious car," my father said, "I just need something that will carry you kids and a few crates of beer from one point to another." Though he was a sound businessman

public have so far hacl no independerrt way of veriSring Irwin's observation or other

inforn.ration they receive about space.

16 rsn

coRRESpoNDENTApRILleeo

it would have been a cross

between Lenin's half-track Rolls-Royce and one of those splendid American cars

Journalists around the world wtro bring such observations and all other information about space to the generai

Journalists who write about space exploration remain two steps rerrovecl from the scene, with observations of astronautS and space scientists corning to them generally Lhrough the informatiou offices of space centres. Unlike in other areas of reporting, never have journalists founcl an opportunily to be on the spot to witness what they rc'port. However, all that is going Lo change soon. Within 100 days from the time this edition of The Corresþondent reaches its reaclers, a journalist will blast olf into space to view our worl<l fronr outer space. He might then be able to confirm or contradict Irwin's view of planet Earth. The country that will put the fìrst journalist in space is not the United States which put the first man on the Moon, but the Soviet Union, which hacl a headstart in space exploration. In 1957, the Soviet Union put the first man-made satellite in space to orbit the Earth; it sent the first living creature, a dog, into space; and, then, the first man to orbit the Earth. According to the Hong Kong-based monthly magazine, As iaTe c hn o logy, Russian and Japanese journalists are being trained at the Gagarin Cosmonaut'I'raining Centre in Star Ci6', n"u. Moscow, for their journey to Russia's Mir space station. The first of them, probably a Russian, will blast into space in July, together with two Soviet cosmonauts, aboard a Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonour space centre in Soviet Central Asia. Then, one of the Japanese will follow in December. AsiaTechnology, which specialises in science and technology for the general reader and covers space programmes regularly, has given this exclusive breed of

Publishing managements must remember that computers are not an end in themselves, but only a means of greater efficiency. fear they are too ignorant of the tions, then single keying could do everytechnology to make the jump. one a favour - except perhaps the typeset-

and practical in many other ways, my Japanese

journalists Toyohiro Akiyama (aboue righÐ and Ryoko Kikuchi have been training since October for a journey to the Soviet Mir space station.

Brian Jeffries (rþlrfl who claims to be the only correspondent member of the FCC specialising in space reporting says he hasn't yet been offered a

trip into space, "But I live in hope!"

American journalist to take a trip into space aboard a shuttle, but since then the idea has been put on ice."

However, Russia moved ahead with its plan to give jour-

nalists the opportunity to tour space ancl the Soviet space station. And, Japan's largest private television and radio net-

work, Tokyo Broadcasting

System (TBS),

offered Moscow belween USS6.6 mil-

lion and USS10.5 miliion to take one of its staff on a nineday return journey to the Mir space station.

According to AsiaTechnology, a total of 163 TBS employees applied to take the trip but the 47-year-old head of TBS for

eign news division, Toyohiro

newsmen a new nalte, 'Journonauts" and predicts that the hitherto most glamorous job in the world of journalism, the foreign correspondent, will be superseded by reporters who have been into space. The first journo in space could well have been an American. Says AsiaTech-

Akiyama, and 25-year-old camerawoman, Ryoko Kikuchi, were the lucþ ones. They have been in training since last October. The space-probing reporters will provide television and radio coverage every day cluring the space journey, including observations of the Earth, "designed to

uology's deputy editor, Brian Jeffries: "Prior to the 1986 Challenger clisaster, NASA was in the process of choosing an

clernonstrate the damage that humans are inflicting on the environment," says Asia Technology.

father's mechanical knowledge was minimal. He did so little maintenance to the van that moss gre\M around its sliding windows and it only got new water in the radiator when it went to the garage for its

annual service. But the car served its purpose just as Keith's Jaguar did. The only real difference was that the Jag had no engine. It was just there to encourage the belief among passing trade that Keith's pub was either full of the rich and famous or that it did such good business the landlord was a millionaire. Perhaps you could call it the original public relations vehicle. Both men knew precisely what they wanted from what were, after all, expensive pieces of business equipment. On top of that, neither of them needed to understand the physics

Staff are often fearful

Only when the areas where computers are needed have been identified can the software be chosen. Even then, you don't have to have a degree in computer science to make a choice. Ar.ule of thumb in the computer industry is that the last 20 per cent of the effort to perfect any systdm will cost 80 per cent of the total price. This means that it is generally better for small editorial departments to opt for readymade word processing and desktop publishing systems.

decision and the balance of money." Likewise, computerising an editorial

to the most important tasks. A demon-

department, for instance, involves strik-

ing a balance and this can only be achieved successfully

by a

planned

approach, starting with a look at the company, not the computer. A close look at the

processes

within the

department will

reveal where improvements in efficiency are needed. The fìrst people who should be consulted are the editorial and the production staff. There is no point is grafting a comput-

er system onto any organisation that is doing the wrong things. All that results in,

achieve his aim.

is mistakes being made faster and at a higher price. Before any system is purchased, an analysis of the relationship between departments, work flow, the movement of information and practices

Of course that was a different age, when the only association to be made

will reveal duplication of effort and bottlenecks which may be remedied with little

between chips and newspapers v/as pure-

or no investment in equipment. Getting it right the first time is the key

of the internal combustion engine

ly gastronomic. In the age of desktop publishing, electronic note books and modems, the sort of practical common sense displayed by these two men seems

largely absent. Many publishing companies, for example, rush into computerisation with no clear idea of what they want to achieve, while others put off needed automation because the people at the top

ter.

computerisation because they too are worried about having to learn about computers and because some of the more myopic managements in the business see automation as a means of cutting slaff costs. Computerisation should be seen as just one means of making the business more efficient. That ought to include giving journalists more time for better investigation and writing, as well as trimming advertising lead times and making circulation profiles more accurate. The former editor of London's Daily Telegraþh, I-ord Deedes, recently commented: "The risk today is that acounting has become more important than editorial judgement." He added, in an Obseruer Magaziu¿ interview, "the balance has to be struck, the balance of editorial

efficiency in most processes. In editorial processes it helps, but it is not the full picture. The whole of the editorial

department might be pushing out perfectly clean copy on'fully depreciated' 1930s typewriters, but if re-keying by the type-

setter means that galleys have to be returned again and again with correc-

The starting point for choosing a system is to ask "what do we want to achieve and will this system accomplish most or all

of this?" A ranking of the

functions required of a software package should be drawn up and a weighting should be given

stration of the software in front of one of its potential users will show whether or not it lives up to its sales claims. Bear in mind that complex programs will require large computer memories, faster processing speeds and, sometimes, additional data storage capacities. Software vendors state the minimum hardware requirements for their packages in their sales literature, and whether the software runs only on particular makes of computer. Every company will weight differentþ each hardware criterion, such as cost, level and quality of performance, compati-

bility with existing equipment, predicted maintenance costs and the need for associated or peripheral equipment. Having a clear idea of these requirements puts publishers in a position not only to make a choice of equipment but also to drive a hard bargain. Lord Deedes said of the time before Fleet Street was scattered under the weight of new technology: "You couldn't make a profit because what came in went

into the printers' pockets." It would be rather sad if retired editors looking back at the end of the 20th century were to say:

that new equipment looked great but so much and achieved so little we all went bust anyway." I "411

it cost us

THE CORRESPONDENTAPRIL !990

CLUB NE\MS

Saul Lockhart,

Thirty candidates stand for 1990-91 Board election TOTAL of 30 members have

to the

FCC's

1990-91

spondent member governor, Peter Seidlitz, for firstvice president. Paul Bayfield, 37, who will become the Club's 41st president since it moved to Hong Kong from China, is perhaps the youngest person to take that office. He

Like Bayfield, also being return-

ed unopposed

first vice

dent.

presiGerman-

born Seidlitz is

correspondent for Handelsblatt, cov-

ering China and the Far East. He also runs a syndication ser-

vice

pro-

news

and

FCC soon after he was appointed

Sub-

Steve Vines

Claudia Rosset hails from

New Haven,

Paul Bayfield

All other positions on the Board

are

being contested.

Irene O'Shea, the current

second vice president, is seeking re-election but two other candidates - Saul Lockhart and Thomas Brand - are also standing for that seat. Irene O'Shea, a member of the Board for the past three terms, has been with the Club since 1969. She was responsible for

organising the Club's anniversary and New Year functions as well as all other lively programmes in recent years. O'Shea, an Australian, moved to Hong Kong in 1966 and spent her earlyyears in the territory working with RTV (now AIÐ. In 1980, O'Shea founded the public relations company, Communique Interna-

American lawyer turned business executive who

first in Chile and then in New

is now a director and

York Times, Associated Press

York, writing mainly for the New and, Institutianal Inuestor. Moving to Washington, DC, in 1984,

publishing

industry began during his law school days when he

Peter

was managing editor of the Uniuersity of Denuer /ournal ofLaw. In 1975, he joined the Reader's

Digest Association where he worked mainly in the area of international financial management. Brand moved to Hong Kong in 1984, five years after Reader's Digest acquired majority control of Asiaweek Limited. A member of the FCC since May 1987, he led a Club team in the 100kilometre Maclæhose Trail Walk last year. For correspondent member governors there are eightpositions and ten candidates. Of the current office holders, photographer Bob Davies of Stock House Limited, Tirne photographer Robin Moyer and The Obseruer correspondent Steve Vines are seeking reelection. Others in the field are John Andrews (Î/ze Economi,st),

tional, of which she is now managing

Gibbs

director.

nology),

Todd Crowell

(Asiaw

(Asiaweek), Teresa

ek), P eter Gv"ynne (Asi aTe ch-

Chris Paterson (Reuters), Claudia

Rosett (The Asian Wall Street tourna[)

Michael Taylor (Far Eastern

and.

Todd Crowell lived in Washington state where he edited his own trade

Bob Davies an Australian, working in Hong Kong since 1974, became a member of the Club shortly after he arived in the territory. He is a self-employed photo-journalist who has had several assignments all over the world, including the photographic essay Føces ofJaþan. Robin Moyer, a member of the Club for the past five years, has been covering Asialor Time since 1980. He came to Hong Kong in 1962 and has been a freelance photographer for the past 20 years. Moyer has received several awards for photography - among them the World Press Picture ofthe Year (1982) and the Overseas Press Club Award for his work in læbanon.

newsletter, The Pacific Rim Intelligence Reþort. Starting his career in journalism

Reuiew).

Steve Vines moved to Hong Kong three-and-ahalf years ago and is currently the SoutheastAsia correspondent of The Obseruer as well as Hong Kong correspondent The

London-based industrial editor before being appointed in 1986 as chief of its

positions. Among them: 20 years as foreign correspondent in Africa, \{'ashington bureau chief of Stern,

Singapore-based Southeast Asia Bureau.

of the

Munichbased daily, Muni,chrner Merkur, and. Handelsblatf correspondent in Thomas Brand

19eo

Guardian as energy correspondent.

Economic

after his arrival and became a member of the Board last year. Vines read politics in the University of Reading and is currently registered in the PhD programme of the I¡ndon School of Economics. "I might be registered for life," he says. John Andrews was The Economist's

dlitz held many senior editorial

coRRESPoNDENT APRIL

Chris Peterson

features to Peter Seidlitz 40 newspapers in W'estern Europe, mainly in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and the Benelux countries. Before moving to Hong Kong in 1985, Sei-

18 rtp

Gwynne

Guardiøn. He joined the FCC shortþ

Moscow.

Connecticut.

Between 1981 and 1984 she worked as a freelance writer,

viding

editor-in-chief

Reuters chief correspondent in Hong Kong in 1988.

John Andrews

general manager of Asiaweek Limited, publishers of the weekly newsmagazines Asiaweek and Yazhou Zhoukan. His association with the

Subcommittee) for president; and a corre-

Peter Seidlitz is

the Club for over two

Thomas Brand is an

dent and chairman of the Publications

1986.

Reuters Asia, was the agency's Saigon correspondent in 197274.'lhe following 14 years were spent with Reuters as chief subeditor in I¡ndon, and news editor successively in Paris and London. Peterson joined the

sþondent.

dent, had only one candidate each - Paul Bayfield (now the Club's first vice presi-

the Board since

now the managing editor at the Hong Kong Trade Development Council. A member of

committee. In the early '70s, he also served as the editor ofThe Corre-

When nominations closed on April 4, current president Sinan Fisek, decided not to stand for another term and the two top offices, president and first vice presi-

editor. Bayfield has

the chief correspondent of

the Publications

and two vice presidents.

been a member of

Christopher Peterson, now

spondent in Vietnam, is

decades, Lockhart is

Board of Governors. Up for election are all 18 positions, including the president

worked with Sydney Morning Heraldbelore moving to Hong Kong in 1985 to join the Far Eastern Economi,c Reuiew. He is now the Reuiew's news

a freelance war corre-

currentþ a member of the Club's Board and

accepted nomination to stand for

election

American who moved to Asia in the earþ'60s as

A year later he was appointed Bureau chief in Hong Kong. Pnorto joiningThe Economist,Andrews worked in Beirut as the Middle East radio correspondent of NBC News and laterin LondonwithThe

in San Clemente, California, he also

worked in Washington with the Tri City Herald. Crowell moved to Hong Kong in 1987 when he was recruited by Asiaweek. He has been a member of the Club since October 1988. Crowell says: "I thought that, to be a member of the Board of Gov-

ernors, one had to be in the Club for something like 25 years, but I was asked to do this and I'd be happy to." Teresa Gibbs, an American, is currently Asiøwe¿ft's chief of correspondents. She studied journalism in the University of South Carolina, came to Hong Kong in May 1986 and became a member of the FCC shortly after that. About her decision to stand for election, Gibbs says: "It is time for the FCC to get some new people, to have newblood in the Board."

Peter Gwynne is founding editor of

AsiaTechnology, a magazine, he says, "about technology for readers who know little about it". Before coming to Hong Kong to launch the newmagazine, Gvrymne

held several senior editorial positions in the US, among them, the NewYork-based science editor of Newsweek, and editor of the Technology Reuiew, published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has also worked with two other science and technology publications - High Technolog magazine arrd

Th e S c i enti st.

she became the managing editor of Policy Reuiew before becoming the book review editor of the Wall StreetJournal. lnlate 1986, Rosset moved to Hong Kong and joined the .Asrø n Wall Street Journql as edifotial page editor. She is also busy writing a book on the Chilean economy under General Pinochet. Michael Taylor, a Briton, is the assistant business editor of the Far Eastern Economic Reuiew. He came to Hong Kong in November 1988 and became a member of the FCC a few months later. Prior to moving to Hong Kong, Taylor was a busi-

ness reporter with the Daily Telegraþh in I¡ndon. He studied music at Huddersfield

Polytechnic, obtained a bachelor's degree in philosophy, politics and economics from O>dord and a postgraduate degree in journalism from Cardiff Universiþ. The two positions available for journalist member governors are being contest-

ed by five candidates including three incumbents - Cynthia Hydes, David Thurston and Karl Wilson. Others are the editor-in-chief of Emþhasis, Derek A.C. Davies and freelance writer Stuart Wolfendale.

for

Cynthia Hydes, a member of the Club 10 years, is the English editor of the

Hong Kong Philharmonic publications. Additonally, she does music reviews for lhe South China Morning Posf , and freelance writing Tor Hong Kong Tatler an.d other publications in New York, Chicago and San Francisco. Hydes came to Hong Kong in 1969 and worked as a producer for RTHK Radio 4 before joining the Philharmonic as PRmanager. David Thurston is a photojournalist and currentþ deputy editor ofthe Sunday Post Magazin¿. He was working in Fleet Street when he won a scholarship in 1979

THE CORRESPONDENT APRIL 1990 19

candidates Ken Ball

(Hong Kong Trade Development Council), Michael Fleis-

chmann

(Freeway

Industrial and Trad-

LH. Fredricks Ì inÐ, O]É. Fredricks &

? \r\l

t Cynthia Hydes

David Thurston

and history at the Beijing Central Academy

of Fine Arts. He joined the FCC in 1980, first as guest

ì,

Humble

(Mollers

Insurance Brokers),

Rachel I-avigne (Quebec Government), David

Michael Fleischmann

LH, Fredericks

Shairp (UBS Phillips & Drew), Mike Smith (I.B.M.), and Ross

University and holds a degree which, she says,

Way (\4ana Investment)

became quite useful in her line of work. David Shairp, the Pacific Region æconomist for the brokerage firm UBS, Phillips

has been a member of the FCC

for the past eight years. Before setting up her own public relations consultancy seven years ago, Hughes worked with the

Hong Kong Tourist Association and Japan Airlines. She

ago. Besides studying

in Beijing, Thurston

spent four-and-a-half years with Japan Airlines in Toþo before

was also educated at the l¡ndon School of Economics and

coming to Hong Kong. UK-

Oxford University.

Derek A.C. Davies

Stuart Wolfendale

clock-

making, sheep-farming and photography in the UK.

Karl Wilson, an Australian, says that his education "came from working with multi-media around the world". He is at

present the editor

Associates), Peter

\Mendy Hughes came to Hong Kong 12 years ago and

member and then as active member when he became an assistant editor o|the Asia Magazine five years

He says he studied

Karl Wilson

to study Chinese art

journalism,

\.g¿

of the Sunday

Standard, a post he has held since January 1989. Before coming to Hong Kong in 1986, first to join the South China Morning Posú as foreign editor, Wilson worked at the l¡ndon Bureau of.The Awstralian for eight years as well as with the Telegraþh in Sydney. He is also the coauthor of the book, Marcos and Beyond. Stuart Wolfendale worked with the Hong Kong Government during his earþ years in Hong Kong. Moving away from civil service, he went into freelance writing and became noted for his commentaries

several publications including some US magazines. In Bangkok, he was an editor

ature from the University of Wales. Hughes has been a member of the

and writer at the Bangkok Post. Davies studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford University. In the associate member governor cate gory, 10 candidates are contesting for four seats. They are incumbentsWendy Hugh-

Board since 1987. Dorothy Ryan also has her own firm,

es (Wendy Hughes Ltd) and Dorothy Ryan (Shetland Investments), and new

London,

Bangkok and Tokyo before arriving in Hong Kong in 1980. In London, Davies worked with BBC, writing and taking pictures for travel books. In Toþo, he freelanced as a writer and photographer for

2O rIJ.n, CORRESPONDENT APRIL 1990

British-born and Australian educated Ryan came to Hong Kong 12 years ago

and has been a member of the Club since 1978, three of which she spent

FCC because he

,¡1

Ken Ball

Mike Smith

serving on the Board. Currently, she is the Club's honorary treasurer.

Ken 8a11, a long-time journalist who worked both in his native Australia and Hong Kong is currentþ the senior manager of publicity services at the Hong Kong Trade Development Council. Ball first moved to Hong Kong in early'70s and worked successively with the Honghong Standard and the South China Morning Posú. Leaving the Post and after a few years' spell in Australia, he returned to Hong Kong and became the editor of the Hongh,ong Standard - a position he held until joining the TDC. He was on the Club's Board for two terms starting 1986. a

the consultancy firm, I. H. Fredricks & Associates Ltd, as well as a liJe insurance Dorothy Ryan

member of the FCC the fol-

lowing year. He joined the

Michael Fleischmann has been

columnistfor W and, Entertainment Times, The South China Morning Post, and the Time and Tide of London. He is also a theatre critic for RTHKs "Hong Kong Today" programme. Derek A C Davies, editor-in-chief of Emphasis, publishers of Cathay Pacific's Discouery magazine and other quality

Shetland Investments Ltd, which provides accounting and financial services.

three years ago and became

member of the FCC for the past 15 years. He is now a director of Freeway Industrial & Trading, which specialises in industrial projects and promotions in Southeast Asia. Born of Russian parents and educated in China, Fleischmann is a longtime resident of Hong Kong. He says that he "loves the FCC, has always been interested in its activities, and it is about time I did something about it." IH (Fred) Fredricks, a US tax consultant who has been living in Asia for the past 33 years, has a Juris Doctor degree from George Washington University in Washington, DC. He came to Hong Kong more than two decades ago and founded

and critiques. He is a

journals, had worked

born Hughes has been living in the Far East since 1973. She holds a degree in French Liter-

& Drew, came to Hong Kong

agency, The Life Agency Ltd. He is also the Hong Kong coordinator for the stress

management system, The Silva Method of Mind Control. While Fredricks, a member of the Club since 1969, has not been on the Board before, he feels it is about time he did because, he says, "the Club has given me a lot in the 21 years I have been a member, and I feel that I ought to contribute something to the Club. Perhaps, I can do so by serving on the Board of Governors". Fredricks has a wealth of experience working in professional organisations. As a charter member of the

of Commerce in Hong Kong, he served on the Board of AmCham for five years, tlvo of which as treasurer. He was also Vice ChairmanTaxation of the Asia Pacific Council for the American Chambers of Commerce in American Chamber

1985.

Peter Humble, managing director of Mollers Insurance Holdings Ltd, arrived in Hong Kong about 10 years ago. He has

been a member of the FCC for about seven years. It was his father, George Humble's, association with the FCC that inspired him to join the Club and now to stand for election to the Board. The FCC, says Humble, has always been good to him and he believes in reciprocating by serving on the Board. Rachel lavigne was born in Montreal, Quebec and works for the Ministry of Immigration of the Government of Quebec. Prior to her Hong Kong assignment, which began last July, she worked with the Quebec government in Montreal.

Lavigne studied linguistics at Quebec

enjoys spending time with, and talking to, journalists whom he sees as a valuable source of information especially where his job is concerned. London-born Mike Smith has been based in Hong Kong since 1965. Working for IBM's Asian headquarters Smith travels widely. In the mid '70s, he was president of the Hong Kong Chess Federation, got to know Bobby Fischer well and played for Hong Kong in the 1974 World Chess Olympiad. Smith enjoys good Asian food and knows where to find it. He has many collections, and his cur-

rent interest is sorting 200 kilograms of old cigarette cards he found in the Bangkok flea market. These form the source of his column, It was in the cards, which appears regularly in The Corresþondent.

Australian Ross Way is the managing director of Mana Investments Ltd. Doing business in Asia for the past 25 years, Way previously managed a South Australian company. He feels that his commercial experience, especially his expertise in the food and beverage industry for the past five years (he manages several pubs and restaurants in addition to the investment business), would be a definite plus factor for the FCC if he were elected to the board. A passionate golfer, Way

won the Richard Hughes Memorial Golf Trophy in the FCC Golf Society's premier event of the year, held in February at the Discovery Bay Golf Club. Ballot papers, which have already been

forwarded to all active members, should be returned notlater than May 10. I

THE CORRESPONDENT APRIL T99O 2L

IT WAS IN THE CARDS

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in the grip of t Y EW ZEAIIIND was caught l\ I soorts fever when the XfV Commonwealth I ì Gãmes rolled into Auckland at the end of Jan-

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For almost two weeks all eyes were focused on the more üran 2,OOO aüiletes from 52 countries who took part in üre quadrennial evenL

gold medal.

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of controversy.

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22 nn

coRRESPoNDENT APRIL 1990

memorable

l5-7, l5-2 victory over England's

Miles

Johnson and Sam Sankey to win the gold medal in the badminton mixed doubles. It was Hong Kong s solitary

Alttrough fears of a black African boycott were allayed, the spectre of drugs in sport once again reared its ugly head with two Welsh weightlifters being stripped of their medals and sent home in disgrace after reûrrning positive drug tests. Perhaps the lasting memory for many who gathered in the mag¡rificent Mount Smart Stadium will be of New 7æaland €reat, John Walker, sûrmbling to the ground during the 1,5OO metres fnal, his last competitive race.

TTIE CORRESPONDENTAPRIL 1990

LEF"I: IJongKongfs most unexpected success came in the lawn bowls women's fours eventwhen the territory's quartet ofJenny Wallis, Eva Ho (thirdfrom kf),Naty Rozario (fourth from lefr) artd Angela Chau (far right) pipped Scotland 2l-2O n an epic bronze-medal play-off at the Pakuranga Combined Bowling Club. Two members of tlre Scottish tearn (far lef) show tleir anggish, Top hat. . . llccumulatingbadges from each of the competing countries was among the favourite pastimes of athletes, officials and spectators at the Auckland Games. Busu Thompson (below lefr), a security guard at the Games Village, proudþ shows

offhis collec-

tion. New Zealand's Milliel{Jnn (belou) suffered personal tragedy when her g¡andson collapsed and died on the morning of her gold-medal play-off in the women's singles bowls competition. After being presented with the silver medal, Khan was unable to hold back the tears.

lå'F?: Off the beaten

track,..HongKong sprinter Tony I-eung Wing-kwong (0466) strugg¡les to keep in touch during the heats for the 2OO metres. TOP LEFT: Rain, rain

goaway,,.Die-hard spectrtors shelter

from the rain as they wait for the start of the men's singles gold-medal play-off in lawn bowls. The torrential rain did not relent and the match between Hong Kong's Mark McMahon and Rob Parrella,

Australia, was put back 24 hours,

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