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Journalist lllember Governors ¡\ssociate Member Governers I(cn Ball, \\¡end¡'Hnghcs, Peler Hunrblc, Dorothl'Ryan,

Professional Committee: úìlrrrrrrrr': Paul Bayf ield, Seidìitiz, Peter Humblc, Saul Lockhart, Dorothy Ryan, \1¡cndy Hughes, Pe[cr Gs,ynnc, Stuart \\¡olfendale, ì!lichael Taylor,

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WHAT is the Hong Kong Journalists' Association up to these days? We offer

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Robin .\loyer, Chris Pctcrson, Claudia Rosett, Michacl Taylor, Steve \¡ines

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a digest of current news and issues being pursued by the union 24 SEDAN CHAIR travel was the only respectable way to arrive at the Hong Kong Hotel when the British Empire was at the peak of its power. This picture of the imperial past is one of four featured in a larger collection of tinted glass slides which former Wall Street Journal Asia correspondent and FCC member Barry Kramer came across in a Nerv York flea market. They form this month's Photo Essay 22-23

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NOVEÀ,TBER 1990

CLT]B NEWS

FCC sends HK$113,000 of Dunfee Fund he first fansfer of money from the FCC-Ted Dmfee Fund was

made in late October when C$18,895 (HK$113,000) was sent to Ted's parents Don and Enid. There is still more in the fund and a second transfer will take place soon. So

far,237 members, plus

a few generous

people from the Hong KongJournalists'

for their a total of

Association, have reached

chequebooks and donated HK$175,330, a figure which includes

there for some time until his

condition

further improves. Parents Enid and Don Dunfee say progress is very slow and Ted faces an agonizing, long, uphill battle for his recovery. But finally there are definite signs of improvement.

The most positive sign of change, reports Don, "is that he is now able to breathe and hold his own after many months of literally being on a lifesupport system.

the money already tra¡rsferred.

Aslrley Ford, Pacific rim columnist for the Vanmuuer Prouince, is a close friend of Ted and his parents, and has followed the crisis closely, particularly with Ted's arrival in Vancouver. In Hong Kong on ássignment, he took a few minutes to pen this update: THERE'S finally some positive news

on the condition of ailing Canadian journalist Ted Dunfee who arrived home from Bangkok in October.

Ted, who was stricken with encephalitis while on assignment on the Thai-Burmese border, is currentþ being treated at University Hospital on the campus of the University of British Columbia. It is one of the foremost teaching hospitals in Canada and Ted will remain

Oh, god. He's coming back

TED SHOWS FIRST POSITIVE SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT

the Dunfees report. They are not quite sure what immediately lies ahead for Ted, but they are eager to get him accepted into Vancouver's renowned G.F. Strong Rehabilitation Centre, which has carved out

an enviable record for rehabilitating severely disabled persons, especially victims suffering from traumatic cerebral injuries or disease. Unfortunately, his present condition does not yet allow him t'o enter this institution, say Don, "but our goal is to get him into G.F. Strong just as quicldy as possible. Hopefully the removal of the trach will mark a new turning point and a speed-up in his recovery." One of the major hurdles he faces in

he admits there's still a long way to go. "Ted has shown sþs of better limb

his recovery is learning to speak again ar.rd with the trach gone work on this phase of his treatment can begin. Don says the doctors remain guarded, but with determination Ted could recover his powers of speech. The family says it is most appreciative of the financial assistance by fellow journalists and friends from around the

appears his recogni-

region, especially the efforts made

"They have had the trach blocked off for several days now and it looks as though they are finally going to take it out next week (November 5). "That will represent a major step in

Ted's progress," says Don, but movement and

tion of people is also starting to improve," Don adds. The long flightback home from Bangkok via CP Airlines went as smoothly as could be expected,

by the Hong Kong Foréign Correspon-

dent's Club.

has helped alleviate

many immediate concerns for Ted and his family, Don says. r

CLUB NEWS FROM THE PRESIDEI{T

There was no favouritism full of Iæe Kuan Yew's visit to the FCC. It also raised a problem

4 THE CORRESPONDENT NOVEMBER

Okay, Father Lancelot obviously has his.own reasons and beliefs, but I think he should be viewed as a humanitarian first someone who has operated beyond his calling with tremendous humour and knowledge of the way the

packed like never before with more

than 190 people seated. Of that mrmber, 90 were correspondents and journalists, 10 were in the official party and the rest were associate members. I hope this lays to rest the claims that either associates or correspondents were favoured

in getting

world works. Now back to the "r-eal" world. The FCC's workroom is now taking shape. Desks, shelves, þpewriters and

seats.

computers have been installed. The associated video library was expanded slightly in the same renovations.

There were also a number of complaints about the speed with which the

by the office. Bookings opened at 10 amon October 5. By 15 minutes past 10 the seats were fulI and the waiting list had begun. Well, four lines were being answered at the same time, the fax was running hot and there was a queue a mile long. Some of those on the queue were booking for their friends (all members, this was triple checked) as were those phoning. Under those circumstances you can see why the places filled so quickly. The ONLY pre-booking was for the official party and for my seat. The question is: what is the best system for booking for popular speakers? The only alternative I can see is to have mail bookings and then a ballot. Fair in one \May, u¡Jair in another. If anyone has other alternatives, let me

bookings were taken

who cleverþ gives half-answers and halÍ-truths to questions that were diffi:

cult to challenge, short of a stand-up brawl. One of the problems of an open (and polite) forum, I suppose.

Many people had expectations of a showdown as, to some extent, did Lee. Looking at the questions on paper, that is what he had. But he choose to answer in his customary marìner (as if we were docile Singaporeans prepared to accept anything he said) to an audience that was too polite. "Excuse me, Mr Prime Minister, you did not answer the ques-

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being religious concerns.

{ew places. The dining room and verandah were

I thought Iæe Kuan Yew's visit was successful. He is a consumate performer

were greatly exaggerated.... Alive and well, rolling the dice in Les and Kit Leston's pad in Puerto Banus, Malaga, is none other than Mike Holbeche (formerly of Leo Burnett and Saatchi & Saatchi, to say nothing of Stanley's Restaurant). Les (left) and Kit (second from right), who left only last year, hosted the miniFCC reunion while showing former president Hugh Van Es and his wife, Annie, the sights of Andalucia. Les promises to return to for the Rugby Sevens next March,

that appears whenever we have apoputoo many people for too lar speaker

know. To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of his demise last year

years, was due to get some supporl. However, a surprising number of our for a membership thought otherwise variety of stated reasons, not the least

his issue of. Tke Cowesþondentis

Heinz Grabner and his team did a magnificent job.

tion..." was not heard. Whatthis visit did was to provide an opporh-rnity to meet Mr Lee, to see him in action and to get a sense of the man who has successfully ruled a prosperous

country - "ruled" being the operative word. Anyway, it had good loca1 press and television coverage, if not somewhat jaundiced in the Sowth Chinn Morning Post. Of course, t}re Straits Times tlørd every word at least twice. Singapore television, feeling a bit left out of it, ran in {ull the whole thiirg a week later during prime time. Lucky Singaporeans. I would like to take this opporbunity to thank the club manager Heinz Grabner and his st¿ff for the outstanding work they did under difficult conditions, The serving of 190 meals with speed and the minimum of fuss was a credit to the club. On behalf of the board and the members, thank you Heinz.

The FCC's attempt to organise a charity event and raffle (November 9) met with mixed results. The original idea of supporlingMacau's friend to the refugees and the mentally handicapped,

Father La¡rcelot Rodrigues, came from the FCC's first vice-president Peter Seidlitz (a self-proclaimed atheist). The thinking was that Father Lancelot, who

The seminar the FCC held in October on the changing economic conditions of eastern Europe was a reasonable suc-

cess. The featured panelist, Anatoly Nosko, of the Ba¡k for Foreign Economic Affairs of the USSR, also spoke at a well-attended lunch the next day. There were two difficulties with this late night toasts of seminar. The first cognac andvodkaover several nights

was easily handled. The second getting Mr Nosko into HongKong

was another matter.

HongKong seems to be reluct¿nt to

grant visas to Russians. After several rounds with the bureaucratic quagmire of the Immigration Department and getting nowhere, it required fairly highlevel intervention to getthe visa in time. As it turned out, he received his visá about an hour before his flight into Hong Kong. Anyway, it was worttr it.

During the coming months, there will be a full schedule of guest speakers and seminars on China and Viebram. Watch these pages. Also, bookings for the FCC's legendary News Year's Eve party will open on November 28. Tables for this evening fill very quickly - almost instantþ so get in fast. If you miss out on a -table, you can join the hundreds of

'had been the source and subject of cor-

others who turn up somewhere between 11.30 pm and dawn.

respondents' stories over the last 40

Paul Bay{ield THE CORRESPONDENT NOVEMBER

1990

LETTERS

A few suggestions for MAY I BE one of the first to welcome good old Ron Knowles to the daunting position of editor of The Corræþondent. This does not mean, of course, that I am pleased to see the end of Viswa

the editor

Why I left the HKJA I READ WITH

naming of this young woman. Indeed, I was sufficientþ incensed to

HKJA issued a statement condemning the newspaper for its coverage and the

great interest Charles

Goddard's article "Srhy you should join the HKJA" which appeared in the

Nathan's spell in the chair. He did a

September edition o1 The Corresþon-

grand job, despite

dent.

most uncharacteris-

He describes as lamentable the fact that fewer than 100 of the FCC's 500

tic attempt to sue me for libel for suggesting he couldn't spell.

As Ron is new in the job, and relatively new to Hong Kong, I thought he might like a few tips on how to go about handling this mighty organ. For a start, he should turf out all the geriatrics who take up space with their

remember when" ramblings and

inconsequential anecdotes. The first to go, of course, will have to be Ted Thomas, who, apart from now

repartee? Or Sunshine Coats on "Great Names I HaveMuddled Up"? And I am sure most members would be delighted to hear Brian Jeffries' views on food.

In these less crusty times, a Page 3 girl might also go down well. My vote for Miss November would be Dorothy

being unable to tell the difference between fact and wishful thinking, always triggers off similar yarns from around the globe. No, in the new, go-ahead, soarav/ay

Ryan, Tastefully photographed by Bob Davis, although suppose there are those who might favour a Page 3 boy. In which case, Saul Lockhart should be persuaded to abandon his legendary sh¡mess in the interests of the public's right to know what his body is really like behind that beard of his.

The Coffæþûndent,roommust be made

Feter Cordingley

for the next generation of great thinkers. How about asking Hugh Van Es to submit a regular column on bar room

. Afunys haþþt to oblige,

Peter. How about these latest shots of our Board members

bared?

Editor.

jourrralist members are also Journalist Association members. I agree. While I ca¡rnot tell him why others are not members of the HKJA, perhaps I could explain why I left the organisation. Some time ago, a Chinese newspaper

here printed a court report about a shoplifter. Sadly, some days later, the young woman in question, a student, commitled suicide.

put the points that a

unhealtþ.)

convicted

When court reporlers are publicly by their own profession for doing their legitimate jobs, how confident canany of us be that the HKJAwill help us when the going gets really censured

All bookings must go through the dining-room.

the following

Fine. I want to book a table for lunch downstairs, please.

tough?

Esther-Margaret Hood

Oh, sorr5'. FullY booked.

Already, this early? It's not that early. You're now on the waiting list.

A miss is as good as a Myles

telephone

TTIE INNER CIRCLE

And on the subject on waiting lists,

day in November: FCC?

much has been said about the booking fiasco for the Lee Kuan Yew lunch, but

Yes.

I have yet to hear a satisfactory explana-

The places to eat within staggering or shouting distance of the FCC

Can you tell me which days you have the curry hmch buffet? Wait. (Delay). Shen is the curry buffet? That's what I'm asking you. Wait. (Delay). You want a cur4/

tion of how:

.:l

r(l.er.ìlr'Ll L.\

t:nrul tJ'('\\(rr\ lni. rr¡tn)I¡l)

lunch?

OR MANAGE

RESTAURANT OR

What do you want?

I want a

NITE SPOT NEAR TIIE FCC This is your invitation to foin the INNER CIRCLE Ring Ingrid Gregory on 577 9331 surprised at bow little

curry lunch? Yes. Who's speaking now?

costs)

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1990

c11rry lunch. Can you find out which day it is on? Wait. (Delay). Todây. Do you want to book a table?

Yes, please. (Line transferred to the main dining-room.) Whv the diningroom? I want the curry lunch in the bar downstairs.

don't know if

If the HKJA wants to be taken seriously by journalists from overseas, it is person is not entitled to privacy; that' going to have to understand that press proceedings in open court are suitable freedom and freedom of expression do material for a free not mean self-censorship or even being even essential press; that so far from criticising the nice to old men. They mean standing up for the proChinese newspaper, the HKJA should have backed it ur-requivocally and so fession, not shouting it down, and they mean it to the bitter end. Sometimes, as on. The sort of arguments, I feel certain, -know, the end is with which journalists from other coun- countless journalists indeed. very bitter tries and unions are familiar. And it is because of this that journaI got nowhere. The reply was simply that the case was a personal matter lists in Hong Kong need all the help and (shoplifting??) which should not have support they can get.

last year convinced me there is a need for a major overhaul in the approach to bookings at reception. The first, if it did not appear so amusing in retrospect, would be sad in terms of knowledge and

Yes. Which day is it on? (Different receptionist): You want a

have a lengthy debate on the issue with a Chinese member of the association's

TWO INSTANCES towards the end of

attitude lacking towards the workings of the club and its members.

they were members of the HKJA, but the overall irnpression was distinctly

exchange (in Chinese)at 10.10 a.m. one

PLEASE PATRONISE THESE FCC SUPPORTERS

(You'll

Xinhua. (Admittedly,

It[eed for a major overhaul

Consider

IF YOU OWN

been printed. Of course the incident was distressing. Nobody likes to think their articles might have such an effect. Even since June 4 we have had the spectacle of local journalists thanking and applauding the departing head of

Itwas widely held that the newspaper - not the court case - had driven her to her death. This was a fascinating theory, but I was horrified when horrified when the

report

had been taken and we were aiready No. 20 on the waiting list.

organisations in Asia, but I would not presume to fill the capable shoes of Derek A.C. Davies. In fact, I am a client of Emphasis and

2) On the day preceding the lunch, on

checking with reception once more to determine the process of the booking, we were told we were now 35th on the waiting list.

I am the editorial director of Kamani

have been for more than three years.

3) On ihe day of the lunch seats were

left empty and only some could be filled hy puzzled people at the bar who were offered them at the last minute. Perhaps answers could be found in time for publication of this letter? Perhaps even the club policy on bookings for lunches of a professional natwe or

Howard Coats

See the þresident's

reþoîl on þage 5

Editor.

from Hong Kong to my Hawaii office to find that I had been appointed "editorial director" at Emphasis in the September issue of The Ctrrræþondnnt.I suppose I should be flattered to be considered part of the staff of one of the finest publishing

1) At 10.15 on the morningbookings opened at 10 a.m., we were told all seats

otherwise could be defined?

IMAGINE MY surprise in returning

Tree Press (and vice-president) and the president of Inter-Pacific Media. Although I do spend a good deal of time at the Wyndham Street offices of Emphasis (enough, perhaps, to confuse the staff there as to what my exact role might be), I am not, unforlunately, on their payroll.

I'd

appreciate your correcting this

inaccuracy, for their sake, as mucþ as

mine.

Myles Ludwig

THE CORRESPONDENT NOVEMBER

1990 7

SEMII\AR

LET'TERS

'Assistant' sets the record straight AS ONE GROWS older one is often torn between "letting sleeping dogs lie" and ' 'setting the record straight". These

are tired and awful cliches, but they nevertheless express the dilemma which I faced when I read Till Durdin's piece on ping-pong diplornacy in the September issue of The Con'æþondent, in which he referred to me clismissively

as his "assistant". After some

due

deliberation,I decided to "set the record straight". Hell, if I don't, nobody will.

may have been many things in Hong Kong, Till, but I was not your assistant. After joining The Na,u Yorh Times nHong Kong at the end of 1959, with your kind support for my application, I resisted your atlempts to slot me

into the category of "assistant"

and

resolutely pursued a course of independently filing whatever stories you hadn't usurped for yourself, as well as assuming the fuIl responsibility for covering

China and Hong Kong (and Hanoi's pronouncements) while you were out of town. I wasn't about to do anlthing less, having atlained a senior rank as reporter for newspapers in New Zealand and Australia and served as a Reuter correspondent in Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Malaya and Indonesia, where I was the permalent representative for two of the most interesting Sukarno years. I adopted the same procedure over the years as various expatriate Ameri-

cans came and went, including such renowned reporters as Bob Trumbull, Charlie Mohr and Seymour Topping (later managing editor).

As the permalent resident correspondent, I was regularly holding the fort while you and your successors were travelling elsewhere in Asia. Over a period of more than 14 yea-rs as a Hong Kong-based correspondentfor The New York Tim¿s, covered some of the

major stories that broke in China ard Hong Kong, including: such signs of deteriorating Sino-Soviet relations as

sile); the cultural revolution tunnoil, ranging from a call by the Peoþle's Daily to the people of China to defend with

their lives.Mao Tse-tung (as his name

ment was that there were no flies in China. I had to wait until October 1973,

before China granted me a visa and I was at last able to walk across the bridge at Lowu and enter the People's

was then written) to the launching of a campaþ to glorify Lin Piao, culminating in his first appearance in the No. 2 spot afler Mao; and the Red Guard violence. My front-page repoft that the Red

Nixon's plan to vísit, Tke New York Times devoted most of a page to my

Guard reign of terror had resulted in

analysis of the power struchre in China.

widespread bloodshed and been costly in terms of lives and propgrty appeared at a time when "analysts in Washing-

ton" said they had "no evidence of large-scale killings in the current political upheaval in China". In November 1966, the Tirnes gave feature treatment to my article on the methods we were using in those days to interpret events in China, which focused on the activities of Hong Kong's China watchers. It led to wider currency than ever before of the term China watchers of Hong Kong. also covered the Chinese border militia's attack on a Hong Kong police post in 1967 and can still recall the smell of the blood spattering the walls of the blockhouse where the policemen died. I was a member of the foreign coffespondents'pool with good füends Lee Casey

(Reuters then; general manager of Aush'alian Associated Press now) and the late Sam Jaffe (ABC). I wrote many articles on Hong Kong and China for The Nan York Times Magazine, including a definitive piece on The Peoþle's Daiþ, which was the cover story on December 18, 1966, and provided research material for a host of other writers in the years that followed. Incidentally, on the subject of pingpong diplomacy, on April 11 1971, the lead story in Thz New York Tirnps was myby-lined report that Chinahad granted visas to three American newsmen, John Roderick of the PA and John Rich and Jack Relnolds of NBC, a-11 then

a fierce altack on Nikita Kruschev; China's development of nuclear and

based

missile capability (receiving a citation in the Publisher's Merit Awards for October, 1966, for my coverage of China's successftrl explosion of a nuclear weapon carried by a guided mis-

had been covering China from the outside looking in for so maly years and were just a short train ride away from the border. I had first visited the Hong Kong-

8 THE CORRESPONDENT

China border in 1954 as a Reuter corespondent, assigned to meet a delegation of British Labour Parly pariiamentarians, whose most widely quoted com-

in Toþo. It was a frustrating

occasion for all of us in Hong Kong who

NOVEMBER 1990

Republic.

Meanwhile, I reported from Taipei on Taiwan's reaction to President

From the mid-1960s to the mid1970s, I spent two to three months annually travelling throughout the region from Japan to Burma to prepare and write the principle articles for Tke New Yarh Tim,æ'year-end economic survey of Asia and the Pacific. During my term as a Hong Kongbased New York Times correspondent, I moonlighted regfarly for the Voice of America and Westinghouse and occasionally for the ABC and even CBS,

when their respective correspondents were out of town. At one time or another, I also did work for the BBC, the London Sundny Tiunes arrd the London Telngraþh.The money was welcomeas Tke New York Tinnes was not generous money-wise towards this non-expatriate reporter. Also during those years, I found time

to serve as president of the Foreþ Correspondents' Club (in 1963 and I97l-72) andproduce two LP records collections of the songs I wrote for and sang at our FCC folk music nights (with

such stalwarls as Iæn Port, Alan Thomas and the US Consulate's brilliant. guitarist Dave Hess). In my final couple of years, I wrote a

work of fiction about Hong Kong's

relationship with China called The Peking Payoff. It was published in hardcover in the United States by the Macmillan Publishing Company and as

PhiÌip Bou'ring (second left) chairs the panel cliscttssiot.t.

Asia's consuming interest in the new Europe With.Ír¡rnrcr FCC Prcsident Pltiliþ Boturing in tlrc chair, a tño of exþeñs gaue tkeir uiews of llta economic liiure oJ-Asin in rclatiou to the neu$, emerging nations of Easteta Euroþe at the l.irst 0l-0 scries ot'FCC se¡ninars last m.ontlt

I proved to be a meeting of minds for Anatoly Nosko, from Moscow,

lhe Hong Kong Trade Development Council's George Oleksyn, and Commerzbank's Dr Jurgen Pfister, who all pointed to the role consumer goods would play in developing trade ties. Mr Nosko was particularly enthusiastic about the possibility

citizens

buying consumer goods from dynamic trading ald manufacturing centres like Hong Kong. They were eager for them, he said, and within 18 months he anticipated that half the goods being sold in the Soviet Union would be on the mar-

kets via a free-pricing system. The East European markets, which

were formerly difficult to penetrate, were no\M opening up and offered a major opportunity to exporters, said Mr Oleksyn, senior manager, operations, at

the HKTDC. He believed the impact of East Europe on Hong Kong and its

neighbours would be felt mostly through the ability of local consumer goods suppliers to step up their activity.

Dr Pfister, who forecast that the new Europe could "well tum into the loco-

chinese, Japanese and Spanish. (I am now the author of five published novels.) So you see, Till, I was many things in Hong Kong. But, most cerbainly, I was

motive of the world economy", said

international paperback by the Hamlyn Group. Itwas also published in

not yorir assistant.

Ian Stewart

Asian suppliers in the field.of capital and consumer goods could capitalise on the "enormous" demand especially in Eastern Europe.

- as Japanese companies har.e been doing - to facilitate the avoidance of tracle bariers and to bring the markets closer to them. Dr Pfister, head of Commerzbark's economics department, also pointed out that the low wages in what was East Germany should not be seen as a temptation to invest there, since they would rapidly catch up with those prevailing in the west of unified Germany. The attraction for investment in eastern Germany was in the availability of qualified labour, the substantial demand potential and the region's favourable geographic position between east and west Europe. Mr Nosko, a member of the board of the Bank for Foreþ Affairs of the USSR, said the Soviet Union planned to set up special economic zones to entice businesses in Hong Kong and elsewhere in Asia. One of the attractions, for those who have previously run into Soviet red-tape, would be that the officials in the zones would be able to trade

directly with Asian businesses without having to seek approval from Moscow. But Mr Oleksyn warned that reform in Eastern Europe was slow and the region remained "a risþ market", despite the number of business missions

visiting Asia to seek to strengthen trade

But he warned that investors from

links. "For the moment no one is rushing," he said, and it was significant that

Asia would be advised to set up their

Japan's investment priorities still seem-

ed to lie in Asia.

production facilities inside the EC

Soviel- banl<er Anatoly Nosko

Commerzbank's Jurgen Pfister

Nor was it likely that US companies would diverl capital from Asia to Eastern Europe "simply because industrial investors must inevitably come back to South-East Asia for the lucrative combination of cheap labour and resources." However, he concluded that although Eastern Europe could not yet compete with Asia as a manufacturer or a base for industrial investment, given time, effort and money, it had the potential to become a higtrly profitable market for Asia's traders and investors. Commerzbank AG, Frankfurl, sponsored the seminar, which was followed by a magnificent buffet dinner prepared by the FCC catering

staff.

THE CORRESPONDENT NOVEMBER I99O 9

PEOPLE

returns tt;:i the manor born F-*

Lawrence of A-radio LONG-TIME FCC member and journalist Anthony Lawrence sits under a tree while holidaying in Ischia, Italy, in 1972, and looking remarkably just as he does today. Not bad for someone who has been through most of the world's troublespots since World War II as a BBC correspondent.

These days, Anthony is a freelance writer and occasional broadcaster, who can frequently be heard intervening in Hong Kong talkback radio programmes, giving freely his views on current events and invariably intelligently and some of the more pompous contributors.

Earlier this year he helped produce a BBC documentary on Hong Kong

Carried away by emotion during a return to his childhood rural homeland in the Harz Mountains of Central Germany.

(Ilandelsbktt correspondent in the Far East) went back to his homeland recently, there was much talk by barkers, economists and planners about how to fit together the newly-unified parts of Germary.

TWO FCC teams took part in the gruelling 100kilometre Maclæhose Trail

charity trek organised earlier this month by the Hong Kong Bank, Queen's Gurkha Signals and ùdam. Between them, they raised HK$40,000 in sponsorship for flteir marathon slog across sgme pf the colony's most rugged terrain. FCC members Rob Grinter and Nicholas Fell (Ric-

hards Butler) teamed with Linda Winsper (Newbridge

Networks Ltd) and Steve Rogers (Sassoon Securities

Ltd) to form one group.

The other cornprised FCC member Barbara Waters (InfoAsia) with Ong

Hock-chuan (Hong Kong Foundation Ltd), Phil Naybour (Unysis) and Anthony Espina.

Grinter's squad was on target to complete the

Íek

within 24 hours until, after 30 kilometres, Rogers silent-

disappeared

into

the

night and Grinter separated

from the other two to go in search of him.

Fell and Winsper press-

ed on to romp over the finishing line in the highly creditable time of 23.5 hours, beating last year's

26-hour FCC record. Grinter

finally made it in 32 hours, having reported Rogers as missing in action. The absent walker was, apparently, tucked up in a warm bed by that time. Waters' team also split up after 30 kilometres because of the members'

different walking

speeds.

Waters and Ong succumbed to the rigours of the trail, intensified by a deluge of rain, and jointly threw in the towel at the threequarters mark.

Naybour and Espina trudged on and finished

in something over 30 hours. I separately

10 THE CORRESPONDENT NOVEMBER 1990

One major problem stemming development, visiting Asian reporters were told, was the thorny knot of land ownership. Because communist rulers confiscated much private land and property in 1949 and original owners had now turned up to claim it back, there was a huge legal

jumble over who owned what. Seidlitz didn't have too much of a challenge grasping the intricacies of the dilemma; one of the stops en route through the devastated former East Germany went through the scenic Harz Mountains. And it was just a couple of miles from the barbed wire barricades that divided Germany for 40 years that the Seidlitz family farm was located. In 1945, the area was occupied by American troops. But when the Potsdam agreement drew the lines of the occupation zones, the Seidlitz family found themselves a couple of kilometres within the Russian zone. "Just my luck, " Seidlitz said over a dish of roast venison and a bottle or so of Mosel wine in the tourist centre of Harzhttrg, which was fortunate enough to end up on the west side of the wire. Now, Seidlitz and his relatives have lodged claims to get back the family textile plant which has been used as a centre for semi-official trade unions ald government bureaux. The week-long familiarisation tour of Germany took in I-eipzig, Dresden and Magdeburg, all ancient cultural and industrial centres that over the long decades of communist rule have turned into appalling polluted slums.

Organised by Singapore Airlines to mark their icebreaking inaugural flight from Singapore to the newlyunified Berlin, the press part-v included senior journalists from Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Japan. Among the group was the highly-respected deputyforeþ editor of

Mainichi Shurnbun, Kenji

Suzuki.

just keeping his hand in.

Anthony was featured on the front page of Britain's best-

hen FCC Board member Peter Seidlitz

Trailbl azers raise HK$+0,000

selling publication, T'ke Radio Tinces, in October 1972 when the BBC produced a special issue on some of its most successfui correspondents. He was a regular star of the one of a few immediately identiairwaves in those days fiable voices of radio, sending immaculately-researched

and delightfully-scripted items for the respected "Our Own Correspondent" programme.

IntheRadio Times articlehe was quoted

confessing that

he hated the "hard news assignments and much preferred

the challenge of radio features distilled from the chance conversation, an affanged chat over dinner, obser-ving loca1 people, absorbing local colour and analysing events.

(un)Identified Drinking Object IT WAS "chocks away" at the Wycombe Air Centre in Britain's Buckinghamshire recentþ when the genial

after^noon in the best tradi-

tions of the FCC.

Among those present was former club steward Liz Eckersley, whose

host of the Red Baron'hostelry presided over an trCC

yices from 1970

reunlon.

earned her honourary life

A mellow Udo Nesch, fomer CBS cameraman and enfant tet'rible

the

14th and 15th floors of Sutherland House, has been drawing the ale at his Red

Baron pub for four years.

casualties have been repoited so far. Organised by Chris Minter, recently appointed asso-

ciate dirctor

of media re-

search for Readers Digest, several members and Í:iends enjoyed a ltrnch and a boozy

ser-

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membership.

Udo is fighting fit and welcomes visits from past and presents members of the FCC.

He was recentþ offered a cameraman's job with the

74th American Airborne Division serving in the Golf. Drinkers throughout the UK heaved a sig-h of relief and ordered another round

when they heard he had declined the offer.

THE CORRESPONDENT NOVEN'TBER 1990

THE ZOO

PRISOI{ER AT THE BAR oh,

WHERE ÞIÞ YOU F IND THAT FABULOUS BI RÞ

Who is that man?

what a

IT IS NOT normaþ my style

Charlie! AT LEAST

one person got stuck into Lee Kuan Yew in an admirably forthright manner. Former editor of the Times, Charlie Wilson, declared in an inter-

view publish ed in the Soutlt

China Motaing Post, that

suit for a demo?) that he deserves to be identified to the dark forces of the state. He's clearþ a master of disguise ancl is tryíng to pass himself off as Philip Crawley, the intensely respectable editor of the South Ckinn Morning Post. But can any of our readers tells us who he really

is?

I I I

Saddam Husseirr and

no doubt convinced Rupert

Murdoch that Charlie was the right mar to take the editorial reins at "The

-I

Thunderet/'.

( \

Y \¡

successful seminar staged by the FCC on October 11, one young lady asked guest

that Charlie should have sat through Lee's bombastic, anti-media speech to the Commonwealth Press Union

speaker Anatoly Nosko, the Russian banker, if he ever went to the Bolshoi Ballet. "No. It is impossible to get into the Bolshoi because all the seats have been bought by tourists," he moaned. "Comrade,"

days

earlier without uttering one whimper of protest in the

Prime Minister's presence.

responded one FCC member, "that shows the differ-

The

ence between the British

Hacks hacked A "FRIENDLY" soccer

rigþt to smoke LEE KUAN YEW'S insistence on imposing a smoking ban during his luncheon address to members provoked one reader of the local press to write to me to

complain about his "dicta-

torial style" and his refusal to recognise the "basic human right to smoke in a foreign land". Yeung Ting Ko also points out: "He is

cigarette smoke. He r.vas a heavy smoker in days gone by"

I2THE CORRESPONDENT

No go for l\osko DURING THE splendid buffet that followed the

Which makes it so puzzling

not allergic to

THERE ARE. MILL IONS OF THEM THERE

to finger demonstrators and

l^lf Tlill^,t1 AdolÏ Hitler. Tl--rtThat's the ^ kind of fearless t¿lk that

in Hong Kong a few

¿HtNA.. ?

I don't believe the media should turn over any materials to the police. I think Special Branch should do its own dirty work. However, the obvious agent provocateur hovering on the extreme right of the demonstration for Lee Kuan Yew's visit to the FCC was so blatant (dressed in a black

Lee's aftitude to the foreign press was "positively medieval" and compared him

BY ARTHUR HACKER

game between teams from Rewters andthe South Ckin¡t Morning Posl turned out to be less of a sporting contest and more of a bloodbath, according to one bruised

as a senior editorial figure

and an avid supporter of

system and the Soviet system. In London the iourists

Newcastle United.

calnot get into Covent Gar-

The Post team won the match

easiþ.

den because the barkers have bought all the seats."

Shyly with Shirley

and battered Reuters hack.

FCC MEMBER Stuart Lawrence, who works for

He said many of his team

Emphasis, did a double-take when an attractive vroman walked into the hotel room where he was assisting with a tourist promotion photo session recently. The delighlful lady looked familiar to him, but Stuart couldn't remember where he had seen her before. As he struggled with his memory, the hotel manager asked: "Is it alright if Ms Maclainewatches for awhile?"Our star-struck hero wasn't going to disappoint Shirley. "Urghherumph ... ooo-aaaahhgooyerrt," he articulated. Charmed by his flattery, Ms Maclaine stuck around to watch him at work. r

were complaining about the Post's players' vigorous style of play. (One particularly uncompromising tackler, clad in brilliant red

shorts, caught the eye

and several ofhis opponents

before retiring

half

time. He has been identified

NOVEMBER 1990

THE CORRESPONDENT NOVEMBER 1990 I3

COVER STORY

Lee gives

our comfortabl perch a

firm shake

u'os itnmadialt'lt' obt,iotts tlmt Primc

Ministcr

lta Ktnn

Ycu,o.l'Singaþrtrc u,as in tto trtood to cotnþn¡utisc u'ltcn lr oddrasscd thc FCìC ¿.s its lunclrcon gtrcst sþcahcr ou Octolto' 2b.

Jilling tlrc dining ltall and bolconl, and otlrcrs Jòlbu,ing tha þrocccdings rckty¿¿¡ ¡, tltc sorcn in tlrc main l¡ar on tlu, grctmd.fknr, ln, gt conJ:idotll1, into ltis sh'idc by dcclnring tltat ltc nas going Witlt

a caþacitt'audicttcc

kt Þaaþ his sþecch hric.l-tr¡ allout thc maximum lt t t i b, .Í'o t' q t rcst io s " a b out t hc Ji'ee dont o.l'llrc þrcss and such toþics". Hc had Jound it imþossiblc to h,nm down o þ þo

tlrc inuitatiott to sþcak, h.e said. To

dcclined would hauc bcen chmlislt, 0r

haue

u)01'sc,

cou,artllv

said:

perch from which to watch events in Asia and to comment on them with an ineffable air of supreme confidence. It is the only place in Asia where the white man still rules. Such a perch is not replaceable. All the alternatives Toþo, Seoul, Taipei, Manila, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta do not offer the same congenial ambience

for expatriates.

should not rule out Singapore. Come 1997, Singapore may look somewhat

'IN JULY 1997 Hongkong will cease to be British. Amongst the more predictable changes is a change in the climate for western correspondents who use Hongkong as a base to cover the region. Hongkong has provided you with a

Now if I am right about this, then you

different from the orderly but sterile, efficient but dull, authoritarian place that it has been written up to be. My second point. In the past 20 to 30 years the influence of the foreign language, English ne\Mspapers on Asian readers has diminished, not as a result of the

I I

quality of the foreigr-r corespondents writing, but as a result of the economic and social problems in Britain and in more recent years in America. On the other hand, the growing strength of the economies of East Asia and their social advances have altered Asian perceptions and views of the value of British

and American systems as models for them.

With the end of the Cold War, the US forces will be scaled down the westem Pacific. The security balance will inevitably change and become more multi-polar as Japan, China, India, Korea and others deveiop their economies and with it their capabilities to project naval, air and amphibious forces into regions far away from their home bases.

Fourth: A likely development is that the new democratic courtries of easterrr Europe will run into a thicket of problems as they struggle to make representative government work. The theory

----

expounded by western journalists and commentators and political scientists that westem liberal democracy is the best way to organise any society and

that it will nahrrally lead to political stability followed by economic and social progress - that thesis will be

contradicted. These journalists, many of you, have assumed the moral and economic superiority of America and Westem Europe as a natural flow from the superiority of their liberal

democratic system. The problems of incorporating East Germany into West Gennany are well known. It is unlikely that other East Europeans will do better than the East Germans. And let us not forget the East Germans are getiing-blood transfusions from their western brethren whereas the Poles, the Czechs, the Hungarians can hope for only vitamin pills and iron

pills from their West European

and

American sympathizers. Countries like

Rumania and Bulgaria are perhaps equivalent to the Philippines and Sri Lanka. There willbe exampies of Euro-

pean countries with democratically

elected governments and free markets

that cannot achieve political stability All

Lee Kuan Yew in relaxed mood chats with FCC president Paul Bàyfield and Board member Claudia no"ètt.

eyes on the Prime Minister

Stephen Vines (Observer): One

of your complaints against the

western media is that they interfere with the internal politics of Singapore and that they have no electoral mandate to do so. Is there not some double standard there, in that you often feel free to comrnent on the internal affairs of other countries such as Hong Kong and Indonesia? Lee:

If it is a passing

casual basis, no stone

comment, on a

willbe worn down

by a drip of opinion. But when a newspaper sells on a weekly, on a daily basis,

and writes about Singapore for Singaporeans in order to influence the kind of decisions Singaporeans must make for or against issues which are to be decided by Singaporears, then it is if you don't like the phrase interference with Singapore politics participating in the Singapore deCision-making process, and that is only for Singaporeans. [Lee then made an analogy between a cbnquered Britain learning to speak German, eventually securing its freedom, yet continuing to speak and read fürman and then finding German newspapers intruding into its affairs.] You will understand that any politi-

The Prime Minister's visit to the FCC attracted wide press

interest, but security was tight and photographers had to

wait until Lee Kuan

Yew settled in his seat before they were allowed into the dining room.

cian must take notice of one extra factor

that is in play in his domestic politics. Now I have not excluded their participation. All I am salng is since you are

entering my game, you

will play in

accordance with my rules, and my rules require that I will have the right to rebut what you have said, whether you like it

or not. And restrict you.

if you don't like it then I

other words you sell without

advertisements, and I proved in the case of the Asinn Wall Street Jowrnal that when we allowed them to sell without adveftisements they said 'No, we won't'. Now if you are in such a fervent pursqit to keep the ignorant masses of the world informed of all the happenings in Wall Street and the world, here is the chance. But they then went on to say that the advertisement is an inseparable part of the newspaper. In other words, revenue is an inseparable part of the newspaper business. Which means controversy, more readership, is an essential part of the drive and thrust of any newspaper, which I've always

accepted. I

Lee Kuan Yew laughs at his own joke... but Paul thought it was funny.

'Foreþ

and economic progress. Fifth: There has been an unofficial network of mutual editorial support linking the HK foreign publications with regional English language newspapers and weeklies. Expatriate Ameri-

Bayfield also obviously

media makes the pace'

Foo Choy Teng (Hong Kong correspondent for the Strarús ?ïmes): After your CPU speech you have been accused by various local newspapers of exaggerating the role of the western media in Hong Kong. Considering that most HongKongers unlike Singaporeans do not- read the English - but read the Chinese papers, papers usually, how doyou come to the conclusion of the role of the western media in Hong Kong? Lee: There's a certain pace being set . . . and the pace is set by the most successful the most successful countries. So far the most successful country has been the United States of America. So they set the style. The tide has swept over large numbers of Hong Kong newspapers, but I

have met these Hong Kong Chinese correspondents, and one-to-one, as I

I find that their position is not quite the same. You get hold of a pro-democracy protestor at Tiananmen. They have no articulate, definitive view of what democracy is. There is no tradition . . . there is no history. Chinese emperors have not governed by corinting heads, they have governed by press them,

chopping heads. When I say the media did this, the foreign media set the pace and I believe it influenced the local media. As, indeed, foreþ correspondents in Singapore were influencing Singapore correspondents, including those in the Strai,ts Times, and that made it necessary for us to offer foreign coffespondents TV time, one-to-one, so that we cal show that such profound h-uths that they assume for granted cannot be so

easily proved to be profound. That shifted the thinking of the Singapore correspondents, and that is part of the process of

education.

cans, British, Australians and New Zealanders editing the English language newspapers in Asean capitals, share

common interests with expatriate jour-

nalists

in Hong Kong. This mutual

support network will break up as indigenous Asians take charge of their own newspapers. Sixth: The mood of Asia is.changing.. There is a self-confidence in their capacity to modernise and compete. There are new models to emulate. An obvious one is Japan. Japan's successful economy is based on her political and social stability, her orderliness, her low crime

rates, negligible drug problems, and strong communitarian values. Asians are in little doubt that a society with communitarian values where the in-

terests of the society takes precedence over that of the individual suits them better than the individual rights of Americans. Asia¡rs see Japanese achievements as

higher.

THE CORRESPONDENT NOVEMBER 1990 15

COVER STORY

COVER STORY John Andrews (,Economrisú): You appeared in your speech, to disparage western values and their suitability for Asia, yet you yourself lounded Singapore with in-

sick lady brought in from hospital in order to register her vote on my behalf. I then decided that we would make a fundamental change in the constitution that hereafter, if you are voted in for one

stitutions whose roots lie in

western values. ..In what way are these now inappropriate, and have you changed your mind? Lee: In the process of the argument with the westem press a cerlain distortion has taken place as to what are the perceptions or the perspectives of western institutions and political philosophy in the context of Asian societies. If I were rwrning China, I would say

that all those institutions would not work. It is because we are a transplanted people that it has worked . . . Do I accept the institutions that have bequeathed me? Yes ald no. Yes, be-

cause there's a certain inertia. That's what we've got handed to us . . . that's

pafty, if you change parties you will stand for re-election, because you had

The serious face of Lee Kuan Yew ,.. what we've succeeded in working, often

you stood for. At that time our con-

with modifications. But without those

stitution was by order in council, which

modifications itwould never have worked. I'll grve you an anecdote which will bring it out vividly. In 1961 I had a majority of 38 to 13

mea¡rt I had to see the Secretary of State

in my old

legislative assembly. One

evening in June 1961 the news spread that we were going to fall as a government because the communists had been hard at work. They had been promising all the second-tier leaders jobs as prime ministers, finance ministers and so on, whereupon I decidedtotrump them and called a motion of confidence straight away. I squeaked through 26-25,vntha

promised the electorate that this is what

for the Colonies and Commonwealth, Duncan Sandys. He was horrified. Slhat wotild he say to his MPs, that he had given the Prime Minister of Singapore such a draconian shackie so that he could stay in office by shackling all his MPs? I told him'Don't worry about this.

Tell them if we don't have this,

one

morning they will wake up and find the PAP government is out and the communist government is in', and that settled the argument. had the constitution

changed.

How I would have handled Tiananmen students Kevin Sinclair

(free-

lance): If you were in charge in China during May-June of last year, what would you have done to deal with the demonstrations in Tiananmen? Lee: Let's assume that we are now in Disneyland. I once said at a dinner which I gave to Deng Xiaoping in Singapore that I often wondered in a moment of whim-

sy what would have happened to me if I had stayed in China and if Deng Xiaoping had come to Singapore. He wasn't amused. I think the tragedy was

that Deng, at 84, had

conception or perception of the dramatic changes that television and especially

satellite television

have

brought about, and the thinking, not only of the people generally, but, more

important, of government leaders in response to electorates. Therefore, it was possible for the world's merlia to be present for the Gorbachev visit and to stay

on to report this (the Tiananmen protest) hour by

hour, minute by minute, replayed during duil inter-

vals, slow-motion replay again to watch exactþ where the ball fell. That's

(Souúå China Morning Post): In your libel action against the Far Eastern Economic Review I'm sure you realise that a win in the Singapore courts will always bê regarded as a decision for the home team on their home ground. Now if you are confident of your grounds would you be prepared to allow or assent to an appeal to the Privy Council in London?

the case and I sued them a second time, and I sued them also in Kuala Lumpur,

so that its not inside my court but affecting a population which concerns me because it is a close neighbour. So I'm putling myself now into the jurisdiction of another court where I am not a prime minister and they will stand in judgement. And that means a retrial of

the first case.

But Mr Vittachi, I assume that you followed the case and youwillknowthat the plaintiff in a libel action goes into the witness box, as I did for five days, and I was cross-examined by a QC who was not only robust, aggressive, dynamic, but out to strip pieces off me for five days. Now, my testimony and the facts of the case could not be shaken because

they were written statements, first that I had cheated or deceived my archbi

shop into saying things at the press conference which he did not want to say, and secondly that I had attacked the Catholic church.

So the defence had to go into the witness box. The defence first submitted there was no case to reply to. They

were ovem;led. Now I would have thought that with such a tremendous desire to justify and to prove to the world the press publishes the truth and nothing but the truth and libel laws be damned, that here was an opporfunity for both the editor of the newspaper and the correspondent who wrote it to go into the witness box and proclaim, one, their sources or if not their sources at least the basis for their beiiefs and, se-

condly, that they actuaþ believe in what they wrote. Neither the editor, Mr Derek Davies, nor the writer, Mr Michael Malik, had the temerity to take an oath in the witness box and say 'I swear to tell the truth and nothing but the truth'. I believe Singaporeans noted that. My case does not depend upon whether the Privy Council likes or does not like the findings of fact by the judge in Singapore. My justification lies in my being able to prove to mY own voters

16 THE CORRESPONDENT NOVEMBER 1990

wrapped himself with. That report was distorted in a way to damage me and we could prove it, and so they wisely did not go to the witness box. Now Singaporeans read all that. I am sorry/ the Sowth Chinrt Morning Post and the Far F-astern konomic Reuiew did not publish it but Singapore newspapers did, and I think that was justification for the case. l

the

leamed

to play to

the

camera.

There was a total noncomprehension of the impact of television . . . or it

would not have happened . . . or the television cameras would have got out first . . . and the correspondents

would have got out next. And then a Chinese situa-

tion is clarnped upon by

Chinesemethods . . . witha Chinese reaction. My belief is that the moment that was done and the cameras were switched off and the lights were switched off, the students

would have gone home. Like all learners, they had

I would have cut the water, cut food supplies, clamped a quarantine, spread itching powder, got doctors with ambulances to go in with sirens screaming to discover a plague in the making, broadcast it to their parents . . . andlthinkthey would have been dispersed. So I would have spread a minor contagion - impetigo or some such thing -

change -colours, scratch, and they would have gone

home. Then you say, 'Right, where are the ringleaders? Let's have a quiet talk with

them'.

can be excluded without breaching the rules of Gatt, but I have not agreed that

you should enter my poiitical process and participate in my market place of ideas.

I am giving it to you as a privilege, and I am asking that the privilege be on conditions, namely that any part of the participation which I feel is biased and which requires a clarification or rebuttal, you will publish. Which isn't asking too much. And if you are so keen on the

what they said. Because we could prove from the exchange of documents that they tampered with the report that was quoted, a Singapore priest Father Edgar de Souza who absconded from Singapore after we disclosed that he'd been carrying on with a young lady and therefore was not a truthful, that he did injustice to the cloak of god that he

for

Gatt, therefore no American product

that their prime minister was not lying. A plaintiff in a libel action has his whole past subject to cross examination. And I was, a large segment of it, but the editor and the reporter wisely declined to say why they believed in

given to them from this priest they

reason

mistake.

phrase myself. First, the market place of ideas: You quote me the UN declaration or bilateral treaty I have with the Americans that you can enter my market place of ideas. I have subscribed to

Nuri Vittachi

Lee: That's exactly what the Asinn Wall Street lournnl said after they lost

the first

All tables on the l¡alcony were lull

Ideas and fundamental truths

contest of ideas and opinions to arive at fundamental truths, why this reluctance to publish what I say? If it is so much arrant nonsense, surely it will do me

great discredit if you give it enorrnous Claudia Rosett (Asian WaIl Street Journal): Ãnpublicity. other way of letting these things sort themselves Now your second part: A Singapoout is simply to letthe market decidewhatpeople rean being sophisticated, intelligent and want to buy. Do you think that Singaporeans in your view will ever become politically mature knowledgeable - of course he is, and he enough so that they may make that decision in wisely décided that he would vote for same government time and again, the market place rather than waiting lor your the and gave me 61 per cent of the votes in rules? 19BB after we had the row with the Lee: I have answered that question lounurlvíce-presidenttakethechair,so Asinn Wall Street Jowrual atd the Far when I met the American Society of you obviously missed the answer and if Easteru Economic Reuiew a¡rd Asinweek NewspaperEditorsinAprill9SSandon you don't mind I'll have to give you and Time magazine. And they can still I that occasion I had the Wall Street more or less the same answer and para- read it for much less. THE CORRESPONDENT NOVEMBER 1990 17

COVER STORY

I\üEW MEMBERS THE REGIONAL director

He is a senior

of the marketing and adver-

director with Aliant Capital Lrd.

tising agency,

Triangle

Pacific, Keith Johnston, has joined the club as an

Michael Shanahan, the Express Newspapers

Associate member.

correspondent, has joined as a Correspondent member. He has come to Hong Kong after eight years as chief feature-writer with the

Also admitted as

in the Asian WaII Street Journal and is reproduced here by permission of Dow Jones & Co.

The Íollowing editorial appeared

It's hard to suppress a bemused admiration toward Singapore boss Lee Kuan Yew. He appeared at the Foreign Correspondents' Club in Hong Kong Friday to sell

Singapore, just now implementing the most stringent press{icensing law in any nation with a pretense of democracy, as a place for the Western press to base itself after China takes over Hong Kong in 1997. In doing this,

he remarked on the press's "ineffable air of sublime confidence." Takes one to know one. Hong Kong, the Prime Minister observed, has given the Western fress a "perch" in Asia. "It is the only place in Asia where the white man still rules," he said. But Hong Kong's air of freedom will vanish in 7997, and "All the

alternatives, Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei, Manila, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur or Jakarta do not offer the same congenial ambience for expatriates." He added, "If I am right about this, then you shouìd not rule out Singapore. For come 1997, Singapore will look somewhat different from the orderþ but sterile, efficient but dull ard authoritarian place it has been made out to be." Well, we ourselves do not rule out Singapore, though we, and our sister publication the Far Eastern Economic Review, don't feel we circulate there just now. We particularly look forward to its evolution in less authoritarian directions. But we do note that not everyone in Asia shares' Mr. Lee's view of freedom of speech as a white man's plot.

The government and people of Thailand, for example, have had a ringside seat from which to observe the cramped political workings of fellow ASEAN member, Singapore. Yet instead of following Mr. Iæe's leadership, the Thai government is heeding the demands of Thai newspapers, and their readers, for a freer press. On October 15, the Thai cabinet agreed to repeal a tough 14-year-old press law known as Decree 42. Thai Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan went on to announce that he also wants to scrap a new press-control bill pending in parliament.

Thailand's promised opening supports its growing reputation as Asia's fifth "little dragon." With the pledge to repeal Decre e 42, which empowered the Thai government to shut down critical publications, Thailand's leaders are deferring to the desires of their mostiy non-white people. 18 THE CORRESPONDENT NOVEMBER 1990

No douþt the Thais are also aware that in the competition

Associate member is British-

bom Christopher Osl¡or-

ne, a senior press officer and government spokes-

international business, in an increasingly global market, it is an advantage to allow freedom of access to

man with the Foreign and

information. Thailand's recent boom has attracted a rush of foreign businesses inquiring into opportunities in Bangkok.

dent, Mark Austin, who was formerly with BBC

for

Prime Minister Lee might also pick up some local newspapers in Taiwan, where he was headed this past weekend. Since Taiwan's Nationalist government lifted martial law in 1987, Taiwan has developed a virtually free press. This includes items such as robust coverage of political leaders and vigorous debate over their policies. This seems to be appreciated by local readers, and if it is sometimes uncomfortable for leaders it is a price they are willing to pay for the vigorous and forward-looking society that comes with open debate.

Commonwealth Office. ITN Far East correspon-

Television News, has joined the FCC as a Correspondent member. He is also a member of the MCC.

Robin John Gibbons, assistant director

Barclays Bank, has been admitted as al Associate member. Director corporate communications with Turner Broadcasting Far East

free speech is Japan, where press and TV coverage of the Recruit Cosmos scandal brought out information enough to topple Prime Minister Takeshita early last year. Again, not an incident that appeals to authoritarian leaders, but in Japan, as in America and Western Europe, the postwar

record suggests that freedom is a vital input for both development and long-run political stability. We do not believe that the question of press freedom in Asia is a struggle of Western versus Oriental values, and it would appear that many in Asia agree. Naturally Asian autocrats, whether head of a political machine like Mr. Lee or student-shooters like his pals iq the Communist Chinese

politburo, claim that only they know what's best for their people. Western autocrats have always claimed the same thing. The issue in press freedom is freedom for the reader, whatever his or her color. It is a question of what people want, versus what dictators think they should get.

senior legal secretary

comes another new Asso-

ciate member, Lynn B. Ogden, who is a principal with the executive search group Korn/Ferq¡ International.

Hong Kong-bom Caroline Hu Stull, manager of a shipping department

with

Patt ManJield and Co., has been welcomed as an Asso-

Osborne

ScotsmanJamesBaird

with a firm of solicitors. Also swelling the ranks of Associates is Yiu Yau

Tak Alexander,

Padilla

Stein

group

finance manager with the Wo Kee Hong Group.

DieterMertens, anew is the managing director of a

Investment

manager

Andrew Gregory Eden also joins the club as a¡r Associate member.

Harish Kumar Vishindas I(irnatrai, a nervr¡ is the managing director of a trading company. Yet another managing

Associate member,

director,

of a

trading

company, Rodollo M. Cuenca, a citizen of Para-

Wise

with the Congræsiarul Qum terþ, the Wall Street Journnl

in Washington, and As'inn Finnnce in Hong Kong.

Flight engineer

with

Cathay Pacific, British-born

BryanDesmondCreek, has joined as an Associate member.

From Boston, Massa- Kim

Jeffrey Wise, has been admitted as a chusetts,

Journalist member. He is the assistant editor of

ciate member. Assist¿nt edltor o1 Aryiual, aFa¿. East Trade Press publication, Janine Stein, a South African who was

guay, has been admitted as an Associate member.

Discouery

director of her own public

relations' company, has joined as an Associate member.

was previously a sub-editor

formerþ holding the same position vnth Hong Kang Tatl.er, has joined the FCC

New ZealarÅer Julie $ussell, the managing The

correspondent of

the C fui sun llb o @aily News)

ber. Janine worked on The

Citizen and Refublimn Præs South Africa before coming to Hong Kong.

dent member.

Investment barker Ste-

phen B. Hunt,

from

Indiana, has been admitted as al Associate member.

Shanahan

is another new Associate member. He is a partner

trading company.

America

Sorenson

member.

Associate member status. She is a US citizen.

Also from

Gibbons

with a Hong Kong firm of solicitors, Maria Mercedes Padilla, has joined the club as an Associâte

Associate member,

as a Correspondent memFortunately, the trend in countries such as Thailand and Taiwan is toward government more responsive to what Asians actually want. Their leaders are deferring to their people's ability and desire to decide for themselves what news and opinions they want to read, what publications they want to buy. By 1997, we hope that Singapore's 2.8 million people will enjoy the same trend. I

Sundny Exþress in London.

Ltd., Gretchen Sorenson, has joined the FCC

with Yet another Asian nation clued in to the advantages of

managing

Seoul, Young Soo

Kim, is a new CorresponStephen Stine, a reporteg with the Asinn Wall StreetJournnl, has joined the FCC as a Correspondent member. He was previously

published on behalf of Cathay by Emphasis. He

with the Hong Kong Standnrd and before that an editorial assistant \ñlrth 7 Days Magmine in New York. Staff writer with Asinueek, Karla Angelica Delgado, joins the FCC as

Correspondent member.

She was formerþ an edito-

rial

assist¿nt with The Vilkge Voice in New York.

Cuenca

THE CORRESPONDENT NOVEMBER 1990 19

WOLFENDALE AT LARGE

WOLFEI\DALE AT LARGE

large packages in their socks and trained to arrest and detain in themselves any llicker ol' l'acial expression. Like',vaiters who had arrived too late

The Prime Minister took note

to change, the_v stood on point cluty

probably have explained. All'way

around the tables pleading with their Seikos to stop squeaking and r.l'ired fi-om the back of the head in a manner reminiscent of that Skties TV comedy, My'scl-f a Moftutn, who grew antennae

"chacun a son gout" as they taught us at Cantonese language school. Some

l;'ùi:il$ffiï'*ïf:.flilrjiï

calle to lunch I couldn't understancl vr,'ord he was saying so

I found diversion

in his Special Branch security guarcl, nen u'ith biceps on their eyebrows,

fron

people spot trains, whippets chase motor bikes and I like watching dud

Last Supper, except that there lvould have been no need for a Judas to slip out. The head pharisee was already with us.

Special Branch would be proud of

the Club's coveft instincts. Just as

There was much more threat to Lee

live behind street plates stating they are

from the membership on the staircase.

a department of Ag and Fish or The Reservoirs Review Board, the Club's

The moment of his arrival saw a surge of then up towards the Dining Room

officers would receive an electncal surge from the

Work Room maintains its anonymity behind a door which says simply "Video Club".

back of their shirt collars

This is sotmd psychology since, to many members of the Club, the work "work" is anathema and an offence to be confronted, only occasionally from a phone on the

and I rn'ould be emmentaled in a cross hail-stonn of auto-

matic fire. I looked for similar excitement at the Lee Kuan Yern'lnnch and was amazed b¡r the contrast. Whereas the mayor had a large team of largely local Chinese oftjcers headed up by a European, Harq' Lee got a team

tunities in accountancy, made a perceptible curtsey bob. The Board then spread out in lwo lines either side of Lee, the one looking over the shoulder of the other to better catch the wisdom. There was a serious danger of us forming a replica of the

govemment top security offices tend to

clernos.'

behind his ears when urìusual

action was required. I had the feeling that, one false move fróm me lvith a forkful of tournedos rossini, and two

"A house in'langlin, two servalìts incloor ancl out, a stipend ancl I'11 rnrite anything you rn'ant." Dorothy Ryan, seeing sinilar oppora notc saying.

wallwhilst somebody else is getting the round in. This is a matter o[ especial sensitivity when you consider that this particular door leads off The Pool Bar. I can understand this sort of reaction. I was shown the

exclusively gweilo in-

spectors, bar one Chinese; either that or only one of the

Fitness Centre only once and when I had seen the

Chinese was obvious and we don't, as yet of course, have gweilo waiters.

equipment

it took a long

Paul Bayfield's amazing facility lor remembering names time and half a bottle to peron-street suade me that we had not demo which could have fitted into the' chanting "We want our minced chicken rented the piace to the operatioqs divi back of an Isuzu van and was seriously burger patty rvith crunchy broccoli, and sion of the Chinese Public Security outnumbered by the coppers and FCC we want nowl" "Make way you Bureau. members with cameras. Three of us curs!" purred Peter Seidlitz with his The damned ingenious bit about the stood in the Wyndham Room window, inimitable mixture of charm and intimiVideo Club door is that, if a workaphobic like timid tsars on The Winter Palace dation, and Lee was struggled into the blunders through it, there indeed, as a balcony, spotting Special Branch meld- Wyndham Room to meet the Board. front, is a fuìly functioning video club. ing r-rrobtrusively into the crowd of 20. Demonstrating yet again his amazing Not a suspicion is raised and he t¿kes We speculated on what cover story facility for remembering all our names, not a step further. He never realises that one young expatriate dressecl like a Paul Bafield introduced Lee round the beyond the serried shelves of Ratnbos, TVB newsreaderwould give for leaning Board. I greeted him simply as "Prime Rockys and Backs To The Futwre I carelessly against a lamp post on the Minister!" with that tone of obsequious through XII, lies a thoroughly redesigncorner of Lower Albert Road on a public complicity learned from eight years in ed and modernised w**k room with holiday afternoon. 'Alìh... well I come the civil service and Sir Humphrey w**k spaces now wide enough for the here for the peace and quiet.' he woulC Appleby. In the handshake I passed him normally obese, word processors and

We had an

'Make way you curs!' purred Peter Seidletz 20TIIF' CORRESPONDENT

NOVEMBER 1990

new magnetic wall linings suitable for the fixing of obscenities. This w* *k has been organised by the W* *kroom Sub-Committee in response to democratic demand of the memberall three of them who brought it and has proved universally popular. The one member have caught down there since the change said that the w**k spaces provided more arrn room if you wanted a ship

up at the AGM

kip and there was now tons of space for clumping your shopping. Manager Grabner says that this is about the fifth

time the w* *kroom has been rew* *ked and that if it happens again, I can go and f* *k off. A development a great deal more overt and of real interest to members is that the Japanese restaurant two doors down has met its Okinawa and will turn into Hong Kong's newest gay bar. This poses some interesting questions for the

Club. Will it cause a falling off in revenue as regular rnembers pop in earlyinatanktop and single earring just

for a quick one before tripping off down the hill, or will we atlract a lucrative overJlow trade in the early hours? After all, there is nothing camper than some of our pot plants in the Main Bar and the F**ness Centre and jacwzr are already confused enough. The Pool Room is an ideal venue for noisy gay bikers' nights and no queen in his right

mind is going to object to wearing

Coming Events

Social Calendar New Year's Eve Dinner and ' Party

January

proper frock and stockings to dinner in

the Dining Room. I think we should put this on a proper footing and give the new bar the status of a reciprocal club on exactþ the same footing as that enjoyed with us by the Sydney Rugby Club. In fact, it would be

a good idea to get some of these different "reciprocal" members together for an evening to see exactly what sort of reciprocation we are talking about. That should put paid to the pot plants at Ieast.

Stuart Wollendale

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Brealdast at the Verandah Grill TIIEVerandah Grill by the side of the main restaurant on the top floor of the Club is becoming a favourite brealdast place for a small but reg¡ular graup of Club members. The Verandah, open for brealdast Monday Saturday from 7:3O am onwards, offers a set menu of fruit juice, eggis with ham, s¿rusage or bacon, and a choice of hot beverages as well as a good selection of à la carte options.

THE CORRESPONDENT NOVEMBER

1990

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Hong Kong 'treasures' found in

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1981, stumbled across this collection of glass slides about a year

ling exhibition, shown to

ago in a flea market near his Manhattan

PHOTO ESSAY

home.

The FCC leamed about them when Kramer teamed with visiting member Ken Ball and New York-based absent member Sarah Monks inthe BigApple. "They were part of a collection of 100 glass slides on China at the turn of the

centuy," said Kramer, who is now deputy foreign editor of the Wall Street Joumnl.

"These are the only Hong Kong slides in the collection. I think the set was de-aquisitioned by the Brooklyn Children's Museum ... or maybe they

^TH.E.

depict Chinese life and culture in urban and rural areas. "I imagine the slides were paft of the museum's service to schools as a travel-

American

children in the earþ part of this century," Kramer observes. "Most New

York flea markets have Asian sfuff, were stolen. One never knows where these things come from." Kramer,

FCC member during his

Hong Kong posting on a beat that stretched from Taiwan to Afghanistan, is a keen collector of Asial antiquities and memorabilia, particularly material

from China.

Tainted glass slides of mainland China scenes in his US$50 flea market collection are from the same period featured on the Hong Kong slides. They

CORRESPONDENT NOVEMBER 1990

other than the ceramics people usually expect to find." Among Kramer's more off-beat collector's items are old Hong Kong "execution" postcards, which show the beheading of luckless pirates on Lantau ard in other parts of the colony. "These were quite popular at the turn of the century, along with postcards of felons in stocks. There's a whole slew of

them," says Kramer. How does so much Hong Kong

memorabilia come to be in New York?

Kramer athibutes this to the endless shuffle of tourists, missionaries and sailors up to World War II. Amonglhis most treasured items is a large collection of stamps of mainland China dating from the 1870s, some of whichwere the first to be used in China. He maintains his interest in philately by

scouring Hong Kong stamp dealers' catalogues and bidding at stamp auctions by mail. Anyone who is interested in the China slides of the same vintage as,those of Hong Kong reproduced here can write to Kramer at the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Desk, 200 Liberty Street, New York, NY 70287. THE CORRESPONDENT NOVEMBER

I99O

FCC CLASSIFIED

JOUR]\ALISTS' ASSOCIATIOI\ IüEWS Journalists are not above the law Journalists are not

above the law, nor should they be asked to breach the law on assignments turder the name

ly dropped by the Attomey-

of beating the opposition to a story, the HKJA has declared.

pressed "alarm" over the affair and reminded news editors a¡rd media proprietors of their responsibilities not to ask their staff to contravene the law wilftrlly.

The union's statement was made in the light of recent summonses laid against

General.

with thanks

However, the union ex-

FOLLOWING intervention by the HKJA, six

several reporters and photographers who were accused of entering a restricted area

The udon went on to say

of the deparhre lounge at Kai Tak Airporl in pursuit

journalists to cover news-

of a story about a group of stranded Chinese travellers.

The cases were subsequent-

Received

members received a total of $6,033.50 in outstanding expenses and script fees owing to them by the management of the former Hong Kong Herald,

The union wrote to

that the govemment "should

do all in its power to allow

worthy events in the reskicted area in a legal way." It also called for a meeting between relevant government authorities, airporl

authorities, media executives and the union to try to solve the problem.

management after the members complained that the money, which had been promised them, was still outstanding three months later.

Within

few days the

cheques were sent to the

Commonwealth links

HKJA, who forwarded

THE UNION has accepted an invitation to join the London-based Commonwealth

members.

them to the grateful

body formed in Journalists'Association 7978 on the initiative of journalists cover-

ing a conference of Commonwealth

non-

The CJA, which has links with the Commonwealth Press Union, is concerned with training, journalistic independence and exchanges between journalists of various countries.

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IN A hard-hitling speech last month, the HKJA chairma¡r Emily Lau responded to recent statements by Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. Lau attacked Iæe's claims that the western media particularly television were in in some way responsible for the massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators in China on June 4 last year.

Many Chinese students did not watch television at all, and in any case what they were allowed to see was heavily censored and would certainly not contain material showing people challenging authority on the streets, she said.

She also challenged Iæe's suggestion that the Chinese

The r:nion is setting up a special foundation to administer the fund, which will be used to promote freedom of speech and publication in mainland China.

The current issue,of The Joumnlistspells out in detail who can apply for grants from the fund and how to go about it.

protestors shor-ild have been patient and followed the example of Poland's Solidarity movement by moving

Facts and figures

slowly to assume power.

At the beginning of

The events of last year, she reminded Lee, were the

October the HKJA's registered membership stood at 394.

culmination of a long and difficult struggle which began in 1976 and was followed by the Peking Spring of L979 and

student demonstrations in several provincial centres in 1986.

24TIJE CORRESPONDENT NOVEMBER

1990

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