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From Albert E Kaff Bernie Kalb, who covered the Korean and Vietnam \Øars for CBS News, calledVietnam "shrapnel in our hearts ... a tornado that does not let you out of its grip."

Further to your review of the book Requiem: By tbe Pbotograpbers Wbo

Died

in

Vietnam and. Indocbinø, I

attended the opening of an exhibit of photographs from the book.

Kalb, moderating a panel at the opening, asked why the Vietnam'War so troubled America.

Author David Halberstam, who won a Pulitzer in Vietnam while reporting for The New York Times, snapped back: "Vietnam was the second US civil war. 'We were fighting ag^insf. ourselves."

About 350 people crowded into the Newseum in New York City on March 5 for a reception and discussion of Requiem, the 1997 Random House

book of combat photos madeby L35 news photographers from 10 nations who were killed or reported missing on both sides of the Vietnam \Øar.

Since the Newseum auditorium seats only 170 people, others watched

the programme on two television monitors in the reception lounge.

Ovelseas Press Club manager Sonya Fry, who helped Newseum conduct the event, told the audience the programme was a "remembrance of awar we wanted to forget."

Halberstam noted that Associated Press's Horst Faas, one of the two combat photographers who edited the

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To the editor book, has been his friend for 37 years from the time they both covered the war in the Congo. "Now I think he's a genius," Halberstam said, adding that the book "allowed those who can no longer speak to be heard one more time."

Faas explained why he and Tim Page spent several years collecting thousands of war photos frotrt archives in Hanoi and western agencies. "Those

of us who rnade it out of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos are remembering those who did not."

Faas said some people who saw the Requiem exhibit criticised inclusion of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong photographers alongside the work of

Americans, Page, who covered Vietnam for Tirue, provided an answer. "\X/e shared the same emotions; we shared the same fate."

Old Hong Kong hands who attended, apafi from myself, included Roy and Helen Rowan and Frank \X/olfe.

From WilliamVadsworth The club is turning away bar takings and shttnning potential members because it still closes too eady for at least lwo late Fliday-night, shifts of sub-editors on SaturdaY firofnlngs.

Time and agaìn the committee have reminded membets of the ch¡b's precarious financial position and have

exhorted everybody to go out and recruit their colleagues. But little lias been done to accommoclate or attract

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some of the most lucrative after-work thirsts in town.

The club cries poor, but it ignores the fact that many subs like a few drinks after work. The club's committee seems content to force at least a dozen

local editolial people into more expensive and less friendly bars, just down the road in Lan Kwai Fong. And if you drop into Yelts Inn, Club 64and Schnurrbart between 2 am and 4 am, the chances are yoll will meet other FCC members as well as journalists who have had no place they can really relax in since the closure of the Press Club.

I would like to see the Pool Bar's hours extended by a couple of hours on Saturday mornings, until 4am. A barman could be rostered in, paid

overtime and managed to encourage night-working journalist members to

use the facilities and tempt their colleagues to join.

There has been talk about such a move, but thele has been little action so far. I get through $500 on Friday nights in \X/a n Chai and Lan Kwai Fong and I would gladly switch my thirst to the FCC.

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interest over the business concelns of

family and friends. Complicating matters, there is no succession plan in place, only what diplomats and other

analysts refer

I sing the body politic tf," economy, stupidl No, it's the stupidl Okay, so which is it, the economy or the politics? The

Ipolitics,

correct answer is - are you ready? it's both. In the reporting business these days, and particularly now in Asia, the politics and the economics can no longer be so easily separated - and that means, among other things,

that the long-standing journalistic barrier between "politicai reporters" and "business reporters" has finally been eroded by events.

I say so with some regret, having

spent my career as a foreign

correspondent firmly in the 'political reporter' ranks. But, as sad as itmay be to admit, we generalists are fast becoming a dying breed, forced now to transfom ourselves to fit the times.

During my first tour in Asia, beginning rn7986, the big stories were the coup attempts in Manila, the communist and Muslim insurgencies in the Philippine

countryside, the Cambodian guerrilla war, Vietnam's slow opening to the \Ă˜est, the Burmese student-leduprising

and the military crackdown that brought the SLORC to power.

The tools of the trade then were

the ubiquitous safari jacket or photographer's vest (good for the muitiple pockets), a couple of cartons of 555 cigarettes (good for getting through Phnom Penh checkpoints

after curfew), and a knowledge of how to distinguish the incoming from the outgoing arlillery shells.

Back then, a decade ago, I used to pity the poor business reporters, reduced to writing about colporate balance sheets and commodity prices

while missing what wele considered 'the real stories' in the region.

NĂ˜hat a difference a decade can make. To cover the region now, a

journalist need not know the

Indonesia and all the way north to Seoul - the old-fashioned political

restructure the banking system, bl eak up some of the monopolies and end

reporters, like myself, have been

most of the costly subsidies

forced to make that transformation,

measures the markets would normally

The safari jacket is out; pinstripes are in. Instead of romping through the

applaud. Bnt on the political side, he said: "S7e'll probably have to wait."

It's instructive to look elsewhere

countrY's political future, as much as worries

over the economic fundamentals, have been driving the rupiah's collapse and delaying any effective recovery despite a US$43 billion rescue package from the International

Monetary Fund.

"If it were an economic problem, then it'd be like the rest of Asia," said Eugene Galbraith of ABN AMRO Asia

Ltd., and a recognised Indonesia expert. As important as moves to reorganise the banking sector, he said,

were qlrestions of the political

lhe meaning of a 'forward cttrlency malket' ancl how an overnight interest

rate really works, I promise I'll tell you how to clistinguish an incoming altillery shell from an outgoing one. A thumbnail knowledge of both may be essential if things reaily start to get out of hand.

also focus on the politics of the place.

The financial reporters must become political reporters, and vice-versa. It's the economy, certainly, but it's also

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the polĂ­tics.

succession, Llncertainty over the vice-

the political factor," On the economic side, a programme is in place to

that concerns ovef the

medicines and supplies. Ordinaly people are starting to suffer.

But this is more than a crisis of economics, and so the leporting must

So if one of you financial types reading this can please explain to me

presidential choice, continuing concern about corruption and nepotism, and worries about the violence ag^inst Indonesians of

spread through Malaysia and

specifically, what we are finding is

year term with no intention of stepping

remalkable economic meltdown, and its impact on the lives of Indonesians,

Tan, the Singapore-based general manager of Standard and Poor's, reflecting recently on Indonesia's crisis. "It's the economic factor and

interwiews in brokerage houses and corporate board rooms.

But now the tide is shifting in the other direction; the financial reporters are now learning that it's not all about economics. In the case of Indonesia

change. And none of those scenarios looks good, Diplomats inJakarta, with access to some of Suharto's close confidants, say the Plesident is committedto serving outanothelfottr-

to continue covering Indonesia's

difference between an RPG and an AK-47 and aB-40. The lexicon of the moment involves forward markets, currency boards, short-selling and M1 money supply. Since the Thai crisis first erupted in the middle of last year - starting the contagion that quickly

bush with armies, we're conducting

for

aside and making way for an heir.

Reporters on the ground will have

arrd economic Jt',

to as 'scenarios'

The collapsed lupiah now makes it impossible for exporting cornpanies to irnport needed raw materials.

Some factories will have to shut down, and unemployment is predicted to reach 10 per cent of the workforce.

Hospitals cannot affold imported

Chinese descent.

"It's two basic factors, " said Andy

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all

around the region when assessing Indonesia's current crisis. Of the three countries hardest hit by the contagion

- Thailand, South Korea and Indonesia - two of them, Thailand

and South Korea, have changed political leadership since the onset of the crisis. In both those cases, new leadership committed to economic reform added a dose of confidence and their countries now seemed to have turned the corner in the crisis.

But the one still flounder-ing,

Indonesia, is the one where the leadership, meaning President Suharto, remains unchanged.

lndonesia's problem now is a crisis of confidence as much as a matter of economics. Investors, and the people themselves, have lost faith in the president's ability to resolve the crisis and choose the national

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filt in action

The rights sûrff

Fu Ckrun-u¡ai's pre-hztlc1c;rzer e><posr.rre l-ras earned krirrr Hong I{ong press r\ssociation ¿lnd tkre NTeuzsl>aper IJnion pictlrre of the ¡zear.

George Rrrssell gets tLre stor-y bel1ind tl-re pkrotograph

Aqzards A record tLrrnolrt is e><pected for the 3rd Hl.r-l-ran R-ighrts Press

ightning-fast refl exes and a sudden gust of wind landed Fu Chun-wai

one of the most enduring images of 1997. The photographer for the Chinese-langtage New Euening Post was prowling the streets of Central with an assignment to caPture a few symbols of colonial rule to mark the inpencling handover.

At the Cenotaph in Central he spied several

British soldiers from

smiling,

when he printed the picture was

an atttowind camera, had a few

muted. "Itwas justmy job," shrttgsFu. But it was a different story when the picttr re was published.

"I had inquiries straight away from all over the world," he said.

Is he

onthe soldierontheright. and why?

The quietly spoken Fu, armed with seconds to fire off three shots. The classic image is the third, bY which time the soldier holding the flag had reaiised what was happening. "The

Fu acknowledges the shot is one of his favourites, although his colleagues at the New Evening Post paid little attention to the picture when he lirst printed it..

"They were not that

a

Scottish regiment taking

down a flag. Definitely colonial and worth a quick pictttre, he thought. Then the weather managed to tttrn the routine into the

memorialised with its own place on the FCC walls, it was constantly obscured by a knot of admirers. Newspapet-s conducted investigative

obvious, much speculation has fallen

be considered (coPies of declaration

will be

the

avallable at the

one with the kilt blowing uP had no idea," says Fu. "But the soldier on the side knew what was going on."

Fr-r

hacl the scene

to himself. "It

- there were just a tourists standing around and

was not an event

few

watching."

The reaction of his colleagues

TLte image is reþresenled, worldwide by Stocle House PhotoagencY.

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be a human and to live in a civil society that protects and promotes humane vahres.

"I think it's natural that we tend to focus on stories about violations of

grasp something more

easily when there's only a name or tlvo involvecl. But I think it's also imPortant to keep an eye ottt for

nently reported in local receive considelable in-

people andgroups that are actuallY trying to

The joint organisets -the FCC, Hong Kong

do something about these ploblems. That's a matterof balance and

Journalists Association and AmnestY Tn-

fairness.

ternational Hong Kong

One of the main Press Awalds do is vaiidate the work of journalists who have a grasP of these issues, and who sometimes go out there and do work

things the

that their editors don't grasp, or maybe

even oppose,"

The organising committee last for an organisation based in Hong

The three panels of judges are

yearwas able to obtain its first outside grantto help underwrite the luncheon event. Any individuals, companies or foun<lations who might be interested

in helping to make this event a

in China.

"They certainly smile mote."

disèrimination, nutrition, civil rights, the integrity of the legal system, access to information - in short, the right to

dramaticandgriPPing, and the audience can

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successors to the British garrison? "'ùØeli, the Hong Kong PLA is more accepting of photographs than the PLA

important to look at issues of

rights, because theY're

under

cheeky image being taken of the People's Liberation Army, the

rigirts violations, like thè jailing of dßsidents and journalists, it's also

professional community. They are Promi-

tetnational coverage.

version coming out

other side of the Main Bar.

is

expected this tim All submissions must have been published between APril 1 ,7997 , and Àpril 1, 1998. The area of Possible topics iswide: anysubjectthattouches on the provisions of the International Declaration of Human Rights could

perhaps in time for the handover anniversary.

Could he see such a

magazine photo on the

says Fu. !Øhile the focus of the photograph

-

important to monitor obVious human

Awards'

news media and also

A deal

Many have pointed out it achieves a kind of physical harmony with the notorious Style

lucþ,"

Chinese press

especially with the and more entries are

-

negotiation may see a commemorative Poster

customs.

yeat awards. "I have never been so

proved popular

to add.

Scottish

Lately, Fu's skill and alertness have brought more tangible acclaim. Inrecentweeks he's captured the Hong Kong Press Association and the Newspaper Union picture of the

of the Press

" Timemagazinewas one of the first."

yet fortune, he is quick

probes of military under-

wear and

category has been created to allow articies or photographs published online to be entered.'ùØebsites may also be submitted.

Some 600 entries have been jtrdged dur-

straight away," he says.

photograph continues to bring himfame-butnot

ress

to begin assembling their submissions. This Year, a new

existence, confirming t h e ir importance to oul'

Fu is now at Ming Pao Møgazine, and fhe

analysed and praised. In the weeks after it was

P

-q*a.ds. now established as a major event on the FCC's annuai calenclar, is set for June 13 and intelested members are encottraged

"They thought itwas just part of the job."

They had to change

about 10 reprint requests

much talked about,

Ht tman Rights

ing the lilst two Years

mailbegan. "I think I had

Nearly a year later, Fu's photograph is still

rro rnnttal

impressed," he recalls,

their tune when the fan

remarkable.

tfn.

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the

Francis MoriartY, chairman of rhe front desk or on-line (httpt// *-*.f.".*ay.org/hkja/awards/FCC'sPressFreedomSubcomnrittee, ,,The idea is to look at human form.htm).Thecategoryiof comment says: \X/hile it's ar.a unntyris, introãuóed last year, rights in a latge context'

continued success through their financial contribution ale asked to get in touch the organisers, whose ðontact numbers ate available frotn the front office.

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chance as anyone. perhaps bettelthan

most, of getting the necessarl' lestructuling under

u,'ay.

BLrt loo many people u''ele taken in by three mlths Kim hacl br-rilt aror-tncl hir-rself: tl-rat he was a clemocrat, that

he came to the election u'ell prepared for the job and that l-re vt-as the man for the neq.'era.

The new leacler hacl been forced to clefine himself as a clemocrat to be elected, but he had failecl to br-rild up

"He's never rlrn anything," said

Clifforcl. Nor coulcl Kim claim to represent a ne\\' el'a. He was very rluch one of tl-re olcl gr-rarcl, a man in his 70s. Most I(oleans were under 40 ancl that generation regardecl hin-r not as nes.'but as an exemplar of the olcl way.

On the positlve side, hou-ever', this .,vas the first time an opposition leader had li.r'ested t1're presidency

from ihe ruling party in a free

grassroots, bottorn-ttp slrppolt. It

elections. His goocl relations u'ith

impol'tant, u'alnecl Cliffolcl,

olganised labour set him apat't frott'r

q,'ou1cl be

need to concentlate on refbrll, not on apportioning blame.

Tl'ie jr-rr1'u'as still ollt on u''liether'

Kin-r coulcl maintain a clean

go\-ernment, as his predecessol had failecl to do, despite riding to pos,'er on an anti-corl'Ltption ticket. Btrt he

\\-as not beholclen to the bnsiness conglomefates, and É1l'eater meclia openness and increased international scrlrtiny should help redr-rce the colruption tl'iat lidcllecl governnìent and br-rsiness in past yeals.

Clifford agleecl rt'ith a membel

of the audience who suggested Kirn might be

to see hou.. far Kirl w-as leally ready to "push down" pos''er from his olr''n office in the

cornpared with

South African Presiclent Nelson

NIandela, w-l'ro had triun'rphed

plesiclential Blue

House and the

and forgiven his enemies, zrfter yeals of pel'secu-

central government and promote decentlali-

tion by

sation.

a

clespotic

legime. That

seemed a little ple-n'iatr,rre Kim's statlrre as a leaclel'

Kim Dae !.ntg takes tbe ctath of ffice acconxþanied by bis tuife,

Lee Hee

CanKim put the claws back into the Korean tiger? lfl-re unautl-rorised biogrzrpl-rer of I{ore-¿ h-rc., Club r'rrer-nt>er À4ark Clifford, sees tl-re flau.s in a EBranrde re p c) rts 11 es/ p re s i de r-rt. Jofratllanl-

-rgE

C0RRXSPONDEI{T Nlarch 1998

u'il1 only jr-rdgecl on

be his perfolnance in office. Butthetalk gave zr measttt'e of hope tirat I(im Dae Jung coulcl, in the end, turn oLrt to be a half-

Ho, artd preclecessot" Kim. Youtg Sant

(Kirn DaeJtrng. Sorrtlr Korea s ^n Plesiclent save ilis cor.rntrl'?

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difficult

o S E

NIark Clifford's anss''er to that

and sensitive question uras

è

s

a

v

lesouncling "maybe".

Presenting the r-rpdated edition of his book, Troubled Tiger - novv

subtitlecl The Unauthorised Biograpl'iy of Korea Inc., Cliffold began u.ith the more fundamental question: could anyone save Sou[l't Korea?

Could a cor.Ìntly that had fallen fulther, fastel tl-ran anyone l'iad foreseen - never in his u'ildesl dreams hacl he imagined Seoul wor-rlcl go to the IMF fol succour - be set back on tl-ie load to recovery?

Clifforcl's portrait of Kim DaeJung

as a flawecl hel'o lr.'ith enormolrs pelsonal ambition, intelligence ancl conlage, but no experience of' å{ovelnrììcnt or econL)lnic rnanagelrent, dicl leave open the possibility of snccess. Kin'i coulcl fail lniserabll'. But he hacl as good a

hrtion. KirnJong Pil u.as a man of the 70s, r'ery much of the old, n-rilitalistic, anti-democratic school.

Kim DzreJrrng had in sorììe senses won because he saicl he was prepared,

especially on relations u.ith Noth Korea, ovel whicl-r he hacl spent many years working out his policy.

But he u,.as inexpelienced and no bettel prepared than anyone else for the economic turmoil which hit the counlry as the election crrnpaign was

in fi¡ll swing. He had never been

i'rhnelxt of Kint Jottg Pil as actittg

his pledecessol's, altl'iough

th.e

lelationship u.ou1d be tested by the economic reforrns and the IMF

package l'ie had prornised to

u.'ay clecent leader in clifficult tin-res.

It u'as a lat'e pleasr-Ìre to be able to u,-elcome one of the FCC's ori,'n merlbers as the speaker at a club Iuncl'ieon. (Souncling off at the bal

- although he had at first saicl he woulcl tr¡z t¡, ..tr"*otiate its tefms.

Clifford saicl tl'ie neu, leader'l-rad

does not cor-tnt.)

"macle all the light noises" on lestrlrctr.r:ing and seemed to have taken on boald the need for foleign

be rigirt Lrp-to-date, infotnative ancl helpfr-rlly controversial - all t'ithout coming clown too heavily eithel for

investment and ortn'nership. Thele was

ol against Kim.

implement

hope he coulcl lirnit the tendency to

Malk Cliffold is an expert on

a

sr-rbject of bur-ning regional and international interest. He managed to

Jonathan Braude is a colwnnist

govel'nol' of a province, never held aclninistlative office and dicl not knor¡,' how to r-rse the le'u'ers of pou.er. His

make scapegoats of the Ar-netican government, the IMF, oLltgoing President Kim Young Sam ancl even

Morning Post tuIark Clilford's book,

right-hancl n-ren clicl not inspile

the conglornerates themselves. Once

Trotrblecl Tig er

confidence in theit' undelstanding of new realities ol their-fresl-r thinking.

the IMF package had been agreecl,

desk

tl're

cln d

rouing reportet"þr

China

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Koreans had seemecl to recognise the Nlarch

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dozen

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March 1998 THE

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The next handover

special economic zone,

Like thre encla\ze's lifesryle, }.4a.can:'s re\zersion to Cl-rina, in a999 prorrrises to l>e a loq¡-ke¡2, rela-><ed affair. Vzarren R.ooke e><plains u.h¡t \Y/irrthe return of sovereignryot W Mn.ru to China be anyrhing other than a pale shadow of events in Hong Kong 30 months previously? "No way!" says our man in Macau. The last remaining colony in the east, and the oldest, is a remar kably different animal to HongKong, despite the facttheyare

December 20, 1.999 is an arbitrary deadline. rùØhile Britainwas forced into a decision on Hong Kong becattse of a lease ending tn1997 ,there has been no such pressure on Macau. In fact, says

Jose, there is no t'eal agreement anywhere on the existence of Macau, at Ieast not one which was ratified by both

by only 45 kilometres of

Portugal and China." Also we do not

muddywater flowing down the Pead

have the confrontational situationwhich 'We Hong Kong developedwith China. alreacly have a'through-train legco' in place and, as I said, sovereignty was resolved when Portugal and Macau

separated

River estuary.

Jose lifts his glasS and studies it carefully. "People think the handover of Macau to China will be a mirror image of what happened in Hong Kong, but in truth Macau is nothing like Hong Kong."

Jose has my attention.

After all, he can trace his family

in

Macau back four gene-

rations and he has held senior posts in civic life. He is also a paft owner of the restaurant we are sitting in.'lüe are both

carefr"rlly studying

our first

glass of wine - from the second bottle - and, inevitably, conver-

As he noted, Macau is hardly a backwater any more. It has changed dramatically in recent

as

successful in its way as Shenzhen

was for Hong Kong.

Having been a regular visitor to Macau since 1965, I was able to vouch for Jose's account of the virtual rebirth of Macau over the past 30 years. But what of the hanciover?'Will it be without $

years and has an enviable infrastructure, with a new airport, a modern ferry terminal, rwo bridges linking the city and the islands ofColoane andTaipa and other bridges planned, the

in telecommunications

year after year and other companies won huge export orders.

problems?

From 7949 until the Portuguese revolution in1974 there was virtually no contact between the right-wing dictatorship in Portugal and the communist Government in China.

Macau was left to its own devices, but

Airþort, oþened in 1995, accommodation, and stylish but you can't blame the Macau Interncttiolxótl tbat Luill lit'tk Macøu to Cbina, Euroþe ønd. facilities sports facilities. The huge that," for delaying Portuguese tbe rest of the worlcl well into the 21st century Nam Van Lakes project is says Jose. This surprises rte, I transforming the entire outer harbour reply, as I had always been told that passpoft is a cerlificate of nationality

"There's been a lot said

latest

È

and a containel' port. It has its

¡

about localising the civil service, e

own university, first class hotel

before 1p84 only Pofiuguese nationals cor"rld join the civil selice.

and all that entails.

In Macau 450 years of inter-racial living has blurred these distinctions and

except adventurous tourists and Hong

"Thatmaybe so, butinthe pastthe Chinese were never really interested in joining the government. To do that

Kong residents seeking a quiet

you hadto become fluentin Pottuguese,

Portuguese otherthan having beenbom in Macau. Some Chinese families even

with little autonomy. Bythe earþ sixies Macau had once again reverted to a sleepy backwater, of interest to few,

Portuguese

and neithel the pay nor prospects of

officials controlled a civil service dominated by bilingual and trilingual

attracÍive. The Chinese communily in

weekend away. Forly or

so

Macanese while the Chinese con'munily got on with the day-to-day business of living.

Three things happened to

bring Macau back to life, according toJose. Although a concession to run organised

gambling had been in force for some years, it wasn't until 1962 thar. four Hong Kongbased businessmen, Henry Fok, Stanley Ho, Teddy Yip andlp Hon, breathedlife into the concession and brought Las Vegas style gambling to

sation has swung back to the departure of the Porluguese from Macau, ending a presence that began inf543.

Officially termed a Chinese a Macau. Today, STD, the territory under Portuguese !t companywhich has exclusive administration, Macau returns and. new from tbe bistoric A sweeping aista rights to Macau's nine casinos, to China at midnight December Vista. across the Prøia Grande to Ma.cctu's mod.ern skyline provides more than 50 per 20,1999,just a few days short cent of Macau's income and dominates resumed diplomatic relations in 1979." of the millennium. I argue toJose that "Since task. the enclave's economy. All four to his is warming the handover will follow the same Jose became m ulti-millionaires. pattern as Hong Kong's but on a much 797 4 the Porluguese have consciously Secondly, the 1974 revolution in been giving up claims to overseas smaller scale. The programme will be Portugal resulted in greater autonomy territories and we all know they offered exactly the same, except it will be the for Macau's administrators, who had Pofuguese flag being lowered for the to return Macau to Chinese r-ule. If we become hard pressed to meet the are to be honest, Portugal does not last time; the Governor and his senior growing demands brought about by Macau, in investment leave, have much administrators will take their probably by TAP Air Portugal in place econorrically or politically. It was the phenomenal success of STDM. Government expansion and spending of the royal yacht Britanniø, ancl life always too small and too far away." took a marked upturn. Then, inI)7), The point is well made. In contrast, will continue as normal for 50 years as Macat was able to resume its historic Britain was very reluctant to give up a it seems to be doing in Hong Kong. contacts with southern China and real money-earner such as Hong Kong, Jose's focus moves from the glass money from Macau and Hong Kong where Britishcompanieslike Cable and of re d wine. "Firstly, sovereignty is not an issue, it's been long settled. \Øireless gained most of their profits flowed in to create the nearby Zhuhai

promotions were particularly

Macau always concentrated on business and coÍünerce. If theyhadto learn a foreign language, they would

there is a large community of ethnic

Chinese with no claim

to being

Government in Hong Kong where pay and prospects were better.

Although less than one per cent of

nationality. Such individuals face a difficult decision. A Portuguese passport carries with it the right to live and

the population of Macau are true

work not only in Portugal but in most of Europe, while residents' relatives living 45 kilometres away across the estuary may have only managed to obtain a limited SAR passport which requires a visa even to visit most countries.

well over 120,000, hold Portuguese passports. Until the resumption of contacts with China in \979 , anyl¡odywho could demonstrate a

"Let's be honest," says Jose, in pretty

Portuglrese bloodline orwas born in

Macau had the right

to become

a

Portuguese national. China on the other hand believes that a Chinese born anywhere is a Chinese nafionaL China makes it clear it regards a passmerely travel document while Portugal takes it far more seriously; a port

as a

dozens of beautifu I old buildings have been carefully restoled to their former

China says these people are not hold dual

Chinese and should

residents,

a culttrral centre and an exhibition centre, are under way or on the drawing boards. On the cultural front

have distinctly Portuguese names as a result of their forebears having been adopted or orphaned and raised and named by the church.

learn English and try and join the

Portuguese, neady 30 per cent ofthe

andotherambitiousprojects, including

"Portugal is leaving Macau

È

good shape. NØithin the Civil Service Ê seueral well appointed museums tbat there will be nowbe an opportunity for celebrate Macau.'s history ønd' ricb local people to go right to the top,

places traditionally reserved for expatriate Portr,rgal. It will be up to the Macanese to carry on the traditions of both Portr-rgal and of their own mixed heritage. The Chinese communi[y in Macau is young and today they have a genuine interest in helping run this place.

Although we go back 450 years,

half the population has been here less than 15 years, Tourism and gambling are our lifeblood

and the people likely to be running Macau

If

The Gouernor's Palace, built in tbe 1840s, still bouses tbe offíces of tbe Gouent'or and bß cabinel

fu

Cb in e se -Po rtuges e

b

eritage

glory, and numerous

museums

opened as reminders of a more gracious Macau.

Now that most of the infrastructural projects have been completed Macau is turning its attention to improving areas such as education, culture and social welfare.

Jose and I both reflect on the rapid changes. "No", he says "Macau has neverbeen like Hong Kong. Personally speaking, I'm quite happy with that."

lly realise that.

income from gambling is

Wan^ren Roolee is a Macau-based

threatened, it would effect up to 25 per cent of the workforce."

media and tourism consultant and former News Editor for RTHK. @ Marcl.r 1.998 THD CORRf,SP0IÐENT

On the wall Photographs by Steven

lkripp

e's known more for his words than his pictures, but many of his closest friends know the much-travelled Steve Knipp as a closet lensman.

Asked to dig through his files - culled from years of snapping for several fravel magazines and the in-flight guides from KoreanAir, Dragonair, Philippine Airlines, EVA Air and sundryothercarriers-he managedto offerup akind of "greatest hits" portfolio.

In his own small way, Steve has managed to capture some of the essence of locales as far flung as California and

Mindanao, Beijing and Jerusalem.

Prints by: ColorSix Laboratories Ltd. lHE

CORRESP0I|IIEI|T March 1998

Clockwise

from \op: Priua.te

P6trb) - A seagull d.ines alone, MontereJ),

Califomia; Japa.nese tourlsts cotnered by German hausfrau, Great Barier Reef, Australia; Tbe fit and tbe fat, San Francisco, Califor niø; A Sailor's Nightmare - One guy and two girls, St Petersburg, Russiø; Poppa's þrid.e - Fatber and. Son, Western Beijing; Guarding God Soldier and Rabbi at tbe Wailing Wal| Tbe Old City, Jerutsalem; In barm's way - Female tr;tinee øt Russian bod.lguard academy, Borodino Forest, outside Moscow; Cracking doutn on tbe NPA - Filiþinn. takes ma.tters into ber own band.s øgainst terrorßts, Soutbern Mindønao, Pbiliþþines

@ March 1998 THE

CORRXSP0NDEIIT

Eddie'Wu try Kevin Sinclair

'Tn" diminurive figure ot Ecldie I Wu was a distinctive leature of the bar at the FCC during the Cultural

Revolution, a subject on which he was an expert. The jovial little man may have been short on physical stature, but on knowledge of his homeland and its political affairs, he stood tall. \Øhen he died in February at his home near Baltimore, aged77 , manyveteran Club members felt they had lost a frìend. He serwed on the

Boald of Governors in

many

capacities, with wit and humour. His

calming influence during some furious Boardroom debates was renowned. He was President from 7973 ¡o 1975.

Eddie is remembered mostly as a journalist for Tbe Baltintore Sun. He and I shared anappreciafion fol the cynical writings of the most famous

reporter of that newspaper,

H.L.Mencken. SØhen Mencken's biographer, the American author \Øilliam Manchester) was once passing through Hong Kong, the three of us had a fascinating lunch as Manchester recounted some of the unwritten legends of the ribald, robust and cantankerous Sage of Baltimore. 'ùØu Kin-lee was born in Northern

Burma where his father was one of

\ùØhen

the Japanese invaded

Burrna, Eddie's family trekked north to the ancestral homeland and- after dangerous adventures - finally got to Kunming. The Yunnan capital was headquarters for Allied forces and tùØu

worked as a senior translator in the joint Chinese-Ameican military unit commanded by GeneralJoseph Stillwell. He often talked of how the friendly familiarity of the American soldiers changed his outlook on life.

Eddie saw history being rnade. As a

translator, he was among the Kuomintang and American contingent which accepted the Japanese sulrender in Nanjing.

He served in the mission of

culture at a Chinese communal school.

THE C0RRf,SPONIIDilf March 1998

Th e B

altimot"e Sun, fu om

until his retirement in

1980,

that Eddie really hit his stride. lØhen

the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution erupted with such bizarre frenzy, nobody around the bar at

the FCC could explain

the

remarkable tragedy. Nor could anyone else in the world. If anyone made sense out of the crazed fury that swept China, it was Eddie.

He was glued to Mainland radio and worked his stable of diplomatic and political contacts with diiigence.

He was a great help to yolrng reporters. He seemed to have endless

.s

patience in explaining the intricate personal nelworks within the Chinese

so

Communist Party which wele

the

juggling the nation's fate. Atthe same

to bring peace between

nationalists and communists. He had friends on both sides of the lines, He remained working in Nanjing as the victorious communists swept south of the Yangzi. Later, he was employed as a translatorwith the Dutch embassy in Beijing, where he married Dr Mary Lang in 1957

In

.

1960, the \Øu family were

allowed to leave China to visit Burma, He didn't return to China.

Instead, he came to Hong Kong where his knowledge of the inner

workings of the government in community. His excellent English Beijing helped him get a job as a came largely from his education at a reportel- on the Soutb Cbina local colonial-era school and af the Morning Post. He worked on UPI Univelsity of Rangoon. But his father where he was great pals of Charlie and he studied the language and

1966

General George Marshall that sought

the large Overseas Chinese mer-cantile

also insisted that Eddie learn Chinese

repofi er for

Smith and Burt Oakley, another two FCC legends now sadly dead.

But it was dr-rling his years as a

time, the war was heating up in Vietnam and Eddie, in his role as a Sun reporler and as an FCC Board member, was a tireless host to the

stream of journalists who were passing through Hongkong.

Eddie was last in the Club bar duringthetransition. "Iwouldn'tmiss this day, ever," he told me lastJune a few days before the handover. "It's

the culmination of historic events."

0

Former Asia Business News cbief executiue Paul France

CNBC is dead long live CNBC Osren flugtres

GnlBG

å¡rA lrrtt¡ll¡l

looks at the fr-rture of regiona-l f ir:^arr<:ial

1>ro

ralrl

adcasting

He was not wliting at thaf stage, having been a business adviser since he moved to live in America. But his fascination with China and its political

development remained intense. "A lot of people see the return of Hong

Kong to China as the end of the story," he said. "I don't think so. It's the stafi of a new chapter."

@

Jn Eebruary last year Asia Business I News'(ABN) chief executive ofiicer Paul France was asked if the region

could support two business TV channels. Just two months since the first rumours had circulated that ABN would merge with rivals CNBC. France par,rsed for a moment

befole stating unequivocally "I'm telling you - there is only room for

one business TV channel, and that channel is ABN." A year later and France has been proven right - and

business channel will turn olrt to be.

Cynics suggest it is essentially ABN with CNBC's logo, pointing to the

proven wrong. There is only one business channel in Asia, but it is

fact that France was appointed president of the venture, with Christopher Graves becoming

called CNBC - or to be more precise, CNBC 'a service of NBC and Dow Jones.'

Ther e have been many questions

posed as to just what the 'new'

director of programming. Atthe sharp end of the channel, the on screen presentation is very much weighted towards ABN "talent" with only Rico March 1998

T[[

CORRXSPOMIDI{T

lr

Hizon in Singapore ancl Geolf Cutmore in Hong Kong coming over from CNBC's team. The new channel

offered many othels jobs, but with salalies cut by anything from 10 to 50 percent many of those selected simply said no.

The bulk of the CNBC staff who stalted the channel back inJune 1995 have been scattered to the four winds.

The main bar of the FCC is sadly accustomed to wakes for English language media organisations cutting nnmbers, but in post

press conference announcing the lnergeland w'ith the end of his job is anothel set to leave the SAR at the [irne of w'riting.

The NtsC Asia management and

palticularly the human resoLtrces department seemed to be obsessecl with cheese-paring as February 2 drew near. One fi'eelancer walked out in disgust when she learned she was not due anymoneyforremaining

adr.ertisers than having to either commit to one of two competing channels, or split one's budget in half. Nair identified subscliptions

negotiations in late 1996, CNBC's

was fired less than 48 hours before her for-rr months pay was due to be paid. The matter is in the hands of

hellawyers.

and distribution as the key factors

explanrtion was lo give viewers

in whether or not the agencies

chance to tune inlo the European

agreed to rernain on the sinking ship

One of the most important

and then the US markets, although

not? As Paul Bustin, managing

CNBC,"

it was comrnonly seen as a cost cutting exercise. CNBC will carry an unbroken feed from the US from miclnight to six am. The new CNBC leatures nine new or extensively levamped prog-

a former head of

Star

TV's channel distribution commented "It is obvious from the merger that the business news category

cannot support two cornpeting channels. I look forward to seeing if it can suppolt one."

In late February France ancl his coLlnterpart at CNBC EuropeAllan Horlick hosted a lavish cocktail reception in Hong Kong for media

days,

Lorraine Hal'rn is said to be the front runnerfor a a

analysts and most importantly for adver-

planned CNN Intel'-

tisers and media buyels.

presenter's spot with

Invitations to the event displayed a picture of a globe and the words "Global Vision Global Reach. " In Asia this reach is a claimed 10 million households on an around the clock basis and another 50 million on

national daily business programme like fellow anchor Dalton

T

anonaka,

Hahn has not joined the

merged outfit. FCC stalwalt and on screen

reporter Andrew Stevens accepted a job with CNBC, while fellow club member and reporter Sharon =cqo Singleton joined AFP in a \Øanchai. Anchor Andrea

Catherwood was rumoured to be in the

about these and it will help

"Generally the lives of the media planners will be much easier becanse there is only one decision about what money should be allocated," () Flance was sanguine about co è () the effect on the industry of o CNBC, for the very sensible reason that it only went on air ()o

ramrnes that Graves feels will have more appeal to regional interests who are pickingup hardfinancial data from theil Rer-rters and

Bloomberg's service.'!f'hen CNBC launchecl on Febluary 2, Graves plaisecl his staff for their speed in

February 2nd and there had been Lorraine fIøbt't, CNBC Asia prcsenter a limited amount of time to assess its impact. He said that CNBC had meet oLrr targets this year." Korea's already secured half of its budgeted Samsung electronics cofirpany s¡as advertising l'evenue for 1998, among those joining the advertisers' roster. comlnenting "I wouldn't say there

revamping the schedules by saying "Other people climb

are hundreds of people bleaking

Perhaps the brightest aspect ofthe

Everest, you wired it for cable." \Øith some repofts suggesting that NBC and Dow Jones' New York-basecl bean counters are keeping a close eye on CNBC's financial situation, it will be

down the door to give us money, but we are up u.hele we need to be to

new channel is the programming lineup. Once NBC and Dou'Jones began

interesting to see what life is like on rhe summit in7998. ¡@

THE FCC BOOK 1997. EYEWITNESS ON ASIA. UP TO 1997 AND BEYOND .249 PAGES 0614 IMAGES. A COLLECTORS' ITEM

The irnagery is meant

to suggest that the

combined resources of NBC and Dow Jones have created an all encompassing product. at her post during the channel's rttn France insisted "This is a merging of down,althoughotherfreelancersdid strengths. The melding together of global resoLlrces and focr-rsed receive severance pay. join programming will create a highly the merged to Staff asked

managing editor Christopber Graues is now of programm,itxg ctt tbe neuJook CNBC

Fot"mer ABN

a job q'ith CNBC Europe.

A number of long-stancling Hong Kong residents joined the cliaspora of former CNBC staff, including Susie Pote and news editor Mike Firn; Firn was working freelance shifts in the

frame for

generally people will be positive

p1'ogramme blocks.

o ()

CNBC Er-rrope newsroom in London

when his former boss in Chai'!ían, Magda 'Waltels waiked in, evidently surprised to see him there. Ex TVB Pearl and Cable TV Neu's reporter Andrew Brown who had the ignominious task of covering the TEE CORX.ESP0ilDEI|T March 1998

channel were told they would

forfeit

a

the new channel. "I think that

Technology Group, and

being announced, sadly aware there are very few vacancies around these

programrning. The official

woulcl wish to look favourably at

based Media and

mit or a permanent ID card are almost nil. Some pragmatists were searching the telephone listings for removal firms within days of the channel s demise

to carry a

qnestions facing the new CNBC is one dedicated br-rsiness channel be able to prosper where two evidently did

yet to be answered - will

directol of the Hong Kong

handover Hong Kong the opportr-rnities for expatriates withoLlt a work per-

schedtrles began

greater pel'centage of non-Asian

valuable information source forAsian

theirfour-monthpayoutforkeeping viewers," adding that he hopecl the CNBC on aiL, until it was filmly channel was of specific r,rse during pointed out that the new and old the sharp economic downswing in CNBC were separate legal entities. Asia.

Andle Nair of the Network said Nlanagement's "penny wise, pound

foolish" attitude reached its nadir fi'om Hong Kong that in theory at when one member of staff who had least CNBC had more attraction to

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was the culmination of a political

The role of the military in Indonesia has always been high profile. Schwarz

system "disengaged frorn r-eality". The president's choice of cabinet members

cliscolÌnts tl-re possibility of factions emerging that could splitthe colrntly or effect Suhafto's ren-ioval. "The military maintains a considelable degree of unity," he says, adcling that there is no

- inclucling his key fi'iends and family rnembers - reflected his belief that the International Monetary Fund

\ùØashington

-

-

and

are out to get him.

"The conventional wisdorn is that Habibie has no constituency, is disliked by tl'ie military and is likely to have a

very brief futr-rre."

Pr-rndits forget, Schvr.arz says, that

the leadelship of tfie military

"The elite and the rniddle

tl'rat tl'ie generals

class are a truly shell-shocked

sector of society," Schwarz obselves, The astonishment is

him," he

rippling outward from Jakarta to the provinces in this highly centralisedsociety.ButSchwarz : does not see much of a future :. for the Iargely dormant

Schu.'arz is emphatic that thele are no parallels with the

widespread violence

Sirrrtrrering discontent in Indonesia ca1>tr-rrecl tkre attentiorr of rr.errrl>ers v,zl-ro sor-rg4l-rt incisirze anal¡zsis. Geofge FRrrssell listened to ts/o e><perts Schwarz firmly believes

the

'Tn" fjnancial crisis in Tndonesia I lemained the hot lunch topic at

sprawling archipelago has leached

the club in March. Several speakers

watershed

speculated on how far the Indonesian economic, political and social stlucture

existence. "Indonesia has ttndergone discreet, in'er.,ocable change," he says.

"It can't go back to being run the way it was Lun."

would spiral out of control.

Adam Schwarz, forr.rrer Jakarta

a

in its half-century of

.

The economy is not on the brink of collapse; it is collapsing. o Jakafia is in a state of denial.

Tl're colporate sector is bankrupt,

the banking system is facing similar conditions, although govel'nment debt

"Thele a couple of factors

tendencies but a greater sense of autonomy," he says. Several instrr-rctions from Jakalta, such as the IMF-backed call to líft inter-plovincial tlade taxes, are

divided military and profound ideological tensions in lural areas at the encroachment of

Communist Party members

within rural Bali and

local

He also disputes the notion of a power struggle with the military after Suharto retires ol dies over the choice of Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie as his

econofiry.

"There will be a re-dependence on primary resoLlrces: oil, gas, mining ancl wood. This gives power to the

level.

designated successor.

oomsday scenarios have abounded since the regional financial turmoil began last year.

However', one of the grimmest pictures of the future of Indonesia was painted by Er-rgene Galbraith,

the real economy, the political system

business sector.

"The whole framework is under

system."

As the clisis hacl broadened and

Amid the crisis, the nation's rr,rbber stamp legislatule gathered to approve

government.

deepened, Schwarz notes, turo key issues have etnerged:

Plesident Suharto's re-selection for

forces

tùØe

question. need to revisit the great communal issues: lhe military, religion, ethnic, even the geoglaphical stability. "

says Schwarz, i.s that of a "deer caught

responsiveness

in headlights".

of the political

fr,rtr-rre

The economic clisis, he believes,

set the stage for further unrest, particularly in the nations' peliphery.

Nascent independence and alltonomy movements in

East

Titnor,

IrianJaya andparts of Sulawesi could be reignitedbyfracttues inthe central He says the ìnclonesian sectrlily - sulprisingly sn-rall at just

International Monetary Fund,

simultaneously.

Galbraith says he is clisturbed by

destructive and alrogant.

Chinese rioting.

He told attendees at a club

watchers. Part of that, he says, is the country's sheer cornplexity.

"Talking about Indonesia is very tlicky, to state the obvious," he said.

The official reaction to the crisis,

@

350,000 soldiers, paramilitary r-rnits and police - vu'ould be hard pressed to contain unrestin several provinces

theJakarta authorities' attitude to anti-

group head ofresearch folABNAmro Hoare Govett Asia.

He believes the crisis has been multiplied by the immobility of the luling elite. "\ühat stal'ted ollt as a financial clisis has become a crisis for is compounded, he adds, "by the non-

legions."

Ominous signs

remained ominous.

and sociai relations. " This

as

fundamentally changing Indonesia's

h-rncheon that the country's

in Wøiting, adopts a lowerkey tone than rnany Indonesia

owner c1asses."

Schwarz sees the crisis

dissension."

However', the cor-rntry is facing huge infl ationary and pricing pressures. The tightening of credit and corporate illiquidity continues to squeeze the

A Nøtion

"significant degree of second-tier

to

Java

threatening the Muslim land-

Richbr,ug greets Adatn Scbwørz

independently laise revenue.

Schwarz sees a "clecentralisation b)'default", and a trend among civil, military and business leaders to cooperate on a provincial and regional

is in a reasonable state of health.

Postand Far Eastern Econom.ic Reuiew staffer and author-of the highly plaised

1965

to power.

governments sense a threat to

A lnration in turmoil

in

and 7966 that brought Suharto

not present... an oveltly

rheir already limited ability

Jotr.rnalíst ancl autbor A¿lam Schwat"z addresses tbe c

says.

"I don't see separatist

being ignored as

è

could establish

a wolking relationship with Habibie. "They can live with

independence movements.

J:

has

changed over the years, and

'

desclibing their initial dealings with

the Indonesian autholities

as

"Tl-re IMF's early relationship with Jakarta - forcing tl-re closure of 16 banks - was vely damaging."

He says that unlike previons He says the result was that disturbances, in wliich the security Inclonesian banks could not use forces protected people under attack letters of credit - lesulting in the loss - whether Chinese or Cl'iristian - the of billions of dollars in deals that govefnment and nilitary appeaf to could have helpecl the country be turning a blind eye. fecovef.

"It seems the Chinese are "Nike's order fol US$2 billion legarded as fail game - this is a very worth of shoes went unfilled because dismaying tlend. the banks couldnot provide theletters "Jakarta may see this as an of credit so the manufacturing opportunity to get rid of its Chinese company coulcl not older the poprrlation," lle walns. materials for the shoes so they could Galblaith lays sollte of the blame

squalely ar the feet of

sell therl to Nike and obtain dollars

the to pay the suppliers."

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