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...broken lives, broken dreams and broken promises. Since the fall of Saigon seven years ago, almost 500,000 boat people have passed through Southeast Asia to find new homes, mostly in the U.S., Western Europe and Australia. But an additional 175,000 refugees still languish in camps in Thailand. Because so many of them lack the skills deemed essential for resettlement elsewhere, they have come to be known in official jargon as "residuals," or people with "no guarantee of movement onward." The worst of these refugee camps is NW 82, a tropical purgatory 16 miles north of Aranyaprathet, a town...
...responsible for living conditions at NW 82? Thailand's supreme command insists, somewhat disingenuously, that it is the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (I.C.R.C.). The Red Cross vehemently denies any responsibility, other than medical, for the camp. Nearly a dozen Western embassies in Bangkok have joined the I.C.R.C. in asking the Thai government to move NW 82 away from the dangerous, malaria-infested border. But all the legations began to backpedal when the Thais said they would comply if the countries represented by the embassies agreed to resettle all 1,900 refugees within 45 days...
...depressed the colony may be for the moment, Hong Kong's riches are a prize that others covet. Like heirs surrounding a millionaire's deathbed, several countries have launched efforts to gather the spoils that might flow from Hong Kong's demise. In different ways, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines and Singapore are all hoping to scoop up some of the estimated $20 billion in capital that could flee Hong Kong before 1997 if the question is not settled...
...Thailand too has entered the Hong Kong sweepstakes. A new top-level government task force is studying how residence restrictions and business taxes could be eased to attract Hong Kong investors. In the Philippines, three business groups have proposed new free-trade ports. Banker-Developer Enrique Zobel even suggests transforming the small, barren island of Mactan, off Cebu city, into a "mini-Hong Kong" and operating it like an autonomous business and trading center...
Hackey-Sack is a casual outdoor sport derived from games played in both Thailand and Poland, according to members of the recently formed Hackey-Sack Committee...