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Show Page 26 - THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Sunday. August 28, 1983 China Is Becoming Haven for Vietnamese Refugees Asians Learn of the refuGuangxi Province and the farm's gees on the farm has increased hilly, barren terrain. from $210 in 1979 to $396.50 last Wang Ganlang, a pretty dressed in tight blue jeans and year. Some earned more than. peach-colore- d $650, or the equivalent of a city blouse, left China government worker's annual sal- after fleeing Vietnam. She landed in Hong Kong aboard a boat but ary. The new long-rang- e plan is to was turned away by local authoridiversify, farming lucrative citrus ties. fruits and opening a canning fac"I heard there were better optory to raise incomes even furin China so. I returned portunities a said Du ther, refugee and then ended Guangcai, up here," she said. who heads the vork. is to adjust," Miss to a difficult "I plan be here "It long time because r this place is much betWang said as disco music blasted ter," said Xu Jingxi, one of a in her small room filled with handful of Chinese the government pictures of Asian celebrities. transferred to teach the refugees Up to June only six refugees had how to grow pineapples. crossed the border from Vietnam into China this year. They all were sent to the country's Indochinese Despite the higher income and Resettlement Center, one of two new housing, life is hardly easy in placement camps in Guangxi the scorching tropical heat of Province. Quy-an- g which have refugees. Compared to most communes, the refugee section is pampered. The refugees area is A and school, sports grounds, store and agricultural equipment were financed by China and the United Nations. Since 1978, China has spent $500 millimn building the infrastructure for refugee settlements, and has subsidized food and medical costs. The U.N. refugee commission has contributed $41 million. nt or Western Europe. In 1978, most of the refugees entering China at the rate of up were expelled to 1,000 per day from Vietnam because of their - ethnic Chinese background. Now most fall in three categordraft evaders, political disies sidents and those that refuse to move to Vietnam's rural economic zones. Tran Ly Sang, 29, was a secret police agent near Saigon and was imprisoned for during the mid-1970- s. It's acquisition time for your LDS library From Japan- SINGAPORE (UPI) When Japanese soldiers invaded Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines in 1941, little did they realize that one day those nations voluntarily would adopt a "Learn from Japan" policy. Today those five countries, now comprising the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), are Japan for greater economic and technical aid, for Japanese skills and and for administrative know-hoa Japanese military presence in the region to help ward off Communist expansionism. Spearheading this "Japan crusade" is Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, who over the looking to years has vociferously urged Japan to play a bigger role in the region. Let us introduce you to four brand in New WriteTime Journals give you a big choice for recording your times Clergy to Convert by Stephen W. Gibson Choose blue, brown, burgundy, white or in tan for your personal account-keepinthe size of binding you prefer. 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Most families leave the center but some hold out slim hopes of going to the United States, Canada Per capita income Province, Vietnamese refugees make up a production brigade on a state farm. Some 650 refugees on the State Farm have turned 120 acres of reclaimed land since 1979 area that into a pineapple-growin- g supplies several provinces. It is one of 212 state farms in China "Since China has a permanent NINGMING COUNTY, China (UPI) China's Vietnamese refu- resettlement policy, any applicagee population is settling in, not tions coming from here usually don't get as high a priority as moving out. countries who want to move the enSome 272,000 refugees have from refugees out," said Chris Carpentered China since 1978 North Vietnam by land and from ter, the head of the U.N. High Commission for Refugees office in South Vietnam by boat. The majority of the refugees are Peking. With the refugee flow reduced of Chinese ancestry, expelled by the flood proportions of 1978 from the Communist government in Hanoi in a nationwide campaign to 79 to a trickle today, Chines, rid "unwanted elements" blamed authorities and United Nations offor undermining the Vietnamese ficials are focusing more on raising refugee income and improving economy. Unlike other Asian nations, the permanent living conditions. The refugees are distributed Chinese policy is to provide perGuangxi, manent residency with full local over five provinces citizen rights instead of just temGuangdong, Yunnan, Fujian and and work on state porary shelter for those fleeing Jiangxi farms and government enterrepression. Only 960 of the refugees have prises. 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