4 OCTOBER 2007

4 OCTOBER 1967 : BRUNEI SULTAN OMAR ALI SAIFUDDIN III ABDICATES IN FAVOR OF HIS SON HASSANAL BOLKIAH

Hassanal Bolkiah is the 29th sultan of Brunei, on the throne since 30 years. He was born on 15 July 1946.

Although Muslim men are allowed to have four wives, he just have two who gave him five sons and six daughters.

He has the full power on the sultanate acting himself as Prime Minister. It is during his reign that Brunei got its full independence from United Kingdom on 1st January 1984.

Hassanal Bolkiah is supposed to be the richest man in the world and famous for his vast automobile collection.

To know more : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassanal_Bolkiah

OTHER EVENTS ON 4 OCTOBER

1305 : Death of the 90th Japanese emperor Kameyama (1259-1274)

1884 : Birth of Subramaniya Siva, Indian freedom fighter

1907 : Birth of Shaw Run Run, Hong Kong media mogul

1918 : Birth of Kenichi Fukui, chemistry Nobel Prize in 1981

1951 : Birth of Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov, Kazakh poet

1955 : Opening of the 6th plenum of the XIth Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. It will decide to speed up the collectivization of agriculture

1961 : Birth of Kazuki Takahashi, Manga writer

1967 : Birth of Ekin Cheng Yee-kin, Hong Kong actor

1969 : China announces two nuclear tests including an open-air hydrogen one

1978 : Birth of Go Soo, Korean actor

1980 : The representatives of 38 Muslim countries, at the United Nations General Assembly, demand the withdrawal of the Soviet forces from Afghanistan

2000 : Death of Yu Kuo-hwa, Taiwan Prime Minister since 1984 to 1989 http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/local/archives/2000/10/05/56076


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5 OCTOBER 2007

JUST SOME FACTS THAT HAPPENED ON OCTOBER 5

1864 : The Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone. 60,000 died

1929 : Birth of Naoyuki Suzuki, Japanese film writer and producer

1945 : First landing of French forces in Indochina.

1952 : Birth of Yutaka Nakajima, Japanese actress

1960 : The third congress of North Vietnam Workers’ Party decide two targets : To establish socialism in the North and liberation of South Vietnam

1961 : Signing, in Beijing, of a border treaty between China and Népal.

1989 : The 14th Dalai Lama, tenzin Gyatso is awarded the Nobel Peace Price http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1989/press.html

6 OCTOBER 2007

6 0CTOBER 1937 : THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS CONDEMNS JAPAN AGRESSION IN CHINA

[color=#FF0000]After occupying Manchuria in September 1931 and establishing the puppet state of Manchukuo in February 1937, the Japanese troops in China provoked the Marco Polo bridge (in Chinese Lugouqiao) incident in July 1937.

After that they launched a general aggression, taking Beijing and Tianjing.

They launched the attack against Shanghai on 13 August 1937. Against the League Nations 6 October condemnation, Shanghai where many foreigners where established, falled on November 26

OTHERS FACTS

1552 : Birth of Matteo Ricci, an Italian missionary who lived in Goa (India) from 1578 to 1583, then in China up to his death in 1610

1661 : Death of guru Har Rai, seventh Sikh guru

1926 : Birth of Kojini Katsura, Japanese actor

1926 ; Birth of Lee Man-hui, Korean film writer

1928 : Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China

1949 : Nehru starts a voyage to Washington and London

1950 : The Chinese communist party launches a campaign for the eradication of counter-revolutionaries

1950 : Battle of Markham Gartok during Tibet invasion by China.

1951 : The high commissioner in Malaya is assassinated

1966 : The Soviet Union orders to all the Russian students in China to come back

1967 : US jets strike targets in Northern Vietnam close to China borderhttp://www.history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&amp;id=1402

1976 : New Chinese Premier Hua Guofeng orders the arrest of the Gang of Fours (Mao’s wife and accomplices)

1976 : Birth of Barbie Hsu, Taiwanese actress and singer

1976 : Massacre of students in Bangkok who were protesting against the return to Thailand of ex-dictator Thanom Military coup d’Etat. Abolition of the 1974 constitution. Tanin Kraivixien is named as Prime Minister.

1983 : Indian Pendjaj state is put under central government control after Sikhs nationalists attacks.

1988 : Birth of Maki Horikita, Japanese model and actress

1988 : Imelda Marcos is acquitted by the Philippines Supreme court on the charge of graft. The ruling overturns the guity verdict that had been found in 1993

2000 : Chang Chun-hsiun Taiwan Prime Minister for the first time up to February 2002

But do you know what it is the more important event in Asia history ? it is the today birthday of our friend Michaelbryant Asia Observer member. Happy birthday to you Michael!!!!

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7 OCTOBER 2007

7 OCTOBER 1944 : BIRTH OF DONALD TSANG

Donald Tsang is the incumbent Chief Executive of Hong Kong since 2005 when he replaced the disgraced Tung Chee-hwa whose he was the deputy

A civil servant since 1967, he has been the first ethnic Chinese to be appointed Financial Secretary of Hong Kong in 1995 and a knight of the British Empire in 1997.

Elected in 2007, he has to find a solution for the political reforms of the Special administrative Region.

BBC Profile http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4335331.stm

Wikipedia biography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Tsang

Authorized biography http://www.ceo.gov.hk/eng/biography.htm

OTHER FACTS

1708 : Death of Guru Gobing Singhn the 10th Sikh guru

1942 : Birth of Hiroko Kibuchi, Japanese actress

1943 : Japanese execute nearly 100 American POW on Wake island http://www.history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&amp;id=6610

1946 : Birth of Yukiko Kobayashi, Japanese actress

1950 : Mother Teresa received permission from the Holy See to start her own order “The Missionaries for Charity”

1950 : Beginning of Tibet invasion by the Chinese PLA

1950 : In Korea, the United States forces cross the 38th parallel between South and North Korea

1951 : Malayan Races Liberation Army (MRLA) ambushes and kills British High Commissioner Sir Henry Gurney

1958 : President of Pakistan Iskander Zia with the support of Ayub Khan and the army, suspends the 1956 constitution, imposes martial law and cancels the elections scheduled for January 1959.

1958 : Birth of Yoshihiro Kato, Japanese actor

1961 : Conference of Ban Hin Heup (Laos) for the constitution of a union government

1966 : Soviet Union expels all the Chinese students

1970 : President Nixon discloses a 5-points plan to solve the Vietnam problem

1972 : Birth of Shinsuke Izutsu, Japanese actor

1973 : Visit of PM Tanaka to Moscow up to ten

1976 : Hua Guofeng elected president of the Central committee of the Chinese communist party

1979 : Birth of Xing Wang, Singaporean actress

1979 : Birth of Wei Tang, Chinese actress

1988 : Birth of Mai Saito, Japanese actress

2001 : First US air strikes angainst Taleban and Al Qaida training camps in Afghanistan http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/7/ newsid_2519000/2519353.stm

2004 : Abdication of Cambodia king Norodom Sihanouk

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8 OCTOBER 2007

8 OCTOBER 1997 : KIM JONG-IL OFFICIALLY TAKES THE TITLES OF GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE WORKERS PARTY AND CHAIRMAN OF THE NATIONAL DEFENSE COMMISSION

North Korea is the first “communist monarchy”.

Kim Jong-il succeded his father who died in July 1994.

After a confucian three year mourning he took officially the charge of North Korea. But never the title of president of the country because his father had been named “eternal president”

As secretary general of the workers party (the Korean name of the communist party) he is the boss of the country. As chairman of the National Defense Commission, he leads the military who is in fact and even officially the political leading force.

OTHER FACTS

1317 : Death of Japanese emperor Fushimi

1735 : Death of Yongzheng, Chinese emperor since 1723

1856 : Qing officials boarded the Arrow a Hong Kong registered ship and emprisonned twelve Chinese sailors. The Arrow incident was the start of the Second Opium War (1857-1860)

1879 : Birth of Chen Duxiu, the first president of the Chinese communist party in 1921

1895 : The Korea last empress of Korea, Myeongseong (wife of king Gojong), is assassinated by a group of Korean bandits paid by the Japanese ambassador in Korea http://www.gkn-la.net/history_resources/queen_min.htm

1904 : Akiko Tamura, Japanese actress who died in 1983

1929 : Birth of Kiichi Miyazawa, Japanese Prime minister from 1991 to 1993

1937 : Birth of Ho Fan, Chinese actor and director

1947 : Birth of Toshiya Ito and Ken Teraizumi, Japanese actors

1950 : Mao Zedong decides to create a « volunteers corps » for fighting in Korea

1960 : Lin Biao launches his programmeof political education of the People Liberation Army.

1970 : Communist rejects Nixon Peace proposal http://www.history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&amp;id=1407

1972 : Beginning of secret talks in Paris between Kissinger and Le Duc Tho (up to 11). They agree on one accord, but refused by Hanoi.

1976 : Birth of Kim Young-shin, Korean actress

1976 : Tanin Kraivixien Thai Prime Minister up to October 1977

1982 : Birth of Park Hyo-ju, South Korea actress

1987 : Birth of Aya Hirano, Japanese actress

2003 : China announced that it would have a human crew orbit the Earth briefly on October 15

2003 : Vietnam and US reached a tentative agreement that would allow the first commercial flights between the two countries since the end of the Vietnam war

2004 : The first ever direct presidential elections in Afghanistan

2005 : A powerful quake hits Kashmir with more than 75,000 victims http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/8/ newsid_4968000/4968918.stm
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9 OCTOBER 2007

9 OCTOBER 1987 : DEATH OF GURU GOPINATH

Born on 24th June 1908, Guru Gopinath, has been one of the most respected Indian classic dancer and teacher

See his bio below http://narthaki.com/info/profiles/profil13.html

OTHER FACTS

1446 : The Hangul alphabet is published in Korea. Before the Korean were writing in Chinese

1597 : Death of Yoshiaki Ashikaga, the 15th and last shogun of the Ashikaga clan

1947 : The Japanese communists decide to collaborate with the US forces for the democratization of the empire

1956 : Birth of Lu Hsiao-fen, Taiwanese actress

1963 : China rejects the Indian proposition to refer their border dispute to an international arbitration.

1966 : Hanoi and the National Liberation Front rejects a peace plan proposed by George Brown at the Labor party congress and at the United Nations general assembly.

1970 : The Khmer Republic is proclaimed http://www.history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&amp;id=1410

1970 : Birth of Park Sang-min, South Korean actor

1972 : Adoption by the Tanaka government of the 4th Japanese defense plan

1978 : Birth of Tan Chui Mui, Malaysia film director

1983 : Attempted assasination of South Korean president Chun Doo-hwan at the Rangoon airport. 17 people died, including 4 Korean ministers

1991 : For the first time in history, a sumo wrestling tournament is organized outside Japan http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/9/ newsid_2536000/2536783.stm

2004 : Presidential elections in Afghanistan, won by Karzai

2006 : North Korea conducts its first nuclear weapons test



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10 OCTOBER 2007

10 OCTOBER 1957 : BIRTH OF RUMIKO TAKAHASHI

Takahashi is one of the wealthiest women in Japan. The manga she creates (and its anime adaptations) are very popular in the United States and Europe where they have been released as both manga and anime in English translation. Her works are relatively famous worldwide.

Takahashi is also the best selling female comics artist in history;well over 100 million copies of her various works have been sold.

Her bio by a fan club : http://www.furinkan.com/takahashi/bio.html


OTHER FACTS

1895 : Birth of Sridara Maharaja, a revered Indian guru

1906 : Birth of R. K. Narayan, one of the most famous Indian modern writer

1911 : An republican insurrection in Wuchang will bring to the end of monarchy in China

1913 : Death of Katsura Taro, three times Japan prime minister between 1901 and 1913

1928 : Establishment of the Nationalist government In Nanjing

1930 : Birth of Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet

1938 : Birth of Daido Moriyama, Japanese photographer

1945 : Foundation du Parti of the Workers party (Communist party) by Kim-il-sung

1945 : Opening of the Tokyo trial (war criminals) up to 23 décember 1948

1946 : Birth of Naoto Kan, co-founder and ex-president of the Japanese Democratic Party

1977 : Start, at Beijing, of border negociation between China and Vietnam.

1984 : Birth of Chiaki Kuriyama, Japanese actress

2000 : Death of Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the worl’s first female PM (three times PM of Sri Lanka between 1960 and 2000 http://womenshistory.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ/Ya&amp; sdn=womenshistory&amp;cdn=education&amp;tm=54&amp;gps=165_8_1276_626& amp;f=00&amp;tt=14&amp;bt=0&amp;bts=0&amp;zu=http%3A//www.nytimes.com/ learning/general/featured_articles/001011wednesday.html

2001 : Khaleda Zia PM of Bangladesh for the third time (up to 29 October 2006)

2002 : For the first time, the local National conference party loses the power in the Indian Kashmir

2002 : First free elections in Pakistan since the 19 October 1999 military coup
Pakistan Muslim League- Quaid-e-Azam : 77 seats (pro-Musharraf)
Pakistan People’s Party : 63 (Pro-Bhutto)
Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal : 45 (intégrists)
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz : 14 (pro-Sharif)
Others : 68

But today is also the National day in Taiwan (The double Ten) from the 1911 Wuchang uprising.
Asia Observer members Geiryeh, Grazyazn, Formosafomos and Prostrategist have a nice day !

Today is also the birthday of Asia Observer member Dspc : Happy birthday !!!!!

11 OCTOBER 2007

11 OCTOBER 1967 : AFGHAN PRIME MINISTER MAIWANDWAL RESIGNS

Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal has been Afghan prime minister since 2 November 1965 to his retirement for heath reason on 11 October 1967.

After graduating from high school, he became a journalist, then in the 1950s a diplomat as ambassador to UK, USA and Pakistan.

In October 1965, after rioting and students killings, he was chosed as prime minister and establissed good retations with the students.

In 1966, he have founded a leftist royalist party, the Jam’iat Demokrate-ye Mottaraqi (Progressive Democratic Party).

After the Daoud coup, on November 1, 1973, he was arrested and killed the next day.

Here is a bio : http://www.afghanan.net/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view& amp;id=82&amp;Itemid=69

OTHER FACTS

1939 : Birth of general Khin Nyunt, Mynamar Prime Minister 2003-2004

1946 : The communist troops block the nationalist ones in Manchouria

1954 : One day after the return of Ho Chi Minh, the Vietminh takes control of North Vietnam

1958 : Birth of Kim Kujima, Japanese actress who died in 2004

1960 : Rioting in Tokyo after the assassination of Inejiro Asanuma

1962 : Jawaharlal Nehru give the order to retake the North-East Border Territories that Chinese troops are invading

1971 : The French delegation building in Hanoi is bombed by US Air Force planes. The French General delegate, Mr. Susini is killed.

1973 : Birth of Takeshi Kaneshiro, Japanese actor.

1979 : Birth of Bae Doona, Korean actress

1996 : Mgr Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, bishop of Dili, and José Ramos-Horta win Peace Nobel Prize for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1996/press.html

2002 : King Gyanendra names as Prime minister the chairman of the royalist party Lokenda Bahadur Chand, 63 ans, as head of a 9 members governement.

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12 OCTOBER 2007

12 OCTOBER 1976 : CHINA ANNOUNCES HUA GUOFENG IS ITS NEW LEADER

On that day, China announces that Hua Guofeng is the successor of the Late Mao Zedong as Chairman of the CPC. But he was already in charge since 7 October.

Born on 16 February 1921, he joined the CCP in 1938 and took part to the anti-Japanese war.

He was Security minister in 1975. The next year, he replaced Zhou Enlai as Prime Minister and some days before his dead (9 September 1976), Mao Zedong chosed him as his successor.

Hua Guofeng line was : To think as Mao, to speaks as Mao, to act as Mao.

For the reformists leaded by Deng Xiaoping it was a necessity to oust him.

In December 1978, the Deng faction took the control of the Central committee. Hua Guofen losed the premiership in 1980 and the presidence of the party in 1981. Expelled from the Central Committee, he quit the Central committee in 2002.

OTHERS FACTS

1008 : Birth of 68th Japanese Emperor Go-Ichjo

1590 : Death of Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter

1632 : Death of Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese samourai commander

1754 : Joseph François Dupleix, general governor of the French trading posts in India, ruined, embarks to France.

1904 : Birth of Ding Ling, famous modern Chinese female writer

1948 : Soviet Union recognizes North Korea

1953 : Signature of several agreements between Soviet Union and the PRC at Beijing. The Soviet Union withdraws its troops based in Port-Arthur

1954 : Publication at Pékin of eight declarations and agreements on sino-soviet relations

1960 : Death of Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese politician.

1962 : Start of border negociations between China and Pakistan.

1964 : Coup d’Etat against general Nguyen Khan in South Vietnam. The military takes the power

1967 : US Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the US Congress for peace initiatives were falled because of North Vietnam’s opposition

1970 : Canada establishes diplomatic relations with PRC

1970 : Death of Mustafa Zaide, Pakistanese poet

1970 : US president Richard Nixon announces that the US will withdraw 40,000 more troops from Vietnam before Chrismas

1970 : La Chine experiments a 3 megaton H bomb

1983 : Japan’s former Prime Minister Tanaka Kahuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bride from Lockheed and is sentenced to 4 years in jail

1986 : Queen Elisabeth II is the first British monarch to visit China

1999 : General Musharraf take the power in a bloodless coup http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6960670.stm

2000 : Franco-Chinese writer Gao Xinjian wins Litterature Nobel Prize

2002 : Bomb attack on two night clubs in Bali : 202 deads, 300 woundeds. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/12/ newsid_2543000/2543731.stm

2005 : China puts into orbit Shenzhou VI space capsule with two astronauts on board, Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng) for a five-day successful mission.

Today is Spain national day : Hi, Candido, have a nice day

13 OCTOBER 2007

13 OCTOBER 2006 : DEATH OF WANG GUANGMEI

Wang Guangmei was the widow of president Liu Shaoqi who served as the president or the PRC since 1959 to 1968 and died in jail during the Cultural Revolution

She was also put in jail and released only in 1979. She was a beautiful and talented women, speaking several foreign languages including French and English.

Her hard fate during the Cultural Revolution was not only due to the fact that she was the wife of Liu Shaoqing, but also, and mainly because Jiang Qing, the wife of Mao Zedong was very Jealous of her

To read more :
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/obituaries/17wang.html? ex=1318737600&amp;en=58691245f80dce18&amp;ei=5090&amp; partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss

MORE FACTS

1946 : In British India, contrary to the Congress Party, the Muslim League agrees to participate to the government.

1950 : Le Japon cancels the scheduled purge of 10,000 people in the purges program of the after-war.

1964 : Birth of Nie Haisheng, Chinese Astronaut

1968 : Liu Shaoqi dismissed of all his functions.

1970 : China establishes diplomatic relations with Canada.

1974 : Birth of Hawick Lau, Chinese actor and singer

2000 : Kim Dae-jung is rewarded by the Nobel Peace Prize http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2000/press.html

2006 : Muhammad Yunus is awarded Peace Nobel Prize http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2006/press.html

2006 : Failure of a second attempt of Impeachment of Taiwan president Chen Shui-bian.

2006 : The United Nations General Assembly choses the South Korea Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon as its eight General Secretary. http://www.un.org/sg/biography.shtml