16 SEPTEMBER 2007

16 SEPTEMBER 1507 : BIRTH OF CHINESE EMPEROR JIAJING

Born Zhu Houcong, he was the Zhende Emperor cousin to whom he succeded to the throne at the age of 14 years. He was emperor from 1521 to 1567 as the 11th emperor of the Ming dynasty.

He was known to be a cruel and self-aggrandizing emperor who chosed to reside outside of the Forbidden City in Beijing so he could live in isolation.

He was a devote follower of Taoism and attempted to suppress Buddhism

He died 23 January 1567

OTHER FACTS

1598 : Naval victory of the Korean admiral at Myong-yang on Japanese fleet

1932 : Gandhi begins fast in protest of caste separation in votes by the British authorities

1945 : Japan surrendered Hong Kong

1963 : Birth of the Federation of Malaysia with Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak and Sabah

1965 : Beijing demand to India to dismantle in the next three days its military posts on the Sikkim border

1969 : President Richard Nixon announces the withdraw of 35 000 Américan soldiers from Vietnam before 15 December.

1978 : Général Zia Ul-Haq president of the new Islamic Republic

2002 : Start of the talks between Sri Lanka government and the Tamil separatists of the LTTE under Norwegian mediation

OTHER BIRTHS

1782 : Chinese emperor Daoguang (1820-1850)

1923 : Lee Kuan Yew, father of Singapore independance

1981 : Chang Yu-chen, taiwane actress

DEATHS

1957 : Qi Baishi, famous Chinese painter


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17 SEPTEMBER 2007

17 SEPTEMBER 1957 MARSHAL SARIT THANARAT SIZES POWER IN THAILAND

This day, the Field Marshal Sarit, from Lao origin, overthrew the more and more unpopular Marshal Pibun Songkhram who is obliged to go on exil.

Sarit deputy, Thanon Kittikachorn, took the charge of Prime Minister for a while Sarit went to the US for medical reasons.

When he came back, he decided of a “Revolution”. On 20 October 1958, he declared martial law and on 9 February 1959, he took for himself the Prime Minister position that he keep up to his death in 1962.

He is credited of having improved the status of the king and the Thai economy situation, but his new regime was the most repressive and authoritarian in Thai history. He abrogated the constitution and dissolved the parliament.

OTHERS FACTS

1894 : Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement in the first Sino-Japan war

1900 : Battle of Mabitac. Filipino fighters outmaneuver and rout Americain forces on Luzon

1935 : Manuel L. Quezon elected first President of the Commonwealth of the Philipines

1959 : Lin Piao become Defence Minister, replacing Peng Dehuai

1977 : Ali Bhutto, the Pakistan Prime Minister is arrested and accused of crime by general Zia-ul Haq who had overthrow him

1980 : Kim Dae-jung, leader of the South Korea opposition is condamned to death by a Martial Court.

1991 : South Korea and North Korea become members of the United Nations

1995 : Hong Kong last election under British rule

1999 : President Bill Clinton lifts restrictions on trade, travel and banking imposed on North Korea a half-century earlier

2001 : World Trade Organisation votes for China enter

2002 : Junichiro Koizumi is the first Japanese Prime Minister to visit North Korea

BIRTH :

1973 : Ada Choi, Hong Kong actress
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18 SEPTEMBER 2007

18 SEPTEMBER 1997 : JIANG ZEMIN BEST DAY

0n that day, ten years ago, was the closure of the XVth congress of the Chinese communist party. At that time, Jiang Zemin had two problems (see the 12 september, On that day)

1)Can Qiao Shi, number 3 in the CCP hierarchy) threats Jiang Zemin supremacy ?
2)What to do with Li Peng (number 2) Prime Minister who cannot keep his post ?

The result was the expelling of Qiao Shi, the president of the National Popular Assembly (NPC) and so, no more threat from the old apparatchics and in the same freeing this honourable post for Li Peng.

But the Qiao Shi faction is not eliminated. His closed ally Wei Jiangxing entered in the SCPB.

At this Congress, for the first time, no one general was elected as the Military representative in the SCPB (the seven masters of the country). Admiral Liu Huaqing left and was not replaced. That means that Jiang Zemin no more need his help to assure his control on the Military. And to show an opening with the election of Li Lanqing, the ex-Foreign of Trade and Cooperation (Moftec) as the replacement number to member.

OTHERS FACTS

1906 : A typhoon and a tsunami makes 10 000 victims in Hong Kong

1931 : « Mandchouria Incident&quot;. Start of the conquest of Mandchouria by Japan

1945 : General MacArthur moves his command to Tokyo as he prepares for his new role as archictec of democratic Japan.

1948 : Communist uprising in Dutch Indies

1964 : North Vietnamese Army begins infiltration in South Vietnam

1976 : Mao Zedong funeral take place in Beijing

1985 : Chinese Communist Party National Conference (18-24). Hundreds of veterans are replaced by younger and more qualified cadres.

1988 : Military coup in Burma. The constitution is suspended. The military starts a deadly offensive against pro-democracy demonstrators, killing thousands.

2001 : Taiwan gets the definitive green light for its adhésion to WTO under the name of Chinese Taiwan.

2002 :For some hours, symbolic opening of the Border between the two Koreas

BIRTHS :

1946 : Akira Kamiya Japanese actor
1949 : Sokyu Fujita, Japanese actor
1973 : Japanese actress
1977 : Miki Lee, popular Taiwanese singer
1982 : Yang Xin, Chinese actress
1982 : Inochi no Rimi, Japanese actress

19 SEPTEMBER 2007

19 SEPTEMBER 1997 : THE ACCREDITING COMMITTEE OF UNITED NATION DECIDES NO CAMBODIA DELEGATION THIS YEAR

After the July Hun Sen (second Prime Minister) coup against the First Prime Minister Norodom Ranariddh, two Cambodia delegations asked to be recognized as the official delegation. So UN, as did before Asean decided to no recognize any Cambodia delegation up to the time the situation could be clear in that country.

OTHERS FACTS

2001 : In Washington, Indonesian President Megawati gives her support to George W. Bush in his fighting against terrorism. In exchange, she gets an 400 million aid from the US

2001 : Commencement of US combat activities in Afghanistan looking at destroying A-qaida and the Taleban protecting them.

2004 : Jiang Zemin give up to Hu Jintao his last position : the presidence of the Military Central Commission

2006 : The Thai Army, lead by general Sonthi Boonyaratkalin, take the power as Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is attending the UN session, accusing him of corruption

20 SEPTEMBER 2007

20 SEPTEMBER 1857: THE INDIAN MUTINY ENDS WITH RECAPTURE OF DELHI

The Indian Mutiny ends with recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company after a 3 month siege.

The revolt started on 10 May 1857 when the Sepoys (Indian soldier of the East India Company) refused to use new cartridges they suspected to contain animal fat. The Company was obliged to call the British military help.

After the revolt was put down, the London government dissolved the EIC and took over the administration of India.
Some historians said that is the start of India fight for freedom.

OTHER FACTS

1519: Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan left Spain to find a route to the Spice Islands in the current Indonesia

1945 : The Pan-Indian Congress, with Gandhi and Nehru as leaders, rejects the British proposition of internal autonomy and asks the United Kingdom to quit India

1954 : In China, the first People National Assembly adopts the first constitution of the People Republic of China.

1965 : In a diplomatic note to New Delhi, China reminds its revendications on 90.000 km2 of the Indian territory.

1975 : After the communist victory in Indochina, Seato is disbanded by its members.

1977 : The first boat people arrived in San Francisco from Southeast Asia under a new US resettlment program

1977: The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations

1979 : The Punjab wing of the Unity Centre of Communist Revolutionaries of India (Marxist-Leninist) formally splits and constitutes a parallel UCCRI(ML)

1998 : In Malaysia, after a more than dozen of thousand people demonstration, Anwar Ibrahim is arrested.

1999 : Following mass destructions and killings by Indonesia soldiers and militias in East Timor, the United Nations sends an multinational force to protect the population.

2002 : Historical « private » 10 days visit of Wu Shu-chen, spouse of the Taiwan president to the United States.

2003 : In the Maldives, the death of prisonner Hassan Evan Naseen sparkd a day of rioting in Malé

2006 : Shinzo Abe, 90e Prime Minister of Japan. The youngest in Japan hystory

BIRTHS :

1853 : King Chulalongkorn (Rama V)
1944: Piku Rinkama, Japanese actor
1946: Alan Tang (Tang Kwong Wing), Chinese actor and producer
1954 : Maggy Cheung, Hong Kong actress (In the mood for love)
1977 : Namie Amuro, Japanese pop singer
1983 : Yuna Ito, Japanese singer and actress
1991: Naruki Matsukawa, a very young Japanese actor

DEATH :

1806: Utamaro Kitagawa, famous Japanese painter




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21 SEPTEMBER 2007

21 SEPTEMBER 1987 : THE DALAI LAMA INTRODUCES HIS FIVE POINTS PEACE PLAN FOR TIBET

The Dalai Lama, speaking in front of the United States Congress introduces his Five Points Peace Plan for Tibet, asking for a large autonomy, as Hong Kong, inside People Republic of China, that he called a medium way, with Tibetans really in charge of the region for internal affairs, including education, religious, cultural and environment affairs while Beijing could keep Foreign Affairs and Defense.

OTHER FACTS

1746 : The French Army takes Madras in India

1860: In the Second Opium war, an anglo-French force defeats Chinese troop at the battle of Baliqiao (Pa-Li-Kao)

1998: Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days’s Reform in China

1949 : First meeting of the China People Consultating Conference aiming to reconstruct China under the leadership of the Communist Party

1957 : Pote Sarazin, General secretary of Seato, becomes caretaker Prime Minister of Thailand

1963 : Soviet Union denounces the China will to obtain at all cost the nuclear weapon.

1965 : Singapore admitted as part of the United Nations

1971 : Bhutan admitted to United Nations

1972 : Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines signs Proclamation N° 1081 placing the entire country under the martial law, starting his dictatorship on the country under the excuse of communist and Muslim separatist threat.

1993: The Constitutional Assembly of Cambodia restores the parliamentary monarchy abolished in 1970.

1996 : Sitaram Kesri takes the leadership of the Indian Congress (I) from Narasimha Rao,accused of fraud.

1999 : Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead

2001 : The first East Timor government, lead by Alkari, leader of Fretilin, sworned.


BIRTHDAYS

1328 : Zhu Yuanzhang (Hongwu) Founder of the Ming Dynasty

1949: Yusaku Matsuda, Japanese actor

1954 : Shinzo Abe, Japanese Prime Minister

1980: Kareena Kapoor, India actress

1981 : Asia Observer member Gmalik from India

and also mine

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Happy Birthday Jacques

Happy birthday to Jacques and Gmalik from all of us here at Asia Observer!

John

22 SEPTEMBER 2007

22 SEPTEMBER 1957 : DEATH OF JAPANESE ADMIRAL SOEMU TOYODA

Born on 22 May 1885, he graduated from the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1905.

From 1919 to 1922, he was naval attaché to the United Kingdom. Promoted full admiral on September 1941, he was strongly opposed to the war with the United States, which he viewed from the start as unwinnable.

Toyoda became the final Chief of the Imperial Navy from 25 April 1945.

In the internal discussions about the conditions of surrender, he stood with the hard line of Army chief of staff Yoshijiro Umezu, even after the atomic bombing, arguing against Emperor desire for a negociated peace.

Toyoda was the only one of the Tokyo Trial of war criminals founded not guilty and freed in 1948.

OTHER FACTS

1898 : Empress Cixi puts an end to the &quot;One hundred days reform”

1965 : The United Nation Security Council unanimously passed a resolution for an unconditional ceasefire, putting an end to the second Indo-Pakistani war.

1970 : Tunkun Abdul Rahman resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia

1982 : Visit of British Prime Minister Mrs Thatcher to Pékin (22-25). Discussions on Hong Kong future.

1996 : Founding of the Japanese Democratic Party by Yukio Hatoyama, ex-general secretary of Sakigake Party.

2001 : After general Musharaff alignment on US position on Afghanistan,the United States lifts all the sanctions on India and Pakistan after the 1998 nuclear tests.

2006 : In Thailand, the king give his OK to the Democratic Reform under Constitutional Monarchy (CDRM) headed by general Sonthi Boonyatratkalin

BIRTHS

1606 : Birth of Li Zicheng, a Chinese rebel who sacked the Ming capital before to be defeated by the Manchus in 1644

1829 : Birth of the Vietnam Emperor Tu Duc, the 4th Emperor of the Nguyen dynasty (1947-1883)

1878: Birth of the Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida (1946-1947)

1922: Birth of Chen Ning –yang, physics Nobel Price in 1957

If no mistake, today is the birthday of our new member kdh.haidinger : happy bithday to you



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23 SEPTEMBER 2007

23SEPREMBER 1215: BIRTH OF KHUBILAI KHAN

Khubilai Khan was the grandson of Genghis Khan. He founded the Yuan dynasty in 1271 with Dadu (Beijing) as a capital and defeated the South Song in 1279.

Among his closed high civil servants was Marco Polo

He conquered Dali (Yunnan) and Goryeo (Korea), but failed to invade Japan and Vietnam

He died on 18 February 1294

OTHER FACTS

1969 : First Chinese underground nuclear explosion

1993 : For the first time, Taiwan tries to be admitted in the United Nations under the name of &quot;Republic of China in Taiwan&quot;


BIRTHS

1161: Takakura, the 80th Japanese Emperor (1168-1180)

1740: Empress Go-Sakuramachi, 117th emperor of Japan (1762-1771)

1771: Morohito 119th emperor.. A régné du 16 décembre 1779 au 7 mai 1817


DEATH

1573: Death of Asai Hisamasa, Japanese warlord who committed suicide for losing a battle

NATIONAL DAY

Saoudi Arabia :Anajmi have a nice day

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