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The Nepal Digest Monday, 1 November 93 Volume 21: Issue 1
Today's Topics:
1. Taja_Khabar: News From Nepal
2. Jan_Kari: TND Flood Relief Fund
3. Jan_Kari: Email and Nepal
4. Article Reposted: Nothing But a Nepali!
5. Kura_Kani: RE - Who does the ambassodar represent?
6. Kehi_Bichar: Nature Tourism
7. Letter to the Editor: Om B. Raut from AIT
8. Article: Integrated Ganges Basin
9. Jan_Kari: Geotechnical Conference
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From: dagrawal@abacus.bates.edu (Dileep Agrawal)
Subject: NEWS FROM NEPAL (OCT. 20- OCT. 26)
To: nepal@cs.niu.edu
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 15:37:44 -0400 (EDT)
October 24, 1993, Sunday, BC cycle
HEADLINE: Bank hires Gurkhas to beef up security
BYLINE: By CHRIS DOBSON
BODY:
A TEAM of 40 former Gurkhas has been hired as guards by the Standard
Chartered Bank as part of a multi-million dollar package to beef up security at
its main branches.
Other measures to be incorporated, in an on-going operation to upgrade
security at its 114 branches, include the introduction of automatic cash
dispensers for tellers and new counter screens.
The measures come in the wake of a study by the Crime Prevention Bureau
showing banks using open counters, similar to those of the Standard Chartered,
are more vulnerable to robberies.
The police have been trying to persuade the Standard Chartered, which has
been robbed more than any other bank this year, to abandon its "customer
friendly" open design.
The bank's head of security, Jeremy Platts, confirmed the first batch of 19
ex-Gurkhas started work last Monday.
"It is part of an on-going process of reviewing and upgrading security,"
said Mr Platts, a former Commercial Crime Bureau officer.
The Standard Chartered's communications manager, Rory Chan, said the bank
had studied the possibility of hiring the Gurkhas for a year.
The officials would not be drawn on whether the move to hire the former
British Army soldiers was a direct result of the number of robberies suffered by
the Standard Chartered.
Last month, two robbers died while two police officers and several
pedestrians were injured in a shoot- out at the Chase Manhattan Bank in Tsim Sha
Tsui, which also had open counters.
Mrs Chan said an official application was made earlier this year through
Jardine Securicor, the firm hiring the former soldiers in Nepal, but it took a
long time for the men to be processed by the Immigration Department.
"We plan to employ 40 Gurkhas at the moment," she said. "They will be
security guards and will be armed with batons.
"They will be inside, surveying what is happening on the floor, and they
will complement the local security guards we have."
Mrs Chan said the role of the new security guards, all of whom spent the
majority of their military careers in Hong Kong, would be assessed and could
lead to more former British Army soldiers being employed.
The former Gurkhas, 19 of whom have already started with the bank with the
remaining 21 to join this week, will cover 36 branches although they may be
moved at short notice.
Dressed in United Nations-style light blue berets, with blue shirts and
trousers, the ex-soldiers will stand out from the local security guards,
according to Chris Hardy, managing director of Jardine Securicor Gurkha
Services.
Mr Hardy said his firm was recruiting more former Gurkhas following a surge
in approaches from Hong Kong companies seeking improved security.
"We have deployed over 200 men in all types of security, from residential,
industrial, commercial, retail to personal," said Mr Hardy, a former British
Army officer.
"Even though we have this spread of security, each group is trained in that
type of security."
About 20 former Gurkhas were recently employed by Colliers Jardine to
provide security for the luxury Strawberry Hill complex on The Peak.
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HEADLINE: Austrian, Italian climbers scale peak in Nepal
DATELINE: KATHMANDU, Oct. 21 Kyodo
BODY:
The leader of an Austrian expedition scaled Mt. Manaslu in central Nepal
via its northeast face on October 15, the Nepalese Ministry of Tourism and Civil
Aviation said Thursday.
Sepp Inhoger, 33, an electrician from Badgastein, reached the top of the
8,163-meter mountain at noon, after climbing six hours from the expedition's
third camp, and returned to the second camp from the summit the same day.
Earlier on October 13, Silvio Mondinelli, 35, from Alagna, Italy, conquered
the peak via the south face, the ministry said.
Inhoger was leading a 10-member team, while Mondinelli was climbing with a
12-member expedition headed by Paolo Paglino, 26.
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HEADLINE: nepal has 720,000 mentally retarded people
BODY:
a nepalese official has called for love and proper services to some 720,000
mentally retarded people in the country. general secretary of the association
for the welfare of the mentally retarded (awmr) dinesh chandra devkota made the
call while inaugurating a program on extension of services to the mentally
retarded, local press reported today. he said that the mentally retarded and
disabled are a part of the society and they need love and proper services.
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HEADLINE: nepal's parliament team to visit norway, sweden
BODY:
an eight-member parliament delegation led by speaker of the lower house daman
nath dhungana will visit norway and sweden from november 1 to 9. the visits, at
the invitation of the parliaments of the two nordic countries, are aimed at
consolidating ties with parliaments of these countries and exchanging
information on the parliamentary system, according to the parliament
secretariat. the delegation will meet parliament officials and leaders as well
as academics and other experts for exchange of views. after their visits to
norway and sweden, the nepalese delegation will also make a study tour of berlin
in germany.
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HEADLINE: REFUGEES: NEPAL TO HOST REGIONAL NGO CONFERENCE
BODY:
More than 50 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and rights groups are
expected to attend a three-day international conference on refugees to be held
in the Nepali capital beginning Nov. 1.
The UNHCR/NGO Partnership in Action (PARINAC) meeting aims to find integrated
approaches for prevention, emergency response, and durable solutions for the
global refugee crisis.
Thirty million people around the world have been forced to leave their homes
by war, poverty and ethnic strife.
The Kathmandu conference is the second of six regional conferences being
convened by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in prelude
to a world conference in Oslo next June. The first regional meet was in Caracas.
"We have received confirmation from most South Asian countries and are trying
to reach Bhutan and Myanmar-based (Burmese) NGOs through the United Nations
development program," says a UNHCR official here.
Pakistan, which is sheltering large numbers of Afghans who have fled the
chaos in their country following the transfer of power from a communist
government to Islamic rule in 1991, will not be represented at the Kathmandu
meeting as it is classified as Southwest Asia by the UNHCR.
Groups from Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Japan, Ireland, Sweden,
Norway, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Cambodia, Thailand, Hong
Kong and South Asia will be attending the conference.
Nepal is taking care of an estimated 85,000 Bhutanese refugees in camps
supervised by the UNHCR in the East. Some 20,000 Tibetans who have fled the
communist regime in China have also made this Himalayan country their home.
"I think the meeting will have no political or diplomatic impact on finding
solutions to country-specific refugee issues," says Rishi Kesh Shaha, a
prominent Nepali rights activist.
"It will basically try to develop ways to fund NGOs who can take charge of
managing refugees," he adds. Shaha is president of the Human Rights Association
of nepal (HURON).
Many Asian countries have large refugee populations. Though peace is fast
returning to Indo-China, the problem of refugees has not been resolved. Even a
poor country like Bangladesh has its refugees -- Muslims fleeing religious
persecution in Burma.
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Date: Oct 29, 1993
From: Rajpal J. Singh <a10rjs1@cs.niu.edu>
To: The Nepal Digest <nepal@cs.niu.edu>
Subject: Flood Relief Fund
Note: Here is the corrected list of members. My sincere aplology
for the errors.
TND Nepal Relief Fund
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My belated thanks to all the members for their generous gifts to the
victims of recent flood in Nepal.
On behalf of TND, I sent the check amount for US $1,973.00
payable to Nepal Redcross Society - Flood Relief Fund on
Oct 1, 1993. I have requested that the money be used for
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helping flood victims.
I would like to acknoledge following members for their kind
gestures:
Pratima Tiwari
Kiran L. Shrestha
Rajesh B. Shrestha
Dileep Agrawal
Suresh K. Raut
Kanhaiya L. Vaidya
Helene Murray
Bal K. Sharma
Yoko Uchida
Keshab K. Batajoo
Bhairav R. Khakural
Linda Lucek
Stacy Pigg
Bill Benjamin
Cindy Lang-Benjamin
Suraj C. Aryal
Padam P. Sharma
Deepak Shimkhada
Rabi Burathoki
Arbind Mainali
Damber K. Gurung
Kabi R. Neupane
Satya N. Yadav
Herbert L. Fader
Bobby Chitrakar
Academic Computing Services, NIU
Pawan Agrawal
Dharma and Smriti Thapa
Navin Dutta
Rajpal J. Singh
Lynda Hardman and Frank Harmelen
Raju Adhikari
Al Clark
Nepal Student Association - Madison
With best regards,
Rajpal J. Singh
TND Editor/Co-ordinator
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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 15:47:02 -0400
From: eknath@math.cornell.edu
To: NEPAL@mp.cs.niu.edu
Subject: Re: The Nepal Digest - October 28, 1993
This is in regard to Mr. Amarottam Shreshta's reply to Mr. Thapa's
message re:e-mail to Nepal. I have used a very similar address to
reach the UNDP office in Bangladesh (UDP111@CGNET.COM). My messages
reach but replies to them do not get here. If either of you manage to get
a reply, and know how to reply from THERE, I'd appreciate it if you
would let me know.
Thank you!
Eknath Belbase
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Date: 30 Nov 1993
From: Sirdar_RJS_Khalifa <a10rjs1@cs.niu.edu>
To: The Nepal Digest <nepal@cs.niu.edu>
Subject: An Old Archive
Note: Following is a dug_up from my old archives. The article appeared
in "The Viewpoints" (ANMA Newsletter) couple of years back. The
intent of the article was to remind us that for all purposes we
are nothing but NEPALI. Let the anthropologist and archeologists
debate where we came from for their academic tenure papers :-)
UNITY IN DIVERSITY: NEPAL AS A MELTING POT FOR CENTURIES
By Rajpal J. Singh
For many of us, especially those in the academic areas, who have
been here for just a few months and more, we have witnessed many
articles, postings, and seminars about America being the sweet soup
of many ethnic groups from various parts of the world. Here, many
Americans take pride in their multi-cultural heritage.
The blending of cultures in America started only a few hundred
years ago with the majority of immigrants arriving in the late
nineteenth century. In Nepal, a similar process has been going on
but for thousands of years. With open arms, Nepal still today
accepts people from all four corners of the world, as evidenced by
the arrival of Tibetans, Burmese, Sikkimese, North-Indians, and
Bhutanese over the past few years.
Nepal is a land of great diversity. Its social, cultural,
religious, and geographical varieties would fascinate anyone.
Let us take a brief look at the history of Nepal and how we have
survived for hundreds of years in spite of this great diversity.
The immigration of people into Nepal dates from the 12th century
A.D. when many Hindus fled the Indian plains during the Mogul
invasion. Some of these refugees settled in the Kathmandu valley
while a great many went on to more remote places, populating the
hills and the lower valleys all across Nepal. They encountered a
local population of "khas" people and many other ethnic groups,
with whom they intermixed to various degrees. They ruled
simultaneously creating many small kingdoms in the process. The
fighting forces for these Nepali kingdoms were conscripted from
local ethnic populations such as the Magars and the Gurungs.
The natives of the Kathmandu Valley were farmers and cattle
raisers. Present day Newars are a mixture of these people and other
immigrants who arrived from over the centuries. Among these
immigrants are the Hindus from Northern India, and some from the
eastern hills of Nepal of "Kiranti" stock whom are the present day
Rais and Limbus people.
In the Northeastern part are the Sunwars, Tamangs, Rais,
Limbus, and Jirels. Sherpas, Lhomis, and other Bhotiya people
populate the high valleys of eastern Nepal. Central and Western
Nepal is the home to Thakuris, Bahuns, Chhetris, Magars, Gurungs,
Thakalis, and Tharus. To the south, the majority are "Tarai-Basi."
We indeed have come a long way together. As history, anthropology,
and archeology reveals our origin, there is more and more evidence
which supports the fact that the Nepali people are truly a blend of
many other ethnic groups.
Strangely enough, however, we still attach ourselves to one
particular ethnic group as if this group was the most superior --
The reality, of course, is that we are but one meatball in the huge
stew of human existence.
Let me hear the true voices that claim, "First I am a Nepali,
second I am a Nepali, and last I am a Nepali, period" (And of
course, Nepali-American where applicable).
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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 17:50:19 EDT
From: M$K0428@SRUVM.SRU.EDU
Subject: Re: The Nepal Digest - October 28, 1993
To: The Nepal Digest <NEPAL@mp.cs.niu.edu>
I strongly agree with Anil Shrestha's opinion about the Nepali ambassador's
confusing role in D.C. .
Indeed the entire government system is in Doldrums right now. Political leaders
are misusing their power. There is little or very little selectivity appointing
high posts. Personal relations are given more priority rather than abilities to
appoint all kinds of post. The inexperience,ignorant and self centered attitude
s of the current leaders are simply eating up the country.
Few months back in the all college election,a student from Nepali Student union
was stabbed to death by an unknown party person. His body was taken to Pashupat
inath, where all political leaders were present to grieve.
The supreme leader of Nepali Congress in his speech said that students should
should sacrifice more for the sake of government.Was not that a simply
misleading statement? As it is,the education system in Nepal is so poor,disorga
nised and late& On top of that if leaders start to give such misleading guidan
ce,then noone can expect much from it.
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From: dagrawal@abacus.bates.edu (Dileep Agrawal)
Subject: Nepal continues sending peace-keeping forces to Somalia
To: NEPAL@mp.cs.niu.edu (The Editor)
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 18:43:55 -0400 (EDT)
OCTOBER 27, 1993, WEDNESDAY
HEADLINE: nepal continues sending peace-keeping force to somalia
BODY:
nepal has sent another batch of peace-keeping force to somalia to take part
in u.n. peace-keeping activities there. the second batch of the sri naya gorakh
battalion peacekeeping force have left here today for somalia. the first batch
were sent earlier this month. the new team led by captain eka bahhadur k.c.
included one officer, 5 low-ranking officers and 75 soldiers. nepalese prime
minister girija prasad koirala said at the recently concluded general assembly
that nepal agreed with the idea that the u.n. peace-keeping forces should be
under the u.n. umbrella.
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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1993 20:33 EST
From: ATULADHAR@vax.clarku.edu
Subject: Re: The Nepal Digest - October 28, 1993
To: NEPAL@mp.cs.niu.edu
Title: Nature Tourism in Nepal: "Kuhire ko bandar"
Nature tourism has been trumped around by all the cool guys as a real cool
solution to Nepal's problems with environment and development.
Nature Tourism brings all that great money to our beautiful country and we can
have cool develoopment minus all that dirt and grime of pollution that follows
industril revolution or deforestation. Too good to be true. We can have our
unsullied natural beauty and wonderful development too: Kind of like Virgin
Mary giving birth to Jesus: No marriage, no sex, and oh how wonderful, the son
of god himself!
Our Nepalese grandmothers in the hills, the politically incorrect ones steeped
in traditional superstition and racism, consider the white people, the bearer
of the green dollars, "Kuhire bandars" for their blond hair, blue eyes,
exceedingly fair skin and all the strange mannerism of skinny dipping in fewa
Tal, a term implying Nepalese are ahead in civilization. Not so for the
apologists for development who moan how we are the last in the GNP rank and
how we are the "Bandars".
Kasko bandar ko?
Is nature tourism a "nariwal in hands of the Nepalese bandar"?
Here are some facts from a recent article on the topic:
Source: Michael P. Wells, 1993, "Neglect of biological riches: the economics
of nature tourism in Nepal" in biodersity and conservation, /Vol 2: 445-464.
1. Cost of managing nature tourism in parks per year: $ 5 million
2. Revenues raised by nature tourism in parks per yar: $ 1 million
"Kuhire ko aish ko lagi, hami afnai paisa kharcha gari rakhdai chau.
Ko bandar ko chatake?"
3. Percentage of parks budget for military supervision: 80%
"Wah, wah, yi sab asabhya nepali bandar harulai banduk na dekhai, hami
kahan pragati gari, sundar shanta nepal banaune" What better example of of the
servility proposed by the Nature tourism Nepali environmentalists and
development advocates.
4. International development agencies finance 40% of the country's public
sector programmes. Oh how wonderfully "indepedent" we are as a country never
conquered, taliya taliya.
5. There were 6000 tourists in 1962, 260,000 in 1988 and a projected 1
million in 2010. "Pahile thiyoun Kumari, viswo bata lukdai rana ko pala ma,
ahile bhayoun randi, bhaye bhari lai thapdai, yo kasto gati, yo kasto bigati,
yo durgati ki bhayen ma, bhagya bati?.... bholi uthi kahan jaane , kehi thaha
chaina..."
6. Tourism earned $ 76 million in 1987/88 and employed 11,000 according
Nepal rastra bank. He wait a minute, I thought tourism was the biggest
earneer of foreign exchange? yes you are right, but only 11,000 employed?
Why that is $ 7000 per person employed or Rs 3.5 lakh per person? Who are
these lucky privileged persons, not the $ 160 per capita earning average
Neplai janata janardan, not even the Rs 50, 000 earning Professor, why not
even the Prime Minister who does not have a salary of rs 30,000 a month.
Why in the world the rest of Nepal subsidize these tourism catering super
rich, super priveleged? Ko bandar ko chatake, kehi thaha bhayen...?
7. Two thirds of the foreign exchange spend by toourist in Nepal flows
abroad to procure luxury items to sustain these leviathan consumers.
8. The total number of tourist s to all national parks in 1990/91
is 105353. Just how many are Nepalis? "Muglan ma pani bahadur darban, afnai
desh ko jungle ma pani, bahadur ra darban bhai tiger Tops ma kuhure ko chak
sunghnu parcha>?
The language and vernacular used herein is to to bring the flavour of the
discourse and I hope this is not sanitized to something dull that does not
represent the emotions of the uneducated nepalis.
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Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1993 15:00:10 +0800 (SST)
From: Om Bahadur Raut <raut@emailhost.ait.ac.th>
Subject: Send TND
To: TND Editor <nepal@cs.niu.edu>
Dear Editor,
I have not received the latest issue of TND. Could you kindly check with
your mailing system lapses and dispatch the latest issue of TND.
Thank You.
Yours truely,
Om B. Raut,
AIT
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Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1993 13:07:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: M Khalequzzaman <khaleq@brahms.udel.edu>
Subject: Integrated Development of the Ganges Basin
To: nepal@cs.niu.edu
The Ganges basin occupies 431,000 sq.miles area in the Subcontinent. Forty
percent of the population of the subcontinent live in the Ganges Valley,
which is home for one of the oldest civilization on earth. The Ganges has
been flowing thru Nepal, India and Bangladesh since the time immerorable.
The Ganges is an inseparable part of lives and existence of millions of
the people living in those countries. Therefore, the Ganges and its water
resources belong to all of the riparian countries.
Bangladesh is a delta country, which has been created by deposition of
river-borne sediments that come down from the Himalayas. A delta can
survive by depositing sediments carried by rivers. The Ganges water and
sediments have been diverted thru a barrage at Farakka in India. This has
adversely affected agriculture, navigation, irrigation, industries,
fisheries, forestry, salinity intrusion of coastal rivers, coastal erosion
and subsidence, groundwater in Bangladesh. Sharing of the dry season flow
of the Ganges has been the center of the dispute between India and
Bangladesh for last 19 years. Bangladesh and India have proposed two
different plans for augmentation of the dry season flow. Bangladesh has
suggested the contruction of dams in Nepal and India. Bangladesh's plan
also includes construction of a navigation channel from Terai region in
Nepal that will allow Nepal to have access to the sea ports in Bangladesh.
It can be mentioned here that 71% of the Ganges flow is originated in
Nepal from the Gandaki, Kosi and Karnali rivers. India has suggested to
tranfer water from the Brahmaputra to the Ganges via a link canal.
Neither of the countries accept the other's plan. India wants to stick
to its principle of bilateralism and doesn't want to include Nepal in this
plan. Apparently, Nepal is agreeable to Bangladesh's plan of an
integrated basin development. If all the coriparian countries formulate
an integrated plan for water resources development then Nepal can get its
fair price for the power that would be generated from those project and
will have access to sea ports in Bangladesh, India will get power supply
and water needed for irrigation during dry season in UP and Bihar,
Bangladesh will get more water during dry season and less water during
rainy season (which will help mitigate flooding problem).
Without regional cooperation among the co-riparian nations any major
inter-basin development activity is almost impossible and will not be
beneficial to all countries. We can survive and prosper together only.
Khaleq
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Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1993 20:22:02 -0400 (EDT)
Forwarded by: Ashutosh Tiwari <tiwari@husc.harvard.edu>
Subject: Soil Scientist News
To: nepal@cs.niu.edu
From: "Gyaneswor Pokharel" <g44329a@nucc.cc.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
P.S. The dead line for the submission of the full paper is Jan. 31, 1994.
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The bulletine
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Second Young Geotechnical Engineer's Conference
on Advancements in geotechnical Investigations
June 27-July 1, 1994
Asian Institute of Technology
Bangkok, Thailand
Sponsored by
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Japanese Society of Soil Mechanics and
Foundation Engineering
Southeast Asian Geotechnical Society
Asian Institute of Technology
Introduction
Organizing conferences for young geotechnical engineers
has recently become one of the formal events conducted
by International Society for Soil Mechanics and Founda-
tion Engineering (ISSMFE). In the Asian region, this
conference is the second consecutive event following
the first Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference (YGEC)
that was held successfully in 1991, held at the Asian
Institute of Technology (AIT), ISSMFE, Japaneses Society
of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering (JSSMFE)
and Southeast Asian Geotechnical Society (SEAGS), it is
a great pleasure to announce the Second Young Asian
Geotechnical Engineers Conference which is going to be
held from June 27, to July 1, 1994 at the AIT centre,
Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand.
Objective
=========
The objective of the conference is to bring together our
young geotechnical engineers in Asia to exchange their
experiences, ideas, and views related to the latest
development and technology in geotechnical engineering.
Language
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English will be the official language of the conference.
Conference Topics
=================
The proposed topics of the conference are on:
* Laboratory Tests
* In-situ Tests and Instrumentation
* Model Tests
These topics are expected to cover investigations for:
* Embankments and Excavations
* Design of Ground Improvement Techniques
* Reclamation Works
* Design of Remedial Measures against Hazards
* Use of Industrial Waste as Construction Materials.
Participation and Call For Papers
==================================
Geotechnical Engineers and researchers preferably below 35 years
from Asian countries are invited to participate for the conference.
Two participants nominated by National Society from each country
are expected to submit a written contribution with a maximum of 10
pages (letter size, 8.5x11inch-A4 size) single spaced by January
31, 1994 to complete the proceedings before the conference.
It is also possible for interested individuals to participate in
the conferenc. However, these participants are not expected to
submit a written contribution.
Technical Visits
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A one day field trip to places of geotechnical interest in and
around Bangkok will be arranged.
REgistration
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Interested persons who wish to participate in the conference
are kindly requested to complete and return the attached preli-
minary registration form before the end of January 1994.
Registration fees for the conference are US$ 90 per participants
which include:
* Participation in all sessions of the conference.
* Participation in the local technical visits.
* Set of conference proceedings
* Daily refreshments
* Receptions and Closing dinners
Accomodation fee is US$ 40 in AIT centre hotel for single or
double room per day.
Further Information
===================
Bulletin No. 2 containing the detail program, final registration
form and other information will be released in October 1993.
Correspondence
===============
All corresopondence regarding the conference should be directed to
Dr. T.H. Seah/Dr. M.Sugimoto
school of Civil Engineering
Asian Institute of Technology
GPO Box-2754
Bangkok-10501
Thailand
Cable: AIT-Bangkok
Tel: (66-2)5245500
Fax: (66-2)5245509
Organizing Committee
====================
Dr. M. Sugimoto (Chairman)
Dr. T.H. Seah (Co-chairman)
Prof. A.S.Balasubramaniam
Dr. D.T. Bergado
Dr. Noppadol Phienwej
Prof. F. Tatsuoka
Prof. O. Kusakabe
Advisors
========
Prof. K. Akai
Prof. K. Ishihara
Pre-registration form
=====================
Second Young Geotechnical Engineers
Conference
on
Advancements in Geotechnical
Investigations
June 27- July 1, 1994
Name: __________________________________
Title:__________________________________
Organisation:___________________________
Address:________________________________
Tel:____________________________________
Fax:_________________________________
I intend to submit papers Yes No
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