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****************    FCSSC News Release No. 02-033     *****************
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***********        From: andyshi@Meena.CC.URegina.Ca     **************
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                        February 4, 1991

Table of Contents

1. Salutation from Australia on Jiye Mao's China Trip
2. FCSSC Started Collecting Cases of Family Reunion Problems
3. FCSSC Calls Students' Attention on Safe Driving

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1. Salutation from Australia on Jiye Mao's China Trip
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From: gaojeng@fac5.anu.edu.au
To: dongqing_wei@mtsg.ubc.ca

Hi, Dongqing,

Well done! Mao Jiye's trip to China is positive in every sense, whatever
the result. You people have done a marvelous job. Forgive me for sending
this so late, for the computer was down for some time.

Best regards.

-J. Gao
National Union of Chinese Students and Scholars in Australia
Federation for a Democratic China (Canberra)

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2. FCSSC Started Collecting Cases of Family Reunion Problems
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     Recently, there have been a number of cases that students' spouses
were refused to issue visitor's visas by the Canadian Embassy in Beijing.
The principal reason for these refusals was the failure of the students
in their PR applications in Canada. While the FCSSC asks the relavant
students to please understand its inability to change the Canadian
immigration law regarding PR applications on H&C grounds, it is willing
to try its best to help those students with family reunion problems.

      The first step in tackling this problem is to collect enough cases
in this category. Then the FCSSC will bring this matter formally to the
pertinent department(s) of the Canadian government. To expedite the
solution of this problem, those who are in such a situation please forward
your name and a brief description of your problem to

                    zcai@sirius.uvic.ca

And FCSSC will do its share as soon as possible.

     Please be assured that your problem is also our problem.

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3. FCSSC Calls Students' Attention on Safe Driving
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      Mr. Hu Xingmin, a Chinese student who have been in Canada for only
a year and four months, was killed in a car accident in Calgary recently.

     Another student of York University lost his life while attending a
international conference in Italy.

     Many more overseas Chinese students and scholars have been killed or
injured to various degrees in car accidents in the most recent months.

     Most of these accidents, as shown by statistics, happened because of
the faults of our students and scholars. It seems that we Chinese students
who came from a country where rule of laws is not observed tend to ignore
the laws of our residing country as well. Many of us drive without the
consciousness of stopping at stop signs and slow down at places where we
are supposed to.

     The FCSSC urges each and every one of our Chinese students and scholars
take it seriously and to pay due respect to the traffic laws (and any laws,
for this matter) of the countries we reside in. Your life is worth much more
than a few seconds of being ahead.

      The FCSSC regrets the tragedy happened to our national, Mr. Hu Xingmin,
and would like to pay condolence to his family. And FCSSC is now reposting
the message the victim's friend, Sulin Di, posted earlier through this
network and call students and scholars to donate a fews dollars for this
matter to show your sympathy to the victim's family. Thank you.

      The detailed message of this accident is as follows:

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From: USERDISU@UALTAMTS.BITNET
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 Dear Friends,

 I am very sorry to inform you that my former colleague, Mr.
 Hu, Xingmin died of a traffic accident. Hu was graduated
 from Dept. of Mathematics, Nnajing Institute of Technology
 (Southeast University now) in 1981. He was survived by his
 son of five years of age and his mother of seventy. He was
 divorced just before he came to Canada 16 months ago. Wu's
 former wife married again now and their son is Wu's legal
 dependant,  who is in China and is applying immigration
 visa in Beijing right now.

 Hu was riding in his friend's car and his friend was running
 a red light in downtown Calgary. He died one hour later in
 hospital and his friend was seriously injoured and
 recovering now. Hu was part time student in University of
 Calgary and living on government loan for almost six
 months before the tragedy.

 We have difficulty to inform the terrible news to his
 direct relative because they are all living in a remote
 countryside of China. Also because  his mother was too weak
 to hear the news and his only brother was in Beijing with
 his son and out of touch now.

 The insurance company offered the funeral fee and $5000.
 compensation for his son. Mr. Xie Hong, Wu's former classmate,
 and I are very angry about the matter and we decided
 to ask Hu's brother and son to come over Canada to take legal
 action against the driver and demand reasonable compensation
 from the insurance company.

 Hu's body is still in the hospital now and everything is
 in pending (waiting for his direct relative to come over).
 His body will be likely still there for another eight weeks.
 Xie, Hong and I ask all Chinese students, our friends and
 people who believe in the Justice to pay mercy to Hu, Xingmin
 and his family. We ask you to donate for this matter,
 and the donations will help us to pay lawyer, other legal fees,
 and to give Hu's survivers.

 The donation can be send to:
          Sulin Di & Hong Xie
          (Donation for Wu, Xiangmin)
          Dept. of Mathematics
          University of Alberta
          CANADA T6G 2G1

Our home phone numbers are: (403) 436-3209 (Di),
                            (403) 433-1936 (Xie).


 Thank you very much for your reading. Please help us to make
 forward this message to your friends too, for the sake of
 Hu, Xingmin and the Justice.

 Sincerely Yours,

 Sulin Di.

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FCSSC == Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars, Canada
      ==  Quan Jia Xue Lian  (2,1,2,2)    (in Chinese)
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