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Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London SW1A 2AH
Telephone 01-
1 C Orr Esq
Assistant Political Advise
HONG KONG
Dear lain,
ser
HKK 020/1
RECEIVED IN REGISTRY ITO. 51
2 0 NOV 1978
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Your reference
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Date
16 November 1978
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TRANSLATIONS FROM HONG KONG PUBLICATIONS
179
1. Thank you for your letter SCR 2/60 of 23 October. Service do receive telegraphic copies of FBIS newspaper and magazine trans-
The BBC Monitoring lations. It is however the practise of the SWB series not to publish anything other than translations from foreign radio broadcasts. reason for this is that the BBC do not wish to infringe copyright by publish- I understand that the ing translations from newspapers. On very rare occasions they have published translations from People's Daily and some other papers. unlikely ever to publish translations from the Hong Kong press.
They are however most
2. The BBC Monitoring Service already pass copies of the more, interesting press translations (from both the Peking and Hong Kong press) to Research Department and, I believe, to OID. We also receive copies of the FBIS docu- ment which does contain the Hong Kong press translations. will pass copies of these translations to interested departments in London.
Research Department We will also supply them to Peking (Roger Garside's letter to me of 2 Ilovember). This would leave you freer (your paragraph 3) to concentrate on items of a more narrow Hong Kong/UK/China interest a service we would find most welcome.
Your
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Rod
RF Wye
Far Eastern Section Research Department
cc: J Thompson Esq, MBE
HK&GD
RR Garside Esq PEKING
KC Walker Esq CABINET OFFICE
RE Allen Esq FED
JN Allan Esq, CBE OID
JP Millington Esq WASHINGTON
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