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EDUCATION.
7. PROMINENT COVERAGE HAS BEEN GIVEN IN THE LOCAL CHINESE
COMMUNIST PRESS TO AN INVITATION TO HONG KONG AND MACAU
UNIVERSITY GRADUATES TO APPLY FOR ENROLMENT IN A WIDE RANGE
OF POST-GRADUATE COURSES OFFERED BY TWENTY SIX UNIVERSITIES
IN CHINA. ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS FOR THE COURSES WILL BE
HELD IN CANTON IN MID-MAY AND SOME GRADUATES OF THE CHINESE
UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG ARE REPORTED TO HAVE EXPRESSED INTEREST.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS UNION HAS
COMMENTED THAT BECAUSE THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT MAY NOT
RECOGNISE QUALIFICATIONS OBTAINED IN CHINA A NUMBER OF HONG
KONG GRADUATES MAY BE DETERRED FROM APPLYING FOR PLACES ON THE COURSES OFFERED. THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC HAS RECEIVED
AN INVITATION FROM THE SIAN CHIAO T'UNG UNIVERSITY IN SHENSI
TO SEND A DELEGATION TO VISIT CHINA FOR THE PURPOSE OF
ESGAMEINESHTS ON SUCH SUBJECTS AS TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS
CompuïtaUATCH AND PRODUCTION PROCESSES.
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STUDENT/NEW LEFT ACTIVITY.
8. A GROUP OF TEN REPRESENTATIVES FROM TWO LOCAL NEW LEFT
GROUPS DELIVERED A LETTER OF PROTEST TO THE JAPANESE CONSULATE
GENERAL IN HONG KONG DEMANDING THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE JAPANESE
NAVAL PRESENCE FROM THE SENKAKU ISLANDS AND CLAIMING THAT
THE ISLANDS HISTORICALLY BELONG TO CHINA. THE LETTER ECHOED
SENTIMENTS EXPRESSED IN SIMILAR STATEMENTS ISSUED BY STUDENT
UNIONS AND THE HONG KONG FEDERATION OF STUDENTS. IN ADDITION A NUMBER OF SLOGANS AND POSTERS PROTESTING AGAINST THE ''JAPANESE INVASION OF THE ISLANDS APPEARED AT SEVERAL LOCATIONS IN HONG KONG ISLAND AND KOWLOON SIGNED BY THE HONG
KONG TROTSKYIST REVOLUTIONARY MARXIST LEAGUE. THE POSTER CAMPAIGN RECEIVED NO SUPPORT FROM THE LOCAL CHINESE PRESS, AND IN THE ABSENCE OF ANY PUBLICITY BY PEKING THE SENKAKU
ISLANDS INCIDENT IS NOT EXPECT TO BECOME A MAJOR ISSUE IN
HONG KONG.
CHINESE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXHIBITION.
9. ''THE EXHIBITION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS OF THE PEOPLES
REPUBLIC OF CHINA'' WHICH OPENED ON 18TH APRIL IN COMMUNIST
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CONTROLLED PREMISES IN HONG KONG, ATTRACTED WIDE PUBLIC INTEREST. THE GOVERNOR ATTENDED A PREVIEW OF THE EXHIBITION