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Education
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The China Travel Service arranged extra tours to China over the Christmas holiday and for the forthcoming Lunar New Year holiday for teachers and students from local communist schools, all other tours being fully booked. This may have resulted from representations by NG Hong-man, the most senior official in communist education in Hong Kong, who saw the importance in this context of direct personal links between staff and students in Hong Kong and China.
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The communist influenced Chinese Language Society and the Hong Kong University jointly organised a visit to Hong Kong by WONG Lik (WANG Li), a professor of Beijing University and adviser to the Society. "The Literary Works of WONG Lik" are to be jointly published by the two bodies.
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The communist Hong Kong Federation of Educational Workers sponsored a forum on the status of the Chinese middle schools and the use of Chinese as a teaching medium. The forum was attended by both neutral and communist educationists. NG Hong-man proposed the establishment of a professional study group io promote the development of middle schools, to seek co-operation with Anglo-Chinese schools and to set up a Chinese-language teaching foundation. It is likely that communist schools, where staff morale is low, are using the Chinese language issue as a common platform and are seeking to combine with other private schools, possibly in order to gain some form of Government subvention.
LABOUR AFFAIRS
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Communist trade unions have been authorised by the local communist leadership to participate in the current campaign against proposed increases in bus fares. This is again in line with communist union policy of avoiding direct individual confrontation with the Government and, instead, of finding causes to espouse which will appease their members desire for action.
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