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now it must ready itself to accept greater social responsibility. (2)
UK RESIDENCY
HKS reported that Lord Caithness yesterday denied a clarification of British immigration rules was a policy change prejudicing HK people. He noted that t recent revocation of a HK man's British settlement rights was isolated and the policy for residents to renew status by returning to the UK every two years remained unchanged. The Post reported that the case was an exception and did not constitute a fundamental change in British immigration policy. The paper noted that the fact that the number of HK
people with British residency status being admitted to stay in Britain was rising had failed to allay legislators' fears that new immigration rules could bar the people from retaining their residency rights.
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SCMP noted that it was submitted in Sha Tin Court yesterday that the Convention of Peking of 1898 gave mainland Chinese a right of way or a licence to come to HK and had legal effect on local
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alleged II under the Peking Convention was a sought-after loophole throught which humnanitarian justice could be dispensed. This was what Cheng Huan o argued in the court representing seven Ift
M & M CHOCOLATES
The Post said in the front page that packets of M & M chocolates had been removed from supermarket sheleves in HK following threats that one packet had been laced with sodium cyanide. The Standard noted that the packets could be destroyed if police were not satisfied that they were safe.
TEXTILE BILL
The House of Representatives early today overwhelmingly approved by a vote of 271 to 149 a textile bill which sharply limited imports of foreign-made garments and footwear, the Post reported in the front page.
DAVID LI
SCMP reported in its financial page that Legco member David Li that Government efforts to solve HK's economic problems had had the opposite effect of prolong them. Mr Li described the Government's attempt to combat inflation with high interest rates as a miserable failure, despite its recent assertion that it would continue withe this policy. HKS quoted him as saying that the Government lacked the leadership to snatch HK from the brink of stagnation coupled with with high inflation.
OTHER STORIES
SCMP noted that the Canadian-based financial services group Royal Trust was believed to have offered a job to Financial Secretary Sir Piers Jacobs but it was highly unlikely that he would quit his present post before the next Budget speech. The paper noted that
one of the largest shareholders in the HK Cable Communications franchise last night blamed the Government for going back on its undertaking to allow the servie a six-year competition-free period to get established in HK, The managing director of the HK Telephone, Greg Crew, said that the Government had no clear telecommunications policy and was giving little indication to interested parties on how to plan ahead.