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CITY FORUM
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Government Economist Tang Kwong-yiu, speaking at RTHK's "City Forum" yesterday, said that the Government would liaise closely with the construction sector when the airport project was in progress to decide the priority of various items of work so as to lower the inflation rate at an acceptable level, the media reported in good coverage. Mr Tang expected that the peak of the airport construction would be between 1993 and 1995. He said that the Government would be flexible about the importation of labour scheme. Manager of Nomura Research Institute HK Mak Nak-Keung believed that the airport project would stimulate HK's economic growth by one to two percentage points. He called on the public not to worry too much about the pressure on inflation. Luk Shuen-Tim of Meeting Point and Lee Cheuk-yan of the Confederation of Trade Unions said that they were worried that the project would push up property prices and would adversely affect the quality of life of the general public.
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Law Officer (International Law) D.M. Edwards said that the first extradition agreement signed between HR and Holland would become effective at the end of 1992 at the earliest, the HK Economic Times reported in an inside-page lead. The agreement would be passed to the Chinese in half a month to seek their views. Mr Edwards said that if the Chinese had views and that if the HK and Dutch Governments accepted such views, the agreement would be changed. However, he believed that there would not be any change to it. Quoting sources close to the JLG, the paper said that if suspects to be extradited to HK would be sent to China afterwards, the majority of overseas countries would not want to reach extradition agreements with the territory.
ELECTIONS
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The vice chairman of the the association of teachers of subsidised schools, Ng Chung-wang, yesterday announced that he would take part in the Legco elections to contest a seat in the education constituency, some papers reported. Democrats Conrad Lam and Lau Chin-shek said that they would also take part in the Legco elections and would run in the Kowloon Central constituency.
The HK Daily News reported that the Election and Registration Office had completed the analysis of the DB elections in March and that the findings indicated that there were marked differences between voters in the urban area and in the NT.