ENGLISH PAPERS
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LAW AND ORDER Police raids on the offices of seven publicly listed companies... given prominent and widespread coverage by the papers in the news and business pages. Using the story as its front page lead. the Standard noted that Police did not rule out the possibility of criminal charges. The Post reported prominently on the front-page that Police had visited about 10 homes of the people involved in the companies under investigation. It said enquiry might ha made in the US. The Standard devoted one inside- page to the probe carrying stories about the secrecy of the investigation, the Allied Group case, reactions from Macau tycoon Stanley Ho and special training given to CCB officers. Business pages of the two papers attributed the fall of HSI to the Police raid. The Standard noted the inter-relation of the seven companies under investigation in 1990.
Personnel: The Post prominently reported that the Police force was to implement a management proposal which proposed splitting the operations department into two, each to be headed by a SACP. The paper said Peter wong was tipped to head the new department. Another local officer, Peter So, would take over from DCP Keith Lonas,who was to retire early next year. The Standard reported prominently that the Chairman of HK's Expatriate Police Inspectors' Association, David Scott, had resigned because of a "sniping campaign" by senior officers.
Crire investigation: The Post in a dispatch from Washington noted that the US agents were investigating links between HK's most powerful triad society and a NY Chinatown gang smashed last week. Both papers noted that a police surgeunt had been arrested in connection with a murder in Yau Ma Tei last month.
PENSION
The rost in its front-page iezd noted that the Government ruuiú recommend the setting up of a compulsory old-age pension for those aged 65 or above. The paper noted that Exco had accepted the Government's recommendation of not introducing a CPF, nor a compulsory decentralised scheme, but to stay with the present voluntary system. The leading article of the Post noted that only a compulsory, private system, paying benefits related to contributions. could satisfy the twin political necessities of a social safety net and fiscal prudence.
POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT
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The Standard on the front-page reported that the Liberal Party had backed- away from supporting the Bill as it said it would employ an independent consultant to survey its wider membership and functional constituencies before making a final decision on the Bill. It carried a long feature by Neville de Silva about the controversy surrounding the tabling of the Bill. The Post reported prominently that the tabling of the Bill was likely to bring fierce debate and lobbying over the next few weeks.
OTHER TOPICS
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danamdbad an razy odemdficant hự the namaz's leader. Allen Lee in a Standard colum said it was Legco's duty to pass the private member's Bill regarding expat civil servants and to convince the Government to suspend its policy. The Post reported that about 60 civil service posts would be open to RTHK staff. The Post reported moderately that the Legal Department was to create 16 posts to speed up law diaiting work for the 1994/95 elections. The Post reported from L
Landen that predbure wao mvunting on the Fattiek Government to grant full nationality to KK's ethnic minorities The Standard said the House of Lorde had called on the relaxation of restrictions on the right of HK citizens to emigrate to Britain in the runup to 1997.
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