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Sunday, December 30, 1979
Despite a full professional life, he has an impressive record of public
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and voluntary service. He is Chairman of the Medical Development.Advisory
Committee, a member of the Social Welfare Advisory Committee, and has
served on the Medical Council and the Medical Advisory Board. His
extensive voluntary service includes past presidency of the Hong Kong
Medical Association and the British Medical Association Hong Kong Branch,
and he is presently Chairman of the Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation,
President of the Federation of Fedical Societies in Hong Kong, and on the
international stage, Vice President of Rehabilitation International. He
was appointed to the Legislative Council in 1974 and to Executive Council
in 1978 and continues to serve ably on both.
CBE (Commander Order of the British Empire
Mr. Richard HUGHES
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Mr. Richard Hughes, the 'doyen' of the journalist. corps. in Hong
Kong, has been, for many years, the Far East correspondent of the Times.
and Sunday Times and a contributor to the Economist and other publications.
A journalist and foreign correspondent with a most distinguished career
spanning almost 50 years, he has served in Shanghai, Moscow, Tokyo and
Hong Kong. His knowledge of Hong Kong, its history and its life today
is extensive. He is the author of "Hong Kong Borrowed Place Borrowed
Time" in which he presents a lucid survey of its past, its economic and
social life and its prospects for the future. First published in 1968,
it has been revised and reissued and continues to give pleasure and to
command respect.
Mr. Richard Hughes' style, his informal approach and his
remarkable ability to enlighten and inform without wasting words, have
done much to publicise Hong Kong accurately in the English speaking world.
/OBE