THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1980
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+AS A STARTING POINT, THERE SHOULD BE A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF THE BASIC OBJECTS OF THE MFA- THE EXTENT TO WHICH THESE OBJECTS HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED AND THE EXTENT TO WHICH,
IN PRACTICE, THE RIGHTS OF DEVELOPING EXPORTING COUNTRIES HAVE BEEN ERODED AND THE WAYS AND MEANS BY WHICH IMPORTING COUNTRIES HAVE AVOIDED THEIR OBLIGATIONS,+ MISS DUNN CONCLUDED.
MISS DUNN'S AUDIENCE AT THE CONFERENCE COMPRISES ABOUT 170 REPRESENTATIVES FROM OVER 30 COUNTRIES.
AMONG OTHER SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS TAKING PART WERE LALITH ATULATHMUDALI, MINISTER OF TRADE AND SHIPPING, SRI LANKA- WILLIAM KLOPMAN, CHAIRMAN, BURLINGTON INDUSTRIES, USA AND VICE-PRESIDENT, AMERICAN TEXTILE MANUFACTURERS INSTITUTE- HORSE-GUNTER KRENZLER, EEC CHIEF TEXTILES NEGOTIATOR- AMBASSADOR REITER WEBB, US CHIEF TEXTILES NEGOTIATOR- PETER TSAO, COMMISSIONER OF TRADE, HK- WILLIAM EBERLE, FORMER SPECIAL TRADE REPRESENTATIVE OF USA.
HEUNG YEE KUK ELECTION HELD
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MR LAU WONG-FAT, CHAIRMAN OF TUEN MUN RURAL COMMITTEE, WAS TODAY (THURSDAY) ELECTED CHAIRMAN FOR THE 24TH TERM OF THE HEUNG YEE KUK.
MR LAU RECEIVED 93 VOTES. HE TAKES OVER FROM MR STEPHEN WONG, WHO DID NOT STAND.
THE ONLY OTHER CANDIDATE, MR YOUNG WING-YAU, OF SOUTHERN DISTRICT, RECEIVED 12 VOTES.
ELECTED FIRST VICE-CHAIRMAN WAS MR LIU YUN-SUN. MR TSANG LIN WAS ELECTED SECOND VICE-CHAIRMAN.
EARLIER IN THE MORNING, 15 ORDINARY MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE KUK WERE ELECTED. THEY WERE MR YAP TIN-YEUNG (83 VOTES), MR LAM WAI-KEUNG (80 VOTES), MR HO SUN-KUEN (80 VOTES), MR LAM CHAK-MAN (77 VOTES), MR LAM PAK-PING (74 VOTES), MR LAU HON-KIT (73 VOTES), MR HO WING-KWONG (63 VOTES), MR CHEUNG WAI-LAM (63 VOTES), MR TANG LAI-NAM (63 VOTES), MR LAM YIN (58 VOTES), MR HO YUN-LAM (55 VOTES), MR TANG PAK-YUI (54 VOTES), MR MAN PING-NAM (50 VOTES), MR LI WAI-KWONG (47 VOTES) AND MR YUEN SHU-KWAN (39 VOTES).
THERE WERE