MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1986
USD CONTINUES CRACKDOWN ON UNHYGIENIC FOOD OUTLETS
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THE URBAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT TODAY CONTINUED ITS CRACKDOWN ON UNHYGIENIC FOOD OUTLETS IN AN EFFORT TO EL IMINATE POTENTIAL SOURCES OF CHOLERA.
+SURPRISE RAIDS AGAINST ILLEGAL COOKED-FOOD STALLS WERE CONDUCTED BY THE DEPARTMENT'S THREE GENERAL DUTIES TEAMS AT THE JUNCTION OF TSUN YIP STREET AND HUNG TO ROAD AND AT THE ADJACENT AREAS IN KWUN TONG, SAID A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT.
HE SAID THE GD TEAMS WERE HEADED BY ONE CHIEF HEALTH INSPECTOR AND COMPRISED SOME 60 MEMBERS.
+AS A RESULT OF THE RAIDS, SUMMONSES WERE SERVED TO TWO HAWKERS WHO ARE EXPECTED TO BE CHARGED WITH HAWKING WITHOUT A LICENCE AND SELL ING RESTRICTED FOOD, HE SAID.
+DURING TODAY'S RAIDS, MORE THAN 100 KILOGRAMMES COMPRISING 40 ITEMS OF COOKED FOOD WERE CONFISCATED AND THEY WOULD BE SENT TO THE PATHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE FOR ANALYSIS.
+ IN ADDITION, TWO COOKED-FOOD HANDCARTS WERE SEIZED.+
+SPECIAL GENERAL DUTIES TEAM SQUADS HAVE ALSO BEEN FORMED WITH THE PRIME TASK OF STAMPING OUT ILLEGAL HAWKERS SELLING COOKED FOOD AND NON-BOTTLED DRINKS.+
MEANWHILE, THE SPOKESMAN SAID, THE DEPARTMENT'S HEALTH INSPECTORS WERE ALSO STEPPING UP CHECKS ON
FOOD-SELL ING OUTLETS AND PLACES WHERE FOOD WAS PREPARED SO AS TO SAFEGUARD PUBLIC SAFETY IN THE LIGHT OF THE RECENT OUTBREAK OF CHOLERA.
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PRICE, VOLUME MOVEMENTS OF MAY EXTERNAL TRADE
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STATISTICS RELEASED TODAY BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT INDICATED THAT THE VOLUME OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS ROSE BY 6 PER CENT IN THE FIRST FIVE MONTHS OF 1986 AS COMPARED WITH THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR. THE VOLUME OF RE-EXPORTS, HOWEVER, DECLINED BY 3 PER CENT. THERE WAS THEREFORE AN OVERALL INCREASE OF 2 PER CENT IN THE VOLUME OF TOTAL EXPORTS.
IMPORTS INCREASED BY 5 PER CENT IN VOLUME TERMS. ON THE SAME BASIS OF COMPARISON, THE PRICES OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS REMAINED UNCHANGED WHILE THOSE OF RE-EXPORTS ROSE BY 1 PER CENT, SO THAT FOR TOTAL EXPORTS PRICES REMAINED UNCHANGED.
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