TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1988
THE
ΤΟ PARTY
GENERAL ALSO A MEMBER OF
HOW HONG KONG HAD BECOME A CONTRACTING AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE (GATT) AND WAS NOW THE CUSTOMS CO-OPERATION COUNCIL.
CONSIDERING THE
IN FURTHER,
OF APPLICATION CONTINUED
KONG. THE JOINT INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS AFFECTING HONG
PROGRESS, REACHING AGREEMENT LIAISON GROUP HAD MADE SIGNIFICANT HONG
PARTICIPATION CONTINUED
IN SOME
KONG'S ORGANISATIONS.
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ON
INTERNATIONAL
BASIC LAN, AND ON WHICH PUBLIC
MR WIGGHAM ALSO REFERRED TO THE FIRST DRAFT OF THE WHICH HONG KONG PEOPLE HAD A PART IN PREPARING COMMENTS WERE NOW SOUGHT.
REVISION HE SAID THE DRAFTING AND
OF THIS MINI-CONSTITUTION SOVEREIGNTY IN 1997 WOULD BE A FOR HONG KONG AFTER THE CHANGE OF STEP-BY-STEP PROCESS, LEADING TO ITS FINAL PROMULGATION IN 1990.
DESCRIBING HONG KONG TODAY AS "A THRIVING,
THE IN
POLITICALLY STABLE ASIA-PACIFIC
REGION"
PUBLIC MANY OF THEM
REGIONAL CENTRE OF BUSINESS ACTIVITY MR WIGGHAM ALSO OUTLINED THE UNPRECEDENTED NUMBER OF MAJOR NEW AND PRIVATE PROJECTS THAT WERE IN HAND IN HONG KONG WITH A PAY-BACK DATE EXTENDING WELL BEYOND 1997.
"THE PUBLIC PROJECTS
-
OVER TOTALLING WELL
A NEW LIGHT INCLUDE A NEW UNIVERSITY, DOLLARS HOSPITALS, A ROAD TUNNEL LINKING TWO LARGE TOWNS AND COMPLEX, HE SAID.
-
-
-
ONE
BILLION
U.S.
RAIL
SYSTEM, NEW
A
NEW CULTURAL
TOTALLING WELL
SECOND
TWO NEW CONTAINER AND A MASSIVE URBAN
CROSS-HARBOUR
"THE PROJECTS FINANCED BY THE PRIVATE SECTOR
U.S. DOLLARS
A INCLUDE OVER THREE BILLION
TUNNEL
KOWLOON PEAK, THROUGH TUNNEL, A SECOND TERMINALS, TWO NEW BANK HEADQUARTERS BUILDINGS PROPERTY REDEVELOPMENT SCHEME.'
HONG MR WIGGHAM NOTED THAT BOSTON HAD LONG-STANDING LINKS WITH
SERVED AS A KONG AS WELL AS WITH CHINA, FOR WHICH HONG KONG TODAY GATEWAY FOR MANY MAJOR U.9. CORPORATIONS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS.
BEEN
A HONG KONG EXPRESSING PLEASURE THAT
HAD ASSOCIATION ESTABLISHED IN BOSTON, HE OBSERVED THAT ONLY ONE YEAR AGO THERE WAS SOLITARY SUCH ASSOCIATION IN THE UNITED STATES--IN SAN FRANCISCO.
A
HAVE
SEAT FLE
-
AS
KONG ASSOCIATIONS "IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS, FIVE NEW HONG BEEN ESTABLISHED IN NEW YORK, LOS ANGELES, CHICAGO AND WELL AS HERE IN BOSTON.
"THIS REFLECTS THE ENORMOUS RECENT GROWTH OF U.S. HONG KONG, HE SAID.
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INTERESTS IN
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