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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1989
TO IT WAS THE SECRETARY'S FIRST VISIT
THE STATION SINCE HE TOOK UP RESPONSIBLILITY FOR BROADCASTING POLICY EARLIER THIS MONTH,
MR CHUI EXPRESSED GREAT INTEREST IN RTHK'S FUTURE INDEPENDENCE.
HE SAID HE HAD FULL CONFIDENCE IN THE STATION'S TRANSITION INDEPENDENT BROADCASTING STATUS.
TO
"GIVEN MORE FREEDOM. INDEPENDENCE AND FLEXIBILITY IN THE AREAS WILL HAVE GREATER OF EDITORIAL, PRODUCTION AND ADMINISTRATION, RTHK
BE ABLE POTENTIAL FOR DEVELOPMENT AND WILL
TO CONTRIBUTE MORE TO SOCIETY," HE SAID.
THE SECRETARY TOURED THE DIFFERENT
EXCHANGED VIEWS WITH ITS STAFF,
DIVISIONS AT RTHK, AND
HE WAS
BROADCASTING,
BROADCASTING,
ON ACCOMPANIED MISS CHEUNG MR
THE VISIT BY THE MAN-YEE: ACTING DEPUTY CHU PUI-HING: AND ASSISTANT BROADCASTING. MR SIMON LUN AND MISS MARIA WAN.
SITE ACCIDENTS CONTINUE TO GO UP
OF DIRECTOR DIRECTOR OF DIRECTORS OF
OF INDUSTRIAL
THE
THERE WAS A SLIGHT INCREASE IN THE TOTAL NUMBER ACCIDENTS DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE YEAR, DESPITE A DECLINE IN ACCIDENT RATE IN VARIOUS INDIVIDUAL INDUSTRIES.
THAT 18,664 JANUARY AND JUNE
A LABOUR DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN SAID TODAY (FRIDAY) ACCIDENTS WITH 47 FATALITIES WERE REPORTED BETWEEN THIS YEAR.
"THESE COMPARED
WITH
18.265
ACCIDENTS RECORDED IN THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF LAST YEAR,
AND HE ADDED.
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FATALITIES
THE SPOKESMAN NOTED THAT THE GREATEST INCREASE, AS IN THE PAST,
11 PER CENT TO WAS IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY WHICH HAD RISEN BY 8,693 ACCIDENTS WITH 31 FATALITIES.
SITUATION THE
FOR
UTILITIES, THE MINING AND QUARRYING,
ACCOUNTED FOR 1,892 TRANSPORT AND OTHER SERVICING INDUSTRIES, WHICH ACCIDENTS WITH 10 FATALITIES, REMAINED RELATIVELY UNCHANGED.
INDUSTRY HAD HOWEVER, THE ACCIDENT RATE FOR THE MANUFACTURING
TWO FATALITIES IN DROPPED BY SIX PER CENT FROM 8,636 ACCIDENTS WITH
IN THE THE FIRST HALF OF LAST YEAR TO 8,159 ACCIDENTS AND SIX DEATHS SAME PERIOD THIS YEAR.
LL
ELECTRONICS,
DOWN RESPECTIVELY TO 379,532 AND
A SHARP DECREASE IN ACCIDENTS WAS RECORDED IN THE PLASTICS AND SHIPBUILDING AND REPAIRING INDUSTRIES FROM 501,696 AND 379 CASEY IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1988 298 CASES IN THE SAME PERIOD THIS YEAR.
/"THE MAJOR