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TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1990

FIRMLY

NEED

WE SHOULD BE "THAT IS WHY IT IS SO IMPORTANT THAT COMMITTED TO A FULL PROGRAMME OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS. WE PARTICULARLY TO DEAL WITH AIR AND NOISE POLLUTION, AND WITH WASTE, AND TO FIND BETTER WAYS OF HANDLING SEWAGE DISPOSAL,

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HE SAID.

"WE

ALSO NEED TO THINK AHEAD BY MAKING SURE THAT, WHEN WE THE

OF THE

THE ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING

DEVELOPMENT

TERRITORY, TAKEN FULLY INTO

AT IMPLICATIONS ARE

ACCOUNT

AN HE ADDED. PREVENTION IS, AFTER ALL, BETTER THAN CURE,

EARLY

ARE

STAGE.

"

SIR DAVID SAID ALL OF US WERE INCREASINGLY AWARE OF THE NEED TO AND PROTECT AND IMPROVE OUR ENVIRONMENT AND THE INDUSTRY, GOVERNMENT

A CLEAN AND INDIVIDUALS MUST WORK TOGETHER TO ACHIEVE THE GOAL OF HEALTHY HONG KONG.

OUT

THE

"THIS IS NOT SOMETHING FOR OTHER PEOPLE TO DO: IT IS SOMETHING FOR EACH ONE OF US TO DO OURSELVES. THAT IS THE MESSAGE THAT GOES 11 ME' FROM TODAY'S EVENT: 'ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION STARTS WITH GOVERNOR SAID.

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SIR DAVID NOTED THAT ALL OVER THE WORLD TODAY, EVENTS WOULD TAKING PLACE TO REMIND PEOPLE OF THE NEED TO CARE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT.

PEOPLE "THIS SHOWS HOW IMPORTANT OUR ENVIRONMENT HAS BECOME TO ALL ROUND THE WORLD. MAYBE THE WORLD, AND WE OURSELVES, HAVE BEEN LATE BUT FAR FAR IN WAKING UP TO THE SERIOUSNESS OF THESE PROBLEMS BETTER LATE THAN NEVER, HE SAID.

AT

THE

14

CEREMONY,

DAVID BURIED

A

TIME CAPSULE

WHICH REMAINED

SIR CONTAINED DETAILS OF MANY OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS THAT TO BE TACKLED IN HONG KONG.

"IT

BE UNCOVERED IN 1995. LET IT BE WILL

OUR JOINT LISTED

IN BOOKS,

RESOLVE THE

THAT, WHEN THAT HAPPENS, THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS

CAPSULE WILL, IN THEIR TURN, HAVE BEEN BURIED IN THE HISTORY SIR DAVID SAID.

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FREE-MARKET AND OPEN ECONOMY HELPS BUSINESSES PREPARE FOR UNCERTAINTIES

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BUSINESSES MAKE THE BEST OF

HONG KONG'S FREE-MARKET AND OPEN ECONOMY HAS HELPED PREPARE THEMSELVES FOR UNCERTAINTIES AHEAD AND TO THEM, OMELCO MEMBER, DR DANIEL TSE, SAID TODAY (TUESDAY).

THE UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC SPEAKING AT THE 46TH SESSION OF

DR AND SOCIAL COMMISSION FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC (ESCAP) IN BANGKOK,

SHOULD BE ALLOWED TSE SAID ECONOMIES IN THE ASIA AND PACIFIC REGION

AS POSSIBLE TO RESTRUCTURE THEMSELVES WITH FROM GOVERNMENTS.

AS

LITTLE

INTERFERENCE

BUT HE ADDED THAT HAD NO ROLE TO PLAY.

BY THIS HE DID

MEAN NOT

THAT GOVERNMENTS

/"INDEED, TO

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