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"THE GOVERNMENT IS TACKLING THIS PROBLEM, WHERE POSSIBLE, BY PROVIDING SEPARATE ROUTES, HE SAID.
MR SALKELD CITED MUI WO AS AN EXAMPLE AND SAID A SPECIAL CYCLE TRACK WOULD BE PROVIDED UNDER THE NEXT ROAD WORKS PROGRAMME.
HE REMINDED THE ISLANDERS THAT A TRAFFIC ACCIDENT COULD HAPPEN ON THE ISLANDS AS IN THE CITY IF THEY DID NOT PAY DUE ATTENTION TO OTHER ROAD USERS.
MORE THAN 500 PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT ISLANDS 'TRAFFIC SAFETY DAY' AT THE NEW TERRITORIES HEUNG YEE DISTRICT SECONDARY SCHOOL IN MUI WO.
JOINED THE KUK SOUTHERN
THERE WERE A SINGING PERFORMANCE, A ROAD SAFETY EXHIBITION AND GAME STALLS PUBLICISING ROAD SAFETY MESSAGE.
CALENDER CARDS AND FERRY TIME TABLES WERE ALSO DISTRIBUTED TO THE PARTICIPANTS.
THE TRAFFIC SAFETY DAY WAS ORGANISED BY THE ISLANDS DISTRICT BOARD'S TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT COMMITTEE.
OTHER OFFICIATING GUESTS AT THE OPENING CEREMONY WERE LEGISLATIVE COUNCILLOR, MR LAM WAI-KEUNG, AND ISLANDS POLICE DISTRICT COMMANDER, MR WILLIAM WORRAL.
VBP RETURN TO VIETNAM
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A GROUP OF 130 VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE TODAY (SATURDAY) RETURNED TO VIETNAM UNDER THE UNHCR'S VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION PROGRAMME.
COMPRISING 48 MEN, 33 WOMEN, 23 BOYS AND 26 GIRLS, THEY WERE THE 41ST BATCH TO GO BACK UNDER THE PROGRAMME.
SO FAR, A TOTAL OF 5,746 VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE HAVE VOLUNTARILY.
RETURNED
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