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MONDAY, JULY 15, 1991
ON SUPERCOMPUTING, PROF POON SAID THERE WAS
DECISION
NO
PRESSING NEED ON WHETHER SUPERCOMPUTING FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO TAKE A
ROLE OF THE GOVERNMENT. FACILITIES SHOULD BE INSTALLED AND THE SAID THIS WOULD BE RESOLVED NATURALLY IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS.
HE
IT WAS
AS FOR THE IT ENVIRONMENT AND MANPOWER, PROF POON SAID
THE BASE ON WHICH NOTED THAT HONG KONG WAS WELL PLACED IN TERMS OF COMPETITIVE IT USAGE COULD BE BUILT.
POTENTIAL "LOOKING AT THE
THE SHORTAGE, MANPOWER
MEET
THE
COMMITTEE VOCATIONAL TRAINING CONSULTANT'S
NOTED THAT INCREASES IN THE NUMBER OF IT RELATED
COULD PLACES AND HIGHER EDUCATION RECOMMENDATIONS FOR EXPANSION IN THESE AREAS.
"THE COMMITTEE ADVISES THAT A GROUP BE FORMED TO CONSIDERATION TO THE CHANNELLING OF INDUSTRY VIEWS INTO OF IT-RELATED HIGHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING," HE SAID.
GIVE FURTHER THE PLANNING
WOULD ALL GIVEN
OF
MOVING ON TO TOXIC SUBSTANCE CONTROLS, PROF POON SAID IT
ON TOXIC SUBSTANCES IN BE UNREALISTIC TO INTRODUCE CONTROLS HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS AT THIS STAGE THOUGH CONSIDERATION SHOULD BE TO THE INTRODUCTION OF LEGISLATION TO CONTROL SPECIFIED CATEGORIES HOUSEHOLD CHEMICALS WHOSE TOXIC EFFECTS COULD BE ACUTE.
TECHNOLOGY, PROF POON AND ON THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE
UNDERTAKEN, OF EXISTING ACTIVITIES THAT FOLLOWING A SURVEY COMMITTEE CONCLUDED THAT A GREAT DEAL OF ACTIVITY HAD BEEN
SAID THE
IN
EDUCATION, INFORMAL SCIENCE REPRESENTING ONE MAJOR INITIATIVE.
WITH
THE
NEW
SCIENCE
UNDERTAKEN MUSEUM
"CO-ORDINATION,
FORMAL CO-ORDINATION
INCREASE AWARENESS OF SUCH ACTIVITIES.
HOWEVER, WOULD BE
IS
RELATIVELY INAPPROPRIATE,
LIMITED
AND,
WHILE
THERE IS SCOPE ΤΟ
"ALONG
THESE
LINES,
THE COMMITTEE
HAS RECOMMENDED THE ACTIVITIES IN THE PRODUCTIVITY ΤΟ INCLUDE RELEVANT
INCLUSION OF A CALENDER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SCIENCE MUSEUM NEWSLETTER AND THE EXTENSION OF HONG KONG COUNCIL'S
DATABASE
OF
INFORMATION," HE SAID.
TRAINING
PROGRAMMES
0
PROVISIONAL RESULTS OF FIRST QUARTER SURVEY
OF RESTAURANT RECEIPTS AND PURCHASES RELEASED
THE VALUE OF TOTAL RECEIPTS FOR THE ENTIRE RESTAURANT SECTOR IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1991, ESTIMATED AT $9,232 MILLION, WAS 7% HIGHER THAN IN THE SAME QUARTER OF 1990, WHILE THE VOLUME ACCORDING ΤΟ THE PROVISIONAL RESULTS OF (MONDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
WAS 6X A SURVEY RELEASED
LOWER,
TODAY
IN
REPRESENTING A
5%
THE PROVISIONAL ESTIMATE OF TOTAL PURCHASES BY RESTAURANTS THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1991 WAS $3,621 MILLION, INCREASE IN VALUE TERMS OVER THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1990.
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