MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1991
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"AND THE TREND CONTINUES IN THE FIRST HALF OF THIS YEAR, RB- EXPORTS INCREASED BY A FURTHER 50 PER CENT,' HE SAID.
HE POINTED OUT THAT OVER THE YEARS HONG KONG HAD DEVELOPED EXCELLENT COMMERCIAL RELATIONS WITH AUSTRIA.
"TWO-WAY TRADE BETWEEN HONG KONG AND AUSTRIA HAS BEEN ON THE INCREASE AT AN ANNUAL RATE OF OVER 30 PER CENT FOR THE PAST FIVE YEARS.
"IN 1990, OUR TOTAL TRADE WITH AUSTRIA, VALUED AT $5 BILLION, WAS 3.3 TIMES THAT OF 1986.
"OUR EXPORTS TO AUSTRIA AND IMPORTS FROM AUSTRIA MORE
MORE THAN DOUBLED IN VALUE DURING THE PERIOD. PARTICULARLY NOTEWORTHY PRODUCTS ARE GLASSWARE AND OPTICAL GOODS FROM AUSTRIA AND GARMENTS FROM HONG KONG, HE SAID.
DIRECT AIR LINK BETWEEN HONG KONG AND VIENNA, INTRODUCED NOT LONG AGO, IS SYMBOLIC OF THE INCREASING COMMERCIAL TIES BETWEEN HONG KONG AND AUSTRIA, HE SAID.
HONG KONG COMMITTED TO FIGHT AGAINST DRUG TRAFFICKING: AG
HONG KONG'S COMMITMENT TO THE FIGHT AGAINST THE PERNICIOUS AND EVIL BUSINESS OF DRUGS TRAFFICKING, WAS REPRESENTED NOT BY RHETORIC, NOT JUST BY PIECES OF PAPER, BUT BY SOLID HARD WORK AND SOLID ACHIEVEMENT, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, MR JEREMY MATHEWS, SAID TODAY (MONDAY).
MR MATHEWS SAID THIS REPRESENTED THE COMBINED EFFORTS OF MANY PEOPLE WITHIN THE COMMUNITY AT ALL LEVELS BOTH WITHIN THE GOVERNMENT AND OUTSIDE.
SPEAKING AT THE OPENING OF A FOUR-DAY ECONOMIC CRIME WORKSHOP ON MONEY LAUNDERING ORGANISED BY THE COMMONWEALTH SECRETARIAT AND THE CROWN AGENTS, MR MATHEWS SAID HONG KONG'S COMMITMENT IN TERMS OF RESOURCES WAS BOTH SUBSTANTIAL AND WIDESPREAD.
HE SAID HONG KONG HAD A HIGHLY EFFICIENT POLICE FORCE AND CUSTOMS AND EXCISE SERVICE, WHOSE TECHNIQUES IN TRACING DRUGS, AND WHOSE SUCCESSES IN SEIZING DRUGS, WERE IMPRESSIVE BY ANY STANDARD.
LAST YEAR, OVER 5,000 KILOGRAMS OF VARIOUS KINDS OF DRUGS, INCLUDING 71 KILOGRAMS OF NO. 3 HEROIN AND 91 KILOGRAMS OF NO. 4 HEROIN, WERE SEIZED.
HE SAID THE COURTS WERE SEVERE ON THOSE WHO WERE PROVED To BE DRUG TRAFFICKERS.
TRAFFICKERS WHO WERE CAUGHT WITH HALF A KILOGRAM OF HEROIN, FOR EXAMPLE, WOULD FACE SENTENCES IN EXCESS OF 15 YEARS.
/A WIDE