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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1991
IT WAS BOUGHT BY LEE MAY
BIDDING OPENED AT $100 MILLION.
INVESTMENTS LTD. AT $202 MILLION.
THE BUILDING COVENANT STIPULATES THAT A GROSS FLOOR AREA OF NOT
HAS то BE LESS THAN 46,000 SQUARE METRES
COMPLETED ON
BEFORE OR
DECEMBER 31, 1995.
THE AUCTION WAS HELD IN CITY HALL THEATRE AND WAS CONDUCTED GOVERNMENT LAND AGENT, MR LEUNG LOK-YIU.
BY
CONSULTATION ON MEASURES AGAINST LEAVING
CHILDREN UNATTENDED DUE TO EXPIRE * * * * *
REMINDED
A SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN TODAY (TUESDAY) THE PUBLIC TO SUBMIT THEIR VIEWS ON MEASURES TO PREVENT CHILDREN FROM PUBLIC CONSULTATION EXERCISE BEING LEFT UNATTENDED AT HOME BEFORE A EXPIRES BY THE END OF THIS MONTH.
THE DIRECTOR "VIEWS AND SUGGESTIONS ON THE ISSUE SHOULD REACH
THE SPOKESMAN SAID. OF SOCIAL WELFARE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE,
"
HE
RECALLED
A
SPATE
FATAL OF
ACCIDENTS THEIR HOMES, THERE HAD
THAT FOLLOWING INVOLVING CHILDREN BEING LEFT UNATTENDED AT BEEN WIDESPREAD PUBLIC CONCERN OVER THE ISSUE.
"THE RECURRENCE OF SUCH
CHILDREN
HAS MISHAPS
PROMPTED CALLS BEING LEFT FROM
UNATTENDED,"
ON THE THE
GOVERNMENT TO PREVENT SPOKESMAN NOTED.
A PUBLIC CONSULTATION EXERCISE WAS,
THEREFORE,
OCTOBER THIS YEAR TO INVITE VIEWS AND OPINIONS ON HOW PROBLEM, HE ADDED.
LAUNCHED FROM TO TACKLE THE
SO DEPARTMENT.
FAR
ABOUT
45
SUBMISSIONS
HAVE
BEEN
RECEIVED
BY
THE
272 VOLUNTARY RETURNEES BACK TO VIETNAM
* *
A GROUP OF 272 VIETNAMESE MIGRANTS TODAY (TUESDAY) RETURNED VIETNAM UNDER THE UNHCR'S VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION PROGRAMME.
COMPRISING 97 MEN, 61 WOMEN,
то
60 BOYS AND 54
GIRLS, THEY WERE
THE 82ND BATCH TO GO BACK UNDER THE PROGRAMME.
THE TOTAL NUMBER OF VIETNAMESE THIS GROUP BROUGHT TO 7,403
TO 13,722 THE MIGRANTS WHO HAVE RETURNED VOLUNTARILY THIS YEAR, AND TOTAL NUMBER OF RETURNEES SINCE THE PROGRAMME STARTED IN MARCH 1989.
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