THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1992
IMPORTS FROM CANADA WERE $3,008 MILLION, UP 24 PER CENT OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON.
SIR DAVID POINTED OUT THAT CANADA WAS WELL REPRESENTED IN MANY SECTORS IN HONG KONG, INCLUDING BANKING, TRADING, MANUFACTURING AND OTHER SERVICE SECTORS.
NOTING THAT CANADA WAS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR COUNTRIES FOR HONG KONG STUDENTS, HE SAID ABOUT 16,000 HONG KONG STUDENTS WERE STUDYING IN CANADA AND AN ESTIMATED 70,000 STUDENTS HAD SINCE RETURNED AFTER GRADUATION FROM CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES.
WHILE MANY HONG KONG RESIDENTS HAVE SOUGHT A NEW LIFE ABROAD IN CANADA, HONG KONG IS HOME TO SOME 35,000 CANADIANS, THE BIGGEST CANADIAN COMMUNITY IN ASIA.
SIR DAVID THANKED THE PATRONS FOR THEIR GENEROUS SUPPORT FOR THE FESTIVAL AND HE HOPED MORE PATRONS WOULD BE FORTHCOMING.
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FESTIVAL HK '92 GIVEN A BOOST FROM PRIVATE SECTOR
OF $13.08 MILLION IN
FOR RECREATION
AND
THE PRIVATE SECTOR HAS PLEDGED A TOTAL SUPPORT OF FESTIVAL HONG KONG '92, THE SECRETARY CULTURE, MR JAMES SO, SAID TODAY (THURSDAY).
ALSO
SPEAKING AT AN OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF THE FESTIVAL WHICH MARKED THE INAUGURATION OF A FESTIVAL PATRONS COMMITTEE, MR SO SAID THE ENCOURAGING RESPONSE FROM THE COMMUNITY HAD DEMONSTRATED FULL SUPPORT OF THE FESTIVAL OFJECTIVE ΤΟ STRENGTHEN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HONG KONG AND CANADA.
EACH OF THE 12 PATRONS
PRESENT AT THE CEREMONY HAS PLEDGED SPONSORSHIP OF AT LEAST $1 MILLION, EITHER IN CASH OR IN KIND, IN SUPPORT OF FESTIVAL HONG KONG '92.
MR SO, WHO IS ALSO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE STEERING GROUP ON FESTIVAL HONG KONG '92, RECEIVED A GIANT CHEQUE FROM THE 12 PATRONS DURING THE CEREMONY.
THE PATRONS ARE THE HUTCHISON GROUP, THE ASSOCIATION OF CHAIRMEN OF TUNG WAH GROUP OF HOSPITALS, THE CANADIAN AIRLINES INTERNATIONAL, THE CATHAY PACIFIC AIRWAYS LTD, THE CHEVALIER INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS LTD, CHOW SANG SANG JEWELLERY COMPANY LTD, HANG SENG BANK, DR STANLEY HO, THE HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, THE HONG KONG TELECOM, THE PO LEUNG KUK PAST AND PRESENT CHAIRMEN AND DIRECTORS AND THE SUN HUNG KAI PROPERTIES LTD.
ALSO OFFICIATING AT THE CEREMONY, THE DEPUTY TO THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID FORD, SAID THE FESTIVAL WOULD HAVE LESS IMPACT IF IT WERE A SOLE GOVERNMENT EFFORT.
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