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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1992

SURPRISE

AS

TRADE

THE THIS CAME AS NO LEADING ECONOMIES IN ASIA IN RECENT YEARS HAD HE SAID.

OF THE PERFORMANCE BEEN MOST IMPRESSIVE,

GENERAL AGREEMENT ON OF WORLD

ACCORDING TO ESTIMATES PUBLISHED BY THE TARIFFS AND TRADE, THE ANNUAL GROWTH LAST YEAR IN THE VALUE TRADE, FOR BOTH EXPORTS AND IMPORTS, WAS 1.5 PER CENT.

IN THE HOWEVER, FOR THE LEADING ECONOMIES OF ASIA, THE GROWTH

10 TO 20 PER CENT AND FOR VALUE OF EXPORTS IN THE SAME YEAR WAS IMPORTS EIGHT TO 30 PER CENT.

OF THE DEVELOPING THE FORECASTED

IN THE LAST DECADE THE AVERAGE GROWTH RATE ECONOMIES IN THE REGION WAS 12 PER CENT PER ANNUM AND GROWTH RATE FOR THE NEXT DECADE IS SIX PER CENT PER ANNUM.

THESE FIGURES WERE CONSIDERABLY HIGHER THAN THE MANY OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD, HE SAID.

FORECASTS FOR

ACTIVITIES

HAD PARTICIPATED IN ILAC

ΤΟ BE HOSTING THIS SERIES OF

MR WONG SAID HONG KONG SINCE THE 1970'S AND HE WAS PLEASED COMMITTEE MEETINGS THIS YEAR.

ADDED.

IN TWO YEARS' TIME, HONG KONG WOULD BE

STAGING ILAC '94, HE

BABY FLIES TO AUSTRALIA FOR MAJOR CRANIOFACIAL OPERATION

* * * * * * *

A FOUR-MONTH-OLD BOY WILL FLY TO AUSTRALIA TONIGHT TO UNDERGO MAJOR CRANIOFACIAL OPERATIONS.

A WARD

(WEDNESDAY)

THE BABY, YUEH YUE-FAI,

OF THE DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL WELFARE, HAS CRANIOSYNOSTOSIS, MID-FACIAL HYPOPLASIA AND SYNDACTYLY OF BOTH HANDS AND FEET.

QUEEN MARY

ΤΟ HOSPITAL

BID

FAREWELL TO

SAID

DURING A VISIT TO YUE-FAI TODAY, THE DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL WELFARE, MR M.D. CARTLAND, THE BABY HAS TO BE FLOWN TO AUSTRALIA FOR SURGERY.

RARE CONDITION THIS IS PART OF THE TREATMENT PROTOCOL OF THIS

THE DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY, IN THE CRANIOFACIAL SERVICE PROVIDED BY

AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL AND THE SOUTH CRANIOFACIAL UNIT, ADELAIDE.

WILL

OVERCOME

THE

OPERATIONS

"I SINCERELY HOPE THAT YUE-FAI AND RETURN TO HONG KONG SOUND AND HEALTHY," MR CARTLAND SAID.

то THE STAFF KONG, QUEEN MARY

MR CARTLAND PAID TRIBUTE SERVICE, UNIVERSITY OF HONG EXPERT ADVICE AND THEIR EFFORT WORKERS FROM THE SOCIAL POSSIBLE.

IN

WELFARE

THE CRANIOFACIAL HOSPITAL, FOR THEIR

OF

WITH

TO

CONJUNCTION DEPARTMENT

MEDICAL SOCIAL MAKE THE OPERATION

/YUE-FAI

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