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MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1993
RECALLING THE UNFORTUNATE INCIDENT, MR PANG SAID IT WAS ONLY FIVE MINUTES INTO THE SHOW THAT EVENING WHEN *THE BALLOONS WERE RELEASED FROM THE CEILING AND SOME OF THE AUDIENCE LEFT THEIR SEATS TO GO DOWN TO THE GANGWAY TO PICK UP THE BALLOONS.
A MAN WAS FOUND LYING UNCONSCIOUS NEAR AISLE 41 AFTER THE AUDIENCE RETURNED TO THEIR SEATS AND THE AMBULANCE SERVICE WAS SUMMONED IMMEDIATELY, HE SAID.
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"MEANWHILE A SECURITY GUARD WHO IS A PHYSIOTHERAPIST AND IS CAPABLE OF GIVING FIRST AID TREATMENT APPLIED MOUTH-TO-MOUTH RESUSCITATION AND HEART PRESSES TO THE YOUNG MAN," MR PANG SAID.
HE WAS SUBSEQUENTLY TAKEN TO QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL WHERE HE DIED EIGHT DAYS LATER,
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1992 DOMESTIC EXPORT STATISTICS
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LAST YEAR, THE THREE MAJOR INDUSTRY GROUPS OF TEXTILES, WEARING APPAREL AND CONSUMER ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS TOGETHER ACCOUNTED FOR 57% OF HONG KONG'S TOTAL DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF MANUFACTURED GOODS, ACCORDING TO STATISTICS RELEASED TODAY (MONDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF TEXTILES INCREASED BY 4% TO $51.8 BILLION IN 1992 AS COMPARED WITH 1991. ON THE OTHER HAND, DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF WEARING APPAREL DECREASED BY 2% TO $42.8 BILLION IN 1992; THOSE OF CONSUMER ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS ALSO DROPPED BY 4% TO $38.2 BILLION.
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AS FOR THE OTHER INDUSTRY GROUPS. MORE SIGNIFICANT ABSOLUTE INCREASES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS WERE FOUND IN THE GROUPS OF MACHINERY, EQUIPMENT, APPARATUS, PARTS AND COMPONENTS (+$3,401 MILLION OR +15%) PAPER AND PAPER PRODUCTS, PRINTING AND PUBLISHING (+$875 MILLION OR +13%); AND CHEMICALS AND CHEMICAL PRODUCTS (+$306 MILLION OR +5%).
ON THE OTHER HAND, INDUSTRY GROUPS WHICH RECORDED THE MORE NOTABLE ABSOLUTE DECREASES IN THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS INCLUDED PROFESSIONAL AND OPTICAL EQUIPMENT (-$1,563 MILLION OR -8%); AND PLASTIC PRODUCTS (-$1,389 MILLION OR -17%). POR THE FOOTWEAR AND TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT INDUSTRIES, ALTHOUGH THE ABSOLUTE VALUES OF THE CHANGES WERE NOT AS LARGE, MARKED DECLINES OF 30% AND 25% RESPECTIVELY WERE REGISTERED.
/THE APOVE