MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1994
QUESTION: THE TARGET LIST OF ICAC, DO YOU HAVE ANY RESPONSE ON REPORTS?
AND
THOSE
GOVERNOR: YES, THERE HAVE BEEN TWO OR THREE STATEMENTS WHICH HAVE BEEN BEEN MADE VERY CLEARLY, WHICH I REITERATE ONCE AGAIN. THERE HAS NEVER AND THERE ISN'T TODAY ANY POLITICISATION OF THE ICAC. THE RULES WITHIN
THE ICAC WHICH
OPERATES, THE LAWS WITHIN WHICH IT OPERATES ARE LAWS. THE ABSOLUTELY PLAIN AND IT CONTINUES TO OPERATE WITHIN THOSE POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF THE ICAC ARE BEING EXAMINED AT THE MOMENT BY A
WHICH
LATER WILL REPORT
THIS HIGH-POWERED COMMITTEE
YEAR. EVERY WHICH ACTIVITY OF THE ICAC IS FOLLOWED BY AN OPERATIONS COMMITTEE ON
IS THERE
A MAJORITY OF OUTSIDERS FROM THE ADMINISTRATION, OF ORDINARY CITIZENS. SO, THERE ARE EXISTING CHECKS REPRESENTATIVES
BALANCES.
THESE AT THE END OF THE DAY WHEN
TOTALLY UNFOUNDED ALLEGATIONS ARE SWEPT ASIDE, WHAT THE COMMUNITY HAS TO CONCENTRATE ONE SIMPLE AND CLEAR ISSUE - DO WE WANT HERE IN HONG KONG EFFECTIVE COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION WHICH CAN BATTLE CORRUPTION INSTITUTIONS SUCCESSFULLY, WHICH CAN PREVENT CORRUPTION CORRODING THE OF OUR
OR DO WE NOT. IF WE WANT AN EFFECTIVE COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION, THEN WE SHOULD SUPPORT THAT COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION, OF COURSE, REVIEWING ITS POWERS AND FUNCTIONS FROM TIME TO
RECOGNISING THAT TIME BUT
AND NEEDS OUR SUPPORT
NEEDS OUR
I HOPE THAT UNDERSTANDING, AND
THIS SORT OF TOTALLY UNFOUNDED ALLEGATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE WON'T, IN ANY WAY, UNDERMINE PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR A BODY WHICH STANDS IN THE FRONT LINE OF OUR DETERMINATION IN HONG KONG TO KEEP HONG KONG CLEAN. THANKS VERY MUCH.
IS
SOCIETY
IT
ON AN
UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT STATISTICS FOR DECEMBER 1993 FEBRUARY 1994
THE SEASONALLY ADJUSTED UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FOR DECEMBER
1.9%, AND THE UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATE FEBRUARY 1994 WAS
WAS
1.6%,
TO THE ACCORDING
LATEST LABOUR FORCE STATISTICS RELEASED TODAY (MONDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
1993
THE
THE PROVISIONAL SEASONALLY ADJUSTED UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FOR
MARCH 1994 WAS 2.2%, WHILE THE PROVISIONAL UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATE WAS 1.7%.
PERIOD
JANUARY
THE LABOUR MARKET
RECENT
WORKERS
IN HAS REMAINED GENERALLY STABLE MONTHS. THE LATEST UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES ARE AFFECTED BY SOME LEAVING THEIR JOBS AFTER THE LUNAR NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS AND THUS BECOMING TEMPORARILY UNEMPLOYED.
UNEMPLOYED
OF
DURING THE PERIOD DECEMBER 1993 FEBRUARY 1994, THE NUMBER
OF FIRST- PERSONS, ADJUSTED FOR VARIATIONS IN THE NUMBER
WAS ESTIMATED
WHILE THE AT 55,600,
NUMBER OF UNDEREMPLOYED PERSONS WAS ESTIMATED AT 46,600.
TIME
JOB-SEEKERS,
OBTAINED
THE UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT STATISTICS WERE FROM A CONTINUOUS GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY CONDUCTED BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
/THE SURVEY