FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1994
LICENCES
THE LAST TIME WHEN URBAN TAXI DECEMBER 1991 WHEN 200 LICENCES WERE ISSUED, AND 100 TAXI LICENCES WERE ISSUED IN JULY 1989.
MADE
WERE ISSUED WAS NEW TERRITORIES
ACCEPTED A NUMBER TO COMMITTEE
ADVISORY
IN APRIL THIS YEAR THE GOVERNOR-IN-COUNCIL OF RECOMMENDATIONS
BY THE TRANSPORT IMPROVE TAXI SERVICES AND DAMPEN SPECULATION IN TAXI LICENCES.
THAT
LICENCES TAXI
SHOULD
ONE OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS IS ISSUED AS AND WHEN NECESSARY. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME TENDERS FOR LICENCES HAVE BEEN INVITED SINCE THEN.
BE TAXI
"AS PART OF THE
NEW POLICY,
TWO NEW
CONDITIONS
HAVE BEEN
INCLUDED IN THE TENDER EXERCISE.
ONE URBAN
MAY BID FOR MORE THAN "FIRST, NO ONE TERRITORIES TAXI LICENCE, AND SECOND, THE NEW TAXI LICENCES BE TRANSFERABLE WITHIN 12 MONTHS FROM THE DATE OF OF THE TAXIS CONCERNED," THE SPOKESMAN SAID.
NEW OR WILL NOT
FIRST REGISTRATION
FROM THE FLOOR, UNITED
TENDER FORMS ARE AVAILABLE FOR COLLECTION IN PERSON PUBLIC VEHICLES SECTION, TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT ON THIRD CENTRE, 95 QUEENSWAY, HONG KONG.
TENDERERS ARE REQUIRED TO RETURN BEFORE NOON ON SEPTEMBER ACCEPTED.
THE COMPLETED TENDER FORMS 23, 1994. LATE SUBMISSIONS WILL
NOT
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RESULTS OF TENDERS WILL BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE.
THE
(THURSDAY),
BROADCASTING AUTHORITY REVIEWS CABLE OPERATION
* * * * *
BROADCASTING AUTHORITY (BA), AT ITS MEETING YESTERDAY PLEASED TO NOTE THAT WHARF CABLE HAD MADE STEADY
WAS
PROGRESS IN ITS NETWORK BUILDING AND PENETRATION.
AND IT HAD PASSED 31.5 PER CENT OF THE 1.6 MILLION TELEVISION HOMES IN HONG KONG BY JUNE 1 THIS YEAR, A NUMBER EXCEEDING THE LICENCE REQUIREMENT FOR THE FIRST-YEAR OPERATION.
THE BA REVIEWED WHARF CABLE'S PERFORMANCE IN RESPECT OF ITS CUSTOMER SERVICE AND IS IN GENERAL SATISFIED WITH WHARF CABLE'S COMPLIANCE WITH ITS CODE OF PRACTICE FOR CUSTOMER SERVICE.
ANOTHER REVIEW OF ITS CUSTOMER SERVICE PERFORMANCE WILL BE CARRIED OUT IN ANOTHER YEAR'S TIME.
A
THE BA CONSIDERED A NUMBER OF COMPLAINTS AND DECIDED TO IMPOSE OF THE PENALTY OF $10,000 ON WHARF CABLE FOR THE SERIOUS BREACH SUBSCRIPTION TELEVISION PROGRAMME CODE RELATING TO THE TREATMENT OF ANIMALS, PORTRAYAL OF VIOLENCE AND PROTECTION OF CHILDREN'S PROGRAMMES.
IN
CHILDREN
THE SUBJECT
A OF COMPLAINT CONCERNED THE DEPICTION OF THROWING A CAT OUT OF THE BALCONY IN A CHILDREN'S DRAMA "LONELY BROADCAST ON THE CABLE .CHILDREN CHANNEL.
CHILD
BOY"
/A SPOKESMAN