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language (including Putonghua) projects, eight English language projects and four concerned with improving proficiency in both English and Chinese.
"There is a balanced mix of research, teaching and learning resource materials, teacher training, curriculum and student activity projects. The approved ones have all met the stringent criteria set by the Language Fund Advisory Committee. They should make an impact in raising language standards in Hong Kong," Miss Chung said.
Miss Chung paid tribute to members of the Language Fund Advisory Committee for their dedication, judgment and hard work. In particular, she thanked members who sat on the three vetting groups who had to work long hours and had to make hard decisions regarding the applications.
"I know that members left no stone unturned and no detail unexamined in order to be scrupulously fair to every applicant. The whole exercise demonstrated very clearly what jointly the public and private sectors can achieve for the benefit of the community," she said.
Note to editors:
A list of the successful applications will be faxed.
end/Friday, December 2, 1994
Proactive approach to enhance technology in industry
The Government has taken a proactive approach in recent years in providing manpower training and various types of support to the manufacturing industry to help enhance its technological level and development towards high value-added and technology based manufacturing, the Director- General of Industry, Miss Denise Yue, said today (Friday).
Speaking at the CMA Prevocational School Speech Day, Miss Yue said the Hong Kong Industrial Technology Centre, which was built at the cost of