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Contract awarded for new airport
The Secretary for the Treasury, on the advice of the Central Tender Board, has approved the award of an Airport Core Programme (ACP) contract for the supply and installation of an Aeronautical Information Database System for the new airport at Chek Lap Kok.
The contract, valued at $36.1 million, has been awarded by the Civil Aviation Department to SYSECA S. A. of France.
The company will be responsible for the supply and installation of a database system for the new airport to automate the processing, storage and presentation of aeronautical information.
Works will start later this month for completion in July 1996.
The award of this contract brings the total number of ACP major contracts awarded so far to 108, with a total value of $79 billion.
End/Wednesday, February 15, 1995
AG decides against seeking review of sentences imposed on convict in HK Bank fire
The Attorney General, Mr Jeremy Mathews, after the most anxious and thorough consideration of all relevant factors, has decided not to seek a review of the sentences imposed upon Chu Po-kwong, who was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment for 12 counts of manslaughter in the fire at the Shek Kip Mei Branch of Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
A spokesman for the Legal Department said Mr Mathews, after studying all the case papers, considered that the sentences were neither manifestly inadequate nor wrong in principle.
In a letter to the families of the fire victims, who had written to the Attorney General seeking a heavier sentence, Mr Mathews said he had carefully considered whether it was appropriate for him to invoke his powers to seek a review of the
sentences.