26
"I must emphasise," Mr Gray said, "that our port currently generates 20 per cent of Hong Kong's Gross Domestic Product. This will rise to 26 per cent by the year 2011, if the provision of port facilities keeps pace with demand.
"Between now and the second decade of the next century there is no alternative to building new port facilities in Hong Kong. The territory's continued prosperity and people's livelihood depend on the development.
"There is no doubt that a balance between development and sustaining the environment can be struck which enhances our economy to everyone's benefit here in Hong Kong."
End/Tuesday, April 11, 1995
HK to observe partial eclipse
Weather permitting, a partial eclipse of the moon will be observable in Hong Kong after moonrise on Saturday (April 15).
Details of the eclipse are as follows:
Hong Kong Time
Azimuth Direction
Elevation
(Degrees)
Moon enters penumbra
1808 (April 15)
East
-6
Moonrise
1837
East-southeast
0
Moon enters umbra
1941
East-southeast
14
Middle of eclipse
2018
East-southeast
22
Moon leaves umbra
2056
East-southeast
29
2228
Southeast
46
0624 (April 16)
West-southwest 0
Moon leaves penumbra
Moonset
The eclipse would best be observed in places with no obstruction of sight to the East-southeast.
The magnitude of the eclipse will be 0.117. This means that 11.7 per cent of the moon's diameter will be obscured by the shadow of the earth at the middle of the eclipse.
End/Tuesday, April 11, 1995