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HK delegation to visit China
The Secretary for Financial Services (Designate), Mr Rafael Hui, will be visiting Beijing and Qingdao from August 21 to 28, a government spokesman announced today (Friday).
He will be accompanied by six other Hong Kong government officials.
This is one in a series of China visits started in 1988 for the purpose of general familiarisation.
The last similar visit, which took place in May this year, was led by the Secretary for Transport, Mr Haider Barma.
End/Friday, August 18, 1995
CSD's Annual Review published
Correctional Services Department (CSD) has now published its 1994 Annua!
Review.
It contains a comprehensive description on the department's different penal programmes aim at the rehabilitation of offenders. These programmes seek to instil a sense of personal responsibility and self-respect in the offenders, so as to help them reintegrate into society as law abiding citizens successfully.
The Review also carries full-colour pictures and statistics of the work undertaken by the department last year.
In the foreword of the Review, the Commissioner of Correctional Services, Mr Raymond Lai Ming-kee, said 1994 was a taxing and challenging year for the department.
He said the penal population continued to rise with an average occupancy rate of 119 per cent, noting that it was due to the problem of the imprisonment of illegal immigrants and those in breach of immigration regulations,
"Another trend that has been particularly worrying is that of female offenders, so much so that we had to open a new Correctional Institution for them in the former Chi Ma Wan Detention Centre (Upper Camp)," Mr Lai said.