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For several hours, the sporadic stone throwing occurred at various points of the camp and at one time a home-made spear was thrown in the direction of the main gate.
A total of 143 CSD officers and 168 police of the Police Tactical Unit have the situation under control.
End/Thursday, October 12, 1995
June Employment and Vacancies Statistics released
According to the figures released today (Thursday) by the Census and Statistics Department, there was continued growth in employment in most of the major service sectors between June 1994 and June 1995. Meanwhile, employment in the manufacturing sector declined further. But employment at construction sites registered a further large increase.
Vacancies in the manufacturing sector remained on a downtrend in June 1995 over a year earlier, while those at construction sites registered a substantial increase.
Over the same period, vacancies in the various service sectors recorded decreases of different magnitudes. Nevertheless, there were still around 52,000 vacancies for all major sectors taken together.
In terms of the number of persons engaged, the wholesale, retail and import/export trades, restaurants and hotels sector was the largest, employing 1,024,600 persons in June 1995.
This was followed by the manufacturing sector, with an employment of 397,800; the financing, insurance, real estate and business services sector, 373,900; the community, social and personal services sector, 295,600; the transport, storage and communication sector, 166,300; and the construction sites (for manual workers only), 64,000.
In terms of growth rate, employment at construction sites (for manual workers only) recorded the fastest increase, by 11.5% in June 1995 over June 1994; followed by the financing, insurance, real estate and business services sector, by 6.5%; the community, social and personal services sector, by 5.1%; the transport, storage and communication sector, by 5%.
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