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This year's first Senior Officials Meeting hosted by the Philippines, the 1996 APEC Chair, will start the discussion on the production of individual action plans by APEC member economies for implementing the goal of liberalisation and facilitation of free trade and investment by the year 2010/2020 as set out in the Osaka Action Agenda.
The Senior Officials Meeting will be followed by a series of meetings including those of the Tariff Database Task Force, the Economic Committee, the Committee on Trade and Investment, the Experts Group on Regulated Sectors in Mutual Recognition Arrangements (Food Products), the Experts Group on Government Procurement, the Sub-Committee on Standards and Conformance and Sub-Committee on Customs Procedures.
The APEC Ministerial Meeting will be held in October this year, also in Manila, and will be followed by the fourth Meeting of the APEC Economic Leaders in Subic in November.
Member economies of APEC are Australia. Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia. Mexico, New Zealand. Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Singapore. Chinese Taipei, Thailand and the United States.
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Residents assured of adequate primary school places
Residents of Saddle Ridge Garden in Ma On Shan were today (Sunday) assured that there is at present a plentiful supply of primary school places in Ma On Shan and that there is no need to build a new primary school there.
The Assistant Director of Education (Allocation and Support), Mr Anthony Tong, said there were already 10 primary schools in Ma On Shan, adding that another one would be completed in the district by September 1996.
"Therefore, the Education Department has no plans for a new primary school for the time being." he told residents of Saddle Ridge Garden who petitioned the department today asking for a new primary school at the school site near their estate.