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Monitors' report submitted to CS
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The monitors appointed to observe yesterday's transfer of 210 Vietnamese migrants (VMs) selected for the Orderly Repatriation Programme from the High Island Detention Centre to Victoria Prison have submitted their report to the Chief Secretary today (Friday).
The four monitors comprised two non-official Justices of the Peace, Mr Lee Jark-pui and Professor Nelson Chow Wing-sun; and representatives from two non- governmental organisations - Ms Emily Liu from Christian Action and Mr Christopher Stokes from Medecins Sans Frontieres.
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Volume and price movements of external trade
In 1995, the volume of re-exports increased by 14% as compared to 1994, while the volume of domestic exports increased by 1.9%, according to the statistics released today (Friday) by the Census and Statistics Department.
Taking re-exports and domestic exports together, the volume of total exports increased by 12%. Meanwhile, imports increased by 14% in volume.
The growth in the volume of trade is derived from the growth in trade values with the effect of price changes discounted.
As regards price changes over the same period of comparison, the prices of re- exports and domestic exports increased by 3.5% and 2.4% respectively. Import prices increased by 5%.
Price changes are reflected by changes in unit value indices, which are compiled based on average unit values or, for certain commodities, based on specific price data.
The terms of trade index, defined as the ratio of total export price index to import price index, decreased by 1.6% in 1995 as compared to 1994.