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Hong Kong benefited greatly from its established judicial procedure, she says: "The facts that our laws are published; that any action of government must have a legal basis; that all cases, criminal or civil, are normally heard in open court; and that there is an established body of statute and case law so that people know broadly what they can and cannot do ? all these contribute to a system that we sum up in the phrase 'the rule of law'."
Baroness Dunn also notes the contrast between the amount of talk conducted in most western countries about women's advancement and the actual achievements made by women in Hong Kong's otherwise traditional and quite conservative society.
Hong Kong 1996 records the facts and figures of 1995 in words and striking pictures, covering the economy, trade and industry, the new airport, culture, and other activities that made up the essence of the year just past.
From April 29, copies in English and Chinese at $80 each will be available from the Government Publications Centre, ground floor, Low Block, Queensway Goverment Offices, 66 Queensway, Hong Kong; leading bookshops; and District Offices. Mail orders should be addressed to: Hong Kong Government Information Services, Publications Sales Office, 28th floor, Siu On Centre, 188 Lockhart Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong.
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Scope of exclusive rights of HK Telecom clarified
The Director-General of Telecommunications and Telecommunications Authority, Mr Alex Arena, today (Tuesday) issued a statement setting out his interpretation of the scope of the exclusive rights of Hong Kong Telecom International Limited (HKTI) in the provision of international telecommunications circuits and services.
Under a licence issued under the Telecommunication Ordinance in 1981, HKTI has exclusive rights to provide a number of international telecommunications circuits and services. This exclusive licence will not expire until the end of September 2006. The Government has announced that it will honour the exclusivities already granted under the HKTI's licence, but it would liberalise in areas outside the exclusivities.
"The exclusivities of HKTI are specified in a schedule to the licence. There are many doubtful areas in the interpretation of the exact scope of the exclusivities. Clarification of the Schedule is necessary in order to remove the uncertainties in the market," said Mr Arena.