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HK Government delegation to visit China
The Secretary for Transport (designate), Mr Gordon Siu, will be visiting Beijing and Fuzhou from June 18 to 26 this year, a government spokesman announced today (Friday).
He will be accompanied by seven 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 March this year, was led by the Secretary for Works, Mr H S Kwong," the spokesman said.
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By-election for education conduct council
The Director of Education, Mrs Helen C P Lai Yu, announced today (Friday) that a by-election will be held for the five vacant seats on the Council on Professional Conduct in Education (CPC).
Mrs Yu said in reaching the decision, the Education Department had taken into account the views of concerned educators and educational bodies.
CPC.
She noted that a by-election was held during the election to the first session of
In the second CPC election in April, one seat each in five categories remained unfilled.
Circular letters were issued to 910 schools and teachers' unions in the five categories to seek their views on whether a by-election should be conducted.
The five categories are namely government secondary school, government primary school, private primary school, kindergarten and teachers' union category.