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On Sunday (October 6) evening, he will appear on a special edition of "Newsline" on ATV-World.
On October 8 (Tuesday), Mr Patten will face question from 150 secondary students in a special forum at RTHK. The recorded session will be aired on radio in the same evening and screened on RTHK's television programme "Media Watch" at 7 pm on October 10 (Thursday) on ATV-World.
Mr Patten will attend a luncheon hosted by the Hong Kong General Chambers of Commerce on October 10 to answer questions from members of the business community.
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Glorious days with good sense and sensibilities: FS
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The Financial Secretary, Mr Donald Tsang, said today (Monday, Washington time) that with good sense and sensibilities, Hong Kong's glorious days were yet to unfold.
Mr Tsang was hosting a luncheon in Washington for senior staff of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB) and leading figures in the international financial community as part of the programme to promote the WB/MF Annual Meetings to be held in Hong Kong next September.
He said Hong Kong's destination was a high value-added, technology-based manufacturing sector and a world class services sector, as he had put it in his first Budget speech.
He said the challenge of being the Financial Secretary at this point in time was not only to see through the transition, but to build the foundations of a stronger and more prosperous Hong Kong beyond 1997. He refused to believe that this was a "mission impossible".
Mr Tsang cited evidence in support of Hong Kong's success story.
Of the 25 high income economies classified by the World Bank, between 1985 and 1994, Hong Kong had the second fastest growth in per capita real income.