good.
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Ms Tsui said responses to the first Hong Kong AIDS Conference had been
More than three hundred participants from Hong Kong, China and Maçau had registered for the conference and some 80 abstracts had been received, she said, hoping that with the joint endeavour, the territory could create new hope in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
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Travel agents advisory committee appointed
The Government announced in today's (Friday) Gazette appointments to the Advisory Committee on Travel Agents (ACTA).
Mr Tang Kwai-nang has been re-appointed as Chairman of ACTA for a period of two years from November 1 to October 31, 1998.
Eleven of the existing non-official members have also been re-appointed for the same period. They are Mrs Amy Chan Cheng Yi-yim, Mrs Pamela Chan, Ms Jasminia K. Cheung, Mr Chow Yick-hay, Mr Simon Hau Suk-kei, Mr John Li Kwok-heem, Mr Dickson Pang Kam-fai, Mr Larry Sze Kwok-yiu, Mr Tam Kai-on, Mr Harold Wu, and Mr Howard Young.
The Deputy Secretary (Trade and Industry) 2 or the Principal Assistant Secretary (Trade and Industry) D remains an Official Member while the Registrar of Travel Agents remains an ex-officio member and the Secretary of ACTA.
In order to appoint more district personalities to advisory bodies, the Financial Secretary has agreed that Mr Wong King-cheung, a member of the Urban Council and the Southern District Board, be appointed for a term of two years from November 1.
"The re-appointment of serving non-official members would enable the Government to continue to benefit from their advice and to provide continuity," a government spokesman said.
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