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香港政府

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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN

SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 1976

APPOINTMENTS OF DEPUTY SECRETARY FOR INFORMATION AND NEW DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION SERVICES

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MR. DAVID FORD, DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION SERVICES, HAS BEEN APPOINTED DEPUTY SECRETARY FOR INFORMATION IN THE HOME AFFAIRS

HE WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR SUPERVISING AND INFORMATION BRANCH.

GOVERNMENT'S INFORMATION AND PUBLIC RELATIONS WORK.

MR. FORD WILL TAKE UP HIS NEW POST LATER THIS MONTH. MR. RICHARD LAI, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR (PUBLIC RELATIONS), HAS BEEN PROMOTED TO BE DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION SERVICES FROM THE SAME DATE.

AS DEPUTY SECRETARY FOR INFORMATION, MR. FORD WILL ALSO BE RESPONSIBLE TO THE SECRETARY FOR HOME AFFAIRS AND INFORMATION FOR THE CO-ORDINATION OF THE PUBLIC RELATIONS WORK OF THE HOME AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT, THE INFORMATION SERVICES DEPARTMENT AND RADIO HONG KONG.

THIS RESPONSIBILITY IS AT PRESENT SHARED BETWEEN THE HOME AFFAIRS AND INFORMATION BRANCH AND THE INFORMATION SERVICES DEPARTMENT.

MR. FORD JOINED THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT IN 1967 AND SERVED IN THE COLONIAL SECRETARIAT UNTIL 1968 WHEN HE WAS APPOINTED CHIEF

HE INFORMATION OFFICER IN THE INFORMATION SERVICES DEPARTMENT. WAS APPOINTED AS DEPUTY DIRECTOR IN JUNE, 1972 AND DIRECTOR LATER THE SAME YEAR.

MR. LAI, THE FIRST CHINESE OFFICER TO BE APPOINTED AS DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION SERVICES, JOINED THE DEPARTMENT AS A PRINCIPAL INFORMATION OFFICER IN 1962 AND WAS PROMOTED TO ASSISTANT DIRECTOR IN 1974.

BEFORE JOINING HONG KONG GOVERNMENT, MR. LAI WORKED WITH THE SECRETARIAT OF THE UNITED NATIONS IN NEW YORK AND THE BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION IN LONDON.

MR. LAI IS THE AUTHOR OF +A HISTORY OF CHINESE LITERATURE+ PUBLISHED BY CASSELL IN LONDON AND JOHN DAY IN NEW YORK AND IN PAPERBACK BY CAPRICORN OF NEW YORK.

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Issued by Government Information Services, Beaconsfield House, Hong Kong. Tel: 5-233191

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