TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1985
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MR WEBSTER SAID CERTAIN FACTIONS OF THE VARIOUS TRIAD SOCIETIES AND SPLINTER GROUPS KNOWN TO EXIST IN HONG KONG HAD AN ADVANTAGE IN THE INTERNATIONAL DRUG BUSINESS.
THESE, HE SAID, WOULD BE THE CHIU CHOW SPEAKING CRIMINALS.
''THE CHIU CHOW DIALECT IS COMMON TO THAILAND AND THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE WHICH ARE SOURCES OF THE DRUGS BROUGHT INTO HONG KONG, HE SAID.
MR WEBSTER ALSO POINTED OUT THAT TRIAD GROUPS WERE REPORTED TO BE INVOLVED IN DRUGS IN THE CHINESE COMMUNITIES OF HOLLAND, THE UK AND AUSTRALIA.
HE ADDED THAT CONTRARY TO CERTAIN OPINIONS TRIADS OVERSEAS DID NOT AS A MATTER OF COURSE ALL EMANATED FROM HONG KONG. THIS WAS A COMMON FALLACY IN CERTAIN AREAS.
MR WEBSTER ALSO SPOKE ON COMMERCIAL CRIME, THE FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE AND COMPARED CRIME FIGURES WITH OTHER CITIES.
ON CREDIT CARDS HE SAID THAT THE SYSTEM WAS OPEN TO ABUSE.
''AS HONG KONG BECOMES MORE ORIENTATED TOWARDS THE USE OF CREDIT CARDS, CREDIT CARD SWINDLES BECOME MORE AND MORE PREVALENTS,' HE SAID.
BUT HE SAID THE COMMERCIAL CRIME BUREAU HAS BEEN EXPANDED AND IS GEARED TO MEET THIS PROBLEM.
OUTLINING THE TERMS OF REFERENCE OF THE FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE, MR WEBSTER STRESSED THAT THE COMMITTEE WAS INVALUABLE IN HELPING POLICE MEET THE EVER CHANGING CRIME SITUATION.
U.S. ORIGIN RULES OF TOP CONCERN
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THE UNITED STATES' COUNTRY OF ORIGIN RULES REMAINED THE TRADE DEPARTMENT'S FOREMOST CURRENT CONCERN, THE DIRECTOR OF TRADE, MR HAMISH MACLEOD, TOLD THE LUNCHEON MEETING OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF PENINSULA TODAY.
+WE SHALL BE MAKING CLEAR OUR DISAPPOINTMENT AT THE FORTHCOMING CONSULTATIONS WITH THE U.S. IN WASHINGTON ON FEBRUARY 4 THAT DISRUPTION OF OUR TRADE, IN THE FORM OF SHARPLY REDUCED ORDERS FOR 1985 KNITWEAR, HAS CONTINUED, MR MACLEOD SAID,
HE SAID THAT IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT TO FORECAST THE OUTCOME ON THE U.S. ORIGIN RULES ISSUE. IT SEEMED THAT THE ARGUMENTS STILL RAGED BOTH WITHIN AND OUTSIDE THE U.S. ADMINISTRATION, ON WHAT PRECISELY TO CONCLUDE IN THEIR REVIEWS OF THE REGULATIONS IN QUESTION.
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