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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1987

HONG KONG OFFERS EXTENSIVE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES FOR GERMANY

SERVICES PACIFIC

IN HONG SECTORS, IN COLOGNE

A

THERE ARE EXTENSIVE OPPORTUNITIES FOR GERMAN BUSINESS

THE

AND IN PARTICULARLY

CONSTRUCTION KONG,

CENTRE WAS TOLD LUNCHEON MEETING OF THE ASIAN EARLIER THIS WEEK.

WAS THE

KONG'S IN HIS THE JOINT

MINISTER FOR HONG SPEAKING AT THE LUNCHEON ECONOMIC RELATIONS WITH THE EEC, MR STEUART WEBB-JOHNSON, WHO SPEECH ALSO DREW ATTENTION TO THE DEVELOPMENTS IN HONG KONG OVER

ΤΟ THE THREE PAST DECLARATION.

YEARS AND IN

PARTICULAR

SINO-BRITISH

MR WEBB-JOHNSON SAID IMPORTS FROM GERMANY INTO GROWN BY 30 PER CENT IN THE FIRST HALF OF THIS YEAR.

HONG

KONG HAD

THE MANY AGREEMENT

ON THE SINO-BRITISH JOINT DECLARATION, HE POINTED TO ΤΟ HONOUR THE ASSURANCES GIVEN BY CHINA OF ITS INTENTION AND THE RESULTING RETURN OF CONFIDENCE TO HONG KONG'S ECONOMY.

POINTING TO HONG

ROLE KONG'S

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CHINA, POSITION CHINA SHOULD NOT BE

ΤΟ

AS

GATEWAY TERRITORY'S GEOGRAPHICAL MR WEBB-JOHNSON STRESSED THAT THE AND LOCALLY AVAILABLE EXPERTISE IN TRADE WITH OVERLOOKED BY BUSINESSES LOOKING TO ESTABLISH A BASE IN THE REGION.

A

CENTRAL ORGANISATION

FOR

THE ASIAN PACIFIC CENTRE ACTS AS THOSE WISHING TO ACQUIRE INFORMATION AND WHO SEEK CONTACTS OR ADVICE 150 IT COMPRISES PACIFIC-REGION. ASTAN ON THE COUNTRIES OF THE MEMBERS, MAINLY MEDIUM-SIZED FIRMS.

0

SECOND TUBE OF JUNK BAY TUNNEL BREAKTHROUGH

(SATURDAY) MOVED A

SECOND

CONSTRUCTION OF THE JUNK BAY TUNNEL TODAY FURTHER STEP CLOSER TO COMPLETION WITH THE BREAKTHROUGH OF THE TUBE OF THE TUNNEL.

OFFICIATING AT THE BREAKTHROUGH

CEREMONY

WAS THE

PROJECT

MANAGER/NEW TERRITORIES BOUTH OF THE TERRITORY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, MR C.K. CHOW.

PROVIDE A TWO-LANE

TWIN-TUBE TUNNEL THE 900-METRE WHEN COMPLETED IN 1990,

DIRECTIONS VEHICULAR ACCESS IN BOTH

AS WELL AS A BURGEONING JUNK BAY NEW TOWN TO KWUN TONG UTILITY SERVICES INCLUDING LARGE-DIAMETER WATER MAINS.

WILL FROM THE ROUTE

FOR

/ITS CONSTRUCTION