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FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1988

THE MANUFACTURE OF LIGHT HONG KONG TENDED TO CONCENTRATE ON CONSUMER GOODS. RECENTLY THERE HAD BEEN AN OBVIOUS "UP-MARKET SURGE".

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NEEDED MODERN MANAGEMENT,

WAS

TO CONSOLIDATE THIS, THE TERRITORY TECHNOLOGIES, DESIGN, PROCESSES AND INNOVATION. THIS "INNOVATION" ESPECIALLY RELEVANT TO THE GARMENT INDUSTRY.

THE OWING TO

INDUSTRY'S

SHORT PRODUCTION

PROBLEMATIC

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RUNS

THE BELGIUM

AND LABOUR

FIELD AND OTHER

OF

INTENSITY, IT WAS PARTICULARLY AUTOMATISATION, HE SAID. IT WAS IN THIS AREA THAT EUROPEAN INVESTORS COULD MAKE THE BEST CONTRIBUTION.

GAVE

WITH THE WAS A

MR YEUNG WENT ON TO SAY THAT THE EUROPEAN MEDIA SOMETIMES

ECONOMY, "LAISSEZ-FAIRE" AS A AN IMAGE OF HONG KONG GOVERNMENT UNWILLING TO SUPPORT INDUSTRY. THIS, HE EMPHASISED, FALSE IMPRESSION.

WHILE IT WAS TRUE THAT THE

GAVE GOVERNMENT

A INDUSTRY COULD TO SUPPORT

FREE

IT.

INFRASTRUCTURE

AND

HAND TO RUN ITS AFFAIRS, IT DID EVERYTHING IT THIS SUPPORT FELL INTO TWO CATEGORIES: SUPPORT OF DEVELOPMENT.

KONG

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"UPGRADE

то

THIS NOT

INDUSTRY HAD HONG MR YEUNG FELT THAT SURVIVE" AND OVERSEAS INVESTORS COULD PLAY A SIGNIFICANT PART IN

INVESTMENT WAS IMPORTANT MOVE UP-MARKET. THE VALUE OF OVERSEAS

CREATION BUT ALSO IN THE TRANSFER AND ONLY IN THE SPHERE OF JOB DIFFUSION OF BENEFICIAL TECHNOLOGIES.

SMALL COUNTRIES SUCH AS

THUS, HE CONCLUDED, EVEN RELATIVELY BELGIUM AND THE NETHERLANDS COULD DO THEIR BIT IN THIS CAPACITY.

FORMER POSTMAN AWARDED ISM

AWARDED BEEN MR CHAN CHUNG-KHONG, A FORMER POSTMAN,

FOR HIS LOYAL AND INDUSTRIOUS IMPERIAL SERVICE MEDAL BY THE QUEEN SERVICE IN THE POST OFFICE.

HAS

THE

CHAN

MR CHAN WAS WITH THE POST OFFICE FOR OVER 34 YEARS.

POST OFFICE IN 1953. HE BECAME

REGRADED TO POSTMAN IN 1975. HE

A

MR CHAN (60) JOINED THE POSTMAN CLASS II IN 1956 AND WAS COMPLETED HIS SERVICE LAST MONTH,

A POST OFFICE SPOKESMAN SAID TODAY (FRIDAY) THAT MR CHAN'S LONG SERVICE WAS MARKED BY LOYALTY, DILIGENCE AND EFFICIENCY.

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