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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1989

THE GOVERNMENT HAD

OF

APPROVED STUDENTS

1991.

HE

GLAD HE SAID THAT WHILE HE WAS FUNDS TO INCREASE SUBSTANTIALLY THE INTAKE

SOCIAL WORK

ΤΟ INTO THE TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS EACH YEAR FROM THIS YEAR

ΤΟ FELT IT WAS EQUALLY IMPORTANT TO DEVISE MEASURES

EXISTING RETAIN

THE VOLUNTARY RESOURCES BOTH IN THE SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT AND IN SECTOR.

SUGGESTED

THAT SERVICE

ΤΟ DEAL WITH THE ISSUE AT SOURCE, HE CONSIDERATION SHOULD BE GIVEN TO IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF OF SOCIAL WORKERS, ESPECIALLY TO BRINGING THE PROMOTION PROSPECTS FRINGE

THE OF

SUBVENTED SECTOR IN LINE WITH COUNTERPARTS IN THE CIVIL SERVICE.

BENEFITS

AND

THEIR

PROPOSAL FOR BICAMERAL SYSTEM CRITICISED

KONG "HONG CONTROL" IF THE THE HON MARTIN LEE

HONG

THE ONCE BEAUTIFUL DREAM OF HONG KONG PEOPLE RULING WITH A HIGH DEGREE OF AUTONOMY WOULD SOON BECOME A NIGHTMARE OF KONG PUPPETS RULING HONG KONG WITH A HIGH DEGREE OF PROPOSED BICAMERAL POLITICAL SYSTEM IS ADOPTED, SAID IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

OF MR LEE SAID IN THE POLICY DEBATE THE NOTION

"ONE COUNTRY, TWO SYSTEMS" WOULD BECOME "ONE COUNTRY, NO SYSTEM" UNDER THE BICAMERAL SYSTEM.

CORNERSTONE OF KONG WERE

THE HE SAID FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY CONSTITUTED THE JOINT DECLARATION. BUT REGRETTABLY SOME PEOPLE IN HONG QUITE PREPARED TO SACRIFICE SOME OF THE FREEDOMS TO PLEASE THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT.

"HENCE THE RECENT SUGGESTION FROM SOME OF OUR OPINION LEADERS

KONG THAT THE HONG

ALLIANCE IN SUPPORT OF PATRIOTIC DEMOCRATIC WERE TO MOVEMENT OF CHINA BE WOUND UP, THINKING NAIVELY THAT IF THAT HAPPEN, CHINA WOULD GIVE US EVERYTHING ELSE, HE SAID.

T

HE SAID IT WOULD BE VERY SAD INDEED IF THE HONG KONG ALLIANCE FOR CHINA ALSO WERE TO BE WOUND UP SIMPLY BECAUSE CHINA WISHED IT WISHED TO CONTROL THE PRESS AND, INDEED, ALL THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG.

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AND MAKE SURE

IN

UNITED "WHAT WE MUST DO THEREFORE IS TO STAND THAT NO ONE IN HONG KONG WILL LOSE ANY OF OUR FREEDOMS, BELIEF THAT IF TODAY WE DO NOTHING WHEN ONE FREEDOM IS DENIED

ALL OF OF OUR BRETHREN, THEN TOMORROW IT WILL BE DENIED TO SAID.

THE FIRM

TO ANY

us,

中中

HE

OF

OF LAW AND

HONG EQUAL

HE SAID THE MAJOR FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE SUCCESS

FREE MARKET ITS

ECONOMY, THE RULE KONG WERE OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL.

/FURTHER, THE