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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1990
AND IS ALSO
AMERICAN
"WE HAVE JUST LET A FRANCHISE FOR A TERRITORY-WIDE CABLE TV NETWORK. THIS WILL INVOLVE INVESTMENT OF US$700 MILLION
BY A PRIVATE CONSORTIUM INCLUDING AN CORPORATION, US WEST, WHO HAVE A 25 PER CENT STAKE.
BEING
UNDERTAKEN
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"THERE ARE ALSO PLANS TO FURTHER EXPAND OUR ROAD NETWORKS, HE SAID.
AND RAIL
"AND WE SHALL BE SPENDING US$2.5 BILLION OVER THE NEXT 10 AND YEARS ON ENVIRONMENT RELATED PROJECTS, INCLUDING A HUGE EXPANSION
AND WE SHALL BE BUILDING UPGRADING OF THE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM.
NOW BETWEEN
AND THE YEAR 2001, 527,000 PUBLIC SECTOR APARTMENTS MR JOHNSON ADDED.
"
TURNING TO EDUCATION, MR JOHNSON NOTED THAT HONG KONG WAS EMBARKING ON A DRAMATIC EXPANSION OF THE TERTIARY SECTOR.
"WE INTEND THAT IN 1995 THE NUMBER OF FIRST YEAR, FIRST INSTITUTIONS SHALL DEGREE PLACES IN HONG KONG UNIVERSITIES AND OTHER BE 15,000, COMPARED WITH 7,000 IN 1990.
"THE NUMBER OF SUR-DEGREE VOCATIONAL TRAINING PLACES IS BEING SIMILARLY INCREASED.
"WE BELIEVE, HOWEVER, THAT IT IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SKILLED TASKS CONFRONTING US IF HONG KONG IS TO HAVE THE EDUCATED AND LABOUR FORCE. IN ALL SECTORS, NEEDED ΤΟ ENSURE OUR CONTINUING OUR LONGER PROSPERITY IN YEARS TO COME. IT IS TRULY AN INVESTMENT IN TERM FUTURE," HE SAID.
"THIS I
HOPE
GIVES SOME
IDEA OF THE THE
THE COMMITMENT BY GOVERNMENT AND BY MAJOR PLAYERS IN
PRIVATE SECTOR TO ENSURING THAT HONG KONG IS PROVIDED WITH THE MEANS TO CONTINUE OPERATING AS INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS CENTRE AT AND ABOVE PRESENT LEVELS INTO THE 21ST CENTURY," MR JOHNSON SAID.
AN
UNTIL WELL
DB TO DISCUSS FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION
* *
THE
KWAI TSING DISTRICT BOARD WILL
AND DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT OF DISTRICT BOARDS MEETING TOMORROW (THURSDAY 1.
DISCUSS
THE FUTURE ADMINISTRATION AT ITS
CAUSED BY
BY
VEHICULAR
MEMBERS WILL DISCUSS THE NOISE POLLUTION PROBLEM CAUSED LARGE COTTON MILLS AT CASTLE PEAK ROAD AND THAT TRAFFIC AT CHEUNG ON AND CHEUNG FAT ESTATES ON TRING YI.
/ALSO, THEY
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