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THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1990

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SHING MUN TUNNELS LEAFLET PUBLISHED

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THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT HAS PUBLISHED A LEAFLET ON THE SHING MUN TUNNELS TO COINCIDE WITH THE OPENING OF THE NEW (THURSDAY).

FACILITY

TODAY

IT CONTAINS INFORMATION ON ROUTEINGS, TOLL, AND TUNNEL PERMIT AND VEHICLE REMOVAL FEES OF THE NEW TUNNELS, WITH DETAILED ROUTE OF BOTH THE SHA TIN AND TSUEN WAN ENTRANCES AND EXITS.

THE BUS SERVICES INTRODUCED BY KOWLOON SERVING THE NEW TUNNELS ARE ALSO LISTED.

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MOTOR BUS COMPANY

COPIES OF THE BILINGUAL LEAFLET ARE BEING DISTRIBUTED FREE OF CHARGE TO THE PUBLIC THROUGH ALL DISTRICT OFFICES OF THE CITY AND NEW TERRITORIES ADMINISTRATION AND THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT'S LICENSING OFFICES.

COPIES HAVE ALSO BEEN DISTRIBUTED TO MOTORISTS USING THE LION ROCK TUNNEL.

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BRINGING IN SKILLED PEOPLE TO DEAL WITH BRAIN DRAIN': CS

ONE OF THE WAYS IN WHICH THE "BRAIN DRAIN" PROBLEM DEALT WITH IN HONG KONG IS TO BRING IN SKILLED PEOPLE FROM FILL THE GAPS LEFT BY THOSE WHO HAVE EMIGRATED, THE CHIEF SIR DAVID FORD, SAID IN TOKYO TODAY (THURSDAY).

IS BEING ABROAD TO SECRETARY,

SAID MANY

ADDRESSING THE JAPAN/HONG KONG SOCIETY, SIR DAVID HONG KONG EMPLOYERS WERE NOW DOING THIS AND THAT THE GOVERNMENT WAS DEALING WITH APPLICATIONS FLEXIBLY.

THE CHIEF SECRETARY POINTED OUT THAT A QUARTER OF THE PEOPLE WHO EMIGRATED FROM HONG KONG LAST YEAR WERE PEOPLE PROFESSIONAL, TECHNICAL, ADMINISTRATIVE AND MANAGERIAL CATEGORY.

42,000 IN THE

"THIS BRAIN DRAIN IS A DIFFICULT PROBLEM FOR HONG KONG SINCE: FIRSTLY, PEOPLE ARE OUR MOST VALUABLE RESOURCE; SECONDLY, THERE IS VIRTUALLY NO UNEMPLOYMENT; AND THIRDLY, THE LOSS OF TRAINED HUMAN RESOURCES, ACCOMPANIED BY CONSTANT AND WIDESPREAD PUBLICITY, PUTS HONG KONG IN

AN UNFAVOURABLE LIGHT AND EFFECTS THE CONFIDENCE PLACED IN HONG KONG BY PEOPLE BOTH AT HOME AND ABROAD, SIR DAVID SAID.

"BUT WE CANNOT STOP PEOPLE LEAVING. FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT IS FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT, AND THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS FREEDOMS NOT ONLY EXISTS NOW BUT IS ALSO GUARANTEED

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