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FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1990

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AG RETURNS TO HK AFTER ATTENDING CONFERENCES

KONG THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, MR JEREMY MATHEWS, RETURNED TO HONG

THE

LAW CONFERENCE COMMONWEALTH

IN ATTENDED HAVING THIS EVENING

COMMONWEALTH LAW AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND, LAST WEEK AND THE MEETING OF MINISTERS IN CHRISTCHURCH THIS WEEK.

IN HONG KONG 9 CONSIDERABLE

DURING THE COMMONWEALTH LAW CONFERENCE, MR MATHEWS SPOKE ON THE

WELL AS ON DEVELOPMENTS DRAFT BILL OF RIGHTS, AS

MATTERS. REFORM ARBITRATION LAW AND ON LAW INTEREST SHOWN IN THE BILL OF RIGHTS.

THERE WAS

DURING THE LAW MINISTERS INTERESTED IN HONG KONG'S LAWS ON THE FREEZING

CONSIDERABLE HONG ASSETS AND IMPRESSED BY FIELD.

MEETING,

MANY AND

KONG'S

DELEGATES WERE SEIZURE OF DRUG IN THIS SUCCESS

THERE

WAS ALSO A

BILINGUAL IN THE LOT OF INTEREST

LEGAL DEPARTMENT'S SOPHISTICATED PROGRAMME, AND PARTICULARLY IN THE COMPUTER USED IN DRAFTING.

LAW

FOR THE SUBJECTS "THESE MEETINGS ARE VERY VALUABLE, NOT ONLY

DISTINGUISHED JUDGES, LAWYERS DISCUSSED AND THE PRESENCE OF SO MANY

OF BUT ALSO BECAUSE

THE UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY THEY AND ACADEMICS,

AND JUDGES AND PRESENT TO MEET A WIDE RANGE OF COMMONWEALTH LAWYERS

FACING LAWYERS TODAY TO EXCHANGE THOUGHTS ON THE PRACTICAL PROBLEMS AND THEIR SOLUTIONS.

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A COMMON "THESE MEETINGS UNDERLINE THE FACT THAT HONG KONG IS

COMMON LAW WORLD, MR MATHEWS LAW JURISDICTION AND IS PART OF THE SAID.

DROP IN NUMBER OF NEW TB CASES

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THERE HAS BEEN A CONTINUOUS DROP IN THE NUMBER OF NEW TUBERCULOSIS CASES OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS IN HONG KONG.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE HONG KONG TUBERCULOSIS, CHEST AND HEART DISEASES ASSOCIATION, DR S.H. LEE, SAID THIS AT THE ASSOCIATION'S ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING TODAY (FRIDAY).

HE SAID THERE WAS A TOTAL OF 6,704 NEW TUBERCULOSIS CASES LAST YEAR WITH A NOTIFICATION RATE OF 116.4 PER 100,000 POPULATION, COMPARED WITH 7,021 CASES AND A NOTIFICATION RATE OF 123.6 IN 1988.

/THE FIGURES