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FRIDAY, JUNE 22,

BE

DESIGNS

A CODE OF PRACTICE AND APPROPRIATE BUILDING REGULATIONS MAY INTRODUCED FOLLOWING THE STUDY TO ENSURE THAT FUTURE BUILDING CAN BE ENERGY EFFICIENT AS WELL AS AESTHETICALLY PLEASANT.

ARE

FROM BEFORE

FIRMS

THE

AT

BEING INVITED INITIAL PROPOSALS

CONSULTANT PACKAGES ON OR

JULY 20 TO WHICH SHOULD RETURN THEIR ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT'S CONTRACTS SECTION, ROOM 811, 98 CAROLINE HILL ROAD, CAUSEWAY BAY.

THE DEPARTMENT MAY

CALL FOR A

DETAILED PROPOSAL AFTER SHORT-LISTING SUITABLE FIRMS FROM THE INITIAL PROPOSALS RECEIVED.

RS SPEAKS ON HONG KONG-JAPAN LINKS

THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC LINKS BETWEEN HONG KONG AND JAPAN

APPROACHES STRENGTHEN FURTHER AS THE TERRITORY DEVELOPMENT.

A

ERA NEW

WILL FOR ITS

REGIONAL SECRETARY FOR VISITING JAPANESE

THIS WAS THE MESSAGE DELIVERED BY THE HONG KONG AND KOWLOON, MR DAVID LAN, TO A GROUP OF BUSINESSMEN TODAY (FRIDAY).

TIES WITH JAPAN.

"HONG KONG, BEING AN INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS, TREASURES

NEIGHBOURS, PARTICULARLY ITS COUNTRIES, OVERSEAS

CLOSE

LIKE

WAY TOWARDS

"FURTHER STRENGTHENING OF THE TIES WILL GO A LONG HELPING HONG KONG TO FURTHER PROSPER AND TO MAINTAIN ITS POSITION AS A REGIONAL HUB," HE SAID.

-

HEADED

BY THAT THE

OF MR TAKASHI UEHARA EXISTING LINK BETWEEN

MR LAN TOLD HIS VISITORS THE LONG-TERM CREDIT BANK OF JAPAN THE TERRITORY AND JAPAN WAS ALREADY STRONG.

ABOUT

BY THE GROWING ECONOMIC "THIS HAS BEEN BROUGHT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HONG KONG AND JAPAN OVER THE YEARS. AS A RESULT, THE JAPANESE COMMUNITY HAS GROWN RAPIDLY FROM ABOUT 7,000 IN SOME 12,000 NOW.

1980 TO

SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENT INTERNATIONAL "APART FROM PROVIDING AN

SHOWN GREAT INTEREST THEIR OWN CHILDREN, THE JAPANESE COMMUNITY HAS IN THE GENERAL WELL-BEING OF THE TERRITORY.

BUILDING

AND OF THE

||

HE NOTED.

PARTICIPATED IN COMMUNITY "THEY HAVE ACTIVELY CHARITABLE WORK, SUCH AS TAKING PART IN THE WALKS-FOR-MILLION COMMUNITY CHEST AND HOLDING CHARITABLE CONCERTS,

MR LAN SAID EACH JAPANESE FAMILY IN HONG KONG WAS AN AND EXCHANGES CULTURAL

IMPORTANT PROMOTING

SOCIAL LINK, CONTRIBUTING TOWARDS FRIENDSHIP AND UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE PEOPLES OF THE TWO PLACES.

/"ALSO HELPING