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MONDAY, JULY 15, 1991

ON SUPERCOMPUTING, PROF POON SAID THERE WAS

DECISION

NO

PRESSING NEED ON WHETHER SUPERCOMPUTING FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO TAKE A

ROLE OF THE GOVERNMENT. FACILITIES SHOULD BE INSTALLED AND THE SAID THIS WOULD BE RESOLVED NATURALLY IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS.

HE

IT WAS

AS FOR THE IT ENVIRONMENT AND MANPOWER, PROF POON SAID

THE BASE ON WHICH NOTED THAT HONG KONG WAS WELL PLACED IN TERMS OF COMPETITIVE IT USAGE COULD BE BUILT.

POTENTIAL "LOOKING AT THE

THE SHORTAGE, MANPOWER

MEET

THE

COMMITTEE VOCATIONAL TRAINING CONSULTANT'S

NOTED THAT INCREASES IN THE NUMBER OF IT RELATED

COULD PLACES AND HIGHER EDUCATION RECOMMENDATIONS FOR EXPANSION IN THESE AREAS.

"THE COMMITTEE ADVISES THAT A GROUP BE FORMED TO CONSIDERATION TO THE CHANNELLING OF INDUSTRY VIEWS INTO OF IT-RELATED HIGHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING," HE SAID.

GIVE FURTHER THE PLANNING

WOULD ALL GIVEN

OF

MOVING ON TO TOXIC SUBSTANCE CONTROLS, PROF POON SAID IT

ON TOXIC SUBSTANCES IN BE UNREALISTIC TO INTRODUCE CONTROLS HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS AT THIS STAGE THOUGH CONSIDERATION SHOULD BE TO THE INTRODUCTION OF LEGISLATION TO CONTROL SPECIFIED CATEGORIES HOUSEHOLD CHEMICALS WHOSE TOXIC EFFECTS COULD BE ACUTE.

TECHNOLOGY, PROF POON AND ON THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE

UNDERTAKEN, OF EXISTING ACTIVITIES THAT FOLLOWING A SURVEY COMMITTEE CONCLUDED THAT A GREAT DEAL OF ACTIVITY HAD BEEN

SAID THE

IN

EDUCATION, INFORMAL SCIENCE REPRESENTING ONE MAJOR INITIATIVE.

WITH

THE

NEW

SCIENCE

UNDERTAKEN MUSEUM

"CO-ORDINATION,

FORMAL CO-ORDINATION

INCREASE AWARENESS OF SUCH ACTIVITIES.

HOWEVER, WOULD BE

IS

RELATIVELY INAPPROPRIATE,

LIMITED

AND,

WHILE

THERE IS SCOPE ΤΟ

"ALONG

THESE

LINES,

THE COMMITTEE

HAS RECOMMENDED THE ACTIVITIES IN THE PRODUCTIVITY ΤΟ INCLUDE RELEVANT

INCLUSION OF A CALENDER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SCIENCE MUSEUM NEWSLETTER AND THE EXTENSION OF HONG KONG COUNCIL'S

DATABASE

OF

INFORMATION," HE SAID.

TRAINING

PROGRAMMES

0

PROVISIONAL RESULTS OF FIRST QUARTER SURVEY

OF RESTAURANT RECEIPTS AND PURCHASES RELEASED

THE VALUE OF TOTAL RECEIPTS FOR THE ENTIRE RESTAURANT SECTOR IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1991, ESTIMATED AT $9,232 MILLION, WAS 7% HIGHER THAN IN THE SAME QUARTER OF 1990, WHILE THE VOLUME ACCORDING ΤΟ THE PROVISIONAL RESULTS OF (MONDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

WAS 6X A SURVEY RELEASED

LOWER,

TODAY

IN

REPRESENTING A

5%

THE PROVISIONAL ESTIMATE OF TOTAL PURCHASES BY RESTAURANTS THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1991 WAS $3,621 MILLION, INCREASE IN VALUE TERMS OVER THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1990.

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