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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1991

MORE DEMAND FOR INT'L SCHOOL PLACES ENVISAGED

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LIKELY THERE IS

A SURGE IN DEMAND FOR

SCHOOL PLACES INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS FOLLOWING THE THE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING ON THE PROJECTS.

MORE

EXPATRIATE

"THIS IS BECAUSE

BY

GENERATED

MEGA-SIZED COMMERCIAL INTERNATIONAL

NEW AIRPORT

IN

SIGNING OF AND RELATED

PROFESSIONALS AND

PERHAPS

то

AND

BY

THE DIRECTOR

OF

RETURNED EMIGRANTS WILL BE COMING WITH THEIR FAMILIES TO HONG KONG FILL JOBS

DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS, EXPANDING

ACTIVITIES, EDUCATION, MR LI YUET-TING, SAID TODAY (THURSDAY).

USE

MR LI MADE THESE REMARKS AT THE DEDICATION CEREMONY OF THE

SCHOOL BY THE OF THE KENNEDY ROAD JUNIOR

HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL

SCHOOL.

HONG MR LI SAID HE UNDERSTOOD THE HAD ANOTHER EXPANSION PROJECT AT TAI TAM.

WILL

KONG

KONG

INTERNATIONAL

SCHOOL

MOST FOR THE

TIMELY AND UNDOUBTEDLY

NEEDS

GROWING OF A

"THESE EXPANSION PROGRAMMES ARR ASSIST HONG

ΤΟ PROVIDE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, THUS MAKING THE TERRITORY MORE ATTRACTIVE TO FOREIGN INVESTORS, HE SAID.

"

KONG'S FUTURE, IT WAS MR LI SAID APART FROM HONG

ESSENTIAL THE EDUCATION. THAT THE TERRITORY ALWAYS ATTACHED GREAT IMPORTANCE TO OF THE YOUNGER GENERATION WITHOUT REGARD TO RACE, NATIONALITY AND CREED.

AIR QUALITY REPORT FOR AUGUST RELEASED

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THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION DEPARTMENT (EPD) TODAY (THURSDAY) RELEASED AIR QUALITY INFORMATION FOR AUGUST AS OBTAINED AT ITS MONG KOK, CENTRAL/WESTERN AND KWAI CHUNG MONITORING STATIONS.

THIS IS THE SECOND MONTHLY ANNOUNCEMENT MADE BY THE DEPARTMENT. SIMILAR ANNOUNCEMENTS WILL BE MADE REGULARLY.

TOWARDS THE END OF AUGUST, HONG KONG EXPERIENCED AN EPISODE OF HIGH AIR POLLUTION BROUGHT ABOUT BY A PERIOD OF LIGHT WINDS AND STABLE ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS, WHICH TENDED TO INHIBIT DISPERSION.

AS A RESULT, HONG KONG'S HEALTH-RELATED DAILY NITROGEN DIOXIDE AIR QUALITY OBJECTIVE OF 150 MICROGRAMS PER CUBIC METER WAS EXCEEDED AT THE MONG KOK STATION ON AUGUST 22 AND 23.

ALSO, THE HOURLY AIR QUALITY OBJECTIVE OF 300 MICROGRAMS PER CUBIC METER WAS EXCEEDED ONCE ON EACH OF THESE TWO DAYS AT THIS STATION.

(NO2),

SIGNIFICANTLY HIGH LEVELS OF THE GASES NITROGEN DIOXIDE SULPHUR DIOXIDE (SO2), AS WELL AS SOLID PARTICLES AS REPRESENTED BY TOTAL SUSPENDED PARTICULATES (TSP) AND RESPIRABLE SUSPENDED PARTICULATES (RSP), WERE RECORDED AT ALL THREE MONITORING STATIONS FOR THE PERIOD AUGUST 19 TO AUGUST 24.

/AN EPD