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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1991

IT WAS BOUGHT BY LEE MAY

BIDDING OPENED AT $100 MILLION.

INVESTMENTS LTD. AT $202 MILLION.

THE BUILDING COVENANT STIPULATES THAT A GROSS FLOOR AREA OF NOT

HAS то BE LESS THAN 46,000 SQUARE METRES

COMPLETED ON

BEFORE OR

DECEMBER 31, 1995.

THE AUCTION WAS HELD IN CITY HALL THEATRE AND WAS CONDUCTED GOVERNMENT LAND AGENT, MR LEUNG LOK-YIU.

BY

CONSULTATION ON MEASURES AGAINST LEAVING

CHILDREN UNATTENDED DUE TO EXPIRE * * * * *

REMINDED

A SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN TODAY (TUESDAY) THE PUBLIC TO SUBMIT THEIR VIEWS ON MEASURES TO PREVENT CHILDREN FROM PUBLIC CONSULTATION EXERCISE BEING LEFT UNATTENDED AT HOME BEFORE A EXPIRES BY THE END OF THIS MONTH.

THE DIRECTOR "VIEWS AND SUGGESTIONS ON THE ISSUE SHOULD REACH

THE SPOKESMAN SAID. OF SOCIAL WELFARE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE,

"

HE

RECALLED

A

SPATE

FATAL OF

ACCIDENTS THEIR HOMES, THERE HAD

THAT FOLLOWING INVOLVING CHILDREN BEING LEFT UNATTENDED AT BEEN WIDESPREAD PUBLIC CONCERN OVER THE ISSUE.

"THE RECURRENCE OF SUCH

CHILDREN

HAS MISHAPS

PROMPTED CALLS BEING LEFT FROM

UNATTENDED,"

ON THE THE

GOVERNMENT TO PREVENT SPOKESMAN NOTED.

A PUBLIC CONSULTATION EXERCISE WAS,

THEREFORE,

OCTOBER THIS YEAR TO INVITE VIEWS AND OPINIONS ON HOW PROBLEM, HE ADDED.

LAUNCHED FROM TO TACKLE THE

SO DEPARTMENT.

FAR

ABOUT

45

SUBMISSIONS

HAVE

BEEN

RECEIVED

BY

THE

272 VOLUNTARY RETURNEES BACK TO VIETNAM

* *

A GROUP OF 272 VIETNAMESE MIGRANTS TODAY (TUESDAY) RETURNED VIETNAM UNDER THE UNHCR'S VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION PROGRAMME.

COMPRISING 97 MEN, 61 WOMEN,

то

60 BOYS AND 54

GIRLS, THEY WERE

THE 82ND BATCH TO GO BACK UNDER THE PROGRAMME.

THE TOTAL NUMBER OF VIETNAMESE THIS GROUP BROUGHT TO 7,403

TO 13,722 THE MIGRANTS WHO HAVE RETURNED VOLUNTARILY THIS YEAR, AND TOTAL NUMBER OF RETURNEES SINCE THE PROGRAMME STARTED IN MARCH 1989.

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