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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1992

FROM THE 46TH FLOOR OF CENTRAL PLAZA IN HARBOUR ROAD SIR TOOK A PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE DISTRICT.

DAVID

WILL

ADD ANOTHER

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"I AM TOLD THAT ONCE COMPLETED LATER THIS YEAR, THIS

FOURTH HIGHEST BUILDING WILL BE THE TALLEST IN ASIA AND THE

TO OUR WORLD. THIS IMPRESSIVE SKYLINE, SIR DAVID SAID.

SPECIAL

FEATURE

78-STOREY IN THE ALREADY

BEFORE

RECEPTION WHERE HE

CONCLUDING

MET

SIR VISIT, HIS

OF THE MEMBERS

DAVID ATTENDED DISTRICT BOARD

A AND LOCAL

TEA

DIGNITARIES.

BUSINESS SURVEY RESULTS FOR FOURTH QUARTER 1991 RELEASED

THE FOURTH IN THE THIRD THE QUARTERLY

BUSINESS SITUATION IN THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR IN QUARTER OF LAST YEAR WAS IN GENERAL SIMILAR TO THAT

LAST

RESULTS OF QUARTER OF

YEAR, ACCORDING TO THE

BY (THURSDAY} RELEASED TODAY BUSINESS SURVEY STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

THE CENSUS

EXPECT

THE

AND

BUSINESS

OF THIS YEAR ARE USUALLY

LOOKING AHEAD, MANUFACTURERS GENERALLY SITUATION TO BE LESS FAVOURABLE IN THE FIRST QUARTER COMPARED WITH THE FOURTH QUARTER OF LAST YEAR, AS THERE LESS NEW ORDERS AFTER THE CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR DELIVERIES.

ABOUT 1,000 FIRMS FROM VARIOUS INDUSTRIES AND TRADES, FORMING A CROSS-SECTION OF THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY, PARTICIPATED IN THE SURVEY.

THEY WERE

EXPERIENCES AND

ASKED ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS EXPECTATIONS AS WELL AS THE BUSINESS PROBLEMS THEY FACED.

THE INDUSTRIES WHICH EXPERIENCED AN IMPROVEMENT IN BUSINESS IN

INCLUDED FOURTH QUARTER OF 1991 COMPARED WITH THE PRECEDING QUARTER

CLOCKS THE WEARING

INDUSTRIES,

APPAREL,

THE

PRINTING,

AND THE

WATCHES

AND

EXPERIENCED BEVERAGE AND TOBACCO

ON THE OTHER HAND, A DETERIORATION IN BUSINESS WAS IN THE TEXTILES, THE PLASTICS AND THE FOOD, INDUSTRIES.

AS FOR INDUSTRIES OTHER THAN THOSE MENTIONED REMAINED SIMILAR IN THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1991.

AS

THE BUSINESS PROSPECTS FOR THE REGARDS

1992, FIRMS IN MOST MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES

ABOVE, BUSINESS

FIRST QUARTER OF SURVEYED EXPECT THE WITH THE FOURTH

BUSINESS SITUATION TO BE LESS FAVOURABLE COMPARED QUARTER OF 1991.

HOWEVER, FIRMS IMPROVEMENT IN BUSINESS.

IN

THE ELECTRONICS

INDUSTRY

A EXPECT

MILD

/IN THE

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