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MONDAY, MAY 10, 1993
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INSTEAD, AFTER TREATMENT AT SAN WAT TREATMENT WORKS, SEWAGE WILL BE CONVEYED SOME 15 KILOMETRES BY PIPES AND TUNNEL THROUGH RANGE OF HILLS FOR DISPOSAL INIO KPLATIVELY OPEN WATERS HE SAID.
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HE POINTED OUT THAT THE TREATED EFFLUENT DISCHARGED BY 30 DIFFUSERS IN THE SUBMARINE OUTFALL WILGE MEN WITH THE SURROUNDING SEA WATER.
"THIS WILL DILUTE THE SEWAGE BEFORE IT IS CARRIED AWAY FROM HONG KONG BY SEA CURRENT.
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IN THIS WAY, THE COASTAL AND MARINE ENVIRONMENT, IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD AND ESPECIALLY AT DEEP BAY, WILL NOT BE AFFECTED, PROFESSOR WANG ADDED.
SECRETARY FOR SECURITY RETURNS FROM VIETNAM
THE SECRETARY FOR SECURITY, MR ALISTAIR ASPREY, HAS RETURNED FROM VIETNAM FOLLOWING A SEVEN-DAY VISIT THERE.
"MR ASPREY HAS HAD A VERY USEFUL EXCHANGE OF VIEWS WITH THE VARIOUS MINISTRIES IN VIETNAM OVER THE VIETNAMESE MIGRANTS PROBLEM
IN HONG KONG," A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN SAID TODAY (MONDAY).
MR ASPREY LEFT HONG KONG FOR VIETNAM ON MAY 2 AND VISITED HO CHI MINH CITY AND HANOI.
HE MET SENIOR OFFICIALS AT BOTH THE PROVINCIAL AND CENTRAL LEVELS AND DISCUSSED WITH THEM A WIDE RANGE OF ISSUES CONCERNING VIETNAMESE MIGRANTS, INCLUDING THE PROGRESS ON THE REPATRIATION OF THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN SCREENED OUT AS NON-REFUGEES.
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НЕ ALSO VISITED SOME OF THE RETURNEES SENT HOME UNDER THE ORDERLY REPATRIATION PROGRAMME AND WAS BRIEFED ON THE MEASURES TO REINTEGRATE THEM BACK INTO THEIR COMMUNITIES.
MR ASPREY RETURNED TO HONG KONG ON SATURDAY (MAY 8).
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POSSESSING ENDANGERED SPECIES WITHOUT LICENCE AN OFFENCE
MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ARF TODAY (MONDAY) REMINDED THAT POSSESSING ENDANGERED SPECIES WITHOUT VALID LICENCES ISSUED BY THE AGRICULTURE AND FISHER| ES DEPARTMENT IS AN OFFENCE PUNISHABLE BY HEAVY PENALTIES.
THE REMINDER WAS
ISSURD BY THE DEPARTMENT'S SENIOR CONSERVATION OFFICER, MR CHEUNG MAN-KWONG, AFTER CUSTOMS OFFICERS SEIZED AN ORANG UTAN FROM A SAILOR ON BOARD A CARGO SHIP IN TRANSIT THROUGH HONG KONG ON FRIDAY.
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