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THE DIVIDENDS PAID TO DATE ARE:

WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1993

1990

1991

1992

DIVIDENDS

$125M

$140M

$150M

%

ON TURNOVER

% ON NET PROFIT

7.9% 20.0%

7.6%

7.0%

31.0%

28.4%

NO PLAN TO REVISE POLICY ON POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENTS

THE

GROUPS POLITICAL

HAVE NO

BEEN

то ALLOWED

USE RADIO ADVERTISEMENTS FOR PUBLICITY PURPOSES SINCE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF

AUTHORITY IN BROADCASTING

FOR RECREATION 1987, THE SECRETARY CULTURE, MR JAMES SO, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

AND

IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY DR THE HON CONRAD LAM

OF DEFINITION MR SHING,

SO SAID THERE WAS NO STATUTORY "POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT".

KUI-

THE TERM

WAS

REGARD

TO

HOWEVER, HE SAID IN CONSIDERING WHETHER AN ADVERTISEMENT

HAVE POLITICAL IN

THE AUTHORITY WOULD NORMALLY NATURE, WHETHER THE PROPOSED ADVERTISEMENT CONTAINED MATERIAL:

*

INDUCING

THE

PUBLIC

ΤΟ VOTE FOR A POLITICAL GROUPING OR AN INDIVIDUAL IN AN ELECTION;

PARTICULAR

SEEKING TO PROMOTE THE INTERESTS OF ANY POLITICAL WHETHER OR NOT IN CONNECTION WITH AN ELECTION; OR

GROUPING

*

COMMENTING POLICIES TERRITORY.

ON

OR OF THE HONG

ADVOCATING

CHANGE

THE KONG GOVERNMENT OR

IN

ACTIONS

ANY

OR OTHER

"THE NEED

KINDS OF

OF THE

PARTICULAR TO OBTAIN PRIOR APPROVAL FOR ADVERTISEMENT IS NOT IN ITSELF INCONSISTENT WITH ARTICLE 16 BILLS OF RIGHT ORDINANCE, SO THE GOVERNMENT HAS NO PLAN TO REVISE THIS REQUIREMENT ON THESE GROUNDS," MR SO SAID.

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