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FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1994

TABLE 5: CARGO LOADED ONTO OUTGOING OCEAN-GOING VESSELS BY THE TOP 10 PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES

COMMODITY GROUP

1ST QUARTER

1994

% CHANGE OVER 1ST QUARTER 1993

('000 TONNE)

OTHER MANUFACTURED GOODS CLASSIFIED

CHIEFLY BY MATERIAL

735

+37

MACHINERY

730

+15

OTHER MANUFACTURED ARTICLES

482

- 1

PETROLEUM, PETROLEUM PRODUCTS

405

+162

AND RELATED MATERIALS

ARTICLES OF APPAREL AND CLOTHING

351

+16

ACCESSORIES

TEXTILE YARN, FABRICS, MADE-UP

342

-9

ARTICLES AND RELATED PRODUCTS

FOOTWEAR

TOYS

OTHER CHEMICALS AND RELATED PRODUCTS ARTIFICIAL RESINS AND PLASTIC MATERIALS

NOTE: CARGO LOADED INCLUDES SEABORNE

TRANSHIPMENT.

EXPORTS

285

+22

265

+10

258

+43

245

+29

AND SEABORNE

OUTWARD

JOINT OPERATIONS AGAINST SALE OF PORNOGRAPHIC PUBLICATION SUCCESSFUL

* * *

JOINT OPERATIONS CONDUCTED BY THE POLICE AND THE TELEVISION AND ENTERTAINMENT LICENSING AUTHORITY (TELA) HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN TACKLING THE SALE AND DISPLAY OF PORNOGRAPHIC PUBLICATIONS, VIDEOTAPES AND LASER DISCS, THE ACTING COMMISSIONER FOR TELEVISION AND ENTERTAINMENT LICENSING, MR NG HON-WAH, SAID TODAY (FRIDAY).

MR NG WAS SPEAKING IN REPLY TO QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE ACTIONS TAKEN BY THE ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE CONTROL OF OBSCENE AND INDECENT ARTICLES ORDINANCE (COIAO).

"THE IMPROVEMENTS HAVE BEEN MOST SIGNIFICANT IN DISTRICTS AS MONG KOK AND SHAM SHUI PO.

SUCH

"AS A RESULT OF POLICE/TELA JOINT OPERATIONS EARLY THIS YEAR AND THE SUBSEQUENT EFFORTS BY THE POLICE, MANY OF THE STALLS SELLING PORNOGRAPHIC VIDEOTAPES HAVE DISAPPEARED.

"SHOPS SELLING INDECENT ARTICLES HAVE ALSO TAKEN STEPS TO PREVENT THE DISPLAY OF INDECENT MATTERS AND TO COVER UP OFFENSIVE PARTS OF PACKAGINGS OF VIDEOTAPES.

"THE IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO NOTICEABLE IN OTHER DISTRICTS. GENERAL, WE OBSERVE THAT NEWSPAPER STALLS HAVE REFRAINED DISPLAYING OBJECTIONABLE COVERS OF MAGAZINES,

|| MR NG SAID.

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IN FROM

/MR NG