XN000022-1994-10-10 — Page 5

MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1994

AS

OUR

THE WHO

COMMUNITY.

IN

BUT I THINK YOU RAISE A SPECIFIC ISSUE ABOUT THOSE YOU DESCRIBE PART OF THE MINORITIES AND I'D LIKE TO THINK OF YOU AS A CENTRAL

MORE AND I THINK THAT PERHAPS WE SHOULD BE DOING

HELP FIELD OF ADULT EDUCATION AND CONTINUING EDUCATION TO HAVEN'T PICKED UP CANTONESE OR PUTONGHUA AT SCHOOL, TO COME AND PICK UP CANTONESE OR PUTONGHUA, BOTH WRITTEN AND SPOKEN, IN LATER LIFE.

IT

THOSE BACK

I'LL

THE MAKE SURE THAT THE COMMITTEE WHICH IS ADMINISTERING LANGUAGE FUND TAKES ACCOUNT OF THE POINT YOU'VE RAISED TODAY, BECAUSE

IS

IMPORTANT ONE. AN

IT'S AN IMPORTANT

BOTH ONE FOR

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOME MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY AND THE MAJORITY OF COMMUNITY IN THE FUTURE, AND IT'S IMPORTANT, IN MY JUDGMENT, FOR OUR FUTURE PROSPERITY AS WELL, BECAUSE THERE IS NO DOUBT AT

I ALL, THINK, THAT THE TWO LANGUAGES OF BUSINESS IN THE 21ST CENTURY, WILL BE CHINESE AND ENGLISH.

QUESTION:

ARE

IN HONG KONG, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE MEDIA, NOW WE VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THEIR FATE. RTHK DOES NOT SEEM TO HAVE A CLEAR ENOUGH ROLE, OR THEIR ROLE IS NOT CLEAR ENOUGH, FOR

IN INSTANCE, RTHK,

ACTUALLY ONE OF THEIR PROGRAMMES DID CLIP PART OF A PROGRAMME PRODUCED BY ATV WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT. SO MY QUESTION IS: REGARDING RTHK PROGRAMMES, DO THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO MONITOR THE PROGRAMMES OF ANOTHER TV CHANNEL, OR DO THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO CLIP CERTAIN PARTS WITHOUT CONSENT?

GOVERNOR:

BEEN

WELL, A LOT OF YOU IN THE AUDIENCE WILL HAVE

AS PUZZLED BY THAT QUESTION AS I MIGHT HAVE BEEN HAD I NOT ALREADY KNOWN THAT THERE IS A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION BETWEEN ATV AND RTHK OVER A PARTICULAR PROGRAMME. NORMALLY, A JOURNALIST WOULD ASK A QUESTION A PRESS CONFERENCE RATHER THAN AT AN OCCASION LIKE THIS,

SINCE YOU'VE ASKED THE QUESTION, WHAT I'LL SUGGEST TO YOU IS THAT YOU TAKE THE ISSUE UP:

BUT

(A)

WITH SIR ROGER LOBO, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BROADCASTING

AUTHORITY; AND

(B)

WITH CHEUNG MAN YEE, THE HEAD OF RTHK.

TWO SUCH

I'M SURE THAT'S THE BEST WAY OF PURSUING AN ARGUMENT DISTINGUISHED BROADCASTING ORGANISATIONS. AND APPEARED ON BOTH RTHK AND ON ATV IN THE LAST SEVEN DAYS, COURSE OBLIGED TO SAY THAT VERY STRONGLY.

/QUESTION

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