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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1994

THE

DID NOT GOVERNMENT BUSINESS, COMMERCIAL THE GOVERNMENT PROVIDED THE RIGHT INFRASTRUCTURE AND BUSINESS-FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENT.

HOWEVER, HE STRESSED THAT THE HONG KONG

OF DECISION-MAKING PROCESS INTERFERE IN DECISIONS WERE LEFT FOR BUSINESS TO TAKE,

ALTHOUGH

INVESTMENT

HONG KONG IS ALREADY THE BIGGEST SOURCE OF FOREIGN IN VIETNAM WITH MORE THAN 200 PROJECTS AND A TOTAL APPROVED INVESTMENT OF SOME US$1.75 BILLION.

KONG'S SERIOUS DURING HIS MEETINGS, MR CHAU REITERATED HONG CONCERN OVER THE PROBLEM INVOLVING 125 VIETNAMESE MIGRANTS AND HOPED A SOLUTION COULD BE FOUND QUICKLY.

20,000

STILL WOULD

REPATRIATE AS HE ALSO STRESSED IN GENERAL TERMS THE NEED TO SOON

POSSIBLE

VIETNAMESE MIGRANTS AS

THE MORE THAN

VIETNAM'S IMAGE IN HONG KONG IN HONG KONG, SO THAT REMAINING IMPROVE, THEREBY RESULTING IN MORE HONG KONG INVESTMENT IN VIETNAM AND MORE HONG KONG TOURISTS GOING TO VIETNAM,

12 MORE HIV-INFECTED CASES CONFIRMED

י

TWELVE MEN WERE FOUND TO BE POSITIVE FOR THE HIV ANTIBODY LAST MONTH, THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ANNOUNCED TODAY (FRIDAY).

TEST

THIS BRINGS THE NUMBER OF HIV INFECTED PERSONS IN HONG KONG

TO

505.

FOUR NEW AIDS CASES WERE REPORTED DURING THE MONTH.

THE TOTAL NUMBER OF CONFIRMED AIDS CASES IS 122 WITH 71

DEATHS

REPORTED.

THROUGH

WERE AROUND

SAFE

INFECTION OF THE 505 HIV-INFECTED, 188 ACQUIRED THE HOMOSEXUAL OR BISEXUAL SEX AND 199 THROUGH HETEROSEXUAL SEX; 11

TRANSMISSION INJECTING DRUG USERS; ONE WAS A MOTHER-TO-CHILD THE TIME OF BIRTH; AND 66 ACQUIRED THE INFECTION THROUGH BLOOD OR BLOOD PRODUCTS BEFORE 1985 WHEN HIV ANTIBODY TEST AND HEAT TREATED CLOTTING CONCENTRATES WERE NOT AVAILABLE.

AS FOR THE REMAINING

INADEQUATE FOR CLASSIFICATION.

CONTAMINATED

40, THE INFORMATION AVAILABLE

WAS

UNDER THE HIV SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME WHICH STARTED IN 1985,

TESTED FOR THE SPECIMENS HAVE OF

BEEN 343,226

BLOOD

A

HIV

TOTAL ANTIBODY.

THE HONG KONG RED CROSS BLOOD TRANSFUSION SCREENED ALL BLOOD DONORS FOR THE ANTIBODY.

SERVICE HAS ALSO

UP TO LAST MONTH, 1,490,094 UNITS OF BLOOD HAD BEEN TESTED 35 DONORS WERE FOUND POSITIVE.

AND

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