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Air mail services to Rwanda resume

All air mail services to Rwanda, which have been suspended since May 13 last year, are now resumed, the Postmaster General, Mr Mike Pagliari, announced today (Friday).

Surface mail services to that country remain suspended.

Mr Pagliari noted that because of the substantial damage to numerous Rwandan postal establishments, mail for the interior of the country would, for the time being, took longer than in the past to be delivered.

End/Friday, January 6, 1995

35 biotechnology projects apply for funding support

A total of 35 applications from the biotechnology sector have been submitted for funding support under the Additional Funding for Industrial Support Scheme.

More than $200 million of funds will be set aside in the 1995/96 financial year.

The Assistant Director-General of Industry, Mr Raymond Young, said this today (Friday) at the opening ceremony of the Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Information Centre and Workshop held at the City University of Hong Kong.

"This represents the largest number of applications from any industrial sector." he said.

"The workshop, which is supported by a grant from the Biotechnology Committee of the Industry and Technology Development Council, demonstrates how funded projects benefit industrial development in the territory," he added.

Mr Young said another 10 projects, which included biotechnology-related projects, had received funding support in the form of equity participation or loan provision totalling $35 million from the Applied Research and Development Fund Scheme in 1994/95.