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The following beaches have changed grading on this occasion:
Big Wave Bay, Golden Beach and Kadoorie from "3" to "2" and Deep Water Bay, Clear Water Bay 2nd Beach, Pui O and Tung Wan of Cheung Chau from "I" to
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The changes are within the normal range of fluctuation of the bacteriological water quality of these beaches.
Attention News Editors:
For further enquiries, please contact Dr Malcolm Broom, Principal Environmental Protection Officer of EPD, on 2835 1234.
End/Thursday, May 11, 1995
38 VMs transferred to Victoria Prison
A group of 38 Vietnamese Migrants (VMs), selected for return on an Orderly Repatriation Programme flight next Wednesday (May 17), were transferred from the High Island Detention Centre to Victoria Prison today (Thursday).
Earlier this morning, some 60 VMs climbed on to the rooftop of five huts in the Detention Centre. They set fire to blankets and dropped buckets of hot water, burning charcoal, broken glasses, stones and other hard objects on the officers of the Correctional Services Department (CSD) who entered the camp at 9 am.
objects.
Other VMs prevented CSD officers from entering their huts by throwing hard
A total of 44 CSD officers and three Police officers sustained injuries in the five-hour transfer operation, which ended around 2 pm.
As at 3 pm, eight VMs were found to have injuries, of whom two were transferred to hospital.
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