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to hold the 14th Annual Review Meeting in Guangdong in April 1996.
During the meeting both sides acknowledged that, according to the Sino-British Joint Declaration and the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, after July 1, 1997, the Hong Kong Special Administrative region would be an independent Customs territory, could participate in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and other relevant international organisations and international trade agreements including the World Customs Organisation (WCO), and would continue to be a member of the WCO under the name of "Hong Kong, China".
The co-ordination and co-operation between Guangdong Customs and Hong Kong Customs would progress even much better in future.
End/Sunday, May 14, 1995
More language projects receive funding
Funds totalling $18.07 million have been approved for 11 language improvement projects in the second round of the first allocation exercise of the Language Fund.
The Fund's Trustee, Director of Education, Mr W K Lam, accepted recommendations of the Language Fund Advisory Committee to award funding to the projects.
Of the 11 successful applications which are aimed at improving language proficiency of teachers, students and members of the public, six are English language projects, three Chinese language/Putonghua projects and two concerned with improving language proficiency in both English and Chinese.
"There is a good combination of research, teaching and learning resource materials, training as well as learning activity projects," an Education Department spokesman said.
"They all meet the stringent criteria set by the Language Fund Advisory Committee and should be a great help in raising language standards in Hong Kong."
The spokesman noted that among the successful bidders are two projects comprising activity programmes and other activities to promote the learning of English and Putonghua respectively at the community level through a two-year pilot project at six children's and youth centres.
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