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Detailed analysis of labour force characteristics is given in the report on the General Household Survey which is published four times a year.
The next report covering the quarter ending March 1995 will be available at the Government Publications Centre, ground floor, Low Block, Queensway Government Offices, 66 Queensway, Hong Kong by the end of next month at $32 a copy.
End/Tuesday, May 16, 1995
Launching of Hong Kong Internet Home Page
In keeping with its position as one of the world's most advanced economies, Hong Kong today (Tuesday)launched a government-backed Internet Home Page for economic and business development.
Developed by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (ETO) in San Francisco, the Home Page contains extensive information on the territory, its business climate and economy, ongoing business developments and guidance for doing business there.
"Hong Kong is the hub of the world's most exciting and vibrant market. It just made sense to those of us entrusted with continuing its economic growth that we use the most exciting and vibrant technology the Internet - to help us do our job," said the Director of the Hong Kong ETO in San Francisco, Thomas Chun-yuen Chan.
According to the Internet Society in America, the network consists of 1.5 million computers linked together by 30,000 different networks, and spanning some 200 countries world-wide. The number of users of the Internet is estimated to be between 20 and 30 million, with a projected growth rate of 10 per cent monthly.
He said no wonder the Governor of Hong Kong, the Rt Hon Christopher Patten, described the Internet as "one of the most exciting developments in the world of personal communications" in his welcome message on the Hong Kong Home Page.
Mr Patten compares the magic in the Web to the magic of Hong Kong's post- war development:
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