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The wastage rates of dental officers in the civil service due to retirement, emigration or other non-specified reasons over the past three years are tabulated below-

Wastage

Year Strength as at

Retirement Emigration

Other reasons

1 Jan of the year

No. (Rate)

No. (Rate)

No. (Rate)

1992

181

3 (1.66%)

1 (0.55%)

11 (6.08%)

1993

182

2 (1.10%)

1994

192

6 (3.12%)

6 (3.30%) 2 (1.04%)

End/Wednesday, July 26, 1995

Safeguarding job security in paging industry

Following is a question by the Hon Tam Yiu-chung and a written reply by the Secretary for Economic Services, Mr Gordon Siu, in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):

Question:

Regarding the decision by the Office of the Telecommunications Authority that the Hong Kong Telecom International must supply international private leased circuits to paging companies, will the Government inform this Council whether it will, for the sake of safeguarding the job security of local workers, endeavour to prevent paging companies from making use of international private leased circuits as pretext to move their operation centres to neighbouring regions, so as to prevent tens of thousands of operators in the paging industry from falling into unemployment?

Reply:

Mr President,

The decision made by the Telecommunications Authority (TA) that Hong Kong Telecom International (HKTI) has an obligation to provide international private leased circuits to paging companies was in response to a request by a number of paging companies for a regulatory ruling under HKTI's licence.