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The exhibition will last until Monday (August 14) before moving to other venues including the Lok Fu Shopping Centre in Wong Tai Sin, the Metroplaza in Kwai Chung and the New Town Plaza in Sha Tin in the next few months. Admission is free and exquisite gifts will be available for distribution.
Attention News Editors:
The Director of Home Affairs, Mr Joseph W P Wong, and Chairman of the Committee on the Promotion of Civic Education, Mr Moses Cheng Mo-chi, will officiate at the opening and prize-presentation ceremony of the Civic Education Exhibition 1995 tomorrow.
Your representatives are invited to cover the event which will begin at 2 pm at the main concourse of the Ocean Terminal, Tsim Sha Tsui,
End/Friday, August 11, 1995
External trade statistics by country and commodity for June
The Census and Statistics Department today (Friday) released detailed statistics on external trade with breakdown by country/territory and commodity for June 1995.
The value of re-exports continued to increase notably, by 17% over a year earlier to $93.9 billion in June 1995.
Comparing June 1995 with June 1994, the value of re-exports to all of the main destinations showed increases of various magnitudes: Singapore (+37%), Netherlands (+34%), Taiwan (+29%), Japan (+25%), France (+23%), China (+18%), the United Kingdom (+14%), Germany (+11%), the United States (+9.6%) and South Korea (+4.0%).
Changes in the value of Hong Kong's re-exports to 10 main destinations are shown in Table 1.
The value of re-exports in the first half of 1995 was $515.2 billion, 20% higher than that in the same period in 1994.
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