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The summit, whose aim is to promote economic and business links between Europe and East Asia, has been established as a key event for government officials, business leaders and experts from these two regions.

This is the fourth time that the meeting is being held, after the first two meetings in Hong Kong in 1992 and 1993 and the 1994 meeting in Singapore.

Mr Chau will return to Hong Kong on Saturday (September 23).

End/Tuesday, September 19, 1995

Commandos abseil 'Mount Everest' for charity

At 10 am tomorrow (Wednesday), nine Royal Marine's commandos from HMS Tamar naval base will abseil (rappel) over 8,481 metres - the equivalent height of Mount Everest down the 100 metre west face of the Prince of Wales Building in Central to raise fund for the Duchess of Kent Children's Hospital, Sandy Bay, and Wireless for the Blind.

Royal Marines currently hold the world abseiling records for:

(1) The longest abseil: 1,105.5 metres down Boulby Potash Mine in England,

set on November 2, 1993;

(2) The greatest distance: 72.42 kilometres, completed by a team of 10 abseiling 1,382 times down Plymouth's Civic Centre in England, set on May 22, 1993; and

(3) The longest descent down a building: 446.5 metres from the Space Deck of

Toronto's CN Tower in Canada, set on June 1, 1992.

Attention News Editors:

You are invited to send representatives to a press facility at which it will be possible to photograph and film the marines abseiling and conduct interviews.