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Special Topics Report No 12 on social statistics published
Special Topics Report No 12 on social statistics is published today (Wednesday). It contains the findings of six special enquiries conducted by the Census and Statistics Department via the General Household Survey in different periods between August 1993 and October 1994.
The six topics included in the report are domestic helpers; family life education; hawker situation and hawker patronage behaviour; heritage preservation; organ donation; and taxi boarding location.
The report is now on sale at $40 a copy at the Government Publications Centre, Ground Floor, Low Block, Queensway Government Offices, 66 Queensway, Hong Kong, and at the Publications Unit of the Census and Statistics Department, 19th floor, Wanchai Tower, 12 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong.
End/Wednesday, September 27, 1995
San Francisco debut of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra made its San Francisco debut last (Tuesday) evening in front of 2,700 audiences at the renowned Davies Symphony Hall. The performance is the second leg of its 16-day, first-ever Northern American
concert tour.
The Hong Kong Commissioner for Economic and Trade Affairs in the United States of America, Mr Barrie Wiggham, flew in from Washington DC to join hundreds of the Philharmonic's former Hong Kong fans to greet the Orchestra with enthusiasm.
Leading the 106-member Orchestra is British Music Director David Atherton and joining them for the Prokofiev Piano Concerto #3 is Edith Chen, who won the prestigious Iva Pogorelich International Solo Piano Competition in 1993.
After the concert in San Francisco, the Orchestra will travel to the State Capita! of California. Sacramento, today for another performance before giving six other concerts in cities in Southern California and Canada.
End/Wednesday, September 27, 1995
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