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Trade Policy Forum In the Seventh Trade Policy Forum held in Chinese Taipei in April 1995, there were five participants from Hong Kong and one of them presented a paper on the implementation of WTO : anti-dumping agreement.
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Air Transport Meeting Senior officials from the Cathay Pacific Airways and Dragon Airlines and an Assistant Director of the Civil Aviation Department attended the meeting and the latter made a presentation on 'Impact of Regulatory Systems on Air Transport Services'.
In the field of Science and Technology, Dr James Liu, Chief Executive Officer, Hong Kong Industrial Technology Co-operation Council is Hong Kong's representative to the International Advisory Group of the Science and Technology (S&T) Task Force. He just attended the S&T Task Force meeting on September 28 in Beijing.
In addition, Hong Kong will further contribute to PECC's work by offering to host the next Standing Committee and Co-ordination Group meeting in Hong Kong in April next year. The Standing Committee deals with the policy issues of PECC while the Co-ordinating Group determines its program priorities.
Hong Kong will be seconding a Senior Directorate Officer of the Civil Service to PECC Secretariat to take up the post of the Director-General starting early next year for a term of three years. Hong Kong will remain as a separate member committee of the PECC after 1997.
End/Friday, September 29, 1995
Transcurasian expedition landrovers leave for London
At 11 am on Sunday (October 1), the Landrover Discovery and two Landrover Defenders of the TransEurAsian Expedition 1995 will leave the main gate of the Prince of Wales Barracks in Central on their 15,000-mile, 10-week journey to London across 13 countries.
The expedition, to raise money for Oxfam Hong Kong, Project Orbis and the Hong Kong Adventure Corps, consists of eight men and three women drawn from the former Royal Hong Kong Regiment (The Volunteers) and the Hong Kong Military Service Corps.
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