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Monitors' Report submitted to CS
The monitors appointed to observe the transfer yesterday (Thursday) of 163 Vietnamese migrants selected for the Orderly Repatriation Programme from the High Island Detention Centre to Victoria Prison have submitted their report to the Chief Secretary, a Government spokesman said today (Friday).
The four monitors comprised two non-official Justices of the Peace, Mr Tommy Cheung Yu-yan and Mr Robert Kwan Chiu-yin. The other two are representatives from two non-government organisations Miss Emily Liu from Christian Action and Mr Ian Anderson from Oxfam.
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End/Friday, October 13, 1995
Quarterly business receipts indices for service industries
According to statistics released today (Friday) by the Census and Statistics Department, business receipts in many service industries showed notable increases in value terms in the second quarter of 1995 over a year earlier.
The transport industry registered the fastest growth, by 28% in value terms. This was mainly attributable to increase in business of companies providing cargo forwarding services.
Business receipts in the banking and the import/export industries also rose considerably over the same period, both by 20% in value terms. The growth in business receipts in the former was mainly attributable to increase in net interest income, while the growth in the latter was related to increase in trading business on miscellaneous durable goods.
Meanwhile, notable increases in business receipts were also registered in the following service industries: storage (+16%); hotels (+16%); communication (+15%) and insurance (+14%).
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