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Vehicles on Nathan Road southbound heading for Fa Yuen Street southbound are advised to route via Shantung Street and Fa Yuen Street.

However, traffic will resume normal on Nelson Street and Soy Street on other days including public holidays.

It is expected that local shop business might be benefited from the scheme as pedestrians could shop at leisure.

Nevertheless, illegal hawking activities may be attracted by the scheme. Stringent enforcement actions will be carried out by the Urban Services Department and the Police on site.

End/Thursday, October 19, 1995

Partial solar eclipse on October 24

There will be a total solar eclipse on October 24. Weather permitting, the event will be visible as a partial eclipse of the sun in Hong Kong.

Details of the eclipse are as follows:

Hong Kong Time

Azimuth Direction

Elevation

(Degrees)

Sunrise

0623

East-Southeast

-1

Eclipse begins

1048

South-Southeast

51

Maximum eclipse

1218

South

56

Eclipse ends

1349

Southwest

48

Sunset

1752

West-Southwest

-1

The magnitude of the eclipse will be about 0.64. This means that 64 per cent of the sun's diameter will be obscured by the moon at the maximum eclipse.