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The other three sectors are Basic Telecommunications, Financial Services and Movement of Natural Persons. The deadline for the maritime transport negotiations is June 30.
In addition, Mr Miller will attend an informal meeting of the WTO General Council and will call on senior WTO officials, including its Director-General, Mr Renato Ruggiero.
Mr Miller's itinerary then takes him to Brussels where he will have a series of meetings with senior trade officials of the European Union on both bilateral and multilateral issues before proceeding to Washington.
While in Washington, Mr Miller will call on senior officials of the Office of the United States Trade Representative and the United States Customs for an exchange of views on various US/Hong Kong trade issues and again on the SMC agenda.
He will then join the Chief Secretary, Mrs Anson Chan, who will be in Washington between June 12 and 15, to further lobby senior officials of the US Administration and Congress for the unconditional renewal of China's most favoured nation trading status.
Mr Miller will return to Hong Kong on June 16.
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Students advised to check school registration
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The Education Department advises students to check whether a local school at which they intend to enrol this summer is registered with the department under the Education Ordinance.
"Under the Education Ordinance, an institution, organisation or establishment which provided education to eight or more students at any one time or 20 or more students during any one day is required to register with the department," Senior Education Officer. Mr Tse Tak-on said.
"To enable students or their parents to easily verify a school's credentials, schools are required to state their registration or provisional registration number on any advertisement."
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