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Mr Chan Chun-yuen. Thomas

Aged 46. Mr Chan joined the Government in June 1973 as an Assistant Trade Officer. He joined the Administrative Service in October in the same year and rose to his present rank of AOSGB in January 1994.

Over the years, Mr Chan has worked in a number of departments and branches including the Labour Department, Finance Branch, the then New Territories Administration, Civil Service Branch, the then Medical and Health Department, the City and New Territories Administration and Housing Branch.

He was seconded to the Radio Television Hong Kong from September 1989 to April 1990 and was Deputy Director of Information Services from 1990 to 1994. He has been Director (Hong Kong Economic and Trade Affairs) San Francisco since August 1994.

Dr Bryce Nelson Dailly, JP

Dr Dailly is aged 57. He joined the Hong Kong Government as Chemist in 1973 and was promoted to Senior Chemist in 1976 and then to Chief Chemist (later retitled as Assistant Government Chemist) in 1985. He has acted as Government Chemist on a number of occasions previously.

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Exercise to test responses to combat oil pollution

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The Marine Department will co-ordinate an annual exercise to test various government departments and oil companies' responses to combat oil pollution, a department spokesman said today (Tuesday).

The exercise, code name "Exercise Martha", will begin with a table top exercise tomorrow (Wednesday) and a practical one on Thursday (September 5).

The table top exercise will test the communication and co-ordination between government departments and oil companies while the practical exercise will further test their responses in the deployment of oil pollution equipment and co-operation in combating oil pollution, the spokesman said.

A total of 15 government departments will take part in the exercise on the first day. On the second day, the Civil Aid Services, the Government Flying Service and the Marine Department will be involved.

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