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NAME.

Ms AW Sian, 0.3.5. J.D.

Mr. George BIANNIC

Mr. David BONAVIA

Ms. Sandra BURTON

Mr. Louis CHA, 0.3.5.

Mr. Robert H.C. CHAN

Mr. Robert CHOW

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DESCRIPTION.

Late 60s. Chairman,

Sing Tao Newspapers Ltd. Inherited family business. The Sing Tao group is the largest newspaper publishing corporation in Hong Kong.

Mid-40s. Regional Director, Agence France-Presse. Took up present post since July 1984. Before that he was the Foreign Editor in Paris, Sub Foreign Editor, and the Bureau Chief in Peking.

Mid-40s. Correspondent of Far Eastern Economic Review. A specialist writer on China. Also the Hong Kong Correspondent for the Times and the Peking Correspondent for the Sunday Times.

Mid-40s. Bureau Chief, Time-Life News Service. She was the Correspondent stationed in Paris between 1977-82; and since August 1982, she became the Bureau Chief of Time-Life in Hong Kong.

Late 60s.

President,

Ming Pao. Formerly

a reporter with a leftist newspaper. A renown novelist. Established Ming Pao and turned rightist. Editorial in Ming Pao gradually becoming more sympathetic with China during the past

year.

Age 38. HKTV3.

General Manager, Generally recognised

as an energetic and enterprising executive, and an influential person due to the success of TVB Also member of Advisory Committee, HK Red Cross.

Age 34.

General Manager,