TNAG-1728-FCO40-2441-Minutes-and-Hansards-of-the-Legislative-Council-of-Hong-Kong-1988 — Page 157

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outside capital to fill the vacuum.

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In Paragraph 7 of my speech on 16 October 1984 on the Motion of the Draft Agreement on the Future of Hong Kong I pointed out those who have qualifications for migration and in Paragraph 8. I first used the application for saving upon Certificate of No

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Criminal Conviction' Commission as a Confidence Index from 12,408 applications in 1979 to some 53,000 applications in 1987. By acknowledging the fact and significance of this brain drain as advertised daily in the local newspaper with over 100 pages of vacancies,we can then address this problem. In the short term expatriate contract staff may do the job. However, they may wish to return to their home country in a few years before they find that they are at the end of a queue and lost their seniority, status and pay.

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For the longer term we must expand our

Louve fields. The new graduates are to come in as use the nine year time gap to gain the necessary working experience. A good administrator, engineer or other professionals,

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like a good liquor requires a long time to mature. Hong Kong migrants to other countries as deserters.

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keep contact with them and offer them expatriate terms after they have obtained their passports. They may find it rewarding as these ex-

working employees may have new mult knowledge of one more country which may be beneficial to the employer and of mutual benefit to both countries in trade promotion, etc and so on.

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cance of consumer goods is for something that may or may not happen

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seeking assurance we are also climbing two rungs up a social ladder.. The order of boarding an aeroplane was

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Indirect Taxation. In

In the past year I have strongly supported indirect taxation for unnecessary items. However, we must be careful not to tax daily necessities otherwise it may cause inflation and hit the low income

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