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JLG OF OTHER CHANNELS. MR ZHOU EXPRESSED CONCERN ABOUT HK'S

INFLATION AND LAW AND ORDER. HE HOPED THAT HK CIVIL SERVANTS WOULD REMAIN AT THEIR POSTS AFTER 1997 AND THAT TWO SIDES WOULD MAKE JOINT EFFORTS TO SPEED UP THE WORK OF THE JLG.

BAUHINIA

4. SOME PAPERS NOTED AN ARTICLE IN THE LATEST ISSUE OF BAUHINIA SAID CORPORATISATION OF RTHK WAS AN IMPORTANT CHANGE AFFECTING THE SMOOTH TRANSFER AND OPERATION OF THE FUTURE SARG (30.3). THE QUESTION SHOULD BE DISCUSSED AT THE JLG AND THAT HKG SHOULD NOT MAY ANY UNILATERAL DECISIONS.

BLACK LIST

5. THE MEDIA WIDELY PICKED UP (30.3) A SUNDAY EXPRESS REPORT WHICH SAID THAT DEFECTING CHINESE DIPLOMAT FENG BAOSHENG HAD TOLD BRITISH INTELLIGENCE THAT PEKING HAD A LIST OF HUNDREDS OF HK PEOPLE LIKELY TO JEOPARDISE THE ADMINISTRATION OF HK AND TARGETED FOR ARREST FOLLOWING THE 1997 HANDOVER. HOWEVER, SOME PAPERS SAID THAT THIS HAD BEEN DENIED BY MR FENG THROUGH A WORKERS UNION IN LONDON. A SPOKESMAN FOR THE FOREIGN OFFICE REFUSED TO COMMENT. A SPOKESMAN FOR THE HK AND MACAU AFFAIRS OFFICE AND THE PUBLIC SECURITY AUTHORITIES DENIED THERE WAS SUCH A BLACKLIST. NCNA HK DIRECTOR ZHOU NAN AND VICE DIRECTOR ZHENG HUA AND ZHANG JUNSHENG ALSO DENIED KNOWLEDGE OF SUCH A LIST.

LAW AND ORDER

6. LI KWAN-HA, THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, TOLD NEWSMEN ON HIS RETURN TO HK AFTER AN OFFICIAL VISIT TO PEKING THAT HIS VISIT HAS BEEN FRUITFUL. HE SAID THAT DISCUSSIONS HAD BEEN HELD WITH THE CHINESE PUBLIC SECURITY OFFICIALS ON JOINT ANTI-SMUGGLING EFFORTS, EXCHANGE OF INTELLIGENCE AND INVESTIGATIONS INTO CROSS- BORDER CRIMES. THE 20-MINUTE PRESS BRIEFING GIVEN BY MR LI AND CHINA'S INTERPOL CHIEF LIU WEN FOLLOWING THEIR MEETING WAS WIDELY REPORTED. THE PAPERS QUOTED MR LIU AS STRESSING THE NEED FOR THE HK AND CHINESE SIDES TO STRENGTHEN CO-OPERATION TO BEAT CRIME.

NPC DELEGATES

7. HK DELEGATES TO THE NPC HAD PROPOSED TO THE NPC TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF HK DELEGATES FROM 18 TO 30 TO ENABLE THEM TO CARRY MOTIONS IN THE CONGRESS (25.3).

BRAIN DRAIN

8. A HEAD-HUNTING COMPANY REVEALED THAT THE ECONOMIC RECESSION IN CANADA HAD PROMPTED MANY EMIGRANTS TO COME BACK. HOWEVER, HK'S

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