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Work for a more sophisticated information output.

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Build up contacts and information on Macao.

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Argue for a better balance of owned properties.

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- Abandon hope of obtaining the General's house for the post 97 C-G wrong image (old Colonial), Chinese won't agree, high cost of maintenance.

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In due course, consider moving out of Albany Penthouse.

This is a world-class market and fast emerging as a media capital (the Star/BBC link-up covers half the world). "TO project an image of Britain as a revitalised, high technology economy" (p. o. 4) is fine for Tonga or Chad but entirely inadequate here.

- p. o. 7 ("To ensure that HMG's policies across the board ... are given the best possible presentation in Hong Kong") is a misleading description of what is essentially a

spokesman role of the SIO - not a general BTC function. The STC should not pretend to have that function.

The British Chamber' s information role should be encouraged to the extent that it responds to the daily needs of British business, ie facts not propaganda. (Much more

difficult).

Especially in relation to the new Macao airport and regional aviation needs.

* Footnote: the above is drafted on profile" policy has been abandoned.

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assumption that the "high

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