cerned with discussion of the draft Statutes of the proposed Asian Broad- casting Union. The Statutes were accepted by the conference, and the Union will come into being on 1st July, 1964. The first General Assembly will be held in Sydney in November, 1964, and Radio Hong Kong will become the first Associate Member of the new international broadcasting organization.
10. Arrangements were concluded during the year between Radio Hong Kong and the Australian Broadcasting Commission for Mr. K. P. CHENG and Mr. H. P. CHANG, Producers in the Chinese Service, to represent both Radio Hong Kong and the Chinese Service of Radio Australia at the Olympic Games to be held in Tokyo in October, 1964.
11. A greater degree of specialist training for both programme and engineering staff was being planned towards the end of the year. In order to give wider and more authorative coverage to the industrial and economic life of the Colony arrangements were made to attach Mr. Poon Chan-sin, Chinese Service Producer to the Department of Commerce and Industry for several months in order to enable him to specialize in this field. Plans were also in hand to send a senior member of the engineering staff, Mr. TAM Kai-cheong, to Britain for a year's course of study with B.B.C. sound and television engineering services.
12. The number of visitors from overseas broadcasting organizations continued to increase. These visitors included senior staff from leading European, American and Australian broadcasting systems seeking information or desiring to establish an exchange of programmes.
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13. The main dialect spoken by the Chinese population of Hong Kong is Cantonese and this language predominates in Radio Hong Kong's broadcasts. However, there are responsibilities to those Chinese inhab- itants of the Colony whose native tongue is not Cantonese and Radio Hong Kong also broadcasts bulletins of news and special announcements in Kuoyu (Mandarin), Hakka, and Chiu Chow.
14. The programmes broadcast in Chinese are designed to cover as wide a range as possible of the many facets of life in Hong Kong. Unlike the English Service, which is able to call upon transcription services and other programmes sources from overseas organizations, nearly all of Radio Hong Kong's Chinese Service broadcasts are locally originated.
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