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PRESS, PUBLIC RELATIONS, BROADCASTING AND FILMS

installed the first rotary press imported into Hong Kong since the war. It is well designed for efficient newspaper work and includes such staff welfare facilities as dormi- tories and clubrooms for workers on late night and early morning duty.

The Hong Kong Times an extreme right-wing paper in Chinese, expresses the views of the Nationalist Government in Formosa. The Chi Yin Daily News and New Life Evening Post are popular but rather sensational newspapers. The Ta Kung Pao, the New Evening Post and the Wen Wei Pao represent the extreme left-wing point of view.

Among periodicals written in English, the weekly Far Eastern Economic Review is read beyond the confines of the Colony. So, too, is the monthly Orient, specializing in Asian political and cultural affairs, which, with the November issue, changed its format to "digest" size and introduced colour on text pages. The literary magazine Outlook ceased publication in July.

The leading Chinese periodicals are the popular illustrated magazines East Pictorial, Tien Hsia, Asia Pictorial and the Four Seas Pictorial, all with overseas circulations.

Public Relations

News of Government activities and explanations of Government policy are given by the Public Relations Office. The department's press section issued some 3,000 statements and news items in 1954 and organized a number of press conferences, besides maintaining close personal contact with local newspapers and agencies

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