ENG-1988 — Page 10

Calendar of Events in 1988

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The chairman of the planning committee for the Open Learning Institute is appointed. The institute will take its first group of 3 000 students in 1989.

A new management committee of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange is set up following the arrests of its chairman and two other senior officials by the Independent Commission Against Corruption.

The House of Commons debates various developments in Hong Kong, including the political system and the Vietnamese refugee situation.

The Hong Kong Government and the Swiss Federal Council sign Hong Kong's second independent air services agreement. The first was signed with the Netherlands in September 1986.

The Director of Marine announces that a growth of 24.6 per cent in throughput for 1987 has placed Hong Kong ahead of Rotterdam, to become the world's number one container port.

The government publishes a White Paper on the Development of Repre- sentative Government.

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Consultants are appointed for a Port and Airport Development Strategy Study.

The Financial Secretary, Piers Jacobs, proposes in his Budget reductions from 16.5 to 15.5 per cent in personal tax and from 18 to 17 per cent in profits tax.

The Governor, Sir David Wilson, leaves for a four-day visit to Japan to promote trade relations.

Elections are held for District Boards, which are statutory bodies to provide a forum for public consultation and participation in Hong Kong's administration.

Sir Ti Liang Yang is sworn in as Hong Kong's first Chinese Chief Justice.