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APPENDIX 42

(Chapter 16: Public Order)

Correctional Services

APPENDICES

As at end of year

1987

1988

1989

Population of

Prisons

Training centres

6041

7 793

8 453

597

682

707

Detention centres

275

312

363

Treatment centres

1 116

1 250

1 094

Vietnamese refugees/Vietnamese boat people/

Illegal immigrants

6 673

18 880

34 748

Number Discharged under aftercare

3 443

3 461

3743

APPENDIX 43

(Chapter 19: Communications and The Media)

Communications

Postal traffic:

Letter mails (million articles)

posted to destinations abroad

posted for local delivery

received from abroad for local delivery

in transit

Parcels (thousands)

posted to destinations abroad

1987

1988

120.5

456.9

126.6 532.7

וי

די

1989

Estimate

144.9

594.4

83.8

3.7

86.6 3.8

84.5 4.0

1 466

1 352

posted for local delivery

123

149

received from abroad for local delivery

548

540

in transit

47

40

1 273

113

552

46

Telecommunications traffic:

Telegrams (thousand messages)

accepted for transmission

857

799

638

received

974

923

726

in transit

423

221

177

Telex calls (thousand minutes)

outward

44 684

38 429

31 066

inward

50 738

44 346

36 998

International telephone calls (thousand minutes)

outward

253 162

350 782

inward

296 789*

397 959*

457 839 512 233

Radio pictures

transmitted

22 515

10 028†

7

received

3.490

Broadcast and reception services (thousand hours)

press

4.6

meteorological

125.9

733

9.0 113.7

378

11.6

108.4

International telephone circuits

6 512

8 058

10 274

International telegraph circuits

3 689

3536

3 405

Telex trunks

2 501

2 459

International leased circuits

1 856

1 907

Telephone exchanges

Exchange capacity (thousand lines)

Keylines and PABX lines (thousands)

Fax lines (thousands)

Telephone subscribers (thousands)

Telephones (thousands)

66

70

2.308

2 577

2422

2 152

2 691

70

233.9

274

311

32.1

60

83

1989

2 154

2.305

2 662*

2 892*

3106

Telephones per 100 population

Outgoing internationl calls (million)

Telecommunications licences (all types)

Note:

* Estimate.

422

† A major customer withdrew its subscription to the service from July 1988.

47.42

50.41*

53.91

71.90

112.69

157.43

57 255

66 480

71 956