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APPENDIX 42

(Chapter 18: Public Order)

Correctional Services

Population of

Prisons

Training centres

Detention centres

Treatment centres

Vietnamese refugees/Vietnamese migrants

Illegal immigrants

Number Discharged under aftercare

Note: Revised figure.

APPENDICES

1990

As at end of year 1991

1992

10 027

8 972+

9 035

806

722

576

318

319

271

944

1018

1 067

28 386

34 778‡

33 004

3 331

3121

3 256

APPENDIX 43

(Chapter 21: Communications and the Media)

Communications

Postal traffic:

1990

1991

1992 Estimate

Letter mail (million articles)

Posted to destinations abroad

Posted for local delivery

Received from abroad for local delivery

In transit

Parcels (thousands)

Posted to destinations abroad

136.1

639.6

142.1 711.2

142.8

743.5

88.3

87.5

91.0

3.9

3.8

3.2

1 330

1 347

1 259

Posted for local delivery

74

51

48

Received from abroad for local delivery

554

508

506

In transit

38

37

40

Telecommunications traffic:

Telegrams (thousand messages)

Accepted for transmission

449

344

280

Received

544

425

361

In transit

139

137

129

Telex calls (thousand minutes)

Outward

26 711

23 907

20 177

Inward

31 524

27 345

23 014

International telephone calls (thousand minutes)

Outward (voice)

582 004

731 343

917 889

Outward (fax and data)

112 500

135 255

160 407

Inward (voice, fax and data)

613 651

742 617

946 795

Radio pictures

Transmitted

Received

244

157

97

Broadcast and reception services (thousand hours)

Press

10.2

0.6

0.4*

Meteorological

109.3

108.5

106.2

International telephone circuits

12 189

14 732

17 800

International telegraph circuits

3 195

3 070

2.900

Telex trunks

2389

2 373

2.300

International leased circuits

1 805

1 637

1 575

Telephone exchanges

Exchange capacity (thousand lines)

Keylines and PABX lines (thousands)

Fax lines (thousands)

Telephone lines (thousands)

Telephones (thousands)

72

75

76

2 763

2850

2995

339

372

407

107

137

184

2 447

2 596

2777

3 280†

3 455+

3651†

Telephones per 100 population

Outgoing international calls (million)

Telecommunications licences (all types)

Note: Estimate.

466

* Customer terminated its service with effect from August 1992.

56.5†

205.28

76 699

80 249

60.0† 264.56

62.7+ 335.20

83 983

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