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CALENDAR OF EVENTS IN 1994

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The Immigration Department announces details of a one-year pilot scheme to allow 1 000 professionals and managers in China to come to work in Hong Kong.

The redeveloped Hong Kong Stadium, funded by an $850 million donation by the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club, is officially opened.

The Secretary for the Treasury, Mr Donald Tsang, leads a Hong Kong delegation at the two-day conference of finance ministers of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) in Honolulu.

A record price of $13 million is paid for the vehicle registration number ‘9' in a government auction. The proceeds go to charity.

Three Hong Kong and two British soldiers missing for a month during a training expedition on Mount Kinabalu in Malaysia, are found alive by a helicopter search team.

A three-month voter registration campaign opens for the district board and municipal council elections. A total of 510 000 new electors come forward, taking the total registered electorate to 2.45 million.

A senior citizen card scheme, aimed at promoting more respect and concern for the elderly, is launched, giving persons aged 65 and above access to concessionary fares, priority treatment and discounts offered by participating companies.

The new Hong Kong Sports Development Board is set up, amalgamating the former Hong Kong Sports Development Board and the Hong Kong Sports Institute.

Hong Kong is listed as the world's eighth largest exporter and seventh largest importer in 1993 in the annual report issued by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) Secretariat.

The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee publishes its report on Sino-British relations in the period up to and beyond 1997. The report supports the Hong Kong Government's approach on political development in the territory and recommends the establishment of an independent, statutory, human rights commission.

Legislators invoke the Legislative Council (Powers and Privileges) Ordi- nance for the first time when they begin a public hearing into the dismissal of a former deputy director of the Independent Commission Against Corruption. The Secretary for Trade and Industry, Mr Chau Tak-hay, joins over 120 ministers in signing the Final Act embodying the results of the Uruguay Round trade negotiations in Marrakesh, Morocco.

The Hong Kong Arts Development Council is set up.

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