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Fore The FCC's annual Richard
Concerning the controversial "false news" bill, nor a word of which we would dare to misrepresent in these hallowed
Hughes
Memorial Golf Tournament takes place this ye¿r on March 20 at the Intramuros Golf Club in Manila.
columns, Hong Kong's journalistic community has raised its collective voice.
John Iænaghan took top honours at last year's competition held in Shenzhen.
The Board of Governors resolved on March 5, that the following be sent to Mr. Michael Thomas, the Attorney General: The Board ofthe Foreign Correspondents'
Club asks you to delay the Public Order
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(Ammendment) Bill for further considera-
tion with the media
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both domestic and
foreign, which publish or print Koing
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as
in
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well as with the legal profession.
The Board urges that the government should further amend the bill to remove the burden of proof of malice from the accused and eliminate ambiguities concerning the publication of "false news".
As drafted, the law could be used to limit very seriously the traditional freedoms of any organ either published or printed in Hong Kong, at a time when strengthening these freedoms should be a prime considelation.
Excercise physiologist Mysie Lee is on call now to the FCC (from her usual roost at
the Hong Kong Country Club) to design personal fitness programmes for members.
For a small fee, Mysie administers a battery of tests, feeds the results into her computer, and presents her subjects with a comprehensive printed fitness evaluation. She then prescribes a tailor-made fitness routine designed to suit each subject's particular needs.
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Contact Housekeeper
Wendy Wong for further detatils.
Mad Max Roger Boschman, who is Hong Kong correspondent for the American motoring
publication Car and Driver, has recently been appointed Far East correspondent for
Motor Cyclist
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magazine. I
Roger beckons all internal cumbustion fans to contact him at 3-2817457 if they are interested in submissions (written or photographed) for sale to either publication.
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His trophies are by now gangrenous, but sometime in the pleistocene era, just after the last issue of the Correspondent came out, Paul Baran added the FCC l4-l championship to his club billiard and snooker crowns.
In the October hnal, Paul
dispatched
runner-up Andreas Panayi. Rumour has it that Paul has been employing dubious tactics on the local circuit, including practicing beforehand and abstaining from beer during
important matches,
\ in Legco today
Heiress to the Throne? While club president Jim Biddulph was busy sweating out the club's future against
faceless bureaucracy,
the lovely Mrs
Biddulph, renowned Carrianologist Rita Gomez, was busy accompanying their daughter, Ann Biddulph, into the world.
Ann became the third member of the Biddulph-Asia syndicate on March 6, weighing in at 7 lbs, 8 ounces. Mother, father, daughter, and George Tan are all doing fine.