News from the General Grades Office

Warm welcome to the following colleagues who have joined this Office over the last few months -

Goodbye to Daniel POON (潘偉勳), Deborah AU (區淑嫻), both SEOs and LO LAU Sam-fung (盧劉三鳳), CEO who left this Office recently.

Retirement

We wish the following colleagues many years of well-earned retirement -

Mr LAW Kam-yim, Horatio (羅金炎), CEO
Mr FAN Kwok-shing (樊國盛), SEO
Mr YEUNG Chi-piu (楊志標), SEO
Mr NG Kwok-hung, Thomas (吳國雄), SEO
Mrs LAM WOO Kwok-may (林胡國美), EO I

Overseas Training

Mr FONG Pui-sing, Paul (方培城) and Miss AU Suk-han, Deborah (區淑嫻), SEOs
8-Week Study Programme for Mid-Career Officers of the Government of the HKSAR at Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales, Australia (27.2.98 - 25.4.98)

Ms Petula Poon (潘錦儀) and Miss Wilma Toong (董穗子), CEOs
4-Week Columbia Senior Executive Program at Columbia University, USA (26.4.98 - 22.5.98)

• The new recruits are graduates of a wide range of faculties. The majority of them (over 70% each year) came from 3 faculties, namely Business Administration, Social Science and Arts.
• Some 60% to 75% of them came from The University of Hong Kong and The Chinese University.

Spring Reception for Staff Associations

Mr Cletus Lau and Mr Alfred Wong, Chairman of the HKSAR Executive Garde Association (second from the right) at the Spring Reception.

Committee members of 13 General Grades Staff Associations were invited to a Spring Reception hosted by the Director of General Grades on 6 February 1998. It was an off-work evening that staff and management gathered together to have some free and relaxing moments.