The Correspondent, August - September 1986

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A New Leøf The FCC library and workroom are about to get a facelift. Plans are afoot to upgrade the library a wider range of reference books;

to include

to bring

magazine subscriptions

up to

date, bind backcopies and to improve the

furniture.

The workroom will be redesigned and seating and desks will be improved. Installation of telex, fax, computer facil-

ities and electric typewriters is under consideration. Plans to employ full-time supervisors to oversee maintenance of the equipment

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and run the library are in hand.

If any member has ideas or secret desires (concerning the library that is), please relay them to Paul Bayfield on 5-8936688.

PotentÍal library users can rest assured; lew of the degenerates pìctured here are lìkely to grace the líbrøry ever agaìn.

Thøding Places to Angus MacSwan (Reuter) and Adam Kelleher (UPI). After serving their time, slaving over hot consoles in Hong Kong, both have reaped their frontline reward. Congratulations

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Angus has been posted to El Salvador and Adam to India. The Far Eastern Economic Reviewhas also been shuffling its correspondents. On the move is Shim Jae Hoon who has moved

from Seoul to Jakarta replacing Lincoln Kaye, who had to leave after failing to get a renewal of his work permit. Kaye has taken up a new position as Review correspondent in Bombay.

Mary Lee, recovered from recent illis awaiting reassignment after completing her tour in Peking.

health,

Robert Cottrell is leaving

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Review

to join the new London newspaper,

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Independent.

Nick Way has been promoted to deputy editor of the SCMP's Business Post.

Paul Baran has quit Business Post fo as a freelancer.

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Bill Saltmarsh will take over as Reuter world desk editor in Hong Kong.

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lor The Icehouse Revísíted Half-a-dozen pictures of the FCC building in its original icehouse guise have been donated to the Club by the Hong Kong Land Company. The Club has arranged for the pictures to be mounted and they should be gracing FCC walls before long.


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