Acting Pres. Rudy opened today's meeting with a hardy welcome to all who are present today. Since we had no visitors or guests we went ahead with a big welcome back to Rtn Kenny who said he was in Canada and was happy to be back.
Then it was birthday time. This week's birthday boy was none other then our program chairman Dr. Tony. He chose his birthday song leader PP Taj to lead his birthday song.
Acting Pres. Rudy called upon Program Chairman Dr Tony to introduce our guest speaker. He introduced Mr. Anthony Chan who is the Chief Pharmacist from the Department of Health.
Mr. Chan told us that he although he is from the Department of Health of the Hong Kong Government he will talk about his own specialized field, which is the regulator of
Medicine. He showed us a slide with the letters HK 12345 and asked if anyone present know, or seen what this label is used for. He then told us this label appears on all medicine, which are registered & approved under regulation of the government. It proves the quality and effectiveness of the medicine and is up to the required standards. The first question you might ask, "What is a medicine?" What you called medicine depends on two things. One is what it contains and second what it can do. Alternatively if the substance is used for diagnosis or treatment or prevention of a disease then it is classified as medicine. He demonstrated his point by holding up a bottle of distilled water and ask, "Is this a medicine?" We all know that it is only distilled water. But if this bottle has a label claiming that it can cure cancer. Following the definition of what is a medicine then this is no longer just water but because it claims to be able to cure cancer then it is classified as medicine.How do we judge whether it can pass the licensing authority to approve this as a medicine. Mr. Chan told us there are three criteria to get approval. The three criteria are
1) Safety
2) Effectiveness
3) QualityThe last criteria are easily passed because the manufacturers have claimed that this water has been manufactured under strict hygienic condition using strict control.
The third criteria can be approved with no problem because it is very safe to drink
However, the second criteria will be hard to prove because you have to do extensive test on animals to show that it can cure cancer. Then you have to do test on humans to show it cures cancer.
He then showed us statistics showing us that there are now around 21,000 substances, which are classified as medicine is Hong Kong. The statistic shows there are various countries having numbers of medicine being sold in Hong Kong. Of these 21,000 around a third are manufactured locally. There are around 30. The next largest source of medicine is the United States followed by Japan then UK. However, these statistics are constantly changing.
A question from the floor revealed that even traditional Chinese medicine would be required to be registered by middle of 2004.
Rtn. Dr. Tony himself came up to thank the speaker for a very interesting talk.
Acting Pres. Rudy closed the meeting by making a toast to RI together with The Rotary Club of Hong Kong Island East.
List of PHFs, Benefactors & Major Donors
of HK Island East as of December 2003
Name PHF Benefactors Major Donors Acconci, Paul yes Bovet, Thomas yes Chan, Ernest yes Chan, Henry yes (1-star) Chan, Hubert C.Y. yes (1 ruby) yes Chan, Joseph yes (1-star) Chan, Josephine yes Chan, Kenny yes (1-star) Chan, Laurence S.W. yes (1-star) Chan. Linus yes Chan, Paul Kam Ching yes Chan, Soo yes (5-star) Chan, Wai Ying yes Chang, Dave yes Chen, Andrew Y yes Cheng, Clement yes Cheng, Evelyn yes Cheng, Irene yes Cheng, Yan Kee yes (3-ruby) yes level 1
US$10,000Cheung, Desmond T.M. yes (2-star) Chiu, Carol B. yes (1-star) yes Chiu,Chiu yes (2-star) yes Chiu, Jason Yutai yes (1-star) yes Chung, Raymond yes Conway, Anthony F.M. yes yes Conway, Carlye Tsui yes Dick, Alan yes
Dingle, Alan yes Eng, Wing S. yes Fielding, Robin M. yes Filer, Chris R. yes Forte, Ronald N. yes yes Fu, C.Y. yes Ghose, T.K. yes Goh, K.C. yes Grantham, Adrian yes (5-star) yes Grubb, Ivy yes Grubb, Roy yes (1-star) yes Hall, Anastasia V.K. yes Hall, Emily V.L. yes Hall, Helen Lee yes Hall, Isabel V.Y. yes Hall, Peter K.P. yes (5-star) yes Hall, Teresa V.Y. yes Halvorsen, Leif yes Hausman, Sylvia A. yes Ho, Eileen yes (1-star) Kok, Mathew yes Kwan, Edward yes Kwok, John Gee On yes (5-star) Lai, Robert yes Lall, Krishan yes Lam, Christina Y.Y. yes Lam, Elaine yes Lam, George Sze Chun yes Lam, Kenneth Sze-Ken yes Lam, Kevin Sze Cay yes Lam, Lawrence Sze-Lok yes Lam, Samuel yes (5-star) yes Level 2
US$25,000Lam, Wi-Kwun yes Lam, William Sau-Shing yes Lamport, William yes yes Lau, Jack yes Law, Chun Tong Wai yes Law, Jacqueline yes Law, Rudy K.H. yes (4-star) Lee, Harold yes Lee, Peter C.Y. yes Lee, William Vi yes Leung, Cynthia yes Leung, George Tai Yau yes (1-star) yes Li, Amy yes Li, Christian Davidson yes Li, David K.F. yes (4-star) yes Li, Francis K.C. yes Ling, Alexander Fong yes Ling, Thomas C.K. yes Ling, William yes Liu, Stephen L/H. yes (1-star) Lloyd, Thomas yes Loy, Clement T.H. yes Loy, Timothy T.J. yes Loy, Tony Tung Tak yes (1-star) Lu, Clark C. yes Lui, Grace yes Lui, Tim Leung yes (1-star) yes Luk, John yes Ma, Jennie yes Macdonald, Jill yes Macdonald, Murray yes (2-star) yes Mahtani, Ramesh yes Moosdeen, Baker yes Motwani, K. Sital yes Narain, Kishu yes Ng, C.T. yes Ng, David Chung Wai yes Ng, Jennifer yes Nie, Dragon yes Pang, K.T. yes Pong, Stanley Kit yes Poon, Kenneth yes Poone, Sammy yes Ramakrishnan, Rama yes Razack, Abraham yes Schats, Rudy yes Shadikhan, Christina yes Shadikhan, Tajwar yes (1-star) yes Sheng, Alex yes Soltay, Laslo Leslie yes Tao, Edwin H.C. yes Tao, L.T. yes Tao, Margaret Yu yes Ting, Christopher K.S. yes Ting, Kenneth N.S. yes Tso, Amy yes Wang, Bernard T.Y. yes Wang, Wilson T.S. yes Wilson, Ruth Jill yes Wilson, Warren yes yes Wong, Andy yes Wong, Donald C.K. yes Wong, Donna Tam yes Wong, Donna Wing Yan yes Wong, Kenneth yes Wong, Samuel T.S. yes Wu, James yes Wu, Otto Tsung-Sung yes Yang, Y.P. yes Yao, John C.Y. yes Yau, Richard yes (1-star) Yih, Robin yes Yucel, Mehmet A. yes (2-star) yes Yuen, John yes (5-star) Endowed Scholarship
US$150,000Yuen, Ronald yes Yuen, Walter yes Zao, William yes
PS. As this list will be reproduced in our 50th Anniversary Souvenir Programme, please contact PDG Peter Hall for correction in case any discrepancies in the amount of donations, misspelled of names and or omission.
Joke & Cartoon A couple made a deal that whoever died first would come back and inform the other of the afterlife. Their biggest fear was that there was no afterlife. After a long life, the husband was the first to go, and true to his word, he made contact, "Mary. . Mary .. . ." "Is that you, Steve?" "Yes, I've come back like we agreed." "What's it like?" "Well, I get up in the morning, I have sex. I have breakfast, off to the golf course, I have sex. I bathe in the sun, then I have sex twice. I have lunch, another romp around the golf course, then sex pretty much all afternoon. After supper, golf course again. then have sex until late at night. The next day it starts again." "Oh, Steve you surely must be in heaven." "Not exactly, I'm a rabbit on a golf course in Florida.
Photgraphs of Our Meeting
on
4th February, 2004
Our guest speaker today was Mr. Anthony W.K. Chan who is the Chief Pharmacist at the Department of Health. His speech was on the topic of "Drug Registration
in Hong Kong".
(L to R) PDG Uncle Peter, our guest speaker, Mr Anthony Chan & Acting Pres. Rudy. 
(L to R) Hon. Sec.Eddy, Program Chairman Dr. Tony, & PP John IV. 
PP Taj was chjosen to lead the birthday song for Rtn Dr. Tony, with Acting Pres. Rudy holding his birthday present. (L to R) Rtn Andy, PE Jason, Hon. Tres. Clark with Rtn Kishu. (L to R) PP Taj, Rtn Kenny, Dir Heron, PP Hubert, PDG Y.K. & PP Tim.
Group Photo of PDG Uncle Peter, Acting Pres. Rudy, our guest speaker & other Rotarians of our club on 4th February, 2004 We had another golf tournament on the 6th of February, 2004 atFanling
previous home
We gathered at the 1st tee of the Eden course at 11:33 am. Pictured above showing all the golfers except the eventual winner arriving in the nick of time was Rtn Lawrence Lam (HKN). (L to R) VP Rudy, Rtn Andy, PP George, VP Tobias Doeringer (HKS), Boey Lau (HKN), PDG Uncle Peter, PP John, Rtn Hubert Ng (HKH), PP Taj, PP Li, PP Kennedy Tang (HKH) & PP Hubert. Lawrence Lam clutching the winner's trophy which he keeps for one year. He will be presented with his own trophy later in a ceremony at our club on a date to be announced. A picture to be remember, Lawrence ! PDG Uncle Peter presented the trophy to you. You are the winner this year so come back again next year to defend your title.
