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     The Leisure and Cultural Services Department announced today (July 24) that due to an insufficient number of lifeguards on duty, the lifesaving services at Cafeteria Old Beach in Tuen Mun District are suspended until further notice.

     First aid services will be maintained at the beach.

     The Leisure and Cultural Services Department is inviting organisations that wish to sponsor the 2020 Lunar New Year Fireworks Display to submit applications on or before August 23 (Friday).

     The fireworks display will be held on January 26 (Sunday) next year.

     Applications should be submitted to the Secretary of the Fireworks Vetting Committee (address: Community Programmes Office, Leisure and Cultural Services Department, 8/F, Queen Elizabeth Stadium, 18 Oi Kwan Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong).

     Further enquiries can be made on 2591 1342.

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     Here is an item of interest to swimmers.

     The Leisure and Cultural Services Department said today (July 24) that the red flags at Ma Wan Tung Wan Beach, Lido Beach, Casam Beach, Approach Beach, Hoi Mei Wan Beach and Ting Kau Beach in Tsuen Wan District have been lowered and the beaches have been reopened.

     The beaches were closed earlier after an oil spill.

     Three charities have been issued Public Subscription Permits to hold flag sales from 7am to 12.30pm today (July 24). They are, on Hong Kong Island, the Urban Peacemaker Evangelistic Fellowship Limited; in Kowloon, the Society for Community Organization Limited and in the New Territories, the Yuen Yuen Institute, a spokesman for the Social Welfare Department (SWD) said.

     Arrangements have been made with the charities to help people distinguish between the three flag-selling activities.

     Information on the three flag-selling organisations on July 24 is as follows:
 

     For enquiries, please call the SWD's hotline at 2343 2255, or the designated hotline of the 1823 Call Centre at 3142 2678. Information on flag days is available at the SWD's website (www.swd.gov.hk/en/index/site_whatsnew) and the GovHK portal (www.gov.hk/en/theme/fundraising/search). Permits for flag days containing contact information of the flag-selling organisations and information on the approved flag-selling activities have also been uploaded to the SWD's website (www.swd.gov.hk/en/index/site_pubsvc/page_controlofc/sub_recentlyap). For enquiries about the detailed flag-selling arrangements, please contact the individual flag-selling organisations.

     Details of the charitable fund-raising activities covered by the Public Subscription Permit issued by the SWD have also been uploaded to the GovHK website (www.gov.hk/fundraising).

     In the case of suspected fraudulent flag day activities, people should not make any donation and should immediately report the matter to the Police, the spokesman added.

          Police today (July 23) appealed to the public for information on a boy who went missing in Tin Shui Wai.

          Kwong Cho-hang, aged 12, went missing after he left his residence in Tin Yiu Estate on July 18 morning. His family made a report to Police on July 21.
              
          He is about 1.5 metres tall, 60 kilograms in weight and of fat build. He has a round face with yellow complexion and short black hair. He has a two-inch scar on his left forearm. He was last seen wearing a red short-sleeved shirt, shorts, white sports shoes and a pair of black frame glasses grey shorts and black shoes.

          Anyone who knows the whereabouts of the missing boy or may have seen him is urged to contact the Regional Missing Person Unit of New Territories North on 3661 3112, 6273 5787 or email to rmpu-ntn-1@police.gov.hk, or contact any police station.