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     Hong Kong Customs conducted an operation on December 13 to combat the sale of memory cards with infringing music files on the Internet. A total of four memory cards loaded with suspected infringing music files, seven external hard disks, a set of computer and a notebook computer as well as a batch of music discs with an estimated market value of about $40,000 were seized. 

     Customs earlier received information alleging the sale of memory cards loaded with suspected infringing music files on a local discussion forum, offering around 1 000 music albums for selection. 

     After investigation, Customs officers conducted an operation on December 13 and arrested a 20-year-old man in Shek Kip Mei and seized two memory cards loaded with suspected infringing music files. Later, two more memory cards, the batch of computer equipment and music discs suspected to be used for producing the infringing music files were further seized at two residential units in Shek Kip Mei and Sheung Shui.

     Investigation is ongoing and the arrested man has been released on bail pending further investigation.

     Under the Copyright Ordinance, any person who sells or possesses for sale any infringing copy of a copyright work commits an offence. The maximum penalty upon conviction is a fine of $50,000 per infringing copy and imprisonment for four years.

     Members of the public may report any suspected infringing activities to the Customs’ 24-hour hotline 2545 6182 or its dedicated crime-reporting email account (crimereport@customs.gov.hk).

  

     The Census and Statistics Department (C&SD) published today (December 17) the December 2018 issue of the “Hong Kong Monthly Digest of Statistics” (HKMDS).

     Apart from providing up-to-date statistics, this issue also contains two feature articles entitled “Fertility Trend in Hong Kong, 1981 to 2017” and “Port Transhipment Cargo Statistics, 2007 to 2017”.

“Fertility Trend in Hong Kong, 1981 to 2017”

     Broadly speaking, Hong Kong’s fertility showed a declining trend over the past 36 years. After experiencing the historic low of 901 live births per 1 000 women in 2003, the total fertility rate once rebounded to 1 285 in 2012, and then dropped to 1 125 in 2017. During the whole period, the total fertility rate of Hong Kong has been consistently below the replacement level of 2 100.

     This feature article gives a brief account of the fertility trend in Hong Kong over the period from 1981 to 2017 and analyses the factors underlying the fertility trend.

     For enquiries about this feature article, please contact the Demographic Statistics Section, C&SD (Tel: 3903 6933; email: population@censtatd.gov.hk).

“Port Transhipment Cargo Statistics, 2007 to 2017”

     Port transhipment cargo movements have contributed to the growth of port cargo throughput of Hong Kong. With an average annual rate of increase of 0.8% between 2007 and 2017, port transhipment cargo movements took up 50.9% of port cargo throughput in 2017. In particular, port transhipment cargo movements between Hong Kong and the mainland of China accounted for the largest share (38.9%) of Hong Kong’s port transhipment cargo. About 71.2% of Mainland-Hong Kong port transhipment cargo movements were between Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta region.

     For enquiries about this feature article, please contact the Outward Processing and Shipping Statistics Section, C&SD (Tel: 2582 4889; email: shipping@censtatd.gov.hk).

    Published in bilingual form, the HKMDS is a compact volume of official statistics containing about 140 tables. It collects up-to-date statistical series on various aspects of the social and economic situation of Hong Kong. Topics include population; labour; external trade; National Income and Balance of Payments; prices; business performance; energy; housing and property; government accounts, finance and insurance; and transport, communications and tourism. For selected key statistical items, over 20 charts depicting the annual trend in the past decade and quarterly or monthly trend in the recent two years are also available. Users can download the Digest free of charge at the website of the C&SD (www.censtatd.gov.hk/hkstat/sub/sp460.jsp?productCode=B1010002).

    Enquiries about the contents of the Digest can be directed to the Statistical Information Services Section of the C&SD (Tel: 2582 4738; email: gen-enquiry@censtatd.gov.hk). read more

     The Legislative Council (LegCo) Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will hold a public hearing on “Centre for Food Safety: Management of food safety” (Chapter 1) of the Director of Audit’s Report No.71 at 9am tomorrow (December 18) in Conference Room 1 of the LegCo Complex.
 
     Six witnesses have been invited to appear before the above hearing to respond to points raised in the Report and answer questions asked by PAC members.
 
     The programme for the public hearing is as follows:
 
Date: December 18 (Tuesday)
Time: 9am
Venue: Conference Room 1

Subject:
Centre for Food Safety: Management of food safety (Chapter 1 of the Director of Audit’s Report No.71)

Witnesses:

Professor Sophia Chan
Secretary for Food and Health
 
Mr Eugene Fung
Deputy Secretary for Food and Health (Food)2
 
Miss Vivian Lau
Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene
  
Dr Ho Yuk-yin
Controller, Centre for Food Safety
Food and Environmental Hygiene Department
 
Dr Samuel Yeung
Consultant (Community Medicine) (Risk Assessment and Communication)
Food and Environmental Hygiene Department
 
Dr Christine Wong
Assistant Director (Risk Management)
Food and Environmental Hygiene Department
 
     PAC is chaired by Mr Abraham Shek, and its Deputy Chairman is Mr Kenneth Leung. Other members include Mr Paul Tse, Mr Steven Ho, Mr Lam Cheuk-ting, Mr Shiu Ka-fai and Ms Tanya Chan. read more

The following is issued on behalf of the Hospital Authority:      The spokesperson for the Hospital Authority (HA) made the following announcement today (December 17) regarding the Kwong Wah Hospital (KWH) redevelopment project: … read more

     Hongkong Post announced today (December 17) that, as advised by the postal administration of Uruguay, mail operations in Uruguay have been affected by postal workers’ union action. Only ordinary letters and packets containing documents are accepted. Consequently, Hongkong Post has suspended all postal services to Uruguay, except for ordinary letters and packets containing documents, with immediate effect until further notice. read more