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    The Secretary for Education, Mr Kevin Yeung, today (December 11) expressed deep sorrow over the passing of the veteran educationist, Father Alfred Deignan.

     Mr Yeung said, “During Father Deignan’s educational mission over the past few decades, many in Hong Kong have learned from his example, and benefited from his constancy, dedication and capacious sympathy.

     “Father Deignan’s achievements were not only witnessed at Wah Yan College, Hong Kong and Wah Yan College, Kowloon, where he served in the posts of vice-principal and principal from the 1960s to the 1990s, but also in other Catholic schools as he, based on his professional training and frontline experience of working with young people, devised courses on self-development and human relations for school use.”

     In 1997, together with a group of dedicated educationists in tertiary and secondary institutions, Father Deignan established the Hong Kong International Institute of Educational Leadership with a view to fostering a community which is fair, honest, just, caring, compassionate, responsible, trustworthy, generous and courageous.

     Mr Yeung said that Father Deignan will certainly be missed by members of the education sector and the people of Hong Kong who have benefitted from his guidance. read more

     A man was fined $8,000 at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts today (December 11) for contravening the Hotel and Guesthouse Accommodation Ordinance.
      
     The courts heard that in May this year, officers of the Office of the Licensing Authority (OLA), the Home Affairs Department, inspected a suspected unlicensed guesthouse on Pak Sha Road in Causeway Bay. During the inspection, the OLA officers posed as lodgers and successfully rented a room in the guesthouse on a daily basis.
      
     According to the OLA’s record, the guesthouse did not possess a licence under the Ordinance on the day of inspection. The man responsible for managing the premises was charged with contravening section 5(1) of the Ordinance.
      
     A department spokesman stressed that operating or managing an unlicensed guesthouse is a criminal offence and will lead to a criminal record. Upon conviction, the offender is liable to a maximum fine of $200,000 and two years’ imprisonment.
           
     The spokesman appealed to anyone with information about suspected unlicensed guesthouses to report it to the OLA through the hotline (tel: 2881 7498), by email (hadlaenq@had.gov.hk), by fax (2504 5805) using the report form downloaded from the OLA website (www.hadla.gov.hk), or through the mobile application “Hong Kong Licensed Hotels and Guesthouses”. read more

     The Chief Executive, Mrs Carrie Lam, today (December 11) expressed deep sorrow over the passing of veteran educator Father Alfred Deignan.        "Having dedicated a major part of his life to education in … read more

The following is issued on behalf of the Legislative Council Secretariat:      The meeting of the Legislative Council (LegCo) Subcommittee to Examine the Implementation in Hong Kong of Resolutions of the United Nations Security C… read more

     Hong Kong Customs mounted a territory-wide anti-illicit cigarette operation codenamed "Harvest" from October 24 to today (December 11) and seized about 820 000 suspected illicit cigarettes in total with an estimated m… read more