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     A company was fined $4,000 at the Kowloon City Magistrates’ Courts today (July 25) for contravening the Clubs (Safety of Premises) Ordinance.
      
     The courts heard that in December last year, officers from the Office of the Licensing Authority (OLA) of the Home Affairs Department conducted inspections at a club on Cameron Road in Tsim Sha Tsui which had been operating with a certificate of compliance (CoC).
      
     OLA officers posed as customers and patronised the club for drinks without being asked to show their membership status or being invited to join the club as members. Also, the staff of the club failed to show the registered drawings upon the OLA officers’ request. Conditions 17 and 19 of the CoC were breached.
      
     The company, being the CoC holder of the club, was charged with contravening section 21(2) of the Ordinance.
      
     A spokesman for the department reminded all CoC holders to comply with the conditions as stipulated therein. Enforcement action will continue to be taken against illegal club operations. read more

     â€‹The Secretary for Home Affairs, Mr Lau Kong-wah, met with the Vice Governor of Hubei Province, Ms Chen Anli, yesterday (July 24) upon arrival in Wuhan, Hubei.
      
     Last night, he also joined a gathering of Hong Kong people working or studying in Wuhan to hear about their lives. During the stay in Wuhan, he toured the Hubei Provincial Museum and the Museum of Wuchang Uprising of 1911 Revolution to learn more about local heritage preservation and explore possible collaboration on culture and youth development work between Hong Kong and Hubei.
      
     Mr Lau visited Jingzhou today (July 25) and met the Secretary of the CPC Jingzhou Municipal Committee, Mr He Guangzhong. He also visited local cultural heritage locations to learn about the protection and promotion of cultural heritage.
      
     Mr Lau will proceed to Beijing tomorrow (July 26). His itinerary in Beijing includes attending the closing ceremonies of the Youth Internship Programme at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Fin Society’s internship programme. He will depart from Beijing and return to Hong Kong in the morning on July 28.

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     A woman was fined $10,000 at the Kowloon City Magistrates’ Courts today (July 25) for contravening the Hotel and Guesthouse Accommodation Ordinance.

     The courts heard that in January this year, officers of the Office of the Licensing Authority (OLA), Home Affairs Department, inspected a suspected unlicensed guesthouse on Cheung Wah Street in Cheung Sha Wan. The OLA officers posed as lodgers and successfully rented a room in the guesthouse on a daily basis.

     According to the OLA’s records, the guesthouse did not possess a licence under the Ordinance on the day of inspection. The woman responsible for operating 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 Transport Department (TD) today (July 25) announced that, with effect from August 1 (Wednesday), the First Phase Public Car Park in Po Shek Wu Estate (PSWE) will replace the existing Sheung Shui Public Car Park (SSPCP) to provide park-and-ride (PnR) concession, while the SSPCP will cease operation and be permanently closed. The SSPCP site will be used for development works of PSWE.
 
     To encourage the public to use railway services to travel to urban areas, the coverage of the new PnR scheme will expand from four MTR stations (Kowloon Tong, Mong Kok East, Hung Hom and East Tsim Sha Tsui Stations) to most of the MTR stations (except Ma On Shan Line stations and Sheung Shui, Fanling, Tai Wo, Tai Po Market, University, Fo Tan, Sha Tin and Tai Wai Stations). Users of the PSWE First Phase Public Car Park will be eligible for the concessionary PnR charge if they use an adult Octopus card to enter the car park, and use the same Octopus card to travel to and from designated MTR stations before leaving the car park. Details of the scheme will be shown on notices displayed at the PSWE car park.
 
     The parking charges are as follows:
 

Charges	Private car parking space
Monthly+	$1,840
Hourly+	$12
PnR	$4 (per hour)

Remark:
+ Holders of the Disabled Person’s Parking Permit issued by the TD will be offered a 50 per cent discount on monthly and hourly parking fees.
 
     The SSPCP will not be open for hourly parking starting from noon on July 31. Motorists must remove their vehicles from the SSPCP that day, and vehicles that are parked in the SSPCP after midnight on August 1 will be towed away and the owner or driver of the vehicle concerned will be liable to pay the associated parking fee and towing fee. read more

     The overall Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) caseload in June showed a drop of 257 cases, representing a decrease of 0.1 per cent compared with that of May, according to the latest CSSA caseload statistics r… read more