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     Attention TV and radio duty announcers:      Please broadcast the following special announcement by the Education Bureau concerning schools, and repeat it at suitable intervals:     As t… read more

Attention TV/radio announcers: Please broadcast the following as soon as possible: Here is an item of interest to swimmers.      The Leisure and Cultural Services Department announced today (July 18) that due to b… read more

Attention TV/radio announcers: Please broadcast the following as soon as possible:      The Civil Engineering and Development Department today (July 18) announced that as the Strong Wind Signal No. 3 has been issued,… read more

     Owing to the thunderstorm warning, the flag-raising ceremony to be conducted at Golden Bauhinia Square, Wan Chai at 8am today (July 18) will be cancelled. read more

     The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Charitable Trust has been issued a Public Subscription Permit to hold a territory-wide flag sale from 7am to 12.30pm today (July 18), a spokesman for the Social Welfare Department (SWD) said. 
 
     For enquiries, please call the SWD’s hotline at 2343 2255, or the Charitable Fund-raising Control Team at 2832 4311 during office hours. Information on the flag days of the month is available at the SWD’s website (www.swd.gov.hk/en/index/site_whatsnew). 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. read more