The Home Affairs Department will open 15 temporary night heat shelters tonight (May 19) for people in need of the service.
      
     The shelters will be open from 10.30pm until 8am tomorrow.
      
     For further information, please call the department's enquiry hotline before midnight on 2835 1473.
      
     The 15 temporary night heat shelters are located at:
      
Hong Kong Districts:
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Central and Western –
Sai Ying Pun Community Complex Community Hall
3/F, Sai Ying Pun Community Complex,
2 High Street, Sai Ying Pun
 
Eastern/Wan Chai –
Causeway Bay Community Centre
7 Fook Yum Road, Causeway Bay
 
Kowloon Districts:
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Kowloon City –
Hung Hom Community Hall
1/F, Kowloon City Government Offices
42 Bailey Street, Hung Hom
 
Kwun Tong –
Lam Tin (West) Estate Community Centre
71 Kai Tin Road, Lam Tin
 
Sham Shui Po –
Shek Kip Mei Community Hall
G/F, Block 42, Shek Kip Mei Estate, Sham Shui Po
 
Wong Tai Sin –
Tsz Wan Shan (South) Estate Community Centre
45 Wan Wah Street, Tsz Wan Shan
 
Yau Tsim Mong –
Henry G. Leong Yaumatei Community Centre
60 Public Square Street, Yau Ma Tei
 
New Territories Districts:
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Kwai Tsing –
Kwai Shing Community Hall
Podium, Block 6, Kwai Shing West Estate, Kwai Chung
 
North –
Cheung Wah Community Hall
Cheung Wah Estate, Fanling
 
Sha Tin –
Lung Hang Estate Community Centre
Lung Hang Estate, Sha Tin
 
Tai Po –
Tai Po Community Centre
2 Heung Sze Wui Street, Tai Po
 
Tsuen Wan –
Lei Muk Shue Community Hall
G/F, Hong Shue House, Lei Muk Shue Estate, Tsuen Wan
 
Tuen Mun –
Butterfly Bay Community Centre
Butterfly Estate (near Tip Sum House), Tuen Mun
 
Yuen Long –
Long Ping Community Hall
Long Ping Estate, Yuen Long
 
Yuen Long –
Tin Yiu Community Centre
Tin Yiu Estate, Tin Shui Wai

    Correctional officers stopped a person in custody assaulting another person in custody at Hei Ling Chau Correctional Institution yesterday (May 18).

     At 2.45pm, a 29-year-old male person in custody suddenly attacked a 43-year-old male person in custody inside the workshop. Officers at the scene immediately stopped the assailant and called for reinforcements.

     The victim sustained injuries to his eye. After examination and treatment by the medical officer in the institution hospital, he was transferred to a public hospital for further treatment.

     The case has been reported to the Police for investigation.

     The assailant was sentenced to imprisonment for the offence of possession of offensive weapon in a public place and remaining in Hong Kong without the authority of the Director of Immigration after having landed unlawfully in Hong Kong.

     â€‹The Secretary for the Environment, Mr Wong Kam-sing, will depart for Tokyo, Japan tomorrow morning (May 20) to attend the Tokyo Forum for Clean City & Clear Sky. The forum aims at bringing city leaders together to discuss issues on waste management, sustainable resource management and air quality, as well as solutions to create a sustainable urban environment.
      
     The Tokyo Forum for Clean City & Clear Sky will be held on May 22 and 23. Mr Wong will attend the breakfast meeting for the East, Southeast Asia and Oceania Region of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group and various sessions of the forum. He will also speak at a plenary session entitled "Aiming for a Sustainable Urban Environment: Current Global Trends and the Role of Cities".
      
     During his stay in Tokyo, Mr Wong will visit a new energy vehicle company, solar farms and recycling facilities. He will also meet with local officials to learn more about their management of sustainable development.
      
     Mr Wong will conclude his visit in the afternoon on May 23 and return to Hong Kong in the evening the same day.

     Following is the transcript of remarks by the Secretary for Labour and Welfare, Dr Law Chi-kwong, on residential care home for the elderly and day care centre for the elderly to be constructed by the purchaser in a tender awarded for a site in Kai Tak after attending a radio programme this morning (May 19):

Reporter: … why developing elderly homes in private developer projects is an easier option than setting up in subsidised housing projects? What's the scale you are talking about?

Secretary for Labour and Welfare: Recently, there was a Land Sale Programme tender. In the site, two elderly projects (a residential care home for the elderly and a day care centre for the elderly) are included. I expect the whole process can be completed in a relatively shorter period of time. 

     When we talk about project that is housed in public sites, let's say public projects like public housing or other public development, it would take around eight years or even longer. But if we put it under a private development, normally it would take something like five years or at most seven to eight years. So, it definitely reduces the time needed for the development of residential homes for the elderly. So, we will seriously consider in the future, the future Land Sale Programme, when as appropriate we would be able to include elderly residential homes in those development.

The following is issued on behalf of the Hospital Authority:

     Regarding an earlier announcement on a cluster of patients infected with Rhinovirus in a female adult psychiatric ward, the spokesperson for Castle Peak Hospital made the following update today (May 19):

     One more 59-year-old patient in the ward had presented with respiratory symptom. Appropriate viral test had been arranged for the patient and the test result was positive to Rhinovirus. The concerned patient is being treated under isolation with stable condition.

     Admission to the ward has been suspended and restricted visiting has been imposed. Infection control measures have already been stepped up according to established guidelines. All other patients in the ward are under close surveillance.

     The case has been reported to the Hospital Authority Head Office and the Centre for Health Protection for necessary follow-up.