Police today (June 8) appealed to the public for information on a man who went missing in Kwai Chung.
      
          Lai Wai-tak, aged 43, went missing after he left his residence in Kwai Shing West Estate on April 21. His family made a report to Police on June 6.
      
          He is about 1.78 metres tall, 60 kilograms in weight and of thin build. He has a pointed face with yellow complexion and short black hair.
      
          Anyone who knows the whereabouts of the missing man or may have seen him is urged to contact the Regional Missing Person Unit of New Territories North on 3661 3113 or 6273 5787, or email to rmpu-ntn-1@police.gov.hk, or contact any police station.
     

  

     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 the Red Rainstorm Warning Signal is now in force, students of PM schools do not have to attend school this afternoon. Schools should keep their premises open and implement contingency measures to look after arriving students. Schools which are in session should continue until the end of school hours. They should ensure that conditions are safe before allowing students to return home.

     The Government today (June 8) gazetted the United Nations Sanctions (Yemen) Regulation 2015 (Amendment) Regulation 2018 (the Amendment Regulation), which came into operation today.
 
     "The Amendment Regulation implements sanctions against Yemen as renewed by the United Nations Security Council under Resolution 2402," a Government spokesman said.
 
     The sanctions imposed under the Amendment Regulation include:
 

• prohibition against making available to certain persons or entities any funds or other financial assets or economic resources, or dealing with funds or other financial assets or economic resources of certain persons or entities; and
• prohibition against entry into or transit through the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region by certain persons.

     The Government published in the Gazette today (June 8) the Food Adulteration (Metallic Contamination) (Amendment) Regulation 2018 to stipulate the updated standards for metallic contamination in food.
      
     A Government spokesman said, "The amendments are to enhance the protection of public health, facilitate effective regulation and align Hong Kong's standards with the international ones.
      
     "The standards as set out in the Amendment Regulation were made after making reference to factors including the latest standards on metallic contamination of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, relevant standards of other economies, local food consumption patterns and dietary practices and the results of risk assessment."
      
     The Amendment Regulation will increase the total number of metallic contaminants from the existing seven to 14. The number of maximum levels (MLs) for metallic contaminants in respect of different foods and food groups will be increased from the existing 19 to 144. The Amendment Regulation also provides definitions for individual foods and food groups, replaces or deletes obsolete clauses, and provides the principles for the application of MLs on food in a dried, dehydrated or concentrated form and on compounded food.  There are transitional provisions in the Amendment Regulation to provide different grace periods for different kinds of food.
      
     "Given that the proposed MLs are generally in line with Codex's standards and the principles for establishing MLs for contaminants in food, the amendments are not likely to affect the supply of food in Hong Kong in general. Furthermore, results from the routine food surveillance programme and additional baseline studies conducted by the Centre for Food Safety of the Food and Environmental Hygiene indicate that the levels of metallic contamination in food available in the local market can generally comply with the proposed MLs," the spokesman said.
      
     The Amendment Regulation will be tabled before the Legislative Council on June 13, 2018, for negative vetting.

     The Government today (June 8) gazetted the United Nations Sanctions (Central African Republic) Regulation 2018 (the 2018 Regulation), which came into operation today.
 
     "The 2018 Regulation implements sanctions against the Central African Republic as renewed by the United Nations Security Council under Resolution 2399," a Government spokesman said.
 
     The sanctions imposed under the 2018 Regulation include:
 

• prohibition against the supply, sale, transfer or carriage of arms or related materiel to the Central African Republic or persons connected with the Central African Republic;
• prohibition against the provision of assistance or training related to military activities or to the provision, maintenance or use of any arms or related materiel to persons connected with the Central African Republic;
• prohibition against making available to certain persons or entities any funds or other financial assets or economic resources, or dealing with funds or other financial assets or economic resources of certain persons or entities; and
• prohibition against entry into or transit through the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region by certain persons.