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     The Music Office of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, in collaboration with the Education University of Hong Kong, will rerun the music training programme Innovative Music Making: MO x e-Orch from October to July next year. The training programme aims to promote the integration of music and technology on school campuses. Interested primary and secondary schools are invited to join the programme.
 
     Training targets of the Innovative Music Making: MO x e-Orch programme are Primary Four to Primary Six students and Secondary One to Secondary Three students. With the use of tablets, participants from each school will form a digital music orchestra (e-Orch), learn musical knowledge and music creation, and receive training on ensemble performance and collaborative creation. Upon completion of the training, students will join hands with the Western and Chinese instrumental ensembles of the Music Office to perform on stage at a public concert. Various awards and certificates of attendance will be presented to participating students at the public concert as encouragement.
 
     Interested schools can download application forms from the Music Office’s website (www.lcsd.gov.hk/en/mo/activities/schoolprogrammes/arttech.html). Completed forms must be returned to the Music Office on or before June 3 by e-mail (moarttech@lcsd.gov.hk) or by fax (3104 1352). The Music Office will acknowledge schools’ applications by e-mail. For enquiries, please call 2158 6467 or 3842 7776. read more

     Police today (May 13) appealed to the public for information on a man who went missing in Wong Tai Sin.      Ho Hiu-pang, aged 28, went missing after he left his residence in Wang Tau Hom Estate… read more

Attention TV/radio announcers: Please broadcast the following as soon as possible and repeat it at regular intervals:      The Leisure and Cultural Services Department said today (May 13) that the red flag at Silverstrand Beach in … read more

     The Civil Aviation Department (CAD) conducted the second phase of a trial flight inspection by small unmanned aircraft (SUA) on May 9, 10 and 13.       According to the standards of the International Civil Avi… read more

     Following is the transcript of remarks by the Secretary for Labour and Welfare, Mr Chris Sun, on the governance of the Social Workers Registration Board at a media session this afternoon (May 13) after attending a meeting of the Legislative Council Panel on Welfare Services:

Reporter: Secretary, are there any plans to change the composition of the Social Workers Registration Board, by increasing the ratio of appointed members? Also, how would you respond to the Board Chairperson’s comments that existing mechanism has been effective enough in handling registration regarding offenders of serious offences?

Secretary for Labour and Welfare: I pointed out very clearly in the article I published earlier about my serious concerns that the Social Workers Registration Board is deviating from what it should be doing under the law and what it has been doing right now undermines public interest and also the credibility and professionalism of social workers. There is no misunderstanding. I have complete information about what is going on in the Board. Based on my clear understanding and my serious concerns about what is going on there, I have pointed out very clearly that we have to improve the governance of the Board, so that the Board will in future deal with issues concerning registration of social workers as well as disciplinary matters concerning social workers in a manner that is commensurate with the need to ensure that public interest is given priority and also the professionalism and credibility of social workers is being upheld.

(Please also refer to the Chinese portion of the transcript.) read more