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     The Council of the China National Arts Fund recently announced the list of arts projects to be funded by the China National Arts Fund 2025. After assessment, the adjudication panel of the China National Arts Fund selected 818 projects out of 11 091 formal applications. Twelve Hong Kong arts projects were selected.
      
     The Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism, Miss Rosanna Law, said, “I would like to express heartfelt thanks to our country for the support and recognition of Hong Kong’s arts and culture sectors, and congratulate the 12 Hong Kong arts projects supported by the China National Arts Fund. The projects selected in this exercise cover different genres and scales, manifesting Hong Kong’s thriving and diversified arts and culture ecology. We are deeply encouraged that some of the arts groups have continuously contributed to the development of high-quality arts, culture and creative industries, and are recognised by the China National Arts Fund again.”
      
     The Hong Kong projects selected for 2025 cover areas such as large-scale productions, small-scale productions, visual arts creations, cultural exchange, training of arts talents, and youth in arts creation, which showcase the diverse arts and cultural achievements of Hong Kong.
      
     Miss Law said, “The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government will continue to leverage our cultural characteristics which are rooted in Chinese culture and embracing Western culture to enhance international cultural exchanges and promote people-to-people bonds, further consolidating Hong Kong’s position as an East-meets-West centre for international cultural exchange.”
 
     The China National Arts Fund was opened up for projects from Hong Kong and Macao in 2022. The HKSAR Government has announced various policy measures to support the awardees of the China National Arts Fund in Hong Kong in past Policy Addresses, as well as in the Blueprint for Arts and Culture and Creative Industries Development which was promulgated last month. Many Hong Kong arts projects have benefited so far. Those selected for 2025 will also benefit from the relevant measures, including providing funding to bring quality arts projects outside Hong Kong, as well as presenting them at the annual Chinese Culture Festival, and enabling the local public and international audience to understand the essence of Chinese culture in a more holistic and multifaceted manner, thereby promoting the inheritance and development of Chinese culture. read more

     â€‹Hongkong Post announced today (December 23) that, as advised by the postal administration of Thailand, mail delivery services to Thailand previously impacted by flooding have returned to normal. read more

     Police today (December 23) appealed to the public for information on a man who went missing in Ma On Shan.      Lai Kwai-leung, aged 72, went missing after he left his residence on Hang Shun Str… 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 toda… read more

     â€‹The six-month adaptation period of the new regulation on disposable plastic products has been concluded for two months since October 21 this year. The Environmental Protection Department (EPD) will continue to promote going “plastic-and-disposable-free” and follow up incompliant cases, to join hands with different sectors of the community to promote green and low-carbon living culture in Hong Kong.

     A spokesman for the EPD said today (December 23) that since the implementation of the new regulation, the trade has generally complied with the law and adapted to the new regulatory requirements by making corresponding changes in their businesses. Over the past two months, the EPD has continued its publicity and educational efforts, followed up on complaints and handled the small number of cases that are still incompliant.

     To date, the EPD has received 62 relevant complaints and reportings about non-compliance, all of which have been investigated, and 33 of them were still incompliant and had not taken specific actions to rectify after rounds of promotion and education. The EPD has issued written warnings requiring the persons-in-charge to make improvements within 10 working days; otherwise, a fixed penalty notice will be issued. The EPD has followed up 15 cases which written warnings had been issued more than 10 working days and two catering premises were still found persistently incompliant, and the EPD staff have issued fixed penalty notices of $2,000 each to the persons-in-charge. The EPD will follow up other cases again timely.

     The spokesman reiterated, “Having reviewed the data in these two months after the adaptation period, most of the non-compliance had been rectified within a short period of time, and only two cases with repeated non-compliance records required the issuance of fixed penalty notices at present. The EPD reminds the trade once again that the adaptation period has concluded for two months. The EPD will on one hand continue our publicity and educational efforts, and on the other hand seriously follow up on incompliant cases with a view to working with the trade and the public to further promote the ‘plastic-and-disposable-free’ culture in the society.” read more