The Secretary for Labour and Welfare, Dr Law Chi-kwong, visited Tai Po District and elderly residents in a Care and Attention Home for the Elderly today (June 5). The Under Secretary for Labour and Welfare, Mr Caspar Tsui, also joined the visit.

     Accompanied by the District Officer (Tai Po), Ms Andy Lui, and the District Social Welfare Officer (Tai Po/North), Mr Yam Mun-ho, Dr Law went to TWGHs Pao Siu Loong Care & Attention Home in Shuen Wan. It provides residential and personal care, meals and nursing care for the elderly with weak health and deficiency in daily self-care.

     Dr Law visited elderly residents with dementia and toured its different small group units targeting residents with dementia and residents with frailty. He noted that different teams of care personnel serve in designated clusters and arrange appropriate care and activities based on the elderly's needs. Such an arrangement can enhance service quality and improve the care personnel's relationship with residents and residents' family members. He also discussed the small group unit model with residents and their families and listened to their views.

     He then proceeded to the Tai Po District Council and met with members to learn more about the latest developments and issues of concern in the district and to exchange views on district matters.

        

     The effective exchange rate index for the Hong Kong dollar on Tuesday, June 5, 2018 is 99.7 (down 0.1 against yesterday's index).

     Two vegetable stalls operated by Bonnie Vegetables and Fruit Wholesale Limited at Yuen Long New Street and Hop Choi Street were fined a total of $17,000 by Fanling Magistrates' Courts today (June 5) for contravening the Noise Control Ordinance (NCO) by causing persistent noise annoyance with loudspeakers playing promotional recordings placed at their front doors. The director, who operates the vegetable chain stalls, was also convicted and held criminally liable for her stores' repeated offences. She was fined $3,000.
                 
     An Environmental Protection Department (EPD) spokesman said that since last year, the department received many complaints from members of the public about vegetable stalls in the vicinity of Yuen Long New Street and Hop Choi Street persistently playing promotional recordings by using loudspeakers, which adversely affected nearby residents. The EPD conducted numerous joint enforcement operations with the Police and raided the above vegetable stalls in last December and January this year. It was found that their loudspeakers were generating excessive noise and caused annoyance and the EPD subsequently prosecuted the stalls concerned under the NCO. The above vegetable stalls were operated by the same director. One of her stalls has already been convicted twice under the NCO since September last year, and the EPD thus prosecuted the registered director of the vegetable chain stalls.
      
     After a series of enforcement actions, the situation of the aforementioned vegetable stalls improved. The EPD will continue to closely monitor and conduct stringent enforcement actions to combat repeated contraventions by stalls, and prosecute the operator of the stalls concerned.
      
     The spokesman reminded persons responsible for retail shops and market stalls that when they play promotional recordings to sell goods, they should contain the noise level within their shop area and should not cause annoyance to other people outside their shops or nearby residents. Otherwise, it constitutes an offence, and offenders are liable to a maximum fine of $10,000. For stores with repeated contraventions, the operator himself will also be criminally liable for the offence once convicted.

    

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Here is an item of interest to swimmers.

     The Leisure and Cultural Services Department announced today (June 5) that due to big waves, the red flag has been hoisted at Tong Fuk Beach in Islands District. Beach-goers are advised not to swim at the beach.

The following is issued on behalf of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority:

     Hong Kong Monetary Authority Exchange Fund Bills tender results:
 

 
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     Hong Kong Monetary Authority tenders to be held in the week beginning June 11, 2018: