The Secretary for Innovation and Technology, Mr Nicholas W Yang, will leave for Beijing today (July 22) for the closing ceremony of the Youth Internship Programme at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) to be held tomorrow (July 23).

     The Youth Internship Programme is organised by the Home Affairs Bureau and co-organised by the CAS and the Hong Kong Volunteers Association. Under the six-week internship, 49 tertiary students from Hong Kong have been assigned to research units under the CAS in areas such as artificial intelligence, intelligent robots, autonomous vehicles, mathematics, physics and life sciences. The research units involved are the Institute of Automation, the Institute of Computing Technology, the Institute of Software, the Institute of Mathematics, the Institute of Physics and the Institute of Microbiology.
      
     Mr Yang will return to Hong Kong tomorrow afternoon. In his absence, the Under Secretary for Innovation and Technology, Dr David Chung, will act as Secretary for Innovation and Technology.

     Wan Chai Police Station Report Room service has resumed normal.

Attention duty announcers, radio and TV stations:

Please broadcast the following message as soon as possible and repeat it at suitable intervals:

     The Central Government Offices (CGO), Tamar will be open as usual today (July 22). Staff working in the CGO can enter the workplace via staff entrance on 2/F of the East Wing.

     Government vehicles or vehicles with valid CGO permit may enter West Wing of CGO via Lung Wo Road and Tim Wa Avenue.

     Western Division Police Station Report Room service has resumed normal.

     Police strongly condemn the violent incidents happened in Sheung Wan and Yuen Long respectively last night (July 21).

     After the conclusion of a public procession on Hong Kong Island last night, some protesters charged Police’s cordon lines in the vicinity of Sheung Wan. They hurled bricks, smoke grenades, petrol bombs and set fires etc. Some police officers were injured in the incident. Meanwhile, assault cases also happened in Yuen Long. Some people attacked commuters at the platforms of the Yuen Long MTR Station and train compartments, resulting in multiple injuries.

     Police do not tolerate any violent behaviours. Police are now actively following up the two incidents in order to bring the offenders to justice.