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The following is issued on behalf of the Judiciary:      The Judiciary today (April 1) announced the appointment of Mr Russell Adam Coleman, SC, as Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court. The appoin… read more

     The effective exchange rate index for the Hong Kong dollar on Monday, April 1, 2019 is 103.3 (down 0.1 against last Saturday’s index).

     The effective exchange rate index for the Hong Kong dollar on Saturday, March 30, 2019 was 103.4 (same as last Friday’s index).    read more

     The Environmental Protection Department (EPD) today (April 1) announced the appointments to the Steering Committee of the Pilot Green Transport Fund for a new two-year term starting today. 

     Chaired by the President of the Open University of Hong Kong, Professor Wong Yuk-shan, the new-term Steering Committee comprises representatives elected by transport sectors, as well as experts and academics in green innovative transport technologies, and representatives of relevant government departments.

     The EPD thanked the outgoing Chairman, former President of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Professor Timothy Tong Wai-cheung, and the outgoing members, Mr Chan Sam-choi, Dr Jackson Ho Yee-tak and Mr Ling Chi-keung, for their great dedication to the Steering Committee in the past. The department was also deeply grateful for the invaluable advice from all members of the last term to the Government on the approval of funding support for testing green innovative transport technologies.

     The Steering Committee’s membership list in the new term is as follows:

Chairman
Professor Wong Yuk-Shan *

Members
Dr Lawrence Chan Wan-ching
Professor Christopher Chao Yu-hang
Dr Lawrence Cheung Chi-chong
Mr Benny Chu Kwok-ki
Mr Andy Chung Wai-leung *
Mr Kent Lam Wing-keung *
Professor Dennis Leung Yiu-cheong
Professor Man Hau-chung *
Mr Ng Kwan-sing
Mr So Sai-hung *
Mr Tam Wai-to *
Mr Matthew Wong Leung-pak
Representative of the Electrical and Mechanical Services Department
Representative of the EPD
Representative of the Innovation and Technology Commission
Representative of the Transport Department

* New members

Secretary
Principal Environmental Protection Officer (Mobile Source Group), EPD

     The Fund was set up in March 2011 to encourage transport sectors to test green innovative and low-carbon transport technologies. The Steering Committee is to advise the Government on the approval of funding for relevant applications.

     For more information on the Fund, please visit the EPD website (www.epd.gov.hk/epd/english/environmentinhk/air/prob_solutions/pilot_green_transport_fund.html) or call the enquiry hotline on 2824 0022. read more

     â€‹The Government introduced today (April 1) a logo for charitable fund-raising activities which must be used or shown at all government-approved charitable fund-raising activities for easy identification by the public. A QR code enabling the public to check information about the relevant charitable fund-raising activities will also be placed next to the logo.
      
     The logo must be used at charitable fund-raising activities approved by different government departments which include:
 
(1) For flag days and general charitable fund-raising activities approved by the Social Welfare Department (SWD) starting from April 1, 2019, the logo must be printed on Public Subscription Permits. For flag days, the logo must be affixed on flag-selling bags. For general charitable fund-raising activities, the logo must be printed on fund-raisers’ badges and tags affixed on the donation collection tools;

(2) For charitable lottery events with licence applications made and approved on or after April 1, 2019, by the Home Affairs Department (HAD), the logo must be printed on lottery licences and lottery tickets; and

(3) For applications of charitable organisations for temporary hawker licences received and approved on or after April 1, 2019, by the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department for fund-raising activities involving the sale of goods in public places, licensees are required to display the logo at the stalls during charitable fund-raising activities.
 
     Apart from calling the dedicated hotline (Tel: 3142 2678) and checking against the information of government-approved charitable fund-raising activities on the fund-raising activities page of GovHK, members of the public can also identify and ascertain whether a fund-raising activity has been approved by the Government by viewing the logo and the QR code.
 
     Following the recommendations made in the Report of the Law Reform Commission, Report No. 68 of the Director of Audit and Report No. 68 of the Public Accounts Committee of the Legislative Council on improving the monitoring of charitable fund-raising activities, apart from introducing the logo, the Government has implemented a series of administrative measures since August 1, 2018, including uploading all audited accounts submitted by organisations which obtained approval to hold charitable fund-raising activities from the SWD or charitable lottery events from the HAD to the fund-raising activities page of GovHK; setting up a dedicated hotline for handling enquiries or complaints in relation to charitable fund-raising activities held by organisations in public places; and issuing the Good Practice Guide on Charitable Fund-raising and providing a one-stop service for charitable fund-raising activities organised on government land in order to enhance the transparency of charitable fund-raising activities, safeguard the interests of donors and facilitate the conduct of fund-raising activities.
 
     For more information on the approved charitable fund-raising activities, please visit the fund-raising activities page of GovHK (www.gov.hk/en/theme/fundraising/welcome).

  

     â€‹The Education Bureau today (April 1) announced the appointment of members to the Advisory Committee on Gifted Education (ACGE).             The incumbent Chairman… read more