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     Police are investigating a fatal traffic accident in Ta Kwu Ling last night (May 23) in which a 35-year-old man died.      At 10.38pm, a private car driven by the 35-year-old man was travelling … read more

     A runway incident occurred at the Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) yesterday (May 22) evening. No one was injured and the operation of the HKIA was not affected by the incident.      The C… read more

     The “Anti-epidemic Support Scheme for Property Management Sector” (ASPM) under the “Anti-epidemic Fund” is open for applications and continues to disburse subsidies.

     The ASPM is implemented by the Property Management Services Authority (PMSA).  As of today (May 23), the PMSA has received about 8 900 applications for the ASPM, of which over 6 900 applications have been approved.  The approved applications involve subsidies of about $240 million and benefit more than 31 600 building blocks and around 60 700 front-line property management (PM) workers.  Please refer to the website of the PMSA (www.pmsahk.org.hk/en) for the name of the properties for which applications have been approved.

     The Government has launched the ASPM under the “Anti-epidemic Fund” to subsidise owners’ organisations (OOs) or PM companies of eligible buildings to provide the “Anti-epidemic Hardship Allowance” to the front-line PM workers.  The ASPM will also provide the “Anti-epidemic Cleansing Subsidy” to OOs or PM companies.  Phase I of the ASPM covers private residential and composite (i.e. commercial cum residential) buildings; whereas Phase II of the ASPM covers industrial and commercial buildings (including shopping malls).

     The application deadline for the ASPM Phase I and Phase II is May 31 and June 15 respectively.  Eligible PM companies and OOs are reminded to submit their applications to the PMSA as soon as practicable.  For details on the ASPM, please contact the PMSA at 3696 1156 or 3696 1166, or visit the website of the PMSA.  read more

The following is issued on behalf of the Hospital Authority:      As at noon today (May 23), no COVID-19 confirmed patient was discharged from hospital in the past 24 hours. So far, a total of 1 029 confirmed and suspected p… read more

     The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health has announced that as of 4pm today (May 23), no new local confirmed cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) had been recorded, and that the number of … read more