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     The Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre (HKVAC) from today (March 23) is holding the “Instrumentation” exhibition, which leads visitors on an extraordinary audio-visual journey through presenting art installations that integrate sculptures, sound installations, videos and site-specific pieces.

     Multidisciplinary artist Samson Young has created two art installations combining sound elements with different forms of art for the exhibition. “Possible Music #1.5 (feat. NESS & Stephan Moore)” offers visitors a unique experience by examining the ambiguous boundary between illusion and reality, through a scene of computer-simulated music being “played” on a set of musical instruments that does not exist in the real world.

     “Muted Situation #22: Muted Tchaikovsky’s 5th” is a concert by a symphony orchestra. The silent concert is played onscreen with ambient sounds of flipping music scores, breathing and more. Visitors’ interpretation of sound will be challenged through a unique experience of visual and aural discrepancy.

     The “Instrumentation” exhibition is presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department and organised by the Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre. It will run until April 14 and admission is free. For details of the exhibition, please visit HKVAC’s Facebook page or www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/APO/en_US/web/apo/va_instrumentation.html or call 2521 3008.

     The HKVAC is located at 7A Kennedy Road, Central.
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     Police today (March 23) appealed to the public for information on a woman who went missing in Kwun Tong.      Yu Sin-ying, aged 45, went missing after she left her residence on Lin Tak Road on M… read more

     The Department of Health (DH), the Hospital Authority (HA) and the Hong Kong Tuberculosis, Chest and Heart Diseases Association today (March 23) jointly staged a health exhibition with educational activities for World Tuberculosis (TB) Day 2019 to remind the public to keep on paying attention to TB and staying vigilant against it.
 
     The Under Secretary for Food and Health, Dr Chui Tak-yi, at the opening ceremony said that TB has been one of the major infectious diseases posing a threat to human health. He said that there is no room for complacency in the prevention and control of TB as it is still prevalent in many places worldwide including the Asia-Pacific region, and called on the public to remain vigilant against the disease as the local TB notification rate is still higher than the rates in some European and American countries and regions.
 
     Dr Chui said the Government attaches great importance to the prevention and control of TB. In recent years, the DH and the HA have adopted molecular technology in quick testing which enables early diagnoses of TB and prevents the disease from transmitting in the community. New drugs have also been adopted to provide more effective treatment for drug-resistant TB. 
 
     Also addressing the ceremony, the Controller of the Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the DH, Dr Wong Ka-hing, pointed out that the number of TB cases reported in Hong Kong dropped from 697 per 100 000 people per year in 1952 to 58.1 per 100 000 people per year  (provisional figure) in 2018. However, according to the World Health Organization (WHO)’s statistics, about 10 million new TB cases were reported globally in 2017 and 1.6 million people died from the disease. In addition, the number of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) cases is estimated to be 460 000 globally.
 
     Dr Wong added that the incidence rate of MDR-TB has remained at a low level in Hong Kong, but threats posed to the territory by MDR-TB should not be underestimated due to the close contact between the people in Hong Kong and in the neighbouring areas as well as the relatively high incidence rates of MDR-TB in many neighbouring areas.
 
     The WHO has designated March 24 of each year as World TB Day to encourage global efforts to combat TB together. Other officiating guests at the ceremony today included the Chairman of the Hong Kong Tuberculosis, Chest and Heart Diseases Association, Mr Steve Lan, and the HA Chief Manager (Infection, Emergency and Contingency), Dr Vivien Chuang.
 
     The CHP has launched a new announcement in the public interest for broadcast on TV and radio to promote public awareness in combating TB. For more TB-related information, services and figures, the public may also visit the CHP’s page on World TB Day (www.info.gov.hk/tb_chest/worldtbday.htm) and the website of the Tuberculosis and Chest Service (www.info.gov.hk/tb_chest), call the telephone hotline (2572 6024) or browse the WHO’s TB page (www.who.int/tb). 

      

     Electors of the Yau Tsim Mong District Council Tai Nan Constituency are urged to vote in the by-election in their constituency tomorrow (March 24).
 
     One polling station will be open to electors from 7.30am to 10.30pm. It is located at the Fresh Fish Traders’ School, 33 Sycamore Street, Tai Kok Tsui, Kowloon.
 
     “Electors must bring the original of their Hong Kong identity card or other specified alternative documents to the designated polling station to collect their ballot paper to cast their vote. Voting is very simple. Electors must use the chop provided by the polling station to stamp the ballot paper with a tick in the circle opposite the name of the chosen candidate, and fold the ballot paper inward in half before putting it into the ballot box,” a spokesman for the Registration and Electoral Office said today (March 23).
 
     If any Tai Nan Constituency electors who are remanded or detained by law enforcement agencies other than the Correctional Services Department (CSD) on the polling day wish to vote in this by-election, they will be arranged to cast their votes at the dedicated polling station located at Cheung Sha Wan Police Station, 880 Lai Chi Kok Road, Kowloon. The polling hours will be from 7.30am to 10.30pm.
 
     Should there be any electors of the Tai Nan Constituency imprisoned or remanded in the CSD’s custody on the polling day, arrangements will be made for them to vote at dedicated polling stations set up at their respective penal institutions. For security reasons, polling hours for the dedicated polling stations at penal institutions will be from 9am to 4pm.
 
     The voting procedure for electors and the venue setup at the dedicated polling stations will be basically the same as those of the ordinary polling station.
 
     The spokesman reminded the public that according to the law, the polling stations are restricted areas accessible only by electors and authorised persons.
 
     “Unauthorised persons are strictly prohibited from using mobile phones or any other device for electronic communication, taking photographs, filming, and making video or audio recordings at the polling stations,” he said.
 
     Enquiries about the by-election can be made to the election hotline at 2891 1001, which will operate from 7am to 11pm tomorrow.
 
     A complaints hotline (2827 7251) will be in service from 7.30am to 11pm tomorrow to handle complaints about breaches of electoral rules or guidelines.
 
     Once the poll is closed, the polling station at the Fresh Fish Traders’ School will be converted into a counting station. The public will be able to watch the vote counting within the designated area at the counting station.
 
     To protect the secrecy of votes, the ballot boxes at the dedicated polling stations will be delivered to the counting station at the Fresh Fish Traders’ School for opening after the close of polling. The ballot papers concerned will be mixed with the ballot papers cast at the Fresh Fish Traders’ School before counting of votes begins.
 
     The election result will be announced at the counting station at the Fresh Fish Traders’ School.
 
     The two candidates contesting this by-election are Lee Kwok Kuen (No. 1) and Li Sze Man (No. 2). 
 
     The elected candidate will fill the vacant seat of the elected member of the Yau Tsim Mong District Council. read more

     Following is the transcript of remarks at a media session by the Secretary for Development, Mr Michael Wong, after attending a radio programme this morning (March 23):   Reporter: Only 30% of the residential land of the … read more