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     To provide the public with an opportunity to better understand the work and personnel training of the Fire Services Department (FSD), the Fire and Ambulance Services Academy in Tseung Kwan O will hold an open day on October 6 (Sunday).
      
     The Open Day will include a fire appliances parade and various firefighting and rescue demonstrations. Participants can visit the simulated Pak Shing Kok railway station and the Fire and Ambulance Services Education Centre cum Museum will also be open to the public. In addition, the event will include displays of training facilities, FSD equipment and special vehicles; exhibitions on fire safety education and the department’s exchange programmes with its Mainland counterparts; game booths; an interactive recruitment experience area; and a Fire Services working dogs demonstration.
      
     The Academy will be open to the public from 9am to 4pm. An admission ticket is required for entrance (children aged 3 or below do not require an admission ticket).
 
     Admission tickets will be distributed free to members of the public from 10am on September 14 (Saturday) on a first-come, first-served basis. Each person can obtain a maximum of two tickets at the following locations:

(1) Sheung Wan Fire Station (address: 2 Western Fire Services Street, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong)
(2) Wong Tai Sin Fire Station (address: 28 Fung Tak Road, Wong Tai Sin, Kowloon)
(3) Sha Tin Fire Station (address: 26-28 Yuen Wo Road, Sha Tin, New Territories)
(4) Fire and Ambulance Services Academy (address: 11 Pak Shing Kok Road, Tseung Kwan O)
 
     The ticket distribution arrangement will be postponed to September 21 (Saturday) if Typhoon Signal No. 8 or above or the Black Rainstorm Signal is issued three hours before the starting time of ticket distribution.
      
     Visitors are advised to use public transport as no parking spaces will be provided at the academy. The open day will be cancelled if Typhoon Signal No. 8 or above or the Black Rainstorm Signal is issued three hours before the event. For details of the open day, please call 2411 8820. read more

     Hong Kong Customs today (September 5) conducted an operation against the sale of counterfeit goods at a fair held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) and seized suspected counterfeit watch boxes. 

     Customs earlier received information alleging that counterfeit watch boxes were displayed for order at a booth of the Hong Kong Watch and Clock Fair held at the HKCEC.

     After investigation, Customs officers conducted a test-buy operation today and successfully ordered 1 000 pieces of suspected counterfeit watch box valued at about $38,000 in total. 

     During the operation, Customs officers also seized three pieces of suspected counterfeit watch box. A 36-year-old salesman was arrested. 

     Investigation is ongoing.

     Customs attaches great importance to combat the infringing activities at exhibition and officers will be sent to different exhibitions to conduct inspections. Customs will contact the relevant trademark or copyright owner immediately to confirm the authenticity of the goods when suspected infringing exhibit was found. Customs will take enforcement action after investigation and with the assistance of the trademark or copyright owner.

     Customs will continue to take stringent enforcement action to combat infringing activities. Booth exhibitors are reminded to respect intellectual property rights and not to sell infringing goods.

     Under the Trade Descriptions Ordinance, any person who sells, or possesses for sale, any goods with a forged trademark commits an offence. The maximum penalty upon conviction is a fine of $500,000 and imprisonment for five years.

     Members of the public may report any suspected infringing activities to Customs’ 24-hour hotline 2545 6182 or its dedicated crime-reporting email account (crimereport@customs.gov.hk).

    

     â€‹The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department today (September 5) announced that a Chinese cabbage sample was detected with cadmium, a metallic contaminant, exceeding the legal limit…. read more

     Hong Kong Customs seized a total of about 3.2 kilograms of suspected cocaine with an estimated market value of about $4.2 million at Hong Kong International Airport and Kwun Tong on August 31 and September 3 respectively.

     Customs officers inspected an air express parcel arriving in Hong Kong from Argentina at Hong Kong International Airport on August 31 and found about 3.2kg of suspected cocaine concealed inside a spare part.

     After follow-up investigation, Customs officers arrested a 21-year-old woman and a 35-year-old man in Kwun Tong suspected to be in connection with the case on September 3. Customs officers further seized about 65 grams of suspected cocaine at the woman’s residential premises in the district.

     The arrested woman has been charged with two counts of trafficking in a dangerous drug and will appear at Kwun Tong Magistrates’ Courts tomorrow (September 6). The arrested man has been released on bail pending further investigation.

     Customs will maintain close contact with Hongkong Post and the logistics industries to step up action against drug trafficking through postal parcel or express courier channels.

     Under the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, trafficking in a dangerous drug is a serious offence. The maximum penalty upon conviction is a fine of $5 million and life imprisonment.

     Members of the public may report any suspected drug trafficking activities to Customs’ 24-hour hotline 2545 6182 or its dedicated crime-reporting email account (crimereport@customs.gov.hk).

  

     The Secretary for Food and Health, Professor Sophia Chan, today (September 5) visited Eastern District to meet with members of the Eastern District Council. She also went to Sai Wan Ho Market and Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital (PYNEH) to learn about the municipal and healthcare services in the district.
 
     Accompanied by the District Officer (Eastern), Mr Simon Chan, Professor Chan first met with the Chairman of the Eastern District Council, Mr Wong Kin-pan, and other members to exchange views on various healthcare and environmental hygiene issues.
 
     After the meeting, Professor Chan proceeded to the Sai Wan Ho Market and Cooked Food Centre to view the escalator replacement works. She also took the opportunity to chat with stall operators to understand their business environment.
 
     She said, “The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department carries out improvement works at a number of public markets which have been built for years. In addition, old escalators and lifts at the markets are being replaced in phases, and the replacement works are expected to be completed progressively in the coming years. We seek to improve the environment of public markets to attract more visitors and improve the operating conditions of stalls.”
 
     Professor Chan then visited the Accident and Emergency Department’s hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) centre at PYNEH to see the medical equipment of the HBOT chamber. The centre, being the first and only HBOT centre established inside a hospital in Hong Kong currently, started operation in September 2018.
 
     “HBOT was previously only available in a centre on Stonecutters Island, where the relatively remote location made patient transfer risky. Receiving treatment at a centre in a hospital definitely facilitates recovery of patients. Currently, patients of 13 types of diseases are eligible for HBOT treatment, including emergency cases like carbon monoxide poisoning and decompression illness, as well as chronic disease like diabetes and delayed radiation injuries,” she said.
 
     As local healthcare professionals had not received training for applying HBOT for medical use, a number of medical staff of PYNEH were sent to undergo overseas training and are now qualified for performing the therapy. Professor Chan also chatted with front-line staff to understand their daily work during her visit.