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     The Labour Department announced today (August 5) that, owing to mass gathering activities in Tsuen Wan and Sha Tin districts, the services at Tsuen Wan Job Centre, Selective Placement Division (New Territories Office), Employees’ Compensation Division (Team C), all located at Tsuen Wan Government Offices; the offices of the Operations Division-Occupational Safety at Chinachem Tsuen Wan Plaza; and Labour Relations Division (Sha Tin and Tai Po Office), Sha Tin Job Centre, Employees’ Compensation Division (Team D – Sha Tin Office), Labour Inspection Division (Special Enforcement Team (Sha Tin) and District Office (New Territories East)), all located at Sha Tin Government Offices, have been suspended this afternoon. read more

     The Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) today (August 5) announced that, due to mass gathering activities in various districts, the following facilities have been closed.   Hong Kong Island 1. Central & … read more

     The Home Affairs Department announced today (August 5) that in light of the mass gathering activities in various districts, the services of the following Home Affairs Enquiry Centres have been suspended. Hong Kong Islan… read more

     The Department of Health has announced that owing to the situation in Tsuen Wan, the Lady Trench Methadone Clinic will be closed at 6pm today (August 5). Those who have been receiving methadone treatment there can receive their… read more

     A site manager was fined $30,000 at West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts today (August 5) for violation of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance. The prosecution was launched by the Labour Department.
 
     The case involved a fatal accident that occurred on March 29, 2017, in a construction site of the Hong Kong Link Road of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge projects. While three workers were dismantling a temporary working platform suspended by a lifting system erected on the bridge deck of a bridge under construction, a lifting beam of the lifting system suddenly collapsed and two slings suspending the platform snapped. The platform plunged into the sea together with the three workers. At the same time, the collapsed lifting beam hit two other workers working on the bridge deck. As a result, two workers died and the other three sustained injuries. read more