FEWA Chinat Construction Limited was fined $150,000 at Fanling Magistrates' Courts today (July 26) for violation of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance, the Construction Sites (Safety) Regulations and the Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Safety Management) Regulation. The prosecutions were launched by the Labour Department.
 
     The case involved a fatal accident that occurred on November 11, 2016, on a building construction site in Heung Yuen Wai, New Territories. While a team of four workers was erecting a metal platform on a metal falsework, part of the metal platform suddenly collapsed. The four workers fell a distance of about 7.6 metres to the ground, together with the collapsed metal platform. As a result, one worker died and the other three sustained injuries.

     Following is the transcript of remarks made by the Secretary for Food and Health, Professor Sophia Chan, after attending the celebratory event for World Breastfeeding Week 2018 today (July 26):

Reporter: Professor Chan, will the Government consider strengthening the Hong Kong Code?

Secretary for Food and Health: We have launched the Hong Kong Code (Hong Kong Code of Marketing of Formula Milk and Related Products, and Food Products for Infants and Young Children) in June last year. So far, we have been observing the situation. We welcome the survey results published by the UNICEF that has given us more information about the current situation. Actually, the Department of Health is also planning to conduct studies in understanding the effectiveness of the Hong Kong Code. We are monitoring the situation. With the results from the UNICEF, we will look into, first of all, how we can engage the trade so that they understand that there are areas that they probably need to improve and adhere to the Hong Kong Code. Of course, we will not rule out any possibilities of strengthening the Hong Kong Code through, for example, legislation. But this is not the time right now because we need to observe more about the situation and to give the trade some opportunities to improve first.

(Please also refer to the Chinese portion of the transcript.)
 

     Police today (July 26) appealed to the public for information on a man who went missing in Kwun Tong.
         
     Cheung Chi-keung, aged 61, went missing after he left his residence in Lei Yue Mun Estate on July 24 morning. His family made a report to Police yesterday (July 25).
         
     He is about 1.6 metres tall, 59 kilograms in weight and of normal build. He has a long face with yellow complexion and short black hair. He was last seen wearing a blue vest, blue shorts with checkered pattern and blue sports shoes.
          
     Anyone who knows the whereabouts of the missing man or may have seen him is urged to contact the Regional Missing Person Unit of Kowloon East on 3661 0331 or 9886 0060 or email to rmpu-ke-2@police.gov.hk, or contact any police station.

  

The following is issued on behalf of the Hospital Authority:

     The spokesperson for Siu Lam Hospital made the following announcement today (July 26):
 
     Six patients (aged 20 to 44) and a staff member in a female ward for severe intellectual disability presented with respiratory symptoms since July 21. Appropriate viral tests were arranged for the patients and their test results were positive for Rhinovirus. The patients concerned are being treated under isolation. One patient is in serious condition while the other five are in stable condition. The staff member has recovered and resumed duty.
 
     Admission to the ward has been suspended and restricted visiting has been imposed. Infection control measures have already been stepped up according to established guidelines. All other patients in the ward are under close surveillance.
 
     The cases have been reported to the Hospital Authority Head Office and the Centre for Health Protection for necessary follow-up.

The following is issued on behalf of the Board of Trustees of the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund:
 
     The Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund held a ceremony today (July 26) to award scholarships, totalling $4.14 million, to 13 young talents to support them to pursue studies in music or dance in Hong Kong, the US, the UK, the Netherlands and Belgium. In particular, the Fund was delighted to award a scholarship to the youngest awardee in the history of the Fund, Miss Hannah Tam, aged 13, who will pursue her diploma studies in violin in the US. 
 
     The 13 awardees are Mr Tony Chan, Mr Alvin Chan, Miss Cheryl Chan, Mr Chan Wai-lok, Mr Sirius Chau, Mr Zach Cheong, Mr James Koo, Miss Eugene Kwong, Mr Kelvin Ng, Mr Herman Pong, Mr Shing Chun-hay, Miss Hannah Tam and Miss Esther Wu. Eleven of them attended the scholarship award ceremony. They thanked the Fund for its support, shared their thoughts and committed themselves to making the best use of their opportunity to pursue further studies in Hong Kong or abroad.

     Also attending the ceremony were the Board Chairman of the Fund, Dr Pang King-chee; the Head of Charities (Grant Making – Sports, Recreation, Arts and Culture) of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, Ms Rhoda Chan; the Principal Assistant Secretary for Home Affairs, Ms Sandy Cheung; Board Members of the Fund Mr Philip Kan, Dr Qin Rong and Ms Selina Tsang; and the Chairperson of the music audition panel, Professor Sharon Choa.

     Dr Pang congratulated the awardees and praised their artistic talents. He also thanked the contributions of the two audition panel chairmen and members of the music and dance pre-screening and audition panels.

     The Fund was set up in 1980 with a $10 million donation from the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust for the promotion and development of music and dance education and training in Hong Kong. In 1994, a further capital injection of $22 million was provided by the Jockey Club to meet increasing demand for financial support. In 2014, the Jockey Club approved additional funding support of over $16 million for the Fund to implement a six-year pilot project, which included the launching of a local postgraduate scholarship scheme in addition to the well-established non-local studies scholarship scheme, as well as the setting up of an awardees association for the scholarship recipients of the Fund. To date the Fund has awarded 327 scholarships amounting to about $64.9 million.