A spokesman for the Food and Health Bureau (FHB) announced today (May 28) that service of the mobile specimen collection station at Sha Tsui Road Playground in Tsuen Wan is temporarily suspended as the station was burnt down in a fire. Persons who need to receive testing may go to the community testing centre located at Wai Tsuen Sports Centre in the same district. There are still plenty of booking and walk-in quotas for testing service at that community testing centre, which provides self-paid testing services to the public for general community or private purposes (such as certifications for travelling or work) and free testing services for persons subject to compulsory testing or targeted groups requiring testing.
      
     The FHB and the service contractor are now actively arranging mobile specimen collection vehicles to provide service at Sha Tsui Road Playground. The testing service at that mobile specimen collection station is expected to resume after 2pm today.

     The Hong Kong Police Museum at 27 Coombe Road, The Peak, Hong Kong will be closed from May 31, 2021 for renovation.

     The renovation aims to enhance exhibition contents with additional interactive and IT features to revitalise the museum into a centre of police history and culture.

     The museum is scheduled to be re-opened in early March 2022. For enquiries, please call the museum at 2849 7019.

     As part of the "Regional Music of China Series", a concert, "Tuneful Music of South China", will take place in June.
 
     Two generations of local musicians will perform the song artistry and traditional music of the Lingnan region over different periods. There will also be a guided musical journey to help the audience appreciate the beauty of nanyin and Cantonese instrumental music.
 
     Performing at the concert will be To Wing, Ching May-bo, Chan Pik-sum, Jason Lau, Chass Wong, Yu Wing-ka, Cass Lam, Bryan Lai, Yanki Ma, Kwok Ka-ying, Sou Si-tai, Jessica Fung, Chung Siu-sun, Kwok Shing-cho, Chak Yuet-man, and Li Chun-wai.
 
     To and Ching will sing the nanyin piece, "A Wanderer's Autumn Grief (Part I)", and the yue'ou piece, "My Heart Is So Bitter", respectively. Several Cantonese music classics including "The Toll of the Temple Bell", "The Beauty Yonder", "Autumn Moon over a Placid Lake", "Gui-Zhi-Xiang", "Orioles Singing among the Billowing Willows", "Moonlight over the Spring River", "Bright Is the Moon" and "Stepping High" will also be performed.
 
     "Regional Music of China Series: Tuneful Music of South China" is presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department. The performance will be staged at 8pm on June 19 (Saturday) at the Theatre of Sai Wan Ho Civic Centre. Tickets priced at $240 are now available at URBTIX (www.urbtix.hk). For telephone credit card bookings, please call 2111 5999. For programme enquiries and concessionary schemes, please call 2268 7321 or visit www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/CulturalService/Programme/en/music/programs_1123.html.

     The Government today (May 28) announced the appointment of Ms Priscilla Wong Pui-sze as the Chairman of the Independent Police Complaints Council (IPCC) for a term of two years with effect from June 1, 2021.
 
     The appointment is made by the Chief Executive according to section 5 of the IPCC Ordinance (Cap. 604).
 
     Ms Wong is a practising barrister with extensive experience in public services. She is currently the Chairperson of the Minimum Wage Commission and a member of various committees. Ms Wong was a member of the IPCC from 2005 to 2010, and assisted in the smooth transition of the IPCC to an independent statutory body in June 2009. Ms Wong will succeed the incumbent IPCC Chairman Dr Anthony Francis Neoh, whose term of appointment will end on May 31.
 
     The Secretary for Security, Mr John Lee, said, "Dr Neoh has been the Chairman of the IPCC since June 2018. Under Dr Neoh's leadership, the IPCC has overcome various challenges and fully performed its statutory functions under the IPCC Ordinance when our society experienced the most difficult time from 2019 to 2020. I am most grateful for the IPCC's enormous amount of work devoted and contributions made to the existing police complaints system. I believe that the IPCC will continue to actively and effectively discharge its independent statutory monitoring functions under the leadership of Ms Wong, the new Chairman, further strengthening the effectiveness of and public confidence in the police complaints system."
 
     Mr Lee said that the Government will continue to give full support to the IPCC in discharging its statutory monitoring functions with a view to ensuring that complaints from the public will be handled fairly and impartially.
 
     The IPCC, established under the IPCC Ordinance, is an independent statutory body responsible for monitoring and reviewing the investigation of complaints against members of the Police Force. The IPCC Ordinance provides a statutory basis for the IPCC's role and power as well as the two-tier police complaints system. It also imposes a statutory duty on the Police to comply with the IPCC's requirements. The IPCC comprises a Chairman, three Vice-chairmen and 20 non-official members.

     The Government announced today (May 28) that the Secretary for Food and Health has appointed the new term of membership of the Advisory Committee on Agriculture and Fisheries (ACAF). The appointments are for a term of two years from June 1, 2021, to May 31, 2023.

     The ACAF is a non-statutory body that advises the Government on matters pertaining to the sustainable development of agriculture and fisheries in Hong Kong.

     "We believe the ACAF will provide the Government with constructive views on the promotion of the sustainable development of the agriculture and fisheries sector, so that the sector would continue to bring socio-economic benefits to Hong Kong," a spokesman for the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department said.

     The membership of the ACAF is as follows:

Chairman
Mr Anthony Lam Sai-ho

Members
Dr Chan Yuk-wah
Ms Cheuk Fung-ting
Ms Cheung Tan-mei
Mr Sam Chong Yan-kit
Dr Hazel Chung Chi-yin
Mr Chung Ka-yau
Ms Deirdre Fu Kit-yun
Mr Wilson Kwong Wing-tsuen
Dr Lau Kin-wai
Mr John Lau Hon-kit
Mr Leung Ming-kin
Mr Li Kwok-ying
Ms Merlinda Ng
Mr Ng To-san
Ms Pang Yuk-ting
Mr Peter Wong Chun-kow
Mr Yan Wa-tat
Mr Yeung Sheung-chun
Mr Stephen Yeung Sui-ping
Legislative Council Member representing the Agriculture and Fisheries Constituency (Ex-officio Member)
Representative of the Food and Health Bureau
Representative of the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department