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A lawmaker on Wednesday said Choi Hung needs to be redeveloped but expressed concerns over how the neighbourhood would become a construction site for residents affected in later phases of the decades-long overhaul, and how people will be relocated.
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Bill Tang, who represents the Kowloon East Constituency, made the comment after housing authorities submitted its plan for the redevelopment to be made in three phases, which wraps up in 2048.
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"The residents living in Choi Hung must live with a construction site for over 20 years. The first building will be removed and then rebuilt and from the first building to the last building, it will be over 20 years. That means the last building will be removed maybe at the age of 80 years old," he said.
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He said this is not ideal since there are safety risks involved with living in older buildings.
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"Some residents, they even say that they may suffer maybe suddenly in the flat there's a little bit of [cement] falling down. We all know that only with redevelopment [can the problem be solved]."
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Tang expressed the hope that authorities will offer a diverse range of housing options for affected residents.
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"The residents who live in the first phase… they know they need to move out, but they really want to stay in Choi Hung. We suggest there should be diverse options for the phase one residents," he said.
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"Not only invite them to live in new Mei Tung Estate or live in the Home Ownership Scheme housing, but at the same time, if there are some empty Choi Hung flats here in phase two or phase three."
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The lawmaker also noted that volunteers will need to be recruited to assist elderly families that will have to relocate.
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Choi Hung resident Tsang said he will be relocating to Mei Tung Estate.
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"I'm somewhat satisfied but transportation is not as convenient as Choi Hung. You have to walk quite a bit either to Lok Fu or Wong Tai Sin Station – but what can you do? It's better than nothing and we have a place to settle down," he said.
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Fellow resident Pang said he will be closing his small shop of 20 years in Choi Hung Estate soon.
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"It's hard to maintain a small shop in a public housing estate, especially with everyone shopping up north. The spending patterns have changed significantly and the ageing population is increasing," he said.
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Choi Hung Estate to be redeveloped in three phases
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Choi Hung Estate will be redeveloped in three phases, with the first batch of affected residents set to be relocated in about four years’ time, according to a paper submitted by housing authorities on Wednesday.
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The redevelopment plan’s timeline for the estate built in the 1960s and famous for its rainbow colour theme was unveiled in a paper submitted to the Wong Tai Sin District Council, in which the Housing Department said the first phase would involve three blocks – Pik Hoi House, Kam Pik House and Tan Fung House – as well as two vacant school sites.
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"The new Mei Tung Estate, which is expected to start taking in residents in 2028-29, will provide 2,450 units for the first phase of relocation, accommodating about one-third of the affected Choi Hung Estate residents," the paper said.
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After the area in the first phase is cleared out, construction will begin immediately and it will be able to provide about 3,200 units to residents of four blocks affected by the second stage of redevelopment, expected to take place from 2035-36.
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The area involved in the second phase will then be able to take care of the last batch of households. These residents will move into some 4,100 newly built units between 2042 and 2043.
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The relocation process would take roughly 15 years, the department added, and by 2048, the last phase of the estate is expected to be redeveloped to offer 1,900 flats.
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In total, the new Choi Hung Estate will be able to accommodate 9,200 households, up from the current 7,400.
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Officials said the redevelopment would also provide an opportunity to improve traffic conditions at the Choi Hung Interchange.
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“The Housing Authority has begun discussions with relevant departments to free up part of the Choi Hung Estate site to alleviate traffic congestion in the area,” the paper said.
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The University of Hong Kong on Wednesday said diabetes patients can lower the risk of getting colorectal and liver cancers, the second and fifth most common in the SAR, by controlling their blood glucose levels.
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The Faculty of Medicine conducted two territory-wide analyses using 17 years of Hospital Authority data involving 140,000 diabetes patients.
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It found that by controlling blood glucose levels, such patients can lower the chances of getting colorectal cancer by 28 percent, and liver cancer by 30 percent.
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"Cancer cells, when they have a lot of sugar around them, they are able to grow faster. This is in essence the way which patients with diabetes, if it is poorly controlled, they will have an increase risk of both bowel cancer and liver cancer," explained the university's Dr Walter Seto, who led the project.
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Speaking at a media briefing, Seto added that those with diabetes are twice as likely to get these cancers compared with healthy individuals.
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A legal expert on Wednesday said the government's plan to establish a new sports arbitration resolution mechanism will help resolve issues such as the Messi no-show saga more quickly and amicably.
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Thousands of fans were left angry and disappointed after Argentinian superstar Lionel Messi sat out an Inter Miami football match in the SAR back in February, triggering complaints and calls for ticket refunds.
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Nicholas Chan, who heads the AALCO Hong Kong Regional Arbitration Centre, said such situations could be eased with the new mechanism in place.
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"In Hong Kong, we don't have class action for litigation. And even if we had class action, it's not cheap for thousands of ticket holders to launch a dispute," he told RTHK.
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"We could resolve everything quickly by mediation, if not by arbitration. So it saves all the parties the headache of having to try to find the proper forum for dispute, spend a lot of money on resolving disputes by going to courts or otherwise."
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International sports arbitration is dominated by Western countries, with the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland a prominent example.
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"But the official working language is French, Spanish, or English. You don't really have much of a choice to use Chinese, Malay, Arabic, or other languages very common in the developing world. So it is not ideal to spend a lot of time and cost where it could be resolved more cost-effectively," Chan said.
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The plan is also seen as an opportunity for retired athletes to pursue a second career in sports mediation and arbitration, Chan added.
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'More than 5k people have visited fossil display'
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The Development Bureau on Wednesday said about 5,600 people have visited an exhibition showcasing the first-ever dinosaur fossils found on home soil.
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Writing on social media, it said the people who were trying to catch a glimpse of the bones displayed at the Heritage Discovery Centre at Kowloon Park included students and tourists.
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It added that temporary studios and showrooms at the centre will open by the end of the year, and visitors would even be able to watch paleontologists prepare fossils.
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The bureau also said that mainland and local experts are still carrying out excavation work on Port Island, where the fossils were found.
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It pointed out that the team had to carry generators and excavation tools to the island, in the northeastern waters of the SAR, as there is no electricity supply.
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Authorities added that apart from collaborating with mainland experts from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, they are also contacting local experts for future research and education endeavours.
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The mainland is set to issue one-off permits to allow Hong Kong newborns to travel there, according to DAB chairman Gary Chan.
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Chan said on Wednesday that DAB lawmakers have received calls for help from parents saying they had hoped to travel across the border with their newborns, but applications for temporary mainland travel permits take at least five working days to process.
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In a letter to Chan, national immigration officials said parents of Hong Kong-born babies "with urgent need to travel to the mainland" can get a one-off permit at Luohu, Huanggang, Shekou or Shenzhen airport.
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Parents will be required to provide their newborn's identity document and birth certificate for the permit valid for one return trip between Hong Kong and the mainland within a three-month period.
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"As long as the parents need a permit, they can bring the relevant documents to the four border crossings to apply for a document and collect it on the spot. It is more convenient and quicker than before, and can meet the needs of parents with newborns," Chan said, adding that he hoped the new arrangement could be extended to other border control points.
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The government on Wednesday said the number of domestic violence cases handled by social welfare officials has fallen in recent years, but there's been a rise in the number of children in need of protection.
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In a written reply to lawmakers, welfare minister Chris Sun said that overall, domestic violence cases dropped by 13.5 percent from 2019 figures, to nearly 3,400 last year.
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Sun said for cases considered to be high risk by police officers, the department makes a crisis intervention and provides a wide range of support, including psychological help, as well as centres for family crisis support, refuges and residential and daily child care.
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He added that some people who refuse help are given a card with the details of other places they can seek assistance.
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Transport officials say they have come up with a way to help stop people dumping cars they no longer want in alleys and at the side of roads, by plugging a loophole that lets owners off the hook if they stop renewing a vehicle's licence.
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At present, a vehicle's registration is automatically cancelled if it hasn't had a valid licence for two years. The person whose name the vehicle is registered under can then no longer be held liable for anything related to it.
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"Some irresponsible owners take advantage of this arrangement and abandon their unwanted vehicles on public roads and public back alleys, causing environmental hygiene and congestion issues," the Transport and Logistics Bureau says in a paper to Legco.
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To address the matter, the bureau is proposing an amendment to road traffic regulations which would scrap the automatic cancelling of a vehicle's registration and instead enable officials to send owners a notice after two years, giving them three months to either renew their licence or take action to de-register the vehicle themselves.
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Options for de-registration include having the vehicle scrapped, or shipping it out of Hong Kong.
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The bureau is proposing fines of up to HK$10,000 and prison terms of up to three months for people who ignore the notices, with a subsequent conviction for the same offence leading to fines of up to HK$25,000 and jail terms as long as six months.
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If the fines go unpaid, the authorities would refuse to issue or renew the offender's driving licence or to license any vehicle in their name.
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The bureau said a commencement date for the proposed new offence is expected to be fixed by notice in the Gazette in the fourth quarter of next year.
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Wesley Wan, honorary life president of the Hong Kong Automobile Association, told RTHK he welcomes the proposed changes, saying they could put a stop to vehicles being dumped.
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"They will impose a penalty which is more expensive than scrapping the car. So I think that's a good way to avoid people abandoning a car after the licence expires," he said.
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Lawmaker Gary Zhang said he thinks there should be exemptions in some cases.
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"If a situation doesn't really involve illegal abandonment, for example, some car owners may simply not renew their registration due to personal reasons, or they don't plan to drive any more, or just park in their garage, I think the government shouldn't interfere too much," he said.
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Growing interest in trading in own currency, says FS
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There's growing interest for jurisdictions to conduct trade in their own currency, Financial Secretary Paul Chan said on Wednesday, adding that a multi-central bank digital currency platform is "worth pushing forward".
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At the annual Future Investment Initiative summit in Saudi Arabia, Chan said Hong Kong has been involved in the mBridge project, a platform supporting cross-border payments and foreign exchange transactions using central bank digital currencies and distributed ledger technology.
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"A lot of jurisdictions want to trade in their own currency. So the challenge is how to create a system to take care of that," Chan said in Riyadh.
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"Say, for example, Hong Kong, along with Saudi Arabia and a few other jurisdictions, we have an mBridge project facilitating trade settlements. I mean trading transactions denominated in their own local currency. And through digitalisation this can be settled by using their own currency. And this is gaining increasing confidence and increasing interest."
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During the summit, Chan witnessed the signing of a strategic cooperation agreement between Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks and Beta Lab, a startup incubator in Saudi Arabia.
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The financial chief is leading a 100-strong delegation to the Saudi capital for three days, after taking the first direct passenger flight between the SAR and Riyadh since 2017.
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"We're meeting with business, finance and technology companies, with investors and government leaders, too. Our goal is clear: To expand ties with Saudi Arabia, building friendship and exploring the many mutually beneficial collaboration opportunities this renewed connection will surely create," Chan told a cocktail reception.
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Police probe deadly traffic accident in Kwai Chung
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Police are investigating a fatal traffic accident in Kwai Chung on Tuesday night in which a 75-year-old woman died.
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She sustained multiple injuries and was declared dead after being rushed to Princess Margaret Hospital.
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The taxi driver, 66, was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving causing death.
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Couple arrested over murder case in Aberdeen
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Police on Tuesday said they had arrested a man on suspicion of murder after a 25-year-old woman's body was found in a shallow beach at the bottom of Waterfall Bay in Aberdeen.
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The force said it had received a report at around 7:30am on Monday. Emergency personnel rushed to the scene, but the woman was pronounced dead on site.
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Speaking at a press briefing, superintendent Sin Kwok-ming said the victim was a domestic helper from Southeast Asia.
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She had injuries on the back of the head and forehead, but an autopsy will determine her exact cause of death.
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Initial evidence suggested the woman arrived at the scene with the male suspect in a taxi late on Sunday night.
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Police eventually locked down their identities and arrested them when they returned to the city on Tuesday afternoon.
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Sin also explained why the case wasn't classified as a murder at the beginning.
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"Some evidence has also gone missing for no good reason. All these factors lead us to believe that the woman's death wasn't due to natural reasons."
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RTHK programmes arouse interest, director says
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Efforts by Radio Television Hong Kong to promote its programmes are starting to bear fruit, Director of Broadcasting Eddie Cheung said on Tuesday as he noted a gradual shift in the way people receive their content.
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At a Legislative Council panel meeting, several legislators raised concerns about the public broadcaster's performance.
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Michael Luk of the Federation of Trade Unions praised the quality of RTHK programmes in recent years, but felt the organisation could do more to expand its reach.
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"Of course we understand RTHK is not a commercial radio or television station. But when it comes to delivering messages to a mass audience, it cannot be too nonchalant towards viewership and listenership," he said.
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In response, Cheung said RTHK has already launched a promotional campaign, citing both outdoor and online advertisements which he said were effective.
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Giving the Paris Olympics and Paralympics as examples, he revealed the hit rates and viewership of RTHK's streaming platforms doubled during that period.
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Cheung noticed a fundamental change in the media consumption pattern, saying many people are no longer glued to their TV sets, and instead rely on mobile devices for information.
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"On the RTHK website, every day we're seeing 3.8 million real-time streams, while our programmes are played 620,000 times and the website is accessed 500,000 times. We also record about 1.5 million daily views at our news website," he said.
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The figures, he believed, are proof the broadcaster's programmes can arouse interest among the Hong Kong audience.
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Meanwhile, Liberal Party’s Peter Shiu suggested RTHK team up with schools to produce content which educate students on national policies.
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Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Algernon Yau pledged to take his recommendation into account.
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"RTHK has a strong focus on national education for youth and promoting Chinese culture. We will do more and consider lawmakers' ideas for raising national awareness and education," he said.
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Yau added RTHK will spare no effort to promote and broadcast the 15th National Games, scheduled for November next year. Hong Kong will host eight competitive events, including track cycling, fencing and golf.
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A project that encourages residents to recycle their food waste will soon kick off in Tai Hang, with organisers setting up smart bins in the neighbourhood with an expected reach of up to 1,000 households.
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The five bins, sporting a purple colour scheme, will be set up in Tai Hang from November and will serve the community there until September.
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The New People's Party’s Jeff Wong, who is helping to coordinate the project, said organisers will also set up a street station there to collect food waste twice a week.
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“We are aiming for 700 to 1,000 households to use our scheme or use our recycling system,” he said after attending the scheme’s opening ceremony on Tuesday.
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CE hopes NGO will review its care home operations
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Chief Executive John Lee on Tuesday expressed the hope that the Hong Chi Association will review the operations of its care homes, after a former staff member was charged for the alleged sexual assault of two intellectually impaired residents at its Tai Po facility.
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Lee described the incident – which Hong Chi said took place in August and saw the 38-year-old suspect sacked – as despicable, saying police should investigate the matter thoroughly.
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The Chief Executive noted that an independent review committee formed by the association should file a report over the matter as soon as possible to ensure that the interest of residents came first.
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“There should be a comprehensive system for training, discipline and supervision of its staff. They must put the interests of the residents first."
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Lee also said he thinks the Social Welfare Department did the right thing by cutting short the licence review period for the Tai Po home from three years to one.
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RainLily sees rise in reports of sexual offences
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Rape crisis centre RainLily on Tuesday urged officials to reform laws on sexual offences and improve the city’s sex education.
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RainLily said the number of cases reported to the centre nearly doubled from just over 1,000 in 2009-2013 to almost 2,000 in 2019-2023.
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It also found a significant delay in help-seeking, with people waiting an average of around four years before asking the group for assistance in the past five years.
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Doris Chong, the centre’s executive director, said it’s not easy for people to seek help.
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“For example, they don't know how to seek help or where to seek help. Also, they don't know how to tell the incidents to others because they always think that it's a shame incident,” she said.
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The group also said many cases never get to court because complainants do not feel protected enough.
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Albert Yau, a senior research officer with RainLily, stressed the need for a more supportive environment to encourage victims to speak up.
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“There may be a lot of stigma attached to such incidents. So I think in order to encourage the victims to seek help promptly, we have to create a more friendly environment to tell them that you will be supported by us,” he said.
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The centre wants the government to define “consent” more clearly in the law and to expand the scope of rape offences to better protect victims.
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