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Press coaches will be provided, leaving from the Central Government Offices car park, Lower Albert Road, Hong Kong. Your representatives should arrive by 7.30
am.
Anyone wishing to use their own transport will have to stop at the road barrier at the entrance to the reservoir area and to transfer to the press coaches, which will arrive at about 8.45 am. Access to the area and the press position will be by press coach only.
Reporters covering the operation are advised to bring some snacks and water as it is not known how long the operation will take.
Details of the press arrangements for May 17 will be announced later.
End/Wednesday, May 10, 1995
Options to better control fund-raising activities
The Government is examining options to better control fund-raising activities in Hong Kong, the Director of Social Welfare, Mr Ian Strachan, said today (Wednesday).
"We are actively considering how to expand the current permit system so that it will cover all types of fund-raising activities in future," Mr Strachan said.
Mr Strachan said this at the First East-Asian Fund-raising Workshop organised by the Hong Kong Council of Social Service in collaboration with the International Fund-raising Group.
He said the permit would require, inter-alia, fund-raisers to keep and publish audited accounts and to ensure that funds raised would be used for specified charitable purposes, thereby protecting the general public from fraudulent and bogus fund-raising activities.
"However, in doing so we are also conscious that the new measures must not be so stringent that they deter organisations and individuals from raising funds for charity," Mr Strachan said.