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AIDS hotline adds new features
Members of the public can now listen to a range of pre-recorded messages in Putonghua on AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases through the AIDS Hotline - 2780 2211 - run by the Department of Health.
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A spokesman for the department said a caller to the hotline could choose to listen to messages in English, Cantonese or, Putonghua, receive a fax copy of the messages in English or Chinese, or talk to a counsellor.
He said a new message on AIDS and the Travellers was introduced in June and a caller now had seven pre-recorded messages on AIDS to choose from.
The spokesman said a caller could choose to listen to any of the pre-recorded messages on specific areas of his concern by simply pressing the pre-defined buttons.
Besides English and Chinese, people speaking Thai, Vietnamese and Tagalog may listen to four pre-recorded AIDS messages on a separate telephone line - 2359 9112.
The AIDS Hotline was computerised to improve service in 1993 and expanded to provide pre-recorded messages on sexually transmitted diseases in February this
year.
The hotline received about 12,000 calls each month.
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Employees entitled to statutory leave
The Labour Department today (Saturday) reminded employers to grant their employees 11 statutory holidays as required by the Employment Ordinance.
ACMDC Ventures Incorporated at Mody Road, Tsim Sha Tsui; was recently fined a total of $12,000 at Western Magistracy after pleading guilty to three summonses for failing to grant statutory holidays to an imported worker.