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Approval granted for selling flags
Approval has been granted to the Hong Kong Childhealth Foundation for selling flags in public places on Saturday (August 19), a spokesman for the Social Welfare Department said today (Wednesday).
The flag day, originally scheduled for last Saturday (August 12), was cancelled due to the hoisting of the No 8 typhoon signal on that day.
"Members of the public who have enquiries about the flag day may telephone 2892 5315 or call the department's hotline 2343 2255," the spokesman said.
End/Wednesday, August 16, 1995
Staff reports in Chinese encouraged for better assessment
The Civil Service Branch announced today (Wednesday) that, as part of the Government's policy to promote wider use of Chinese in the day-to-day management of the civil service, staff reports of more junior ranks can now be written in either Chinese or English.
The acting Deputy Secretary for the Civil Service, Mr F A Ramjahn said: "We have written to departments telling them that appraisal reports can be written in Chinese at junior levels."
"Some supervising officers at these levels find writing meaningful assessments in English rather difficult. This new approach should help improve performance appraisal and staff management.'
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In the past, all reports were supposed to be written in English unless a department could establish that the competency of the staff to complete reports in English was doubtful. This would no longer be necessary under the revised policy.
End/Wednesday, August 16, 1995