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The operators will also have to comply with a Code of Practice in the provision of the service to ensure that information relating to telephone numbers are being handled properly.
The Telecommunications Authority intends to formally approve the service later this year.
Copies of the statement may be obtained from the Office of the Telecommunication Authority's public enquiry centre at 29th floor, Wu Chung House, 213 Queen's Road East, the office's Internet homepage (http://www.ofta.gov.hk) or its Bulletin Board Service on 2834 1109.
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Prison industry to adapt more business-like approach
The Correctional Services Department (CSD) has streamlined the operation and management of its Correctional Services Industries (CSI) to adapt to a more business- like approach in view of increasing pressures to compete in the changing environment of market demands, the Commissioner of Correctional Services, Mr Raymond Lai Ming-kee, said today (Friday).
Speaking at a lunch meeting of the Rotary Club of Causeway Bay, Mr Lai said CSD ran the largest government-owned industrial operation in the territory and CSI had a commercial value of around $400 million per annum.
CSI employs over 7,600 people, about 7,300 are inmates of the 21 penal institutions sprawled throughout the territory. In fact, its products are familiar to everyone - such as uniforms for nurses, shoes for the police, letter boxes for postmen.
"Every time you walk on the pavement, drop a piece of paper in a litter bin, look at a road sign to find where you are going, or smash your car into a railing, you are encountering CSI made products," Mr Lai said.
money.
The Commissioner pointed out that CSI was not in the business to make
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