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The majority of inmates who sat for this year's HKCEE are from Pik Uk Correctional Institution, with 34 inmates, the rest are from Stanley Prison, Tung Tau Correctional Institution, Lai King Training Centre, Cape Collinson Correctional Institution and Tai Tam Gap Correctional Institution.
A spokesman for the Correctional Services Department said: "It is always the department's policy to encourage and to assist inmates to sit for the HKCEE and other public examinations.
"Since 1985, some 352 inmates have been arranged to sit for HKCEE and the pass rate is always encouraging although it varies every year."
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Pre-qualification for smart card parking system
The Government is inviting interested parties to apply for inclusion in a pre- qualification list to tender for the supply and installation of a Smart Card operated parking system (SCOPS) in Hong Kong.
A notice on the invitation will be published in the Government Gazette on Friday (August 9).
The Government is going to replace by phases in three years from 1997 all street mechanical parking meters with electronic parking devices to be activated by pre-paid contact type smart cards.
A spokesman for the Transport Department said today (Wednesday) that only those who had been shortlisted in the pre-qualification exercise would be invited to tender for the contract.
The successful tenderer for the contract will be required to undertake the design, manufacture, delivery, installation, testing and commissioning, documentation and maintenance of all electronic parking devices, electronic payment terminals, smart cards, ancillary equipment and associated software forming SCOPS.
By producing a company letter indicating their interest in bidding the contract, interested parties including joint ventures may obtain the pre-qualification booklet during office hours from: