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Another officiating guest was the Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Employment of the Rehabilitation Advisory Committee, Mr Vincent Cheng.
The Chairperson of the Equal Opportunities Commission. Dr Fanny Cheung, gave a briefing on the Disability Discrimination Ordinance at the seminar.
A Principal Assistant Secretary (Civil Service), Ms Grace Lui, and the Senior Manager of Human Resources of the Hongkong Bank, Mrs Jennifer Lun, also shared with other participants their experience in working with the disabled.
Today's seminar was co-organised by the American Chamber of Commerce, the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, the Chinese Manufacturers' Association of Hong Kong, Employers' Federation of Hong Kong, the Sub-Committee on Employment of Rehabilitation Advisory Committee, Federation of Hong Kong Industries, Joint Council for the Physically and Mentally Disabled (Rehabilitation Division, Hong Kong Council of Social Service), the Hong Kong Association of Banks, the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong Hotels Association, Hong Kong Industrial Relations Association and Hong Kong Institute of Human Resource Management.
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Two language projects awarded funding
The acting Director of Education and Trustee of the Language Fund, Mr T F Kwan, has approved funds totalling $2.64 million for two projects to improve language abilities in schools and in Hong Kong's workforce.
Both successful projects are English language projects.
One of them is a research project by the Hong Kong Society of Accountants to identify the written language needs of professionals in the workplace. The project also aims at developing training material for language programmes which are tailored for the needs of the business community.
The project will cost $1.26 million over 15 months from 1996-97.