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Recipient organisations will be required to disseminate the project results to the relevant service sector.
Funding support is normally given as a grant. In special cases, it may also take the form of an interest-free or interest-bearing loan.
"The Director-General of Industry will
will approve
approve projects on the recommendations of the SSF Vetting Committee, the advisory body set up to advise on the administration of the fund," a spokesman for the Industry Department said.
"The vetting committee will also advise on the terms and conditions of funding support for the approved project."
There are three tranches of applications in a year under the SSF. The first batch of applications for funding support are now being invited, and the deadline for applications is December 31, 1996. Interested organisations are urged to send their applications to the Industry Department as soon as possible.
Application forms and information leaflets introducing the SSF can be obtained from the Services Support Fund Secretariat, Room 1445, 14th floor, Ocean Centre, 5 Canton Road, Kowloon. No application fees will be charged.
Enquiries can be made by telephoning 2736 0055 and 2737 2278 or by fax on 2377 0730.
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193 VMs depart on Orderly Repatriation Flights
Two groups totalling 193 Vietnamese migrants (VMs) returned by air to Hanoi, Vietnam today (Monday) on the 77th and 78th flights under the Orderly Repatriation Programme (ORP).
Almost all of the returnees, comprising 74 men, 51 women, 30 boys and 38 girls, are from South and Central Vietnam. Only one of the returnees is from North Vietnam.
The majority of them arrived in Hong Kong in 1991, with the remaining in 1988, 1989 and 1990.
The two groups brought to 7,619 the total number repatriated on ORP flights since November 1991.
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