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The meeting on Saturday, to be chaired by Mr Clement Tao Kwok-lau, will discuss the draft codes of practice on programme and advertising standards for programme services which are expected to be licensed upon enactment of the Television (Amendment) Bill.
Members of the public are welcome to observe the proceedings of the meeting which will take place at 9.30 am at the Conference Room of the Television and Entertainment Licensing Authority, 39th Floor, Revenue Tower, 5 Gloucester Road, Wan Chai. As seating capacity is limited, they should ring 2594 5707 to reserve a
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Alarm system and phone allowances for single elderly
The Social Welfare Department has awarded a special grant to some 1,100 single elderly people to help them install an emergency alarm system designed to summon immediate rescue when in distress.
A department spokesman said today (Tuesday) that the number of applications for the grant had been increasing steadily and that the trend would continue.
He said the experience of the cold spell early last year showed that elderly people living alone were not always aware of the importance of effective communication at times of emergency.
The SWD launched a four-month exercise last August to reach out to all single elderly Comprehensive Social Security Allowance (CSSA) recipients who were not receiving a subsidy for telephone charges to help them install a telephone if they needed one.
The exercise found that as at the end of December 1996, out of 56,000 single elderly CSSA recipients living alone, about 53,000 (or 95 per cent) were known to have a telephone available for use in emergency.
"Among the 53,000, we have granted telephone allowance to some 23,000, or 41 per cent," the spokesman pointed out.