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Tenders for village flood protection works invited
The Drainage Services Department is inviting tenders for village flood protection works at Chau Tau Tsuen in northwest New Territories.
The contract will include the construction of a flood protection embankment, a flood water storage pond, a flood water pumping station, a maintenance road and associated works.
Works will commence in April for completion in two years.
Forms of tender and further particulars can be obtained from the Chief Engineer, Drainage Projects Division, Drainage Services Department, 44th floor, Revenue Tower, 5 Gloucester Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong.
Tenders must be clearly marked and addressed to the Chairman of the Central Tender Board. They must be placed in the Government Secretariat Tender Box at the lift lobby on the lower ground floor of the Central Government Offices (East Wing), Lower Albert Road, Hong Kong, before noon on February 21 (Friday).
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More than 400 blankets distributed to street sleepers
Staff of the Social Welfare Department last (Thursday) night distributed a total of 406 blankets to street sleepers in a territory-wide operation during the cold weather.
Of the total, 174 were distributed in West Kowloon, 33 in East Kowloon, 152 on Hong Kong Island, 39 in New Territories East and eight in New Territories West.
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