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No flag selling on Saturday
The Social Welfare Department today (Tuesday) announced that there will be no flag day on Saturday (February 8).
A spokesman for the department said the flag day permit originally issued to Tuen Mun Hospital for February 8 had been given up by the hospital.
Tuen Mun Hospital has now decided to hold its flag day on August 16.
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Special topics report on social statistics now on sale
Special Topics Report No 14 on social statistics was published today (Tuesday). It contains the findings of four special enquiries conducted by the Census and Statistics Department via the General Household Survey in different periods. between September 1995 and January 1996.
The four topics included in the report are Hong Kong residents working in China; labour mobility; taxi waiting time; and domestic helpers.
The report is now on sale at $42 per copy. It can be purchased at the Government Publications Centre, ground floor, Low Block, Queensway Government Offices, 66 Queensway, Hong Kong, and the Publications Unit of the Census and Statistics Department, 19th floor, Wanchai Tower, 12 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong.
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