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Mr Yiu said the Selective Placement Division had all along been promoting open employment for the disabled. In the past nine months, TV and radio programmes were produced and a series of pamphlets were published to educate the public on the working abilities of the disabled.

He urged employers and the public to support open employment for the disabled by exploring more job opportunities for them.

Also officiating at the opening ceremony was the Chairman of Rehabilitation Development Co-ordinating Committee (RDCC), Employment Sub-committee, Mr Vincent Cheng.

The seminar is co-organised with the American Chamber of Commerce, the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, the Chinese Manufacturers' Association of Hong Kong, Employers' Federation of Hong Kong, Federation of Hong Kong Industries, the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong Institute of Personnel Management, Hong Kong Industrial Relations Association and RDCC Employment Subcommittee.

Note to Editors:

Copies of a photograph taken at the seminar will be boxed.

end/Wednesday, December 7, 1994

Five sites to let

The Lands Department is inviting tenders for the short-term tenancies of five pieces of Government land on Hong Kong Island and in Kowloon and the New Territories.

The first lot, located in Hoi Yu Street, Quarry Bay, has an area of 1,420 square metres, for use as a fee-paying public car park for motor vehicles, excluding dangerous goods vehicles and container tractors and trailers. The tenancy is for three years, renewable quarterly.