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"We hope the Committee will appreciate the genuine efforts made and real results achieved by the Government in effectively implementing the provisions of the ICCPR in Hong Kong," the spokesman said.

During the drafting of the Supplementary Report, the Government has invited the Legislative Council, non-government organisations and other interested parties to express views on topics intended to be included in the report.

Apart from Mr Fung, other team members are Deputy Solicitor General, Mr Stephen Wong: Principal Assistant Secretary for Home Affairs, Mr Jeremy Croft; Principal Assistant Secretary for Security, Mr Jack Chan; and Senior Crown Counsel, Mr Peter Wong.

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19,800 job seekers placed through employment service

A total of 19,800 job seekers have been placed in the first nine months of this year through the nine local employment service offices located throughout Hong Kong, Assistant Commissioner for Labour (Employment Services), Mrs Jennie Chor, disclosed today (Monday).

"This has been an encouraging achievement as more members of the public have chosen to seek services from our placement officers apart from other job seeking channels," she said in response to press enquiries on statistics relating to job placements.

She said the placement figures also included some 4,210 registered job-seekers who have successfully obtained jobs through the Job Matching Programme (JMP) which was launched in April last year as an upgraded service for people without a job. The latest success rate of JMP is more than 70 per cent.

Mrs Chor appealed to the jobless people to make use of JMP which provides a personal service of in-depth interview, vocational counselling and job matching.

"If the registrant needs further training to enhance his employment prospect, our officers will recommend him to a retraining course available from the Employees Retraining Board (ERB)," she said.