Regional Flag Day
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Attention Duty Announcers, TV and radio stations:

    Please broadcast the following special announcement this (August 26) morning, and repeat it at frequent intervals.

    The Social Welfare Department announces that today is an endorsed regional flag day. Lotus Light Charity Society (Hong Kong) Limited, Children's Thalassaemia Foundation and The Chinese Rhenish Church Hong Kong Synod will sell flags on Hong Kong Island, in Kowloon and the New Territories respectively.

    For enquiries on the regional flag day, members of the public can call the department's hotline at 2343 2255, or SWD headquarters at 2832 4311 during office hours.

Ends/Saturday, August 26, 2006
Issued at HKT 06:01

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