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Three charities will hold flag sales on Hong Kong Island, in Kowloon and the New Territories respectively this Saturday (October 14), a spokesman for the Social Welfare Department said today (October 12).
Arrangements have been made with the charities to help people distinguish between the three flag-selling activities.
For enquiries, please call the department's hotline at 2343 2255, or department headquarters at 2832 4311 during office hours.
Information on the flag days of the month is also available at the department's website http://www.swd.gov.hk/en/index/site_whatsnew/ and ESD Life's website http://www.esdlife.com.
In the case of suspected fraudulent flag day activities, people should not make any donation and should immediately report the matter to the police.
Information on the three flag-selling organisations on October 14 is as follows:
Region Name of Colour of Colour of
Organisation Flag Collection
Bag
Hong Kong Cyber Senior White White
Island Network Development
Association Limited
Kowloon Hong Kong Air Cadet Blue Light Blue
Corps
New The Rehabilitation Red White
Territories Alliance Hong Kong
Limited
Ends/Thursday, October 12, 2006
Issued at HKT 13:16
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