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Three charities will hold flag sales from 7am to 12.30pm today (January 23). They are, on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong Air Cadet Corps; in Kowloon, Windshield Charitable Foundation; and in the New Territories, the Hong Kong Buddhist Association, a spokesman for the Social Welfare Department (SWD) said.
Arrangements have been made with the charities to help people distinguish between the three flag-selling activities.
Information on the three flag-selling organisations on January 23 is as follows:
Region Name of Colour of Colour
Organisation Collection Bag of Flag
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Hong Kong Hong Kong Air Blue Blue
Island Cadet Corps
Kowloon Windshield Yellow White
Charitable
Foundation
New The Hong Kong Yellow Yellow
Territories Buddhist
Association
For enquiries, please call the SWD's hotline at 2343 2255, or SWD headquarters at 2832 4311 during office hours. Information on the flag days of the month is also available at the SWD's website (www.swd.gov.hk/en/index/site_whatsnew/).
Details of the charitable fund-raising activities covered by the Public Subscription Permit issued by the SWD have also been uploaded to the GovHK website (www.gov.hk/fundraising).
In the case of suspected fraudulent flag day activities, people should not make any donation and should immediately report the matter to the Police.
Ends/Saturday, January 23, 2016
Issued at HKT 06:02
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