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Three charities would hold flag sales on Hong Kong Island, in Kowloon and the New Territories respectively this Wednesday (August 16), a spokesman for the Social Welfare Department said today (August 14).
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 SWD 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 August 16 is as follows:
Region & Colour of Colour of
Name of Organisation Collection Bag Flag
Hong Kong Island
CTU Education
Foundation Limited Light Green Light Green
Kowloon
Tien Dao Worldwide Christian
Media Association Limited
and The Worldwide Bible
Society Limited Red White
New Territories
ECHO Valley Evangelistic
Association for the
Handicaps Limited Dark Green Dark Green
Ends/Monday, August 14, 2006
Issued at HKT 13:18
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