MR CHAN KIN-POR (in Chinese): President, in recent years, cases have occurred from time to time in which tutors of tutorial or interest classes offered by tutorial schools or education centres (hereinafter referred as “private educational institutions”) and private tutors sexually assaulted young students. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council: (1) of …
MR CHAN KIN-POR (in Chinese): President, Hongkong Post (HKP) is operating under the trading fund mode on a self-financing basis. In 2012-2013, the operating loss of the trading fund amounted to about $114 million, representing a significant increase compared with the loss of about $50 million in 2011-2012. After taking into account other revenues, for …
MR CHAN KIN-POR (in Chinese): President, the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Ordinance (Cap. 485) (MPFSO) has been in force since 2000. The complaints received by the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority (MPFA) in recent years were mainly related to employers’ defaults on contributions to Mandatory Provident Fund (MPF) schemes and failure to enrol their employees …
MR CHAN KIN-POR (in Chinese): President, recently, some workers who were injured at work have pointed out that in the public areas of various public hospitals’ departments which are responsible for making medical assessments for injured workers, branch offices of the Employees’ Compensation Division of the Labour Department (LD) as well as offices of the …
MR CHAN KIN-POR (in Chinese): President, it has been reported that a civilian passenger aircraft went missing over the waters near Vietnam on the 8th of last month, and subsequent investigation uncovered that some passengers might have boarded the plane on passports which had been reported missing. As pointed out by the International Criminal Police …
Council Meetings (Question): Protection of Aviation Safety (2014.04.09) Read More »
MR CHAN KIN-POR (in Cantonese): At present, in cases relating to claims for damages for personal injuries or death, lawyers’ fee on average accounts for 30% to 40%, or even as much as 60% of the total cost. It is obvious that there are problems with the compensation scheme. I have in hand two complaints …
Council Meetings (Oral Question): Improvement to Legal Aid System (2014.03.26) Read More »
President, information from the Hong Kong Police Force reveals that in 2012, 1 341 Mainland visitors were arrested for having allegedly committed offences in Hong Kong, representing an increase of 11.2% from 2011. According to the reciprocal notification mechanism between the Mainland and Hong Kong, Hong Kong Police regularly forward to the Mainland public security …
President, in the main reply, it was pointed out, “Persons whose application is found to be fraudulent by the HKSAR Government shall have their residence status invalidated and shall be removed, regardless of their years of residence in Hong Kong.” I would like to ask as there have been many reports about people applying for …
President, the Government of the last term proposed the development of six industries that Hong Kong enjoyed clear advantages (six priority industries), that is, testing and certification, medical services, innovation and technology, cultural and creative industries, environmental industries and education services, to pave the way for Hong Kong to move towards a knowledge-based economy. In …
President, 40% of Hong Kong’s land belong to country parks, and as the Government has said in the main reply, about 13 million visitors to country parks were recorded in 2012. May I ask if the number is on the rise or on the decline? And given that country parks are important asset to Hong …
