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Three charities will hold flag sales from 7am to 12.30pm today (July 19). They are, on Hong Kong Island, the Hong Kong Catholic Marriage Advisory Council; in Kowloon, Hong Kong Employment Development Service Limited; and in the New Territories, Children's Thalassaemia Foundation, 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 July 19 is as follows:
Region Name of Colour of Colour
Organisation Collection of Flag
Bag
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Hong Kong The Hong Kong Yellow Pink
Island Catholic Marriage
Advisory Council
Kowloon Hong Kong Orange Yellow
Employment
Development
Service Limited
New Children's Red White
Territories Thalassaemia
Foundation
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, July 19, 2014
Issued at HKT 06:01
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