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The Government today (March 9) announced the new membership of the Employees Retraining Board, and the re-appointment of Mr Michael Tien Puk-sun as chairman and Dr Ng Tat-lun as vice-chairman of the board. Other members being:
Representatives of Employers:
Mr Yeung Ka-sing
Mr Stephen Yuen Ching-bor
Mr Paul Chong Kin-lit
Mrs Agnes Mak Tang Pik-yee
Representatives of Employees:
The Honourable Lau Chin-shek
Ms Juan Leung Chung-yan
Mr Cheng Kai-ming
Mr Sin Kai-ming
Persons connected with Vocational Training and Retraining or Manpower Planning:
Professor Roland Chin Tai-hong
Ms Virginia Choi Wai-kam
Executive Director of the Vocational Training Council
Public Officers:
Commissioner for Labour
Deputy Secretary for Education and Manpower
The new membership will take effect on April 1, 2007, for a term of one year.
The Secretary for Education and Manpower, Professor Arthur K C Li, welcomed the re-appointment of Mr Tien, Dr Ng and other incumbent members.
He also welcomed Mrs Agnes Mak, Mr Cheng Kai-ming and Mr Sin Kai-ming, the three newly appointed members, to the board.
"I am confident that under Mr Tien's leadership and with the dedicated support of all members, the board will continue to provide high quality retraining services to the unemployed to help them adapt to the changing market and manpower needs of our society," he said.
Professor Li also thanked the three outgoing members, Mr Anthony Au Wai-hung, Mr Cheung Pak-chi and Mr Poon Siu-ping, for their valuable contributions to the board in the past several years.
The board is a statutory body established in 1992 under the Employees Retraining Ordinance (Cap.423). It is responsible for providing retraining courses and related placement services, and its main clients are unemployed persons aged 30 or above with junior secondary education level or lower. The board plans to provide about 96,000 retraining places during the financial year 2007-08.
Ends/Friday, March 9, 2007
Issued at HKT 14:01
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