Regional flag day today

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Three charities have been issued Public Subscription Permits to hold flag sales on Hong Kong Island, in Kowloon and in the New Territories separately from 7am to 12.30pm today (July 4). The Social Welfare Department (SWD) has been informed by one of the charities that the regional flag-selling activity scheduled to be held by it has been cancelled, a spokesman for the SWD said.

Information on the regional flag-selling activities today is as follows:

Region	Name of organisation and contact information	Colour of collection bag	Colour of flag
Hong Kong Island	Hong Kong Association For Cleft Lip and Palate Contact Person: Mrs Chu Contact Number: 2794 1915	Yellow	Beige
New Territories	The Society for Truth and Light Contact Person: Miss Tang Contact Number: 2768 4204	Orange	Green

Contact information for the organisation that has cancelled a regional flag-selling activity is as follows:

Region	Name of organisation	Contact person	Contact number
Kowloon	Hong Kong Young Women's Christian Association	Miss Cheung	3476 1311

Details of the charitable fund-raising activities, including any updated information, covered by the issued Public Subscription Permit have been published on the GovHK website (www.gov.hk/en/theme/fundraising/search/). Permits for flag days containing information on contact methods of the flag-selling organisations and the approved flag-selling activities have also been uploaded to the SWD's website (www.swd.gov.hk/en/index/site_pubsvc/page_controlofc/sub_flagdays/) for reference. For enquiries, please call the SWD's hotline at 2343 2255, or the designated hotline of the 1823 Call Centre at 3142 2678.

If any flag day activity is suspected to be fraudulent, people should not make any donation and should immediately report the matter to the Police, the spokesman added.

Ends/Saturday, July 4, 2020
Issued at HKT 6:00

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