*****************************************************
Three charities will hold flag sales on Hong Kong Island, in Kowloon and the New Territories respectively this Wednesday (July 19), a spokesman for the Social Welfare Department said today (July 17).
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 July 19 is as follows:
Region Name of Colour of Colour
Organisation Collection Bag of Flag
Hong The Dragon Orange Orange
Kong Foundation Limited
Island and The Hong Kong
Federation of Youth
Groups
Kowloon Hong Kong Christian Blue Blue
Institute
New Kely Support Group Yellow Yellow
Territories Limited
Ends/Monday, July 17, 2006
Issued at HKT 15:05
NNNN