30 Nov 2023獨媒#8725
楊何蓓茵「故技重施」 邀少數族裔公務員拍片谷區選
With only 10 days remaining before the District Council election, the government has recently stepped up publicity efforts by sending various officials out to promote it. Secretary for the Civil Service Yang Ho-pei-yin has been among the most active, visiting districts and filming building-to-building appeals. After previously inviting civil service colleagues to film appeals for people to vote in Chiu Chow, Fuzhou and Shanghainese, Yang Ho-pei-yin repeated the tactic today by inviting ethnic minority civil servants to call for voting in the District Council election in Nepali, Urdu and Indonesian.
距離區議會選舉只有10日，政府近日加緊派出不同官員宣傳，其中公務員事務局局長楊何蓓茵最落力，落區洗樓拍片都做足。繼早前邀請公務員同事以潮州話、福州話及上海話拍片催谷投票後，楊何蓓茵今日「故技重施」，邀請少數族裔公務員，以尼泊爾語、烏爾都語及印尼語呼籲區選投票。
30 Nov 2023獨媒#8726
網上有人籲區選剔兩剔 選舉事務處出稿提醒：只能投選一名候選人
Following the “improved” District Council election, the number of directly elected District Council seats was reduced to 88 and reorganised into 44 constituencies. The system was changed from a single-member, single-vote system to a two-member, single-vote system. Recently, a post on an online discussion forum said: “Just a reminder that each constituency has two seats, so everyone should put two ticks on the ballot paper.” After the Independent Commission Against Corruption issued a statement yesterday, the Registration and Electoral Office also issued a statement today, saying that each elector in the geographical constituency elections may vote for only one candidate. It also reiterated that anyone who, through public activities during the election period, incites others not to vote or to cast an invalid vote is committing an offence and, upon conviction, is liable to a maximum sentence of three years’ imprisonment and a fine of HK$200,000.
「完善」區議會選舉後，區議會直選議席大減至88個，並改劃為44個選區，制度由單議席單投票制改為雙議席單票制。近日網上有人在討論區發帖，稱「提下大家每選區有兩席，大家要在選票上打兩個剔」。繼廉政公署昨日發稿後，選舉事務處今日亦發稿，指地方直選每名選民只能投選一名候選人，又重申任何人在選舉期間內藉公開活動煽惑他人不投票或投無效票，均屬違法，一經定罪，最高可判處監禁三年及罰款20萬元。
30 Nov 2023獨媒#8727
羅淑佩：正考慮以獎金獎狀鼓勵舉報濫用公屋
The government will tighten the public housing well-off tenants policy from October this year. After randomly checking 25,000 households earlier, it found that 59 households owned residential properties. Law Shuk-pui, Permanent Secretary for Housing and Director of Housing, earlier proposed presenting Good Citizen Awards to encourage members of the public to report cases. Asked on a radio programme today whether cash rewards would also be offered, she said reports were a major help in combating public housing abuse. In the past, some members of the public had reported their relatives and friends out of a sense of justice, but this could create a reporting culture and had to be handled carefully: “We are working very hard to increase people’s sense of happiness, yet you ask people to report others.” She said the authorities were considering such methods to combat public housing abuse, but informants would have to identify themselves and provide useful information. “We do not encourage you to hide in the dark and make a report.” The authorities would also issue guidelines to help members of the public understand what information they needed to provide.
政府今年10月起收緊公屋富戶政策，早前隨機抽查2.5萬戶後，發現有59戶擁有住宅物業。房屋局常任秘書長兼房屋署署長羅淑佩，早前擬以頒良好市民獎鼓勵市民舉報，至於會否以獎金鼓勵，她今日在電台節目表示，舉報對打擊濫用公屋幫助很大，以往有市民大義滅親舉報親友，但有可能形成舉報文化，要小心處理，「我哋好努力叫人增加幸福感，你就叫人舉報」。但她指，正考慮有關方法打擊公屋濫用，舉報者亦必須具名及提供有用資料，「你藏在暗處去篤，我哋都唔鼓勵」，當局亦會設指引協助市民明白要提供什麼資料。
29 Nov 2023獨媒#8714
審計署指創科署培訓計劃宜加強國安管理 敦促設立投訴機制
The Government launched the Reindustrialisation and Technology Training Programme in 2018 to subsidise employees of local companies to receive “high-end technology training”. More than HK$300 million had been approved by the end of March this year. An audit report revealed that members of the assessment panel responsible for managing the courses and reviewing the performance of participating organisations had not made declarations of interests as required after their appointment. Ex officio members of the Vocational Training Council did not declare potential conflicts of interest to the chairperson during meetings. The Audit Commission also recommended that the Innovation and Technology Commission make reference to the national security safeguards under the Continuing Education Fund, such as writing to require all training organisations to sign confirmation statements on safeguarding national security.
政府在2018年推出「再工業化及科技培訓計劃」，資助本地公司的員工接受「高端科技培訓」，截至今年3月底已批出逾3億元。審計報告揭發負責管理課程、檢視參與機構表現的評審小組，成員獲委任後未有按規作出利益申報。職訓局的當然委員在開會時未向主席就潛在的利益衝突作出申報。另外，審計署亦建議創科署應參考「持續進修基金」的維護國安要求，例如發信要求所有培訓機構就維護國家安全簽署確認書。
29 Nov 2023獨媒#8715
前廳交流會相隔5個月再舉行 官員議員執區選海報合照
The 12th Legislative Council Front Office Exchange was held again this morning (29th) after a five-month interval, chaired by Deputy Financial Secretary Wong Wai-lun. After the meeting, he said the atmosphere was cordial and candid, and that he would carefully consider the views put forward by lawmakers. According to photographs from the Legislative Council Secretariat, officials and lawmakers also held District Council election posters and posed for a group photograph in the Front Office, calling on voters to cast their ballots.
相隔5個月後，第12次立法會前廳交流會今早（29日）再舉行，由財政司副司長黃緯綸主持。他在會後強調，會面氣氛親切、坦誠，會悉心考慮議員提出的意見。根據立法會秘書處的相片，一眾官員和議員亦在前廳手持區議會選舉的海報影大合照，呼籲選民投票。
29 Nov 2023獨媒#8716
區選要繽紛 歡樂滿東華讓路延一星期舉行
To promote the District Council election, the authorities will hold a “Colourful District Council Election Day” on 9 December, the eve of polling day. A large outdoor concert and a drone show will be staged that evening and simulcast by multiple television stations. As a result, Tung Wah Charity Show 2023, originally scheduled for the evening of 9 December, will make way for the event and be postponed by one week to 16 December.
當局為力推區選，在投票日前夕的12月9日舉行「區選繽紛日」，當晚將舉辦大型戶外音樂會及無人機表演，由多個電視台聯播。原定於12月9日晚舉行的歡樂滿東華2023亦因此要讓路，延遲一星期至12月16日舉行。
29 Nov 2023集誌社#8718
國安審計｜批中大外判書店、食肆等缺護國安指引 建議培訓機構訂投訴機制
The Audit Commission published a new audit report today (29th). Three of its eight chapters mentioned the safeguarding of national security. The report found deficiencies in national security measures under the Innovation and Technology Commission’s Re-industrialisation and Technology Training Programme, as well as in the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s arrangements for facilities managed by external organisations. It recommended that institutions strengthen their measures, including requiring funded training bodies to sign confirmation letters or declarations, establishing complaint mechanisms, and adding clauses allowing contracts to be terminated at any time. The report said the Innovation and Technology Commission and the Vice-Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong both agreed with the Audit Commission’s recommendations.
The report also disclosed that the Recycling Fund under the Environmental Protection Department had added national security clauses in September 2022. These clauses include allowing the Government to disqualify applicants on grounds such as their having participated in activities that could lead to national security offences, or to terminate agreements.
A review of Audit Commission reports published since the National Security Law came into effect found that national security review content first appeared in October 2022. Including the reports published in March this year and today, three reports covered 24 audited projects or organisations. At least one-third of them—eight funds, non-profit organisations, statutory bodies, libraries, universities and others—were advised by the Audit Commission to strengthen their national security guidelines and measures.
審計署今（29日）發表新一份審計報告，在八個章節中，有三章都提及維護國家安全的內容。報告指出創新科技署的再工業化及科技培訓計劃、以及中文大學對由外間機構管理校園設施，在維護國安措施上有不足。報告建議機構加強措施，包括要求獲資助培訓機構簽確認書或聲明，設投訴機制，及加入可隨時終止合約條款等等。報告引述創科署和中文大學校長，均同意審計署建議。
報告也披露，環保署轄下的回收基金自 2022 年 9 月已增維護國安條款，包括政府能以申請機構曾參與可導致危害國安罪行的活動為由等，剔除申請資格，或可終止協議等。
翻查自國安法實施以來的審計署報告，有關「國安」審查內容始自 2022 年 10 月，計及今年3月份以及今日發表的報告，三份報告涉 24 個被審查的項目或機構中，最少三分一、共 8 個被審計的基金、非牟利機構、法定機構、圖書館、大學等，被署方建議須加強維護國安指引和措施。
29 Nov 2023獨媒#8719
審計報告批中大餐廳接待街客 招標文件未有維護國安條款
The Audit Commission published a report saying that the Chinese University of Hong Kong had not properly handled the tendering and monitoring of some campus facilities operated by outside organisations. None of the 33 restaurants on campus had obtained food business licences. After inspections, Audit Commission staff found that 29 of them served “walk-in customers”—people who were not CUHK students or staff—and that three provided food delivery services to locations outside the campus through third-party food delivery platforms. The tender documents and contracts also contained no clauses on safeguarding national security. The commission recommended that CUHK add clauses to its contracts allowing it to disqualify bidders and terminate contracts on national security grounds. CUHK said it agreed with the report’s contents.
審計署發表報告，指中文大學部分外間機構營運的校園設施未有做好招標及監管工作，校園內33間餐廳均沒有領取食物業牌照。署方人員視察後更發現，當中29間均有招待「街客」，即非中大學生或教職員，3間更通過第三方外送食物平台，為校園範圍外的地點提供外送食物服務。而招標文件、合約亦未有維護國家安全的條款，署方建議中大在合約中加入條款，容許以國家安全為由，取消投標者的資格和終止合約，中大表示同意報告內容。
29 Nov 2023獨媒#8720
民主黨伍凱欣：寄信予逾百「三會」成員零回覆零提名
The District Council election will be held on 10 December, with the pro-democracy camp “zeroed out” among the 399 candidates. Democratic Party deputy chairwoman Bonnie Hoi Yan Ng, who had previously indicated that she intended to stand, said on the party’s own online programme that she had written to more than 100 “"the three committees"” members in the district to seek nominations, but received no replies and no nominations. One person told her, “The Democratic Party can’t stand in the election this time; don’t take part.”
區議會選舉將於12月10日進行，399名參選人民主派「清零」。曾表明有意參選的民主黨副主席伍凱欣，在該黨自家網台節目表示，曾去信該區逾百名「三會」成員爭取提名，惟獲零回覆零提名，更有人向她稱「今次民主黨冇得參選㗎喇，你唔好參加啦」。
29 Nov 2023獨媒#8721
律政司義工隊深水埗企街 向市民派宣傳區選單張
The District Council election will be held on the 10th of next month. Government departments are making every effort to promote the election and call on members of the public to vote. On Tuesday evening (the 28th), the Department of Justice volunteer team went into the Sham Shui Po district and distributed election leaflets to members of the public near Dragon Centre in West Kowloon and Pei Ho Street.
區議會選舉下月10日投票，政府各部門全力宣傳，呼籲市民投票。律政司義工隊周二（28日）晚上落區，到深水埗西九龍中心及北河街附近「企街」，向市民派發區選傳單。
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