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Cynthia Wu

JASMINE CHAN

Sunday, Sing Tao Daily
Voucher scheme for elderly may be limited to day-care centres 
The Social Welfare Department plans to launch a pilot scheme in September under which participating organisations will issue vouchers, financed by the Lotteries Fund, to the elderly to pay for aged-care services - especially for people with moderate health issues and who need household care and are awaiting nursing home places. But a number of welfare providers said they would offer only day-care centre services rather than home care, citing a shortage of staff and the high cost of hiring health workers or physiotherapists to visit the elderly at their homes.
 
Monday, Apple Daily
Wheel cover flies off speeding roller coaster at Ocean Park
Fibreglass the size of a kickboard flew off a wheel on a moving roller coaster at Ocean Park. None of the 38 passengers on the roller coaster noticed, but the sight frightened onlookers queueing for the ride. The "Arctic Blast" roller coaster is in the Polar Adventure section of the park that opened last July. The ride was reopened two hours later, even though the wheel cover, which landed in bushes nearby, had not been recovered. Lawmaker Wong Kwok-hing criticised the theme park operator for reopening the ride before the cause of the accident had been identified.
 
Tuesday, Apple Daily
Woman calls in police over missing Bank of China deposit
A 48-year-old woman has reported to police a loss of HK$8,200 she deposited at the Bank of China (Hong Kong) four years ago. She said she did not use the bank account until January, when she discovered the money was gone. She said she sought the bank's assistance several times, but it would only say someone had withdrawn the money with an ATM card. She insisted she never used the card.
 
Wednesday, Apple Daily
Cheung Kong Center found blocking public space
The management of the Cheung Kong Center headquarters of local tycoon Li Ka-shing's Cheung Kong (Holdings), in Central, is occupying 56,000 square feet of public space around the office tower, according to Apple Daily reporters. They say that the government has failed to uphold a provision in the deed for the building, which would allow officials to reclaim the area after issuing a six-month notice to the conglomerate. Hutchison Whampoa, the firm responsible for managing the space, put giant flower pots there after the recent dockers' strike, blocking the area from public use.
 
Thursday, Oriental Daily
Unsafe levels of cadmium found in rice noodles from Dongguan
Some rice noodles for sale in the city have been found to contain unsafe levels of cadmium, a heavy metal that can harm the kidneys. An Oriental Daily reporter bought eight packs of rice noodles in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, and tested them for heavy metals. The results showed that two samples - one bought from a Hung Hom supermarket - contained levels of cadmium far above that considered safe for consumption. All eight samples were manufactured in Dongguan . Mainland media reported in February that some of 13,000 tonnes of contaminated rice in Hunan province had been sold at low prices to companies in Dongguan to make rice noodles.
 
Friday, Oriental Daily
One in 100 firemen disciplined amid talk of selective punishment 
One in 100 staff at the Fire Services Department was disciplined for conduct violations in the year to the end of March. According to an administrative notice issued by the department last month, 86 staff had been engaged in unauthorised part-time jobs, gambled while on duty, or assaulted colleagues during the period. They received punishments ranging from reprimands to a salary cut of two weeks' wages. Sources have said that most of the staff who were disciplined were frontline personnel who had earlier campaigned for standard working hours.
 
Compiled by Cynthia Wu and Jasmine Chan


Paper Talk, July 6, 2013

Li Ka-shing

Opinion

Comment

The Social Welfare Department plans to launch a pilot scheme in September under which participating organisations will issue vouchers, financed by the Lotteries Fund, to the elderly to pay for aged-care services - especially for people with moderate health issues and who need household care and are awaiting nursing home places.
