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Activists welcome measures to help jobseekers among Hong Kong’s ethnic minority groups as ‘potential game-changers’

Carrie Lam announces slew of new measures to further strengthen support for minorities, including pilot programme to provide employment services

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Guidelines on promoting racial equality will be improved for all government bureaus and departments. Photo: Edward Wong

Improved services for ethnic minority jobseekers and outreach teams for families in need are among proposed measures to help Hong Kong’s non-Chinese speaking communities.

“The [ethnic minority] population in Hong Kong has been growing steadily and their need for public services and support has become more diversified,” Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said in her policy address on Wednesday.

She announced a slew of new measures to further strengthen support for minorities, including the Labour Department launching a pilot programme with non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to provide employment services for jobseekers through a case management approach.

A government internship programme for university students from ethnic minorities would also be introduced on a pilot basis to enable them to gain work experience.

Lam said guidelines on promoting racial equality would be improved for all government bureaus and departments.

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