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Secretary for Security TK Lai visited Sai Kung today to inspect drug treatment and rehabilitation services in the district, and anti-drug and anti-crime efforts there.

Mr Lai visited the Sai Kung New Being Oasis, established by the Christian New Being Fellowship, to see the training and work experience offered to its residents.

The fellowship provides academic and vocational training to help young drug abusers quit drugs and acquire skills to reintegrate into society.

The Sai Kung New Being Oasis, equipped with a pet playground, a teahouse and a handicraft shop, helps residents to put into practice the knowledge and skills they acquire there.

Mr Lai said he was pleased to learn the training has helped the youngsters build their self-confidence. He encouraged them to grasp the opportunity to equip themselves with skills for their reintegration into society.

He then visited a counselling centre for psychotropic substance abusers – the Lutheran Social Service Rainbow Lutheran Centre – where he was briefed on its services and chatted with young people there.

Mr Lai encouraged them to develop healthy hobbies, stay away from drugs and establish a positive outlook on life.

Before concluding his visit, Mr Lai met with Sai Kung District Fight Crime Committee members to learn about their anti-drug and anti-crime efforts.

Customs officers have arrested a beauty parlour owner and a beautician for contravening the Trade Descriptions Ordinance in the sale of beauty services to a customer.

The beautician claimed to provide a beauty treatment using a device manufactured by a certain brand, but a customer complained that another brand of equipment was used instead.

Officers arrested the 30-year-old parlour owner and a 25-year-old beautician on April 29. Both were granted police bail pending further investigation.

The department's Unfair Trade Practice Investigation Division reminded beauty service traders and beauticians to abide by the law and state all information to consumers in a clear and accurate manner.

Call 2545 6182 to report suspected cases.

Secretary for Justice Rimsky Yuen said today that the Basic Law should be adhered to when dealing with national security issues.

He was responding to reporters' questions this morning on the Central Government publishing its second draft of national security laws, which had mentioned Hong Kong.

Mr Yuen noted the SAR does play a certain role in national security, but stressed the Hong Kong and Mainland legal systems are different and that enacting security laws under Article 23 of the Basic Law would be preferable to unilaterally adding them to Annex III of the Basic Law. 

He stressed that the new national security law would still have to go through the local legislative process to be applied, adding that it is only a draft and the legislative procedure is not completed yet.

China's exports fell 6.4% year-on-year in April, falling short of the market's expectation of a 2.4% rise, and following a 15% contraction in March. Imports dropped 16.2% year-on-year for the month, also worse than the 12% expected drop, and after falling 12.7% in March. As a result, trade surplus widened to RMB210.2 billion (US$34 billion), […]

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