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CS promotes support for DC election

With only 11 days left before the District Council (DC) election, Chief Secretary Chan Kwok-ki and Secretary for the Civil Service Ingrid Yeung today visited the Queensway Government Offices to promote the election to colleagues and urge them to vote with family and friends on December 10.   Also joining the visit were representatives from the four civil service central consultative councils and the four major service-wide staff unions.   Mr Chan said civil servants are determined to organise a decent DC election and have encouraged colleagues to vote together with friends and relatives, so as to discharge their civic responsibility as well as support and accomodate the Government's governance.   “I have visited and talked to colleagues from various government departments in the hope of continuing to widely disseminate the important message of supporting the DC election and voting together among civil servants,” he added.   The DC geographical constituencies, inform
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Dec sees 0.7% deflation

Overall consumer prices in December fell 0.7% year-on-year, larger than the corresponding decrease of 0.2% in November, the Census & Statistics Department announced today.   Netting out the effects of all the Government's one-off relief measures, the year-on-year rate of change in December’s underlying inflation rate was 0.0%, smaller than November’s 0.3%.   The department said it was mainly due to the smaller increases in the costs for meals bought away from home and the enlarged decreases in private housing rentals.   December saw year-on-year price drops for electricity, gas and water, clothing and footwear, durable goods, transport and miscellaneous services.     Prices for food, excluding meals bought away from home, alcoholic drinks and tobacco, miscellaneous goods and housing went up.   The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for meals bought away from home remained unchanged.     The Government said the underlying consumer price inflation rate eased to virtually zero, noting that prices of meals bought away from home softened visibly amid the fourth wave of the local COVID-19 epidemic and the resultant social distancing measures.   The year-on-year decline in private housing rentals widened slightly, and price pressures on many other major CPI components receded further. For 2020 as a whole, the underlying consumer price inflation rate averaged 1.3%.   Looking ahead, overall price pressures should remain very mild in the near term as global and local economic conditions are still challenging amid the continued threat of COVID-19, the Government added.
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