37 Schools Honored for Excellence in Greening Projects at LCSD Award Ceremony

2025-06-28 13:15 Last Updated At：13:28

37 schools win Greening School Project Award

The Greening School Project Award prize presentation ceremony, organised by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD), was held today (June 28) at the Kowloon Park Sports Centre. Thirty-seven schools were commended for their meritorious green school projects and contributions to environmental greening.

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37 schools win Greening School Project Award Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases

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37 schools win Greening School Project Award Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases

To enhance students' awareness of greening and interest in horticulture, as well as to beautify school environments, the LCSD provides annual cash subsidies under its Greening School Subsidy Scheme to encourage more greening and planting activities on campuses. The targets of the subsidy scheme are local kindergartens and primary, secondary and special schools. The Greening School Project Award will also be presented to schools to acknowledge their outstanding achievements in campus greening.

Addressing the prize presentation ceremony, the Chief Leisure Manager (Green Campaign) of the LCSD, Ms Tina Tai, said that the Greening School Subsidy Scheme is one of the LCSD's major educational and community involvement activities. The scheme has been well received, with nearly 900 participating schools every year. The standards of the green projects have continued to rise as well. Both teachers and students have worked together to create an ideal green campus with encouraging results.

Ms Tai commended this year's award-winning schools for their outstanding performances and the high standard of greening works. She thanked participating schools for their support of the activity, and also the professional efforts and dedication of the adjudicators, which made the activity a success. Other officiating guests attending today's ceremony included the President of the Hong Kong Institute of Landscape Architects, Mr Paul Chan, and the Chief School Development Officer (Tsuen Wan and Kwai Tsing) of the Education Bureau, Miss Chan Pui-ying.

The Greening School Project Award was presented in eight categories. The champions are as follows:

(1) Large Garden Plot Project (Secondary School Section):

Immaculate Heart of Mary College

(2) Large Garden Plot Project (Primary School Section):

Kwong Ming School

(3) Small Garden Plot Project (Secondary School Section):

Tang Shiu Kin Victoria Government Secondary School

(4) Small Garden Plot Project (Primary School Section):

Bonham Road Government Primary School

(5) Garden Plot Project (Kindergarten Section):

TWGHs Liu Yan Tak Memorial Kindergarten

(6) Tree Planting Project:

Sai Kung Central Lee Siu Yam Memorial School

(7) Horticultural Maintenance:

Hong Kong Red Swastika Society Tai Po Secondary School

(8) Best Green Concept:

Lok Sin Tong Stephen Leung Kindergarten

The list of other winners of the Greening School Project Award is available on the LCSD webpage www.lcsd.gov.hk/en/green/education/greeningschool/2024schoolawardlist.html.

The LCSD is committed to promoting greening and has implemented a number of large-scale planting and landscape beautification projects to further enhance the cityscape. These include the Shining City Project, which involves extensive planting of flowering plants in LCSD venues and roadside areas across the 18 districts, in addition to the setup of the "Flower Appreciation" website, which provides details of the blooming status of a wide range of popular flowering plants.

Court Dismisses Chow Hang Tung's Challenge to Hong Kong's Clothing Policy for Persons in Custody

HKSAR Government welcomes court's decision to dismiss Chow Hang Tung's application for judicial review on clothing policy for persons in custody

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government welcomes the judgment handed down by the Court of First Instance of the High Court today (January 13) to dismiss Chow Hang Tung's application for judicial review on the clothing policy for persons in custody (PICs).

The court judgment pointed out that the current clothing policy for PICs, including the requirement for female PICs to wear trousers in summer daytime, was formulated by the Correctional Services Department (CSD) as authorised by the Prison Rules. The Court was satisfied that the CSD had the expertise and experience in the relevant context, and that it had carefully considered various factors, taken into account of professional opinion when making the decision, as well as reviewed the policy continuously. The Court ruled that Chow Hang Tung had failed to demonstrate that the current policy constituted less favourable treatment of a particular gender. The Court pointed out that there was currently no factual evidence to support any assertion that there was widespread concern about the health effects of wearing trousers in summer. In addition, the rule was not absolute, but instead allowed individual PICs to apply for exceptional arrangements in special circumstances. At the same time, the Court also rejected Chow Hang Tung's assertion that she had requested to the CSD in July and August 2024 to wear shorts and had been refused.

A spokesman for the Security Bureau said, "The ruling of the Court of First Instance confirmed that the CSD's approach is reasonable, justified and lawful. According to Rule 26 of the Prison Rules, the CSD must provide every PIC with a uniform that meets a scale imposed by the Commissioner of Correctional Services. Over the years, the CSD had appointed task groups from time to time to review the clothing arrangements of PICs. These reviews gave ample consideration to numerous factors, including the type of correctional institutions, PICs' varying daily routines and activities involved, the need for thermal, physical and psychological comfort for PICs of different genders, privacy and decency of PICs and the security, good order and discipline of the prison, so as to continuously refine clothing arrangements according to the prevailing circumstances."

The spokesman stated, "Chow Hang Tung's assertion that she requested to wear shorts in summer and was rejected by the CSD is entirely inconsistent with the facts and was rejected by the Court. Besides, the current clothing policy for PICs already provides a degree of flexibility. For example, a PIC may make an application to wear other clothing on medical or non-medical grounds to the CSD, and the CSD would make appropriate arrangements having considered the actual circumstances and relevant factors."

The CSD will continue to impartially implement the relevant rules of the Prison Rules in accordance with the law and commit to providing a secure, safe, humane, decent and healthy custodial environment.

37 Schools Honored for Excellence in Greening Projects at LCSD Award Ceremony

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