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主持人：Jim Gould and Car Ha
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16/05/2025
Shorter pet quarantine / Dental care for the underprivileged / China's ties with Latin American nations / Chelsea Flower Show
On Friday's Backchat, we found out more about the newly slashed quarantine time for cats and dogs coming from the mainland, amid calls by pet owners to ease travel restrictions.
What are the new arrangements and requirements? How will this affect efforts to reduce cross-boundary animal smuggling?
Separately, the Department of Health will soon roll out a Community Dental Support Program, offering emergency dental care to underprivileged groups in need of basic dental services. We spoke to an exert and exainmined the nooks and crannies of this initiative.
After the break, we looked at the recent visit of Latin American leaders to China, hosted by President Xi Jinping. Big announcements were made, including a massive new credit line that will be extended to Latin American nations to support development, and a new country joining the Belt and Road initiative.
And at the end of the programme, we learned more about this year's Chelsea Flower Show in London, with Hong Kong's Kadoorie Farm among the exhibitors.
9:05am-9:17am: Shorter pet quarantine
9:05am-9:17am: Karina O’Carroll, Animal Welfare Education Manager at Animals Asia Foundation
9:17am-9:30am: Dental care for the underprivileged
9:17am-9:30am: Prof Leung Wai-keung, President of the College of Dental Surgeons of Hong Kong
9:32am-9:50am: China-South America rapprochement
9:32am-9:50am: Andrew Leung, International and Independent China Strategist; former Director General of Social Welfare
9:50am-10:00am: Chelsea Flower Show
9:50am-10:00am: Dr Stephan Gale, Head of Flora Conservation at Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden
9:50am-10:00am: Candy Ip, Orchid Nursery Foreman
What are the new arrangements and requirements? How will this affect efforts to reduce cross-boundary animal smuggling?
Separately, the Department of Health will soon roll out a Community Dental Support Program, offering emergency dental care to underprivileged groups in need of basic dental services. We spoke to an exert and exainmined the nooks and crannies of this initiative.
After the break, we looked at the recent visit of Latin American leaders to China, hosted by President Xi Jinping. Big announcements were made, including a massive new credit line that will be extended to Latin American nations to support development, and a new country joining the Belt and Road initiative.
And at the end of the programme, we learned more about this year's Chelsea Flower Show in London, with Hong Kong's Kadoorie Farm among the exhibitors.
9:05am-9:17am: Shorter pet quarantine
9:05am-9:17am: Karina O’Carroll, Animal Welfare Education Manager at Animals Asia Foundation
9:17am-9:30am: Dental care for the underprivileged
9:17am-9:30am: Prof Leung Wai-keung, President of the College of Dental Surgeons of Hong Kong
9:32am-9:50am: China-South America rapprochement
9:32am-9:50am: Andrew Leung, International and Independent China Strategist; former Director General of Social Welfare
9:50am-10:00am: Chelsea Flower Show
9:50am-10:00am: Dr Stephan Gale, Head of Flora Conservation at Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden
9:50am-10:00am: Candy Ip, Orchid Nursery Foreman
Tag:
Animals,Dental,South America,Pets
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Octopus JoyYou card discounts / Australia's "right to disconnect" law
主持人：Jim Gould and Car Ha
On Wednesday's Backchat, we're talking about a special promotion involving the personalised JoyYou Octopus card, aimed at encouraging activity for the elderly and boosting local spending.
For a two-week period starting from Wednesday, card holders will receive an $8 reward for every $100 spent with participating businesses -- with a maximum rebate amount capped at $800 per user.
Starting from last Sunday, residents aged 60 or over now need to use a JoyYou card in in order to benefit from $2 public transport concessionary fares. The change was introduced to tackle fraudulent
use of anonymous cards by non-eligible travellers.
So will this promotion encourage older people to go out and about more frequently? And will it help to boost consumption?
After 9:45, we'll learn more about Australia's new "right to disconnect law", for employees when they're off duty. It's similar to laws in some parts of Europe and Latin America. But could such a concept ever take hold here?
9:05am-9:45am: Octopus JoyYou card discounts
9:05am-9:30am: Timothy Ma, Chief Consultant, Ma Kam Wah & Co
9:05am-9:30am: Timothy Hau, Honorary Associate Professor in Economics, HKU Business School, The University of Hong Kong
9:15am-9:30am: Amos Cheung, Clinical Psychologist and Vice-President of the Hong Kong Psychological Society
9:30am-9:45am: Ivan Lin, Community Organiser, The Society for Community Organisation (SoCo)
9:45am-10:00am: Australia's "right to disconnect" law
9:45am-10:00am: Michael Szeto, Partner at ONC Lawyers
9:05am-9:45am: Octopus JoyYou card discounts
9:05am-9:30am: Timothy Ma, Chief Consultant, Ma Kam Wah & Co
9:05am-9:30am: Timothy Hau, Honorary Associate Professor in Economics, HKU Business School, The University of Hong Kong
9:15am-9:30am: Amos Cheung, Clinical Psychologist and Vice-President of the Hong Kong Psychological Society
9:30am-9:45am: Ivan Lin, Community Organiser, The Society for Community Organisation (SoCo)
9:45am-10:00am: Australia's "right to disconnect" law
9:45am-10:00am: Michael Szeto, Partner at ONC Lawyers
Tag:
Elderly,Employment,JoyYou,Octopus
