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A Hong Kong airport ground crewman has been handed an 80-hour community service order for taking a picture of ex-chief executive Leung Chun-ying’s passport. Andrew Chung appeared at Kowloon City Magistrates’ Courts on Thursday. He earlier pleaded guilty to obtaining access to a computer with a view to dishonest gain, The Witness reported. According to the case details, Leung’s son bought HK Express flight tickets to Japan for the family on December 1, 2019. When HK Express staff checked the son’s details in an online system, they found abnormal purchases including 24 in-flight meals and five c...
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The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is to introduce measures on tourist flow management on campus following an influx of visitors from the mainland. Local media have reported on the grounds being as “crowded as Disney,” with mainland tourists barging into lecture halls for photo-taking during lectures. The Pok Fu Lam campus has sky-rocketed in popularity among Chinese tourists following recommendations on social media platform Xiaohongshu. But residents and students have long complained of the influx of crowds, queues for the MTR and disturbances, leading to signs across campus reminding visitor...
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The Hong Kong government has for the second time this month condemned the BBC’s reporting on the new security law. It is the latest in a string of press releases and letters lashing out at foreign media over their coverage of Article 23’s enactment last Saturday. A spokesperson on Wednesday night said a BBC report about the remission of sentences for security law convicts was “extremely misleading,” whilst it also condemned “fact-twisting” remarks by what it deemed anti-China organisations quoted within it. Separate to the 2020 Beijing-enacted security law, the homegrown Safeguarding National ...
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Hong Kong’s Civic Party, which was once the city’s second-largest pro-democracy party, has officially shut down after 18 years – joining dozens of other civil society groups which folded in the wake of a Beijing-imposed national security law. Members of the Civic Party – nicknamed “the barristers’ party” – voted last May to dissolve it amid a leadership vacuum. No members came forward to stand for positions on its executive committee. The party conducted a six-month voluntary winding-up process, clearing its headquarters. On Wednesday its listing in the companies registry was cancelled. Chairp...
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A Hong Kong student has been jailed for eight weeks over impersonating a TVB actor and withdrawing him from the city’s organ donation registry last May. Wong Tsz-ching, 20, appeared at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts on Wednesday. Earlier this month, he pleaded guilty to criminal damage linked to a withdrawal application he made on the city’s organ donation registry. The charge relates to Wong filing an application on the Centralised Organ Donation Registry’s website on May 23, 2023, in which he entered the personal information of TVB actor Cho Wing-lim. Cho is known for his support of the pol...
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Sanctions against individuals – or economic sanctions at the country level – were among the “immature ideas” Hong Kong activist Andy Li “floated” to an international parliamentary alliance days before the 2020 national security law came into force, a court has heard at the high-profile trial of media mogul Jimmy Lai. Li, the co-founder of activist group Fight for Freedom, Stand With Hong Kong (SWHK), which prosecutors allege was ultimately financed by Lai, continued to testify against the 76-year-old tycoon on Wednesday. The founder of the defunct Apple Daily newspaper stands accused of conspi...
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The government has condemned an opinion piece about the city’s “lost freedom” published by the New York Times, the latest letter to media in a campaign to counter critical press coverage of the recently-enacted homegrown security law. In a letter written to the Times’ editor on Wednesday, Secretary for Security Chris Tang claimed the op-ed, titled “Hong Kongers Now Only Whisper About Freedom,” was “extremely misleading.” “We strongly urge The New York Times to ensure that reports concerning Hong Kong arefair and just, and stop making scaremongering remarks,” Tang wrote. Published on Tuesday, t...
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A Hong Kong government hotline designed to support carers for elderly and disabled people has received about 14,600 calls since its launch last September, with 35 per cent of callers seeking emotional counselling, labour and welfare chief Chris Sun has said. Authorities set up the hotline after multiple tragedies shed light on the burden caregivers face. In September, two middle-aged brothers who reportedly had intellectual disabilities were believed to have died from starvation after their elderly mother was admitted to the hospital. NGOs and lawmakers urged more assistance for carers. “Carer...
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A 15-year-old girl has been arrested by police on suspicion of involvement in seven “guess who I am” style phone scams, which swindled HK$1.75 million out of victims, mostly elderly people living alone. Police said on Tuesday that they arrested the girl in Nga Tau Kok after a bank staffer alerted the force that an 81-year-old man sought to withdraw money, saying that a call told him his family member had been arrested and he was required to pay the bail. The girl was believed to have been recruited by fraudsters via social media platform Instagram and was only told to receive the money, police...
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Hong Kong MTR fares will increase by about 3 per cent in June, the city’s railway operator has announced. The MTR Corporation (MTRC) – Hong Kong’s only train services provider – announced the hike on Tuesday under a rate adjustment mechanism that takes into account the conglomerate’s property development profits. The government-controlled firm said the increase had considered public affordability as the fare adjustment was capped at 3.09 per cent, the equivalent to the change in median monthly household income in 2023. According to its fare adjustment mechanism, the price hike could have been ...
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