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Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai had wanted to bring together legislators, overseas groups, the power of the community, and other sectors to achieve “China implosion,” a court has heard during a landmark trial under the Beijing-imposed national security law. Paralegal Chan Tsz-wah, who stands accused of conspiring with Lai and others to collude with foreign forces, told the court on Friday that the Apple Daily founder mentioned the idea of bringing China to economic collapse and the fall of its political regime in January 2020. Lai faces two counts of conspiring to collude with foreign forces a...
Hong Kong Free Press
Se ha confirmado en Hong Kong un raro caso humano de virus B, también conocido como herpes B o 'virus del mono', según las autoridades sanitarias locales. El Centro de Protección de la Salud (CHP) del territorio confirmó que un varón de 37 años "con buena salud en el pasado" ingresó inicialmente en la sala de accidentes y Urgencias del Hospital Yan Chai el pasado 21 de marzo para tratar una "fiebre y disminución del nivel de consciencia". Posteriormente alcanzó un estado crítico y fue trasladado a la Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos, donde estaba recibiendo tratamiento cuando la CHP comunicó el c...
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A Hong Kong man has been jailed for one year and four months over his links to a fundraising platform that supported protesters in 2019. Yu Yan-yuk, currently a student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, appeared at the District Court on Wednesday afternoon, local media reported. He earlier pleaded not guilty to money laundering but was convicted in March after trial. He was among four people linked to Spark Alliance, a crowdfunded organisation that financed bail applications for those arrested during the 2019 protests and unrest, who was arrested in December 2019. Police said they had fr...
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Hong Kong police on Thursday checked the identity cards of fans queueing outside an event for pro-democracy singer Anthony Wong, citing crowd control. Wong and lyricist Chow Yiu-fai were holding an autograph session organised by art group The House of Hong Kong Literature in in Sham Shui Po on Thursday evening when police officers arrived, a fans present at the scene told HKFP. According to Louis Lee, around two dozen people were queueing to get inside the venue at approximately 7.30 pm when police officers asked to see and record their identity cards. A crowd of 60 to 70 people gathered for t...
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A Hong Kong man has been sentenced to four years and seven months in jail over rioting and wounding others during the Yuen Long mob attack at the height of the 2019 protests and unrest. Tang Siu-hung, a 42-year-old driver, was prosecuted last July along with three others, four years after an incident on the night of July 21, 2019, when dozens of men wearing white shirts attacked commuters in Yuen Long MTR station after protests on Hong Kong Island. Tang pleaded guilty to rioting and conspiracy to wound with intent. During sentencing on Thursday, district court judge Daniel Tang said that the d...
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Hong Kong’s leading press group can mount a legal challenge to the Transport Department’s new policy restricting media access to vehicle ownership records, a High Court judge has ruled. Judge Russell Coleman handed down his judgement on Wednesday, approving the application by the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) for a judicial review of the policy. The two sides should within 14 days agree a date for the hearing, which should take place no later than July 8. The HKJA applied for a judicial review on April 5, three months after the government revised policies governing access to the reg...
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A rare human case of B virus, also known as herpes B or “monkey virus,” has been confirmed in Hong Kong, according to local health authorities. The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) in the territory confirmed that a 37-year-old male “with good past health” was initially admitted to Yan Chai Hospital’s accident and emergency ward on March 21 to treat a “fever and decreased conscious level”. But he subsequently reached a critical condition and was transferred to the Intensive Care Unit where he was receiving treatment when the CHP last communicated about the case on April 5. The man was reporte...
Euronews (English)
Hong Kong’s housing minister has defended an estimated HK$4.39 billion price tag for managing 30,000 temporary flats which are planned for the city, saying this would cover maintenance, cleaning, and other amenities. The units will be part of the Light Public Housing (LPH) scheme, which aims to boost the city’s short-term housing supply by providing prefabricated flats that will be retired after five years of use. The bureau’s estimate amounts to operational costs of around HK$1,000 per month for each temporary unit. The scheme, announced in Chief Executive John Lee’s maiden policy address, ca...
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The Hong Kong government has defended its monthly spending of HK$3.75 million to maintain defunct Covid-19 isolation centres after one legislator described the bill as “shocking.” Secretary for Development Bernadette Linn addressed lawmakers in the Legislative Council on Wednesday as meetings to discuss the financial year’s budget continued. As part of initial questions asked by lawmakers ahead of the meetings, legislator Chan Hoi-yan had asked the Development Bureau how much the city was spending on maintaining the Covid-19 isolation facilities. The Development Bureau said in a written reply ...
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Hong Kong police have arrested a woman on suspicion of sharing test papers from the city’s university entrance examination online. The documents were leaked on Chinese social networking site Xiaohongshu, local media reported. A 23-year-old woman surnamed Lau was detained on Wednesday for allegedly breaching the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority Ordinance, police said in a statement on Thursday. She was granted bail pending investigation and must report to the force in mid-May. The Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority (HKEAA) said it filed a police report on Tuesday fol...
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