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The owner and major shareholder of French firm L'Occitane is looking to take his skin-care firm back into private hands after a 14-year stretch on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Austrian billionaire Reinold Geiger has offered HK$34 (€4.05) per share to buy the stock he doesn't already own, an increase on the most recent closing share price of HK$29.50 (€3.52). The deal is worth up to HK$13.91bn (€1.7 billion), and the company's total equity is valued at around €6 billion. "Our family has always taken a responsible, long-term view when it comes to developing our company," said Geiger in a statem...
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Hong Kong police have arrested a construction project manager on suspicion of manslaughter in connection with a fatal tower crane collapse in 2022 that left three workers dead. Police also listed a structural engineer as wanted in the case. The deadly industrial incident on Anderson Road, Sau Mau Ping on September 7, 2022 was reclassified as manslaughter and a 35-year-old man was apprehended in Ngau Tau Kok on Tuesday in connection with the case, police said. “He is being detained by the Police and will be charged with manslaughter later,” the Force said in a statement. The fatal incident invo...
Hong Kong Free Press
Hong Kong’s ban on single-use plastics is going smoothly, Chief Executive John Lee has said, despite confusion surrounding how the rules are being implemented and poor compliance. Speaking at his weekly press briefing on Tuesday, the city’s leader said more people were purchasing reusable alternatives, suggesting that Hongkongers were beginning to change their daily habits. See also: Restaurants slow to adopt eco-friendly alternatives as Hong Kong’s ban on single-use plastics takes effect “Generally speaking, from what I can see, [the single-use plastics ban] has been smooth and orderly,” he s...
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A radical group in Hong Kong spent over HK$100,000 to acquire around 100 petrol bombs per confrontation during the protests and unrest in 2019, a court has heard. Prosecution witness Wong Chun-keung, leader of the group named “Dragon Slayers,” also testified on Monday that his group formed in August 2019 as a team of “elite” violent protesters which targeted the police during confrontations. Wong said they were financed by unidentified professionals such as lawyers, lawmakers, and journalists in the city. Seven people are standing trial at the High Court over an alleged bomb plot to murder pol...
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A US bill has been introduced to rename part of the street in front of Hong Kong’s representative office in Washington DC “Jimmy Lai Way.” The move aims to honour the 76-year-old media tycoon currently facing a national security trial in Hong Kong, though the city’s government urged the US not to “interfere” in its affairs when approached by HKFP for a response on Monday. According to a press release from Republican congressman Chris Smith last Thursday, the Hong Kong Economic Trade Office would be forced to state its address as “1 Jimmy Lai Way” in reference to “the renowned Hong Kong human r...
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A prosecution witness testifying at media mogul Jimmy Lai’s national security trial has said he spent 65 hours in meetings with police officers without giving official statements following his arrest under the national security law. Excluding meetings where police took written and videotaped statements, paralegal Chan Tsz-wah spent 65 hours talking to officers about his “physical and emotional state” and life in detention, a panel of three handpicked national security judges heard on Monday. Chan, who stands accused of conspiring with Lai and others to collude with foreign forces but has plead...
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Hong Kong transgender activist Henry Tse has received a new identity card, after he successfully updated its gender marker following a series of “incredibly difficult” lawsuits over a span of seven years against the city’s administration. Tse celebrated outside Immigration Tower in Wan Chai on Monday morning after obtaining a new ID card from the Immigration Department. The chairman of Transgender Equality Hong Kong described it as a “historic moment” and said the new identification document “holds great significance” for him and his supporters. See also: Trans activist Henry Tse fought for th...
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A Hong Kong judge sided with a teacher who was fired over online comments about police in 2019, ruling that the authorities’ decision to dismiss her was “oppressive.” Toffee Tam, a veteran teacher, won her case against the Civil Service Bureau at the High Court on Friday. She lodged a judicial review last October, three months after losing her job at a government secondary school. She was also stripped of her retirement benefits. The Civil Service Bureau had accused her of publishing Facebook posts between June and September 2019 that negatively affected students and tarnished the government’s...
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Hong Kong is set to raise the hourly minimum wage by 4.5 per cent to HK$41.8, local media have reported citing sources. The Minimum Wage Commission will also reportedly review the amount annually going forward, rather than every two years. The adjustment would come after years of calls from labour activists for more frequent assessments to keep pace with inflation. The city’s minimum wage is currently set at HK$40. It was most recently raised by HK$2.50 last year after remaining frozen at HK$37.50 since 2019, with Chief Executive John Lee saying he wanted to thank workers for their “important ...
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Hong Kong’s new, homegrown security law does not undermine press freedom, the city’s justice secretary has stated, amid concern that legislation against external interference and theft of state secrets may affect reporting. In an opinion piece published in Ming Pao on Monday, Secretary for Justice Paul Lam said Article 23 would not have any “unreasonable restrictions” on the work of the media. Criticism against the government was allowed “no matter how sharp or severe,” he added. “As long as the media industry adheres to the professional principles of truth-seeking, fairness, objectivity, impa...
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