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The Hong Kong government should improve accountability and ensure computer security measures are put in place to protect citizens’ privacy, a lawmaker has said after two more departments reported data breach incidents last week. It was “not ideal” that government departments and statutory bodies often “procrastinated” and reported data breach incidents to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) after “a certain period of time,” legislator Elizabeth Quat of the pro-Beijing DAB party said on Monday. Citizens’ data at riskThe remarks from Quat, who chairs the Panel on Info...
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HKFP’s explanatory reporting on the 2023 District Council “patriots only” election has been nominated for a prestigious press award by the The Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA). The explainers are competing for a 2024 SOPA Award in the Excellence in Explanatory Reporting: Regional category. The three nominees are: Hong Kong Free Press, Hong Kong’s first “patriots-only” District Council election.China Global South Project, Nickel Déjà vu: Land Grabbing Smears China-backed Quartz Downstreaming Project.Eco-Business, Decoding sustainable finance.Established in 1999, the SOPA Awards recognise ed...
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Police have arrested one taxi driver for overcharging and issued 21 tickets for other violations including failing to using a fare indicator over the “golden week” holiday. The prosecutions were made in Tsim Sha Tsui by officers from the West Kowloon Regional Traffic Department and the Yau Tsim Police District under an operation to combat overcharging and refusing passengers, according to a police statement issued Sunday night. “The Police have reiterated that the operation is still on-going and will continue to take decisive enforcement action against the taxi offences to protect the interest...
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Hong Kong authorities have said a road in Sai Kung that was partially closed due to a landslide on Saturday should reopen by Monday morning, after the city saw its first red rainstorm of the year. After inspecting an affected section of Clear Water Bay Road, Secretary for Transport and Logistics Lam Sai-hung said that workers were carrying out “temporary consolidation work” by spraying concrete onto the slope. “Our contractor and the Highways Department will keep monitoring the situation here,” Lam told reporters. “We’ll also liaise with the observatory to see if the weather will worsen, and w...
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In the 46th month since Beijing imposed a national security law on Hong Kong, the city held a raft of events to mark National Security Education Day. China’s top man on Hong Kong affairs urged it to prioritise economic development after the passage of a second security law. City officials continued to defend the homegrown security law – known locally as Article 23 – saying it did not damage the city’s rule of law and press freedom. They rebutted criticism from the US and European Union as “smears” and “hypocrisy with double standards.” The national security trial of pro-democracy media mogul J...
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The government has urged employers of outdoor workers to develop their own rules to prevent heatstroke after rolling out revisions to an official warning system that was slammed as ineffective and disruptive when introduced last year. The adjustments were made after stakeholders aired views to the Labour Department, Deputy Commissioner for Occupational Safety and Health Vincent Fung told RTHK on Friday. The pilot scheme was not originally due for review for two years. The Labour Department launched the revisions on Thursday to minimise situations in which a heat warning is cancelled and then r...
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Dear readers, On International Press Freedom Day, the HKFP team remains committed to reporting, on-the-ground, in one of the world’s most challenging, and rapidly-changing media environments. Nevertheless, our newsroom is facing a funding situation in 2024 whereby our expansion to nine team members coincided with a decline in regular Patron backers, resulting in two years of record losses. During this time, we’ve widened coverage of key court cases, deepened original reporting, launched a podcast, hired our first photographer, won several awards, and gained the Trust Project hallmark. HKFP now...
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Plans to introduce a problem-plagued waste charging scheme in Hong Kong will be reviewed by the end of May after a two-month pilot scheme and a report will be submitted to legislators, the government has announced. In response to a query from Ming Pao, the Environmental Protection Department said on Thursday the pilot scheme which started on April 1 would continue for two months, and authorities would submit a report to the Legislative Council on May 27. Authorities in January postponed full implementation of the waste charging scheme from April 1 to August 1, citing “public concerns”. Instead...
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Hong Kong’s tax revenue dropped by HK$18.2 billion in the last financial year, the second straight year of decline, amid slumps on the stock exchange and in the property market. The Inland Revenue Department (IRD) announced on Thursday that it had collected a provisional sum of HK$342 billion in tax revenue in 2023-24, five per cent less than the HK$360.2 billion in 2022-23. In the 2021-22 financial year, authorities collected HK$378.5 billion. Authorities sent out 2.44 million individual tax return forms this year, or 40,000 more than the previous year. Commissioner of Inland Revenue Tam Tai-...
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A prosecution witness in the national security trial of Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai has denied defence allegations that he had fabricated his court evidence in exchange for a shorter jail term after earlier lying to police. Paralegal Chan Tsz-wah on Friday insisted he was telling the truth after the defence challenged his credibility as a witness and accused him of fabricating his testimony in order to favourably influence his own sentencing, which is expected after the trial. As the trial entered the 69th day, defence lawyer Marc Corlett pointed to 14 statements or topics extracted from C...
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