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Hong Kong’s government has revealed that it spent HK$9.17 million on rent, salaries and other expenses to fund former leader Carrie Lam’s office last year, a figure 32 per cent higher than the previous year. Authorities set up an office for Lam after she finished her chief executive term in 2022, in line with practices for past leaders. The offices are intended for ex-chief executives to conduct activities such as receiving dignitaries and giving media interviews. Traditionally, the government sets up offices for Hong Kong’s chief executives following the completion of their terms at the Offic...
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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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Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee’s popularity has sunk to a record low since assuming office after running unopposed for the leadership role, a poll has found. According to the findings of a survey conducted by the Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute (PORI) released on Tuesday, Lee’s popularity rating stood at 47.4 per cent. According to PORI’s polling, Lee’s popularity has fluctuated since becoming the city’s leader in July 2022, starting at 53.8 per cent in the days after he took office and peaking at 59.2 in January 2023. The pollster surveyed 667 Hong Kong residents over four day...
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Hong Kong will push forward with a plan to create artificial islands off Lantau Island despite a lagging timetable, finance chief Paul Chan has said. Chan told reporters on Wednesday afternoon – after delivering his budget address for the 2024-25 fiscal year – that reclamation for the Kau Yi Chau Artificial Islands project, which was originally slated to begin in 2025, would be delayed by “a little.” Its development would also “lag behind” that of the Northern Metropolis – another project intended to provide more than tens of thousands of homes and jobs by integrating development projects in t...
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Regular readers will recall that a couple of months ago I complained that the director of audit had devoted the resources of his department to some nit-picking criticisms of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). I thought there was a danger that this might look like a contribution to the general barrage of abuse from government-friendly quarters which had led to the departure of the university’s vice chancellor. However it appears from the director’s annual report that this is not what is going on at all. What is going on is a violation not of the separation of powers but of an even olde...
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