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The arrangement concerning the office of former chief executive Carrie Lam will be reviewed when the lease expires next year, the Hong Kong government has said, after a lawmaker raised questions about its cost and location. The government revealed in early April that it spent HK$9.17 million on rent, salaries and other expenses to fund Lam’s office in Grade A Pacific Place in Admiralty in 2023, 32 per cent more than in the previous year. Of that amount, HK$5.67 million was spent on “rent and related expenses, ” which was HK$472,500 per month. In response to questions about these costs from pro...
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The Hong Kong government will not comment on the death of a British man accused of spying for the city, finance chief Paul Chan has said, hours after the Briton was confirmed dead in the UK. Former Royal Marine and security contractor Matthew Trickett, one of three men involved in a high-profile UK national security case, was found in Maidenhead’s Grenfell Park on Sunday, a week after he was granted bail. Police officers provided emergency treatment but Trickett was pronounced dead at the scene. Trickett was arrested earlier this month alongside Bill Yuen and Peter Wai, and charged with assist...
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Matthew Trickett, one of three men involved in a high-profile UK national security case, has been found dead in a park in the UK. Responding to a report from a member of the public, police officers found a man in Grenfell Park, in Maidenhead, on Sunday, Thames Valley Police said in a statement released on Tuesday. They provided emergency treatment but the man was pronounced dead at the scene. Police confirmed the man had been formally identified as Matthew Trickett, 37, from Maidenhead. “An investigation is ongoing into the death, which is currently being treated as unexplained,” the police sa...
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The Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) Lai Ching-te was sworn in as Taiwan’s new leader on Monday, after Beijing branded him a “dangerous separatist.” Lai faces a full inbox, with political gridlock at home, sabre-rattling from Beijing, and dwindling allies abroad. HKFP rounds up photography from the inauguration day in Taipei. In Lai’s first speech as the island’s president, delivered just after 11 am, Lai said Taiwan would continue to work with the world’s democracies to “combat disinformation, strengthen democratic resilience, address challenges and allow Taiwan to become the MVP [Most Va...
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Hong Kong’s education authorities have urged four schools to bolster their national security education curricula, including two institutions for special needs students. The government reports have been prepared by the Education Bureau under the School Development and Accountability (SDA) framework since the 2003-2004 school year. In all, reports on ten schools were published. The bureau singled out Tsuen Wan Government Primary School as one of the schools that needed to step up its efforts to develop national security education. “The school needs to expedite the development of various curricul...
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Residents of Taipei largely went about their commutes as normal on Monday morning, aside from those who found their routes blocked by road closures around the Presidential Office Building, where the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) Lai Ching-te was being sworn in as the island’s next leader. Chen Shih-eu, 32, however, was not heading to work. Instead, she was standing on the side of the road outside the nearby 228 Peace Memorial Park watching a livestream of Lai’s inauguration on her phone. “I think it’s a very important moment for Taiwanese, especially for our young generation,” she told ...
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Government plans to overhaul the Social Workers Registration Board reflect a distrustful attitude to social workers, a union has said, claiming that authorities’ undervalue the sector. The Hong Kong Social Workers’ General Union, established in 1980, said on Facebook on Sunday that – while it expected the licensing body would be revamped – it was surprised by the speed of the government’s move, which left little space for discussion or consultation. The city’s welfare chief Chris Sun wrote on May 10 on Facebook that the licensing body was failing to bar those convicted of national security off...
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Lawyers for Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai have said they will argue the tycoon has no case to answer in his national security trial, in which he faces three conspiracy charges involving foreign collusion and sedition. Senior Counsel Robert Pang, representing Lai, said on Monday that the defence would contend that the prosecution’s evidence was insufficient to support the tycoon’s conviction. He asked the court for time to prepare a “no case to answer” written submission. Pang raised the matter before the prosecution began playing Lai’s past interviews with overseas media outlets and a talk s...
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Deputy Secretary for Security Apollonia Liu will head up the government’s PR department from Friday, replacing Fletch Chan as the Information Services Department (ISD) chief. Liu does not have a background in media, communications or PR. She has been serving as a deputy security chief since 2018, following a seven-year stint as the deputy director of administration and development at the Department of Justice. She joined the Administrative Service in August 1990, rising through the ranks and becoming an Administrative Officer in April 1990, according to a government press release on Friday. Du...
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Hong Kong’s environmental authorities have conditionally approved an ecological report into a planned technology hub near the city’s border with mainland China, giving the project the go ahead despite green groups’ concerns. Director of Environmental Protection Samuel Chui on Friday defended the environmental impact assessment report for the San Tin Technopole project as “scientific, professional and comprehensive,” adding that the Environmental Protection Department (EPD) had proposed additional ecological mitigation measures on top of the eight suggested in the report. One of the main measur...
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