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The leader of Hong Kong radical group “Dragon Slayers” received deposits of at least HK$1.2 million into his bank accounts during the 2019 protests and unrest despite only earning about HK$56,000 in the previous two years combined, a court has heard. The High Court on Monday heard evidence from expert witness Lee Tang-yiu, a police forensic accountant, as the city’s first-ever trial under an UN anti-terrorism act entered its 39th day. Seven people are standing trial in front of a jury over an alleged bomb plot targeting police officers during a lawful rally in December 2019. Six face a charge ...
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Rights activist Chow Hang-tung, in a bid to have a judge replaced in her national security trial, has argued that the judge’s involvement in an earlier case could compromise her right to a fair trial. Chow had earlier applied to have judge Anna Lai removed from the panel of judges presiding over an upcoming trial involving three former members of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China – Chow, Albert Ho and Lee Cheuk-yan – who have been charged with inciting subversion of state power under the national security law. At Monday’s High Court hearing, judge Ale...
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A power outage at a residential estate in Diamond Hill in the early hours of Sunday was caused by a voltage dip under extreme weather, the city’s power giant has said. Fung Chuen Court in Diamond Hill, home to over 600 households, experienced a power outage that lasted over an hour early on Sunday morning, local media outlets reported. Additionally, residents living in Ho Man Tin and Tsing Yi also reported unstable voltage. It was the second such power outage in the space of two weeks. On June 12, thousands of Wong Tai Sin households were plunged into darkness. Joseph Law, the managing directo...
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The Hong Kong government has ordered an investigation into a nine-hour system glitch that stopped the airport’s display screens from working on Sunday. The Airport Authority said the system failure was not due to a cyberattack and apologised for causing inconvenience to passengers. As of Sunday evening, display screens in the terminal were correctly showing flights’ departure gate information, according to local media reports. “There is no hacking activity we have identified so far. It is not a hacking activity,” said Ricky Leung, an executive director on engineering and technology at the Airp...
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October 19, 1996, was just another day for many Hongkongers, apart from a minor typhoon which brought heavy rain. Some enjoyed time with their families that Saturday, others went to the races, a few went to church. The weather that day failed to deter art lovers, with 122 separate events staged across the city. In those final months of British colonial rule, there were few boundaries between art and politics. Earlier in 1996 a play had been performed which featured Article 23 of the Basic Law, due to come into force after the Handover to China on July 1, 1997. There was also much speculation a...
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The Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) voted in a new Executive Committee (ExCom) and chair on Saturday as Channel C’s Ronson Chan stood down as head of the press group. The Wall Street Journal’s Selina Cheng took the helm at the Association’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Jordan, having secured 100 votes, with two voting against. Two candidates, the Justice Centre’s Preston Cheung and the BBC’s Danny Vincent, dropped out of the race for Executive Committee seats, though both were voted in on Saturday with Chan saying there was no mechanism for them to withdraw. Cheung told HKFP he wou...
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A man has been charged under Hong Kong’s new security legislation over the publication of “seditious” statements on social media. Au Kin-wai, 58, did not apply for bail and was taken into custody after he appeared before Magistrate Don So at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts on Friday morning. The social media posts allegedly involved the words “Revolution is no crime, to rebel is justified,” a slogan dating back to China’s Cultural Revolution, the court heard. Au, who faces one count of “knowingly publishing publications that had a seditious intention,” was not required to enter a plea. So...
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Hong Kong’s health chief has drawn criticism from lawmakers after likening women’s fertility to “soil,” saying it deteriorates over time and therefore couples in the city should give birth to children while they are young. Secretary for Health Lo Chung-mau on Thursday said women should not forget that fertility declines with age and that freezing their eggs may not help them conceive later, as he addressed a legislature debate on a motion for policies supporting assisted reproduction. “It is not just a problem with the eggs, it is also a problem with the soil. Even if you have frozen your eggs...
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The government has said that a sculpture formerly on display outside the Hong Kong Cultural Centre was being repaired after it was covered by hoarding boards and later removed, sparking censorship concerns online. The artwork by the late Taiwanese sculptor Ju Ming features 10 figures standing in a line – some in black suits, one in pink and two in yellow raincoats. Local media reported on Wednesday that it had been covered with hoarding, which bore a photo of the sculpture on in. However, the two figures in yellow raincoats in the image were obscured by a notice, informing people that a reinfo...
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The executive editor of The New York Times has criticised the “corrosive effect” of Hong Kong’s national security laws on press freedom during a journalism awards ceremony in the city, but said that local news media continued to produce impactful coverage despite facing such challenges. Speaking at the ceremony for the Society of Publishers in Asia awards on Thursday evening, Joseph Kahn said journalists in Hong Kong had to navigate “potential red lines” since Beijing imposed a security law on the city in 2020 and further security legislation was enacted in March. Kahn cited a recently-release...
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