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The public housing unit occupied by the mother of wanted self-exiled activist Nathan Law has been reclaimed by the Hong Kong government. Citing sources, local media outlets reported on Sunday that Law’s mother had been evicted from the subsidised housing unit she rented in Yat Tung estate. Responding to enquiries from HKFP, the Housing Department confirmed on Monday that the unit had been surrendered in June. “According to the records, the unit had earlier fallen into rent arrears, violating the tenancy agreement,” the department said in an emailed Chinese response. “Therefore, our department ...
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Two people have been arrested in connection with three cases of alleged baggage theft at Hong Kong International Airport. The stolen goods, including luxury clothing and jewellery pieces, were valued at more than HK$1.1 million. Hong Kong police arrested one man and one woman, both aged 23, on Saturday on suspicion of stealing suitcases from the baggage claim hall of the city’s airport earlier this month. Police investigation found that the pair had allegedly committed a similar theft back in February. Acting chief inspector Leung Hiu-man said on Monday that the Force had launched an investiga...
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Travellers using Hong Kong’s airport have been advised to check the latest flight information amid possible delays after a cargo plane burst a tyre when making an emergency return on Monday morning, leaving one of the airport’s two runways out of operation. “At about 7.30 am, a cargo plane that had to make an emergency return burst a tyre upon landing. The plane is now on the north runway, which is expected to be out of service for the next few hours,” an spokesperson from the Airport Authority said in a Chinese statement on Monday morning. “The airport will operate on a single runway and flig...
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The Hong Kong police are investigating the death of an officer, who was believed to have taken his own life using his service pistol at a marine division base on Sunday, the force have said. On Sunday at around 3.20 pm, police found a 51-year-old officer injured inside a changing room at the Marine Harbour Division Base in Sai Wan Ho, a spokesperson for the police said. The officer had a gunshot wound to his head and was certified dead at the scene, the spokesperson said. “A service pistol was found next to the deceased,” the spokesperson added. “Upon initial investigation, it is believed that...
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Rush hour commuters were evacuated from an Island Line MTR train on Monday morning after a passenger spotted a 40cm-long snake scurrying around the carriage. The incident, at 7:37am, led to all passengers being asked to leave the train at Admiralty station and transfer to the next service, Sing Tao reported. Train services were not affected, as a snake catcher was summoned by staff. Last Thursday, a similar serpentine drama unfolded at the MCL Cinema at Sha Tin’s New Town Plaza. HK01 reported that a 16-year-old boy’s 30cm-long pet python went missing in the auditorium. The MX4D Movie Town scre...
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Since its establishment in 1997, Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal (CFA) has sporadically extended invitations to judges from other common law jurisdictions to join its appeal panel. This practice has been regarded as testament to the international community’s trust in the city’s judicial system, which has helped Hong Kong maintain its reputation and credibility as a global financial and business hub. Nevertheless, in recent years, the engagement of overseas judges has become a subject of controversy over a series of resignations following the implementation of a Beijing-imposed national secur...
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A Hong Kong man was denied bail under the city’s new domestic security law after he allegedly wore a t-shirt with a banned protest slogan and a yellow mask. Defendant Chu Kai-pong, 27, was brought to the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts on Friday to face one count of “doing with a seditious intention an act or acts that had a seditious intention.” He was also charged with failing to show his proof of identity to the police and loitering with intent. Hatred and contemptAccording to the charge sheet, Chu was intercepted by the police on Wednesday near Shek Mun MTR station. He was said to have wo...
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The Hong Kong police green-lit every public event application last year, but the leader of one of the city’s last remaining pro-democracy groups has said the 100 per cent approval rate fails to reflect the public’s right to peaceful assembly. Chan Po-ying, chair of the League of Social Democrats (LSD), told HKFP on Friday that the figure did not show “the full picture.” Her comments came after Secretary for Security Chris Tang said on Wednesday that police received 341 applications for public events last year, all of which were approved. According to Public Order Ordinance, those holding a pub...
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Two of Beijing’s state offices in Hong Kong have hit back at a British judge who said the city was turning into a “totalitarian state” after resigning from the Court of Final Appeal. Beijing’s liaison office and national security office in Hong Kong on Thursday issued two separate statements in response to comments made by Jonathan Sumption, who resigned as a non-permanent overseas judge from the Court of Final Appeal last week, calling him a “pawn” of foreign interference. After resigning, Sumption wrote an op-ed in Financial Times in which he said the city’s rule of law was in “grave danger”...
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The personal data of over 20,000 Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) staff and students has been stolen after a server at one of the institution’s schools was hacked, the latest in a string of large-scale data breaches in the city. the server of an online learning system used by CUHK’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies (CUSCS) was hacked on June 3, the school announced in a statement on Thursday. A total of 20,780 people, including staff, part-time teachers, students, graduates and other visitors, were victims of the data breach. While their names and email addresses were stolen...
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