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A Hong Kong woman targeted in a spying case in the UK allegedly stole HK$164 million from her ex-employers in the city, a court has heard. Monica Kwong did not attend a civil proceeding lodged by her former employers HK Yearshine Investment Limited and Twt Global Limited at the High Court on Friday. The firms sought to extend an injunction order banning her from transferring the allegedly stolen money. Kwong was believed to be the woman whose UK home was allegedly surveilled and forced into on May 1 – an incident which prompted UK authorities to prosecute Bill Yuen, 63, Peter Wai, 38, and Matt...
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Hong Kong’s justice minister ended a five-day visit to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Thursday, as the city seeks to enhance ties with the two Middle Eastern countries. Secretary for Justice Paul Lam arrived in Riyadh on Sunday alongside government representatives – including those from the Department of Justice, Invest Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, and the Dubai Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office – and figures from the private legal sector. The purpose of the trip was “to promote Hong Kong’s legal and dispute resolution services,” according to a stat...
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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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When Lai Ching-te addressed reporters in the evening of January 13, minutes after his victory in Taiwan’s presidential election was announced, he struck what some analysts and media outlets called a “conciliatory” tone. The next time he steps onto an official stage – one that has been erected in front of the imposing Japanese colonial-era Presidential Office Building – will be to deliver his inaugural address as the island’s leader. Lai will succeed his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) predecessor Tsai Ing-wen on Monday. Listening carefully to his words will not only be officials in the audi...
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Canada will grant work permits to Hong Kong permanent residency applicants to allow them to stay in the country while they await a decision on their applications. “Due to a high volume of applications, processing times for this pathway have grown, and many applicants are at risk of seeing their temporary status in Canada expire before their permanent residence applications are finalized,” Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) said in a Tuesday statement. The new policy, to be launched on May 27, will grant Hong Kong applicants a new open work permit, allowing them to extend their...
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Hong Kong’s treasury chief, in a meeting with a visiting UK minister, has reaffirmed that emigrants who want to withdraw their pensions from the city’s official fund cannot use their British National (Overseas) passports as proof of identity. Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury Christopher Hui also told Anne-Marie Trevelyan, the UK minister for the Indo-Pacific, that the city’s newly-passed security legislation will create a “stable and prosperous” business environment. She expressed concern at what she called the erosion of rights in the city. Trevelyan was on a six-day visit to...
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A routine UK government report on Hong Kong that described the city as being on a “negative trajectory” has been met with condemnation from authorities over what they called “wanton slander and political attacks.” The latest six-monthly report, published on Monday, details political, judicial and constitutional developments in Hong Kong from July through December 2023. According to the UK government, the reports reflect a “commitment to the faithful implementation of the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration,” a treaty between the UK and China that guaranteed Hong Kong a high degree of autonomy ...
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The US is to enact new visa restrictions upon multiple Hong Kong officials in light of what it deems a crackdown on rights and freedoms. A Friday statement from Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that – over the past year – Beijing has “continued to take actions against Hong Kong’s promised high degree of autonomy, democratic institutions, and rights and freedoms.” It said the recently-enacted homegrown security law, Article 23, has provisions that “both be used to eliminate dissent inside Hong Kong and applied outside of its borders as part of the PRC’s [People’s Republic of China’s] ongo...
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Foreign objections have not affected Hong Kong’s new domestic security legislation, justice minister Paul Lam has said, as a lawmaker questioned whether the top US diplomat in the city had endangered national security by criticising the law. Addressing lawmakers in a panel on the new national security legislation – known locally as Article 23 – on Thursday, Lam said criticism by some Western governments of the security legislation amounted to interference in Hong Kong’s internal affairs and had breached international law. Article 23 of the Basic Law, Hong Kong’s mini-constitution, requires the...
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