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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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Hong Kong’s Department of Justice (DoJ) has announced it will not appeal the acquittal of one of the democrats cleared of conspiring to commit subversion in the city’s largest national security case, after earlier saying it intended to challenge the judges’ ruling. The department said on Thursday that it would not challenge the acquittal of former district councillor Lee Yue-shun. Lee and barrister Lawrence Lau, were cleared last month in the high-profile trial of 16 democrats over their involvement in an unofficial primary election in July 2020. A government prosecutor said in court after the...
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Applications for a transitional housing scheme described by the government as a “breakthrough” initiative for addressing Hong Kong’s housing crisis will open later this month, authorities have said. The Housing Bureau announced on Thursday that those who have been waiting for public rental flats for at least three years will be able to apply for the Light Public Housing (LPH) scheme from June 24. As of the end of March, the average waiting time for public rental housing in Hong Kong was 5.7 years. Successful applicants will be allocated units in one of two projects under the scheme – one in Ng...
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Hong Kong has received 251 applications for its newly launched investment migration scheme, with most applicants residents of the South Pacific island nation Vanuatu and Guinea-Bissau, in West Africa. The government rolled out the New Capital Investment Entrant Scheme on March 1 to allow foreign nationals – and residents of Taiwan, Macau and mainland China “that have obtained permanent resident status in a foreign country” – to be granted a two-year visa if they invest at least HK$30 million in permissible assets in the city. Such assets include non-residential real estate or financial product...
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At least 21 Hong Kong-based companies and four people associated with them were among hundreds hit by new US sanctions aimed at cutting off Russia’s access to international materials and equipment amid Moscow’s war in Ukraine. The US Department of Treasury and Department of State on Wednesday announced sanctions on more than 300 targets in countries including Russia, China, and the United Arab Emirates, as well as individuals and firms based in Hong Kong. The US authorities said the move raised the stakes for financial institutions that continued to do business with Russia. “We are increasing ...
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The government should encourage Hongkongers to reduce food waste at source while also promoting recycling, the founder of environmental group The Green Earth has said. “By letting the public understand both ways to deal with waste, then the outcome, the effect, will be much better,” Edwin Lau of The Green Earth said on government-backed broadcaster RTHK’s Hong Kong Today programme on Thursday. Lau’s comments came after the issue of food waste recycling was raised in the Legislative Council. Responding to questions asked by lawmaker Dennis Leung on Wednesday, Secretary for Environment and Ecolo...
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