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Five men have been rearrested in connection with rioting at a Hong Kong university campus almost five years ago, at the height of the demonstrations that erupted in 2019. The Organised Crime and Triad Bureau on Wednesday evening rearrested five men aged 21 to 31 alleged to have been involved in violent clashes at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in November 2019, a statement issued the same day said. “After following up the case and seeking further legal advice, the police today re-arrested the five men and charged them with one count of rioting, [including] a 24-year-old man who was also ...
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Hong Kong’s town planning authorities should not “hastily approve” a draft zoning plan for a proposed tech hub, green groups have said, warning that the proposal may violate at least five ecological conservation guidelines in mainland China. The San Tin Technopole, which was conditionally approved by the city’s environmental authorities last month, is seen as the centrepiece of the proposed Northern Metropolis. The large-scale project was announced in 2021 and aims to integrate the development of existing new towns in Yuen Long, Tin Shui Wai, Fanling and Sheung Shui and develop other rural are...
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A Hong Kong court has rejected claims that legal scholar Benny Tai’s role in a subversion scheme was limited after Beijing imposed a national security law, as mitigation hearings in the city’s largest case against 47 pro-democracy figures continued. The former law professor, 59, has pleaded guilty to taking part in a “conspiracy to subvert state power” over his role in an unofficial primary election in July 2020 to shortlist opposition candidates in a bid to win a majority in the city’s legislature. He could be jailed for life. The court last month found the primary election part of a larger s...
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Two schools have been singled out by Hong Kong’s Education Bureau after their students were said to have sung the national anthem too softly. The Hong Kong and Macau Lutheran Church Primary School in Hang Hau began implementing school-wide patriotic education this academic year, an inspection report for the school read. But while the flag-raising ceremony was “solemn” and the students leading it were “skilled,” the singing of the anthem was weak. At the Yan Chai Hospital Lim Por Yen Secondary School in Tsuen Wan, students were said to have “actively [taken] part in patriotic activities” such a...
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Attracting “mega events” to boost Hong Kong’s economy is akin to chasing “good” women, Chief Executive John Lee has said. In an interview with local newspaper Sing Tao published on Wednesday, Lee responded to questions about the opening of the Kai Tak Sports Park next year. The venue has been touted by the government as a “state-of-the-art multipurpose sports complex,” featuring a main stadium that can seat 50,000 people. Lee said the government had tried to attract overseas performers to the venue, but that the administration faced competition. “It’s like how I used to chase girls. For the go...
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Three cadet pilots have been dismissed from a training programme for Hong Kong’s flagship carrier Cathay Pacificafter damage sustained by planes during training went unreported at a US pilot school. Cathay announced on Wednesday in a statement that three cadet pilots had been “removed” from its pilot training programme over their non-compliance with incident reporting requirements at AeroGuard Flight Training Center in Arizona, in the US. The decision was reached after investigations conducted by the pilot school and Cathay, the statement read. “A just and open reporting culture is at the cent...
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Exhibitors at Hong Kong’s upcoming annual book fair should comply with the Beijing-imposed national security law and the city’s homegrown security law, the event’s organiser has said. The fair, hosted by statutory body the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), will be held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre from July 17 until July 23. It is the first book fair to be held since the domestic security law, known colloquially as Article 23, came into effect in March. Sophia Chong, the deputy executive director of the HKTDC, said during a media preview for the fair on Tuesday ...
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Hong Kong has been downgraded to a “watch list” over its response to human trafficking, with the US government saying that security laws enacted in the city in 2020 and in March had restricted the ability of NGOs to engage with officials to combat trafficking. The “2024 Trafficking in Persons Report: Hong Kong,” which was released by the US Department of State on Monday, prompted swift objections from the city’s government in a lengthy statement issued in the early hours of Tuesday. “We vehemently oppose and firmly reject the unfounded and false remarks in the Report against the situation in H...
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Former Hong Kong law professor Benny Tai, a key figure in a landmark national security case involving 47 democrats, should receive a two-year jail sentence for taking part in a conspiracy to commit subversion, his lawyer has argued as the mitigation hearings of those who pleaded guilty or were convicted began. The former University of Hong Kong (HKU) professor had an “honest but mistaken” belief that his plan of securing majority control in the legislature was legal, Senior Counsel Stewart Wong told a panel of three handpicked national security judges on Tuesday. At the centre of the case is a...
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A 29-year-old man has been charged with three counts of sedition under Hong Kong’s new security law over graffiti left on the back of bus seats. The man was arrested in Tseung Kwan O by police officers from the national security department on Sunday for “doing with a seditious intention an act or acts that had a seditious intention,” according to a police statement on Tuesday. He also faces two counts of “destroying or damaging property.” Police said he was suspected of “writing words with seditious intention on multiple occasions on the back of bus seats on different public buses in March and...
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