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A 28-year-old Hong Kong man who donated HK$800,000 to a children’s cancer fund while he was himself battling terminal cancer has died, his family announced on Thursday. Gabriel Yeung, who was diagnosed with stomach and liver cancer last year, announced his donation to the Children’s Cancer Foundation Hong Kong last October. “I would like to leave what I can’t take away to the children who are bravely fighting against cancer,” Yeung said in a Facebook post last year. “Because they are supposed to be enjoying a carefree childhood, but they have to face the hardship of going through cancer, that’...
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Hong Kong’s legislature has passed a bill that will raise the maximum penalty for feeding wild animals to a HK$100,000 fine and imprisonment for one year and expanded the ban to cover feral pigeons. The new law will take effect on August 1. The new penalty would better reflect the adverse impact and serious consequences of illegal feeding on wildlife, ecology and the public, Secretary for Environment and Ecology Tse Chin-wan told lawmakers on Wednesday, when the Wild Animals Protection (Amendment) Bill 2023 was tabled for approval. Under the newly passed bill, the city’s ban on feeding wild an...
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The arrangement concerning the office of former chief executive Carrie Lam will be reviewed when the lease expires next year, the Hong Kong government has said, after a lawmaker raised questions about its cost and location. The government revealed in early April that it spent HK$9.17 million on rent, salaries and other expenses to fund Lam’s office in Grade A Pacific Place in Admiralty in 2023, 32 per cent more than in the previous year. Of that amount, HK$5.67 million was spent on “rent and related expenses, ” which was HK$472,500 per month. In response to questions about these costs from pro...
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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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Hong Kong police have arrested 100 suspects linked to scams with losses totalling HK$180 million as part of a crackdown on fraud and money laundering. Sham Shui Po district police said on Wednesday they had arrested 75 men and 25 women, aged 17 to 75, in a two-week operation between May 6 and May 20. The suspects were linked to 82 cases of deception and money laundering involving 295 victims. The biggest single loss was HK$23.7 million, police said. The cases involved fraudulent activities related to investment, online job-seeking, online dating, e-commerce, and phone scam, they added. Chief I...
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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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Hong Kong expects to bring in some HK$4.3 billion to the local economy from “mega events” this year, the city’s deputy finance chief has said as he announced 106 events for the latter half of the year. In all, this year’s 210 events are expected to attract some 1.7 million visitors and HK$7.2 billion in spending, which would amount to some HK$4.3 billion in economic value to the economy, deputy financial secretary Michael Wong said at a press conference on Tuesday. Of the 106 “mega events” for the second half of the year announced on Tuesday, 15 are new to the city, including the “Kungfu x Dan...
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A 15-year-old charged with property damage after vandalising the grave of Beyond’s late singer Wong Ka-kui has been denied bail. The student was denied bail and detained at the Tuen Mun Children and Juvenile Home. Another defendant, a 23-year-old man, was released on HK$5,000 bail and the condition that he does not set foot into the graveyard, The Witness reported. Police said they received a report from staff at the Tseung Kwan O Chinese Permanent Cemetery at around 11.30 am Sunday that two men were suspected of damaging, graffitiing, and pouring liquid over a gravestone at the cemetery. Poli...
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Hong Kong leader John Lee has urged residents not to conduct undercover operations targeting ride-sharing services, after videos went viral of people calling the police on their Uber drivers. Addressing reporters at a weekly press conference on Tuesday, Lee said the public should leave law enforcement to officers, who have the necessary training and legal knowledge to deal with any “sudden situations.” “Those who are untrained and have limited legal knowledge should not do this. Otherwise, you could run afoul of the law,” he said, speaking in Cantonese. See also: Taxi group head denounces unde...
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A Hong Kong school has seen its computer system invaded by hackers, causing the personal data of over 600 people to be leaked. It is the latest known cyberattack targeting local groups and institutions in recent months. Hong Kong Institute of Contemporary Culture Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity (HKICC), a liberal arts secondary school, said in a statement last Saturday that the school discovered a ransomware attack on its servers last Monday. Data amounting to eight terabytes was encrypted and stolen. The data involved the personal information of current students and their families, graduate...
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