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Hong Kong has logged fewer phone scam cases in the first quarter of 2024 but losses soared to HK$789 million, with mainland Chinese students in the city being increasingly targeted by swindlers, police have said. The force said they recorded 474 phone scam cases in the first three months of this year – a 21 per cent drop year-on-year, according to local media reports on Monday. But losses almost quadrupled, with cases of scammers pretending to be officials accounting for HK$764 million, or 97 per cent, of the amount lost in the period. More mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong were conned by...
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A judge presiding over Jimmy Lai’s national security case has warned the prosecution not to make unfounded allegations against the media mogul’s lawyers, after a prosecutor suggested that the defence had deliberately withheld questions related to Apple Daily staff’s messaging records. The judges on Monday handled an application from the defence to re-summon Cheung Kim-hung, the former CEO of Apple Daily’s parent company Next Digital, to the witness stand. Last week, Lai’s barrister Robert Pang said the defence wished to ask Cheung about messages on Slack, a workplace messaging app that Apple D...
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The government is “anxious” to see Google’s response to its request to remove a protest song – Glory to Hong Kong – from their platforms, Secretary for Justice Paul Lam has said. Lam, talking on Commercial Radio on Sunday, said the government had informed Google about an injunction order, after a court banned people from “broadcasting, performing, printing, publishing, selling, offering for sale, distributing, disseminating, displaying or reproducing” the song with seditious intent. The Court of Appeal sided with the government in its attempt to ban protest song Glory to Hong Kong last Wednesd...
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Hong Kong’s weightlifting and powerlifting body has apologised after its chair referred to competitor “countries” at an event that included Taiwan and Hong Kong. It comes after the government urged an in-depth investigation on Friday owing to the “suspected violation” of the one-China principle. Last Monday, the Hong Kong, China Weightlifting and Powerlifting Association chair Josephine Ip told crowds at the Asian Equipped Powerlifting Championship and Asian University Cup opening ceremony that “lifters and officials from 13 countries” were taking part. “The statement is grossly inconsistent w...
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The addition of eight Chinese cities to Hong Kong’s solo travel scheme will be “a timely boost” for the hotel and retail sectors, a veteran industry representative has said. The move by Beijing will allow more citizens to visit the city without joining a group tour. On Saturday, Beijing announced the individual visit scheme will cover several remote cities in China, including Urumqi in Xinjiang, Lhasa in Tibet, and Hohhot in Inner Mongolia. Other newly-added cities include Taiyuan, Harbin, Lanzhou, Xining, and Yinchuan – all capitals of their respective provinces. From May 27, residents from t...
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Hong Kong authorities intend to increase the number of government-appointed members in a body that reviews social workers’ licenses, local media have reported. The potential move came after the city’s social welfare minister said changes were needed to “better protect national security,” saying that people who have “committed serious crimes” have been approved to become social workers. Authorities were planning to introduce legislation to restructure the Social Workers Registration Board, Ming Pao reported on Sunday. The 15-member board is tasked with regulating the city’s social workers. The ...
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Part of HKFP’s four-part zine scene series. On the desk of Hong Kong designer Charis Poon were zines of various shapes and sizes. Among them was a folded user manual designed to resemble the popular Ricoh Auto Half camera, providing a step-by-step guide to operating a film camera. Another zine took the form of a pocket tissue pack crafted from parchment paper, containing sheets of paper that detailed the author’s allergies. These zines were not created by the 32-year-old artist herself but by the students she taught at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) School of Design. Poon had ass...
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A US law which authorises sanctions against mainland Chinese and Hong Kong officials for perceived human rights violations could be “highly subjective,” the national security trial of Jimmy Lai has heard. The prosecution on Friday presented reports written by Wang Guiguo, the chair professor of Chinese and comparative law at the City University of Hong Kong. Wang was invited to give his views on US laws relating to Hong Kong that arose in the aftermath of the anti-extradition protests in 2019. During the unrest that year, activists had called on the US to enact legislation that would punish Ho...
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The top US diplomat in Hong Kong has called for the release of media mogul Jimmy Lai and other detained activists, sparking a complaint from Beijing’s foreign ministry of interference in China’s internal affairs. US Consul General Gregory May made “unfounded comments” on Hong Kong’s judicial cases in an online seminar hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Commissioner’s Office of China’s Foreign Ministry in Hong Kong said in a statement on Thursday. The office said it “strongly opposed and condemned” May’s remarks, which it described as openly supporting and embolde...
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Personal details of more than 8,000 students at a private Hong Kong college have been stolen and reportedly posted on the dark web, the latest in a spate of cyberattacks in the city which have sparked calls for tighter safeguards. The Hong Kong College of Technology – which offers a government-subsidised Higher Diploma in Cybersecurity – said on Thursday it suffered a ransomware attack by hackers in late February, in which many internal documents were stolen and encrypted. “This attack was not a typical one but rather a highly targeted and unusual cyber attack. HKCT strongly condemns any form ...
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