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Horses break from the stalls during one of the Longines Hong Kong International Races | HKJC All 12 Hong Kong Group 1 contests during the 2024/2025 season will be part of World Pool, the Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) announced on Thursday. This is the first time races in Hong Kong have been incorporated into…
Two warships from the People’s Liberation Army Navy fleet, including its largest amphibious assault vessel, arrived in Hong Kong on Thursday for a five-day visit. Two government fireboats gave the vessels – the destroyer Changsha and assault ship Hainan – a water salute in the morning as they entered Victoria Harbour through the East Lamma…
Hong Kong police have arrested 65 people including several Japanese sex workers and porn stars in an joint operation with authorities in Singapore, Japan, and Macau against a cross-border vice syndicate. Hong Kong Police Force. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. The force said on Thursday that five men and 60 women, aged 17 to 64, had been…
Miru 21st November 2024 – (Hong Kong) In a coordinated crackdown involving police forces from Hong Kong, Macao, Japan, and Singapore, 65 individuals were arrested as part of a sweeping operation targeting cross-border prostitution rings. Among those detained was a popular Japanese adult video (AV) actress, caught in the extensive sting dubbed ‘Operation Lawforce’. The…
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This article is an on-site version of our Inside Politics newsletter. Subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every weekday. If you’re not a subscriber, you can still receive the newsletter free for 30 days Good morning. Stephen here. John Prescott, deputy prime minister of the UK from 1997 to 2007, has…
Welcome to Hong Kong Edition. Subscribe here if you like this free newsletter. Or email us with any feedback. This week, a big Wall Street gathering in Hong Kong coincided with a couple of geopolitically sensitive trials. So we looked into what it all means. As to the conference, who could forget the Goldman Stanley…
HONG KONG — Former publisher Jimmy Lai denied that he asked a colleague to draft a list of potential sanction targets in his second day of testimony Thursday at his landmark national security trial in Hong Kong. The 77-year-old founder of the now-shuttered Apple Daily pro-democracy newspaper is being tried on charges of colluding with…
The big arts event in Hong Kong this weekend is Hong Kong-born conductor Elim Chan’s guest appearance with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra this Friday and Saturday. There are also many art exhibitions taking place, including previews of upcoming auctions that do not charge for entry, that are worth checking out this weekend. 1. Hong…
Jimmy Lai was the chief of the now-defunct Hong Kong tabloid Apple Daily. Now 77, he’s facing a life sentence in a national security trial in Hong Kong. He was arrested in August 2020 after the intense anti-China government protests of 2019. Jimmy Lai, once one of Hong Kong’s most outspoken media tycoons, has been…