The performance of local students in Hong Kong’s university entrance exams has not been affected by an influx of private candidates, authorities have said, even though the number of mainland Chinese participants has grown substantially and includes some whose eligibility has been questioned. The Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority’s defence coincides with calls from…
A woman accused of killing her mother and younger brother before attempting suicide is believed to have acted under mental stress, Hong Kong police have said, while the government is facing mounting pressure to rapidly expand its carer services. Welfare groups on Tuesday urged authorities to widen their database and related services to cover more…
Hong Kong police have arrested three women for allegedly stealing HK$1 million (US$127,387) from a pet supplies company. The force said on Tuesday that the three suspects, aged 32 to 57, were apprehended the previous day in Wong Tai Sin, Tseung Kwan O and Cheung Sha Wan following a report filed in mid-July. An investigation…
Hong Kong education authorities have suspended a second private school in their crackdown on institutions collaborating with third-party agencies to help students from outside the city qualify for subsidised university programmes. The Education Bureau said on Monday that it was “very seriously” looking into institutions that were allegedly collaborating with placement or tutoring agencies to…
Hong Kong police have launched a murder investigation after the bodies of a woman and her middle-aged son were found inside a flat in Cheung Sha Wan. Police later arrested a woman on suspicion of murder. The case came to light at around 3.50pm on Monday when authorities received a call that a man in…
Hong Kong education authorities are taking law enforcement action against a Shenzhen-based tutorial centre that planned to recruit students for its university entrance exam programmes at a local private secondary school without registering. The Education Bureau said on Thursday that it had not received an application from the tutorial centre Capture Star to operate a…
A Hong Kong court has cleared a 42-year-old coach of molesting a former player on the city’s women’s football team on two occasions in 2021 by highlighting inconsistencies in the complainant’s evidence. West Kowloon Court on Thursday found Wong Chi-wai not guilty of two counts of indecent assault and highlighted “crucial” discrepancies between the written…
A 17-year-old has died in a Hong Kong hospital after being found unconscious in his bedroom, where police also discovered the narcotic “space oil”, the Post has learned. A police source said on Monday that the teenager’s mother had attempted to wake him at their home in Cheung Sha Wan at around 8.45am on Sunday….
A 17-year-old has died in a Hong Kong hospital after being found unconscious in his bedroom, where police also discovered the narcotic “space oil”, the Post has learned. A police source said on Monday that the teenager’s mother had attempted to wake him at their home in Cheung Sha Wan at around 8.45am on Sunday….
A recent surgical blunder involving a doctor mistakenly removing a patient’s fallopian tube instead of her appendix has cast doubt on Hong Kong public hospitals’ ability to effectively implement safety protocols and allocate manpower, advocates have said. Caritas Medical Centre revealed the blunder on Friday, which began with a 48-year-old woman being admitted for appendicitis…