A Beijing official overseeing Hong Kong’s national security has dismissed calls from foreign groups to pardon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, questioning the need to do so as the former media boss is not “a certain president’s son”. Sun Qingye, deputy director of Beijing’s Office for Safeguarding National Security in Hong Kong, also warned on Friday against…
A Beijing official overseeing Hong Kong’s national security has dismissed calls from foreign groups to pardon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, questioning the need to do so as the former media boss is not “a certain president’s son”. Sun Qingye, deputy director of Beijing’s Office for Safeguarding National Security in Hong Kong, also warned on Friday against…
Former Hong Kong media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has defended the publication of an opinion piece that discussed US sanctions against a former chief executive in his now-defunct tabloid newspaper after the enactment of the national security law, saying the piece was not advocating penalties. Prosecutors grilled Lai on Wednesday about the piece headlined “Will…
Former Hong Kong media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has defended the publication of an opinion piece that discussed US sanctions against a former chief executive in his now-defunct tabloid newspaper after the enactment of the national security law, saying the piece was not advocating penalties. Prosecutors grilled Lai on Wednesday about the piece headlined “Will…
Hong Kong police have arrested five people after they attempted to withdraw US$100 million from a bank in Central using fake documents. At about 5pm on Monday, police received a report from a staff member of a bank at China Building on Queen’s Road Central, where a man and a woman attempted to withdraw the…
The ex-husband of slain model Abby Choi Tin-fung was told to flee Hong Kong under the guise of holding a junk party in the middle of the sea, before being picked up by another boat, prosecutors revealed in a hearing for two suspects accused of helping him. Prosecutors also shared video recordings on Monday that…
The ex-husband of slain model Abby Choi Tin-fung was told to flee Hong Kong under the guise of holding a junk party in the middle of the sea, before being picked up by another boat, prosecutors revealed in a hearing for two suspects accused of helping him. Prosecutors also shared video recordings on Monday that…
A former branch manager of an insurer and 12 ex-insurance agents pleaded guilty on Saturday to conspiring to defraud two insurance companies of HK$52 million (US$6.68 million) by making false policy applications following an investigation by Hong Kong’s anti-corruption watchdog. Lo Yin-wa, a former branch manager of FWD Life Insurance, was named as a mastermind…