Hong Kong authorities pledged to seriously follow up on complaints of forced removal of tenants from subdivided flats, as a two-month consultation on a regulatory regime to wipe out poor quality housing started on Monday. The government earlier proposed drafting new laws that would only allow registered subdivided flats – known as “basic housing units”…
Four Hong Kong opposition figures who were jailed for more than six years after being found guilty of subversion in the city’s biggest national security trial have become the first batch to appeal against their convictions and sentences. Activist Owen Chow Ka-shing, former Democratic Party lawmaker Helena Wong Pik-wan, former district councillor Clarisse Yeung Suet-ying…
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s thwarted attempt to install Matt Gaetz as attorney general is the first major failure of Trump’s promised autocracy. It sends a message that just as in his first term, his antidemocratic excesses—as we document at State Democracy Defenders Fund in our American Autocracy Threat Tracker—can and will be checked. And although it is early…
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The central government’s liaison office in Hong Kong has voiced its “firm support” for the jailing of 45 opposition figures for trying to overthrow the government and has condemned the US and other countries for “attacks” against the city’s judicial system. The comments came two days after a court sentenced the opposition figures for conspiring…
Hong Kong labour authorities are considering appealing against “light” penalties imposed on contractors involved in industrial accidents, an official has said after four recent fatal incidents occurred within a week. Ho Kai-ming, undersecretary for labour and welfare, said on Wednesday the government was saddened by the string of fatal cases, stressing investigations were under way…
The teaching of Hong Kong’s rule of law is “inseparable” from cultivating patriotism, the city’s justice minister has said as he pledged to press on with education to instil people’s love for the country. Secretary for Justice Paul Lam Ting-kwok stressed on Saturday the importance of integrating education with building patriotism at a seminar marking…
Hong Kong authorities have sped up the investigation and prosecution of more than 200 serious child abuse cases over the past two years under efforts by an interdepartmental task force that made earlier intervention by government lawyers easier. Among the cases examined by the Vulnerable Victims and Child Protection Task Force was a high-profile one…
Authorities charged Robert Westbrook on Friday with multiple counts of fraud after evidence showed he allegedly hacked the emails of senior executives from at least five U.S.-based companies and read their inboxes. Westbrook, 39, is accused of then trading ahead of the companies’ earnings results, reaping millions in illicit profits. According to a U.S. district…
Shares of Super Micro Computer (SMCI) are rebounding in Friday’s session after initially plummeting on news of a Department of Justice probe into alleged accounting violations, as reported by The Wall Street Journal. Defiance ETFs CEO & CIO Sylvia Jablonski joins Catalysts to discuss why the stock remains attractive despite these allegations. Jablonski acknowledges the…