Hong Kong’s anti-corruption watchdog has charged three people, including two private care home operators, over an alleged HK$1.3 million (US$166,700) fraud involving an elderly care voucher scheme. The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) said on Thursday that the trio allegedly inflated service records under the Social Welfare Department’s Community Care Service Voucher Scheme for the…
An Australian man has been remanded in custody and hit with fresh charges in Hong Kong for fleeing restaurants without paying more than HK$2,000 (US$255) in bills, just a day after being fined for similar offences. Samuel Anthony Monkivitch, 50, was detained soon after pleading guilty at Eastern Court on Thursday to three charges –…
A Hong Kong man arrested on suspicion of threatening to bomb Admiralty MTR station has been released on bail. Eastern Law Courts Building. Photo: Almond Li/HKFP. The 31-year-old man, surnamed Chung, appeared at Eastern Magistrates’ Courts on Monday after his arrest on Friday, local media reported. He was charged with allegedly spreading false information about…
A homeowner in Redhill Peninsula has been fined HK$150,000 (US$19,230) after pleading guilty to carrying out unauthorised building works, marking the 12th conviction following Hong Kong authorities’ crackdown on illegal construction. The owner of a detached home in the private housing estate on Hong Kong Island admitted at Eastern Court on Friday that he knowingly…
Another homeowner in Redhill Peninsula has been found guilty of carrying out unauthorised building works and fined HK$150,000 (US$19,230), marking the 12th conviction after Hong Kong authorities’ crackdown on illegal construction. The owner of a detached home in the private housing estate on Hong Kong Island pleaded guilty at Eastern Court on Friday to knowingly…
A former top executive of a Hong Kong-listed company surrendered to the city’s anti-corruption agency on Tuesday after more than a decade on the run. Li Songxiao, the former chairman of Neo-China Group (Holdings), now known as Shanghai Industrial Urban Development Group (SIUD), handed himself over to the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) over his…
A former top executive of a Hong Kong-listed company surrendered to the city’s anti-corruption agency on Tuesday after more than a decade on the run. Li Songxiao, the former chairman of Neo-China Group (Holdings), now known as Shanghai Industrial Urban Development Group (SIUD), handed himself over to the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) over his…