Hong Kong customs has arrested two domestic helpers suspected to have been using their employers’ homes to store illicit cigarettes and seized HK$900,000 (US$115, 400) worth of goods. Customs said its officers spotted and intercepted two women, aged 40 and 48, carrying suspicious nylon bags on Sunday at Choi Yuen Estate in Sheung Shui and…
A label scheme to identify legitimate tobacco products in Hong Kong will be fully implemented by June 2027, authorities have revealed. Responding to an inquiry by lawmaker Edmund Wong Chun-sek, Commissioner of Customs and Excise Chan Tsz-tat said his department would invite tobacco companies to join a pilot scheme later this year. “Having considered the…
Hong Kong is expected to start banning flavoured smoking products, starting with non-menthol ones, from next year at the earliest, the Post has learned. A source said on Tuesday that the government would submit an amendment bill to the legislature towards the end of the month. Authorities would also propose banning smoking within three metres…
A 41-year-old man has been jailed for six months for carrying 41,400 undeclared cigarettes with an estimated market value of HK$186,000 (US$23,940) into Hong Kong. A spokesman for the Customs and Excise Department said on Sunday the passenger was intercepted by its officers at the airport on Friday. A search of his baggage uncovered about…
Hong Kong customs officers have seized more than 6 million suspected illicit cigarettes and heated tobacco products worth over HK$29 million (US$3.7 million) in two separate operations, involving brands rarely seen in the city and mainland Chinese tourists bringing in goods from Japan. Customs said on Friday that two men were arrested in the operations,…
Customs officers have seized cannabis worth more than HK$100 million (US$12.8 million) from a fishing boat in Hong Kong’s southern waters, marking the largest drugs bust involving such a vessel in a decade. Officers on patrol spotted the boat south of Lamma Island on Tuesday morning, Wong Ngar-lun, divisional commander of customs’ marine strike and…
Customs officers have seized cannabis worth more than HK$100 million (US$12.8 million) from a fishing boat in Hong Kong’s southern waters, marking the largest drugs bust involving such a vessel in a decade. Officers on patrol spotted the boat south of Lamma Island on Tuesday morning, Wong Ngar-lun, divisional commander of customs’ marine strike and…
Hong Kong customs officers have seized about 53 million suspected black market cigarettes worth an estimated HK$240 million (US$30.9 million) in two large-scale operations targeting goods being smuggled in by sea in the past few days. A captain and six crew members aged between 28 and 51 were arrested in connection with one of the…
Hong Kong customs officers have rounded up 149 residents, including three students, in a crackdown on sales of untaxed cigarettes at public housing estates, leading to the seizure of HK$5.6 million (US$718,000) worth of contraband goods. The Post learned on Wednesday that most of the arrestees were suspected buyers of illegal tobacco products through phone…