A former Hong Kong police officer is facing 30 counts of bribery and fraud after he was previously charged by the city’s anti-corruption agency with accepting an unauthorised loan from someone linked to an investigation. Magistrate Frances Leung Nga-yan on Friday approved an application by prosecutors to charge 50-year-old Mak Kwok-hung with the extra counts…
United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday paused steep tariffs on America’s trading partners barring China, instead imposing a blanket 10 percent tariff on goods imported from these nations and territories. The 90-day pause came within 24 hours of the duties taking effect. The pausing of most additional tariffs, which had roiled the stock market,…
A cyclist was seriously injured after being hit by a garbage truck in Hong Kong on Tuesday evening. The accident occurred around 8.30pm near the intersection of Kwai Yi Road and Kwai Foo Road in front of Kwai Chung Police Station in the New Territories. The cyclist, 50, was left semi-unconscious following the collision. Emergency…
A cyclist was seriously injured after being hit by a garbage truck in Hong Kong on Tuesday evening. The accident occurred around 8.30pm near the intersection of Kwai Yi Road and Kwai Foo Road in front of Kwai Chung Police Station in the New Territories. The cyclist, 50, was left semi-unconscious following the collision. Emergency…
Two burglars who ransacked a luxury residence in Hong Kong’s New Territories are on the run after being spotted by a domestic worker, who screamed upon finding them inside the house in the early hours of Tuesday. Police officers arrived at a detached house in the Baroque at 1-7 Kau To Shan Road in Sha…
Beijing’s top office on Hong Kong affairs has fired another warning shot over CK Hutchison Holdings’ Panama ports deal, reposting a sixth critical article which urges the conglomerate against acting “in concert with US hegemony” and to avoid making “historic mistakes”. The Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office reposted the latest piece on Sunday, which…
China’s so-called century baby has died at 25 from heart attack and is being remembered as a talented artist. From the moment she arrived in the world at midnight on January 1, 2000, Xie Yueqian made national headlines. One at the time read: “To the second, the standard century baby has arrived.” Her birth marked…
A two-year-old boy who urinated into a glass at a restaurant in eastern China has been defended by his mother who said he could not hold it in any more. A customer, surnamed Tang, who witnessed the whole incident at the Fuyuanju Restaurant in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, has exposed the scandal to news outlet The…
The listed requirements for a potential girlfriend laid out by an associate professor at a prestigious university in China have gone viral, with many people describing his actions as being like “selecting an imperial concubine”. Internet users have been abuzz about the criteria for a girlfriend set by a scholar surnamed Lou from the School…
Hong Kong customs officers have arrested a 37-year-old technician over drug trafficking and seized 39kg (86lbs) of suspected cocaine worth HK$33 million (US$4.2 million) hidden in a unit of a commercial building in a busy shopping district. Acting Assistant Superintendent Vincent Yeung Wai-hon from the Customs and Excise Department’s drug investigation division said on Saturday…