NEED TO KNOW Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie have been banned from this year’s Royal Ascot, according to a new report from The Daily Mail The sisters will not join the royal family at the annual horse racing event in June amid concerns tied to their parents’ relations with Jeffrey Epstein Their dad, the former Prince…
The location of ex-Prince Andrew’s arrest is coming into focus — and new photos show the scale of police presence on the morning of February 19, when he was taken into custody. Andrew, the third child of the late Queen Elizabeth II, was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. He had been temporarily…
Hong Kong civil servants have been urged to exercise greater caution and refrain from accepting any offers in the workplace, as stakeholders called on authorities to explain how the head of a government office became embroiled in a bribery case. Ricky Cheng Chun-sang, former director of the Tianjin Liaison Unit, was dismissed last week and…
A Hong Kong police officer has been found guilty of unlawfully terminating 10 criminal investigations by using forged statements as proof that the complainants had agreed to withdraw their cases. The District Court on Wednesday convicted Detective Constable Wong Yiu-chung of forgery and misconduct in public office, finding that the 34-year-old had dishonestly obtained his…
Eight retired hawker control officers who gave preferential treatment to 36 candidates in a 2019 recruitment exercise have been spared jail in Hong Kong, with a judge saying the case revealed their department’s long-standing culture of favouritism. The District Court on Tuesday sentenced the eight former Food and Environmental Hygiene Department staff to between 150…