A law firm has asked a Hong Kong court to bar police from inspecting privileged documents seized during a raid earlier this month as part of an ongoing investigation into the rising number of “crash-for-cash” scams. In a written application for judicial review on Monday, Raymond Lam & Associates asked the High Court to issue…
A British national has been arrested at Hong Kong International Airport on suspicion of criminal damage and drug possession after a viral video showed him wrecking self-check-in kiosks. The video, posted on social media on Monday morning, showed a man in the airport’s departure hall pushing over several self-check-in kiosks and hitting them repeatedly with…
Hong Kong police have arrested a 79-year-old cabby on suspicion of knocking down an elderly woman with his vehicle in North Point in the early hours of Sunday. The force said the taxi driver was driving along Java Road when he allegedly struck the 74-year-old woman as she was crossing the street shortly before 3am….
Hong Kong’s police chief has slammed the alleged involvement of a lawyer and doctors in a spate of so-called crash-for-cash scams as “unforgivable and unacceptable”. Commissioner of Police Joe Chow Yat-ming said on Saturday that the force would speed up its investigation into such cases, and expected a fresh wave of arrests as part of…
Hong Kong Police have arrested two people on suspicion of stealing a passenger’s backpack containing a watch worth HK$300,000 (US$38,379) on an inbound flight from Abu Dhabi on Thursday. The force said on Friday that a male passenger discovered a watch missing from his backpack in the overhead compartment and suspected it had been stolen….
A driver and his passenger were arrested after their car, which had an expired licence and allegedly contained small amounts of the drug etomidate, hit a police vehicle, a taxi and a bus while attempting to evade officers on a northern Hong Kong road. The crash on Thursday left three people injured including two police…
Hong Kong police have arrested three men on suspicion of burglary after allegedly stealing HK$700,000 (US$89,549) worth of products – including fish maw and shark fin – from a dried seafood shop. Tsang Ka-chun, senior inspector of the Kowloon district crime squad, said on Thursday that the break-in took place on Monday at a ground-floor…
Firefighters evacuated 30 people at the Hong Kong airport after a fire broke out in an electrical engineering device room near a boarding gate on Tuesday afternoon. The Fire Services Department said it received a report at 3.03pm about the emergency at the Hong Kong International Airport. The fire was extinguished by 4.01pm, the Fire…
A 65-year-old woman has died after being hit by a truck in Hong Kong’s Kwun Tong district. Police received a report at 5.55am on Monday that a medium goods vehicle was travelling along Kwun Tong Road towards Lam Tin when it struck a woman pushing a trolley stacked with cardboard near the Tsui Ping Road…
A traveller bound for Singapore has been arrested at the Hong Kong airport for allegedly carrying a knuckleduster in her luggage, according to police. The force said on Sunday that airport security staff found the weapon, which is worn over the knuckles, in the local woman’s carry-on luggage during regular screening the day before. Police…