Some Nepalis in Hong Kong have expressed shock at the ongoing violent unrest in the South Asian country, while also raising concerns about the safety of their family members and the direction the nation is heading in. Several of them told the Post on Wednesday that they empathised with the youth taking to the streets…
US-based contractors are being recruited through staffing firms like Crystal Equation and Aquent Talent. The work mainly focuses on creating characters for chatbots that will operate across Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp. Know which tech giant is developing Hindi AI chatbot? Meta is reportedly hiring contractors in the United States at rates of up to $55…
Online rental platforms have become scammers’ latest tool for swindling Hong Kong residents, as the number of online investment fraud cases rose by nearly a quarter in the first six months of 2025 compared with the same period last year, with losses surging 36.4 per cent to HK$1.48 billion (US$189.5 million). Police Senior Superintendent Carmen…
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A 47-year-old woman in Hong Kong lost nearly HK$2 million (US$254,778) in two weeks to an online romance scam, according to police, despite being warned by friends that the man she was chatting with could be a swindler. Police said on Monday that the woman’s case was one of more than 50 cyber love scams…
Hong Kong authorities have renamed the emerging drug “space oil” as etomidate, after its main ingredient, as part of efforts to avoid promoting any positive feelings towards the narcotic. Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung also said on Thursday that police had intercepted 250,000 vape cartridges containing the drug in the first half of this…
Hong Kong police are investigating the case of a 14-year-old girl who was blackmailed by a stranger on a mobile chat app, who claimed to have taken an indecent video of her. The force said on Tuesday it received a report from the girl at 10.49pm the day before at Tsz Hong Estate in Tsz…
The number of online employment scams in Hong Kong recorded from January to May nearly doubled from the same period last year, while losses jumped by 89 per cent to HK$480 million (US$61.1 million), with police attributing the rise to “click farming” swindles proliferating. Superintendent Rachel Hui Yee-wai of the force’s cybersecurity and technology crime…
Parents in Hong Kong have questioned the “scientific basis” of the government’s decision to suspend classes at all day schools on Friday, with some arguing their children’s graduation ceremonies were cancelled despite little rainfall in the morning. In a WhatsApp group with more than 1,000 parents, furious comments started flooding in at around 7.30am to…
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov recently gave intriguing ‘one-sentence’ personality assessments for his tech rivals including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Speaking to a French publication Le Point, Durov offered a sharp assessments for the three tech CEOs. What Telegram CEO Pavel Durov said about Tesla Elon Musk…