Hong Kong police have seized HK$45 million (US$5.8 million) worth of suspected cocaine and cannabis buds in two separate cases in one day, with traffickers hiding the drugs under floorboards and inside furniture. Senior Inspector Conrad Chan Yuen-fun, of the narcotics bureau’s operations division, said on Saturday that officers had arrested three men in two…
Hong Kong police have arrested 11 domestic workers for allegedly selling illegal abortion pills or performing abortions unlawfully after one of the suspects was believed to have killed a fetus older than the legal limit of 24 weeks of pregnancy. While police said on Friday that they believed the helpers were not operating as a…
Hong Kong authorities have deployed three “mobile powerful pumping robots” for the first time to drain at least 24 flooded locations on a day when the city’s forecaster recorded the heaviest daily rainfall for August since 1884. According to the Drainage Services Department, multiple pumping robots, including three known as “water-pumping dragons” in Chinese, tackled…
A resident of a care home for the mentally disabled in Hong Kong has been arrested on suspicion of murder after another man in the facility died following a fight. A dispute broke out between two male residents, both in their fifties, at Ming Sum Home for the SEN in Wong Uk Tsuen, Yuen Long,…
A resident of a care home for the mentally disabled in Hong Kong has been arrested on suspicion of murder after another man in the facility died following a fight. A dispute broke out between two male residents, both in their fifties, at Ming Sum Home for the SEN in Wong Uk Tsuen, Yuen Long,…
Kobe Chung Hao-yin and girlfriend Mandy Chung Man-kei have taken a step closer to being able to get married after moving into a youth hostel following months of searching for affordable housing in Hong Kong. Kobe Chung, a 24-year-old working in the engineering sector, and Mandy Chung, also 24, earn a combined salary of about…
A Mercedes-Benz car has been found abandoned in a metres-deep drainage channel in Hong Kong. Police said they had received a report at 6.28am on Saturday about a vehicle that had crashed into a nullah at On Lok Road in Yuen Long. Police said they had received a report at 6.28am about the abandoned car….
Hong Kong police have arrested 81 people in a crackdown on the illegal use of electric mobility devices such as scooters and bicycles, with 14 saying they are food delivery riders. Senior Inspector Greenson Cheung Chin-hung said on Friday that officers made the arrests in Tai Po, Sheung Shui, Tuen Mun, Castle Peak, Yuen Long,…
Hong Kong police have arrested a man who allegedly impersonated a firefighter on dating apps to dupe three women into paying for lavish meals before running off without settling bills totalling HK$3,800 (US$484). Police said on Thursday that the man, 29, was arrested in Tuen Mun a day earlier on suspicion of obtaining property by…
Temperatures in substandard housing in Hong Kong reached as high as 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) over the past week, while about 40 per cent of tenants in such homes reported having poor quality or no windows, a concern group has found. The results came from two studies published by the Society for Community Organisation…