Hong Kong customs officers have uncovered the department’s largest-ever case involving counterfeit goods sold online, arresting seven people and seizing HK$15 million (US$1.9 million) worth of items, including bogus medications and fake Louis Vuitton and Hermès handbags. Hong Yan, a senior inspector with the Customs and Excise Department’s intellectual property general investigation unit, said officers…
Hong Kong customs officers have uncovered the department’s largest-ever case involving counterfeit goods sold online, arresting seven people and seizing HK$15 million (US$1.9 million) worth of items, including bogus medications and fake Louis Vuitton and Hermès handbags. Hong Yan, a senior inspector with the Customs and Excise Department’s intellectual property general investigation unit, said officers…
Hong Kong banks and brokers reported keen interest in the latest batch of Silver Bonds compared with last year after subscriptions opened on Monday. HSBC, the biggest of the city’s three currency-issuing banks, said application volumes and values were higher compared with the first day of sales last year. “The share of digital submission continues…
Forming a circle in front of a temple in Yuen Long, a group of Hongkongers make sweeping, dance-like movements before smashing ceramic tiles on the ground with wooden swords under the guidance of their coach. They are learning to perform the solemn ritual of “breaking hell’s gate”, a traditional funeral practice that is typically performed…
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Hong Kong’s leader visited eastern Kowloon’s grassroots residents on Saturday morning as part of a consultation exercise ahead of his policy address, which he announced will be on September 17. Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu on Saturday began his visit to two families living in a “light public housing” project on Ngau Tau Kok’s Choi…
Hong Kong’s leader visited eastern Kowloon’s grassroots residents on Saturday morning as part of a consultation exercise ahead of his policy address, which he announced will be on September 17. Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu on Saturday began his visit to two families living in a “light public housing” project on Ngau Tau Kok’s Choi…
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…