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Over 30 students were found to have used forged degree credentials and other documents to enrol in master’s programmes at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) Business School. In a statement sent to HKFP on Friday, HKU Business School said it had in May launched a probe into the credentials of all students currently enrolled in master’s programmes after finding out that some had hired agents to produce fake documents to secure admission. The school said the police had started investigating the incidents, but as the agents involved in the forgeries were believed to be located in mainland China and...
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Hong Kong police have arrested two women over allegedly abducting a three-year-old boy from a shopping mall for a ransom of more than HK$5 million in cryptocurrency. The boy was rescued by the police from a housing estate in Tseung Kwan O at 5.25 am on Thursday after being kidnapped from the nearby TKO Plaza shopping mall on Wednesday afternoon, according to local media reports. Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Chief Superintendent Kwan King-pan of the police force’s Organised Crime and Triad Bureau said two 38-year-old women had been arrested, who told police they were unemployed. They were...
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Hong Kong on Monday saw citywide festivities to mark 27 years since the city was handed over from Britain to China. But the turnout at a park fair on Chinese culture and innovation was meagre, as one attendee complained that the heavy police presence cast a shadow over the celebratory atmosphere. Over 20 fishing boats adorned with bright, red national and Hong Kong flags paraded around Victoria Harbour on Monday to celebrate Beijing’s resumption of sovereignty. See also: New security law a ‘sharp sword’ says Hong Kong’s John Lee, as leader hails 1 Country, 2 Systems Led by the Hong Kong Fisher...
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A live-streamed gig by Hong Kong singer-activist Denise Ho was interrupted by police citing a noise complaint on Sunday, with around a dozen officers arriving at the venue and taking down the identification details of the crew. Ho ended up performing online after venues repeatedly shunned her efforts to book space. Police arrived at the now-shuttered Mount Zero bookstore in Sheung Wan at around 6 pm on Sunday while Ho was performing inside for a pop-up gig streamed on her YouTube channel. Dozens of fans were gathered outside the shop. The performance paused for about half an hour as police cor...
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The former chairperson of the Hong Kong Bar Association has said he left the city two years ago after being warned by national security police that he could be charged for sedition over his past comments in a book and on a social media platform. Paul Harris, who was a senior counsel in the city who served as the association’s chair in 2021, said his decision to leave Hong Kong was expedited by an interview under caution with the national security department of the police in early-March 2022, in which he was told that the force was considering charging him for sedition. In his first media inter...
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Five men have been rearrested in connection with rioting at a Hong Kong university campus almost five years ago, at the height of the demonstrations that erupted in 2019. The Organised Crime and Triad Bureau on Wednesday evening rearrested five men aged 21 to 31 alleged to have been involved in violent clashes at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in November 2019, a statement issued the same day said. “After following up the case and seeking further legal advice, the police today re-arrested the five men and charged them with one count of rioting, [including] a 24-year-old man who was also ...
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Prosecutions relating to the illegal use of bright lights for fishing in Hong Kong waters soared last year, as authorities vowed again to step up patrols to combat the improper use of LED lamps to lure fish to the surface. There were 31 cases relating to the illegal use of bright light fishing activities that resulted in prosecution in 2023, a Marine Department (MD) spokesperson told HKFP by email on Monday, almost double the number of prosecutions over such activities in the previous four years, which stood at 17. Fishing with bright lights is permitted in parts of Hong Kong waters, but there...
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Two people have been arrested in connection with three cases of alleged baggage theft at Hong Kong International Airport. The stolen goods, including luxury clothing and jewellery pieces, were valued at more than HK$1.1 million. Hong Kong police arrested one man and one woman, both aged 23, on Saturday on suspicion of stealing suitcases from the baggage claim hall of the city’s airport earlier this month. Police investigation found that the pair had allegedly committed a similar theft back in February. Acting chief inspector Leung Hiu-man said on Monday that the Force had launched an investiga...
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The Hong Kong police are investigating the death of an officer, who was believed to have taken his own life using his service pistol at a marine division base on Sunday, the force have said. On Sunday at around 3.20 pm, police found a 51-year-old officer injured inside a changing room at the Marine Harbour Division Base in Sai Wan Ho, a spokesperson for the police said. The officer had a gunshot wound to his head and was certified dead at the scene, the spokesperson said. “A service pistol was found next to the deceased,” the spokesperson added. “Upon initial investigation, it is believed that...
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A police inspector has become the first Hongkonger selected for China’s space programme as a “preparatory astronaut,” local media reported on Tuesday. Police Chief Inspector Lai Ka-ying was named in reports as the first Hongkonger picked for the possible space role, although authorities have not yet confirmed the identity of the candidate. The China Manned Space Agency announced on Tuesday that a payload specialist from Hong Kong and another from Macau were among 10 candidates selected for the country’s fourth batch of astronauts. Payload specialists carry out scientific and applied research i...
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