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The head of the national security department of the Hong Kong Police Force has warned of security threats going “underground” into arts and extremism despite the enactment of two security laws in the city. Andrew Kan, the deputy police commissioner for national security, said on Sunday that security threats had “transformed” after Beijing imposed a national security law in 2020 and the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance was enacted in March. “I think the threats have only transformed, they are still here,” Kan said in a Cantonese interview with TVB news. “We must remain vigilant and not ...
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School inspections are a funny business. They sit on an obstinate paradox which makes it difficult to have confidence in the results. An experienced observer can glean quite a lot about a school from walking the corridors: are the students cheerful and well-behaved; what is on the walls? Our observer can gather more from looking at documents: are the teachers planning and conferring, do they attend development courses, are they well qualified for what they are doing? But really if you want to evaluate what is going on you need to visit the place where education actually happens: the classroom....
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The banquet hall in Hong Kong’s Eaton Hotel has seen countless weddings celebrations – but never like this before. There was not one newlywed couple, there were 10. The wedding officiant appeared not before them but on a screen via Zoom, her time zone in the US state of Utah putting her 14 hours behind the city. Standing beneath a flower arch and the words “Pride to Wed,” the newlyweds took turns exchanging their vows and giving speeches to their partners. Some wiped tears from their eyes as they spoke. Metres from the stage, friends and family members held up their phones to capture the momen...
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Activist Joshua Wong frequently helped others in the community, his lawyer has said as he attempted to convince judges that his client should be given a lesser sentence in the city’s largest national security case. Wong, 27, was among six defendants who appeared at West Kowloon Law Courts Building on Friday for a mitigation hearing. The defendants, who included ex-lawmakers and district councillors, face up to life imprisonment for taking part in a conspiracy to commit subversion linked to an unofficial primary in July 2020. Wearing a blue shirt and a grey cardigan, Wong nodded to people in th...
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A Hong Kong court has refused to allow jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai to ask the city’s top court to overturn a ruling that effectively barred him from hiring a British lawyer for his ongoing national security trial. The Court of Appeal on Friday rejected Lai’s application for leave to appeal to the final appellate court. The 76-year-old Apple Daily founder wanted to challenge the appeal court’s ruling in April, when it sided with a decision from the Committee for Safeguarding National Security. The committee – chaired by Chief Executive John Lee – said last January that the proposed represent...
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A Hong Kong court has denied a former Tiananmen vigil activist’s application to replace a judge presiding over a national security trial. The court ruled on Friday that Madam Justice Anna Lai, who has been handpicked to preside over national security cases, would remain on the bench in the upcoming subversion trial of detained rights activist Chow Hang-tung. Chow had earlier applied for Lai’s recusal on the grounds that Lai’s access to materials kept from Chow’s defence team in a separate case meant Chow would not receive a fair trial. Lai is on the panel of designated judges overseeing the tr...
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Labour candidate and former journalist Yuan Yang has become the UK’s first ever Chinese-born member of the parliament, as her party trounced the ruling Conservative Party in a general election that also saw a record number of women voted in. The centre-left opposition Labour Party won the election on Friday after racing past the 326 seats needed to secure a majority in parliament, ending 14 years of right-wing Conservative rule. Labour leader Keir Starmer will become the UK’s next prime minister later on Friday, after outgoing leader Rishi Sunak of the Tories conceded defeat. With five constit...
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The Hong Kong government has selected a new chief for the Social Workers Registration Board, two days after the opposition-free legislature passed a bill that gave government appointees a majority in the licensing body. Chief Executive John Lee on Friday appointed solicitor Herman Hui as the new chairperson of the board that is tasked with issuing qualifications for the city’s social workers. He and other newly appointed members will serve on the board for three years from Friday. Hui is the vice-chairperson of the Hong Kong Social Service Professional Alliance of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau...
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Three applications under Hong Kong’s new investment visa scheme have been approved, the government has announced, without disclosing where the applicants came from. Invest Hong Kong (InvestHK), a government department focused on foreign direct investment, said on Wednesday that a total of 390 applications had been received from March 1 to June 30. Among them, three have been officially approved after the applicant made the required investment of at least HK$30 million, InvestHK said. When asked which countries the three applicants were residents of, InvestHK told local media outlets on Thursda...
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A doctor whose clinic caught fire from a stray tear gas canister during protests in 2019 has lodged an appeal against a court’s decision to deny a request for the city’s police chief to take the stand and answer for the incident. Kenneth Leung, appearing before judge Queeny Au-Yeung at the High Court on Thursday, demanded that police commissioner Raymond Siu take the stand to explain the findings of a police investigation into a misfired tear gas canister that landed in Leung’s Tsim Sha Tsui clinic and started a fire. Leung filed a writ in 2021 to claim HK$6.72 million as compensation for dama...
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