Smuggled cockroaches, frozen domestic rats and mealworms were among a haul of pests seized at a border checkpoint in Hong Kong, with a local driver arrested, authorities said on Friday.
The Customs and Excise Department said officers intercepted the 118kg (260lbs) shipment – which also contained moth larvae and fruit flies mixed with declared goods – inside a
Photographer Alex Brandon has been named the Associated Press chief White House photographer after Evan Vucci stepped away from the role earlier this year.
Just like Vucci, Brandon is a Pulitzer Prize winner, receiving two in 2006 for his contributions to The Times-Picayune’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina, and one in 2021 for helping the AP’s coverage of the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests.
Brandon graduated from the University of Missouri and began his career at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Xu Ying is a former Chinese diplomat who served in the US and Switzerland.
A man was sentenced to nine years and 10 months’ jail, and eight strokes of the cane on Friday for abusing multiple young boys who were under his care.
The man beat his youngest victim – a six-year-old boy – with a hanger more than 600 times, forced him to hold a push-up position for hours, and made him sleep in the toilet and drink his own urine.
The boy suffered severe injuries as a result, including to his ribs, lungs and kidneys
據外媒報道，滙豐控股（0005）去年為裁減134名最高級別的「主要風險承擔者」員工，合共支付6,750萬美元（約5.27億港元）遣散費，為集團自2008年金融危機以來，單一年度裁減最多這類高級銀行家的
消防處打擊非法燃油轉注特遣隊今個月在葵青區執法，先後在葵泰路、永立街和新葵街一帶搗破4個非法加油站，共檢獲約10,000公升懷疑柴油，相等於約140輛輕型貨車的油缸量。
另外，消防處今日（8月21日）聯