Hong Kong’s anti-corruption watchdog has charged three people, including two private care home operators, over an alleged HK$1.3 million fraud involving an elderly care voucher scheme.
The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) said on Thursday that the trio allegedly inflated service records under the Social Welfare Department’s Community Care Service Voucher Scheme for the Elderly, overstating carers’ service hours by more than 5,000 hours.
The scheme provides elderly residents with subsidies to purchase home- or centre-
More than 900 restaurants and eateries in Hong Kong opened their doors to customers with dogs on the first day of a scheme allowing canines into restaurants, marking the end of a 30-year ban enacted to protect against rabies.
Chinese restaurants, fast food chains and coffee shops on Thursday welcomed their first groups of customers with dogs, who flocked to eateries across the city to dine with their beloved pets.
Under the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department’s scheme, 940 approved restaurants were permitted to admit
While the US has a technological edge, it lags behind China, which has the world’s largest commercial shipbuilding industry, in fleet size
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According to analysts
The tourism authority of Tibet has announced a 500,000-yuan (US$73,500) award for an online influencer whose viral road trip video promoted local tourism and garnered millions of likes
The blogger, who goes by the handle @Liyaode, released the video on July 4 showing he had hailed a taxi to go from Chongqing, in southwestern China, where he lives, to Lhasa, capital of
The price of a Category A certificate of entitlement (COE) meant for smaller cars and EVs advanced by 4.2 per cent in Wednesday’s bidding exercise from the previous round on June 17. Premiums for larger and more powerful cars in Category
Deputy Finance Minister Liew rejected reports of Low secretly arriving in Malaysia last year for 1MDB talks
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Hong Kong stocks retreated on Thursday morning, surrendering recent gains as ongoing volatility across Asian markets and a brutal tech sell-off in neighbouring bourses weighed on local sentiment.
At the lunchtime break, the benchmark Hang Seng Index was down 0.78 per cent to 24,011, erasing its initial upwards momentum. The Hang Seng Tech Index edged down 0.06 per cent, as the broader regional drag overshadowed optimism surrounding recent initial public offering lock-up expirations.
Among high-profile tech
The scientists said a fracture in the Earth’s crust in the eastern Himalayan region would significantly affect the integrity of the massive hydropower project’s infrastructure.
In a paper published last month in the Chinese-language journal Sedimentary Geology and Tethyan Geology, supervised by the state-owned China Geological Survey, the team
The US president said the missiles were shot at the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln over a period of one hour and they were intercepted
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