Ten drivers have been arrested for allegedly taking part in illegal street races on a Hong Kong highway, with police deploying drones and unmarked high-performance vehicles to capture the suspects’ activities and apprehend them.
The force revealed on Tuesday that the suspects, comprising nine men and a woman aged between 25 and 51, were arrested between August 3 and 10 on suspicion of dangerous driving in a traffic police operation along Kwun Tong Bypass, a major highway in East Kowloon.
“Some arrested drivers drove at extreme speeds
A Republican-led congressional committee focused on US competition with China has issued a public call for American academics to come forward if they think they missed out on jobs in favour of “applicants from China”.
“Are you an American student, postdoctoral researcher, or academic who believes you were denied a research position, laboratory opportunity, or postdoctoral appointment because preference was given to applicants from China?” the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party posted on X, formerly Twitter
A former Deloitte information technology (IT) manager has been remanded in custody pending sentence for stealing 423 laptops from the accounting firm’s Hong Kong office over 17 months to fund his stock trading addiction.
Ho Man-kit, 40, pleaded guilty to a count of theft at the District Court on Tuesday, after he misappropriated Lenovo computers worth HK$1.2 million (US$153,000) and sold them to an electronics recycler between September 2021
Singapore-based company, which was founded in China, aims to raise as much as US$2.8 billion and began gauging investor demand last week
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The Singapore-headquartered company, which was founded in China, aims to raise as much as US$2.8 billion and began gauging investor demand
The apology comes weeks after the Chinese restaurant received online flak and a barrage of one-star Google reviews for its involvement in a video showing a group of individuals foraging for seafood in mass quantities at Changi Beach.
In the video, the foragers are seen collecting various marine life in large quantities, including crabs and clams, before bringing them to Havelock Palace to be cooked.
The incident has triggered a wave of backlash towards the foragers, who have since disbanded,
On the southern edge of China, near the border with Vietnam, a breathtaking array of wall art stretches 260km and is over 2,000 years old.
This extraordinary collection, known as Huashan rock art after its most notable site, is celebrated for its vivid imagery depicting humans, animals, boats, weapons, and musical instruments.
Located in Guangxi autonomous region, the site was designated as China’s 49th Unesco World Heritage site in 2016. Scholars believe these paintings
Analysts say the forum from September 12 to 13 amid the global energy crisis wrought by the Middle East conflict could see parallel diplomacy, given the 11-member grouping’s economic clout accounts for about 40 per cent of the world’s gross domestic product.
“I see a convergence
Commissioner for Labour Sam Hui Chark-shum said on Tuesday that the warning system was currently more responsive to “muggy weather” than conditions of purely high temperature and strong solar radiation, but the government would seek to improve its sensitivity during periods of extreme heat.
Hui explained that the heat stress at work
The move by lawmakers came after a court in Goyang, Gyeonggi province, acquitted a man accused of distributing deepfake images of nude women in a Telegram chat room.
Despite prosecutors presenting the evidence under a law carrying up to seven years in prison or a maximum fine of 50 million won (US$35,341), a judge last August ruled that the victims
Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog has arrested a man on suspicion of doxxing a former restaurant owner and a business consultant following a financial dispute over unpaid bills.
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) said on Tuesday that the suspect, a 37-year-old wholesale food businessman, allegedly disclosed the personal data of two victims without their consent.
The PCPD’s investigation revealed that the suspect became acquainted with the male victim, a restaurant operator at the time, through the female victim’