Security chief Chris Tang also reveals over 90 per cent of respondents back proposed overhaul of laws tackling sex crimes during consultation
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Nominations for Hong Kong’s Election Committee to run from October 7 to 20
Nominations for Hong Kong’s powerful Election Committee will take place in October, with the vote for 982 seats of the 1,500-member body – which picks the city’s chief executive and some of the legislative candidates – taking place a month later.
A government spokesman said Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu had specified November 22 as the polling date for the committee’s subsector ordinary elections and that the relevant notice had been gazetted on Friday.
The spokesman added that the nomination
Hong Kong’s US dollar peg faces fresh calls for review – but is change feasible?
The Hong Kong dollar’s four-decade-old peg to the US dollar is facing fresh calls for review, after a local financial industry body urged greater use of the yuan and floated the idea of shifting to a basket of major currencies and gold – though financial analysts argue the current system is likely to remain in place.
The proposal to revisit the pegged exchange rate system was submitted this week by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Professionals Association
China’s Kimi K3 AI model escapes isolated sandbox during security test: researchers
China’s top open-weight AI model Kimi K3 broke out of its isolated test environment during a cybersecurity evaluation, according to US security researchers, following similar high-profile incidents involving closed frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic that highlight the growing challenge of constraining AI behaviour.
Kimi K3, released last month by Beijing-based Moonshot AI, escaped from a supposedly isolated sandbox environment, accessed the open internet and found solutions on the developer platform GitHub, US firm Frontier Security said in a blog post on Thursday
South Korean football body offered sex services for foreign referees in 2011, 2012: report
South Korea’s football governing body is facing further pressure after allegations emerged that it arranged sexual services for foreign referees in 2011 and 2012 in an apparent effort to influence officiating.
The allegations centre on confidential audit documents prepared by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in 2016, according to a report by South Korean broadcaster JTBC.
The report quoted a former Korea Football Association (KFA) official as saying the association sought to have referees “blow their whistles in our favour
Despite South China Sea clashes, Chinese and Filipino police boost cooperation
The Philippine National Police and their counterparts in a coastal Chinese province have agreed to deepen intelligence sharing and crack down on international crimes, in a rare display of cooperation between the nations as they clash in the South China Sea .
Chief Jose Melencio Nartatez Jnr hosted Wang Xizhang, the executive director general of Fujian’s Public Security Department, on Tuesday, according to the official Philippine
China ‘delivery rider poet’ known for writing verses on scrap paper wins elite literature prize
After winning China’s prestigious Lu Xun Literary Prize, grass roots delivery rider and poet Wang Jibing expressed his intention to continue delivering food, describing himself as “a river that quietly flows.”
Wang, 57, widely known as the “delivery rider poet”, won the elite literature prize in the poetry category for his third collection, Low Flight .
The Lu Xun Literary Prize, named after one of China’s most celebrated modern writers, Lu Xun, is regarded as one of the nation’s
Hong Kong woman loses HK$69m to scammers posing as mainland Chinese officials
43-year-old victim made multiple transfers after receiving calls from fraudsters claiming to be officials accusing her of committing a crime
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A Hong Kong woman has been conned out of nearly HK$69 million (US$8.8 million) in a month-long scam involving fraudsters posing as mainland Chinese officials.
Police said on
13 times the size of Zhejiang: China deploys drones, AI as Typhoon Dolphin nears coast
Ferry routes have been suspended, construction halted, fishermen evacuated and drones deployed to patrol over the sea as China’s coastal provinces prepare for the landfall of Typhoon Dolphin , the fourth typhoon to reach the country this summer.
By Friday morning, the typhoon was about 820km from China’s east coast and was expected to land from Sunday afternoon to Monday morning somewhere between Zhejiang province in eastern China and northern Fujian, the National Meteorological Centre said.
The centre maintained a yellow alert, the third-strongest
Malaysia Airlines parent orders mandatory drug testing for pilots after arrest
Malaysia Aviation Group (MAG) said on Friday it has ordered mandatory drug testing and will conduct stricter screening for all pilots across its airlines, following the arrest of a Malaysia Airlines pilot for alleged trafficking in Indonesia last month.
The unidentified pilot, 39, was detained on July 28 after authorities found 26kg (57lbs) of the mind-altering drug MDMA in his luggage upon his arrival in Jakarta from Kuala Lumpur. Urine tests also showed the Malaysian Airlines pilot had been
