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Chinese Communist Party outlines closer scrutiny of officials
The Chinese Communist Party is set to tighten oversight of its officials by scrutinising their assets and online activities, according to a party document released on Sunday. The document from the CCP’s powerful Central Committee was published by the Xinhua state news agency…
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Hong Kong top court rejects actor Gregory Wong’s final appeal over 2019 LegCo rioting conviction
Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal has dismissed an appeal bid by actor Gregory Wong to overturn his rioting conviction and sentence over the storming of the Legislative Council (LegCo) during the 2019 protests and unrest. An Appeal Committee of the Court of Final Appeal…
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Ex-Apple Daily publisher joins mainland tour for ‘rehabilitated persons’, praises China in TV interview
Former Apple Daily publisher Cheung Kim-hung, who was convicted of foreign collusion and jailed for six years and nine months, has joined a government-organised tour to Shenzhen, praising China’s development in an interview with a state-owned broadcaster. The one-day tour,…
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Tai Po fire: Hong Kong Bar Assoc. urges sweeping overhauls with ‘two-envelope’ tendering and safety blacklist
A task force on last year’s deadly Tai Po fire under the professional body for Hong Kong barristers has backed a move to criminalise bid-rigging and proposed 50 legal reforms, including a strengthened tendering mechanism designed to bar colluding cartels from bidding for…
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Hong Kong records hottest October in at least 142 years, with mean daily high of 30.5°C
Hong Kong has sweltered through its hottest October since records began nearly a century and a half ago, figures from the Hong Kong Observatory have revealed. The mean daily maximum temperature over the month was 30.5 degrees Celsius, 2.4 degrees higher than normal. The mean…
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Tourism Board axes controversial Peak lighting project following backlash
The Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) has scrapped a controversial lighting project on The Peak following complaints from residents and trail users that it would ruin the natural environment. In a paper submitted to the Central and Western District Council, the HKTB said it had met…
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Pushed not jumped: What a 19th-century shipwreck reveals about Hong Kong’s political casualties
From an anthropological point of view, the government reaction to the Wang Fuk Court fire inquiry report makes for interesting reading. It criticised four arms of the government, after 168 people were killed in last November’s blaze in Tai Po. Also, after a major catastrophe,…
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Technopole to University Towns: Why Hong Kong’s Northern Metropolis shifted focus from hi-tech to higher ed
Government ministers, academics, and business leaders gathered at a Hong Kong auditorium for a two-day summit last week to discuss an ambitious project: building three universities towns in a sprawling area near the city’s border with mainland China. Hong Kong is betting on the…
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China state TV does not air first La Liga games since Mbappe furore
Chinese state television did not air on Saturday the first La Liga games since Real Madrid star Kylian Mbappe caused anger with a joke about the country’s former leader Mao Zedong. It was not immediately clear whether state broadcaster CCTV had scheduled screenings of the…
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Zhang Shengmin, Xi’s lone ‘hatchet man’ at the top of China’s military
Zhang Shengmin, the last general remaining in the highest echelon of China’s military, has received an unexpected promotion to the Politburo, the rarefied group of about 20 Communist Party officials who run the country. It is a significant milestone for the 68-year-old, who has…
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‘Groundless speculation’: China denies spying on Nvidia’s Jensen Huang
Beijing dismissed as “groundless speculation” on Friday a report that said Jensen Huang, head of US chip giant Nvidia, was the target of a Chinese spy plot. The article by The New York Times, published Thursday, said that US intelligence officials concluded that a Chinese…
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US imprisons two Chinese nationals who tried to recruit military service members to spy for Beijing
Two Chinese men who admitted trying to recruit US military service members to spy for Beijing were imprisoned in California on Friday. Liren Lai and Yuance Chen were ordered to serve 30 months in a federal lockup and to undergo three years of supervised release after pleading…
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‘I am not important’: Security chief defends staying in post following Wang Fuk Court fire inquiry
Hong Kong’s security chief has said that his duty to society, the city, and the country outweighs his personal interests, after facing questions over his political accountability for last year’s fatal Tai Po fire. Secretary for Security Chris Tang offered an apology to the…
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China ruling party says ‘eliminated dangers’ after expelling record 33 top officials
China has eradicated “serious hidden dangers” in its Communist Party and military under President Xi Jinping’s leadership, a senior official said on Friday, a day after authorities confirmed the expulsion of a record 33 figures. In more than a decade in charge, Xi has cracked…
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Tai Po fire: 300 civil servants from disgraced inspection unit to be transferred to new regulatory body
Around 300 civil servants at a government inspection unit will be transferred to a new regulatory body set up to replace the unit, authorities have said, after an independent investigation blamed it for regulatory failures leading to last year’s deadly fire in Tai Po.…
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‘Following captain’s orders’: Asked about resigning over Tai Po fire, development chief likens self to crew under John Lee
Hong Kong’s development chief has likened herself to a sailor who must put her captain’s orders over her “personal wishes,” when asked by a reporter about calls for her to resign over the deadly Tai Po fire that killed 168 people last year. Secretary for Development Bernadette…
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Evidence insufficient to link district councillor Peggy Wong to Wang Fuk Court bid-rigging, inquiry report says
Evidence presented to an independent committee investigating last year’s deadly Wang Fuk Court fire has shown insufficient proof that a local politician was involved in bid-rigging at the Tai Po housing estate, the inquiry’s final report has concluded. The report, submitted to…
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Event: ‘The Last Two Cannibals on Cannibal Island’ – new theatre production at The Hive Studios
[Sponsored] Experimental theatre at The Hive Studios, Kennedy Town, this November. Tickets available now. The Last Two Cannibals on Cannibal Island is not an allegory for a failing marriage, or anything so high-minded. It is, in fact, about the last two cannibals left on a…
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Some Wang Fuk Court survivors say top officials’ apology nearly one year since fatal fire lacked ‘sincerity’
Former residents of the fire-hit Wang Fuk Court housing estate have criticised Hong Kong leader John Lee and top officials for their apology, saying the gesture — coming nearly a year after a blaze claimed 168 lives and left thousands homeless — lacked “sincerity.” Lee led…
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Hello Kitty firm apologises, scraps Japan TV tie-up after China anger
Sanrio, the Japanese company behind the popular character Hello Kitty, apologised on Thursday over its tie-up with a TV spy drama criticised as anti-China, cancelling a merchandise collaboration with the show. It comes days after Chinese sponsors dropped football superstar…