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Fri, 14 May 2021 16:43:57 +0800
RTHK latest to receive mail containing white powder
RTHK received a letter containing a white powder on Friday morning, a day after similar suspicious mail was sent to government officials. The broadcaster said it had reported the matter to the police. On Thursday, Chief Executive Carrie Lam, Securi...

Fri, 14 May 2021 16:41:05 +0800
Tai Po 'Lennon tunnel' slasher jailed for six years
A mainland man was on Friday sentenced to six years and four months in prison, after he admitted to stabbing and slashing a 19-year-old student at the Tai Po 'Lennon tunnel' two years ago. Liu Guosheng, a Guangxi native who came to Hong Kong on Octo...

Fri, 14 May 2021 14:23:15 +0800
'Use your common sense', Regina Ip tells Sophia Chan
Executive Council member and lawmaker Regina Ip has accused Health Secretary Sophia Chan of "lacking common sense" over whether Hong Kong should donate unused Covid-19 vaccines to other places, such as India. Speaking at a Legislative Council meetin...

Fri, 14 May 2021 12:47:11 +0800
'HK-Singapore travel bubble may be postponed again'
Officials said on Friday that there is a high chance the planned May 26 launch of a long-delayed travel bubble between Hong Kong and Singapore will be pushed back. Speaking to reporters, Commerce Secretary Edward Yau said Singapore’s transport mi...

Fri, 14 May 2021 12:36:00 +0800
Arrivals from Taiwan to face hotel quarantine
The SAR government on Friday announced tighter anti-epidemic measures for people flying in from Taiwan, after a spate of Covid-19 cases there. Instead of home quarantine, arrivals will have to stay at a designated quarantine hotel for two weeks. ...

Fri, 14 May 2021 12:03:36 +0800
'Judges will keep control of complaints process'
The judiciary said on Friday that the chief justice will be in charge of appointing lay members to a planned panel for handling complaints against judges, but judges will still have control over the process. While complaints are currently handled by...

Fri, 14 May 2021 11:49:35 +0800
Quarantine hotels must be kept airtight: experts
Infectious disease experts said on Friday that it is important to step up infection control measures and plug all loopholes at quarantine hotels to prevent the spread of mutant strains of the coronavirus which are circulating around the world. The...

Fri, 14 May 2021 04:10:32 +0800
Final encore for Uncle Ray as 70-year DJ career ends
With his signature baritone voice and flat cap, Uncle Ray has become a perennial fixture of Hong Kong broadcasting, and his late-night show is RTHK’s longest-running radio programme, playing a selection of nostalgic hits dating back to the 1940s. ...

Fri, 14 May 2021 01:13:30 +0800
Govt beefs up testing for those in quarantine
The government has announced that it is beefing up infection control measures at designated quarantine hotels. The announcement follows the news that a man contracted a mutant strain of coronavirus at a quarantine hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui, leading to...

Thu, 13 May 2021 21:54:12 +0800
Penny's Bay food contractor faces prosecution
The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department on Thursday said it's going to prosecute the contractor that supplied meals to people quarantined at Penny's Bay after an inspection to its premises found irregularities. Officers inspected Danny Caterin...

Thu, 13 May 2021 21:39:29 +0800
Govt takes back three private sites to build flats
Development officials on Thursday said they were going to invoke the Land Resumption Ordinance to take back three plots of private land in Yuen Long and Fanling to build subsidised housing. The three sites are located at Shap Pat Heung Road near Lu...

Thu, 13 May 2021 18:13:48 +0800
Protester fell as firefighters moved in, inquest told
A police officer has told an inquest that an anti-government protester fell to his death from a shopping mall in June 2019 when firefighters moved in on him from two different directions. Superintendent Sean Lin, a team leader of the police’s nego...

Thu, 13 May 2021 17:06:51 +0800
HK marks sixth day without an untraceable case
The Centre for Health Protection reported two imported coronavirus cases on Thursday, and one local infection linked to a previous patient. It marked the sixth consecutive day without an untraceable local infection. One of the imported cases involv...

Thu, 13 May 2021 16:33:48 +0800
Civil servant resignation rate hits 14-year high
The government says more than 1,800 civil servants resigned in the last financial year – the highest figure since 2006. In a document submitted to the Legislative Council, the Civil Service Bureau said those who quit between April 2020 and March ...

Thu, 13 May 2021 16:22:43 +0800
Public toilets need closer inspection, says Ombudsman
The government has to do a better job managing and maintaining public toilets, Ombudsman Winnie Chiu said on Thursday, noting that complaints about the facilities weren’t even analysed until last year. Chiu’s office said the Food and Environment...

Thu, 13 May 2021 15:55:36 +0800
Two women found guilty of bribing people to vote DAB
Two women were on Thursday found guilty of offering gifts to Sham Shui Po residents in exchange for votes for the DAB in a 2018 Legco by-election. West Kowloon Magistracy heard that Deng Yi-mei, 42, and Wong Wai-ha, 52, were volunteers of a residen...

Thu, 13 May 2021 14:47:03 +0800
'A dollar per bottle would get HK people recycling'
Green groups said on Thursday that giving people money to return plastic bottles will encourage Hongkongers to recycle more, but only if the government increases the amount of rebate planned. While officials are proposing that people receive 10 cent...

Thu, 13 May 2021 14:31:16 +0800
EMSD chided over unsurprising surprise checks
The Ombudsman, Winnie Chiu, on Thursday criticised the effectiveness of government inspections on lifts and escalators, pointing out that 'surprise' checks conducted by the Electrical and Mechanical Services Department (EMSD) were not surprising at a...

Thu, 13 May 2021 12:25:00 +0800
'Man from Dubai caught virus from neighbour in hotel'
More evidence has emerged to prove that a man who flew in from Dubai in March contracted a mutant strain of coronavirus at a quarantine hotel in Hong Kong. The Indian man tested negative for the virus before he was released from a 21-day quarantine...

Thu, 13 May 2021 12:22:43 +0800
HK struggles to size up gravity of 'massage-gate'
Debate swirled on Thursday over the "massage-gate" scandal engulfing the Hong Kong police, with politicians, scholars and the public still struggling to work out how serious the affair is. The force's director of national security, Frederic Choi, is...



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