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'Keep jail term for not reporting child abuse'
Concern groups on Sunday said proposed jail sentences for people who fail to report child abuse should be kept in place. According to the Mandatory Reporting of Child Abuse Bill currently making it way through the Legislative Council, (...)
RTHK -
28 April 2024
Minister Christine Choi dismisses suggestion parents did not want to send children to local schools because of the increasing emphasis on national education.
South China Morning Post -
28 April 2024
Taxi driver dies in Tai Po crash
Police are investigating a traffic accident in Tai Po on Saturday afternoon in which a 76-year-old taxi driver died. The force said he had been turning onto On Cheung Road from a car park on Tai Yuen Estate, when he lost control of the vehicle (...)
RTHK -
28 April 2024
Sour note: Reported land premium decision makes no sense when Hong Kong is crying out for music venues
While attention was focused on Singapore’s exclusive deal to host Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour concerts and Lionel Messi’s absence from a Hong Kong exhibition march, the city’s jazz fans were excited at a planned visit by three times Grammy Award (...)
HKFP -
28 April 2024
Henry Edward Tse first launched legal action in 2017 after authorities blocked an application to change his gender from female to male on his Hong Kong ID card.
South China Morning Post -
28 April 2024
City’s chief imam, Mufti Muhammad Arshad, condemns incidents but says he believes it is an individual case.
South China Morning Post -
28 April 2024
Taiwan detects 22 Chinese aircraft around island in under 3 hours
Taiwan’s defence ministry said Saturday it had detected 22 Chinese warplanes and drones around the self-ruled island in a window of less than three hours. The sorties come less than a month before the May 20 inauguration of new Taiwan president (...)
HKFP -
28 April 2024
5 dead, 33 injured in China after tornado rips through Guangzhou
At least five people were killed and 33 injured after a tornado struck the Chinese city of Guangzhou on Saturday, state media reported. China’s official Xinhua news agency said that the tornado hit the Guangdong Province capital, in the (...)
HKFP -
28 April 2024
Hong Kong zine artist Kaitlin Chan on seeing the city with ‘renewed curiosity’
Part of HKFP’s four-part zine scene series. Artist Kaitlin Chan, who spent her childhood and formative years in Hong Kong, used to feel intimidated by the overwhelming visual stimuli in the city. She often found herself wanting to rush through (...)
HKFP -
28 April 2024
Many Hongkongers who are eligible to live elsewhere have not moved, a testament to their confidence in the city. And a disappointing stock market performance is no indicator of poor economic prospects – Hong Kong has gone through some low (...)
South China Morning Post -
28 April 2024
Six passengers injured after minibus hit lamp post and flipped on its side following collision.
South China Morning Post -
27 April 2024
Financial Secretary Paul Chan says Hong Kong may face a higher interest rate environment for longer.
South China Morning Post -
27 April 2024
Workers cut down three-storey-tall barren weeping fig at the junction of Luard Road and Johnston Road, after efforts to save the tree failed.
South China Morning Post -
27 April 2024
Truck driver arrested after collision with minibus
Police said on Saturday that they had arrested a truck driver after an accident at about 4pm in which six people were injured. They said a 68-year-old man was driving a minibus along Kam Sheung Road towards Yuen Long, when it was hit by a truck (...)
RTHK -
27 April 2024
Operator Newport Circuit says the cinema in Causeway Bay will permanently shut on April 30.
South China Morning Post -
27 April 2024
Post report from 1947 states that concrete foundation is widely believed to house a sword, with its blade pointing towards Tokyo.
South China Morning Post -
27 April 2024
Hong Kong Business Aviation Centre offering seamless transfer service for passengers between commercial flights and private jets, with chairman hailing positive roll-out.
South China Morning Post -
27 April 2024
On Saturday, 220 of the 260 flats on offer at Onmantin were already sold as of 7pm after the project received 7,500 orders from prospective buyers.
South China Morning Post -
27 April 2024
Transport Department has allocated an additional 40 per cent quota for cross-border bus operators to increase service frequencies over the May 1-5 holiday.
South China Morning Post -
27 April 2024
Senior Inspector Lau Chi-fung says the suspects, aged 15 to 18, apprehended over offences such as claiming to be triad members and possessing weapons.
South China Morning Post -
27 April 2024
Amber Aviation vice-president Vicky Tsui says private plane co-ownership scheme will launch in June, allowing fliers to avoid extra costs and paperwork of sole ownership.
South China Morning Post -
27 April 2024
Secretary for Housing Winnie Ho says projects represent 96 per cent of government’s target to complete 30,000 light public flats by 2026-27 financial year.
South China Morning Post -
27 April 2024
Hollywood star Roger Moore and cast and crew of James Bond movie The Man with the Golden stayed at The Peninsula hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui during filming in 1974.
South China Morning Post -
27 April 2024
Commissioner of Police Raymond Siu says deception cases in city grew 0.9 per cent, with all but investment scams declining between January to March.
South China Morning Post -
27 April 2024
