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Hong Kong police have arrested 82 people in a citywide anti-triad operation, breaking up a syndicate that laundered nearly HK$40 billion (US$5.1 billion) and seizing over HK$15 million worth of assets, including a giant Labubu doll estimated to cost HK$1 million. The force said on Wednesday that officers raided multiple locations across the city during
The company’s net profit rose 34 per cent year on year to 16.5 billion yuan (US$2.3 billion) in the three months to June, beating market estimates. That was up from a 32.9 per cent increase in the March quarter. Second-quarter revenue grew 8.3 per cent to 94.2 billion yuan, following a 6.2 per cent gain
The Hong Kong government has issued a new definition of “local students” in tertiary education, saying that children of non-local talent can only be eligible for subsidised local tuition fees after residing in the city for at least two years. According to a government statement on Thursday, as a transitional arrangement, the residency requirement will
Hong Kong’s Exchange Fund reported its biggest interim return in more than two decades, as a bull run in the local stock market and stabilised bonds helped bolster the city’s financial war chest. The Exchange Fund’s first-half earnings jumped by 76.6 per cent to HK$194 billion (US$24.7 billion), driving an 8 per cent annual increase
Four members of a family, including a six-year-old boy, were rushed to hospital after being pulled from a burning flat in Hong Kong’s Mong Kok district late on Thursday. Firefighters found three of them – a man in his eighties, one in his forties and the boy – unconscious in the flat in an old
A tsunami triggered by a powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka peninsula on Wednesday prompted warnings and evacuations in Japan, Hawaii and the US west coast. The Hong Kong Observatory also told the public on the same day that the tsunami would reach the city in the late afternoon. A “sea-level anomaly
Two diners at a Hong Kong restaurant were burned when alcohol was poured onto a sizzling pork knuckle dish, causing flames to flare up, with one of the victims left critically injured, police said on Thursday. The police force said the accident at Cafe Match Box on Causeway Bay’s Paterson Street occurred at around 7pm
Hong Kong authorities have renamed the emerging drug “space oil” as etomidate, after its main ingredient, as part of efforts to avoid promoting any positive feelings towards the narcotic. Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung also said on Thursday that police had intercepted 250,000 vape cartridges containing the drug in the first half of this