A burglar has been sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering a security guard during a break-in at a Hong Kong restaurant more than five years ago. Wong Shun-lam, 33, was sentenced in the High Court on Friday after standing trial […]
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Former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has denied making unfounded allegations against Beijing of meddling in Hong Kong’s internal affairs, but admitted calling for continued resistance over claims there was no room for “constructive dialogue” with the city government. Prosecutors
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A Hong Kong private tutoring chain director has been sentenced to 240 hours of community service for selling HK$70,000 (US$9,000) worth of prepaid programmes to eight parents before the company’s abrupt closure last year. Eastern Court on Monday also ordered
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Former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying returns to West Kowloon Court in Hong Kong on Friday to testify in his high-profile trial, with questions centring around his responses to the Beijing-decreed national security law after its enactment on June 30,
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Former Hong Kong media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying lobbied for US support for the 2019 anti-government protests through his now-defunct Apple Daily tabloid, he told a court on Friday, while also denying he had incited hatred through a series of
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Former media boss and opposition activist Jimmy Lai Chee-ying took to the witness stand for the first time on Wednesday in his high-profile national security trial, admitting he had donated money to local and overseas groups but denying that he
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A Malaysian ex-university professor in Hong Kong accused of murdering his wife and daughter has rejected prosecutors’ claims that an animal experiment he was carrying out with carbon monoxide was merely a ruse to obtain the deadly gas that killed
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Two Hong Kong police officers have been sentenced to 14 months in jail each for trying to buy off a teenage girl with HK$100,000 (US$12,850) to stop her from testifying over accusations one of them had sex with her when
A Hong Kong protester initially cleared of rioting at the height of the 2019 anti-government unrest has been jailed for nearly three years after he pleaded guilty following an appellate court’s decision to reverse his acquittal. The District Court on
An assistant warden at a care home run by Hong Kong’s largest NGO for people with intellectual disabilities allegedly raped a female resident on four separate occasions, in addition to sexually assaulting a male resident, according to court documents. Chung
