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Hong Kong’s government has revealed that it spent HK$9.17 million on rent, salaries and other expenses to fund former leader Carrie Lam’s office last year, a figure 32 per cent higher than the previous year. Authorities set up an office for Lam after she finished her term as chief executive in 2022, as is standard […]

A Hong Kong airport ground crewman has been handed an 80-hour community service order for taking a picture of ex-chief executive Leung Chun-ying’s passport. Andrew Chung appeared at Kowloon City Magistrates’ Courts on Thursday. He earlier pleaded guilty to obtaining access to a computer with a view to dishonest gain, The Witness reported. According to […]

The Hong Kong government will release a new framework to define poverty after failing to release the number of poor households in the city for two consecutive years. Chris Sun, the labour and social welfare chief, said on Commercial Radio on Sunday that authorities were working on a new index to measure poverty, which would […]

Foreign governments have not criticised Hong Kong’s impending domestic national security law, executive councillor and lawmaker Regina Ip has said. Speaking on a Commercial Radio show on Friday, Ip said the enactment of security legislation under Article 23 had not attracted negative feedback internationally. “So far, not a single country has issued a statement [since] […]