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Sat, 03 Jul 2021 14:36:49 +0800
HK reports one Covid case from South Korea
The Centre for Health Protection on Saturday reported one new imported coronavirus infection. The latest case involves a 39-year-old man who flew in from South Korea. The man, who stayed at Kerry Hotel in Hung Hom, did not show any symptoms. Hong...

Sat, 03 Jul 2021 13:13:09 +0800
Security chief slams 'glorification' of terrorism
Secretary for Security Chris Tang on Saturday condemned people whom he said were glorifying terrorism and encouraging violence. He made the comment following the death of a 50-year-old man who stabbed himself after allegedly knifing a police officer...

Sat, 03 Jul 2021 12:20:38 +0800
'Unvaccinated teachers may have to get routine tests'
Education minister Kevin Yeung said on Saturday that teachers who are not vaccinated may be ordered to do regular Covid tests, as the bureau considers resuming full-day classes for secondary students in the new school year. Speaking after a radio pr...

Sat, 03 Jul 2021 11:51:15 +0800
'HK nearly able to resume travel with mainland'
Infectious diseases expert David Hui said on Saturday that Hong Kong is "nearly able" to resume travel with the mainland and Macau, though it still needs to look into a few Covid cases. He said authorities need to see if a 27-year-old man who works ...

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 22:50:05 +0800
Police condemn 'rioters' for dropping bottles in CWB
Police said they are investigating a case involving “some rioters” dropping glass bottles from height in Causeway Bay on Friday afternoon, as some gathered in the area to mourn the death of a man who stabbed himself after allegedly attacking a po...

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 18:51:49 +0800
Man arrested over firebomb attack at Government House
Police said they have arrested a 24-year-old man in connection with a suspected firebomb attack at the Chief Executive's residence in Central in the early hours of Thursday. The force said the jobless man was arrested in Ma On Shan on Friday mornin...

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 17:53:30 +0800
Activist Chow Hang-tung denied bail over June 4 case
West Kowloon Court on Friday denied bail to activist Chow Hang-tung, who is charged with inciting others to join an unauthorised rally on June 4 to commemorate the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989. Chow, the vice-chairwoman of the Hong Kong Allian...

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 17:14:52 +0800
'Latest Covid case repeatedly testing negative'
Health authorities on Friday say they are investigating why a hotel room cleaner, who was earlier confirmed to be infected with a mutated strain of the coronavirus, has since tested negative for Covid-19. The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) said...

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 16:48:56 +0800
'Suspect left suicide note criticising security law'
Police sources on Friday said the man who allegedly stabbed a uniformed officer before killing himself on Thursday night had apparently written a suicide note said to be critical of the force. Officers say the suspect, 50, knifed himself in the ches...

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 15:27:50 +0800
'Ask schools to report uptake, or make jabs a must'
Pro-government lawmakers on Friday urged the government to require schools to report their Covid-19 vaccination rates regularly, with some saying the jabs should be made mandatory for teachers. The government earlier revealed that only about 18 perc...

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 12:27:18 +0800
'HK enjoys more rights now than under British rule'
The Chinese Embassy in London said on Friday that UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has "confused right and wrong" in saying the national security law had been used to crush freedoms in Hong Kong, adding that people in the SAR are enjoying more right...

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 11:58:06 +0800
HK govt slams 'biased' US human trafficking report
The SAR government on Friday dismissed as ‘biased and unreasonable’ a US State Department report which concluded that Hong Kong isn’t doing enough to tackle human trafficking. Washington had placed Hong Kong on its ‘tier two watch list’ fo...

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 11:27:37 +0800
'Police ban on street booths stifles freedom'
Confederation of Trade Union's secretary-general, Mung Siu-tat, on Friday questioned whether Hong Kong people still enjoy freedom of speech, after his colleagues who criticised the government at their street booths were warned by the police not to "i...

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 09:03:19 +0800
'Lone wolf terrorist radicalised by hate speech'
Security secretary Chris Tang on Friday signalled that authorities will crack down on people who advocate violence and hatred against the country, as he blamed hatemongers for pushing a man into what he described as a ‘lone-wolf style act of domest...

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 08:13:24 +0800
Aberdeen testing reveals no new cases
No new coronavirus infections have been found in the compulsory testing of some 580 people in a block of flats in Aberdeen. Port Centre was locked down overnight after one resident tested preliminary positive for a mutant strain of Covid-19. The ...

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 22:45:51 +0800
Police officer stabbed outside Sogo, suspect dies
A policeman was stabbed outside the Sogo department store in Causeway Bay at about 10 pm on Thursday evening and the suspect died in hospital about an hour later. Police confirmed the alleged attack on their Facebook page, saying the left side of th...

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 20:53:32 +0800
Aberdeen residential block put under lockdown
A residential building in Aberdeen was put under lockdown on Thursday evening after one resident's preliminary positive test for Covid-19 involved a mutant strain. Residents of the Port Centre were required to stay in their flats and undergo compuls...

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 17:38:50 +0800
'Xi's view on Hong Kong may differ from predecessors'
A political analyst says President Xi Jinping's speech to mark the centenary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party showed the leader has adopted a high level of vigilance in his foreign policies, and that his understanding of the One Country...

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 16:40:37 +0800
Police make arrests in hunt for protesters
Police on Thursday said they had arrested 19 people across the territory for various offences, as officers swarmed the streets to stamp out any dissent on the 24th anniversary of the handover. Another 19 people were slapped with fixed penalty ticket...

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 14:59:39 +0800
HK records four imported Covid cases
The Centre for Health Protection on Thursday reported four additional Covid-19 cases, all of them linked to overseas travel. The patients, aged between 19 and 54, arrived from the UK, Russia and Indonesia. The three women and one man did not show a...



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