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After paying one full-time assistant and a part-timer, he said he was left with only HK$7,500 for everything else from utilities to producing publicity materials.“The government’s limited resources fall short in supporting a district councillor in an enlarged constituency,” the 38-year-old journalist turned full-time councillor said.Tuen Mun district councillor ...

Hong Kong and mainland Chinese authorities have arrested 78 suspects as part of a wider crackdown on illegal immigration into the city.The Immigration Department on Friday said its officers and police arrested 52 suspects in an operation that spanned Tuesday and Wednesday, with authorities raiding more than 60 locations ...

Hong Kong police arrested four men on suspicion of illegally entering the city on Monday after they boarded a bus in Shek O using a damp HK$100 (US$12.8) banknote.Four other suspected illegal immigrants who accompanied the Pakistani passport holders on the double-decker bus to Shau Kei Wan were being ...

Hong Kong police arrested two Indian nationals on suspicion of illegally entering the city after stopping the pair at a railway station in the New Territories on Tuesday.The two men, aged 18 and 29, were walking towards the concourse of Tin Shui Wai MTR station on Ping Ha Road ...

Conceived at the start of the year, the academy would design programmes more tailored than the agency’s courses in the past, Woo vowed.“Once our academy is established, we will organise courses every month for both overseas and local participants,” he said. “The content will also be much more specialised.”Instead ...

Hong Kong police have arrested four men on suspicion of illegal entry after intercepting a taxi on an outlying island in the latest operation amid a series of unauthorised arrivals from South Asian countries.Officers were called to Nam Chung Tsuen at the fishing village of Tai O on Lantau ...

“Intelligence suggests each individual was typically charged a five-figure amount of money for this air-land-sea journey,” one source said.A group of Bangladeshi men arrested in a recent operation said they had paid more than HK$55,000 each for their voyage from their homeland to Hong Kong.The source said they were ...

Hong Kong authorities launched an air-and-sea rescue operation on Tuesday to assist 13 suspected illegal immigrants from Bangladesh found stranded on an outlying island.According to a source familiar with the rescue operation, police at around 11.30am were working with the Government Flying Service to determine whether the stranded men ...

Hong Kong’s graft-buster plans to establish an academy to share its expertise with anti-corruption officers from around the world, it has announced after wrapping up a pilot training programme this week.Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) Commissioner Danny Woo Ying-ming on Wednesday said the Hong Kong International Academy Against Corruption ...

Students sitting foreign-language tests for Hong Kong’s university entrance exams will have to complete papers provided by official organisations of the relevant countries under a new arrangement beginning in 2025.The Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority on Tuesday said tests for Urdu would resume in 2026 after being suspended ...