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Ex-police officers decry lawmakers' freebie
Retired police officers are planning to head for the ICAC headquarters in North Point today to complain about some lawmakers accepting a Cathay Pacific junket trip to France. The freebie has prompted criticism about a potential conflict of interest over Cathay's stand on an extra runway at Hong Kong's airport and opposition to a potential rival's bid for an air operator's licence. Executive councillor Cheng Yiu-tong and lawmaker Ip Kwok-him say they won't donate the trip costs.
 
Latest HIV figures set to be released
After a record high of 139 new HIV cases in the first three months of this year, officials will be casting an anxious look at the second quarter figures for Hong Kong to be released today. The first quarter figures - a 14 per cent rise on the same period last year - were the highest since the city's first HIV case was diagnosed in 1984 and the second-highest quarterly figures after the record 140 cases in the third quarter last year.
 
Court to hear evidence over killing of Bhutto
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi will start hearing evidence over the killing of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto after former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, 70, was last week charged with her murder. Musharraf, who has denied three charges, seized power in a coup in 1999 and ruled until he was forced out after Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party won elections in 2008. Bhutto, twice elected prime minister, was killed in a gun and suicide attack in Rawalpindi in December 2007.
 
Insight into the gulags of North Korea
A UN Commission of Inquiry investigating human rights violations by the North Korean regime will hold a briefing after week-long hearings in Seoul of testimony by defectors from the North. Hushed and stunned audiences at the hearings have heard evidence of children in a North Korean prison camp being forced to watch a public execution, starving prisoners eating live rats and a seven-year-old girl being clubbed to death for stealing just a few grains of wheat.
 
Briefing on Xi's summit trips
Senior officials from the Foreign Ministry, Finance Ministry and the People's Bank of China will brief the media on President Xi Jinping's visit to Central Asia next week and also to attend the Group of 20 summit in St Petersburg in Russia. Xi is to visit Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan and also attend the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation's summit in Kyrgyzstan.
 
Lifting the lid on cybercrime
Hong Kong is hosting an international conference on cybercrime and computer forensics entitled "One Digital World, Many Digital Crimes". Organised by City University and Chinese University, the event is topical in light of Edward Snowden's exposure of the US spy agency's role in global surveillance programmes.


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Retired police officers are planning to head for the ICAC headquarters in North Point today to complain about some lawmakers accepting a Cathay Pacific junket trip to France.
