Commissioner

10 Sep 2012

Every day, thousands of children in Hong Kong wake up to a day with more challenges than we can expect them to bear. Although Hong Kong is a relatively wealthy society, too many children fall...

2:04AM

Closer watch on watchers needed

9 Dec 2011

The ability of law enforcers to snoop on suspects is an important weapon against crime. The fact that there have been more than 1,800 arrests since the enactment of a covert surveillance law in...

2:56AM

Prodigy sues police chief for prejudice

18 Nov 2011

A 12-year-old prodigy is suing the police for discriminating against his Indian race after he was arrested for assaulting a woman when, according to him, he was the one being beaten.

1:01AM

Legal action 'may halt Cheung Chau ferries'

27 Aug 2011

A legal challenge aimed at narrowing the gap between holiday and regular day fares on Cheung Chau ferries could halt all services between the island and Central, the Court of First Instance heard...

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Complaints to privacy watchdog on the rise

18 Aug 2011

Complaints to the privacy watchdog rose by almost a fifth in the first half of the year. It attributed the increase to growing awareness stemming from last year's Octopus Cards scandal.

5:18PM

Playstation network to remain offline in city

1 Jun 2011

Hong Kong is one of only three places in the world where Sony's hacked PlayStation Network services will not be restored soon.

11:22AM

Opinion

The last straw for Terry Wong?

2:53PM

Jake Van Der Kamp

iBonds are little help in easing inflation and a bad bet financially

3:55AM

Department aims to save HK$30m

The government will hire 3,000 fewer temporary staff to carry out next year's 10-year census than were used to conduct the 2001 census, Commissioner for Census and Statistics Fung Hing-wang says...

6:17AM

Letter writer threatened to kill police officers

7:22PM

New privacy chief takes more flak over breaches when he led HK Post

Fresh evidence emerged yesterday of privacy infringements at Hongkong Post in 2003, when new Privacy Commissioner Allan Chiang Yam-wang was postmaster general.

11:26AM

Corrections & clarifications

Thursday's report, 'Democrats are weakening HK, tycoon says', on page A14 misquoted Ronnie Chan Chichung as saying: 'In 1890, the US had only 36 million people, in the 1960s, it had 63 million.'...

1:28PM

Customs target traders who cheat recyclers

Customs officers will target unscrupulous traders who use rigged scales to cheat waste recyclers after the number of complaints rose by 70 per cent last year.

10:13AM

Failings show need to improve snooping law

The three-year-old law to regulate snooping on citizens by law-enforcement officers had a troubled, marathon passage through the legislature because of lawmakers' concerns about striking the right...

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