Law Enforcement

3 Mar 2013

Up to 10 officers were involved in the raid on Wednesday that saw three restaurants closed down for the night in Wing Wah Lane - a short alley that extends off D'Aguilar Street and which got its...

Fruit knife detention pierces concepts of freedom

24 Feb 2013

The Henan Business Daily reported on Thursday that the man was taken to a police station by an undercover officer after getting off a bus with his friend. The sharp-eyed policeman noticed the man...

Rise in reports of dirty money causes alarm

17 Feb 2013

The increase was revealed as the new leaders in Beijing try to make good on their anti-corruption pledges and international banks and financial institutions attempt to restore public faith after a...

Noise abatement law update needed

12 Feb 2013

Many times I have asked the police why regulation prohibiting the misuse of car horns is not enforced. The response is that it is almost impossible to capture evidence, so offenders can easily...

Hong Kong police canines to do double duty as drugs dogs

12 Feb 2013

The initiative to "add value" to patrol dogs started in 2010, with 16 of the 75 the dogs already trained. Lee said it would take another three to four years to train all the dogs in drug detection...

Opinion

Jake Van Der Kamp

An age-old problem and the sums that just don't add up

Howard Winn

HSBC suffers the Taibbi treatment in Rolling Stone

Shirley Yam

How tycoons' IPO 'losses' may hide profits at herd's expense

Guangdong man jailed over massive Hong Kong fraud

A mainland man has been jailed for ten and a half years for laundering HK$13.1 billion – the largest amount of its kind in Hong Kong – over a period of eight months.

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Guangdong man accused of laundering HK$50m per day for eight months

A mainlander allegedly laundered HK$50 million a day for a period of eight months, totalling HK$13 billion, a court heard yesterday.

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Customs seize HK$2.7m weapons haul bound for India

Customs officers have seized a stash of weapons and suspected fake items worth HK$2.7 million bound for India from a vessel entering Hong Kong from the mainland.

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Anti-CY demonstrators accuse police of abusing powers

Anti-Leung Chun-ying protesters said they might change their demonstration strategy from "marching" to driving on the streets in future and accused police of abusing their powers in the New Year's...

Hong Kong customs seize over HK$10m in illegal ivory

Customs officials have confiscated HK$10.6 million worth of ivory in a cargo from Africa, in the third large seizure of the banned product in three months, they said on Friday.

CHINA DIGEST

China Digest, January 4, 2013

A 12-year-old boy has been detained after stealing a police car and crashing it into a BMW in downtown Chuzhou on Tuesday, Ahwang.cn reports.