https://www.scmp.com/rss/322505/feed Controversy arose in April 2016 after a piece of luggage belonging to Leung Chung-yan, a daughter of Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, was specially delivered to a restricted area at Hong Kong International Airport as she was boarding a flight. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Luggage rules at Hong Kong airport believed to have been secretly relaxed to beat a lawsuit concerning the daughter of the city’s former leader Leung Chun-ying should be reinstated, a local flight attendants’ union said on Friday. The demand from the Cabin Crew Federation followed a letter issued by the union on September 5 requesting a meeting with Hong Kong Secretary for Security John Lee Ka-chiu to help resolve deadlocked debate on the issue “in the most constructive and productive way”. The... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/2164241/new-hong-kong-airport-luggage-rules-great-danger-security?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/2164241/new-hong-kong-airport-luggage-rules-great-danger-security?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 14 Sep 2018 08:14:50 +0000 The Airport Authority’s credibility will be damaged if it appeals against a ruling it broke security rules during a controversy surrounding the daughter of Hong Kong’s former leader, Leung Chun-ying, a union spokeswoman said on Friday. Hong Kong Cabin Crew Federation spokeswoman Carol Ng Man-yee also said she hoped the authority would consider revisiting its rules – which were changed in April before the judicial review. “If the authority appeals, its credibility will be hurt and its... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-law-and-crime/article/2161215/reputation-hong-kong-airport-will-suffer-if?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-law-and-crime/article/2161215/reputation-hong-kong-airport-will-suffer-if?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 24 Aug 2018 08:43:17 +0000 Hong Kong’s High Court ruled on Thursday that airport bosses broke security rules when they delivered a left-behind bag to then chief executive Leung Chun-ying’s daughter at a boarding gate two years ago. Justice Anderson Chow Ka-ming sided with flight attendant Law Mei-mei, who initiated a judicial review over the incident which turned into a political furore for Leung, whose term ended last year. At issue was whether a cabin bag could be taken through security screening without the passenger... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-law-and-crime/article/2161041/airport-chiefs-broke-safety-rules-former-hong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-law-and-crime/article/2161041/airport-chiefs-broke-safety-rules-former-hong?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 23 Aug 2018 10:00:30 +0000 Hong Kong’s airport authority has replaced the security rule at the heart of the legal row surrounding the city’s former chief executive Leung Chun-ying, it was revealed in the High Court on Wednesday. Leung reportedly pressured airport staff into taking a bag his daughter had left behind to her in a restricted area, breaching strict security protocols in 2016. The original rule, which governed the screening process for luggage that had been left unattended, required passengers to be present at... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-law-and-crime/article/2151675/hong-kong-airport-authority-changed-baggage?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-law-and-crime/article/2151675/hong-kong-airport-authority-changed-baggage?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 20 Jun 2018 10:15:00 +0000 For a man who doesn’t have much hair, Ma Fung-kwok sure fought tooth and nail to keep his hair gel for a flight to Beijing. The pro-establishment lawmaker has had to apologise and promise to comply with security regulations in future after he reportedly browbeat airport security staff to let him carry gel above the 100ml limit aboard the flight earlier this week. During the argument, he boasted he was a legislator and that he knew Airport Authority chief executive Fred Lam Tin-fuk. “I am not... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2147894/lawmaker-wanted-take-hair-gel-plane-and-got-his-own-wayhair?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2147894/lawmaker-wanted-take-hair-gel-plane-and-got-his-own-wayhair?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 25 May 2018 19:56:35 +0000 A pro-Beijing Hong Kong politician has been accused of abusing his status as a legislator to bypass airport rules on liquids in carry-on baggage when he insisted on taking a tube of hair gel on his flight with him. But Ma Fung-kwok on Thursday brushed aside the allegations that he deliberately brought up his acquaintance with Fred Lam Tin-fuk, chief executive of the Airport Authority, during exchanges with ground staff. He admitted that he mentioned his job as a lawmaker. The Aviation Security... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2147682/pro-beijing-hong-kong-legislator-ma-fung-kwok-accused?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2147682/pro-beijing-hong-kong-legislator-ma-fung-kwok-accused?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 25 May 2018 00:03:06 +0000 A flight attendant has been given the green light to pursue her legal challenge over the handling of a piece of left-behind luggage belonging to Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying’s daughter. The leader’s daughter, Chung-yan’s bag was delivered directly from a non-restricted to a restricted area of the airport in March last year, so she could board her flight to San Francisco on time. News of the bag’s delivery quickly prompted public outcry over favouritism in the airport’s screening rules. Gladys... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2073785/hong-kong-judge-gives-go-ahead-judicial-review-over-luggage?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2073785/hong-kong-judge-gives-go-ahead-judicial-review-over-luggage?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 24 Feb 2017 09:06:44 +0000 Depending on one’s perspective or position, Hong Kong’s polarising leader Leung Chun-ying, who has announced he is not running for a second term, is either a “cunning wolf” or a loyal down-to-earth government servant. Commonly called CY, the city’s chief executive is often referred to by the unflattering nickname “689” – an allusion to the number of votes Leung received in the 2012 chief executive election from the 1,200-member Election Committee dominated by pro-Beijing loyalists. The figure... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2053271/hong-kong-leader-leung-chun-ying-cunning-wolf-or-loyal?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2053271/hong-kong-leader-leung-chun-ying-cunning-wolf-or-loyal?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 09 Dec 2016 08:45:00 +0000 Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying has opened up about how his family is dealing with all the negative headlines his position as leader of Hong Kong has brought, saying they are “taking the pressure well” and are fully supportive of his performance in office. In a wide-ranging interview with the Post last week, Leung shared insights into his family and hobbies. He called himself a “midnight gardener” who maintains a “plant kingdom” featuring fruits and vegetables from around the world, a... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/1982528/cy-leung-reflecting-his-hong-kong-leadership-says-family?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/1982528/cy-leung-reflecting-his-hong-kong-leadership-says-family?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 28 Jun 2016 04:30:00 +0000 Three flight attendants are making a legal bid set to reignite the favouritism row which engulfed Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying and his family over a bag his daughter left behind at the city’s airport. The trio of Hong Kong Dragon Airlines flight attendants want to overturn a ruling by the Airport Authority that security was not breached in March, when a bag the leader’s daughter left at check-in was taken to a boarding gate. In a High Court writ filed on Friday, flight attendants Law... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1981097/legal-bid-re-ignites-airport-favouritism-row-over-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1981097/legal-bid-re-ignites-airport-favouritism-row-over-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 25 Jun 2016 06:49:08 +0000 The film Truth by Robert Redford, which played recently in Hong Kong, tells the true story of the production and airing of a CBS 60 Minutes programme in September 2004. It used four of six documents obtained by producer Mary Mapes from unverifiable sources within the Texas Air National Guard to question – two months before the US presidential election – whether George W. Bush, who was seeking re-election, had completed his training at the Air National Guard in the 1970s. The documents, which... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1942987/where-proof-hong-kong-leader-leung-chun-yings-abuse-power?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1942987/where-proof-hong-kong-leader-leung-chun-yings-abuse-power?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 10 May 2016 04:00:05 +0000 Singer Leon Lai Ming has recently become an accidental hero, thanks mostly to Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying’s unpopularity. Forty-nine-year-old Lai is known as one of the four “heavenly kings” of Canto-pop. A Unicef Goodwill Ambassador, he is also recognised for his contributions to children’s welfare. Will show go on? Anxious fans await 4pm update from Canto-pop king Leon Lai Lai was due to perform six concerts at the Central Harbourfront from April 28 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of his... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1941494/canto-pop-king-leon-lai-shows-hong-kongs-chief-executive?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1941494/canto-pop-king-leon-lai-shows-hong-kongs-chief-executive?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 05 May 2016 05:11:57 +0000 Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying brushed off accusations that he had reduced an airline worker to tears during a phone conversation to help pass left luggage to his daughter in a restricted area of Hong Kong International Airport. Leung made his latest rebuttal on Tuesday ahead of the weekly meeting of the Executive Council, saying the Airport Authority had cleared him of any wrongdoing. “Even the special incident report of Cathay Pacific revealed by the media also did not mention I had made... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1940709/i-never-made-anyone-cry-chief-executive-leung-chun-ying?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1940709/i-never-made-anyone-cry-chief-executive-leung-chun-ying?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 03 May 2016 10:14:17 +0000 A cabin crew union has reiterated its demands to discuss pressing government aviation security issues with the city’s top civil aviation official as a left luggage controversy continues to dog Hong Kong’s chief executive and his family. The Hong Kong Cabin Crew Federation said the Civil Aviation Department needed to clarify whether there had been any deviation from standard security protocol in handling lost and found baggage. Speaking to reporters on Monday, the union said the department also... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1940503/union-demands-face-face-meeting-top-hong-kong-aviation?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1940503/union-demands-face-face-meeting-top-hong-kong-aviation?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 02 May 2016 07:45:15 +0000 Anyone travelling to Manila International airport would have observed that only those with boarding passes can enter the terminal building. Those wishing to meet or say farewell to others have to do it outside. And, after the Belgium airport bombing, similar security measures have been introduced there. Many will also recall the pro-democracy protests that paralysed Bangkok International Airport for weeks in 2008, with major inconveniences. These are some examples of the strategic importance of... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1940039/hong-kong-airport-protest-has-merely-created-unnecessary-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1940039/hong-kong-airport-protest-has-merely-created-unnecessary-and?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 01 May 2016 04:01:00 +0000 The more I look at our chief executive’s face on television or in newspapers these days, the more I want to ask him, in all sincerity: dude, is it really worth it? I mean, seriously, Leung Chun-ying looks gaunter, greyer and grimmer than ever. I remember how he bowed a lot that day in July 2012, when a small-circle election installed him as Hong Kong’s top official. These days, all I see is an increasingly stooped version of our fearless leader scurrying past angry protesters wherever he... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1939571/who-their-right-mind-would-want-be-hong-kongs-next-leader?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1939571/who-their-right-mind-would-want-be-hong-kongs-next-leader?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 28 Apr 2016 10:32:03 +0000 The saga over luggage left behind by Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying’s daughter took a new twist on Wednesday, with the Airport Authority confirming it turned down her offer to provide more information on the incident before the authority released its report. It also emerged there were discrepancies between the authority’s report on the episode and that of Cathay Pacific, deepening the mystery surrounding the episode. The Airport Authority said it had received a letter from Leung Chung-yan... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/1939396/late-offer-cy-leungs-daughter-provide-clarity?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/1939396/late-offer-cy-leungs-daughter-provide-clarity?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 27 Apr 2016 13:15:00 +0000 Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying has blamed miscommunication and mistranslation for conflicting claims as to whether his wife tried to take their daughter’s left luggage into a restricted area at Hong Kong International Airport. A report on the incident released by the Airport Authority on Monday raised eyebrows by describing how Leung’s wife, Regina Leung Tong Ching-yee, “appeared upset” and “couldn’t understand why no one could help her” and started walking towards the boarding gate to... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/1938522/wife-didnt-try-go-boarding-gate-says-cy-leung-contradicting?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/1938522/wife-didnt-try-go-boarding-gate-says-cy-leung-contradicting?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 26 Apr 2016 04:30:15 +0000 The Airport Authority has tried to ease the controversy over Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying’s daughter being delivered her left luggage in a restricted area by claiming that hundreds of such “courtesy deliveries” have been made over the past year at Hong Kong International Airport. The government yesterday published a report prepared by the authority categorically denying safety protocols might have been broken, or any special privileges granted, when Leung Chung-yan’s baggage was delivered to... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/1938450/hong-kong-airport-authority-issues-report-denying-any-safety?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/1938450/hong-kong-airport-authority-issues-report-denying-any-safety?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 25 Apr 2016 12:00:45 +0000 A radical lawmaker accused of assaulting Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying told a court on Friday that the city’s leader gave no physical reaction when a glass the lawmaker allegedly threw broke behind him, despite claiming he was shocked by a shattering noise. In the unprecedented trial, in which Leung appeared as a prosecution witness, Wong Yuk-man told Eastern Court that video footage showed Leung “stood as still as a plank” in the Legislative Council chamber while he was allegedly... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1937667/hong-kongs-chief-executive-didnt-flinch-when-glass?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1937667/hong-kongs-chief-executive-didnt-flinch-when-glass?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 22 Apr 2016 03:25:44 +0000 According to the International Air Transport Association (Iata), the total number of passengers carried annually by the world’s airlines will hit 3.8 billion this year, a rise of more than 30 per cent over 2011. Given this large volume, security for air traffic cannot be underestimated. Since the September 11 terrorist attack, civil aviation security has been drastically tightened around the globe. Yet, incidents such as the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, and the suicide bombing in a... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1937555/should-hong-kongs-airport-security-be-breached-vips?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1937555/should-hong-kongs-airport-security-be-breached-vips?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 21 Apr 2016 09:30:45 +0000 I don’t know what threatened airport security more: retrieving a piece of left luggage for the chief executive’s daughter or organising thousands of people to jam-pack into the main arrival hall of Hong Kong’s only airport. At best, the protest on Sunday, ostensibly organised by the Hong Kong Cabin Crew Federation, caused serious inconvenience to travellers. At worst, it took away police and security resources that could have been deployed to detect crime and guard against potential... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1936997/airport-sit-vain-attempt-hong-kongs-pan-democrats-show?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1936997/airport-sit-vain-attempt-hong-kongs-pan-democrats-show?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 18 Apr 2016 17:30:15 +0000 A former member of National People’s Congress said he “hates” abuse of privilege and would follow up on the saga sparked by a piece of left luggage belonging to Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying’s daughter last month. David Chu Yu-lin spoke after his surprising appearance at Sunday’s protest, in which more than 1,000 people staged a sit-in an the airport, protesting how Leung allegedly exerted pressure on airport staff to deliver Leung Chung-yan’s luggage from a non-restricted area to a closed-off... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/1936843/i-hate-abuse-privilege-leung-chun-ying-criticised-over?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/1936843/i-hate-abuse-privilege-leung-chun-ying-criticised-over?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 18 Apr 2016 05:22:17 +0000 Cabin crew members and their supporters staged a rowdy sit-in at Hong Kong International Airport yesterday to protest last month’s handling of a piece of left luggage belonging to Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying’s daughter. Shouts echoed in the arrival hall for nearly three hours as leaders of the protest group took turns to vent their anger at the Civil Aviation Department for its alleged special treatment of Leung’s younger daughter, Chung-yan, which they claimed could have compromised flight... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1936701/protest-hong-kong-international-airport-over-left-luggage-saga?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1936701/protest-hong-kong-international-airport-over-left-luggage-saga?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 17 Apr 2016 10:15:00 +0000 Hong Kong’s sole delegate to the National People’s Congress Standing Committee has waded into the debate surrounding a piece of luggage belonging to a daughter of the city’s top official. Of course, if what you did led to a public misunderstanding, then you should reflect and try to improve. Rita Fan Lai-tai Approached by reporters on Friday while at a public event, Rita Fan Hsu Lai-tai said she had no idea what exactly happened and that only those involved would have knowledge of the March 28... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/1936182/reflect-your-deeds-hong-kong-delegate-top-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/1936182/reflect-your-deeds-hong-kong-delegate-top-china?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 15 Apr 2016 10:23:44 +0000 Pressure is mounting for the Hong Kong government to reveal its full airport security protocol to stem public worries of a breach over the delivery of a piece of left-behind luggage to Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying’s daughter from a non-restricted to a closed-off area. It came as Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying insisted yesterday he had not exerted pressure on airport staff to bypass security and deliver the luggage to his daughter Chung-yan, who was at a boarding gate at the time. Leung said... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/1934661/left-luggage-saga-hong-kong-aviation-insiders-say-airlines?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/1934661/left-luggage-saga-hong-kong-aviation-insiders-say-airlines?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 08 Apr 2016 07:33:17 +0000