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The city’s success and prosperity, now as in the past, depends on maintaining the rule of law both as a matter of perception and reality.
The government must soon determine a target population size for the animals and shift into population management, lest the culling programme become an extermination plan.
The danger of the broad wording is that Hongkongers may shun international engagement at time when the city needs more not less.
Despite rapid start to scrutiny of proposed Article 23 security legislation by lawmakers, there should be no compromise on making changes and improvements.
A worrying investigation by the consumer watchdog identified problems that will only deepen unless a fix is found.
A comprehensive publicity drive is needed to ensure greater community awareness by the time the new legislation comes into effect.
- Peter Murrell was charged with embezzlement of funds from Sturgeon’s pro-independence Scottish National Party, the BBC and other media reported
- Murrell, former SNP chief executive, was previously arrested in April 2023. Investigation centres on missing funds of US$754,140, raised in 2017
The sport’s top-paid coach has led her teams to 4 national championship wins – but she has also been called a homophobe, and appeared callous in the face of Brittney Griner’s detention
Mid-range launcher now in the Philippines is a ‘powerful weapon’ capable of retaliatory strikes on mainland China, analysts say.
The former press sec is ex-Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee’s daughter, battled cancer and comments about her body, and has had a rocky relationship with media
Nephrologist Chan Siu-kim tells Coroner’s Court he did not consider use of an antiviral drug usually needed for liver problems such as hepatitis B.
Mahathir, 98, questions why the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission has concluded he committed an offence when he is not formally being investigated.
‘Devil’s advocate’ Dershowitz worked on Trump’s acquittal in his first impeachment trial, and defended Mike Tyson after his conviction for rape – but he regrets taking Jeffrey Epstein on as a client
Donald Trump is being investigated over his role in hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016. Jury selection expected to resume on Tuesday.
Britain is blatantly interfering with Hong Kong affairs in a futile attempt to undermine the city’s prosperity and stability, government says.
Lam Chi-kwan admits he did not prescribe antiviral drug as he was distracted by ‘phone ringing’ and ‘people entering the room’ to see him.
Vigilance is required because of the ‘sudden’ and ‘persistent’ nature of national security risks, he says.
The Moti Mahal and Daryaganj restaurant chains have taken each other to court in New Delhi for the right to be recognised as the famous dish’s inventor.
Chief Executive John Lee, also addressing National Security Education Day ceremony, reminds residents to remain vigilant over persistent risks.
City’s first awareness day following implementation of domestic national security law will be held on Monday and is set to be biggest since 2021 launch.
The law, a social reform that Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s liberal-leaning government pledged when it took office in 2021, will take effect on November 1.
Jay Leno was officially granted conservatorship of his wife Mavis amid her ongoing struggles with advanced dementia – she ‘sometimes does not know her husband’
Abortion is a highly divisive issue in the traditionally Roman Catholic country, which has one of the most restrictive laws in Europe.
Lee George Lam denies link to US$12.5 billion fraud by Vietnamese real estate tycoon Truong My Lan, insisting he was not part of management of Saigon Commercial Bank at the time.
Paralegal Wayland Chan explains his links to tycoon Jimmy Lai, his right-hand man Mark Simon and activist Andy Li at West Kowloon Court.
The ICC has called for translators in Tagalog and Cebuano, languages involved in the crimes against humanity trial against the ex-Philippine leader.
Hu Binchen, director of International Cooperation Bureau, and Liu Zhongyi, director of Criminal Investigation Bureau, appointed assistant ministers at China’s Ministry of Public Security.
Secretary for Justice Paul Lam also says many developing countries are eager to get legal training in Hong Kong.
Trump called his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen and porn star Stormy Daniels ‘two sleaze bags who have, with their lies and misrepresentations, cost our Country dearly!’ on his Truth Social platform.
Joseph John, a UK resident of Portuguese nationality, sentenced to five years in jail for posting seditious material online which called for return to British rule.
Knox’s story will be made into a series co-executive-produced by Monica Lewinsky – but despite having been acquitted of murder, her legal battles in Italy are not yet over
China’s ambassador to New Zealand had called the use of ‘shiprider’ pacts between the US and Vanuatu, Kiribati and Papua New Guinea to ‘carry out law enforcement activities against China’s fishing vessels’ a violation of international law.
Victor Dawes says city’s hosting of fourth global conference for International Advocacy Training Council serves as ‘vote of confidence’ in local law profession.
