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Oct 21, 2023 | 
es.theepochtimes.com | Danny Tang
El Consejo de Consumidores de Hong Kong publicó el 16 de octubre el último número de su revista mensual “Choice”, que incluye un artículo sobre chocolates. En él se indica que en las 29 muestras de chocolate se detectó cadmio, metal pesado, y que una de ellas superaba incluso el límite reglamentario de la Unión Europea. Varias de las muestras también contenían plomo, cadmio y trazas de hidrocarburos aromáticos policíclicos (HAP), que pueden provocar cáncer.
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Jul 26, 2023 | 
theepochtimes.com | Danny Tang |Harry McKenny |May Tam |Sherry Lin
The 33rd Hong Kong Book Fair opens on July 19 for seven days at the Wanchai Convention and Exhibition Center. Books dealing with social movements’ politics are hardly to be found. Publishers banned from participating in last year’s fair remain conspicuous absentees this time. Some mainland visitors lamented the decline of freedoms in Hong Kong.
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Jul 15, 2023 | 
theepochtimes.com | Danny Tang |Summer Lawson
A National Security Law Research Report was released in Taiwan on June 30, a day before the anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover to China. The report was conducted by an anonymous Hong Kong research team. Three review mechanisms were used as an analytical framework to study five areas in Hong Kong which have been impacted upon. The team also hopes to improve existing awareness and support mechanisms which are already present in Hong Kong’s civil society.
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Jul 10, 2023 | 
theepochtimes.com | Danny Tang |Nathan Amery
On July 7, The Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) released the 2022 Press Freedom Index, showing that the public and journalists’ ratings of Hong Kong press freedom hit a new low.The public’s rating stood at 41.4 out of 100.
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Jul 6, 2023 | 
theepochtimes.com | Danny Tang |Nathan Amery
On June 28, Lord Patten of Barnes, the last Governor of Hong Kong, criticized CCP’s “comprehensively vengeful restrictions” on freedom of the press, civil society, and democracy in Hong Kong in his speech at a reception in Parliament to commemorate the 26th anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong and the third year since passing the Hong Kong National Security Law.
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Jul 4, 2023 | 
theepochtimes.com | Danny Tang |Nathan Amery
Experts Indicate Potential Damage to Central Nervous System Hong Kong—Two young girls were hospitalized in the intensive care unit at Tuen Mun Hospital after suspected consumption of cannabis gummies and fell into a coma. On June 27, their condition was upgraded from critical to stable, and they regained consciousness.
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Jun 30, 2023 | 
theepochtimes.com | Danny Tang |Harry McKenny
At the Hong Kong Hospital Authority (HA) meeting on June 29, Chairperson Fan Hong-ling gave an update to the media on the latest loss of medical care personnel. He pointed out that as of the end of April, the attrition situation of doctors has improved slightly, with a net increase of 79 full-time doctors in the past 12 months, while the exodus of nurses continues unabated, with a net loss of 458.
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Jun 19, 2023 | 
theepochtimes.com | Danny Tang
The Hong Kong Consumer Council tested 12 air circulator fans, with a full score of 5 points. Four samples received a rating of 4.5 points, while the other eight failed some safety test items, including two whose component flame retardancy did not meet standards. The Electrical and Mechanical Services Department (EMSD) announced yesterday that suppliers have decided to arrange product recalls to replace parts.
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May 29, 2023 | 
theepochtimes.com | Danny Tang |Summer Lawson
It has been over two years since the United Kingdom launched The BNO (5+1) visa for Hong Kong people at the end of January 2021. The British Home Office announced that as of the first quarter of 2023, a total of 139,144 people had been approved for BNO visas abroad, of which 113,500 have arrived in the UK. In the first quarter of 2023, the Home Office received 9,411 BNO applications.
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May 19, 2023 | 
theepochtimes.com | Danny Tang
Hong Kong’s High Court issued a ruling on May 19, dismissing the application for judicial review by the legal team of Jimmy Lai, founder of Apple Daily Newspaper and the Next Digital media group, in an effort to overturn the Committee for Safeguarding National Security’s “recommendation” to the Immigration Department, to deny British lawyer Tim Owen any working visa to come to Lai’s re-scheduled trial in September.
