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1 week ago |
scmp.com | Ng Kang-chung
Government hopes regulating basketball betting will claw back HK$90 billion in turnover lost to illegal gambling operatorsPublished: 11:52pm, 14 Apr 2025Hong Kong lawmakers have urged officials to use a projected HK$1.5 billion (US$193 million) in extra tax revenue from legalising basketball betting to develop local sports, as they gave an initial nod to a government plan to allow gambling on overseas games.
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1 week ago |
scmp.com | Ng Kang-chung |Willa Wu
United States President Donald Trump has unleashed a trade war by imposing “reciprocal tariffs” on about 90 countries across the globe. After temporarily dropping the new tariffs to 10 per cent for 90 days on April 9 to allow trade negotiations with those countries, he hit China harder and raised the levy on Chinese imports to a whopping 145 per cent. Beijing vowed to “fight to the end” and slapped tit-for-tat tariffs on American goods in retaliation.
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1 week ago |
scmp.com | Ng Kang-chung
Extra charges against Mak Kwok-hung include accepting an advantage as a public servant and 28 counts of fraudPublished: 5:06pm, 11 Apr 2025A former Hong Kong police officer is facing 30 counts of bribery and fraud after he was previously charged by the city’s anti-corruption agency with accepting an unauthorised loan from someone linked to an investigation.
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2 weeks ago |
scmp.com | Ng Kang-chung
Hong Kong’s judiciary has said it expects “substantial improvements” to long waiting times for court proceedings as most cases related to the social unrest six years ago and national security have concluded. The courts had cleared about 96 per cent of more than 2,350 cases linked to the 2019 anti-government protests, the judiciary told lawmakers on Monday. About 86 per cent of more than 230 national security cases had been brought to “various levels of court”.
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2 weeks ago |
scmp.com | Ng Kang-chung
Hong Kong exporters will bear the brunt of United States President Donald Trump’s crackdown on duty-free entry for low-value packages shipped from the city and mainland China from May 2, economists and industry players have warned.
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