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Police have arrested two people after two victims lost a combined HK$900,000 to a scammer claiming to be locked out of their home and in need of money for a locksmith.
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Police said officers received a report from a Tuen Mun resident on Monday, saying she was approached by a woman on the street who said she had forgotten her keys.
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Hong Kong police have arrested a 61-year-old woman and a domestic worker over suspected child neglect after video clips of a girl crying for help went viral on social media.
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Police said on Friday they were investigating the suspected maltreatment of an 11-year-old girl by her family, following a referral from the Social Welfare Department.
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A Hong Kong man convicted of 12 sexual offences involving underage girls has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
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High Court Judge Andrew Chan on Thursday called Fan Chi-yuen, a 22-year-old associate degree student in psychology at the time of the offences, "a very sick individual" who saw all girls as "targets" and wanted "nothing other than sex" from his victims.
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Hong Kong's Digital Policy Office has urged government departments, bureaus and other public organisations to perform immediate security reviews after vulnerabilities were found in the PHP web programming language.
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It urged potentially affected bodies to conduct reviews "to check whether their information systems had been affected and complete all patching work as soon as possible; otherwise, the relevant systems should be temporarily taken offline or isolated to reduce the risk of malicious intrusion," according to a Thursday press release.
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China's first fully AI-generated feature film opens in cinemas on Friday, in what promises to be a tough box-office test for the country's booming tech industry as advance ticket sales lag.
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More than 10,000 screenings of "Sanxingdui: Future Past", a sci-fi thriller, are scheduled for Friday, according to ticketing platform Maoyan.
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Forty-two swimmers in seven teams will set off from Cyberport to relay swim 45 kilometres around Hong Kong Island on November 16 as part of a HK$4 million fundraiser for the Splash Foundation. The charity teaches disadvantaged communities to swim.
“Fifty years ago, swimming around Hong Kong Island was a feat only one person had achieved. Thanks to the government’s efforts to clean up Hong Kong’s harbour, it’s now becoming one of the world’s iconic marathon swims, alongside Manhattan Island and the English Channel. This year, 42 swimmers will do it together so that 2,000 more people can learn to swim,” said Simon Holliday, co-Founder of Splash Foundation, in a Friday press relase.
Hong Kong authorities have slammed the UK for making "untruthful remarks, slanders and smears" about the city's affairs in its latest six-monthly report that described the "expanding scope and application" of national security laws in the financial hub.
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The Hong Kong government said on Friday that it "strongly condemns and firmly rejects" the UK's report on the city, a former British colony that was handed back to Chinese rule in 1997.
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