A refuse worker died on Friday after he was thought to have plunged 35 floors down a rubbish chute in a Hong Kong public housing block.Kwan Hau-kei, 58, a part-time cleaner, lay fatally injured in a bin at the bottom of the Tuen Mun residential tower for potentially several hours, before he was found and sent to hospital where he was later pronounced dead.The Labour Department has launched an investigation into the incident at King Lok House of Shan King Estate in Ming Kum Road. Police have it…

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Hong Kong police have arrested a woman after she was found carrying a stun gun shaped like a cigarette lighter, charging her with firearms offences.The 41-year-old suspect will appear in West Kowloon Court on Friday and face charges over possession of firearms without a licence, according to police.She was among three people detained in separate instances in Sham Shui Po between October and December last year.Police said the woman was arrested in October after the stun gun was found in her…

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A HK$39.6 million haul of ketamine smuggled into Hong Kong disguised as skincare cream has been uncovered in an industrial unit, leading to the arrest of a local man in one of two anti-narcotics operations on the same day this week.Acting chief inspector Wong Chi-man, of the narcotics bureau, said the nearly 62kg of the drug was intercepted in the operation before it could be circulated in the city’s underground market.Following a tip-off, officers stopped a 38-year-old man outside an…

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Police have arrested three people accused of stealing credit cards at a public sports facility in Hong Kong and using them to rack up HK$500,000 (US$64,500) in bills on shopping sprees over the past six months.The two men and one woman had been operating since July of last year and were involved in at least 11 cases in Happy Valley, according to the force.Senior Inspector Hung Yu-yan of Wan Chai police district said lockers in the changing rooms of Happy Valley Recreation Ground on Wong Nai…

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Suspected ketamine worth HK$12 million (US$1.55 million) which was disguised as milk powder and airmailed into Hong Kong from the Netherlands, was among HK$14.5 million worth of illegal drugs seized in an anti-narcotics operation.The haul of 19.2kg of ketamine was found hidden in an air consignment that was selected for inspection after arriving at the airport’s cargo terminal last Saturday, according to customs.Two local male suspects were also arrested in connection with the case.“The…

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Authorities confiscated some HK$46 million (US$5.9 million) worth of black-market cigarettes and arrested five men at a corrugated metal shed in northern Hong Kong on Tuesday evening – the second major bust involving contraband tobacco in the area in just four days.Assistant Superintendent Rachel Fong Kwun-ting, of the Customs and Excise Department’s revenue crime investigation bureau, said on Wednesday that she believed the illicit cigarettes were intended to meet demand in the city during the…

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Seven current and former Hong Kong bankers were arrested in a series of raids on Tuesday as police moved against an international money-laundering syndicate alleged to have handled HK$6.3 billion (US$813 million) in criminal proceeds – the biggest such case in nearly a decade.Superintendent Yip Wing-lam of the commercial crime bureau said the enterprise, which moved the funds through local bank accounts over the past four years, was the first known to involve Hong Kong bankers.Officers also…

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At least 10 domestic helpers were paid thousands of Hong Kong dollars each to open bank accounts that were used last year to collect and launder millions in swindled cash.Dozens of bank accounts were involved in the scheme and the funds were thought to have been tied to online fraud cases reported in the city and abroad, according to acting superintendent Ray Mo Siu-hei of Tuen Mun police district.Ten domestic helpers were among 11 women arrested between last Wednesday and this week for their…

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Hong Kong authorities have made their biggest ever seizure of counterfeit surgical masks, a consignment worth HK$8.5 million that was intercepted in the city on its way overseas.The record haul of about 330,000 bogus 3M-brand N95 respirators was confiscated from a logistics company’s warehouse in Kwai Chung last week, the Customs and Excise Department revealed on Tuesday.It was customs’ third such seizure in as many months, amid the world’s ongoing fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.Hong Kong…

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Hong Kong police are hunting for a gang of thieves who lured a female cryptocurrency trader to an office for a deal and robbed her of HK$3.5 million in cash at knifepoint on Monday afternoon.The robbery – the second such hold-up in two weeks – took place at the Ricky Centre on Chong Yip Street in Kwun Tong around 2.30pm, after the woman met a man posing as a buyer.She had recently sold the man digital money in three transactions, each involving HK$600,000 to HK$700,000, according to police…

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Firefighters pulled an unconscious man from a burning flat in northern Hong Kong on Monday after a refrigerator burst into flames just before daybreak, leading to about 100 residents evacuating the building.Emergency personnel were called to Lung Mun Oasis – a private housing estate on Lung Mun Road in Tuen Mun – after the fire erupted in the 16th-floor flat of Block 10 soon after 5.30am.The unit’s 32-year-old tenant was found unconscious at the scene and rescued by firefighters, according to…

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Recent police crackdowns on illegal racing in Hong Kong found two sports cars equipped with devices apparently meant to avoid being caught by detectors, the Post has learned, as complaints of speeding surged by 40 per cent for most of last year.One vehicle had an electronic gadget to flip up the licence plate and prevent it being photographed, while the other had a device to foil the laser lights emitted by police speed guns.Both are rarely seen in Hong Kong, and turned up as the number of…

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A Japanese language teacher and a part-time cabby were detained on Thursday for allegedly helping two suspects flee Hong Kong to escape arrest in connection with the case of a construction worker who was set ablaze in one of the most horrific acts of violence to emerge from 2019’s anti-government protests.The duo were accused of buying air tickets for the two suspects, aged 17 and 25, who flew out of the city shortly after the November 11, 2019 incident, according to acting police…

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A truck driver was flung out of his vehicle when it crashed into a roadside barrier on a motorway, but he survived the accident in northern Hong Kong on Friday.The incident occurred shortly before 8am when the container truck was travelling along Yuen Long Highway to Hung Tin Road via a slip road.Initial investigation showed the truck hit the noise barrier and rammed into a central divider.“The driver was thrown out of the vehicle and flung into the opposite lane by the force of the impact, ” a…

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A domestic helper in Hong Kong fell to her death while cleaning a window of a flat on Thursday.The Indonesian woman, 37, was working on the balcony of a sixth-floor flat in Kingsford Gardens on Tin Hau Temple Road, North Point, when the incident happened shortly before 10am.“Investigation showed the victim accidentally fell off the building while cleaning a window at the balcony,” a police spokesman said.Emergency personnel were called in when a passer-by found the woman lying unconscious…

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