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Police have made their first arrests under Hong Kong’s new domestic national security legislation by detaining six people for allegedly publishing seditious materials linked to the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown [...]

Police have arrested 20 people in a crackdown on a triad-controlled syndicate that lured domestic helpers with as little as HK$1,000 each to set up bank accounts for laundering criminal [...]

Five ­suspected triad members have been arrested in a crackdown on a criminal gang accused of recruiting young people for illegal debt collection activities. Inspector Ng Man-fong of the Eastern [...]

A policewoman who used to work at the force’s secret technical ­services division has been selected as Hong Kong’s first astronaut for the country’s space programme after competing with more [...]

Police have arrested 100 people on suspicion of swindling 295 residents out of more than HK$180 million in a two-week crackdown on fraud and ­money-laundering syndicates. The force said the [...]

Cabbies acting as passengers have attempted to trick Uber drivers into stopping near police patrols in an effort to “spontaneously report” illegal ride-hailing ­services, according to a spate of videos [...]

A 37-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with seven traffic-related offences after a photo of her riding an e-bike with two children was posted online. Police yesterday said investigations [...]

Authorities should take steps to identify at an early stage high-risk families with members who have mental disabilities and assign case ­managers to support them, social welfare leaders say, following [...]

A woman and her mentally disabled son were found dead in a public housing flat yesterday, in a murder-suicide suspected to be related to her concerns she could not care [...]

A businessman and his son have surrendered to police over their role in the abduction of a ­cryptocurrency investor, the Post has learned. The pair, accompanied by their lawyer, turned [...]

Customs has shut down two online stores selling fake brand-name perfume and cosmetic products, arresting a pair of ­suspects and seizing HK$920,000 worth of counterfeit goods. Inspector Liu Man-chun, of [...]

Police have launched a manhunt for at least four men who abducted a cryptocurrency investor and attacked her husband with a stun gun after intercepting their car in a rural [...]

Police drew their weapons to arrest five alleged smash-­and-grab thieves at a watch and ­jewellery store in Tsim Sha Tsui yesterday. A police source said the arrests were made at [...]

A woman was bundled into a car by two men at a road junction in broad daylight in Tsim Sha Tsui yesterday, triggering a citywide police search before she was [...]

A woman has been cheated out of more than HK$1 million after fraudsters posing as lawyers promised to help her recover HK$80,000 she lost to a romance scam a few [...]

Customs officers have arrested two men and confiscated more than 56,000 counterfeit products worth nearly HK$17 million in a joint operation with mainland and Macau authorities. Inspector Terence Wong Tsz-kin [...]

Police have arrested 142 people in an 11-day crackdown on triad-controlled drug, sex and gambling businesses. Senior Inspector Thomas Anthony Lo of the force’s Hong Kong Island regional anti-triad squad [...]

The amount of illegal drugs ­confiscated from air travellers at Hong Kong International Airport soared to 370kg in the first four months of the year – a 32 per cent [...]

Police have arrested a 23-year-old man in connection with a spate of vandalism and nuisance-related activities targeting ethnic minority residents from dozens of households at a public estate. Superintendent Alan [...]

A man has been remanded in custody after he was charged with possession of 18 handguns, over 100 rounds of ammunition and over 100 firearms components. Joseph Ho Mang-keung, 67, [...]

Customs officers have arrested two former company directors after 451 shoppers complained they had not received HK$400,000 worth of goods from a now-closed online household products store. Senior Inspector Wong [...]

Hong Kong has splashed out HK$125 million on what the builder of a vessel claims is the world’s ­biggest self-righting ­fireboat, designed to recover from a ­complete capsize in as [...]

Online scammers are impersonating recyclers of second-hand clothing to steal personal data including bank account details from residents, prompting police to warn the public over the ruse. Fraudsters were creating [...]

Police have arrested 1,121 people in a three-week crackdown on fraud syndicates accused of using internet and phone scams to dupe victims out of about HK$2.2 billion. The force yesterday [...]

A discarded cigarette butt among plastic rubbish bags is suspected to have sparked Wednesday’s fire that killed five people in a crowded old Yau Ma Tei building full of subdivided [...]

At least five people were killed and 43 others injured yesterday after an intense fire broke out in a 60-year-old Yau Ma Tei tenement building that contained 35 guest houses [...]

Customs has seized gold worth HK$84 million disguised as machine parts in two air compressors from a Japan-bound consignment at the airport, the biggest smuggling bust of the precious metal [...]

Police in Hong Kong and overseas have arrested 272 suspects in an unprecedented joint operation targeting child pornography. The force revealed yesterday it had linked up with counterparts in Australia, [...]

Police have launched an investigation following the discovery of a HK$19 million haul of cocaine on a popular beach. Officers arrived at Chung Hom Kok Beach in Stanley in Southern [...]

A woman in her 80s has become the latest victim in the city of a romance scam after she was tricked into buying four iTunes gift cards worth a total [...]

Police arrested three teenagers and rescued a 19-year-old who was allegedly beaten with a baseball bat and detained in a hotel room yesterday, after his assailants demanded he hand over [...]

Online scammers swindled their victims out of more than HK$136 million in the space of a week, prompting police to warn the public to stay alert for internet fraud. The [...]

An 84-year-old man was found dead with tape covering his nose and mouth while his wife was discovered injured and unconscious in the bedroom of their upscale flat yesterday in [...]

Customs officers have arrested two directors and a saleswoman working at beauty parlours for allegedly using counterfeit ­skincare machines on clients after carrying out undercover operations. Inspector Vincent Kan Tsz-him [...]

A police officer drew his gun to arrest a man, 33, who was yelling at passers-by at a bus stop yesterday and had a knife. Emergency personnel arrived at the [...]

Police have arrested four men in a crackdown on a fraud syndicate suspected of siphoning HK$23 million from residents through a variety of scams over a year. Inspector Tong King-pui [...]

A housewife was duped out of more than HK$7.1 million after being tricked into using a bogus trading platform to invest in cryptocurrency. The woman, 46, realised she had been [...]

Customs officers seized black market cigarettes worth more than HK$208 million in the first 15 days since a tobacco tax increase came into force as part of last month’s budget. [...]

Police have rounded up 122 ­people on suspicion of swindling 256 residents out of about HK$91.5 million as part of a ­crackdown on online scams and telephone deception. Inspector Shum [...]

An alleged dispute between two triad gangs over a woman triggered three attacks on drivers in their cars within the space of four hours yesterday that left three men in [...]

Customs officers have arrested two men arriving from Canada on suspicion of smuggling cannabis buds worth HK$18 million into the city, marking the largest passenger marijuana trafficking case detected at [...]

Hong Kong customs officers have made their largest in-town seizure of cannabis buds, confiscating a haul worth HK$115 million during a raid on a warehouse in the New Territories. Customs [...]

Police have arrested a man and a woman suspected of being the parents of two babies whose bodies were found in separate glass bottles inside a rented flat. Chief Inspector [...]

Hong Kong customs officers have confiscated HK$211 million worth of contraband products headed for the mainland after ­intercepting two commercial boats, known as river trade vessels, in the city’s northwestern [...]

Commissioner of Police Ray­mond Siu Chak-yee has emphasised the importance of cooperation between the force and the security industry after the city recorded a 28 per cent increase in overall [...]

Police have arrested two men and confiscated suspected cocaine worth HK$100 million found in a hidden compartment inside a shipping container and two ­vehicles in three rural areas in the [...]

Bamboo scaffolding that broke free from its fixtures, leaving two workers dead and three injured at a high-rise building under ­construction at the ­former airport, could have been altered between [...]

Two workers were killed and three others injured yesterday after bamboo scaffolding around a 30-storey building under ­construction on Hong Kong’s former airport runway collapsed. One of the survivors – [...]

Police have arrested a university student on suspicion of swindling two residents out of more than HK$1.6 million in two separate phone scams, the Post has learned. The engineering student, [...]