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     A spokesman of the Civil Engineering and Development Department (CEDD) said that a male worker of a sub-contractor felt unwell yesterday (February 7) while working at a work site under Site Formation and Infrastructure Works for Public Housing Developments at Tuen Mun Central Phase 2. He was sent to hospital and passed away in the afternoon.
      
     About 11am yesterday, the man and four other workers were carrying out tree removal works. He suddenly felt unwell and was sent to Tuen Mun Hospital by the sub-contractor. At around 4pm, he passed away. The CEDD expressed its deepest condolences to the deceased’s family, and has requested the contractor to provide appropriate assistance to the deceased’s family.
      
     The CEDD and the contractor will render assistance to the Labour Department in the investigation of the incident. read more

     The National Security Department of the Hong Kong Police Force arrested a 26-year-old man yesterday (February 6) for “perverting the course of justice” and today (February 7) laid a holding charge against the man with one count of “doing an act or a series of acts tending and intended to pervert the course of public justice”.

     The case will be mentioned at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts tomorrow morning (February 8). read more

     â€‹The Chief Executive, Mr John Lee, and his wife, Mrs Janet Lee, began their visit to Harbin today (February 7). They attended a welcome banquet hosted by President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan for international di… read more

     â€‹The Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, London (London ETO) greeted the Year of the Snake in the United Kingdom (UK) by hosting an evening reception in London on February 6 (London time) and supporting a large-scale London Chinatown celebration at Trafalgar Square, Chinatown, and Charing Cross Road on February 2.

     The Director-General of the London ETO, Mr Gilford Law, welcomed over 450 guests at a Year of the Snake reception on February 6 at The Orangery, Kensington Palace, in London. Among the guests were UK government officials, parliamentarians, borough mayors in London, senior diplomats, leading figures in the business sector, academics, media representatives, and members of the Chinese community.
      
     Speaking at the reception, Mr Law introduced the latest developments in Hong Kong on its economic and cultural fronts. Mr Law elaborated, “Hong Kong continues to flourish as a global business hub. Ranked the world’s freest economy, the city welcomed a record 9 960 non-local companies last year, including 720 from the UK, surpassing pre-COVID levels. This reaffirms Hong Kong’s role as a ‘super connector’ for British businesses. Beyond the economic sphere, we also saw the bilateral ties between Hong Kong and the UK reinforcing and deepening, from enhanced government-to-government dialogue to cultural and creative collaboration.”

     On February 2, the London ETO supported the grand annual Chinese New Year celebration in London’s Chinatown, drawing audiences in the hundreds in some places and in the thousands in others, along the streets of Central London. Mr Law, alongside esteemed guests such as the Deputy Mayor for Communities and Social Justice of London, Dr Debbie Weekes-Bernard; Member of Parliament for the Cities of London and Westminster Ms Rachel Blake; and the Lord Mayor of Westminster, Councillor Robert Rigby, greeted the crowds in London from an open-air double-decker bus and onstage. Furthermore, a range of cultural and music performances took place at Trafalgar Square.
      
     The London ETO will organise further events to celebrate the Year of the Snake in the countries under its purview in the coming weeks.

                    

     Hong Kong Customs detected a case involving etomidate (the main ingredient of “space oil drug”), a kind of Part 1 poison under the Pharmacy and Poisons Regulations at Hong Kong International Airport and seized about one kilogram of suspected “space oil drug” with an estimated market value of about $1 million on February 5.
      
     Through risk assessment, Customs officers on the aforementioned date inspected one air parcel, declared as lactose, arriving in Hong Kong from India. Upon inspection, Customs officers found the batch of suspected “space oil drug” concealed inside a carton box of the parcel.
      
     After a follow-up investigation, Customs officers today (February 7) conducted a controlled delivery operation in Cheung Sha Wan and arrested a 39-year-old man suspected to be connected with the case.
      
     The arrested man has been charged with one count of importing prohibited articles not under and in accordance with an import licence. The case will be brought up at the Kowloon City Magistrates’ Courts tomorrow (February 8).
      
     Customs will continue to step up enforcement against “space oil drug” through intelligence analysis and maintain close contact with the logistics industry. The department reminds logistics companies to remain vigilant and report to Customs any suspicious activities.

     Under the Import and Export Ordinance, importing prohibited articles not under and in accordance with an import licence is liable to a maximum fine of $2 million and imprisonment for seven years.

     Members of the public may report any suspected drug trafficking activities to Customs’ 24-hour hotline 182 8080 or its dedicated crime-reporting email account (crimereport@customs.gov.hk) or online form (eform.cefs.gov.hk/form/ced002).