Experts say inability of banks to verify data during application process and reliance on photos has left them vulnerable to scammers.
One man struck on forehead and left bleeding, while another reported chest pains.
Christine Choi also says Hong Kong institutions should accept more non-local students gradually to maintain teaching quality.
Commander of team that was recently deployed to Myanmar confident about securing international accreditation, hails good progress.
Officers discover 48kg of suspected cocaine after raiding 2,000 sq ft drug storage warehouse in Ta Kwu Ling.
Successful attempts to open bank accounts involved images created by merging scammers’ faces and those on lost IDs using artificial intelligence, force says.
Good food and affordable fun high on agenda, as number of residents leaving on Thursday just before Good Friday rises 15 per cent against last year.
Under authorities’ proposed legal amendments, those in breach can be sentenced to three years in jail and fined HK$50,000.
Woman swindled out of nearly HK$1 million in concert ticket fraud among 11,559 online scam cases recorded last year.
Experts joined government officials for panel after opening ceremony for this year’s National Security Education Day.
Xia Baolong calls US ‘the biggest sinister manipulator undermining human rights, freedom, the rule of law, prosperity and stability in Hong Kong’.
City also records rise in number of non-local women giving birth last year, with 78 per cent of 2,396 cases involving mainlanders.
Ng Ching-ching suffers head injury while handling supplies with care team at Yiu Tung Estate and is sent to hospital for treatment.
The 51-strong team met at Hong Kong airport by top officials including city leader John Lee and Myanmar’s consul general.
Correctional Services Department has produced two films based on the stories of current and former inmates.
Force says fraudsters impersonated police officers outside government buildings, slapped victims with fines over fake money-laundering charges.
At signing ceremony with 18 non-local companies, finance chief says development of tech and innovation ‘more urgent’ amid geopolitical tensions.
Home and youth affairs minister Alice Mak says duplicating views or ‘speaking for the sake of speaking’ would be ‘meaningless’.
Commissioner of Police Joe Chow also says he is neither a ‘hawkish’ hardliner nor a ‘dovish’ moderate when it comes to enforcing the law.
Driver mistakes car’s accelerator for brake, causing vehicle to mount pavement outside shopping centre, source says.
Customs chief Chan Tsz-tat says exact launch date to depend on how much time is needed to amend the relevant laws, among other factors.
Teenage boy who took pictures of younger sister among those charged locally after operation across East and Southeast Asia in February, March.
Government spokesman says month-long consultation will consider previous proposal by Jockey Club, but bets on local matches won’t be allowed.
Joe Chow, 52, former police second-in-command, takes helm of city’s 27,000-strong force, succeeding Raymond Siu.
Death toll has exceeded 2,000, with 3,900 people injured and at least 270 more still missing.
Justice minister Paul Lam, who is among those sanctioned, says move ‘completely groundless’ as he dismisses potential impact.
Temperatures expected to range between 12 and 16 degrees on Sunday.
Education Bureau ‘highly concerned’ after Douyin clip shows Hong Kong students sneaking out after dark to party at nightclub in Meizhou.
Officers find bullion hidden in 14 suitcases with Russian doll-like arrangement of smaller ones within each of them.
Previous case resulted in 23 convictions over alleged HK$6 million of bribes from 58 imported workers on the airport’s third-runway project.