Police raided a Hong Kong pub early on Friday morning, arresting four employees on suspicion of breaking the coronavirus regulations and briefly detaining 18 teenagers.The predawn operation targeted a business on Minden Avenue in Tsim Sha Tsui which was still open at 4am, despite bars being ordered to close between midnight and 5am under the city’s social-distancing rules.According to police, the eight boys and 10 girls, aged between 14 and 17, were taken to Tsim Sha Tsui Police Station before… [...]

Hong Kong’s leader has denied that the move by police to allow only government-recognised media access to restricted areas amounts to a suppression of press freedom.Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor weighed in on the topic for the first time on Friday, two days after the force imposed its new media guidelines.The rules effectively bar freelancers, student journalists and workers under unregistered online media from covering police press briefings, and entering cordoned-off areas such… [...]

Hong Kong’s embattled rail operator is reviewing the way it is run and makes decisions in a bid to reduce the scope for error and salvage its reputation following a series of project blunders and other high-profile setbacks, the Post has learned.The MTR Corporation’s governance inquiry coincides with the launch of a new strategy to guide the rail giant’s development over the next decade, as its chairman told workers that changes were unavoidable.In an email to all MTR staff on Thursday obtained… [...]

Hong Kong police are on the hunt for three men who posed as plain-clothes officers and robbed six people of more than HK$35,000 (US$4,515) at an illegal gambling den in Mong Kok before daybreak on Thursday.The hold-up happened in a 10th-floor flat in the Cosmopolitan Centre on Nathan Road at around 5am, according to police. The building is about 100 metres (110 yards) from Mong Kok Police Station.The three men, aged between 20 and 30, reportedly told a security guard they were police officers… [...]

Only about one in five of Hong Kong’s international, private and semi-private schools will increase tuition fees this academic year amid an economic downturn made worse by Covid-19, but three are raising their rates by more than 10 per cent.The Education Bureau revealed on Thursday that 45 schools had applied for and received permission to raise fees in 2020-21, a sharp drop from 179 the year before.Ten of the city’s 53 international schools, and 12 of its 80 private ones are raising fees this… [...]