3 more ex-AXA China Region insurance agents jailed for 25 to 34 months for conspiracy to defraud over commissions and bonuses totalling HK$950k: Source: ICAC | Source date: 15-Apr-2024 23:59 dlvr.it/T5YTvh

6 months' jail for ex-HKJC manager for watch bribe for favouring co-organiser of equestrian events: Source: ICAC | Source date: 10-Apr-2024 23:59 dlvr.it/T5YSwT

Insurance Authority and ICAC conduct first joint operation against suspected unlicensed selling to Mainland visitors: Source: ICAC | Source date: 11-Apr-2024 23:59 dlvr.it/T5YRcq

What's the first thing that visitors to #HK see as they enter the airport baggage hall from immigration? A welcoming display of tourist info? Nope, a wall of NatSec Police bounty posters for people who will never set foot here again. Totally at odds with efforts to relaunch HK.

Indeed The Economist I had the same experience, had to negotiate with your retention agents, finally got them to stop after telling them I am too busy fighting cancer to read their “newspaper”.

No no no. Welfare for businesses is antithetical to free markets and the HK System. Stop watering the weeds and let the flowers bloom, Paul. Why should taxpayers (including successful firms) keep supporting unviable firms by guaranteeing their debts? news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/compon…

The URA is obsolete and should be closed. Private sector can do renewal under the Land (Compulsory Sale for Redevelopment) Ordinance. No need for govt to keep overpaying for old properties via URA and making losses on developments at taxpayers' expense.
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SFC commences MMT proceedings against Ding Yi Feng former chairman over suspected market manipulation: Rather strangely, the SFC's notice to the MMT was dated 16-Aug-2023 but has only now been uploaded to the MMT website (the PDF was created on… dlvr.it/T4mztP

PECS Register monthly update: The latest career moves of former senior HK civil servants.
Source: HK Government | Source date: 28-Mar-2024 11:20 dlvr.it/T4k1LX

If you're wondering why the Henderson Land eyesore on the #HK harbourfront is taking so long, it's because the builders are playing a giant game of Minecraft in the mud.

Pre-trial review on 23-May-2024 for unlicensed dealing prosecution of Ms Lai Ka Yi: Source: SFC | Source date: 14-Mar-2024 20:54 dlvr.it/T4cXsJ

Retail trader Christine Yeung Tak Sum jailed for 18 months for securities fraud via illegal short selling: The stock involved, then Aurum Pacific (China) Group Ltd, is now named Wuxi Life (8148).
Source: SFC | Source date: 20-Mar-2024 17:59 dlvr.it/T4cWpd

3 ex-AXA insurance agents jailed for 12-35 months for HK$2.7m fraud and money-laundering: Another case involving commission payments to fictional downline insurance agents, who then kicked it back up the line, in the pyramid-selling scheme that is the HK… dlvr.it/T4cTwc

The #HK Govt will come to regret trying to make HK a crypto-hub via SFC. By trying to regulate & legitimise an ethereal industry whose main claim is being decentralized and trustless, it creates unrealistic expectations of protection and diverts resources to play whack-a-mole.

In the HK Standard, Blinken you'll miss it:

Wow. The last march I went on only attracted about 2 million people. What art should I bring for this one?

Is it just me, or is the Legislative Council office building, which is currently expanding to accommodate 20 added-value legislators, starting to look like a giant rubber stamp? Incidentally, a colony of Aliens is about to hatch on the lawn. Sigourney Weaver is on her way.