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South China Morning Post
11-07-2025
- Health
- South China Morning Post
Hong Kong doctor jailed for issuing Covid vaccine exemptions without medical checks
A Hong Kong doctor has been jailed for nine months for issuing Covid-19 vaccination exemption certificates to four people without making a proper medical diagnosis, as a court heard how he raked in more than HK$4.6 million (US$585,980) from those who wanted to avoid the inoculations. Advertisement The District Court on Friday sentenced Dr Wong Ping-leung for his dishonest use of the government's electronic health record system to generate the certificates at his clinic in Chai Wan's Hing Wah Plaza between April and June 2022. Judge Kwok Wai-kin said the 62-year-old was blinded by greed, noting that he had made more than HK$4.6 million in consultation fees in just 4½ months from thousands of residents who wanted the exemptions. The judge also slammed the accused for undermining the government's effort to combat the pandemic , as he rejected the defence's request to sentence him to community service. Wong is the first to be sanctioned by a court after police accused seven doctors of fraudulently issuing vaccination exemption certificates without observing the Department of Health's guidelines. Advertisement The certificates were part of the government's vaccine pass scheme to boost the inoculation rate by limiting the mobility of those who were unvaccinated. The scheme ran from February to December 2022.
South China Morning Post
07-07-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Meet the artists remoulding the rules of working with clay
In Hong Kong, no studio bends the rules of clay quite like the one Julie Progin and Jesse Mc Lin have built in Chai Wan. Inside the 3,500 sq ft industrial warehouse, some vases appear to ooze frozen liquid; others erupt in otherworldly forms – futuristic landscapes in shades of blue, grey and violet. Elsewhere, perforated surfaces mimic coral or scholar rocks, emerging from a sea of porcelain. Advertisement Progin and Mc Lin met in New York and launched their first ceramics brand, Latitude 22N, in Brooklyn. By 2007, they'd relocated it to Hong Kong, where Progin grew up, and in 2008 opened a second studio in Jingdezhen, the porcelain capital of China , in Jiangxi province. What began as a pragmatic design practice soon shifted to something less easily defined, as the couple discovered while preparing for their first solo exhibition, 'Fragment(s), The Poetics of Decay'. Since a piece from that collection was acquired by M+ in 2013, the duo's work has continued to edge towards fine art, blurring the line between craft, object and sculpture, most recently in 'Metamorphism', a show presented during Milan Design Week 2025 in April. A piece from Julie Progin and Jesse Mc Lin Homonyms series. Photo: Jocelyn Tam 'To survive creatively in Hong Kong, which can be difficult, the more flexible you are, the better,' says Mc Lin. We're standing in what he calls their 'hang test space', a white-walled enclave within the studio where pieces are pulled out of the visual chaos and held to the light. 'You need to take the work out of a distracting space and ask: could it change? Could it develop? Could it be better?' Behind a set of wide sliding doors, the studio opens into the heart of their practice: a space where much of the experimenting and creation happens. Two kilns anchor one corner. A large table is strewn with moulds and tools. Off to the side, fragments of ceramics, minerals and rocks they've collected over the years form a kind of private reference library. It became about creating a kind of memory Julie Progin They are known for experimenting with porcelain's intrinsic qualities in ways that aren't typically visible in the mainstream, challenging conventional depictions. In 'Fragments', Progin and Mc Lin use broken and eroded moulds to craft large, distorted vases that explore how uniqueness can be achieved through mass production. In their 'Clay Bodies' series, they use high temperatures, encouraging the clay to collapse in the kiln, emphasising its tendency towards instability and transformation. Advertisement
South China Morning Post
18-06-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Court suspends work ban on Hong Kong contractor linked to 5 site deaths
A Hong Kong construction company linked to five workplace deaths in three accidents will have a ban on its operating licence lifted following a temporary court order, even as two of the firm's six contracts have been terminated. Advertisement The Development Bureau said on Wednesday that Aggressive Construction Company would remain on the government's registered list of contractors on Friday after the Court of First Instance allowed the firm to apply for a stay of execution on the decision. It said project owners could monitor Aggressive's performance at sites operated by the company if there were still construction activities. Authorities had already terminated its contract for the Chai Wan Government Complex public works project on Sunday after assessing that the firm's performance was 'far below the contractual requirements'. 'The government will endeavour to arrange in the near term for a new contractor to take over and finish the remaining works,' the spokesman said. Advertisement The Chai Wan project was one of the six developments undertaken by Aggressive when authorities last month announced the company would be removed from the registered list of contractors coming Friday. Aggressive earlier filed an appeal against the government after authorities rejected its licence renewal due to safety concerns arising from three fatal incidents.
South China Morning Post
07-06-2025
- South China Morning Post
Hong Kong police arrest 2, hunting for third over burglaries at antiques warehouse
Hong Kong police have arrested two men and are hunting for a third in connection with two burglaries at an antiques warehouse where more than 100 jade pieces, antiques and accessories valued at over HK$2 million (US$254,860) were stolen. The force said on Saturday that officers had arrested two suspects, a 41-year-old tattoo artist and a 50-year-old renovation worker, in Sau Mau Ping in Kowloon and Chai Wan on Hong Kong Island the day before. The third suspect remains at large. Chan Chi-leung, an acting assistant district commander of the force's Eastern district crime division, said the break-ins occurred at a warehouse on Tai Man Street in Chai Wan on May 14 and Thursday. 'The person in charge of the company filed police reports in late May and early June, stating that the warehouse had been burglarised,' Chan said. 'The victim's initial estimate places the total value of the stolen items at over HK$2 million, but the exact amount and losses are still being tallied.' An Eastern district crime squad took over the investigation, poring over a large amount of security footage, including from the force's citywide SmartView camera system. 'Coupled with intelligence analysis, police arrested two men suspected to be involved in the case [on Friday] and successfully recovered a portion of the stolen goods,' Chan said, adding that the investigation was ongoing. Inspector Tse Yuen-ying of the district crime squad said the first burglary on May 14 was a solo job. The same suspect allegedly returned with two accomplices on Thursday.
South China Morning Post
31-05-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Hong Kong's MTR Corporation opens the Island line in 1985 — from the SCMP archive
This article was first published on June 1, 1985. Advertisement by Francis Li and Louis Liu Massive roll-up as new line opens Huge crowds rolled up to try out the Mass Transit Railway Island line which went into operation without a hitch on Friday (May 31, 1985). An MTR Corporation spokesman said on Friday night more than 136,000 people travelled on the line between Chai Wan and Admiralty stations in the first five hours after it opened for commuters at 2pm. Rostered station staff helped by volunteer MTR workers turned out in force to help passengers, many of whom were first-time MTR commuters. Advertisement The Causeway Bay station was so busy that many commuters said they had to queue for nearly 20 minutes for a ticket, well before the evening rush hours.
