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Hong Kong securities regulator warns licensed firms of AI-driven cyber threats

Hong Kong securities regulator warns licensed firms of AI-driven cyber threats

Published by Sam Flores

June 2 : Hong Kong’s securities regulator on Tuesday urged licensed firms to bolster their cybersecurity defenses, warning of a surge in increasingly advanced and targeted AI-driven cyber threats. • In a circular, the Securities and Futures Commission said licensed firms, specifically internet brokers and virtual asset-trading platforms, should adopt up-to-date safeguards to prevent unauthorised access to client data and guard against asset misappropriation. • Incidents of cyberattack increased 27 per cent to 15,877 in 2025 from 12,536 in 2024, the body said, referring to data from the Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre. • The regulator said AI was enabling malicious actors to identify and exploit vulnerabilities faster and launch large-scale attacks, while lowering barriers to phishing and social engineering. • The SFC also identified areas where companies can strengthen cybersecurity, including patching and vulnerability management, detection and monitoring, and incident response and recovery. • Eric Yip, the SFC’s executive director of intermediaries, said senior management at licensed firms should take primary responsibility for cyber resilience and protecting client assets. • Recently, …

Shanghai Film Festival to Open With Hong Kong Drama ‘Afterpiece’

Shanghai Film Festival to Open With Hong Kong Drama ‘Afterpiece’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Hong Kong drama Afterpiece, produced by industry veteran Derek Yee and helmed by first-time feature filmmaker Keane T.K. Wong, will world-premiere as the opening film of the 28th Shanghai International Film Festival, the festival announced this week. The event’s full lineup will be unveiled on June 3, and the festival runs June 12-21 this year. Written and directed by Wong, Afterpiece follows Owen, a celebrated stage director who has spent more than a decade in creative paralysis. When his former lover resurfaces and his wife begins to drift toward betrayal, Owen commits to writing, directing and starring in a new theatrical production — only to become dangerously entangled with an untrained young actress he encounters during casting, steadily dissolving the boundary between stage and life. Stephen Fung stars as Owen, with Chrissie Chau, Myolie Wu and Angela Yuen rounding out the cast. The project grew out of the Directors’ Succession Scheme of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government, which pairs established filmmakers with emerging directors as producer-mentors. Yee is best known for a string …

Two Men Found Guilty of Spying on Hong Kong Dissidents in UK for China

Two Men Found Guilty of Spying on Hong Kong Dissidents in UK for China

Published by Sam Flores

By Michael Holden and Sam Tobin LONDON, May 7 (Reuters) – Two men, including a British immigration officer, ⁠were ⁠found guilty in a London court on Thursday of ⁠spying on behalf of Hong Kong and ultimately China, targeting prominent pro-democracy dissidents now based in Britain. Chung Biu “Bill” Yuen, ​65, and Chi Leung “Peter” Wai, 40, who worked for the UK Border Force, were convicted of assisting a foreign intelligence service by carrying out surveillance on targets between December 2023 and ‌May 2024. The men, both dual Chinese and British nationals, ‌had denied the accusations, while the Chinese embassy in London has accused Britain of fabricating the charges against them. They are believed to be the first people to have been ⁠convicted of spying for ⁠China in Britain, local media reported. Wai and Yuen will be sentenced at a later date and face ​up to 14 years in jail. The jury at London’s Old Bailey court was unable to reach a verdict on another charge of conducting “foreign interference” by forcing entry on behalf of Hong …

Scarred in Hong Kong | Louisa Lim

Scarred in Hong Kong | Louisa Lim

Published by Jenni Sidey

In City Like Water, the Hong Kong writer Dorothy Tse depicts a hallucinatory metropolis in decline, with “some schools…abandoned completely, becoming cavernous cemeteries of public life,” and so many “cause-of-death-unknown corpses” that students are made to sign an official statement: “I promise that I’m happy. I promise not to kill myself.” The unnamed and featureless narrator, perched precariously on a rooftop, describes the residents’ discombobulation: “I couldn’t resist turning to look, and that’s when I realized the city I thought I knew had been switched for a different version of itself.” The narrative emerges as a series of phantasmagorical vignettes, in chapters whose titles largely correspond to the stages of the 2019 Hong Kong protest movement. That June more than one million people took to the streets to demonstrate against proposed extradition legislation that they believed would undermine the territory’s autonomy from Beijing. Months of unrest followed, including pitched battles between protesters throwing Molotov cocktails and authorities responding with tear gas, batons, and rubber bullets. In the ensuing crackdown, more than 10,000 people were arrested …

Hong Kong Residents Return to Burned Homes

Hong Kong Residents Return to Burned Homes

Published by Sam Flores

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Apple Store Becomes Backdrop for Honor’s Brazen Hong Kong Ad Stunt

Apple Store Becomes Backdrop for Honor’s Brazen Hong Kong Ad Stunt

Published by skeptic

Photos have been making the rounds on Chinese social media today showing an Honor-branded advertising truck parked directly in front of Apple Canton Road store in Hong Kong, promoting the company’s new Honor 600 series smartphone. The truck’s ad features the slogan “It’s our HONOR” alongside the phrase “orange to orange,” which appears to be a play on the English idiom “apples to apples” – referring to a like-for-like comparison. The slogan is paired with an image of the Honor phone, in a finish that bears more than a passing resemblance to the iPhone 17 Pro’s Cosmic Orange. It’s a brazen stunt for a brand that spun off from Huawei in 2020 before being sold off to another entity to bypass U.S. sanctions. Using Apple’s retail store as a backdrop to pitch your rival device with a similar color is one thing, but when the design is arguably a shameless copy, you’re definitely out of ideas. Apple is unlikely to make a big stink about such guerrilla marketing, as it would only amplify it. And …

Navy Reservist Arrested, Accused of Fleeing to Hong Kong After Wife’s Body Found in Virginia Freezer

Navy Reservist Arrested, Accused of Fleeing to Hong Kong After Wife’s Body Found in Virginia Freezer

Published by Sam Flores

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A man accused of fleeing to Hong Kong after his wife’s body was found in a freezer in their Virginia apartment has been apprehended, authorities said. David Varela, a 38-year-old Navy Reservist, was wanted on a first-degree murder charge in the death of Lina M. Guerra, 39, who was found dead at their Norfolk apartment in February, FBI Director Kash Patel announced in a social media post. Varela had been on the run for more than two months, “but justice doesn’t forget,” he said. Varela was returned to the United States on Wednesday and remains in California, where he faces federal charges, Norfolk police said Thursday in a news release. A notice filed Wednesday in federal court in San Francisco states that Varela was arrested on an unlawful flight warrant and accused of fleeing to Hong Kong from Virginia to avoid prosecution for first-degree murder and concealing a dead body to prevent detection. On Feb. 5, Norfolk police searched the home of Varela and Guerra, identified in an FBI affidavit as …

Hong Kong Marquee Art Sales Total 4.9 M., up 18% from 2025 Auctions

Hong Kong Marquee Art Sales Total $164.9 M., up 18% from 2025 Auctions

Published by José Betancourt

For the second consecutive year, Christie’s, Phillips, and Sotheby’s aligned their marquee spring auctions in Asia with the week of Art Basel Hong Kong. The strategy clearly worked, with the three houses generating a combined $164.9 million across their modern and contemporary art evening sales. That result marked a significant rebound from last autumn’s $136.3 million — the lowest total in eight years — and also surpassed last spring’s comparable total of $139.9 million. While gallerists told ARTnews that sales at Art Basel had been measured, the auction market showed robust demand for trophy works from collectors across Asia. Related Articles Leading the season was Christie’s evening sale on March 27, which realized HK$655.7 million ($83.8 million). Coinciding with the auction house’s 40th anniversary in Asia, Christie’s assembled a tightly curated selection, focusing on works by modern masters appearing on the market for the first time. (All prices are inclusive of fees unless otherwise indicated.) The top lot was Abstraktes Bild by Gerhard Richter, offered with a third-party guarantee and selling for HK$92.1 million ($11.77 …