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🌊 Lee exempt from law-breaking?

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🌊 Lee exempt from law-breaking?

Shanghai medical school now recognised by Hong Kong.

Harbour Times
Jun 8, 2022
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John Lee asks for a punishment exemption, pretty please?

Politics

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Hong Kong’s Chief Executive-elect John Lee is asking the High Court to exempt him from the legal penalty for missing the deadline to submit copies of consent to post election advertisements to the Electoral Affairs Commission. Generally the penalty for this offence is a maximum fine of HK$5,000 and sixs months in prison.

He may be pardonned if the court decides that the offence was made because of ā€œinadvertence, an accidental miscalculation or any reasonable cause and was not due to bad faithā€.

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Cases rise and man gets compulsory quarantine fine

COVID-19

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The Centre for Health Protection says it is looking into 558 additional #COVID19 cases, of which 61 are imported and the rest are locally infected
news.gov.hk558 COVID-19 cases reportedThe Centre for Health Protection says it is looking into 558 additional COVID-19 cases, of which 61 are imported and the rest are locally infected.
12:43 PM āˆ™ Jun 8, 2022

Coronavirus in Hong Kong

  • New cases: 558 (61 imported)

  • Compulsory testing notice: 46 places

Other COVID-19 news

  • An elderly man (72 years old) was fined $5,000 for violating his 14-day compulsory quarantine order.

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Fudan University added to list of recognised medical schools

Education

Shanghai’s Fudan University is among the 23 universities added to the list of non-local medical whose students would be permitted to practise in Hong Kong. This list of 50 global universities is meant to help with the shortage of medical practitioners in the region.

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