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On Today’s Tide

1. Crime | “Funny prank” on CY Leung’s son lands ex-aviation worker in court.

2. COVID-19 | Penny’s Bay at 60% capacity.

3. Tech | Big tech fund coming to HK.

4. Events

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Pranking CY Leung (gone wrong)

Crime

Local prankster and former HK Express employee Lai Siu-wang has pleaded guilty to criminal damage for altering the name of former Chief Executive CY Leung’s son to Leung S*** and charging him for 24 inflight meals and five extra baggage spots. The name change and HK$3,375 in extra services (none of which Leung asked for) were part of a “funny prank”. Arguably the joke is on Lai, as he is now in court and dealing with the consequences of messing with CY Leung’s son.

Other crime stories

• A man who was charged with rioting during the 2019 protests’ Yuen Long MTR Station incident was granted bail.

• Two people (one ex-student leader and a welfare worker) were charged with inciting people to cast blank votes in the 2021 legislative Council elections. How did they do this you ask? By allegedly sharing a social media post from self-exiled former LegCo member Ted Hui that called on people to fill in blank votes for the election.

• A banned chemical preservative (sulphur dioxide) was found in a beef sample coming from a local butcher’s stall. The butcher may be given a HK$50,000 fine and a jail sentence for using the preservative, something he has gotten into trouble for previously in 2019.

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Penny’s Bay fills up as COVID cases hit highest in three months

COVID-19

Aaron Busch @tripperhead

COVID-19 cases 🇭🇰 July 27th, 2022 • New local cases: 4288 📈 (+313) • Cases in hospital: 1390 📉 (-35) • New admissions: 162 📉 (-13) • New serious cases: 7 • Total serious cases: 19 • New critical cases: 4 • Total critical cases: 28 • ICU: 8 • New deaths: 10

July 27th 2022

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COVID-19 in Hong Kong

• New cases: 4,508 (220 imported)

  • This is HK’s highest number of new daily cases in three months.

• Total cases: 1,334,907

• New deaths: 10

• Total deaths: 9,488

• Compulsory testing notice: 64 locations

• Penny’s Bay quarantine facility has hit 60% capacity – a total of 5,280 people (PB has about 9,000 isolation units).

HK$5 billion tech fund coming soon

Tech

Hong Kong’s Finance Secretary Paul Chan has announced that the city will be launching a HK$5 billion fund for local tech companies to reach their full unicorn potential. This Strategic Tech Fund will also be used to attract foreign start-ups to the city.

To learn more about start-up unicorns, I recommend HT columnist Dr Winnie Tang’s article “Maintaining a unicorn: how to not crash and burn your startup”:

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