Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) says Hong Kong customs has stepped up scrutiny of “almost every book shipment” from the island, while a logistics company has separately told bookstores to ensure their orders would not breach the city’s national security laws. Independent bookstores and logistics companies also confirmed on Wednesday that customs had stepped up checks on book shipments from Taiwan in recent months. In a reply to the South China Morning Post, a spokesman for the Customs...
Hong Kong customs officers arrested more than a dozen people and seized counterfeit merchandise worth over HK$159 million (US$20.3 million) during the World Cup period, with authorities warning of a rise in young people seeking to make “quick money” from selling such items. The Customs and Excise Department said on Monday that it had detected 50 infringements during an eight-week operation from May 26 to Sunday, arresting 13 people and confiscating about 240,000 suspected counterfeit items,...
Hong Kong customs officers have arrested three men in connection with 131 kilograms (289 pounds) of suspected ketamine worth about HK$51 million (US$6.5 million), disguised as sugar cubes and found in air cargo transported to the city. Chiu Kai-wing, a senior investigator with the Customs and Excise Department’s drug investigation bureau, said on Saturday that officers had intercepted an air cargo consignment from Germany declared as containing sugar cubes on Tuesday, after exchanging...