Port system enables seamless freight
Leveraging AI, blockchain and big data technologies, the Port Community System lets users track cargo and handle customs clearance on a single digital platform. Since its launch, over 6 000 enterprises have registered.
A representative from the Transport and Logistics Bureau spoke to news.gov.hk about the system's development and the industry's enthusiastic feedback. The system's developer, the Logistics and Supply Chain MultiTech R&D Centre, shared details about its functions and merits, and a business user gave a glowing assessment of its impact on efficiency.
The story is available at www.news.gov.hk/eng/feature from today (June 7) in text and video format.
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Police National Security Department arrests two men and three women
The National Security Department of the Hong Kong Police Force (NSD) received a referral from the Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department, that a batch of books with seditious intention was intercepted inside a consignment shipped to Hong Kong from overseas.
Following investigations, the NSD conducted an operation today (July 15). Officers searched two shops in Mong Kok and arrested two men aged 37 and 57 respectively, and three women aged between 30 and 59. They were suspected of contravening the offence of “doing an act that has a seditious intention with a seditious intention” under Section 24 of the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance.
Police investigations revealed that the five arrestees are suspected of displaying items with seditious intent and selling publications with seditious content inside the shops. The contents of these publications involved inciting hatred against the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, the judiciary, and law enforcement agencies. A batch of books with seditious intention was seized from the shops.
The five arrested persons are being detained for investigation.
Police remind members of the public that “doing an act that has a seditious intention with a seditious intention” is a serious offence. Upon first conviction, the maximum penalty is imprisonment for seven years. Members of the public are urged not to defy the law.
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