A Taiwan-based streaming platform has removed Japanese anime series Chainsmoker Cat for Hong Kong audiences because the programme is in breach of the city’s ban on online smoking advertisements. Animation Crazy, a streaming platform launched by Bahamut, a Taiwanese internet forum and news website, said on Monday that it recently received a letter from Hong Kong’s Department of Health concerning Chainsmoker Cat. The show’s content contravened rules that prohibited advertising smoking products on...

Hong Kong will hold two more drills later this month at the revamped Huanggang border crossing, with up to 20,000 civil servants to be involved in testing the new immigration clearance gates under “harsher scenarios”, according to the city’s security chief. Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung said on Monday that authorities had identified problems, including a lack of notices and benches, as well as crowd congestion at the transport interchange, following two earlier large-scale drills...