Top TVB executive Stephen Chan Chi Wan was arrested by ICAC yesterday along with a former assistant and other three employees. They were suspected of getting advantages by working in a company which arranged job for TVB's artists while without TVB authority. Stephen Chan, who had worked with government as a administrative officer, have been a renowned programme producer and worked with TVB for over 10 years. In 2002 he was promoted as a assistant general manager. Chan's name was not widespread until the TV talk-show Be My Guest starting to air on TVB's lifestyle channel in 2006. The programme was popular with guests such as prominent government officials and well-famed artists.
Beijing tightened restriction on indepentent domestic non-government organisations to receiving overseas donations. Under the new regulations, those organisations would face more scrutiny than ever. China also refused those NGO to register as a non-profitable organisations and that implied those organisations were liable to pay tax. NGO workers and insiders thought the move would pose a hardship to the organisations to survive since they have already faced draconian retrictions from various government departments.
Financial data of about 15,000 affluent customers of HSBC was found to be stolen in three years ago. HSBC said they knew the data was stolen but they didn't know which customers' data were getting involved, until the data was found in earlier this month. All of the affected customers were using the private bank service of Swissland branch, and cilents outside swiss branch were not affected. The bank is contacting the customers to explain and apologise.
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