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G Storm
''G Storm'' is a 2021 Hong Kong action thriller film directed by David Lam. It is the fifth and final installment in a pentalogy, preceded by ''Z Storm'' (2014), ''S Storm'' (2016), '' L Storm'' (2018) and '' P Storm'' (2019), the film stars Louis Koo returning as ICAC investigator William Luk, who investigates a case in the Immigration Department which links to an international human trafficking ring. The "G" in the film's title refers to both Group G, which is the Intelligence and Research Department of the ICAC, as well as the G4 department of the Hong Kong Police Force. ''G Storm'' was released on 31 December 2021. Plot ICAC senior principal investigator William Luk delivers a presentation at the PanAsia Convention Against Corruption (PACAC) in W City. At the convention, his boss Yu Sir introduces him to the legal adviser of the SE Anti-corruption Association, Chief Justice of Asia Emma Pong, who plans to travel to Hong Kong next week to host a forum addressing the issu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Lam (film Director)
David Lam Tak-luk () is a Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ... film director, producer and actor. Filmography References External links * HK Cinemagic entry Hong Kong people of Hakka descent People from Huiyang Hong Kong film directors Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{HongKong-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L Storm
''L Storm'' is a 2018 Hong Kong action thriller film directed by David Lam, and starring Louis Koo and Julian Cheung, alongside Kevin Cheng, Stephy Tang, Patrick Tam, Michael Tse and Adam Pak in his debut film role. The third installment in a pentalogy, preceded by ''Z Storm'' (2014) and ''S Storm'' (2016), and succeeded by ''P Storm'' (2019) and ''G Storm'' (2021), ''L Storm'' was theatrically released in Hong Kong on 23 August 2018. Plot Independent Commission Against Corruption (Hong Kong) (ICAC) investigator William Luk and Joint Financial Intelligence Unit (JFIU) officer Lau Po-keung are respectively investigating a corruption and money laundering case both involving Customs officer Tik Wai-kit, but are unable to find any clues. At this time, Kenny Ching of ICAC's L Team (Internal Disciplinary Investigation Team) receives a report from Eva Ng, claiming Luk has accepted a bribe of HK$12 million. Unable to provide an explanation, Luk was immediately suspended from his du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosyam Nor
Datuk Mohamed Noor bin Shamsuddin (born 1 March 1967), known professionally as Rosyam Nor, is a Malaysian actor, television host and film producer. Early career He first ventured into acting in Gila-Gila Remaja, a 1986 film about youngsters in Malaysia alongside his cousin, Faizal Hussein as the lead role. After acting in several films, he got his first leading role through Suami, Isteri, dan... in 1996. He is known for his versatility in acting and has since then garnered many awards in Malaysia's film industry. Personal life Rosyam married Runika Mohd Yusoff in 1989 and has five daughters. He became a grandfather in 2014. His father, Shamsuddin Mohd Yusof died on 26 January 2008, due to kidney failure and pneumonia. Filmography Feature films Television Television series Telemovie Awards and nominations Asia Pacific Film Festival * Best Supporting Actor for Lenjan (1999) * Best Actor for Bilut (2006) Malaysia Film Festival * Best Supporting Actor (Festival F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong Space Museum
The Hong Kong Space Museum is a public astronomy and space science museum located in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong. Opened on 8 October 1980, it is managed by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department of the Hong Kong Government. The building is notable for its hemispherical shape, which contains a planetarium, the only one in Hong Kong. The main facilities of the museum are located in a building next to the planetarium, showcasing information about the Solar System, cosmology, and spaceflight. Accessible from Salisbury Road, it is adjacent to the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, the Hong Kong Museum of Art, and the Tsim Sha Tsui Clock Tower. The Hong Kong Science Museum and the Hong Kong Museum of History are also located in Tsim Sha Tsui. History The idea of a planetarium was originally proposed in 1961 by the Urban Council. Ten years later, the Urban Services Department (USD) set up a working group to study overseas experience in establishing planetariums. The study was aimed at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong Cultural Centre
The Hong Kong Cultural Centre (HKCC, ) is a public multipurpose performance facility in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong. Located at Salisbury Road, it was built by the former Urban Council and, since 2000, has been administered by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department of the Hong Kong Government. A wide variety of cultural performances are held here. Location The centre is located on the southwestern tip of Tsim Sha Tsui, on the former location of the Kowloon station of the Kowloon–Canton Railway. Adjacent to the centre on the west is the Tsim Sha Tsui Ferry Pier of the Star Ferry, while to the east are the Hong Kong Space Museum and Hong Kong Museum of Art. The historic Clock Tower stands between the centre and the pier. History As early as 1970, the Urban Council pressed for construction of a new cultural venue in Kowloon of the same modern standard as the City Hall in Central. The cultural centre project was formally announced in 1974 to be planned on the site ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwai Tsing Container Terminals
Kwai Tsing Container Terminals is the main port facilities in the reclamation along Rambler Channel between Kwai Chung and Tsing Yi Island, Hong Kong. It evolved from four berths of Kwai Chung Container Port () completed in the 1970s. It later expanded with two berths in the 1980s. Two additional terminals were added adjoining to Stonecutters Island in the 1990s and it was renamed Kwai Chung Container Terminals. In the 2000s, Container Terminal 9 on Tsing Yi Island was completed, and the entire facility was renamed as ''Kwai Tsing Container Terminals''. It has been the eighth-busiest container port in the world since 2019, just after Shanghai, Singapore, Ningbo-Zhoushan, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Busan and Qingdao. History The Container Committee was appointed by the Governor Sir David Trench on 12 July 1966 to advise the government on the containerisation revolution in cargo handling. In early 1967 the committee declared that Hong Kong had to build the capacity to handle co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Customs And Excise Department (Hong Kong)
The Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department (C&ED; commonly known as the Hong Kong Customs) is the customs service of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The agency was established to protect Hong Kong from smuggling, ensure the collection of duties on taxable goods, detect and prevent drug trafficking and abuse, safeguard intellectual property rights, protect consumer interests, facilitate legitimate business and uphold Hong Kong's trade reputation, regulate money service operators and dealers in precious metals and stones, and combat money laundering and terrorist financing. History ''Hong Kong Customs'', originally known as the ''Preventive Service'', was founded in 1909. Initially it was responsible to collect the newly imposed duties on liquor. As commodities became subject to duties, the scope of the Preventive Service broadened to include tobacco and hydrocarbon oil, as well as duties related to the government opium monopoly. During times of war, the serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong
Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the world. Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing dynasty ceded Hong Kong Island in 1841–1842 as a consequence of losing the First Opium War. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 and was further extended when the United Kingdom obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. Hong Kong was occupied by Japan from 1941 to 1945 during World War II. The territory was handed over from the United Kingdom to China in 1997. Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of one country, two systems. Originally a sparsely populated area of farming and fishing villages,. the territory is now one of the world's most signific ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
W City
W, or w, is the twenty-third letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''double-u'',Pronounced in formal situations, but colloquially often , , or , with a silent ''l''. plural ''double-ues''. Name Double-u, whose name reflects stages in the letter's evolution when it was considered two of the same letter, a double U, is the only modern English letter whose name has more than one syllable.However, "Izzard" was formerly a two-syllable pronunciation of the letter Z. It is also the only English letter whose name is not pronounced with any of the sounds that the letter typically makes in words, with the exception of H (though not for all speakers, particularly in British English). Some speakers shorten the name "double u" into "dub-u" or just "dub"; for example, University of Wisconsin, University of Washington, University of Wyoming, University o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ming Pao
''Ming Pao'' () is a Chinese-language newspaper published by Media Chinese International in Hong Kong. In the 1990s, ''Ming Pao'' established four overseas branches in North America; each provides independent reporting on local news and collects local advertisements. Currently, of the overseas editions, only the two Canadian editions remain: ''Ming Pao Toronto'' and ''Ming Pao Vancouver''. In a 2022 survey from the Chinese University of Hong Kong sampling 994 local households, ''Ming Pao'' was listed as the second most credible paid newspaper in Hong Kong. History Launch, early days ''Ming Pao'' was first published on 20 May 1959, and was founded by the famous Chinese Wuxia novelist Louis Cha, known better by his pseudonym Jin Yong (金庸), and his friend, Shen Pao Sing (沈寶新). Daisy Li Yuet-Wah won an International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists for her work with the paper in 1994. Before British Hong Kong's handover to the P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong Police Force
The Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF) is the primary law enforcement, investigative agency, and largest Hong Kong Disciplined Services, disciplined service under the Security Bureau (Hong Kong), Security Bureau of Hong Kong. Pursuant to the one country, two systems principle, the HKPF is officially independent of the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Public Security (China), Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China, which under usual circumstances may not interfere with Hong Kong’s local law enforcement matters. All HKPF officers are employed as civil servants and therefore required to pledge allegiance to the Hong Kong Basic Law. The HKPF consists of approximately 34,000 officers, including the Hong Kong Auxiliary Police Force, civil servants, and its Marine Region (3,000 officers and 143 vessels as of 2009). History A police force has been serving British Hong Kong, Hong Kong since shortly after the island was established as a colony in 1841. On 30 Apri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VIP Protection Unit (Hong Kong)
The VIP Protection Unit (Abbreviation: VIPPU; ), otherwise known as G4 (originally Section G, Division 4) is a protective security unit branch of the Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF). Introduction The original name had been given to the unit since it is the 4th division of the former Royal Hong Kong Police Force's Special Branch (RHKPF Special Branch). Following the disbanding of the RHKPF Special Branch in 1995, the VIP Unit was reassigned under the Security Wing of the HKPF after the handover in 1997. Training It has primary responsibility for the personal safety of HKSAR Chief Executive and his/her core family (previously, the Governor and his family before the handover in 1997), high-rank government officials, VIPs and visiting dignitaries to Hong Kong, therefore the training techniques taught to all VIPPU officers include counter sudden attacks, hostage rescue, VIP protection, and unarmed combat. Vehicles *Luxury bullet-proofed armoured cars are often deployed in protective ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
