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A local man was lured by a friend whom he had known for more than 20 years into mortgaging his flat to raise HK$1 million for investing in a fake “contracting project”, the full amount of which, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Cheong Kim Fong said yesterday, his friend gambled away.According to a PJ investigation, Cheong noted, a 37-year-old local cabbie, surnamed Lam, had convinced the victim in April 2022 to mortgage the flat where the victim lives, to a financial firm for HK$1 million so

The government’s Science and Technology Development Fund (FDCT) has set aside a budget of about 470 million patacas in financial support for this year’s projects, Cheang Kun Wai, a member of the FDCT Administrative Committee, said during a press conference yesterday, adding that excluding the State Key Laboratories (SKL) scheme, the overall project funding budget amounts to about 370 million patacas, the same as in previous years.Cheang noted that the fund granted 353 million patacas for