Pool at Hong Kong’s Happy Valley shut over suspected fake lifeguard credentials

A swimming pool at a private housing estate in Hong Kong’s Happy Valley has been ordered to close after authorities discovered a lifeguard on duty was suspected of using fraudulent credentials. The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) said on Thursday that the lifeguard’s credentials did not match records held by the Hong Kong China Life Saving Society. The licensed pool at the private estate at 1–5 Ventris Road was ordered to close immediately because the attendant’s qualificatio...

By Wynna Wong