Hong Kong earmarks additional HK$5 billion for national security

Hong Kong authorities have allocated HK$5 billion (US$638 million) in funding for efforts to safeguard national security, bringing the total amount earmarked for this purpose to HK$18 billion over the past five years, an official document has revealed. The South China Morning Post’s check on the government’s general revenue expenditure accounts for the financial year ending in March 2026, showed a non-recurrent expenditure of HK$5 billion earmarked for a “special fund to meet the expenditure ...

By Jess Ma