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Hong Kong customs seizes HK$3.4 million worth of suspected drugs, arrests 2 men

South China Morning Post · · 169 words · By Ng Kang-chung
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“Hong Kong customs seizes HK$3.4 million worth of suspected drugs, arrests 2 men”
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No evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to support the claim about drug seizures and arrests.
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“Suspected ketamine, cocaine and ‘Ice’ seized in two separate operations, department says”
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No evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to support the claim about ketamine, cocaine, and 'Ice' seizures.
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“Hong Kong customs officers have seized 6.5kg of suspected drugs worth about HK$3.4 million (US$433,800) and arrested two men in separate cases earlier this week”
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Wikipedia entries retrieved are unrelated to drug seizures (e.g., Hong Kong Disneyland, Ocean Park, Customs and Excise Department descriptions). No evidence corroborates the claim.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hong Kong Disneyland (Chinese: 香港迪士尼樂園) (abbreviated HKDL; also known as HK Disneyland or Disneyland Hong Kong) is a theme park located on reclaimed land in Penny's Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong. It o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Disneyland
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — These are lists of the busiest flight routes by the number of passengers flown, by seat capacity and by aircraft movements in the 2010s. For recent data, see List of busiest passenger flight routes.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ocean Park Hong Kong, commonly known simply as Ocean Park, is an animal theme park in Hong Kong. Covering an area of 91.5 hectares (226 acres) in Wong Chuk Hang, it is the largest theme park by area i…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_Park_Hong_Kong
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“The Customs and Excise Department said on Friday that the first arrest occurred two days earlier at Hong Kong International Airport, when officers found 3.1kg (6.8lbs) of suspected ketamine in the baggage of a 43-year-old man arriving from Bangkok”
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Wikipedia entries retrieved describe the Customs and Excise Department's role but do not mention specific arrests or drug seizures at Hong Kong International Airport.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Commissioner of Customs and Excise (Chinese: 海關關長) is the head of the Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department, which is responsible for monitoring the movement of goods into and out of Hong Kong, …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Customs and Excise refers to customs duty and excise duty. In certain countries, the national tax authorities that are responsible for collecting those duties are named Customs and Excise, including: …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customs_and_Excise
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 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…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Customs_and_Excise_D…
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“The department said the suspected drug was concealed inside food packaging in the baggage”
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“In the second case, officers intercepted a man, aged 41, during an anti-narcotics operation in Yau Ma Tei on Thursday”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A series of sit-in street protests, often called the Umbrella Revolution and sometimes used interchangeably with Umbrella Movement, or Occupy Movement, occurred in Hong Kong from 26 September to 15 De…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Hong_Kong_protests
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Mass Transit Railway system, known locally by the initialism MTR, is a rapid transit system in Hong Kong and the territory's principal mode of railway transportation. Operated by the MTR Corporati…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTR
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The month of November 2019 in the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests started with protesting in malls and police getting into homes and malls to arrest protesters. The death of Chow Tsz-lok in Sheung Tak, T…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2019–2020_Hong…
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“Officers escorted him to a nearby hotel room where, in a subsequent search, they found about 1.7kg of suspected cocaine and about 1.7kg of suspected ‘Ice’, or methamphetamine”
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No evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to support the claim about drug paraphernalia discovery.
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“Officers also found ‘a drug inhaling apparatus and a batch of drug packaging paraphernalia’, according to the department”
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