{"id":18719,"date":"2012-02-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/en\/categories\/law_order\/html\/2012\/02\/20120202_190317.shtml"},"modified":"2012-02-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T04:00:00","slug":"mainland-mum-hostels-raided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2012\/02\/02\/mainland-mum-hostels-raided\/","title":{"rendered":"Mainland mum hostels raided"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/home\/department_logo\/Home_Affairs_Dept.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Home Affairs Department has launched a citywide blitz against premises being illegally used as hostels for pregnant Mainland women.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Inspectors from the department\u2019s Office of the Licensing Authority raided 43 premises in Eastern, Yau Tsim Mong, Sham Shui Po and Tsuen Wan Districts today.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Initial evidence showed three premises were offering short-term rental accommodation to pregnant Mainlanders. Investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two people were found to be breaching their conditions of stay and have been handed to Police.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The authority has recruited staff with police-work experience to assist in the operation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Operating an unlicensed guesthouse warrants two years in jail and a $200,000 fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Home Affairs Department has launched a citywide blitz against premises being illegally used as hostels for pregnant Mainland women.\u00a0Inspectors from the department\u2019s Office of the Licensing Authority raided 43 premises in Eastern, Yau Tsim Mong, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chinese-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}