On the evening of Sep. 18, at around 7 p.m., the police received a report from hikers that a 65-year-old man named Tin had collapsed near Pak Kung Au at stage two of Lantau Trail. He had injuries to his forehead and back and was later pronounced dead after being taken to the hospital. EastPro, a publisher, confirmed that the hiker was landscape photographer Edward Tin Chun Fook, known for his book “Hong Kong Love Letter” and several entries in the National Geographic global photography contest. His photography talents were widely recognized in Hong Kong and by the international photography community. Mr. Tin had studied graphic design at evening school and started his career in advertising, working his way up from being a messenger to a designer. In the early 1990s, he co-founded an advertising company with friends. He transitioned into photography in 2013, initially capturing sunrises and sunsets during hikes and sharing his work on social media. His photos garnered numerous awards and recognitions from National Geographic magazine. He collaborated with EastPro starting in 2018 and officially published his “Hong Kong Love Letter” photography book in 2020. He also held a photography exhibition titled “Made in Hong Kong,” which received a warm response....Read more https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/landscape-photographer-edward-tin-collapses-while-hiking-and-passes-away-5496506
News Analysis Beijing is at risk of seeing its influence over North Korea dwindling, experts told the Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times last Saturday. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin at the Vostochny Cosmodrome, a Russian spaceport, last Wednesday. Following this, Mr. Kim continued his visit to Komsomolsk-on-Amur and Vladivostok, where he toured the production facility for Russia’s main combat aircraft, the SU-35, and visited the Russian Pacific Fleet. The state leaders of two sanctioned regimes—due to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile tests—said that the two countries would cooperate in “sensitive” fields.... 
The former chairman of China’s top liquor maker, Kweichow Moutai, recently passed away unexpectedly while in prison, and the once-influential “Moutai Club” for Chinese Communist Party (CCP) elites is no more. Xi Jinping’s administration has been conducting a purge of the forces behind Moutai liquor for several years. Moutai (or Maotai) is a colorless Chinese liquor, distilled from fermented sorghum. It is made in the town of Maotai in China’s Guizhou province and won an award during the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition. Kweichow Moutai was once China’s most valuable stock. According to data from Jan. 7 last year, Kweichow Moutai’s market value was 2.44 trillion yuan (approximately $382.6 billion), twice that of the second-ranked “Industrial and Commercial Bank of China” and three times that of the fifth-ranked “PetroChina.”...
The U.S. Department of Justice indicted a Russian man residing in Hong Kong, accusing him of smuggling many U.S.-made military-grade microelectronics to Russia. The man faces multiple charges, including conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government, smuggling, telecommunications fraud, money laundering, and four counts of conspiracy. He is currently in custody in the United States. The arrested Russian man, Maxim Marchenko, 51, reportedly operated several shell companies in Hong Kong, including Alice Components Co. Ltd. (Alice Components), Neway Technologies Limited (Neway), and RG Solutions Limited (RG Solutions). He collaborated with two other Russian men to run an illegal procurement network in Russia, Hong Kong, and other locations. They paid U.S. distributors to conceal the source of funds and purchased many OLED micro-displays. From May 2022 to August 2023, the involved shell companies funneled over $1.6 million into the United States for illegal procurement activities....