Hong Kong denied entry to about 23,000 people in the first nine months of the year, the immigration chief has said, with 85 per cent of them considered to have “suspicious aims” for entering the city. Director of Immigration Benson Kwok told a Commercial Radio programme on Sunday that the people being denied entry amounted to 0.07 per cent of all arrivals from January to September this year, a figure similar to previous levels. He did not elaborate when saying most of those rejected had “suspicious aims.” “Hong Kong welcomes genuine visitors,” Kwok said in Cantonese. “But we have the duty to g…
