Ex-HKEX vice-president and mother charged over alleged confidential data access

A former vice-president of the Hong Kong stock exchange’s operator and his mother have been charged by the city’s graft buster over allegedly accessing confidential information of listed companies, which yielded more than HK$500,000 (US$63,720) in investment profits. Geoffrey Tong Po-hang, 39, former vice-president of the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX), and his mother Leung Yiu-chun, 68, appeared in Eastern Court for mention on Wednesday afternoon. They jointly face one count of...