Morning Recap: Multiple Incidents Across Hong Kong and Region

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• A 58-year-old motorcyclist was critically injured when his bike was hit by a bus and dragged under it in Tung Chung on Thursday evening 1.
• Police arrested a 21-year-old man for allegedly smashing a sprinkler system with a baseball bat at H8 building on Hau Fook Street in Tsim Sha Tsui, flooding lift shafts and disabling all three lifts 1.
• The Law Society of Hong Kong submitted recommendations for the city's first five-year plan, insisting all development visions must follow the principle of "law comes first" 1.
• The Law Society also responded to sexual offence law reform proposals, welcoming changes but expressing reservations about allowing children to provide written testimonies 1.
• Police arrested 15 people in Kwun Tong after raiding a suspected drug den on Shui Wo Street, seizing narcotics worth approximately HK$120,000 1.
• The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department ordered the immediate closure of a licensed swimming pool at a private Happy Valley housing estate after discovering a lifeguard's suspected fraudulent certificate 1.
• Landslides in the Philippines killed four people as heavy rains from a tropical depression hit the country's north, forcing school closures 1.
• A second child died in a gene-editing clinical trial in China, with Shanghai-based HuidaGene confirming a boy with Duchenne muscular dystrophy died in August last year during the trial 1.
• Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry attributed the July 28 Aeon Mall Kumamoto explosion, which killed seven and injured five, to a liquefied petroleum gas leak following a 7.1-magnitude earthquake 1.

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