What’s the difference between a Hong Kong lawmaker who pervs on sexy pictures during official meetings and a one-year-old child looking to spend Christmas with his family in Macau? Nothing, according to Macau border officials.
A toddler and his parents were denied entry to Macau on Friday simply because the child is called Albert Ho. Not only would this have been pretty annoying for the parents, it’s also a tragedy that the baby bears the same name as Ho – the Hong Kong lawmaker who was notoriously caught swiping his way through pictures of scantily-clad women on his tablet computer during a meeting of the city’s parliament in February.
Security in Macau was tight but completely chaotic on Friday as Chinese President Xi Jinping was in town to mark the 15th anniversary of the region’s handover to China.
Not only were umbrellas (a symbol of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement) banned at the president’s reception, despite the rain, but scores of pro-democracy advocates, journalists (and people with suspicious sounding names, it seems), were turned back at immigration.
According to Apple Daily, the boy’s parents insist there’s no way he could be mistaken for the 63-year-old politician, and that that their son had no plans of heckling President Xi.
Macau authorities say they are unaware of the incident but are taking it seriously, none the less.
