How Opatra’s ‘coercive’ tactics in Hong Kong echo global ‘Dead Sea sales scams’

Allegedly aggressive sales tactics and business operations in Hong Kong’s beauty product sector closely mirror the global “Dead Sea sales scams” uncovered years ago, documents on WikiLeaks have shown. The controversy has prompted calls from experts for the city’s government to strengthen regulation by expanding proposed cooling-off period legislation to cover retail beauty goods. A check of the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks by the South China Morning Post found that shops and kiosks…