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Last chance to claim HK$500,000 reward for ring
If you know who stole Swiss businesswoman Caroline Scheufele's emerald ring (left), last seen on September 8 in a restroom near the Harbour View Ballroom of the Four Seasons hotel, you have only one day left to collect a reward. According to the police notice offering up to HK$500,000 for information leading to its return, the offer expires tomorrow. Scheufele, co-president of the Chopard jewellery firm, left the ring in the restroom after washing her hands. She realised seven minutes later but by then the HK$12.23 million ring had disappeared.
Activists discuss planning for June 4 vigil
The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China gives a briefing on arrangements for the annual June 4 candle-light vigil, usually held in Victoria Park. Local activists stage the event on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown to demand Beijing vindicate the 1989 pro-democracy movement. Last year the alliance's chairman, Lee Cheuk-yan, said there were signs that police were tightening their control over the demonstration. Police put the number attending last year at 77,000, while organisers said the figure was about 150,000.
Thai website editor faces lese-majeste verdict
A Bangkok court is scheduled to give its verdict in the trial of Chiranuch Premchaiporn (left), who faces up to 20 years in jail over remarks about Thailand's monarchy posted on her Prachatai news website. In 2008, Chiranuch, the website's editor, removed the 10 online posts that were perceived to be critical of the monarchy, but prosecutors say she did not do so quickly enough. She has denied the charges.
Liberian warlord to be sentenced in Netherlands
A United Nations court in the Netherlands sentences Liberian warlord Charles Taylor for war crimes. Taylor was found guilty of arming rebels in Sierra Leone in return for 'blood diamonds'. The hearing at the Special Court for Sierra Leone will be the first time a former head of state has been sentenced by a world court since the Nazi trials at Nuremberg in 1946, when admiral Karl Donitz, appointed by Adolf Hitler as his successor shortly before he committed suicide in 1945, was jailed for 10 years.
Britain's top court rules on Assange's extradition
Britain's highest court gives its decision on whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (left) can be extradited to Sweden. Assange, detained since December 2010 on a European arrest warrant, is wanted in Sweden for questioning over allegations of rape and sexual assault. He fears extradition, if approved, will lead to his transfer to the United States, where soldier Bradley Manning is in solitary confinement and facing court martial accused of leaking documents to Assange's anti-secrecy website.
Foreign minister leads team to China-Arab forum
Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi leads a government delegation attending the fifth ministerial conference of the China-Arab Co-operation Forum in Hammamet, Tunisia. The People's Daily, the Communist Party's mouthpiece, says the two-yearly forum promotes 'mutually beneficial co-operation in politics, economy and trade, culture, technology and international affairs' between China and Arab nations.
