Talking points

An unmarried mother convicted of handing her five-year-old son to a paedophile in exchange for cash is due to appear in the Court of First Instance for sentencing. The 32-year-old clerk, whose name cannot be disclosed to protect her son's identity, had denied one charge of conspiracy to commit buggery. The prosecution told the court that she took her son to the man's flat in Sham Tseng, where the assaults took place, on three occasions in 2011.

The bribery trial of Hong Kong-based property tycoon Joseph Lau Luen-hung will resume in Macau, regardless of Lau's presence. At an earlier hearing, presiding judge Mario Augusto Silvestre lost patience with Lau for his failure to appear, ostensibly because of illness. Lau and fellow tycoon Steven Lo Kit-sing are accused of offering a HK$20 million bribe to Macau's former public works chief, Ao Man-long, in 2005 to secure land for their luxury La Scala residential development.