A 32-year-old man hacked his wife, 34, to death last night, then jumped to his death from their 38th-floor flat at Sau Yin House on the Sau Mau Ping Estate. Police received a 999 call from the man's mother at 8pm. They found her in the flat with the couple's two-year-old son. The man was a construction worker and his wife worked in an office. Police said they had no financial problems and the man had no record of mental illness.
A self-employed worker in Hong Kong makes an average HK$11,000 a month compared with the HK$12,000 average of the total working population but works the same 45-hour week, according to a Census and Statistics Department report released yesterday.
Lawmakers Albert Ho Chun-yan and "Long Hair" Leung Kwok-hung were each ordered to pay half of Leung Chun-ying's legal costs for their unsuccessful twin judicial review applications challenging the legality of his election as chief executive. Long Hair told Mr Justice Johnson Lam Man-hon of the Court of First Instance that the ruling put him at risk of bankruptcy.