The High Court has ordered a woman to pay the buyer of her Kowloon Tong property HK$2.2 million after she was found to have lied by saying that its illegal structures were "not a problem". Shum Shuk-yam had sold the flat and an adjacent garden in 2010 for HK$8.2 million.
Driving instructor Ho Tak-ming, who was sacked by the School of Motoring, was taken to hospital yesterday - 52 hours after his hunger strike began on Monday. Another sacked coach, Kevin Ma Wai-hung, and a supporting colleague, Steven Lin Kwok, vowed to continue the strike until Ho and Ma were reinstated.
A cabbie and a mainland visitor were arrested yesterday over the theft of Cordyceps, or caterpillar fungus, worth HK$1.2 million from a Hung Hom shop. The fungus is used in Chinese medicine. Officers arrested the burglars as they fled the scene after a brief chase. Police are seeking two more men in connection with the case.