Andrew Laxton

Officials give prying media the runaround

21 Feb 2004

Immigration and customs departments are the slowest to answer questions

Maybe it's the ostrich technique. Or perhaps it's a guilt complex.

7:44AM

Thief makes a meal of diamond heist

25 Sep 1994

RED-FACED organisers of a jewellery exhibition were yesterday still counting the cost of a bizarre theft.

For a Japanese man, posing as a prospective buyer, swapped a $1.9 million...

5:36AM

Off-duty policemen shoot girl

28 Aug 1994

A HONG KONG teenager was hit in the knee as she sang in a Macau karaoke bar when off-duty police officers fired five shots.

The officers, who claimed they were playing with a pistol...

2:46AM

Tsui affair hits faith in ICAC

24 Apr 1994

PUBLIC confidence in the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) has plummeted in the wake of sacked investigator Alex Tsui Ka-kit's telephone-tapping allegations.

3:29AM

Dozens hurt as car hits pedestrians

13 Feb 1994

THIRTY-five people were taken to hospital last night after a car raced out of control and mowed down pedestrians in Tsuen Wan.

1:21PM

My ordeal at knifepoint

28 Nov 1993

It was an incident many expatriates believe will never happen to them in 'safe' Hong Kong. The 24-year-old American-born Chinese woman was late getting back to her sixth-floor Pokfield Road flat...

8:31AM

Opinion

Alex Lo

Chen Guangcheng misled by his new right-wing 'friends'

1:26AM

Tom Holland

The yuan hasn't overtaken the HK$ quite yet, Mr Chan

4:40AM

Misguided opinions

IN REFERENCE to Andrew Laxton's report ''Living the high life off HK's back'' (Sunday Morning Post, August 29), I realise reporters are entitled to their opinions, but if they are going to report...

3:44AM