Andy Gilbert

14 Feb 2000

Jim Tavare Mathew Hardy Punchline Comedy Club February 11 It's a wonderful gift to be able to make people laugh by doing nothing. Unless you wish to be serious, that is. But Briton Jim Tavare...

6:07AM

Adam Hills

11 Jan 2000

Adam Hills Fringe Club January 7-12 You'd bong comedian Adam Hills. Everyone in the audience seemed to bong him and by all accounts he's bonged in his native Australia and in Dublin where he...

3:35AM

Zen Zen Crazy

3 Jan 2000

Zen Zen Crazy Fringe Club January 1 Zen Zen Crazy isn't. Nor is it even particularly funny. It is, however, an act described as 'side-splitting' and 'award-winning'. It wasn't, and it shouldn't...

2:52AM

Border figures fail to disclose whole story

26 Feb 1996

REPORTED incursions into Hong Kong waters apparently hit a record low last year, but Security Branch figures failed to tell the whole story.

The branch said there were three...

9:02AM

Fishermen lost in rescue bid

31 Jan 1996

TWO fishermen were missing last night after going to the rescue of their stricken colleagues in rough seas south of Hong Kong.

5:19AM

Reward to find killer

7 Jan 1996

POLICE have offered a reward and issued photofits of two men wanted in connection with the killing of a six months pregnant woman at a furniture shop in Happy Valley.

4:35AM

Opinion

Ferry companies shouldn't be subsidised while they burn dirty fuel

2:53AM

Shirley Yam

What were our top officials doing to let HKMEx fail?

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3:37AM

Inquiry into woman's boat death

A POLICE inquiry has begun into the death of Tang Shuk-kwan, 26, who died after the pleasure craft she was aboard on Christmas Day sank near Chek Lap Kok.

8:36PM

'Wrong' ship in collision death inquiry

INFORMATION supplied by the Marine Department may have resulted in the wrong ship being prosecuted in China for an accident near Hong Kong which killed six people.

2:16AM

Marine chief hits back

DIRECTOR of Marine Ian Dale yesterday accused some of his surveyors of being narrow-minded in criticisms of the department's new qualification requirements, which they claim will affect safety.

11:28AM

Safety fears raised over qualifications for staff

MARINE Department surveyors have accused their bosses of reducing standards of qualification against the interests of safety.

10:38AM

American detained

A US citizen was one of 23 people arrested by an immigration taskforce yesterday which swooped on seven businesses and a number of flats in the North Point and Kwun Tong areas.

10:23AM

Poignant account of POW camp life

A MOVING account of Japanese occupation of Hong Kong through the eyes of a prisoner is one of the highlights of an exhibition to mark the end of World War II.

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