Crime

3 Mar 2013

Many families have their black sheep but few have triggered so much public anger and hostility as the 17-year-old son of celebrity PLA singer Li Shuangjiang being held by police as one of five...

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Swiss authorities probe Filipino 'nurse' over Facebook corpse pictures

3 Mar 2013

Swiss prosecutors opened a criminal investigation after an alleged care-home nurse posted pictures of herself on Facebook sitting next to the corpse of an old woman.

Police suspect smuggling syndicate at work behind Argentina ordeal

2 Mar 2013

Police are investigating whether three Hongkongers who were detained by a gang of Chinese men in Buenos Aires for about a week over a broken vase, initially worth US$800,000, were recruited by a...

Hong Kong man charged over record Australian drug bust

1 Mar 2013

A 51-year-old Hong Kong man may face life in an Australian prison after being charged yesterday in the biggest seizure of the drug Ice in that country's history.

New York's 'Cannibal Cop' claims kidnap plot was fantasy

26 Feb 2013

The New York City police officer accused of a kidnapping conspiracy admits to thinking about abducting, cooking and eating young women. His own lawyer has shown prospective jurors a macabre staged...

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Police investigate HK$1m Beacon Hill burglary

Police were called to an upscale residential estate in Beacon Hill after a burglary was reported on Sunday.

Public anger over case of son of general accused of rape

Four of the five detained suspects, who are accused of raping a young woman on February 17, are minors, the Beijing Morning Post reported yesterday. This includes Li Guanfeng, son of Li...

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Details emerge on PLA singer's son suspected of gang rape

Li Guanfeng, formerly known as Li Tianyi and the son of PLA Art Academy tenor Li Shuangjiang, 74, is suspected along with four other men of taking a drunken woman to Beijng's Hubei Hotel early...

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CRIME

Call for visa crackdown on bogus Buddhist monks

One police source familiar with a rising trend of bogus Buddhist monks visiting Hong Kong as "professional beggars" said they may be violating their three-month visitor visas.

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CRIME

Son of PLA singer arrested over Beijing gang rape

The teenage son of a prominent People's Liberation Army singing artist has been detained as a suspect in a gang rape at a Beijing hotel on Sunday, state media reported on Friday. Quoting a...

BRITAIN

Morocco extradites Chinese suspect in UK killing of Chinese family

A Chinese businessman appeared in a British court yesterday charged with the killing of a Chinese family after being extradited from Morocco.Du Anxiang, 54, appeared at Northampton Magistrates...