About 200 residents were forced to flee from their 18-storey public housing block in Wong Tai Sin when a junk-filled flat burst into flames on Thursday morning.
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25 Sep 2013
Three Beijing men were detained last week after they were reported to the police for shooting plastic bullets at pedestrians from their car, Chinese media reported.
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23 Sep 2013
A private car rammed into the front-door glass panels of two seafood restaurants on Monday in a suspected criminal damage case, police said.
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17 Sep 2013
Two fraudsters posing as consumers tricked people into selling luxury watches via online auction platforms using cheques that bounced, police said on Tuesday.
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21 Aug 2013
A husband-and-wife team accused of earning about HK$10 million from the operation of illegal gambling dens and laundering the proceeds were arrested by police on Wednesday following an eight-month...
5:02PM
25 Jul 2013
A jury in New York on Wednesday sentenced Ronell Wilson to death for killing two undercover police officers in 2003, setting up what would be the first federal execution of a New York defendant in...
2:03PM
A manhunt has been launched after a robber chased and stabbed a woman sales assistant as she ran into a busy road screaming for help.
5:39AM
One of the men charged with the murder of British soldier Lee Rigby in London last month made a rambling appearance at the Old Bailey central criminal court in London, declaring he was also "a...
1:50AM
A sharp increase in robberies of Chinese tourists in Paris has prompted calls for the French government to step up security and for shoppers to use credit cards instead of carrying large amounts...
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A court in Chongqing has charged six people with working together to blackmail government officials by recording videos of them having sex, Xinhua reported yesterday.
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A sudden surge in crime should ring the alarm bells in any society. So when rape cases in Hong Kong are found to have jumped 60 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter, the community rightly...
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