Disappeared People

6 Jan 2013

Rescue crews used boats and aircraft on Saturday to search for a small plane that disappeared off Venezuela carrying the CEO of Italy’s iconic Missoni fashion house and five other people.

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Earhart hunters close to solving 75-year mystery

4 Jun 2012

For more than 24 years, Ric Gillespie has been chasing the same woman.

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Talking points

11 Jan 2012

Our editors will be looking ahead today to these developing stories ...

New money for a new lunar year

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Will '1 in 247m chance of being genuine'

13 Jan 2011

Lawyers trying to strike down fung shui master Tony Chan Chun-chuen's claim to Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum's fortune said yesterday the chances that her signature on a purported will was genuine were...

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There one day, gone the next

1 Sep 2010

In these times, when everybody is a Skype, MSN or mobile phone text or call away, it's difficult to imagine someone simply vanishing. But, the fact is, they do, and their disappearances intrigue...

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Tony Chan 'animated' after Wang's death, court told

10 Jun 2009

Tony Chan Chun-chuen appeared to be rather 'animated' the day after Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum's death, one of the late billionaire's sisters said yesterday.

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Opinion

Alex Lo

A dangerous demagogue in our midst

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4:18AM

Jake Van Der Kamp

Ferry subsidies to push rents up further

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4:27AM

Tycoon and Tony Chan 'wanted to have a baby'

Late tycoon Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum wanted to have a baby with fung shui master Tony Chan Chun-chuen, with whom she had been in love for the last 15 years of her life, the Court of First Instance...

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'I had never heard of Tony Chan'

Late tycoon Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum's former personal assistant said yesterday he had never met or heard of fung shui master Tony Chan Chun-chuen - Wang's alleged former lover and claimant to her...

4:41AM

the young ones

1 'There are children here somewhere. I can smell them,' says the Child Catcher, petrifying young viewers of which 1968 movie?

2 In 1990, five-year-old Stuart Lockwood made headlines...

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Dream weaver

Hollywood would struggle to dream up a more intriguing script: CIA subterfuge, the exotic east, political skullduggery, A-list dinner guests, a multimillion-dollar business then the coup de grace...

7:07AM

Finding Amelia

Ric Gillespie wants one of three things: he wants to find an aircraft part, a recognisable personal effect, or human remains. Ideally, he would like all three - and he is sure they are somewhere...

12:02PM

Expat identified as the mother of dead babies found in freezer

In a case which has become increasingly bizarre, South Korean police have identified the mother of two babies found in a freezer as the wife of the French expatriate who originally reported the...

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