Halloween

Halloween, also known as All Hallows' Eve, is an annual festival that takes place around the world on October 31, the eve of the Christian feast of All Hallows. It is thought to have originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off roaming ghosts. In recent times the festival is celebrated with activities including dressing up in spooky costumes, trick-or-treating, apple bobbing, carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns and lighting bonfires.

CRIME

Taxi driver sought over Halloween rape bid in Tseung Kwan O

7 Nov 2012

A hunt has been launched for a taxi driver accused of trying to rape a drunken woman passenger on her way home from Halloween celebrations.

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VIP premiere in Central for new James Bond movie 'Skyfall'

2 Nov 2012

Forget Frankenstein and wicked witches. One savvy crowd looked more like James Bond this Halloween.

Skyfall, the newest addition to the 007 franchise, was screened on Wednesday night at a...

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Spain Halloween party stampede kills three

1 Nov 2012

Three women have been killed and two injured in a stampede during a large Halloween Night party at a Madrid indoor venue.

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Talking Points

31 Oct 2012

Legco plea for new rules on beauty treatments

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Ghosts scare off gore for Halloween movies

30 Oct 2012

After almost a decade in which torture films dominated the box office, horror movies are returning to ghostly thrills with a new slew of low-budget productions making big money for studios.

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Zuma's Dead Not Alive party for Halloween a thriller

30 Oct 2012

As Halloween parties go, online artist community Alive Not Dead's annual Dead Not Alive party is the most hotly anticipated event of the year.

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Opinion

Alex Lo

A dangerous demagogue in our midst

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Jake Van Der Kamp

Ferry subsidies to push rents up further

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US anti-terrorism summit to stage 'zombie crisis'

Move over vampires, goblins and haunted houses, this kind of Halloween terror aims to shake up even the toughest warriors.

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Halloween in Hong Kong

Hail to the headless horsemen, hobgoblins and vampires, all! It's the time of year for witches, and ghouls made of pumpkins which burn bright with manic grins.

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Costumed girl, 9, shot by relative who thought she was a skunk

A nine-year-old girl is in a US hospital after she was shot during a Halloween party by a relative who thought she was a skunk.

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SHOP WINDOW HALLOWEEN

Shop Window: Halloween

Gore the merrier For a no-holds-barred Halloween bash Matteo Party is a one-stop-shop for gore, ghouls and ghosts. Costumes for children aged three and up, for adults and every age in between....

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Week ahead

Today

Island East Markets

Farmer's market featuring organic food produce, art and craft, live music and more. Oct 21, 10am-5pm, Tong Chong St, TaiKoo Place, Quarry Bay, free entry....

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Halloween over for devil-slur priest

A Catholic priest who caused a furore last year by likening property tycoon Li Ka-shing to the devil and other developers to demons has been told to call off a Halloween party he was helping to...

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