Jane Moir

2 Mar 2006

For decades, Winnie Ho Yuen-ki kept a large secret. As sibling rivalry with tycoon Stanley Ho Hung-sun started hitting the headlines, so too would the details of her past become public knowledge...

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Ting plans appeal against jail term

5 Sep 2005

James Ting plans to mount an appeal against a six-year jail term for falsifying accounts at bankrupt Akai Holdings, reopening the books on Hong Kong's harshest punishment for white-collar crime...

11:50PM

Runaway e-mails prove that brain-to-finger reflex regularly fails

24 Aug 2005

POLITICIANS HAVE LONG been acquainted with the adage that you should never put anything in writing if you do not want to be found out.

10:47PM

Legal firm hit with negligence lawsuit

22 Mar 2003

Law firm Johnson Stokes & Master has been hit with a HK$107 million lawsuit for negligence by two former clients.

10:33AM

New telecoms watchdog to stem foul play

14 Apr 2001

A Competition Affairs Branch is to be set up by the Office of the Telecommunications Authority (Ofta) to clamp down on foul play in the industry, with the Government set to ask legislators to '...

6:00PM

Guess who is having a quiet one

30 Dec 2000

My, my, how things can change in just 12 months. This time last year, a hot-shot tycoon was preparing for a huge party.

He spent more than HK$20 million jetting in Whitney Houston to...

9:54AM

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?

Updated 3:37AM

New World Telephone files City Telecom writ

New World Telephone has filed a writ against City Telecom (HK) seeking $28.8 million arising from alleged unpaid service charges, the latest round of litigation between the pair.

5:01PM

Swindler fights for $25m

A secretary who swindled Sa Sa International Holdings chief Simon Kwok Siu-ming out of HK$25 million is fighting enforcement of an order to refund the sum in the Swiss courts.

3:12PM

Sino unit faces suit on flats at Palisades

Owners of seven Grand Palisades flats have banded together to slap the developer with a damages lawsuit, the third such class action faced by the Sino Group subsidiary over the Tai Po property.

9:59AM

Vendor breach puts end to sale

A $77 million property sale has been declared null and void after the seller failed to release the buildings in the required condition.

8:46AM

Judges' time sheets 'insulting'

Judges have attacked a decision to make them fill in time sheets.

The move by bureaucrats to wrap red tape around the judges has been dubbed insulting by some who object to the...

4:11AM

Developer battles 'outdated' rule

A property developer has taken the Government to court over restrictions in a 61-year-old crown lease which would cost $74.15 million to bypass.

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