Thief

Thieves pose as mannequins to avoid arrest after store break-in

19 Dec 2012

Romans who broke into a designer clothes store at the weekend have joined the ranks of the world's most bungling thieves after being caught pretending to be clothes mannequins.

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‘Diamond swallower’ was a bluff, Sri Lankan police say

11 Sep 2012

A Chinese man accused of swallowing a diamond worth US$13,600 at a gem show in Sri Lanka actually ingested a fake stone in an elabourate bluff to allow the real thief to escape, police said on...

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Hero auctioneer should consider giving up day job

26 Jun 2009

Instead of running an auction house, maybe Carson Chan Kai-shun should don a cape and mask as a crime fighter. The local managing director of Bonhams helped foil a would-be robber near his...

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Thieves holding van owners to ransom

21 Oct 2007

'Pay up or we will torch your vehicle'

Thieves are demanding owners of stolen goods vans pay ransoms of up to HK$30,000 or they will burn the vehicles.

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movie buff

3 Jun 2007

With Ocean's Thirteen now on the big screen (see the review on page 12), Lau Kit-wai takes a look at an ever-popular genre: the Hollywood heist movie.

Which is the oldest heist movie...

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Mobile phone thief hit by car

20 Apr 2007

A 17-year-old boy accused of stealing a mobile phone from a schoolgirl was arrested after being hit by a car while fleeing three off-duty policemen in Tin Hau yesterday. The boy was in stable...

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Worrying economic parallels between China and India

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Howard Winn

Elsie Leung caught up in Rusal's byzantine politics

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Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief

by Bill Mason and Lee Gruenfeld

Villard $200

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Magical adventure

Prosper and Bo are two orphans on the run from their evil aunt and uncle. The two boys decide to hide in the mysterious Italian city of Venice where they think that no one will ever find them.

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PICK OF THE DAY

Vain Men

Pearl, 9.30pm

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Blink and bleed in a highly social game of paladins and killers

EverQuest is a popular on-line fantasy role-playing game which thousands of people can play together.

It uses a 3D view similar to Doom and Quake, making a 3D card part of the...

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Robbery hero deflated by public apathy

A fire officer commended for bravery during a robbery said he was disappointed by the public's indifference.

Senior fire officer Lin Yit-chau, 44, said no one bothered to help when...

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Cerebral Thief steals glamour from brawn scene

Thief, the latest role-playing game to hit the shelves, is more about brains than brawn and one of the rare PC games that succeed as a psychological thriller.

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