Vandalism

CHINA DIGEST

China Digest, December 21, 2012

21 Dec 2012

The former site of Fuyang Theatre was destroyed in a fire early yesterday morning, Anhui Business Times reports.

4:34AM

Vandal throws paint over Black Madonna of Czestochowa

11 Dec 2012

Polish police detained a 58-year-old man after he threw vials of black paint at the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, an ancient Catholic icon of the Virgin Mary believed to work miracles.

3:36AM

Garbage cans in Dalian stolen to pickle vegetables

30 Oct 2012

People are stealing garbage cans from the streets of Dalian, the second largest city in China’s Liaoning province, to pickle food, Sina news reported on Tuesday.

5:52PM

US snowboarding Olympian Shaun White busted over drunken tear

19 Sep 2012

Two-time Olympic snowboarding gold medallist Shaun White has been charged with public intoxication and vandalism after an incident at a Nashville hotel.

White, 26, was a guest at the Loews...

8:49AM

Vandals smash into Sing Tao news building

30 Aug 2012

Vandals drove a car through a glass wall at Sing Tao News Corporation’s office in Shau Kei Wan early on Thursday morning.

7:47PM

All the city's a canvas as taggers have their spray

1 Feb 2009

Illegal graffiti appears to be on the rise, despite crackdowns

Judging by some of the facades of our beautiful city, spray-painted graffiti is on the rise.

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11:38AM

Vandals attack district councillors' posters

Banners promoting district councillors belonging to the Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood have been slashed in Kowloon City in what appears to be a politically motivated attack.

7:36PM

Government's actions environmentally unsound

It saddened me that the SAR government had to wrap up trees and benches with plastic sheets on public property in order to discourage vandals and litter louts during the New Year celebrations.

4:30AM

Revolting eyesore scarring hillside

Would the Environmental Protection Department like to explain why a section of the landscape along Tai Tam Road has been vandalised by graffiti?

7:04AM

Unsightly numbering a form of vandalism

Mui Shue Hang playground near Tai Wo is a well-kept, almost pristine, park that has approximately 1,461 trees.

I know this number as, about two years ago, each tree had a large white...

12:44AM

Growing problem

There have been letters in these columns in the past regarding the increasing incidences of graffiti on our streets. Unlike other parts of the world, this has been a fairly modest problem in Hong...

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