8 Jul 2010

Yip Kai-foon (pictured), once Hong Kong's most wanted man and now serving a 36-year stint in Stanley Prison, has publicly expressed his remorse for his crimes for the first time in the latest...

2:29PM
25 Nov 2009

Yip Kai-foon, the 1980s and 1990s jewellery store robber confined to a wheelchair after being shot in 1996, could not attend his trial at Eastern Court yesterday for assaulting a jail officer with...

5:26AM
15 Sep 2007

The prison authority is far more humane than you might think and seems ready to provide Chinese medicine if a prisoner so desires, that is at least if you are one-time kingpin Yip Kai-foon (...

4:19AM
21 Jul 2007

Gangster Yip Kai-foon's application for judicial review of his penalty for unauthorised possession of cigarettes and snacks in prison was rejected yesterday in the Court of First Instance. Mr...

2:59PM
25 May 2006

But Joseph Lau says his private charity trust has helped the family of paralysed inmate Yip Kai-foon


Property tycoon Joseph Lau Luen-hung says he has no personal contact with Yip Kai-...

6:34PM
4 Oct 2003

Notorious gangster Yip Kai-foon believes a witness could clear him over the 1996 shootout with police that ended his criminal career - and is offering $500,000 to anyone who knows where she is....

12:08PM

Notorious gangster Yip Kai-foon got married in Stanley Prison last week with his visiting mainland wife, whom he had previously married under a false name while on the run across the border.

5:12AM

Paralysed gangster Yip Kai-foon was taken to hospital under heavy armed guard from Stanley Prison yesterday after complaining of a heart problem.


Yip, 37, told prison hospital...

11:15AM

Gangster Yip Kai-foon is to go to the Court of Final Appeal with arguments that his 36-year jail term should be slashed because of his 'catastrophic' medical condition.

1:21AM

CONVICTED gangster Yip Kai-foon is back in Stanley Prison this week after spending more than a fortnight in Queen Mary Hospital amid reports his health had deteriorated.

8:44PM

Convicted gangster Yip Kai-foon yesterday underwent an operation to remove a urinary bladder stone at the same hospital he escaped from a decade ago.

11:41AM

Four mainlanders from Big Spender's former gang have been jailed after the kidnapping of two Hong Kong victims and demands for $20 million in ransom.

5:32AM

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