City Briefs

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Published: 12:00am, 29 Mar 2003

Ex-Sinfonietta chairman gets community service

The former chairman of the Hong Kong Sinfonietta was sentenced to 240 hours of community service at the District Court yesterday after he was found guilty of misappropriating funds worth more than $125,000. Henry Yu Hung-yung, 59, had previously been convicted of seven counts of false accounting and two counts of theft. The court found Yu had misappropriated more than $95,000 by inflating allowances paid to two musicians between January 1996 and January 1998. Neither musician was implicated. The court also heard Yu pocketed more than $30,000 paid by the sinfonietta by falsely representing the money as payments to the Hong Kong Oratorio Society and an instructor of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.

Reward offered over yacht club murder

Police have offered a $300,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in connection with the murder of a 41-year-old woman whose body was found last year in an office of the Hong Kong Yacht Club in Causeway Bay. Investigators say the dead woman's belongings, including a platinum ring engraved with 'Harman 8.9.91', a wrist watch and a black wallet, are still missing. The cause of death was a stab wound to the neck on December 16. Anyone with information can contact police, write to General Post Office Box No 999, or e-mail [email protected].

Sun Hung Kai hands out herbal tea to fight virus

More than 1,100 staff at Sun Hung Kai Properties are being given free Chinese herbal tea in an effort to help protect them against atypical pneumonia. The company began giving out the herbal tea, from a recipe by a Chinese doctor in a Guangdong Chinese medicine school, in their lunch sets. A spokesman for Sun Hung Kai said the tea would be dished out free until Monday. The company has also given face masks to all of its staff.