Blind man, 80, robbed after befriending women
An 80-year-old blind man lost $52,000 after he was befriended by two women who he then took home yesterday.
The victim met the women after having breakfast in a dim-sum restaurant at about 9.30am. They then went with him to his flat in Lung Kong House, Wong Tai Sin Lower Estate. The pair left about 10.30am, after which the man discovered cash was missing from a drawer and called police.
Four arrested over Pirated goods 'mega sale'
Customs officers arrested four suspected members of a counterfeit goods syndicate and seized $150,000 worth of clothing during a raid on a North Point hotel on Monday afternoon. They said the syndicate placed newspaper advertisements for their three-day 'mega sale' at the hotel. The suspects - a man and three women - were released pending further investigations.
Eastweek Editor seeks halt to obscenity case
Eastweek magazine's chief editor, Henry Mong Hon-ming, is seeking a judicial review to overturn an Eastern Court magistrate's refusal to halt obscenity proceedings over the magazine's publication of a picture of a half-naked Carina Lau Ka-ling. Mong is seeking a declaration that the trial be stayed permanently on the grounds of abuse of process and risk of bias.
