Tsang leads tributes after death of NPC deputy at 97
Chuang Shih-ping, a Hong Kong deputy to the National People's Congress and a Standing Committee member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, died yesterday aged 97. Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen said Chuang 'made a tremendous contribution to the banking sector' and 'worked devotedly for the stability and prosperity of Hong Kong'. Chuang died of heart disease, Xinhua said. Born in 1911 in Puning county, Guangdong province, he studied economics in Beijing in the 1930s and moved to Thailand in 1934. He settled in Hong Kong in 1947 and founded the Nanyang Commercial Bank two years later. An honorary president of the bank, he was awarded the Grand Bauhinia Medal in 1997.
Cannabis worth HK$10m seized
Police seized 195kg of cannabis with a market value of HK$10.1 million in a raid in Tai Po on Friday. A 36-year-old man was arrested in the operation in Tat Wan Road on Friday and will appear in Fanling Court tomorrow. The seizure was the biggest in two years.
Mercury in medicine leaves boy ill
The Department of Health has urged the public not to consume a powdered medicine found to contain high levels of mercury, after an 11-month-old baby fell ill after taking it late last month. The powder was produced by Chan Yiu-wing, the son of 'Monkey Man' Chan Yat-biu, who made newspaper headlines in 2000 when conservation officers confiscated his pet rhesus monkey, Kam Ying. The boy was given 10 packets of the medicine between November and April for digestive problems. He spent a week in Tuen Mun Hospital. Mr Chan said he had no idea it contained mercury.
