Subsidy to help with ferry fares
The Legislative Council's Finance Committee approved setting up a HK$115 million fund to subsidise possible fare increases when contracts to run loss-making ferry routes to six outlying islands are renewed next year. The rare move to fund privately owned ferries with public money is to avoid the only transportation for island residents possibly being cut off as licences on the routes expire.
Memorial service in Beijing
Secretary for Home Affairs Tsang Tak-sing left for Beijing last night to attend today's memorial service for Andy Tsang man-kit, 35, the Hong Kong volunteer who died in a road accident last week on his way to help needy children in Qinghai province. The service at the Babaoshan cemetery will also be attended by the director of the Hong Kong government's Beijing office Thomas Tso Man-tai.
Police seize 2.9kg of heroin
Police raided a Tseung Kwan O apartment that was being used as a drug-making and packaging centre and seized 2.9kg of cocaine with an estimated street value of HK$3.8 million. The raid occurred after a 24-year-old man and his girlfriend were stopped outside Residence Oasis in Pui Shing Road and a quantity of drugs was found in the woman's bag.
Three hurt in car crash
