What the local media says
Retired racing horse trainer Brian Kan Ping-chee is released from Stanley Prison on Saturday after serving a 68-day jail term for bribery in connection with a rural committee election. Kan, 75, was greeted by his two sons and members of the racing community. He did not talk to reporters, except to say: "Life in jail was really tough."
Small food stalls and shops in Mong Kok want patrons to make a minimum purchase as they try to cope with higher rents. One food stall will only sell HK$30 or more of a special type of noodle to each customer. The boss said the rent for her stall was HK$38,000 a month when she started the business in 2003, and it was now HK$140,000.
Hong Kong's declining birth rate means more secondary school graduates will have a chance of securing a local university place. About half of them will have a shot at tertiary education by 2021 - against a third now, the predicted.
Students are turning to subdivided flats in tenement buildings near their universities amid a shortage of dormitory places. Two rooms on each floor of a five-storey tenement in Jordan were split into six cubicles of up to 120 sq ft each, with rent of HK$4,600 a month.
Some private hospitals are raising their maternity package fees as the government ban on mainlanders giving birth in Hong Kong hurts their profits. Precious Blood Hospital has raised the price of its package 46 per cent for husbands with mainland wives.
Former Macau triad leader Wan Kuok-koi, recently released from prison after serving nearly 15 years, hosted a 133-table feast at The Macau Fisherman's Wharf on Thursday for his mother's birthday, with a performance by TVB's Wayne Lai Yiu-cheung.
Compiled by Nelson Cheng and Wayne Chung
