Lau Kar-leung, the Hong Kong kung fu master and filmmaker who died recently, aged 76, was a colossus in the world of martial arts movies. Having earned a lifetime achievement award at the Hong Kong Film Awards in 2010, Lau was renowned for landmark movies including The Spiritual Boxer, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin and Drunken Master II. The latter involved a style of fighting known as drunken boxing, or zui quan, in which participants appear to imitate the movements of drunkards. Lau is survived by his wife, Mary Jean Reimer …
Pang's headless remains - her skull was found in the apartment's rubbish bin - "turned up" four years after she went missing, when a former employee of lawyer John Fang Meng-sang, Pang's ex-lover, brought them to the attention of the police. The coroner's inquest found insufficient evidence that she had been either murdered or committed suicide. Also assisting Pang's family was lawmaker Leung Yiu-chung …