Remember A Day | A UFO mystery, a woman killed by poisoned jam and Hong Kong’s own Robin Hood: headlines from four decades ago
A journey back through time to look at significant news and events reported by the South China Morning Post from this week in history
A German professor who killed his wife with poisoned jam and an airline pilot passing a hat around to collect funds from passengers to pay for fuel made the headlines four decades ago this week.
July 16, 1978
● Beijing was willing to speak with Kuomintang officials on their differences concerning Taiwan, China’s senior vice-premier Deng Xiaoping said. This was seen as an indication of the Chinese leadership’s growing willingness to discuss Taiwan’s future in light of existing realities such as US involvement with Taipei.
● A growing number of Hong Kong garment manufacturers, battling restrictive overseas quotas, were setting up joint ventures in Sri Lanka. Local businessmen, also hampered by rising labour costs, were turning to the island state, which was still designated as a developing country, and was exempt from such limits.
July 17, 1978