https://www.scmp.com/rss/11823/feed Equity researcher, investment writer, journalist en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Fox Yi Hu Fox Yi Hu In Canada, fans and foes of Chinese electric vehicles are holding their breath for brands like BYD to hit the market. Whether they love them or not, they share the hope that Chinese carmakers will help to bring all EV prices down, as affordability becomes a growing concern for consumers. Companies including BYD, Geely, Nio and Xpeng are preparing to roll out sales locations in Canada, seizing the opportunity of warmer ties between the two countries. Ottawa struck a milestone trade deal with... https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3350483/china-trade-deal-has-canadians-looking-forward-cheaper-electric-vehicles?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3350483/china-trade-deal-has-canadians-looking-forward-cheaper-electric-vehicles?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:00:09 +0000 A former Macau sports chief will stand trial for appointing a masseuse to a public job, but he says the appointment was made in the public interest and he did nothing wrong. Manuel Silverio will be the second most senior former official to face trial since Macau reverted to Chinese rule in 1999. The first hearing is scheduled for September 15 in the Court of First Instance, according to a lawyer familiar with the case, who asked not to be identified. Silverio, former president of the Sport... https://www.scmp.com/article/716387/former-macau-official-faces-trial-over-masseuse?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/716387/former-macau-official-faces-trial-over-masseuse?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:00:00 +0000 Will mainland residents be able to bypass internet censorship to watch a live broadcast of tomorrow's candlelight vigil commemorating the 1989 crackdown on the pro-democracy movement? That's the question facing radio activist Yang Kuang, who is leading a group of Hongkongers in an attempt to broadcast the vigil in Victoria Park live to the mainland. A similar attempt last year by Green Radio was unsuccessful, but Yang said he was confident. 'Last year, we saw a lot of mainland people... https://www.scmp.com/article/716057/group-hopes-penetrate-mainlands-firewall-live-radio-broadcast-june-4-vigil?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/716057/group-hopes-penetrate-mainlands-firewall-live-radio-broadcast-june-4-vigil?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:00:00 +0000 As the world's largest gadget maker, Foxconn's revenue of US$60.8 billion last year nearly equalled the combined sales of its top nine competitors in the world. Its titanic force of 900,000 mainland workers helps forge Foxconn's dominance in the industry of contract electronics, but a spate of suicides has called into question the company's reliance on cheap labour. The massive workforce under military-style management at Foxconn reflects the country's struggle to evolve from 'early... https://www.scmp.com/article/715846/foxconn-success-and-tragedy-linked?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/715846/foxconn-success-and-tragedy-linked?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 31 May 2010 16:00:00 +0000 An autopsy in Portugal casts serious doubt on the accuracy of a Macau postmortem examination, putting pressure on officials in the city to revise their suicide ruling over a teenager's death in 2007. Luis Amorim (pictured), a student at the Macau Portuguese School, was found dead under the old Macau-Taipa Bridge on the morning of September 30, 2007. His body was lying on Dr Sun Yat-sen Avenue where it passes beneath the bridge. It was impossible for Luis, 17, to have died from a fall from... https://www.scmp.com/article/715707/new-autopsy-casts-doubt-macau-teens-death?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/715707/new-autopsy-casts-doubt-macau-teens-death?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 29 May 2010 16:00:00 +0000 A surge in the price of mercury has seen rundown mines reopen in China's 'mercury capital' - a hilly region between Guizhou and Hunan - despite the heavy environmental consequences. With Europe and the United States set to ban exports of the highly toxic metal, miners are returning at sites in Wan Shan, a county in eastern Guizhou, and the adjacent county of Xinhuang in western Hunan, more than a year after they were closed. The price of mercury has shot up from US$600 a flask (34.5kg) at the... https://www.scmp.com/article/715102/toxic-mercury-mines-reopen-price-soars?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/715102/toxic-mercury-mines-reopen-price-soars?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 22 May 2010 16:00:00 +0000 Macau developer New Tenhon Investment on May 4 finally saw its application to add six floors to The Praia, a planned 50-floor residential project, given government approval. The go-ahead was gazetted nine months after the whole 56 floors were completed, and more than four years after the developer applied for the change. The developer dismisses any suggestion of favouritism. But many believe the government had allowed six floors to be added to a completed building. Internet users dubbed The... https://www.scmp.com/article/714478/build-first-approve-later-policy-faulted?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/714478/build-first-approve-later-policy-faulted?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 15 May 2010 16:00:00 +0000 A US$1.46 billion scheme for tourism growth is bearing fruit in Singapore. In recent years the city state has shed its prickly image, launching casinos, theme parks, heritage hotels, fashion shows and other attractions. After a US$5.5 billion casino resort opened on Tuesday, a revamped botanical garden, a river safari and a national art gallery are in the pipeline to help achieve the government's target of US$21.9 billion in annual tourism receipts by 2015. 'We are well poised to take off. This... https://www.scmp.com/article/713188/lion-city-shakes-prickly-image-bid-boost-tourism?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/713188/lion-city-shakes-prickly-image-bid-boost-tourism?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 01 May 2010 16:00:00 +0000 Curbs on mainlanders visiting Macau, Asia's biggest casino hub, remain tight as Beijing continues to crack down on money laundering and gambling by officials misusing public funds. They find it easier to get to Singapore - where the world's second most expensive casino resort, built at a cost of US$5.5 billion, has just opened - than to Macau. Mainland gamblers at Marina Bay Sands, the resort that Las Vegas Sands Corp opened on Tuesday, said approval for their visits to Singapore had come... https://www.scmp.com/article/713205/mainlanders-gamble-singapore-macau-permit-squeeze-continues?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/713205/mainlanders-gamble-singapore-macau-permit-squeeze-continues?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 01 May 2010 16:00:00 +0000 A Hong Kong triad leader behind a US$1 million plot to shoot media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying and former Democratic Party chairman Martin Lee Chu-ming has died in a Shenzhen hospital, months after being sentenced to five years in jail. Other key defendants in the case are waiting for an appeal hearing, to be conducted by judges from the Guangdong provincial court. Yu Wai-shan, 63, known as 'Fat Yu', died of an undisclosed disease a few weeks after the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court ... https://www.scmp.com/article/713190/triad-boss-fat-yu-dies-after-murder-plot-sentence?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/713190/triad-boss-fat-yu-dies-after-murder-plot-sentence?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 01 May 2010 16:00:00 +0000 At least 41 people were injured when protesters and riot police clashed yesterday in the most violent Macau rally since 2007. Water cannon and pepper spray was used against workers who charged at a police cordon in a protest against illegal labour and runaway house prices. Thirty-two police officers, four protesters, two journalists and three passers-by were injured in the clash. Portuguese photo journalist Carmo Correia suffered concussion and a broken cheekbone when hit by a water cannon and... https://www.scmp.com/article/713187/40-hurt-macau-labour-rally-turns-ugly?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/713187/40-hurt-macau-labour-rally-turns-ugly?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 01 May 2010 16:00:00 +0000 A suspected cousin of Hong Kong's soaring dragon logo has lived a less high-flying existence in Wales for the last few years before being quietly retired this month. Sport Wales, a unit of the Welsh Assembly Government, used a dragon logo until April 1 which closely resembles the icon for promoting Hong Kong. Designer Eric Cheung Kai-wa, who led the team that created the original flying dragon logo for Hong Kong in 2001, said the Welsh logo and his design looked remarkably similar. 'Their... https://www.scmp.com/article/712515/hk-and-wales-dragon-logos-share-fishy-likeness?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/712515/hk-and-wales-dragon-logos-share-fishy-likeness?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:00:00 +0000 Hong Kong entrepreneurs will be encouraged to take part in the development of Hengqin , a Guangdong island earmarked as a key base for cross-delta co-operation, Chief Secretary Henry Tang Ying-yen said in Macau after meeting Macau Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai-on. Tang met Chui at the Macau government headquarters before attending a forum on cross-delta economic ties in the former Portuguese enclave. 'Mr Chui invited Hong Kong to take part in the development [of Hengqin],' Tang said.... https://www.scmp.com/article/712273/tang-persuade-hk-entrepreneurs-tap-hengqin-island-development?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/712273/tang-persuade-hk-entrepreneurs-tap-hengqin-island-development?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:00:00 +0000 A farmer is battling Foxconn Technology Group, which makes parts for Apple's iPads and iPhones, over the suspicious death of his teenage son in a Shenzhen factory. Ma Zishan, 58, says the wounds on the body of Ma Xiangqian, 18, suggest he had been beaten to death, though local police have ruled out homicide. Xiangqian is among four young Foxconn workers who have died this year. Two other workers were severely injured in suicide attempts. The Ma family's repeated requests to see closed-circuit... https://www.scmp.com/article/711716/family-demands-truth-behind-teens-death?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/711716/family-demands-truth-behind-teens-death?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:00:00 +0000 Thought police who patrol for thought criminals are no longer just the stuff of George Orwell's classic dystopian novel 1984. A growing army of tech-savvy police officers on the mainland patrol cyberspace around the clock, gaining instant knowledge of a Web user's location and even personal details. While the existence of these shadowy officers is widely known, they rarely speak publicly about their work. However, the Sunday Morning Post has talked to one experienced internet officer in... https://www.scmp.com/article/711714/web-patrol-real-life-big-brother?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/711714/web-patrol-real-life-big-brother?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:00:00 +0000 An 18-year-old from Yunnan province falls to her death from a dormitory at one of electronics manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group's Shenzhen plants. A day earlier, another 18-year-old, from Jiangxi province, jumps from a seventh-floor dormitory window at the same plant, in Guanlan, in an apparent suicide attempt. A tree cushions her fall. A month earlier, in March, three other young workers jump off buildings at another Foxconn plant. Two die. In January, a teenage trainee plunges to his... https://www.scmp.com/article/711096/ipad-workers-unfazed-spate-suicides?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/711096/ipad-workers-unfazed-spate-suicides?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:00:00 +0000 It's called the Happy Coast estate, but perhaps they should rename it Scary Coast. Cracks have begun appearing in a glitzy Shenzhen neighbourhood - one of many that have sprung up in the past decade or so on newly reclaimed land. In the Baoan central district, a fast-growing 1,500-hectare strip in the city's west, the cracks are up to 10cm wide. 'It's scary seeing all these cracks around the buildings where you live,' said Amanda Liu, 32, who owns a flat in Happy Coast, where they sell for... https://www.scmp.com/article/711097/reclaimed-land-shenzhen-cracking?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/711097/reclaimed-land-shenzhen-cracking?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:00:00 +0000 The Macau government stands by its decision to revoke Viva Macau's operating licence as the troubled budget airline begins to wind down operations, blaming the government move. Civil Aviation Authority president Simon Chan Weng-hong said it was a 'serious' decision to cancel Viva's licence. Macau will 'certainly' pursue the repayment of a 200 million pataca loan to Viva despite the wind-down, according to government spokesman Tam Chon-weng. Viva called the revocation of its licence 'globally... https://www.scmp.com/article/710786/viva-macau-ruling-serious-decision-says-aviation-chief?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/710786/viva-macau-ruling-serious-decision-says-aviation-chief?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:00:00 +0000 Macau architects are hoping for the best after the government decided to invalidate an unfair contest to design the city's central library and launch a new competition. However, after watching the top two prizes in the canned 2008 contest go to an employee of the brother of chief executive Dr Fernando Chui Sai-on, many are also preparing for the worst. The Cultural Affairs Bureau, under its new chief, painter Ung Vai-meng, is mulling over rules for the new competition and will announce them... https://www.scmp.com/article/710503/let-down-unfair-design-contest-macau-architects-wary-rematch?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/710503/let-down-unfair-design-contest-macau-architects-wary-rematch?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 03 Apr 2010 16:00:00 +0000 Three ribbons have been added to the flying dragon logo used to promote the city in a HK$1.4 million redesign - part of a review of Brand Hong Kong which left the 'Asia's World City' slogan unchanged. Designer Alan Chan Yau-kin created the new logo with an 'evolved' dragon, along with three ribbons. Chan said the blue and green ribbons symbolise blue sky and a sustainable environment, while Lion Rock, which represents the 'can-do' spirit of Hongkongers, is silhouetted by the red ribbon. 'The... https://www.scmp.com/article/709940/ribbons-dragon-new-city-symbol?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/709940/ribbons-dragon-new-city-symbol?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:00:00 +0000 The second-biggest TV broadcaster in Macau, known for its critical news coverage, has been repeatedly raided by government officers searching for illegal workers. The raids on Macau Asia Satellite Television, which found no illegal workers, have stoked fears that Macau's already limited press freedom is being threatened. Political commentator and columnist Anthony Wong Dong said the raids were clearly targeting the outspoken broadcaster as no other media organisation in Macau had been... https://www.scmp.com/article/709942/raids-leave-outspoken-macau-broadcaster-edge?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/709942/raids-leave-outspoken-macau-broadcaster-edge?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:00:00 +0000 In Hong Kong you can dial a pizza, dial a dinner or dial a prayer, and now you can dial a line - of cocaine. Drug dealers are using a network of taxi drivers to deliver and sell the narcotic for HK$1,000 a gram to customers who have contacted them by phone or text message. A number of users have spoken to the Sunday Morning Post detailing how they obtained the mobile numbers of dealers, who arranged a transaction with a taxi driver at a prearranged location. In the past year, news of the... https://www.scmp.com/article/709938/drug-dealers-use-dial-line-taxi-network?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/709938/drug-dealers-use-dial-line-taxi-network?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:00:00 +0000 A decision to fill in a lake to build a public hospital highlights the Macau government's dire shortage of land after years of land hoarding by speculators. Building a hospital on a five-hectare site on the Cotai Strip is high on Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai-on's agenda as the number of hospital beds lags far behind Macau's population growth. But filling a lake while there are large undeveloped sites nearby has sparked criticism of the government's inability to seize land from... https://www.scmp.com/article/709311/macau-row-over-move-fill-lake-build-hospital?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/709311/macau-row-over-move-fill-lake-build-hospital?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:00:00 +0000 Henderson Group chairman Lee Shau-kee says he is willing to bet 100 to 1 that no transaction for apartments at the 39 Conduit Road block was faked. But records from the Land Registry show that only one flat at the luxury project has so far been sold, despite an earlier claim by Henderson that contracts had been signed for 25 flats. 'If you guys can find out that we faked the deals or bought the flats ourselves, I can make a bet against you,' the tycoon told reporters. 'For every HK$10,000 you... https://www.scmp.com/article/709104/hendersons-lee-says-transactions-are-genuine?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/709104/hendersons-lee-says-transactions-are-genuine?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:00:00 +0000 Macau Chief Executive Dr Fernando Chui Sai-on (pictured) sidestepped questions about democratic reforms while stressing the need to improve people's livelihoods as he took questions from legislators yesterday following his first policy address on Tuesday. The introduction of greater democracy in Macau, where the people's right to vote is limited to just 12 out of 29 legislative seats, is clearly off the new leader's agenda in the near future, one analyst said. Chui, 53, gave a vague answer to... https://www.scmp.com/article/708934/chui-shrugs-questions-about-greater-democracy-macau?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/708934/chui-shrugs-questions-about-greater-democracy-macau?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:00:00 +0000 As governments around the world consider how to roll back stimulus measures, Macau Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai-on yesterday announced cash bonuses totalling three billion patacas for residents in his first policy address. Chui, 53, extended many of the policies outlined by his predecessor, Edmund Ho Hau-wah. These included the construction of public housing flats, limiting excessive casino growth and studying the licensing of card dealers. 'The cash-sharing scheme, backed by the... https://www.scmp.com/article/708817/chui-keeps-cash-handouts-flowing-play-it-safe-address?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/708817/chui-keeps-cash-handouts-flowing-play-it-safe-address?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:00:00 +0000 The amount of cash the Macau government will hand out is the talk of the town ahead of the first policy address to be delivered by Dr Fernando Chui Sai-on, who became chief executive on December 20. Macau may extend its two-year tradition of a cash giveaway even when governments around the world are considering how to unwind stimulus measures, analysts say. 'The policy of doling out cash works in Macau although I am not in favour of such an approach,' veteran Macau observer Camoes Tam Chi-keung... https://www.scmp.com/article/708662/chui-tipped-continue-macau-cash-handouts?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/708662/chui-tipped-continue-macau-cash-handouts?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:00:00 +0000 About 20 people held a candle-light vigil last night outside the central government's liaison office to mark the riots in Tibet two years ago. A scuffle broke out when several activists tried to hang a banner and a snow lion flag - a symbol of the Tibetan independence movement - on the office's front gate. Police officers guarding the gate threatened to use pepper spray as the activists - including Christina Chan Hau-man, one of the organisers of the vigil - tried to push their way forward. One... https://www.scmp.com/article/708597/activists-hold-vigil-mark-tibet-riots?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/708597/activists-hold-vigil-mark-tibet-riots?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:00:00 +0000 A fraud syndicate used data stolen from more than 100 people to apply for credit cards, causing them losses of over HK$1 million, police said yesterday. They announced they had smashed the syndicate and arrested three people on Friday. Fraudsters were said to have used the cards to buy luxury goods and borrow cash. Last month, the Commercial Crime Bureau received tip-offs from banks about suspicious credit card applications. Investigators found a cross-border gang had been applying to local... https://www.scmp.com/article/708584/data-100-people-stolen-hk1m-credit-card-scam?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/708584/data-100-people-stolen-hk1m-credit-card-scam?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:00:00 +0000 An 81-year-old woman died yesterday after coming down with swine flu. She was admitted to Prince of Wales Hospital on February 24 with flu symptoms and was confirmed as having swine flu two days later. The woman had chronic renal failure, hypertension and diabetes. Another woman, 53, was in critical condition last night after being diagnosed with swine flu. https://www.scmp.com/article/708465/elderly-woman-dies-after-catching-flu?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/708465/elderly-woman-dies-after-catching-flu?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:00:00 +0000 A demolition project near the Ruins of St Paul's may lead to archaeological finds relating to Macau's most famous landmark, once the base for Catholic missionary work in Asia. But some critics see the project as a veiled redevelopment plan that may spoil the surroundings of the UN-recognised world heritage site. The Macau government has marked the location of four residential buildings to the northeast of the remaining facade of the 17th century church as an archaeological site. 'Experts of... https://www.scmp.com/article/708453/demolition-near-ruins-st-pauls-questioned?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/708453/demolition-near-ruins-st-pauls-questioned?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:00:00 +0000 Inside a sprawling nine-hectare compound in Tseung Kwan O, sits TVB general manager Stephen Chan Chi-wan, a man constantly beset by everything from advancement-seeking employees to aspiring starlets eyeing a showbiz breakthrough. To outsiders, Chan is best known as the host of the TVB Lifestyle Channel show Be My Guest. Chan's path to fame was unusual. He studied linguistics and theatre at the University of Hong Kong and after graduating in 1981 joined the government as an administrative... https://www.scmp.com/article/708358/colourful-tvb-boss-who-took-unusual-path-broadcasting-fame?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/708358/colourful-tvb-boss-who-took-unusual-path-broadcasting-fame?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:00:00 +0000 A Hong Kong triad boss was sentenced in absentia to 25 years' jail by a Macau court for murder and organised crime after dismembering a former Hong Kong policeman who joined the triads. Three other Hongkongers received 21 to 23 years on the same charge. The former officer, Lai King-man, 60, was killed in a Macau restaurant in September 2008. https://www.scmp.com/article/708252/fugitive-triad-boss-gets-25-years-murder?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/708252/fugitive-triad-boss-gets-25-years-murder?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:00:00 +0000 Media and tobacco tycoon Charles Ho Tsu-kwok has challenged Asia Television shareholder Payson Cha Mou-sing to pump more money into the struggling broadcaster to show his love for it. Ho, chairman of Sing Tao News Corporation, said in Beijing yesterday that he did not believe Cha's earlier claim of having insufficient funds for ATV. 'I don't believe it. Mr Cha has a lot of money,' Ho said. 'If he loves ATV very much, he should throw in more money.' He said Cha should buy out ATV rather than... https://www.scmp.com/article/708265/atv-mogul-challenged-pump-cash-station?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/708265/atv-mogul-challenged-pump-cash-station?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:00:00 +0000 Eighteen legislators yesterday sent a letter to the city's audit chief, Benjamin Tang Kwok-bun, asking him to look into a HK$500 million investment loss suffered by Polytechnic University. The lawmakers from the pro-democracy camp cited an open letter written by PolyU staff members on March 2, which questioned the university's record HK$904 million deficit in 2008-09. 'The open letter said PolyU's finances were chaotic,' the legislators said in their letter to Tang: 'We hope your commission... https://www.scmp.com/article/708144/lawmakers-ask-audit-chief-investigate-hk500m-polyu-loss?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/708144/lawmakers-ask-audit-chief-investigate-hk500m-polyu-loss?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:00:00 +0000 There's life in the old dog yet. For as casino king Stanley Ho Hung-sun left hospital after a seven-month stay - apparently fully recovered - his horse came home a 109-1 winner. The billionaire, 88, slowly waved as he was wheeled out of the Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital in Happy Valley yesterday afternoon after seven months of care. His daughter Pansy Ho Chiu-king said the tycoon was in good health and excited about going home. 'His health has fully recovered,' she said, 'He has been... https://www.scmp.com/article/707905/ho-double-tycoon-leaves-hospital-and-horse-defies-odds?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/707905/ho-double-tycoon-leaves-hospital-and-horse-defies-odds?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:00:00 +0000 A female teacher has been charged with molesting a teenage girl and possessing child pornography. Yvonne Chiang Ka-yin, 29, appeared in Kowloon City Court yesterday charged with four counts of indecent assault between March 2008, when the girl was 13, to December last year. The teacher was also accused of possessing child pornography at her Mong Kok and Hung Hom flats. Chiang is expected to enter a plea in the District Court on March 23. She was released on bail. Meanwhile, an anti-child... https://www.scmp.com/article/707539/woman-teacher-charged-over-sex-assault-girl-13-and-child-porn?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/707539/woman-teacher-charged-over-sex-assault-girl-13-and-child-porn?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:00:00 +0000 Sham Shui Po's district council yesterday decided against rushing to install CCTV cameras to prevent acid attacks on the Apliu Street pedestrian area. Council chairman Chan Tung said councillors disagreed over how to protect privacy and where the cameras should be. Police said cameras were needed at six rooftop spots on Apliu, Fuk Wa and Yen Chow streets, which would cost HK$6 million. Another meeting would be held. https://www.scmp.com/article/707482/sham-shiu-po-delays-decision-cctv-cameras?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/707482/sham-shiu-po-delays-decision-cctv-cameras?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:00:00 +0000 Marine police are investigating an alleged seafood feast attended by on-duty officers the second such incident in less than four months. Chinese-language media photographed more than 10 Cheung Chau marine police officers eating seafood and drinking alcohol at a restaurant on the outlying island from 8pm to 11pm on February 9, when they were on the 1.30pm to 10.15pm shift. On November 5, at least 27 marine police officers took a HK$10 million launch to Po Toi Island for a two-hour feast while... https://www.scmp.com/article/707208/marine-police-caught-feasting-again?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/707208/marine-police-caught-feasting-again?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:00:00 +0000 The elite Diocesan Boys School says it will not take part in any voluntary drug-testing programme involving urine samples because it doubts the effectiveness of a pilot scheme. The head of the Mong Kok school said the government trial being conducted in schools in Tai Po is unsuitable for its students, Tom Cheung Ting-wai, president of the school's student council, said. 'The headmaster thinks we should be more focused on preventing drug problems than on doing things to patch up holes,' he... https://www.scmp.com/article/705384/boys-school-says-it-will-not-take-part-urine-tests-drugs?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/705384/boys-school-says-it-will-not-take-part-urine-tests-drugs?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:00:00 +0000 A London hospital cut the life support system for the mother of three Hong Kong men without her family's permission, British media reported. Pang Ka-chun, 37, and Pang Ka-hing, 35, flew out of Hong Kong after hearing their mother had been hit by a car on December 22, but she had died before they arrived in London on Christmas Eve, the Daily Mail reported yesterday on its website. Doctors at Kings College Hospital switched off 58-year-old Pang Cheung Lai-mei's ventilator on the morning of... https://www.scmp.com/article/705321/womans-life-support-cut-without-permission?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/705321/womans-life-support-cut-without-permission?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:00:00 +0000 A legendary 1897 stamp fetched HK$5.52 million, a record for a Chinese stamp, at an auction yesterday in Hong Kong. The Red Revenue Small One Dollar, issued during the Qing dynasty, sold for a hammer price of HK$4.8 million plus 15 per cent of buyer's premium levied by the auction house, Hong Kong-based InterAsia Auctions. With a small one-dollar overprint on a three-cent Red Revenue stamp, it is one of 32 known copies of the original 50 that were overprinted. Its presale estimate was... https://www.scmp.com/article/705078/1897-stamp-fetches-record-hk552m-city-auction?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/705078/1897-stamp-fetches-record-hk552m-city-auction?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:00:00 +0000 Hong Kong Disneyland is cutting paid sick leave for employees to control operating costs after the company revealed a net loss of HK$4.4 billion in the three years to October. Paid sick leave per year will be reduced to four days from 12 days under agreements the management yesterday asked employees to sign. 'The new policy is part of Hong Kong Disneyland's ongoing cost containment measure to control operating costs and retain jobs for existing cast members,' a company spokesman said. Under the... https://www.scmp.com/article/704831/disneyland-cuts-staff-sick-leave-save-costs?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/704831/disneyland-cuts-staff-sick-leave-save-costs?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:00:00 +0000 Health authorities stand by their call for pregnant women to get the swine flu jab as the total of number of reported miscarriages following vaccination increases to five. The Centre for Health Protection said pregnant women were classified as a target group for the jab by the World Health Organisation and health authorities in the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia, Japan, Singapore and the mainland. 'The WHO recommends that, when human swine influenza vaccines become available, health... https://www.scmp.com/article/704734/another-miscarriage-reported-jabs-upheld?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/704734/another-miscarriage-reported-jabs-upheld?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:00:00 +0000 More than 30 teachers and classroom assistants have been convicted of sex offences in the past 10 years - but the Education Bureau will not say if they are still working in the city's schools. Since January 1, 2000, at least 31 staff have been convicted of offences ranging from indecent assault of their pupils to secretly filming girls getting undressed for a dance class. The catalogue of convictions and the names of the offenders was compiled by the Sunday Morning Post and presented to the... https://www.scmp.com/article/704487/convicted-sex-pests-may-still-be-teaching?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/704487/convicted-sex-pests-may-still-be-teaching?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:00:00 +0000 A price war has broken out, to the delight of iPhone users in the city, as Smartone-Vodafone becomes the second telecom operator to offer 3G iPhone services. Rival operator 3 Hong Kong sweetened its subscription plans yesterday in response to Smartone's launch of such services on the same day. 'We are entering into a price war with Smartone,' said Max Wong, a spokeswoman for 3 Hong Kong. 'After reviewing Smartone's current price plans, we've come up with new plans.' The mobile operating arm... https://www.scmp.com/article/704497/iphone-price-war-gives-users-more-airtime?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/704497/iphone-price-war-gives-users-more-airtime?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:00:00 +0000 Two brutal murders involving foreigners in Macau have cast the spotlight on the city's loose laws that allow the frequent release of illegal immigrants and crime suspects back onto the streets. A 31-year-old Korean man, whose body was found hanging from a tree on January 12, had committed six criminal offences in the city before being killed, but each time he was arrested he was only handed a 'streetwalking paper' and released. In Macau, a temporary identity document issued to illegal... https://www.scmp.com/article/704486/macau-killings-spotlight-loose-detention-laws?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/704486/macau-killings-spotlight-loose-detention-laws?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:00:00 +0000 A blunder by a data transmission operator was blamed for a shutdown of MTR trains on Thursday night that stranded 10,000 passengers. The operator made a mistake while running a computer program as he inspected a data transmission network for the East Rail Line, disabling the centralised monitoring of trains along the line, said Dr Jacob Kam Chak-pui, head of operations engineering for MTR Corporation. 'Since we could no longer centrally monitor the trains, we decided to halt the service out of... https://www.scmp.com/article/704395/mtr-delays-blamed-computer-error?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/704395/mtr-delays-blamed-computer-error?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:00:00 +0000 Dog lovers are calling for more public space for their pets as the city's most popular dog park faces closure. The Wan Chai Waterfront Promenade opened in April 2007 as a temporary park designed for dogs and closes on January 27 to make way for the Central-Wan Chai Bypass. The deputy director of community development at the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Michael Wong Ho-ming, said the 1.2-hectare park had been a favourite spot for dog owners because of its location and... https://www.scmp.com/article/703827/sun-setting-harbourfront-oasis-pets-and-their-owners?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/703827/sun-setting-harbourfront-oasis-pets-and-their-owners?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:00:00 +0000 A Hong Kong businessman who was jailed in the 1990s for helping dissidents flee the mainland died yesterday. He was 61. Lo Hoi-sing died at Queen Mary Hospital in Pok Fu Lam at 12.20am from the combined effects of a lung infection, diabetes and a weak immune system. His wife, Chau Mat-mat, a Hong Kong-based children's writer, said her husband had been a generous man. 'He had a lot of friends and was never reluctant to lend a helping hand. He did good things for the country,' Chau said. Lo... https://www.scmp.com/article/703698/man-who-aided-escape-mainland-dissidents-dies?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/703698/man-who-aided-escape-mainland-dissidents-dies?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:00:00 +0000