A former primary school principal has been jailed for six months in Hong Kong for scamming the institution out of HK$270,000 (US$34,715) by lying about missing salary payments and withdrawing funds without authorisation. Chen Yi-hsin, former head of the Yan Chai Hospital Chiu Tsang Hok Wan Primary School in Tsing Yi, pleaded guilty to four…
A Hong Kong man suspected of killing his three-year-old daughter by violently shaking her allegedly abused her more than 20 times during the two months they lived together. This included by holding her upside down so her head struck the floor and dousing her with cold water in the shower. The High Court on Wednesday…
A Hong Kong superintendent molested and assaulted a woman four times over a seven-month period last year, including inside a police station on three occasions, a court heard on Tuesday. Defendant Chan Kin-yee, 42, appeared in Sha Tin Court on Tuesday morning to face a charge of indecent assault and three counts of common assault….
Judge Tanya Chutkan has said that she doesn’t believe she can impose a general restraining order on Elon Musk and his budget-cutting Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE) over the alleged firing of thousands of federal employees. Why It Matters Musk, the CEO of Tesla, has vowed to cut up to $2 trillion a year from…
A domestic helper has won a HK$180,000 sexual harassment claim against her former Hong Kong employer, a single man who repeatedly asked her for sex despite her refusals. The District Court on Friday ruled that Lam Yui-sang, 63, had created a “hostile and threatening” workplace for Indonesian helper Sri Wahyuni, who started her employment with…
A jailed Malaysian anaesthesiologist in Hong Kong has filed an appeal against his conviction of murdering his wife and teenage daughter with a yoga ball filled with lethal gas in 2015, marking yet another attempt to clear his name. Former university professor Khaw Kim Sun, who was sentenced to life imprisonment, filed the application on…
Sam Altman wants to use Elon Musk’s OpenAI takeover bid against him in court. Altman asked the judge in the tech bros’ yearlong court battle to look at the bid letter. Altman said it shows Musk is contradicting himself when he fights OpenAI’s efforts to go for-profit. Sam Altman, in a court filing late Wednesday,…
Former Hong Kong media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has defended the publication of an opinion piece that discussed US sanctions against a former chief executive in his now-defunct tabloid newspaper after the enactment of the national security law, saying the piece was not advocating penalties. Prosecutors grilled Lai on Wednesday about the piece headlined “Will…
A defendant accused of trying to help the ex-husband of slain model Abby Choi Tin-fung flee Hong Kong has said she was told to arrange a yacht “as soon as possible” and at any cost, with a fee of HK$300,000 (US$38,500) being quoted at one point. But Irene Pun Hau-yin denied in Kowloon City Court…
A defendant accused of trying to help the ex-husband of slain model Abby Choi Tin-fung flee Hong Kong has said she was told to arrange a yacht “as soon as possible” and at any cost, with a fee of HK$300,000 (US$38,500) being quoted at one point. But Irene Pun Hau-yin denied in Kowloon City Court…