A former customer services officer with Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways, who spent more than 15 years on the run, has been arrested and remanded in custody for allegedly accepting bribes to help a human trafficking syndicate smuggle travellers overseas. Former Cathay employee Tsui Ying-kit, 44, was escorted to West Kowloon Court on Tuesday afternoon…
Prosecutors have accused the former mother-in-law of slain Hong Kong model Abby Choi Tin-fung of concocting a “convenient excuse” for why she became concerned after learning that a police report had been made regarding the socialite’s disappearance two years ago. The District Court on Friday heard closing submissions in the trial of 65-year-old Jenny Li…
A Hong Kong man has admitted to committing manslaughter and arson after he unknowingly killed his neighbour when he attempted suicide by setting his public rental flat on fire three years ago. Fung Chun-kwai, 60, pleaded guilty at the High Court on Friday on the basis that his mental illness had substantially impaired his ability…
A mother in China has sparked public outrage after it was revealed that she sold her two biological sons to fund tips for live-streaming hosts. The errant mother even went as far as deliberately conceiving the second child solely for the purpose of selling it. Huang, 26, is originally from Guangxi province in southern China…
A waiter has become the latest person charged under the national security law, with prosecutors accusing him of inciting others to overthrow Beijing and the Hong Kong government in a series of social media posts. Chan Ho-hin, 22, on Wednesday saw his original sedition charge upgraded to one of inciting subversion after West Kowloon Court…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WAFF) – The month of June hasn’t been great for the Rocket City Trash Pandas. In fact, it’s been historically bad. In the past two weeks, the team hasn’t won a single game. Their most recent victory was a 4-1 win over Pensacola all the way back on Friday, June 13th. It was…
Megan Hughes was sadly pronounced dat at the scene (Picture: SWNS) A man has been convicted of murder after stabbing his partner 27 times in a ‘vicious and calculated attack’. Corey Dryden, 31, pleaded guilty to the murder of Megan Hughes, 31, at the Edinburgh High Court on Friday. Police arrested him shortly after the…
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A teenager who stabbed his neighbour 51 times in a ‘brutal’ knife attack was found by police cowering in the bushes. Incredibly, the victim survived but was left with multiple injuries, including a punctured lung and broken…
A Princeton grad and his girlfriend tried to kill two women he met on dating apps by using rat poison, cyanide and a homemade concoction derived from ground-up rosary peas, authorities said. Paul VanDuyne Jr., 43, and gal pal Andrea Whitaker, 41, of Wisconsin now face attempted-murder charges as well as raps for aggravated battery,…
A company boss in China set up 252 tables for his daughter’s grand wedding, then refused to pay the 520,000-yuan (US$72,000) bill. A pork vendor, surnamed Wang, in eastern China’s Zhejiang province said the boss of a local company, surnamed Qian, commissioned him to prepare food for his daughter’s wedding banquet in April. Wang said…