A man in China was told by his fiancée that he needed to burn the “marriage bed” of her and her ex-husband so that they could get married, but it turned out to be a scam. The man from northern China’s Tianjin municipality, surnamed Wang, met his girlfriend surnamed Li on an online dating platform….
A Hong Kong obstetrician who kept more than 20 grams (0.7 ounces) of crystal meth in a hotel room he shared with his boyfriend has been sentenced to 10 months in jail for five drug offences. Counsel for Eric Chan Ho-lam, 32, on Friday asked Magistrate Kestrel Lam Tsz-hong at Kowloon City Court to impose…
A Hong Kong construction worker has been found guilty of manslaughter for killing his girlfriend and her two children, after a court acquitted him of the more serious crime of murder. But a High Court judge on Thursday warned Iu Wai-cheung, who slashed the mother more than 100 times, that his sentence would not be…
A former university professor is back in court for a retrial for allegedly murdering his wife and daughter with a gas-filled yoga ball in Hong Kong nine years ago, with the judge warning jurors to avoid reading “inflammatory” social media comments previously made about the defendant. A seven-member jury was empanelled at the High Court…
A Hong Kong court has slammed a former policeman for bringing the force into disrepute by stealing from two burglary victims and a tourist, with the presiding magistrate sentencing him to 15 months in jail. Hui Ho-shing, 31, was escorted to Fanling Court on Tuesday to be sentenced on three counts of theft after he…
As Americans face one of their most consequential elections for years, a subtext is running through the conversations of many of those anxiously waiting for election day: could this country face upheaval or even violence in coming weeks? The United States was once famous for its peaceful transfer of power. For such a large country,…
A case of alleged spying involving Hong Kong’s trade promotion office in London has returned to court, with the defence asking for more information to process thousands of messages, encrypted audio files and untranslated materials presented as evidence. But the judge at the Central Criminal Court, commonly known as the Old Bailey, denied the request…
Google’s Android mobile operating system powers most smartphones, and the US tech giant strives to make its Play Store the go-to place for buying games and other digital goods JUSTIN SULLIVAN Text size ADDS Epic Games comment, EDITS throughout A US judge on Friday let Google delay opening Android-powered smartphones to rival app shops, suspending…
A former Hong Kong Coliseum manager has acknowledged that the government department responsible for its operation had not issued any guidelines on standards for suspension wires during a fraud trial stemming from the collapse of a giant screen at a concert by Cantopop boy band Mirror that left two dancers injured. But Wendy Tang Hiu-suen…
The mother of late Cantopop diva Anita Mui Yim-fong is facing the prospect of being declared bankrupt for a second time after Hong Kong’s justice minister applied to a court to have the centenarian’s assets liquidated. Tam Mei-kam, who turned 100 earlier this year, was named the debtor in a High Court bankruptcy petition listed…