A Hong Kong police officer has lost a speed loader and six 38 calibre bullets while on duty in Wong Tai Sin, the force has revealed, urging anyone who finds the items to return them. The officer lost the speed loader and bullets on Friday, and the force had launched an investigation and searched the…
A man has died in Hong Kong after falling into the sea near Lamma Island from a ship, with authorities investigating the cause of the incident. Police received an alert shortly before 11.30am on Friday morning, as a man aboard a cargo ship reported seeing another fall into the sea while climbing a ladder. “The…
The severed head of a cat has been found in a village in northwestern Hong Kong on the first day of Lunar New Year, sparking a police investigation into suspected animal cruelty. Police received a report at 11.20am on Wednesday from a man who had spotted offerings along with an object that looked like a…
Hong Kong police are investigating after a partially charred body was discovered near a lake on Lantau Island. Staff at the Inspiration Lake Recreation Centre called police at 3.30pm on Sunday to report the discovery. Officers and Fire Services Department personnel arrived and launched an investigation. A couple reportedly spotted the body beneath a tree….
Dozens of officials in China’s southern Guangdong province have been punished over a highway collapse last year – the country’s deadliest such incident in over a decade. At least 52 people were killed and 30 others injured when a section of the Meizhou-Dabu highway in Guangdong collapsed on May 1 after weeks of downpours. Around…
A Hong Kong national security police officer has been remanded in custody for allegedly attempting to grab a handgun from a colleague after being arrested on suspicion of voyeurism earlier this week. Constable Ko Chun-chung, 39, was escorted to Kowloon City Court on Friday to face one count of operating equipment with intent to record…
A man in China whose 10 million yuan (US$1.4 million) lottery jackpot was falsely claimed by another person has won a lawsuit demanding the money back. However, the man, surnamed Yao, has still not received his winnings after a five-year battle to secure his rights. The case has attracted huge attention on mainland social media…
Text size China’s commerce ministry on Friday launched an investigation into imported beef at the request of representatives from its struggling domestic industry, it said. The local price of beef in China has trended downwards in recent years, with analysts blaming oversupply and a lack of demand as the world’s second largest economy has slowed….
The Yi Peng 3 had been anchored in the international waters of the Kattegat strait between Sweden and Denmark Mikkel Berg Pedersen Text size Beijing on Monday promised to continue “cooperation” with regional authorities over a Chinese ship linked to the recent severing of two undersea cables in the Baltic Sea. Sections of two telecom…
Text size Beijing on Monday promised to continue “cooperation” with regional authorities over a Chinese ship linked to the recent severing of two undersea cables in the Baltic Sea, after the vessel set sail from international waters of the Kattegat strait between Sweden and Denmark. “China is willing to maintain communication and cooperation with the…