Hong Kong’s tough retail environment has claimed another victim, with a Michelin-designated restaurant announcing its closure after a decade of serving nasi lemak, bak kut teh and chilli pan mee in North Point. Ancient Moon, which serves Singaporean and Malaysian food on Kam Ping Street in the eastern part of Hong Kong Island, said its…
Hong Kong’s tough retail environment has claimed another victim, with a Michelin-designated restaurant announcing its closure after a decade of serving nasi lemak, bak kut teh and chilli pan mee in North Point. Ancient Moon, which serves Singaporean and Malaysian food on Kam Ping Street in the eastern part of Hong Kong Island, said its…
Hong Kong and Singaporean police have teamed up to smash a cross-border syndicate suspected of spending about HK$18 million (US$2.3 million) to buy prepaid SIM cards for running phone scams. In Hong Kong, a police raid on seven offices led to the arrest of four local men, aged 23 to 48, with officers also seizing…
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Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim has described his club’s post-season trip to Hong Kong as a “small sacrifice” to reward fans in the region and bring in revenue. The match will take place just two days after United play a friendly fixture against Asean All Stars in Malaysia, and only five days after their final…
Hong Kong police have arrested five people after they attempted to withdraw US$100 million from a bank in Central using fake documents. At about 5pm on Monday, police received a report from a staff member of a bank at China Building on Queen’s Road Central, where a man and a woman attempted to withdraw the…
A Malaysian man has tied the knot with a Muslim Chinese woman after they met on a street in China when he asked her for directions to a launderette. Ethic Malay Zairy Amir, 38, comes from the state of Selangor in West Malaysia. He runs a delivery store in Guangzhou, in southern China’s Guangdong province….
A former university professor brought two yoga balls filled with lethal gas to his Hong Kong home to exterminate shrews that had been attracted by the smell of Spanish ham, a court has heard in the trial over the alleged murder of his wife and daughter. Anaesthesiologist Khaw Kim Sun, 60, told the High Court…
A Malaysian ex-university professor in Hong Kong accused of murdering his wife and daughter has rejected prosecutors’ claims that an animal experiment he was carrying out with carbon monoxide was merely a ruse to obtain the deadly gas that killed them nine years ago via a yoga ball. Anesthesiologist Khaw Kim Sun, 60, made the…
HONG KONG (SCMP): Hong Kong police have made the city’s biggest seizure of Ice on record, confiscating HK$210 million (US$27 million – RM116 million) worth of the drug concealed in furniture and arresting a 26-year-old Malaysian on suspicion of trafficking the substance. Acting Superintendent Cheung Hok-fung of the force’s narcotics bureau said on Saturday that…