Police have arrested a woman on suspicion of child abuse after she allegedly hit her 12-year-old son with a rattan cane in a Hong Kong flat. The police force said it received a report at 2.48pm on Saturday from a boy in Wong Tai Sin who complained he had been beaten by his mother. The…
This article was first published on March 18, 2006 by Benjamin Wong and Clifford Lo Officers shot with stolen police gun An off-duty policeman shot two uniformed constables, killing one of them, with a gun stolen from and used to kill an officer five years ago, police sources said yesterday (March 17, 2006). The off-duty…
Nine people have been injured after a car mounted the pavement on a Hong Kong street. Police were called to Lam Hing Street in Kowloon Bay at about 12.40pm on Monday following reports of a car veering onto the walkway. The vehicle, which has both local and mainland Chinese number plates, sustained damage to its…
An elderly pedestrian has died after being hit by a taxi in Hong Kong’s Kwun Tong, according to police. The accident took place shortly before 10pm on Friday when the 75-year-old man was crossing the road near the junction of Hip Wo Street and Yuet Wah Street. The taxi, travelling along Hip Wo Street towards…
Hong Kong authorities plan to expand a pilot programme to cut the transfer time by 80 minutes for patients suffering from serious strokes to public hospitals equipped with relevant surgical facilities. The Hospital Authority said on Wednesday that the diversion programme, which was launched in December and is currently only available in the New Territories,…
Hong Kong police are investigating the death of an 80-year-old man allegedly knocked down by a taxi driver in a traffic accident in Kwun Tong. The force said on Saturday that the cab driver, a 46-year-old man, was travelling along Kwun Tong Road on Friday night when he was believed to have struck the pedestrian…
An elderly woman has been charged with murder two days after she and her husband were found unconscious in a hotel room in Hong Kong’s Tsim Sha Tsui, with the man sustaining a potentially fatal stab wound to the neck. “Police today laid a holding charge against a 73-year-old woman with one count of murder,”…
Hong Kong police have arrested an elderly woman on suspicion of murder after she and her husband were found unconscious in a Tsim Sha Tsui hotel room, with the man later pronounced dead in hospital. Cleaners at the Ramada Grand hotel on Austin Avenue discovered the woman, 73, and the man, 77, at about 4.50pm…
Hong Kong police have charged a 36-year-old man with manslaughter after reclassifying a suspected drug-related death from last week as a more serious offence. A police spokesman said on Wednesday that officers had upgraded the case of a 24-year-old man found unconscious in a hotel room in Tsim Sha Tsui, charging the 36-year-old discovered in…
Hong Kong police are searching for two suspects who allegedly assaulted a homeless man with a free-standing floor sign and set fire to objects at a public stairwell in the early hours of Tuesday. A security guard alerted police about a stairwell fire under a footbridge in Tsz Wan Shan at 3.49am. Arriving officers found…