These articles were first published on April 2, 2003 by Tommy Lewis and Niki Law Pop star, actor and director Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing plunged to his death from the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Central in an apparent suicide last night. Cheung, 46 – star of the hit 1993 movie Farewell My Concubine – fell from…
Hong Kong is on track to record its lowest number of heart transplants since 2011, prompting doctors from the city’s only transplant team to urge residents to sign up for organ donation. The latest data from the Hospital Authority showed only three hearts had been donated this year as of the end of September, with…
Hong Kong police are searching for a fishing boat captain who fell into the waters off Lamma Island when his vessel collided with an oil barge. The force said it was notified of the incident at 5.21am on Sunday, adding that six other crew members had been safely recovered after their boat sank. “Six of…
A wild boar ran into a motorcycle on a Hong Kong road on Wednesday, causing the rider and his passenger to suffer injuries. The motorcycle, driven by a 39-year-old man, was travelling along the Kowloon-bound lane of Clear Water Bay Road in Sai Kung when the incident occurred shortly after 3am. While riding near Tai…
A woman fell to her death from a building in southern Hong Kong on Sunday night, smashing into the roof of a parked minibus on the street below and injuring an expat passenger. The woman, 32, fell from the Goodview Centre residential block on the busy Wu Pak Street in Aberdeen at about 6pm. She…
A woman fell to her death from a building in southern Hong Kong on Sunday night, smashing into the roof of a parked minibus on the street below and injuring an expat passenger. The woman, 32, fell from the Goodview Centre residential block on the busy Wu Pak Street in Aberdeen at about 6pm. She…
Residents insist that a proposed research centre in their neighbourhood should be relocated unless it is downsized by 60 per cent after Hong Kong’s oldest university agreed to scale it down and adjust the design. Their calls followed an announcement by the University of Hong Kong (HKU) on Thursday night that it would scale back…
A Hong Kong man has died after collapsing on a boat in waters off Lamma Island, police have said. Police on Sunday received reports that a man had collapsed on a sampan – a small, traditional Chinese wooden boat – at 1.10pm near Shek Kok Tsui on Lamma Island. The victim was then sent to…
The two drivers, aged 48 and 53, were taken to Queen Mary Hospital in Pok Fu Lam for treatment of head and neck pain. About three minutes later and only 150 metres (492 feet) away, another taxi driver hit a wild pig near the Ocean Court residential blocks while driving from Ap Lei Chau Bridge…