A triad gang member charged with robbery and detained with two alleged accomplices from another gang was found dead in a detention cell they shared at Yuen Long Police Station in Hong Kong on Wednesday, prompting an investigation. The deceased, a 44-year-old man surnamed Wong, had ties with the Wo Shing Wo triad gang. His…
A triad gang member charged with robbery and detained with two alleged accomplices from another gang was found dead in a detention cell they shared at Yuen Long Police Station in Hong Kong on Wednesday, prompting an investigation. The deceased, a 44-year-old man surnamed Wong, had ties with the Wo Shing Wo triad gang. His…
A security guard who witnessed the fire at a karaoke bar in Hong Kong that killed 17 people nearly three decades ago called this week’s arrest of a fugitive involved in the case “justice” for the deceased, as he recalled the deep sadness he felt when he learned people he knew had died in the…
A fatal blaze at a karaoke bar in Hong Kong’s Tsim Sha Tsui that killed 17 people nearly 30 years ago has returned to the public eye after one of the suspects was arrested earlier this week. Police on Thursday arrested Chan Wai-leung, now 52, after he was intercepted by mainland Chinese authorities across the…
A security guard who witnessed the fire at a karaoke bar in Hong Kong that killed 17 people nearly three decades ago called this week’s arrest of a fugitive involved in the case “justice” for the deceased, as he recalled the deep sadness he felt when he learned people he knew had died in the…
Hong Kong police have for the first time smashed a local fraud syndicate that used deepfake technology to swap the faces of the swindlers with those of attractive women in video calls to cheat love-struck men in the region, including Singapore, out of HK$360 million (U$46 million). The force said on Monday it had arrested…