Hong Kong police were called to a cryptocurrency exchange store in Mong Kok on Saturday after a woman said she had been scammed out of about HK$93,000 (US$11,970) worth of virtual currency by a man she met online. A source said the 26-year-old woman had met a man on social media who claimed he could…
Hong Kong police were called to a cryptocurrency exchange store in Mong Kok on Saturday after a woman said she had been scammed out of about HK$93,000 (US$11,970) worth of virtual currency by a man she met online. A source said the 26-year-old woman had met a man on social media who claimed he could…
Hong Kong police have arrested three people on suspicion of deceiving a man over cryptocurrency trades involving at least HK$1 million (US$128,690). The force said it received a report on Thursday from a 46-year-old man, who said he had traded Tether coins four times involving a total of HK$1.4 million with a person he knew…
A Hong Kong woman was sent to hospital in the early hours of Saturday morning after a boar attacked her while she slept during a camping trip on the city’s tallest peak. The force received a report at 2.09am that the animal had bitten the 29-year-old woman while she and another hiker had camped out…
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…
China is outraged after officials in eastern China said that a case in which a boy stabbed his classmate more than 200 times with a sewing awl over three months “did not meet the standards of bullying”. According to the victim’s parents, their daughter was stabbed in her thigh by a male transfer student at…
Hong Kong police opened fire on an armed man after he allegedly ignored repeated warnings following an attack on his wife and mother in North Point on Sunday, with the suspect later dying in hospital. Officers rushed to a flat on Kam Ping Street at around 9.19pm after a woman called police to report that…
Hong Kong police opened fire on an armed man after he allegedly ignored repeated warnings following an attack on his wife and mother in North Point on Sunday, with the suspect later dying in hospital. Officers rushed to a flat on Kam Ping Street at around 9.19pm after a woman called police to report that…