Sat, 09/24/2011 - 21:47 by Angelina Thompson
As Apple Inc. inaugurated its first store in Hong Kong Saturday, thousands gathered to welcome the technology giant.
Scores of Apple fans camped outside International Financial Center Mall, the city’s posh most busine
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Thu, 11/25/2010 - 06:08 by Prince damin
Hong Kong -- Twenty-five winners of 47 graded races around the world will contest the Hong Kong Jockey Club's International Races Dec. 12.
Fourteen horses, representing Hong Kong, France and England, were selected Wednesday for the HK$20 million Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Cup, at 2,000 meters over the Sha Tin course. That group is headed by the French-based defending champion, Vision d'Etat, and the English-based, 3-year-old filly Snow Fairy, winner of the English and Irish Oaks and the Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup at Kyoto, Japan, in her last start.
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Sat, 10/09/2010 - 00:30 by Prince damin
Philadelphia -- The Philadelphia Eagles said quarterback Michael Vick won't play in Sunday's game in San Francisco.
Kevin Kolb, who was the team's starting quarterback when the season opened, and was injured in the first game, will replace Vick. He filled in after Vick suffered a midsection injury last Sunday during the Eagles' 17-12 loss to Washington.
Doctors later said Vick suffered cartilage damage and a small fracture in his rib area.
Vick had taken over for Kolb when Kolb suffered a concussion in the opener. Last week, after the Vick injury, Kolb completed 22-of-35 passes for 201 yards and one touchdown. He also threw an interception.
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Thu, 11/26/2009 - 06:41 by harsheeb
Hongkong -- Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific said its Airbus planes are being fitted with new pipes following toilet blockage problems on three planes.
The airline said the A330 and A340 Airbuses have had toilet problems on three separate occasions during the past two weeks, including one incident involving a plan that had to be diverted, The Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday.
A spokeswoman said all 10 toilets on a flight from Saudi Arabia to Hong Kong broke down, leading the flight to divert to Mumbai with its 278 passengers.
"You would be amazed what we find in the pipes when we clean the system -- not just face towels but medicine bottles, socks, items of clothing and even children's stuffed toys," spokeswoman Carolyn Leung said.
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Fri, 11/13/2009 - 21:32 by harsheeb
Hong Kong -- Wen-Chong Laing fired a 5-under-par 65 Friday and is among four players tied for the lead after 36 holes of the European PGA Tour's Hong Kong Open.
Liang, Gregory Bourdy, Robert-Jan-Derksen and Charl Schwartzel are at 9-under 131, one stroke ahead of Rory Sabbatini and Chinarat Phadungsil. Scott Strange matched Laing's 65 and tied for seventh with four other players at 7-under.
First-round leader Udorn Duangdecha, who opened the tournament an 8-under 62, struggled with a 74 Friday and dropped into a tie for 34th at 4-under.
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Thu, 06/25/2009 - 11:39 by preet_20
Hong Kong, June 25: A Hong Kong language tutor was Thursday facing jail after being convicted of using threats to force a 14-year-old girl pupil into having sex with him.
Gary Siu Cheuk-ming, 27, lured the girl who attended his private Japanese lessons to a meeting in a hostel after claiming he could get modelling work for her and filmed her naked.
He then had sex with her at least 10 times over a three-month period after threatening to distribute the video if she did not sleep with him, the South China Morning Post reported.
The girl eventually told another teacher what was happening who alerted police. The offences all took place in 2006, the newspaper reported.
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Wed, 05/13/2009 - 22:37 by Rich Smith
At The Motley Fool, we poke plenty of fun at Wall Street analysts and their endless cycle of upgrades, downgrades, and "initiating coverage at neutral." So you might think we'd be the last people to give virtual ink to such "news." And we would be -- if that were all we were doing.
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Wed, 04/15/2009 - 11:02 by rcrchauhan
Hong Kong, April 15 -- A married Hong Kong schoolteacher faced trial after police caught him engaged in a sex act with a 15-year-old pupil in his car, a news report said Wednesday.
Maths and sports teacher Yeung Tin-shun picked the girl up from school in April 2008 and drove her to a secluded lane where he persuaded her to perform oral sex on him, the Hong Kong Standard reported.
At a court hearing Tuesday, Yeung denied a charge of gross indecency towards a child under the age of 16. His case was adjourned until Wednesday when the hearing was to continue.
When questioned by police, the girl said she had enjoyed a "boyfriend-girlfriend" relationship with him for about a month before the incident in April 2008. She said she did not know he was married.
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Tue, 04/07/2009 - 11:28 by rcrchauhan
Hong Kong, April 7 -- A senior HSBC banker has been convicted of indecent assault after drunkenly groping a woman in a Hong Kong karaoke bar, a news report said Tuesday.
Michael Chan Chi-wang followed the 26-year-old woman into the washroom at the karaoke bar and grabbed her from behind, the Hong Kong Standard reported.
Chan, who is married and holds the job of vice president of commercial banking at HSBC Holdings PLC in Hong Kong, begged her not to report the matter to the police when she alerted the manager at the karaoke bar about the assault.
At a hearing Monday, Chan was found guilty of indecent assault over the September incident. He was sentenced to 160 hours of community service in the city's Eastern Court.
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Mon, 04/06/2009 - 16:12 by rcrchauhan
Hong Kong, April 6 -- A computer technician went on trial Monday accused of stealing the photographs that triggered Hong Kong's notorious celebrity sex scandal.
Sze Ho-chun, 24, allegedly downloaded explicit images from the laptop computer of singer-actor Edison Chen showing him engaging in sex acts with a number of young starlets.
The 1,300 pictures showed stars, including singer Gillian Chung and actress Cecilia Cheung, naked with Chen in a scandal which tarnished the squeaky clean image of Hong Kong's so-called Canto-pop stars.
The images were shared among millions of internet users in early 2008, forcing the 28-year-old star to issue a public apology, flee Hong Kong and announce his temporary retirement from showbiz.
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Wed, 04/01/2009 - 12:19 by rcrchauhan
Hong Kong, April 1 -- A clerk at a law firm has been sentenced to four months in jail after blackmailing a colleague over nude pictures taken during their sexual affair, a media report said Wednesday.
Shek Wing-hung, 38, was found guilty of blackmail and criminal extortion after his victim paid 200,000 Hong Kong dollars ($25,600) to prevent the pictures being made public, the Standard said.
In mitigation, Shek said that he had been emotionally overwhelmed at the time of the offence.
The court was told that Shek forced his former lover to pose for the photos and later repeatedly harassed her in phone calls and text messages demanding payment for the pictures.
Shek was arrested after the woman told her husband about the affair.
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Mon, 03/02/2009 - 10:50 by Rakhi Kaptiyal
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