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Wednesday, February 11, 2015

South China Morning Post Hong Kong

Decision to prosecute marine officials over Lamma ferry disaster ‘due by end of month’
The Department of Justice will make a decision on whether to prosecute Marine Department officials implicated in the Lamma ferry disaster by the end of this month.
11 Feb 2015 - 1:06pm
Why Indonesian helpers are victims of Hong Kong’s most horrific abuse cases
Language barriers and cultural differences are the main reasons that Indonesian domestic workers have been the victims of Hong Kong’s most horrific abuse cases over the past decade.
Updated 11 Feb 2015 - 12:40pm
 
Why Indonesian helpers are victims of Hong Kong’s most horrific abuse cases
Three investors from Hong Kong and the mainland are in talks to buy a majority share of beleaguered free-to-air television station ATV.
11 Feb 2015 - 12:33pm
Why Indonesian helpers are victims of Hong Kong’s most horrific abuse cases
A nine-strong jury retired for deliberation on Wednesday morning after hearing months of evidence on the charges against the two coxswains involved in one of the city’s worst sea tragedies.
Updated 11 Feb 2015 - 1:08pm
Why Indonesian helpers are victims of Hong Kong’s most horrific abuse cases
An electronic engineer who allegedly stole HK$500,000 when a security van spilled millions of dollars in cash onto one of Hong Kong’s busiest thoroughfares has been arrested.
Updated 11 Feb 2015 - 12:43pm
CY Leung's daughter misses press conference to announce her big screen debut
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying's daughter did not show up at a press conference last night to announce her first formal move into local showbusiness.
11 Feb 2015 - 12:17pm
 
West Kowloon Cultural District Authority CEO Michael Lynch will step down in August for personal reasons, triggering a search for his successor at the arts hub.
11 Feb 2015 - 2:34am
 

OPINION

Despite her ordeal at the hands of her former employer, Erwiana says she has managed to forgive the woman who subjected her to months of abuse.
10 Feb 2015 - 5:25pm
 
Several areas in the New Territories have experienced a serious shortage in milk powder this year, with up to half of pharmacies lacking supply of one or more of the four major formula brands, a...
11 Feb 2015 - 9:50am
A year after the horrific abuse suffered by Erwiana Sulistyaningsih shocked the world, labour activists and the Indonesian and Hong Kong governments were still debating whether enough has been...
11 Feb 2015 - 1:31am
 
Erwiana Sulistyaningsih, the domestic helper at the centre of an abuse case that has shaken Hong Kong and made headlines around the world, is planning to sue the Indonesian agency that recruited...
11 Feb 2015 - 9:26am
When Tutik Lestari Ningsih decided to come forward to speak out against her former employer in the wake of a sensational abuse case, it was hard to avoid the suggestion that she was being...
11 Feb 2015 - 1:31am
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying's daughter is said to make her debut on the big screen in a romantic comedy in which she will play a lead role that has been "tailor-made for her".
11 Feb 2015 - 12:43am
A critically injured Chinese white dolphin which was captured by an Ocean Park team last week was given a lethal injection after its health worsened.
11 Feb 2015 - 10:58am
 
Talk of a split between Financial Secretary John Tsang and Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying over how to manage public finances is expected to surface again when the finance chief unveils his budget...
11 Feb 2015 - 8:48am
 
With the exit of Michael Lynch, the West Kowloon Cultural District must brace itself for problems that can't be resolved by money alone.
11 Feb 2015 - 10:20am
 
Legal heavyweights including six former Bar Association chairpersons and a retired judge have signed a statement in support of embattled legal professor Johannes Chan Man-mun and the University of...
11 Feb 2015 - 12:13am
 
A Hong Kong Medical Journal article says the city has one allergy specialist for every 1.46 million people - far behind other developed countries. Specialists say that has a heavy toll.
10 Feb 2015 - 4:55pm
The illicit ivory trade between Africa and China has become a bane on relations with the continent and needs to be tackled, according to a prominent pro-Beijing lawmaker who is pushing for a total...
11 Feb 2015 - 12:20am
 
The popularity of Korean culture in Hong Kong is to be immortalised in wax as seven of its celebrities and a whole new section will be added at Madame Tussauds in May.
11 Feb 2015 - 12:19am
Foreign retirees as old as 82 have been tricked by drugs gangs into flying to Hong Kong with false claims of an inheritance and then lured into smuggling narcotics back to the West.
11 Feb 2015 - 12:20pm
 
The Federation of Hong Kong Industries has called on the government to provide more support to manufacturers that want to move their research and development activities back to the city from the...
11 Feb 2015 - 12:54am
 
The problem of food safety on the mainland is driving parallel-goods trading in Hong Kong, said the Communist Party chief in Shenzhen.
"Compared with Hong Kong, the mainland's food safety...
11 Feb 2015 - 2:41am
A High Court judge yesterday upheld the six-month prison sentence imposed on a man who threatened to set fire to pro- democracy demonstrators in Mong Kok during last year's Occupy protests.
11 Feb 2015 - 2:18am
A woman, one of hundreds who queued up outside banks yesterday morning, flashes a handful of newly-issued notes, customarily used as lai see money over the Lunar New Year. At the Mong Kok branch...
11 Feb 2015 - 2:29am
Protests against parallel-goods traders were unacceptable, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said, as he vowed to pay more effort to alleviating the disturbance brought by the traders to Hongkongers...
10 Feb 2015 - 3:47pm
 
Two passengers escaped serious injuries when a tyre on a Hong Kong double-decker bus blew out under their seats.
10 Feb 2015 - 7:32pm

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