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Acid fiend strikes again

Patsy Moy and Colleen Lee The Standard 03/08/2010
Acid fiend strikes again

An acid fiend struck again in a busy Sham Shui Po street last night.

Abide by the Basic Law, Xi warns Hong Kong

Colleen Lee The Standard 03/08/2010
Abide by the Basic Law, Xi warns Hong Kong

Abide strictly by the Basic Law - that is Vice President Xi Jinping's stark message to Hong Kong.

Nancy Kissel will stand retrial in the death of her husband.

An American woman called the "milkshake murderer" after she was found guilty of killing her husband in a case that rocked Hong Kong's expatriate community had her conviction thrown out Thursday by Hong Kong's highest appeals court.

Cops pull guns on 'carrot bomber'

Kaylene Hong and Scarlett Chiang The Standard 02/10/2010

Widow killed as pensioner plunges to death on her

Beatrice Siu The Standard 02/10/2010
Cops pull guns on 'carrot bomber'

Anti-terrorism officers and heavily armed police reacted to an airport security alert - only to find carrots, tomatoes and an avocado on an unsuspecting traveler.

Widow killed as pensioner plunges to death on her

Two women died in a freak accident yesterday when one, a 74-year-old resident of a block of flats in Ma On Shan, fell on the other after she apparently slipped while cleaning a window in her 27th- floor home.

Courthouse in Chengdu where Tan Zuoren was sentenced. Photo: RTHK.

A mainland activist who sought to document shoddy construction that contributed to deaths in the devastating 2008 Sichuan earthquake, has been sentenced to five years in prison for subversion, according to his lawyer.

Views sought on mediation development

The Department of Justice has launched a three-month consultation on more effective and extensive mediation in commercial and community disputes.

Girl, 4, survives horror plunge

Phila Siu The Standard 02/08/2010

7 hurt as truck plows into shops

Scarlett Chiang The Standard 02/08/2010
Girl, 4, survives horror plunge

Terrified lunchtime crowds looked on as a mother hurled her young daughter from a Kowloon shopping mall - and then jumped to her death.

7 hurt as truck plows into shops

Seven people were injured - one critically - yesterday when a an out-of-control truck veered onto a sidewalk in Sham Shui Po during a heavy downpour and plowed into pedestrians.


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