Hong Kong police have arrested 86 people, including triad members, in a sweeping 15-day crackdown on organised crime, ranging from theft and drug trafficking to illegal gambling and money laundering.

The force on Tuesday said the operation, mounted between August 18 and September 1, had led to the arrest of 66 men and 20 women, aged between 17 and 65, for allegedly operating or taking part in illegal gambling establishments, as well as breaching their conditions of stay.

Others in the long list...

The Philippines loses up to 70 per cent of government funds for flood-control projects to corruption, with losses as much as US$2 billion crimping economic growth in the past two years, according to a top official.

Average economic losses from corruption in flood control projects under the Public Works Department reached about 42.3 billion pesos (US$738 million) to 118.5 billion pesos from 2023 to 2025, Finance Secretary Ralph Recto said at a Senate budget hearing on Tuesday.

The estimate was...

Two public hospital doctors have been granted bail after being arrested in Hong Kong on suspicion of leaking a patient’s data to accuse a surgeon of making a mistake.

Observers, meanwhile, said that although the incident did not align with the principles of “whistle-blowing”, it underscored the need for a stronger “speak-up” culture within the Hospital Authority.

The 35-year-old associate consultant and the 57-year-old consultant from Tseung Kwan O Hospital were released on bail on Tuesday and...

Nancy Kissel jailed for life

By Polly Hui and Barclay Crawford

This article was first published on September 2, 2005

The verdict is murder, the jury unanimous. For Robert Kissel’s father, justice has been served; for the killer’s mother, just tears.

Nancy Kissel was sentenced to life in prison yesterday after seven jurors unanimously found her guilty of murdering her husband after one of Hong Kong’s most sensational trials.

The 41-year-old mother of three was expressionless in the dock as guards...

Mainland stock traders boosted their leveraged bets to an all-time high, adding fuel to a liquidity-driven rally that catapulted a key benchmark to its highest point in a decade last month.

The outstanding value of the shares bought with borrowed money rose to 2.28 trillion yuan (US$319.2 billion) on the mainland’s exchanges on Monday, according to data from China Securities Finance and Bloomberg. That surpassed the previous high of 2.27 trillion yuan set on June 18, just before a quick...

At least 20 people were missing after violent protests sparked in Indonesia by lavish perks for lawmakers that had come to include anger against police, a rights group said on Tuesday.

At least eight people had been killed since protests rocked Southeast Asia’s biggest economy last week, a senior minister said on Monday. The protests escalated after footage spread of the killing of a young delivery driver by a paramilitary police unit on Thursday night.

“As of September 1, there were 23 reports...

The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) has said it respects Candace Chong Mui-ngam’s contributions and reached out to her after the outspoken playwright accused it of censoring her remarks for an anniversary promotion drive.

But the academy did not explain on Tuesday why it refrained from publishing an interview with Chong for a social media campaign to mark its 40th anniversary this year, prompting the award-winning playwright to write an open letter.

In the letter, which was...

A hotpot restaurant in China has gone viral amid allegations that it was cooking with used oil taken from a roadside rubbish bin.

On August 18, in Chongqing, southwestern China, a netizen posted a video showing a woman in her sixties, surnamed Zhang, apparently scooping used oil from a swill bin.

The footage showed the woman dressed in the uniform of a local hotpot restaurant. She was carrying a ladle and a plastic bucket.

When asked who had told her to collect the oil, the woman responded...

Hong Kong has dispatched its largest-ever commemorative delegation to Beijing to honour China’s victory over Japan in the second world war at a highly anticipated military parade, as the city prepared to host a series of celebratory events.

At around 8am on Tuesday, delegation members, including Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu and his wife, Janet Lam Lai-sim, finance minister Paul Chan Mo-po, police chief Joe Chow Yat-ming and lawmaker Kingsley Wong Kwok, were seen entering the city’s...

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