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Issue: September 05, 2007 (Archive)

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Leukemia sufferer appeals for help
Leung Tsz-yan, a Chinese University of Hong Kong alumna, is fighting for her life - and hopes maybe you can help. She is suffering from leukemia and needs bone marrow donors.

Action plan unveiled to cut waste by 40pc
Households may soon have to fork out a waste management fee of HK$20 per person per month as part of a long-term strategy to cut solid waste by nearly half in 10 years' time, the environment chief has said.

Legislator questions SFC's handling of failed exchange
A lawmaker has expressed concern that Barry Cheung Chun-yuen, chairman of the failed Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange, may be receiving "lenient treatment" from the Securities and Futures Commission.

Cabbie rides off to jail for cheating undercover cops
A taxi driver was jailed for two months and fined HK$7,000 for charging two undercover police officers HK$150 for a short hire to The Peak.

No end yet to deadly deluge
Heavy rain is expected again today in southern China, after the severest deluge in 200 years in Guangdong claimed 40 lives, with another 10 people missing and 1.37 million affected.

It's a no-go for Exco
Today's meeting of the Executive Council has been cancelled - there's nothing to talk about.

Ex-chief justice dies
Retired Hong Kong chief justice Denys Roberts has died of kidney failure at his home in Norfolk, England. He was 90.

'Mad Dog' quits over grudge
"Mad Dog" Raymond Wong Yuk-man, who is to be sentenced today for being part of an unlawful assembly on July 1, 2011, has quit People Power because of a personal grudge.

'I'm not in debt'
Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange chairman Barry Cheung Chun-yuen yesterday insisted neither he nor any of his businesses are in debt and he has not borrowed money from any "major property businessman."

Security chiefs mum over cop close encounter with student
Top security officials are saying little over what is being dubbed an "embarrassing embrace" in which a police officer allegedly touched the breasts of a protester he was moving.

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