Issue: July 22, 2010   (Archive)
Thursday, May 23, 2013   




Pair brace for ouster bid on protest terms
Lawmakers will tomorrow move a motion to expel Raymond Wong Yuk-man and Albert Chan Wai- yip, who received suspended jail sentences for unlawful assembly in a 2011 protest.

Top artists in the picture with charity cash awards
Five winners of an inaugural prize set up by a Hong Kong-based foundation for "the most inspiring art emerging in Asia" have been named.

Official defends activist arrest
The secretary for security has provided a full account of events leading to the controversial arrest of an activist over a protest almost two years.

Close encounter in fashion beehive
On Monday night, I found myself at the opening of a new pop-up fashion store YNOT in Wan Chai, a creative collaboration by Stanley Wong, Mo Ji Hong and Yohji Yamamoto.

Speeding blamed for LRT train leaving track
The Light Rail Transit train that derailed in Tin Shui Wai on Friday was traveling at nearly three times the speed it should have been.

CY takes heat in calls for top aide to walk
Barry Cheung's situation raises more doubts about the ability of Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying to form and run an administration, according to critics.

Cheung will quit if need be, not before
Executive councillor Barry Cheung Chun-yuen says it is not necessary for him to resign from public office pending a probe into his trading platform but he will do so if necessary.

MTR hopes of women derailed
Women-only carriages on MTR trains may violate the sexual discrimination law if there are no similar facilities for men.

Culinary heavies in fight of the flab
It's a battle of the bulge with a difference. For two heavyweights of the restaurant business are on a quest to trim some excess fat over three months.

Tragedy came after lesson for surgeons
The parents of a 13-year-old boy who died weeks after spinal surgery - a tragedy that a coroner's jury ruled a "misfortune" - say their son was used for training Hospital Authority doctors.



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