Issue: September 07, 2010 (Archive)

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

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Students learn to give courts a break
Not every civil action case lands in court. Proper mediation may help resolve disputes and ease pressure on Hong Kong's overworked courts.

Bullets that silenced the hired guns -
There were several robbery cases involving banks and goldsmiths between the mid-1980s and the early 1990s. The robbers used nine-millimeter automatic pistols (like the Black Star made for the People's Liberation Army), assault rifles such as the AK47 and even grenades.

Privacy threat to direct marketers
The Octopus Card controversy over protection of personal data is spreading to other sectors, with the practices of banks and insurance companies also coming under close scrutiny.

Lead from front to save hostages
The press is full of reports and comments on the whereabouts of the Philippine president and his senior ministers and generals when the hostage crisis of August 23 was at its height.

Results count for racehorse owner
In the old days, manufacturing was not the gateway to the land of the super rich.

Just don't read this in the toilet somebody could be filming you
Smile please, you're on candid camera. This may not be a joke. There are now more cameras than people in modern cities, researchers say.

Desperate men chase anything in a skirt as women go extinct
Help! We're trapped in a science fiction movie.

From the Webley to S&W, via Colt
Still on the subject of guns - before the 1960s the Hong Kong Police would carry the Webley pistol, used by the British Army during World War II.

Yuan plays demand cautious approach
It is customary for us to make New Year resolutions, but for Securities and Futures Commission chairman Eddy Fong Ching, summer is a better time to make big plans.

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