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Hong Kong - The new leader of the Catholic Church in Hong Kong said Thursday that he believed China should reverse its verdict on the students killed in the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
Bishop John Tong, who took up his duties in the former British colony Thursday, said China was wrong to brand the 1989 Beijing student movement a counterrevolutionary rebellion.
Hong Kong - An Indonesian maid was in a Hong Kong jail Thursday awaiting trial for mixing her menstrual blood in a pot of vegetables she was cooking for her employer.
Indra Ningsih, 26, allegedly told police afterwards she mixed the blood into the meal in a superstitious effort to make her Chinese employer "more amiable and less picky" towards her.
Hong Kong - Pilots and flight attendants with leading Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific said Thursday they would fight anticipated "illegal" moves to make them take unpaid leave.
The airline, which with its subsidiaries has more than 2,000 employees, is reported to prepare a mandatory unpaid leave scheme after recording its first losses in 10 years.
Hong Kong - The former managing director of fast food chain McDonald's in Hong Kong faced jail Thursday after being convicted of taking 330,000 US dollars in bribes from a food supplier.
Joseph Lau Si-sing, 48, was found guilty at a court hearing Wednesday of taking bribes and conspiring to pervert the course of justice by asking the supplier to lie to investigators.
Lau, who joined the fast food chain in Hong Kong in 2004, added more fruit and vegetables to the menu and ordered corn from a Thai supplier who he used to work with in a previous job.
Hong Kong - A married Hong Kong schoolteacher faced trial after police caught him engaged in a sex act with a 15-year-old pupil in his car, a news report said Wednesday. Maths and sports teacher Yeung Tin-shun picked the girl up from school in April 2008 and drove her to a secluded lane where he persuaded her to perform oral sex on him, the Hong Kong Standard reported.
At a court hearing Tuesday, Yeung denied a charge of gross indecency towards a child under the age of 16. His case was adjourned until Wednesday when the hearing was to continue.