Dave Besseling
Longreads Editor at South China Morning Post
Hong Kong, previously Johannesburg, Berlin, Bombay, Madrid, Delhi, Chiang Mai, Amsterdam, Tokyo, and the Mighty Patch of Peter Ontario
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3 weeks ago |
scmp.com | Dave Besseling
“A young European mother of four, and five schoolchildren were killed yesterday when a ten-foot high concrete wall collapsed on a bus queue during heavy rain in Boundary Street. Sixteen people were injured,” reported the South China Morning Post on June 9, 1966. “The woman, wife of a British serviceman, and the children, aged between 12 and 16, were crushed under tons of masonry as a 50-foot section of the 250-ft long wall crashed on to the pavement in front of the La Salle Primary School.
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1 month ago |
scmp.com | Dave Besseling
“More than $1 million worth of sound equipment – 12 tons of it – will arrive here next month, accompanied by 31 musicians, dressers, secretaries, technicians, and stage road crew which comprise the four member group Boney M,” reported the South China Morning Post on April 16, 1979. “Already nearly all of the 10,000 tickets for the group’s concert at the Hongkong stadium have been sold. South China Morning Post previews the arrival of Boney M on April 16, 1979.
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scmp.com | Dave Besseling
“A gang of teenagers took turns torturing a boy to death before burning his body and dumping it in a rubbish bin,” reported the South China Morning Post on June 5, 1998. “Luk Chi-wai, 16, was punched, kicked, whipped with a leather belt, held upside down and swung around the room, and hit with poles and stools until he was dead, the [Court of First Instance] heard.
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1 month ago |
scmp.com | Dave Besseling
“A plastics factory worker, Chan Wai-tak, was stabbed to death and his friend seriously injured when they were attacked by a group of youths in Wah Fu Estate, Aberdeen, last night,” reported the South China Morning Post on May 10, 1980. “The injured youth, Lee Man-ching (18), told detectives from his Queen Mary Hospital bed that he and Chan (15 ½), were standing near a building chatting when a group of youths passed by and accused the two of staring at them.
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1 month ago |
flipboard.com | Dave Besseling
When a teenager was stabbed to death with a fork … over an alleged stareIn the 1980 incident at Wah Fu Estate, Chan Wai-tak was chatting with a friend when he was fatally attacked by a group of youths.
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