Dave Besseling

4 days 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.

4 days 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.

1 week ago | scmp.com | Dave Besseling

“A Taiwanese pilot yesterday asked for political asylum after making an emergency landing with a jumbo jet packed with tyres and fruit at a Chinese airport,” reported the South China Morning Post on May 4, 1986. “Commander Wang Xijue, 57, said he wanted to be reunited with his family on the mainland. “A Taiwanese pilot yesterday asked for political asylum after making an emergency landing with a jumbo jet ... at a Chinese airport,” reported the South China Morning Post on May 4, 1986.

2 weeks ago | scmp.com | Dave Besseling

“A major inquiry has been launched by the Mass Transit Railway (MTR) after three carriages became detached in a tunnel yesterday, leaving thousands of rush hour commuters stranded in northwest Kowloon,” reported the South China Morning Post on April 28, 1993. “Investigators were last night trying to identify the mechanical problem which caused one of the most serious accidents in the operator’s 14-year history. An MTR train experienced a major incident on April 28, 1993.

3 weeks ago | scmp.com | Dave Besseling

“The publisher of a local leftwing newspaper [Ta Kung Pao], Mr Fei Yi-ming, who was recently elected a Standing Committee member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference in Peking, is to head an eight-member committee to supervise the work on next month’s exhibition in Hongkong of archaeological finds from China,” reported the South China Morning Post on March 25, 1978.