URA funds for older areas

The board of the Urban Renewal Authority (URA) has approved HK$25 million in funding to enhance the arts and cultural life in the city's older urban areas.

A vetting committee will be set up to draw up terms for arts groups to apply for funding.

Misadventure ruling in death

An inquest at the Coroner's Court has recorded a verdict of misadventure over the death of a woman who suffered massive blood loss after minimal invasive surgery in Tuen Mun Hospital.

Wong Choi-ngor, a colon cancer patient, was discharged after undergoing the procedure on March 3, 2010. She suddenly collapsed two days later and died despite treatment. Doctors detected massive blood loss related to the previous surgery.

Handing down the ruling on Monday, Coroner Michael Chan Pik-kiu cited the conclusion of surgeon Lee Fung-yee, an expert witness, that Wong had died of complications because she was found fit to undergo the surgery, received proper treatment and had recovered well afterward.

Cover-up seen in crash account

A woman told police she crashed her car in Tsim Sha Tsui while fleeing knife-wielding men on Monday. The police, however, suspected the woman was covering up for a man who was actually driving the car at the time of the crash.

A car toppled a signboard before rolling over at the junction of Blenheim Avenue and Minden Avenue around 6 am. The car was empty when the police arrived. A man and woman returned to the scene later, claiming to have been in the vehicle at the time of the crash.

The woman claimed she crashed the car while fleeing from knife-wielding men who chased them after they left a bar. A witness to the incident told police a man was driving the car at the time of the crash. Both the man and the woman passed the breathalyzer test. The investigation continues.

Antique find suspends work

A project at a Department of Water work site was suspended after several antiques were spotted by an amateur archaeologist on Sunday.

The amateur passed the site on Sunday and saw what appeared to be ancient potteries among rubbish. He immediately alerted the police. The Antiquities and Monuments Office later certified the pieces as Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) antiques.

Staff of the office were seen taking photos and measuring the site on Monday.

Illegal mutton shop shut down

A fresh provision shop in Kwai Chung has lost its license because of selling illegal mutton.

The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department said on Monday the mutton sold in the shop, located at Stall No 61 on the ground floor of Shek Lei Shopping Centre in Shek Lei Estate, was neither slaughtered in an approved slaughterhouse, nor lawfully imported. The shop closed its business immediately.

China Daily

(HK Edition 08/02/2011 page1)