Hong Kong - Top Hong Kong singer and actress Karen Mok was making plans Monday to fly to Canada to visit colonies of young seals, days before an annual hunt in which 300,000 will be slaughtered.

The trip is being organized by the Hong Kong Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) as part of a campaign lobbying for a ban on the trade of seal products in Hong Kong and China.

Mok, 38, will be accompanied on her March visit by a film crew to shoot a mini-documentary of her trip, which the SPCA plans to use in the campaign.

Hong Kong - A lorry driver involved in a crash that killed six men in Hong Kong was nearly seven times over the legal drink-drive limit, a court was told Monday.

Law Siu-kuen, 41, was driving a container truck that collided with a taxi carrying five construction workers the day before the start of the Chinese New Year holiday last month in an accident that shocked Hong Kong.

He was allegedly driving on the wrong side of the road when his lorry slammed into the taxi, dragging it for 50 metres and killing the 54-year-old driver and the five passengers, ages 30 to 47.

Hong Kong - When Helen left her native Zimbabwe and travelled across the world to a new life in Hong Kong, the last person she would have chosen to follow her was the man she blamed unequivocally for the ruin of her homeland: Robert Mugabe.

Her peace of mind was shattered when a report surfaced earlier this month that the African country's 85-year-old president, who
30-year stranglehold on power may be loosening as Zimbabwe sinks deeper into economic and political chaos, has bought a home in the city worth 5 million US dollars.

Hong Kong - A police report into an alleged assault by the wife of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe on a Hong Kong photographer has been sent to the city's Department of Justice to decide whether she should be prosecuted, police said Sunday.

Hong Kong police are understood to believe they have sufficient evidence to prosecute after two vital witnesses were traced following the incident involving Zimbabwe's First Lady Grace Mugabe on January 15, according to a source familiar with the case.

Hong Kong  - It must rank as one of the most public temper tantrums of all time.

By Sunday morning, nearly 4.5 million people worldwide had gone online to see video of a middle-aged woman have an emotional meltdown after missing a flight out of Hong Kong.

The video clip of the unidentified passenger screaming and throwing herself to ground after arriving at the departure gate at Hong Kong International Airport too late to board a San Francisco-bound flight has clocked up new viewers at the rate of more than 600,000 a day.