Hong Kong - Police in Hong Kong were Saturday investigating the death of a 14-year-old boy who collapsed after apparently drinking methadone by accident on a visit to his aunt's flat.
The schoolboy fell into a coma and died after consuming the liquid heroin substitute on Friday while staying at the home of his
37-year-old aunt in the city's Kwai Chung district.
The aunt called police when the boy collapsed. An ambulance rushed him to hospital where he was declared dead an hour later, according to a police spokesman.
Methadone is used to treat heroin addicts in strictly controlled conditions at government-run health clinics in Hong Kong and should not be stored at addicts' homes.
Hong Kong - Chinese Premier Wen Jaibao on Friday promised 14 measures from the central government in Beijing to help Hong Kong survive the global economic slump.
Wen made the pledge in talks with Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang Friday morning, the third and final day of Tsang's annual visit to the Chinese capital.
The measures promised by Wen included allowing more mainland Chinese visitors to enter Hong Kong to boost tourism and help for Hong Kong businesses with factories in China's Pearl River Delta.
Infrastructure projects involving Hong Kong would also be speeded up, said Wen, who commented after his meeting with Tsang that he was confident Hong Kong would overcome the economic slump.
Hong Kong - Chinese Premier Wen Jaibao on Friday promised 14 measures from the central government in Beijing to help Hong Kong survive the global economic slump.
Wen made the pledge in talks with Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang Friday morning, the third and final day of Tsang's annual visit to the Chinese capital.
The measures promised by Wen included allowing more mainland Chinese visitors to enter Hong Kong to boost tourism and help for Hong Kong businesses with factories in China's Pearl River Delta.
Infrastructure projects involving Hong Kong would also be speeded up, said Wen, who commented after his meeting with Tsang that he was confident Hong Kong would overcome the economic slump.
Hong Kong - A man accused of being an illegal abortionist was expected to be charged Friday after a baby girl survived a late-term abortion and then being wrapped in plastic bags and abandoned with a bag of rubbish.
The accused, 67, was traced by police from closed-circuit television video inside a supermarket where the baby was found. He was due to be charged with performing an illegal abortion and abandoning an infant.
Police in Hong Kong were also searching for the mother of the baby girl.
The infant was delivered after induced labour. Police said the abortionist, thinking the baby was born dead, sent the mother home from his clinic before realizing the newborn was still moving.
Hong Kong - A gang smuggled hundreds of thousands of US dollars of electrical goods from Hong Kong to China through underground drains crossing the border, officials said Friday.
Gang members lifted a manhole cover on the Hong Kong side of the border fence and sent cartons of goods by night along a 10-metre stretch of underground drain using ropes at either end, customs investigators said.
Hong Kong - A gang smuggled hundreds of thousands of US dollars of electrical goods from Hong Kong to China through underground drains crossing the border, officials said Friday.
