More details on the $84k dine-and-dash dude.
More details on the TKO Hospital data breach/whistleblower story.
Retail sales up in July, thanks to booze and bling.
And don’t do what now in the library?!?!?
All this and the rest of Tuesday’s news that matters 👇
NEWS
• The man arrested for running out on an $84k dining bill has form; he was previously convicted in 2023 for using deceptive tactics to meet women online and coerce them into non-consensual sexual acts.
Via The Standard: Posing as a fictional acquaintance of his own false persona, he lured two women to hotels where he threatened them into compliance. Wong was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison for these crimes, which occurred when he was 19 years old and serving as a community outreach officer for a political party in Kwan Po.
• The family of a patient who died during surgery at TKO Hospital that led to the arrests of two surgeons for allegedly leaking patient data says the hospital lied to them.
One family member, speaking to local media, acknowledged that the doctors involved in the leak may have broken then law, but is personally grateful to them.
"They helped me understand that things are not so simple, that there might really be a cover-up, and it gave me the courage to investigate.”
He questioned why a doctor would resort to anonymous leaks instead of using internal reporting channels, suggesting serious flaws in the hospital's system.
• Latest retail figures have been released, and a general improvement all round.
But… (there’s always a but), the figures are still terrible compared to pre-pandemic.
• File under “I’ll believe it when I see it (enforced)”…
• On Monday rumours that New World chairman Henry Cheng was going to inject $10 billion of his own money into the company gave the stock price a nice 5% boost.
By 11pm the company had filed a notice to the HKEX saying the rumours were not true, so by Tuesday all that gain had been erased.
• The GBA has been named the number one city in the 2025 Global Innovation Index, which seems a little unfair to the rest of the competition as it is clearly three cities.
• And finally, the fact that this sign (seen at the University of Hong Kong’s Main Library) even exists makes me fear for future generations.
