This Week in the News is your weekly roundup of the top headlines in Hong Kong. If you have to read only one thing today to keep from being clueless, this is it. This breakdown has been arranged in chronological order, starting from Monday.
MTR service suspension – Round 1
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MTR is still investigating what went wrong but read about how a dislodged overhead cable caused a power failure thus, creating a five-hour fiasco as MTR suspended services. It’s serious stuff, MTR Corporation is facing a HK$7.5 million fine!
Kids PDA-ing in McDonald’s
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How can a video of two young kids liplocked for a full 49 seconds not go viral and make headlines, especially when the reason why they were French kissing for so long was because the girl had something stuck in her teeth and needed her boyfriend to assist!
Sob sob Sevens fans
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If you didn’t read Coconuts, you haven’t had the whole week to kick, scream and whine about it but there will only be 3,000 tickets available to the public in next year’s Sevens event.
Quit dreaming! A white Christmas in HK may just happen!
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If you thought we were delusional, we’re not! Hong Kong’s climate may be subtropical but it has snowed in Hong Kong before. Find out when and where, here and here!
MTR service suspension – Round 2
Just when you think it couldn’t get worst than a HK$7.5 million fine, you thought wrong! In less than 24 hours of five-hours of suspended service on the Tseung Kwan O line, a Tin Shui Wai light rail train burst into flames during rush hour.
Yay to science and technology
Without which this man would never have been found to have raped a girl 18 years ago. Now he’s finally behind bars, where he should be, for what he did.
The truth about Angora fur revealed by PETA
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It’s not even safe to buy angora fur from retail giants like Zara and H&M, as all their Angora fur comes from China – which have been cruelly yanked off live and shrieking bunnies. Watch the hair-raising video here!
MTR service suspension – Round 3 (hopefully final this week!)
MTR has been on the news pretty much every day this week! Just this afternoon, train services were disrupted when a man fell onto the tracks.
Illustration: Achitapol Charuthammakorn, Coconuts
