06-08-2025
Hong Kong cops nab thief targeting religious houses
HONG Kong police have finally caught a serial burglar known for targeting religious premises, including mosques and nunneries, Guangming Daily reported.
According to the Yau Tsim District Police, the suspect would fish cash out of donation boxes using a plastic film coated in glue tied to a string.
Police first received burglary reports from the Kowloon Masjid and Islamic Centre (also known as the Tsim Sha Tsui Mosque) that money in the collection box had mysteriously disappeared.
After reviewing CCTV footage, the police finally caught a 46-year-old mainland Chinese national in the act at the mosque on Aug 1.
Police found 10,000 yuan (RM5,875) in his backpack and believed he was linked to four other burglaries between June and July at the Hong Kong Buddhist Hospital and Chi Lin Nunnery.
They added that the case was solved quickly thanks to a citywide CCTV system and the fact that the matter had been reported to them early.
> A man in Taiwan, who was furious that his girlfriend was sexually harassed, tracked down and killed the perpetrator, China Press reported.
The incident took place on July 28 when the killer named Huang, 41, found out that a 57-year-old man had harassed his girlfriend.
In a fit of rage, he took a taxi for more than 160km from Taichung to Tainan to seek revenge.
When he spotted the perpetrator, he followed him into a convenience store before slashing him multiple times.
The victim was pronounced dead at hospital.
Realising that he could no longer escape, Huang surrendered to the police along with the murder weapon – a blood-stained watermelon knife.
The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a, it denotes a separate news item.
