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By , on April 30th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Swiss former banker was yesterday found guilty of having sex with an under-age Singaporean prostitute in a case that caused a scandal as it involved several prominent men in the city state. Juerg Buergin, 41, was found guilty by a district court of two charges of having sex with a 17-year-old call girl and will be sentenced next Wednesday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Chinese factory fishing ship that burned last week off Antarctica has sunk without anyone on board, Chile’s navy said on Monday. The vessel Kai Xin caught fire and its 97 crew members were rescued by a Norwegian ship. Then it began to drift in unmanned and in flames, zigzagging dangerously close to glaciers. The Chilean navy said an official representing the ship’s owner confirmed that the vessel went down Sunday afternoon near Bransfield Strait at the Antarctic peninsula. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong police on Thursday charged two captains with manslaughter after a ferry collision last year that claimed 39 lives in the city’s worst maritime disaster in decades. The two men – Lai Sai-ming, the 54-year-old captain of the Sea Smootn, and Chow Chi-wau, the 56-year-old captain of the Lamma IV, were each charged with 39 counts of manslaughter and will appear in a magistrates’ court later in the day, police said in a statement. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By jbecker, on April 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The ferry that collided with a barge in thick fog on Friday night, leaving 39 people injured, did see a vessel on its radar but the crew are believed to have underestimated its length. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By jbecker, on April 5th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A passenger ferry collided with a barge as it approached Cheung Chau on Friday night amid thick fog, leaving 30 people injured, eyewitnesses and ambulance crews said. At least three passengers on board the New World vessel from Central to Cheung Chau were seriously injured, the ferry company told Cable TV. One of them nearly was barely conscious, a member of the ferry crew said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The person who approves a ship’s drawing plans in the future should also be the one who inspects the ship, a naval expert testifying at the commission of inquiry into the Lamma ferry disaster said on Wednesday. Australian naval architect Dr Neville Armstrong said this requirement would prevent mistakes similar to those made when inspecting the Lamma IV, which collided with another vessel, the Sea Smooth, causing flooding and the death of 39 passengers on October 1 of last year. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 5th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A naval expert expressed surprise at the different crew requirements for Lamma IV and its sister ship Lamma II, when speaking at the commission of inquiry into the National Day Lamma ferry disaster on Tuesday morning. The minimum number of crew members for the Lamma IV is set at four, while that required for the Lamma II, a vessel of similar size and capacity, is two. Commission-appointed Captain Nigel Pryke said he was surprised that Lamma II, a double-decked vessel with similar size and capacity of Lamma IV, only required two crew members. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on February 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The captain of the Sea Smooth yesterday broke his silence over the Lamma ferry tragedy for the first time. Lai Sai-ming has even refused to talk to the police since being arrested in hospital for endangering the safety of others the morning after the Sea Smooth was in a collision with Hongkong Electric’s Lamma IV. Eight children and 31 adults, who had been on board the Lamma IV en route to watch the National Day fireworks on October 1, died. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on February 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Yuriy Kulemesin, a Ukrainian captain involved in a deadly 2008 shipping accident, must serve out his 18-month sentence on charges related to endangering life at sea, the Court of Final Appeal ruled on Friday. The ruling upheld a Court of Appeal judgment last year on one of Hong Kong’s deadliest marine disasters. Kulemesin was the master of the oil rig supply ship Neftegaz-67, which capsized and sank, killing 18 crew members, after colliding with the bulk carrier Yao Hai off Lantau Island on March 22, 2008. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on February 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A relative of two victims of the National Day ferry disaster have hit out at the quality of interpreting at the commission of inquiry into the tragedy – which he says could affect its outcome. Ryan Tsui Chi-shing, the younger brother of Tsui Chi-wai and uncle of Tsui Hoi-ying, 10, who both died in the crash along with 37 others, said he was “stunned” by how poor the interpreter was when he attended the hearing on Monday. “There is no reason why a government-appointed interpreter should perform that poorly. She should be good at both English and Chinese,” he said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on February 14th, 2013 
South African Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius is alleged to have accidentally shot dead his girlfriend mistaking her for a burglar, local media say.
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By , on February 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Guidelines telling ferry coxswains how to react, after a collision with another vessel, were described as confusing at the commission of inquiry on Thursday morning. In one section, the guidelines issued by Hong Kong and Kowloon Ferry tell the helmsman to “steer away from the ship’s original course”, giving no further explanation. But in another section the guidelines say they may have to stay at the site and help the other vessel, said commission counsel Paul Shieh Wing-tai SC, who called the situation “confusing”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on February 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Japan’s coastguard arrested the captain of a Chinese fishing boat on suspicion of fishing in the country’s exclusive economic zone Saturday amid a festering territorial row between the two countries. The coral fishing boat with a crew of 13 was stopped by a coastguard patrol in waters some 46 kilometres northeast of Miyako island in the Okinawan chain, the local branch of the Japan coastguard said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on January 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Philippine authorities said yesterday they had fined the US Navy for “unauthorised entry” after a minesweeper ran aground on a World Heritage-listed reef. Manila announced the initial penalty amid growing anger in the Philippines over last Thursday’s stranding of the USS Guardian on the Tubbataha Reef. A government-led board that manages the reef served formal notice yesterday, board member Jose Lorenzo Tan said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on December 28th, 2012 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Eight activists from Hong Kong, Macau and the mainland who sailed to the Diaoyu Islands to claim them for China appeared on the cover of Asia Weekly as “persons of the year”. Lauded as national heroes in the Chinese-language magazine are captain Yeung Hong, vessel owner Lo Chau, Tsang Kin-shing, Koo Sze-yiu, Wong Fah-man, Lo Chung-cheong, Ng Shek-yiu from Macau and Fang Xiaosong from the mainland. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on December 28th, 2012 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Eight activists from Hong Kong, Macau and the mainland who sailed to the Diaoyu Islands to claim them for China appeared on the cover of Asia Weekly as “people of the year”. Lauded as national heroes in the Chinese-language magazine are captain Yeung Hong, vessel owner Lo Chau, Tsang Kin-shing, Koo Sze-yiu, Wong Fah-man, Lo Chung-cheong, Ng Shek-yiu from Macau and Fang Xiaosong from the mainland. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on December 27th, 2012 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Gerry Anderson, the British director and creator of the cult sci-fi animation series “Thunderbirds”, has died aged 83. Anderson had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease since 2010 and his health had deteriorated in the past six months, causing him to be moved into a care home in October, his son, Jamie Anderson, said after his death on Wednesday. The animator created “Joe 90”, “Stingray” and “Captain Scarlet”, but he was best known for “Thunderbirds”, which used a form of marionette puppetry dubbed “Supermarionation”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on December 20th, 2012 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Witnesses testifying at the inquiry into the Lamma ferry disaster on Thursday recalled that passengers asked the captain to sail back to shore as some were injured. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on December 14th, 2012 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The skipper of the Sea Smooth did not give a statement to police about his role in October’s fatal collision off Lamma Island, the commission of inquiry was told on Friday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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