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Builder fined HK$10,000 for part in To Kwa Wan building collapse

By , on March 6th, 2013

<!– google_ad_section_start –> A 77-year-old former repairman who was deemed partly responsible for a building collapse that killed four people in To Kwa Wan three years ago was fined HK$10,000 in Kowloon City Court on Wednesday. Chu Wai-wing, owner of Wai Wing Construction Decoration Company, had earlier been found guilty of breaching building regulations by carrying out work likely to cause injury to people and damage to property. The maximum penalty for the offence is three years in jail and a HK$1 million fine. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Land of Decoration awarded prize

By , on June 28th, 2012

Grace McCleen wins this year’s Desmond Elliott Prize for new fiction with her debut novel The Land of Decoration, about a girl growing up in a Christian sect.

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