Hong Kong  - A rapist was Tuesday beginning a 10-year jail term in Hong Kong after being traced by his DNA nearly a decade after attacking a 13-year-old schoolgirl.

Truck driver Chung Chi-wing, 30, posed as a policeman to lure his young victim to a parked van and violently rape her as she walked home from school on an afternoon in November 1999.

He was only identified as the attacker when a police officer found a match between DNA in the semen found in the victim and a DNA sample taken from Chung when he was arrested for car theft in 2001.

Hong Kong - Top Hong Kong singer and actress Karen Mok was making plans Monday to fly to Canada to visit colonies of young seals, days before an annual hunt in which 300,000 will be slaughtered.

The trip is being organized by the Hong Kong Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) as part of a campaign lobbying for a ban on the trade of seal products in Hong Kong and China.

Mok, 38, will be accompanied on her March visit by a film crew to shoot a mini-documentary of her trip, which the SPCA plans to use in the campaign.

Hong Kong - A lorry driver involved in a crash that killed six men in Hong Kong was nearly seven times over the legal drink-drive limit, a court was told Monday.

Law Siu-kuen, 41, was driving a container truck that collided with a taxi carrying five construction workers the day before the start of the Chinese New Year holiday last month in an accident that shocked Hong Kong.

He was allegedly driving on the wrong side of the road when his lorry slammed into the taxi, dragging it for 50 metres and killing the 54-year-old driver and the five passengers, ages 30 to 47.

Hong Kong - When Helen left her native Zimbabwe and travelled across the world to a new life in Hong Kong, the last person she would have chosen to follow her was the man she blamed unequivocally for the ruin of her homeland: Robert Mugabe.

Her peace of mind was shattered when a report surfaced earlier this month that the African country's 85-year-old president, who
30-year stranglehold on power may be loosening as Zimbabwe sinks deeper into economic and political chaos, has bought a home in the city worth 5 million US dollars.

Hong Kong - A police report into an alleged assault by the wife of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe on a Hong Kong photographer has been sent to the city's Department of Justice to decide whether she should be prosecuted, police said Sunday.

Hong Kong police are understood to believe they have sufficient evidence to prosecute after two vital witnesses were traced following the incident involving Zimbabwe's First Lady Grace Mugabe on January 15, according to a source familiar with the case.