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Opinion | Hong Kong for 1930s tourists: shopping, sedan chair rides, a side trip to southern China recommended in guidebook

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What did visitors to Hong Kong experience in the mid-1930s? International leisure travel, then, was only for the affluent; almost anyone else who ventured beyond their home countries did so for work opportunities; tourist activities encountered en route were just a welcome bonus. After the free-spending, worldwide economic boom that characterised the Roaring Twenties abruptly … Read more

3rd day jury selection sees a pool of 57 potential jurors

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Attorneys on Thursday have begun interviewing a third batch of potential jurors in the white-hot Karen Read murder case at Norfolk Superior Court. The pool for today was significantly smaller than the prior two days of the jury selection which began on Tuesday. While the other days had 90 or more potential jurors each, Thursday … Read more

Potential Karen Read jurors pack Norfolk Superior Court for murder trial selection

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Nearly 100 potential jurors arrived at Norfolk Superior Court this morning for the first date of the murder trial of Mansfield’s Karen Read. Ahead of the arrival of the potential jurors, Judge Beverly Cannone issued her ruling on the most contentious pretrial issue: whether the defense could use the third-party killer theory they have argued … Read more