27 Sat
Rape Scare A 27-year-old woman is thought to be a victim of rape when people find her passed out near some bushes, with her jeans and underwear around her ankles at 5am in a park in Kwun Tong. It transpires that she was drunk, and blacked out while urinating. It takes her 10 minutes to put her pants back on when the paramedics arrive. She is sent to the hospital.

28 Sun
Tragedy in Tsing Yi A mother leaps from the 26-meter tall Tsing Yi South Bridge with her seven-year-old son. The Marine Police arrive and find that the 38-year-old woman, who is a single mother with a mental illness record, has died. The boy’s body is found in Tsing Yi waters seven days later. A social worker from the Social Welfare Department has been following the case but did not find the mother troubled during a visit last month.

1 Mon
Lethal Dim Sum In North Point, a 58-year-old janitor is found dead in the staff changing room of his workplace, with a half-finished glutinous rice dumpling next to his body. It is suspected that he choked to death. 

2 Tue
SCAD Is Coming Enrollment has begun for the Savannah College of Art and Design, the US art school that is now opening a Hong Kong campus this September. About 100 people attended the first introductory seminar, including the wife of Chief Secretary Henry Tang. The tuition fee for a year is about $220,000. The school faced controversy earlier last year for beating the Chinese Artists Association to use the former North Kowloon Magistracy under the Development Bureau’s revitalization plan.   

3 Wed
A Sea Too Misty A 73-year-old man loses his way in the mist while having his routine morning swim in Sai Kung. He shouts out for help and is rescued by friends who are swimming nearby. He is sent to the hospital for a check up and is declared fine.  

4 Thu
So Not Worth It A 23-year-old student at the University of Hong Kong commits suicide because he is troubled by an acne problem. He hangs himself in an alley of an industrial building in Kwun Tong. The police first thought that he was robbed because his head and knees were wounded, but the officers found a suicide note, and determined that he hurt himself during a fall while trying to hang himself.

5 Fri
Mysterious Jump At 3am, a 21-year-old woman leaps from the taxi she is riding in from Happy Valley to Wan Chai because she realizes she does not have her wallet with her. She suffers from scratches and calls her husband when a passing ambulance stops and paramedics treat her. But when her husband, son and sister-in-law arrive, her husband gets angry and scolds her for jumping out of the car. He also throws his Home Return Permit at her and shouts, “I’ll never go back to China and you’ll never see me.”