Sunday, April 1, 2012 5 BRIEFS Cruise ship hit by blaze is left drifting for 24 hours A cruise ship with 1,000 people on board, including two Hongkongers, that drifted for 24 hours after being disabled by a fire, was headed towards Malaysia following repairs, the Philippines coast guard said. The REVIEW CRIME Azamara Quest, which departed Hong Kong for a 17-day cruise, was left drifting after a fire engulfed one of the ship’s engine rooms. Five crew suffered smoke inhalation, with one seriously injured. AP KEY EVIDENCE IN Record for fastest sail around island still stands The record for the fastest sail around Hong Kong Island remains standing LIBYAN’S CASE after the crew manning Genuine Risk were forced to call off their attempt due to poor wind. They started out from Causeway Bay at 10.40am heading east but gave up at Tai Tam Bay. Geoff Hill, owner of the ERASED IN HK Dubois 90 boat, said the crew might have another go today or tomorrow. Dennis Wong Shun-kit holds the City authorities destroyed 2004 flight data of which point “the paper flight strips record, at 2 hours 41 minutes and 57 would have been shredded and the seconds, set in December 1990. dissident and his family, who were intercepted in HK magnetic record media erased and A megastar then, a gigastar now, Dame Edna played to the young and old in two packed shows. Photo: Edward Wong en route to Britain and directed to Gaddafi’s regime reused”. She said the response also direct- ed the lawyers to approach the Air- ...................................................... Edward Eates, police chief port Authority instead. Lana Lam Crider insisted there was no re- during 1967 riots, dies Dame’s glorious exit hails end of era [email protected] ply, adding she was disappointed by Former police commissioner the apparent lack of co-operation. Edward Eates died last week in Dame Edna Everage narrates Peter played to two packed houses, attract- It must have crossed the minds of Key evidence revealing Hong Kong’s “It’s a very different response England at age 96. Eates was head of and the Wolf ing many a family. It also reeled in guest conductor Simon Over that the role in the rendition of Libyan dissi- than, for example, the national avia- the force during the 1967 riots, which City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong crinklies like me, who recall how the chameleon-tongued narrator might dent Sami al-Saadi to Muammar tion authorities across Europe, who were sparked by pro-communist City Hall Concert Hall Dame made a rib-tickling diversion make unscripted changes of gear in Gaddafi’s torture chambers has have tended to give over informa- sympathisers inspired by the March 31 from university essay-writing. Prokofiev’s well-known tale, but in been destroyed by city aviation offi- tion about rendition flights dating Cultural Revolution on the Her later one-woman stage shows the end, there were no life-threaten- cials, hampering the investigation of years in the past and have indeed re- mainland. If there was ever a show that was go- are also impossible to forget: teasing ing deviations. The orchestra found British lawyers. tained that information,” Crider ing to be more than the sum of its out details from ladies in the audi- all the right colours to illustrate the Saadi, an outspoken opponent of said. parts, this was it. The City Chamber ence about the secrets of their bed- story, and during those moments the late Libyan dictator, had come to Exiled dissident Sami al-Saadi, here “If the Airport Authority is the Orchestra of Hong Kong made a dou- room wallpaper or their husbands’ when the musical action treads wa- Hong Kong with his family in 2004 with his eldest daughter Khadija, government agency which holds the 69 endangered animal ble scoop, first by having had the wit plumbing problems, the megastar ter, the Dame’s expressive facial after the British government prom- was sent back to Libya in a secret information, it would have been seizures made to book the iconic Dame Edna Ever- displayed improvisation skills equal grouting provided just the ointment. ised them a safe flight back to Brit- operation. Photo: Reprieve welcome for [the aviation depart- age as narrator-cum-chanteuse, and to any jazz giant of the day, and easily As Juanita, the errant Spanish ain, where he lived in exile during the ment] to notify the appropriate The Agriculture, Fisheries and then chancing to hold the starry surpassed them with the number of crustacean living off the coast of 1990s prior to moving to China. agencies and inform them that they Conservation Department made 69 event so soon after the gutting news blue notes in her repertoire. Wales, Dame Edna crooned and ad- But when Saadi arrived at Chek Lawyers following the paper trail are in possession of vital evidence.” seizures involving endangered that this was to be one of her last stage One wondered if she would man- libbed through 20 minutes of pure, Lap Kok airport, he was detained had requested from Hong Kong the Crider said the flight details were species at customs checkpoints appearances. age to keep the latter locked in her jolly nonsense. Hearing that inimita- along with his wife and four chil- details of Saadi’s flight on March 28, a critical part of the case as Hong from January to February. City Hall may be celebrating a handbag for such a mixed Hong ble singing voice for the last time dren, aged six to 12, for almost a fort- 2004. Kong was the “proverbial scene of half-century of service to the com- Kong audience, while still letting that made one realise how her earlier dab- night before being forced onto a pri- Cori Crider, legal director for Re- the crime”. “Reconstructing the lo- munity, but, never to be upstaged, wicked persona shine through. She bling in Dadaism had left its mark. vate Egyptian-registered jet and prieve, said a letter was sent to Hong gistical part of the operation will MARK SIX the Australian queen of comedy did, and it did. All were at the mercy of All too soon, our 90 gorgeous min- flown to the Libyan capital, Tripoli. Kong’s Civil Aviation Department help us uncover who was behind the sprang into the world’s footlights her trademark, honey-coated barbs: utes with the bling-laden housewife The family was imprisoned and last month, but they had yet to re- grim fate of the Saadi family, who long before the hall’s foundation Henry Tang, Li Ka-shing, Raymond from Moonee Ponds were up, and it Saadi claims he was subjected to ceive a response even after the 10- tried to help cover it up, and why,” There was no first prize winner in stone was a twinkle in the mason’s Kwok et al all fell prey to her mischie- was a truly sad and historic moment years of torture. day mandatory deadline for replying she said. last night’s draw. The numbers were eye, as Mrs Norm Everage in 1956. vous encore, Hong Kong, Hong Kong! to be bidding a moist-eyed goodbye, His legal team from UK law firm to data requests had passed. “Follow the trail of the plane, and 11, 19, 30, 33, 37 and 44. The extra Pairing Prokofiev’s Peter and the (in its original form, she enlightened rather than an au revoir. Retirement Leigh Day and legal charity Reprieve But a spokeswoman from the avi- you learn a vast amount about the number was 18. One ticket won the Wolfwith David Haslam’s Juanita the us, before the Americans got their may have beckoned, but that blue are suing Britain’s spy agencies, ation body said a response had been whole operation. It’s a shame that second prize of HK$1,804,510. Third Spanish Lobster (yes, you did read hands on it and turned it into New rinse will surely never fade. Home Office and Foreign Office for sent to Reprieve, stating that all flight we haven’t received this information prize paid HK$80,870. that correctly), yesterday’s show York, New York!). Sam Olluver their role in his rendition. details are destroyed after 90 days, at out of Hong Kong.” Game over: cheats jailed Golf’s green-eyed boy China soccer’s big Lost in the detail 14-year-old mainland names, including prodigy is name on star players and Real Hong Kong cooking is just too complicated for modern life everyone’s lips at bosses, punished US Open – even for graft > INSIDE FOOD & WINE Tiger Woods’ > SPORT C14 Forced abortion at 7 months Pictures of tiny corpse spark outcry at treatment of mother under one-child policy > LEADING THE NEWS A3 > CHINA A7 PUBLISHED SINCE 1903 / VOLUME LXVIII / NO 164 Thursday, June 14, 2012 / See live updates at www.scmp.com / HK$8 INTERVIEW DIGEST Beijing measures poised to help Hong Kong A Beijing official tells Hong Kong it END SMALL-HOUSE POLICY, SAYS LAM could benefit from a series of mainland initiatives designed to lift the city’s economy as it prepares to The woman tipped to be celebrate the 15th anniversary of the handover. > LEADING THE NEWS A3 chief secretary says this rural ‘right’ cannot be Not long after my preserved forever as she appointment, I Portugal win see-saw discusses her hopes for a talked to the game to keep hopes alive ‘big social experiment’ Heung Yee Kuk Portugal defeated Denmark 3-2 to keep alive their hopes of qualifying to overhaul welfare and asked if they for the knockout rounds of the Euro could draw a line 2012 soccer championships.