Paper Talk: Direct flight to Hong Kong stops over for dubious ‘security reasons’

Sunday Apple Daily

Direct flight to HK stops over for dubious ‘security reasons’

Passengers on board a direct Cathay Pacific flight from Melbourne to Hong Kong, which according to the captain stopped over in Malaysia last Friday for “security reasons”, have queried whether it was just an excuse for flight attendants to change shifts. The passengers were asked to board the same plane after waiting a long two hours in Malaysia, but found nothing had changed except that a new crew of stewardesses had got on board while the original ones became passengers.

Monday, Ming Pao Daily

Blind student excels thanks to teachers’ encouragement

A blind secondary school student who will take the diploma of secondary education exams this year has expressed gratitude to his teachers at elite St Paul’s College for treating him like a normal student and for pointing out his weaknesses such as arrogance. Yeung Chin-hong said they had made him understand he sometimes did not respect other people’s feelings. Yeung, who had his eye balls removed at the age of six because he had eye cancer, has obtained top grades in Chinese language, Chinese history and literature. He also won the first runner-up prize with his teammates in a city-wide secondary school debating contest.