High Tide

Share this post

🌊 Free Tide: Typhoons and murder suspects...

www.hightide.harbourtimes.com

🌊 Free Tide: Typhoons and murder suspects...

Kompasu leaves 6 injured and 1 dead, alongside billions in economic losses

Harbour Times
Oct 13, 2021
2
Share this post

🌊 Free Tide: Typhoons and murder suspects...

www.hightide.harbourtimes.com

Good morning,

Writing this morning’s High Tide has made me nostalgic for some good ol’ Hong Kong typhoon weather… (of course not nostalgic for all the terrible things that typhoons bring, just for curling up in bed and watching TV during T8)

~ Sze Yu Wang


Kompasu causes $2-3 billion in economic losses

Typhoon Kompasu has left 6 injured and 1 dead, as well as $HK 2-3 billion in losses from business disruption. The Hong Kong Stock Exchange cancelled trading or all of Wednesday after Kompasu halted after-hours trading the day before.

The typhoon brought heavy waves and flooding. Images on social media showed empty shelves at supermarkets as Hong Kongers stockpiled groceries.

Twitter avatar for @_julianschiavo
Julian Schiavo @_julianschiavo
Supermarkets empty out in #HongKong as the city prepares to shut down for Typhoon #Kompasu
Image
8:06 AM ∙ Oct 12, 2021
Twitter avatar for @squirtleinhk
Phil @squirtleinhk
Hung Hom Pier during #Kompasu. Weather is significantly less rainy but still with some strong gusts. Some have measured gusts above 100kph at this location 10-15 minutes ago.
3:17 AM ∙ Oct 13, 2021
33Likes11Retweets

Paid Tide readers get to watch a video of people swimming through a Sha Tin pedestrian tunnel! Subscribe now for more fun tidbits!


COVID news

Twitter avatar for @newsgovhk
Hong Kong SAR Government News @newsgovhk
The Centre for Health Protection says it is investigating three additional imported #COVID19 cases involving patients who arrived from Indonesia, the Philippines and Pakistan
news.gov.hk3 imported COVID-19 cases foundThe Centre for Health Protection says it is investigating three additional imported COVID-19 cases involving patients who arrived from Indonesia, the Philippines and Pakistan.
8:30 AM ∙ Oct 13, 2021

Coronavirus in Hong Kong

  • New cases: 3 (imported)


Taxi driver murder suspect arrested on Lamma Island

A man suspected of stabbing a taxi driver on Tuesday morning was arrested on Lamma Island after a city-wide manhunt. “The suspect was believed to be an extremely dangerous person with suspected [violent] tendency,” a police statement said.

29-year-old Matthew Choi is alleged to have previously made comments online about wanting to imitate the kinds of mass shootings that have made headlines in the US. According to local media, upon searching the suspect’s home, police found two cleavers engraved with “my elf weapon”, the same phrase found on the shotgun of a former US Navy sailor who killed 12 people in a 2013 shooting.

Choi was also allegedly part of an online community for supposed ‘targeted individuals‘ that believe they are the victims of a gang-stalking electronic harassment conspiracy.


Events & Exhibitions

Our events are handpicked from public exhibitions, partnerships/collaborations and also just stuff we find cool. We want to make sure that what we advertise is interesting for our readers, so if you go to an event that you saw here, let us know by taking a selfie and tagging us on Twitter or Instagram ( both @harbourtimes ).

We’ll throw in a free month of Paid High Tide for yourself or a friend!

The Underground: Legends

You don’t spend decades running a platform for live music without at least a few bands becoming big names. Featuring five of the biggest alternative local bands to have been incubated by the Underground, ‘Underground Legends’ on 23 Oct is going to be absolutely insane.

May be an image of text that says "THE UNDERGROUND LEGENDS 2021 FEATURING 演出: Nowhere Boys nematic Rock) Helium3 (Stadium Rock) Andy is Typing... (Alternative Rock) Wondergarl 神奇膠 (Canto Party Rock) Shumking Mansion Psychedelic Dance Rock) Saturday 23rd October 9pm 1am 2021年10月23日 (星期六) 9pm lam Rula Live, G/F 58-62 D'Aguilar St Lan Kwai Fong, Central 中環德己立街 58·62號 Bird tickets HK$1 早鳥優惠 HK$ 140 Advance tickets HK$160 預售門票: HK$160 tickets: HK$200 即場門票 HK$200 include drink. 門票包括一瓶飲品 Student tickets (no drink ncluded) :HK$100 現場學生票 (不包括飲品) Hotline (852) 9486 4648 查詢電話 (852) 9486 4648 TEUNDERGROUND www.undergroundhk.com zicket.co RULALIVE BRG JACKDANIEL'S LEO SAPPORO"

Extradition bill murder suspect released from police safe house

Chan Tong-kai—the man who sparked the extradition bill debate over the the killing of his girlfriend in Taipei—is no longer under police protection and is now living somewhere remote in the city. At the time, Chan could not be sent to Taiwan to face murder charges because of the lack of an extradition deal between Hong Kong and Taiwan.

In response, the government proposed an extradition bill, which was eventually withdrawn but not before sparking mass pro-democracy protests.

Chan Tong-kai walks out of the prison on October 23, 2019. File photo.
Chan in 2019 via The Standard

Other updates

A new mega-court has been opened to help clear the backlog of cases relating to the 2019 anti-government protests. The new space at the District Court building in Wan Chai Tower will help judges process 249 pending criminal trials and be available for use in mid-2023.

Watsons has closed its TST store after two decades of business. “The number of tourists visiting Hong Kong saw a drastic drop of over 90 per cent. Our business is affected, especially the stores in tourist areas with high rental costs,” said Watsons Hong Kong.


Thank you for reading High Tide!

Donate to help us keep afloat on HT’s Patreon and PayPal pages. You can also help us out by sharing Tide with a friend!

Share High Tide

Share this post

🌊 Free Tide: Typhoons and murder suspects...

www.hightide.harbourtimes.com
Comments
TopNewCommunity

No posts

Ready for more?

© 2023 Elevation Media Limited
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start WritingGet the app
Substack is the home for great writing