February 01, 2021
Kim Gyu-bong (right), the former head coach of the triathlon team at semi-pro club Gyeongju City Hall, has been sentenced to seven years in prison.
YTN
A South Korean triathlon coach and an Asian Games silver medallist have been convicted of abusing an athlete, closing a chapter on a high-profile suicide case that exposed the country’s win-at-all-costs sports culture .
The Daegu District Court on Friday (Jan 29) sentenced Kim Gyu-bong, former head coach of the triathlon team at semi-pro club Gyeongju City Hall, to seven years in prison for verbally and physically abusing triathlete Choi Suk-hyeon as well as diverting funds meant for training.
February 01, 2021
A handout photo. TWGHs Leo Tung-hai Lee Primary School in Tin Shui Wai.
South China Morning Post
A teacher at a Hong Kong primary school was driven to suicide by the actions of the principal who pressured her to resign, a coroner has said.
Lam Lai-tong fell to her death from a building at TWGHs Leo Tung-Hai Lee Primary School in Tin Shui Wai in 2019, after repeated run-ins with then headmistress Law Yuen-yee.
Coroner Monica Chow said the tragedy could have been prevented, and pointed to a failure in the complaint mechanism with the school’s sponsoring body, Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, as well as lack of support and care from her colleagues, as a contributing factor.
In his 30s and at the peak of his life and career, Daniel Lim's world unravelled in dramatic fashion, while on holiday in New York, no less. It ended with him throwing up and screaming incoherently at the Guggenheim Museum, before he was put on an emergency flight back to Singapore. The trigger for the meltdown was an innocent confluence.
January 08, 2021
Passengers wait for an MTR train in Hong Kong.
South China Morning Post
Train services between Fanling and the Hong Kong border town of Sheung Shui were suspended for nearly an hour on Thursday (Jan 7) after a man jumped onto the tracks at around 2pm and was later found dead.
Police said the victim was discovered underneath a train at Sheung Shui station. His personal details were still unclear.
“We don’t know whether the person jumped onto the tracks or fell onto them,” a force spokesman said, adding emergency personnel had been deployed.
But the MTR Corporation later said security camera footage showed the man had jumped onto the tracks when a train was approaching the platform.
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After undergoing a heart valve repair surgery, Taiwan s queen of ballroom dancing Serena Liu fell into a coma in February. Her heart reportedly stopped beating during the surgery and she had to be put on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or Ecmo.
She left behind a four-year-old daughter with her husband, singer Shin Lung. She can do without a father but she cannot be without her mother, Shin wrote on Facebook prior to her death.
Stanley Ho
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Just 11 days after his death, his youngest daughter from his first marriage filed a caveat, registering interest in his estate. Following that, his nephew and two other children filed caveats as well.