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Family of maid in Shenzhen death fall to shift claim to EC Fund Board

Posted on 24 January 2020 No comments
By Vir B. Lumicao

Lorain's employer who frequently took her to Shenzhen could no longer be located

Family members of a Filipina helper who fell to her death three and a half years ago in Shenzhen are shifting their money claim to the Employee Compensation Fund Board after their lawyers failed to get hold of the maid’s employer.

Gu Huai Yu, the Chinese male employer of Lorain Asuncion, was a no-show in District Court in the first scheduled hearing of the claim filed against him by the Asuncion family.

It was from the 22nd floor flat of Gu’s father-in-law Liu Heping in Longgang District, Shenzhen, that Asuncion fell to her death in July 2017.
Both Shenzhen and Hong Kong police, as well as a private medico legal in Shenzhen, have ruled out foul play after conducting separate autopsies on Asuncion’s remains before they were shipped to her hometown of Baggao in Cagayan in 2018.

Solicitor Evelyn Tsao of Patricia Ho and Associates, who represented the Asuncion family, said the next recourse of her clients would be to take their claim to the EC Fund Board.

Tsao told Judge Katina Levy they would seek compensation from the Fund Board after exhausting all means to locate, and serve court summonses, to Gu.
The judge set the next hearing for June 5 at the request of Tsao, who said she would prepare the round for shifting the claim to the EC Fund Board.

When asked outside the court how much would the compensation claim be, Tsao said it would be around $30,000.

“But that still depends on the Fund Board, which we expect to defend itself against the claim,” she explained.

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Gu and Liu were arrested on Aug 17, 2017 after they were summoned to the Hong Kong police headquarters in Wanchai, and held on a charge of conspiring to defraud Hong Kong Immigration by claiming that their maid would work only in the territory.

Police reportedly found out that the Filipina had been taken across the border by her employers four times in the nine months that she worked for them.

However, the police dropped their case against the couple on May 7, 2018, citing lack of evidence.

Ten months later, Asuncion’s family suffered another setback when they were informed by the Hong Kong Labour Department in March 2019 that it had not investigated the case supposedly because she died outside Hong Kong.

Eman Villanueva, chairperson of Filipino Migrant Workers Union, blasted Labour’s failure to investigate, saying it “sends the message that once a foreign domestic worker is sent out of Hong Kong to work elsewhere, the employer is no longer accountable to her.”

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Filipina maid in $1M theft case faces 9 new charges

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By Daisy CL Mandap

Nones was initially charged with stealing 2 gold Piaget watches like this one, worth $200,000

The Filipina defendant in the biggest theft case involving a foreign domestic worker in Hong Kong appeared in court again today, Jan. 24, to face additional charges.

Carmelita Nones, 45, who is charged with stealing at least $1 million worth of jewelry from her businessman-employer and his family, appeared briefly in Eastern Court where the charges against her were listed down as theft and nine other unspecified charges.

No information about the new charges was disclosed in court, but the prosecution asked for further adjournment to finalize its case, after receiving preliminary advice from the Department of Justice.
The prosecution also said it was making inquiries with the Immigration Department about two Filipina co-workers of Nones, and was putting together a breakdown of all the properties that had allegedly been stolen.

Principal magistrate Bina Chainrai ordered the case adjourned to Mar 20 “for the finalization of inquiries and legal advice” by the prosecution. She also ordered Nones returned to custody after being told the defendant had no bail application.

In the previous hearing of her case on Nov. 29, Nones tried to plead guilty to stealing various jewelry items from business executive David Liang and his wife worth an estimated $1 million. However, a private lawyer for her employers divulged that more theft charges could be filed against her.
The lawyer said additional pawnshop receipts were found among her belongings, indicating she had stolen far more than what she was previously charged with.

Magistrate Lam Tsz-kan set aside Nones’ guilty plea, and said he would rather wait until the additional charges were ready.

The Filipina was arrested on Sept 4 in the residence of Liang,’s luxury flat at 70 Deepwater Bay Road in Hong Kong Island South.
She was initially charged with stealing two gold Piaget watches worth a total of $200,000 between Jul 27 and Aug 11 this year. 

But afterwards, investigators found five more stolen jewelry pieces in the pawnshop where Nones  had allegedly pawned the watches. In addition, four pieces of stolen jewelry were reportedly found in her handbag.

Nones has been held without bail since her arrest.
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Family of HK’s first coronavirus patient flew to Manila, health minister says

Posted on 22 January 2020 No comments
By The SUN

Man in HK's first confirmed case of coronavirus is wheeled into hospital (SCMP photo)

Hong Kong health authorities have sounded out the alarm on the family of the city's first confirmed coronavirus case who they say have flown out to Manila this morning, Jan. 22, before the infected man was detected as having the highly contagious disease.

Health Minister Sophia Chan said four members of the 39-year-old Chinese man flew out of Hong Kong aboard Cebu Pacific flight 5J111 which landed in Manila at 1:20pm today, Wednesday.

In Manila, a spokesperson for Cebu Pacific has been reported as saying no one on the flight was quarantined. Department of Health authorities have also reportedly said the Bureau of Quarantine at Manila airport “did not encounter” the four family members.
Hong Kong authorities, however, are reportedly tracking down the family members in the Philippines, in an effort to contain the possible spread of the virus.

Within hours after the first confirmed case in Hong Kong was reported, another man who had traveled to Wuhan was reported as also having tested positive for the coronavirus. 

The 56-year-old man was initially taken to Prince of Wales Hospital but was later transferred to Prince Margaret Hospital, where the Infectious Disease Centre of the Hospital Authority is located.
The first confirmed case is also in an isolation ward at Princess Margaret Hospital.

The man reportedly boarded a train in Wuhan and traveled to Shenzhen, where he took another train to the West Kowloon rail terminus. He was detected as having fever at the border and was taken to hospital.

His family members who did not show symptoms managed to enter Hong Kong and spent the night at the Empire Hotel Kowloon in Tsim Sha Tsui before taking the Cebu Pacific flight this morning.

They landed in Manila before Hong Kong reported that preliminary tests had shown that their relative had the dreaded coronavirus.
Also reporting its first confirmed case of the coronavirus today was Macau. The patient was identified as a 52-year-old businesswoman who had traveled by high-speed train from Wuhan to Zhuhai before entering Macau. She was quarantined after visiting a local hospital, complaining of a cough.

Yesterday, a 5-year-old boy who had traveled to Wuhan was also reported as the first suspected case of the coronavirus in the Philippines. The boy, who is in a hospital in Cebu City, tested negative for Sars and Mers, but positive for an undetermined type of  coronavirus.

Samples taken from the boy have been sent on to Australia for further tests.

There are about 500 confirmed cases of the virus that was first seen among people who had visited a wet market in Wuhan, a city in Central China. It is now confirmed to have been transmitted from human to human. A further eight people were confirmed to have died from the coronavirus today, bringing the total death toll to 17.

The coronavirus is so named because of the crown-like spikes on its surface that cause respiratory ailments ranging from a simple flu to the deadly severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) that killed 737 people worldwide, 299 of them in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong has maintained temperature screening machines at the airport and border rail stations since the outbreak of SARS 17 years ago.
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Pinoys in fake ID and burglary case denied bail

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By Vir B. Lumicao

The Filipino suspects failed in their bail bid at Eastern Court

A Filipino-Chinese former worker at Hong Kong Disneyland being held for allegedly being in possession of a forged ID card has been refused bail by a magistrate in Eastern Court.

C. Arzaga appeared on Jan 22 before Magistrate Bina Chainrai with an offer to raise his bail money to $5,000 from $3,000. His lawyer said the defendant also has somebody to put up a $5,000 surety for his release.

The defendant is facing one count of possessing a forged identity card and another of possessing Part 1 poison, meaning a prescription drug.

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The prosecutor objected to Arzaga’s bail and surety offer, saying he was caught red-handed by officers and, if convicted, would draw a long jail sentence.

But the defense counsel said Arzaga was determined to seek bail because he had a young son to look after. The lawyer said his client also needed to collect his stuff from a hotel where he was staying when he was arrested this month.    


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Chainrai refused Arzaga’s bail application and ordered him remanded in custody until the next hearing on Jan. 30.

In the same court, a Hong Kong-born Filipino bartender and his British buddy detained in connection with a burglary attempt also failed in their bail application.

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Defendants M A Miranda and C Floresca, both 23, appeared in court nearly three months since they were arrested by police at dawn last Oct 28 while allegedly trying to break into The Globe pub in Central.

Chainrai ordered the defendants remanded in custody until the next hearing on Feb. 19.
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