Drugs and a syringe were found in the bathroom of the apartment that belonged to John Fang Meng-sang, brother of the then chief secretary Anson Chan Fang On-sang

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Monday, February 20, 2006

Inquest into mystery death of HK model re-opens

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Updated at 6.23pm:
A coroner's inquest was opened on Monday in Hong Kong into the death of
a model whose remains were discovered nearly six years ago in a flat
belonging to a relative of a former top government official.

Annie Pang Chor-ying's headless skeleton was found in the bedroom of an
apartment owned by the brother of one of the territory's most prominent
politicians in October 1999, four years after she went missing.

Drugs and a syringe were found in the bathroom of the apartment that
belonged to John Fang Meng-sang, brother of the then chief secretary
Anson Chan Fang On-sang.

No one was arrested or charged in connection with her death. At the
time police said there was not enough evidence to suggest a crime had
been committed and the case was closed.

However, the High Court ordered the case to be reopened late last year
after requests by Pang's family. On Monday, a five-member jury in the
High Court heard Mr Fang had had a long relationship with the model.

The case is expected to last for 15 days and Mr Fang is also expected
to testify.

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Tuesday, February 21, 2006

I was told Anson Chan's family linked to underworld, court hears

YVONNE TSUI


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Stories of threats, violence, abortions and "the underworld" were
related in court yesterday as the inquest into the death of model Annie
Pang Chor-ying got under way seven years after her body was found in a
flat owned by the brother of former chief secretary Anson Chan Fang
On-sang.

Pang's mother, Lam Mui, told the Coroner's Court that when she
contacted John Fang Meng-sang in 1999, after learning her daughter was
dead, his lawyer met her and warned her "Anson Chan's family involves
both the authorities and the underworld".

The mother said Pang had had three abortions during a relationship that
began in 1985.

She said Pang had also been beaten up by a Mr Yeung, Mr Fang's "most
trusted staff" [member], after Mr Fang stopped paying her an allowance,
and she made several visits to his law firm.

Pang's skeleton was found on the floor next to a bed in the 300 sqft
Yau Ma Tei flat in 1999. The skull was found in a nearby rubbish bin.
Coroner's officer Dee Crebbin said Pang was thought to have been dead
for about four years.

The 15-day hearing, launched after a campaign by Pang's family, began
yesterday with solicitor Mary Jean Reimer appearing for the family.

The inquest is being heard by Coroner Colin Mackintosh and five jurors.

Madam Lam said her daughter left home, aged 16, in 1981 and had been
financially supported by Mr Fang, a lawyer, since she became his
girlfriend in 1985.

But she said she had never met Mr Fang in person.

She said her daughter had described her relationship with the lawyer as
like "husband and wife" although he was known to be already married.
The couple were cohabiting, although Pang had told her he never stayed
overnight.

They stayed in a flat in Wan Chai but moved to a villa in Sai Kung in
1991 after Mr Fang sold the flat.

Pang, who had already undergone three abortions by then, told Madam Lam
that Fang had "changed his heart" and had not stayed at the villa so
often after the first year of them moving in.

"Annie cut her wrist a little bit in order to scare Fang Meng-sang, and
wanted him to pay more attention to her. She was not willing to leave
[him]," she said.

But she said Pang was very afraid of dying and would not have committed
suicide.

The inquest continues today.

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Inquest into model's death finally opens

Annie Pang, the 31-year-old former model who was missing for four years
until her decapitated skeletal remains were found in a Yau Ma Tei
apartment owned by former chief secretary Anson Chan's brother, had
three abortions at his demand over a 10-year period, Pang's mother told
a coroner's inquest Monday.

Justin Mitchell

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Annie Pang, the 31-year-old former model who was missing for four years
until her decapitated skeletal remains were found in a Yau Ma Tei
apartment owned by former chief secretary Anson Chan's brother, had
three abortions at his demand over a 10-year period, Pang's mother told
a coroner's inquest Monday.

Pang's mother, Lam Mui, told coroner Colin Mackintosh and five jurors
that her daughter had been sexually involved with Chan's married
brother, lawyer John Fang, since about 1985.

She described their relationship as "like husband and wife" and said
Pang told her that Fang's marriage was a union "in name only."

Lam said: "I scolded my daughter and told her she's so young. How could
she be with such an old man? But she told me his marriage was broken
and that he did not share a bed with his wife."

Under questioning by coroner's officer Dee Crebbin and Mary Jean
Reimer, a lawyer for Pang's family, Lam described a kept-woman
relationship in which Fang provided flats and living expenses for Pang,
who worked as a model and later tried breeding and selling dogs.

"They had had an ongoing intimate relationship soon after they met but
it seems that the relationship had deteriorated somewhat a year or two
before [Pang's death], although the deceased kept in contact with Mr
Fang and became involved in other intimate relationships," Crebbin
said.

Lam - who said she had never met or spoken with Fang - also said that
after he had Pang move from a flat on Jaffe Road to another in Sai Kung
in the early 1990s, her daughter complained that he did not see her as
often and missed payments for her living expenses.

In a bid for his attention, Pang made a superficial attempt to slit her
wrists, Lam said. "She told me she slit her wrists in order to scare
Fang so he would visit more often," Lam said.

She denied that her daughter had health problems such as epilepsy or
used any drugs other than sleeping pills, though Crebbin said a packet
of heroin and a partial syringe were found in the abandoned flat.

Statements from as many as 49 witnesses, including three described as
"casual friends/drug addicts" may be heard in the investigation which
is expected to last 15 days.

"You will hear evidence that she was involved with others in taking
heroin, that she was a model and also loved breeding dogs," Crebbin
said.

The coroner's investigation is not a criminal proceeding but an
"inquiry into the cause and circumstances of the death [of Pang],"
Mackintosh told the jury.

There are many unanswered questions, beginning with why Pang's body
remained undiscovered for so long - the last time she was seen was July
1995.

In about August 1995 neighbors complained of a smell they described as
"dead rats," Crebbin said.

Also, why, in October 1999 when Fang and a locksmith entered the
Waterloo Road apartment to close bathroom and bedroom windows that had
caused water leakage into the flat below both said they never saw
Pang's uncovered skeleton nor her skull in a waste basket on the floor
beside the bed in the 300-square-foot flat.

"Mr Fang said he had to step over some things to reach the [bedroom]
window and did not look at what they were," Crebbin said.

The next day he sent a man named Yeung Kwai-choi, who also knew Pang,
to clean up the flat which was "in a terrible mess. Extremely untidy,
dirty full of dust and cobwebs," Crebbin said.

It was Yeung who saw the skeleton and called police after he notified
Fang.

Yeung is said to be the same man who Pang's mother said threatened and
beat her daughter when she had visited Fang's office in an attempt to
get money.

However, under questioning Lam admitted that she had not mentioned the
alleged beating and threats to the police in one interview last year,
only to report them a month later.

When asked why, she said, she was "too sad I didn't know what to say. I
was so sad I didn't remember." High Court Justice Michael Hartmann
ordered the inquest last December because of public interest and
"genuine concern" over Pang's death.

In ordering the inquest, Hartmann reversed decisions by both the police
and the coroner's office not to investigate the death.

The inquest continues today.

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Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Police lost, damaged dead model's belongings, court told

YVONNE TSUI


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Some of model Annie Pang Chor-ying's belongings were missing or
damaged after they were returned to her family by the police following
the end of the investigation into her death.

Pang's elder sister, Pang Ngor, told the Coroner's Court yesterday that
police seized two boxes of the model's pictures in October 1999, a year
after her skeleton was found.

When they were returned to the family in 2001, after the police
announced that the case was closed, she found water stains and mould on
some of the photographs.

She said the damaged photos include those she took with her younger
sister, and she could find only 10 or so pictures of Annie Pang, out of
the two boxes, which were intact.

She was later told by the police that the photos of her sister's
boyfriend, John Fang Meng-sang, would be returned to him. Annie Pang's
body was found in a flat owned by Mr Fang, the brother of former chief
secretary Anson Chan Fang On-sang.

She said that a watch, believed to be a gift to Annie Pang from Mr Fang,
with his name engraved on the back was missing, too.

Solicitor Mary Jean Reimer, representing the Pang family, exhibited
Annie Pang's diary to the court yesterday when Miss Pang Ngor said there
were missing pages after the police returned it to the family.

"It was intact when I first read it. I clearly saw the name of Mr Fang,"
Miss Pang Ngor said, adding there was a page on which Annie Pang had
written Mr Fang's name repeatedly. But this page was torn off when
police returned the diary.

Miss Pang Ngor said she last saw her sister in March 1995 at the Tai
Hing police station in Fanling. She said she had given Annie Pang $2,000
bail money because her sister had no money to bail herself after being
arrested in connection with a fight with her last known boyfriend, Sit
Ping-hung.

In response to questions by Coroner's officer Dee Crebbin, Miss Pang
Ngor admitted that the family did not want to stay in contact with Annie
Pang after receiving threats from a loanshark.

She said Annie Pang, who received $10,000 to $20,000 from Mr Fang each
month, would go to Macau to gamble. Her mother had received threats from
a loanshark asking to settle her sister's debt for $40,000 in early
1994. Her mother had then changed her home telephone number. Contact
between Annie Pang and her family became less frequent after this
incident although she had once explained the money was a decoration fee
which Mr Fang had failed to pay her, Miss Pang Ngor said. The family
lost contact with Annie Pang in April 1995.

The inquest before coroner Colin Mackintosh and five jurors continues today.

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Thursday, February 23, 2006

Police said model took heroin: sister
Former addicts tell Coroner's Court that Annie Pang was part of a gang
that smoked the drug in her Yau Ma Tei flat

YVONNE TSUI


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Police told the family of model Annie Pang Chor-ying that she had
died after taking heroin, the Coroner's Court heard yesterday.

Pang Po-yuk, the younger sister of Annie Pang, said they were told by
the police of the discovery of Pang's remains at her Yau Ma Tei flat,
owned by John Fang Meng-sang - brother of former chief secretary Anson
Chan Fang On-sang - in October 1999 after the family had lost contact
with her in 1995.

"Police told us that Annie died because of taking some drugs," Ms Pang
said. "There was white powder found in her home. They [police] said she
died of taking this stuff."

Former drug addict Chow Wai-chung said Pang had first taken heroin at
her flat with him and other drug addicts when he came to know her in
mid-1994.

Mr Chow said he went to Pang's home on the first day they met in Temple
Street, where he worked as lookout at a stall selling obscene
videotapes. He told the court he played jokes on Pang when she passed
by the stall and they chatted for a while before they went to a mahjong
school in Mongkok.

Mr Chow visited Pang's flat later that night with another man, who had
bought them heroin. Pang smoked and inhaled some of the drug with the
help of the men because she appeared to be new to the practice.

"I felt surprised that she could have consumed so much," Mr Chow said.

Another former drug addict, Ka Kong-tin, who sold the videotapes at the
Temple Street stall, testified that he had later joined the drug takers
at Pang's flat. He said Pang seemed to be very drowsy after she
finished her dose.

Mr Ka said Pang had asked him for help to settle a debt of more than
$100,000 but he had refused. He said he was once approached by a debt
collector at his stall and asked for money to settle her debts because
Pang had lied, claiming he was her husband.

Another witness, Siu Hon-wah, said he was a dog-buyer who met Pang in
1991 at her Sai Kung home when he was only 19 and she was 26. Mr Siu
said he had posted advertisements looking for dogs and received a call
from Pang, who bred dogs for sale. He went to her home and bought three
dogs for $10,000.

He told the court he found Pang "over enthusiastic" and "sexy" because
she always wore very light and revealing clothes.

Mr Siu said that on one occasion she appeared naked in front of him and
told him she liked him. Mr Siu said although he had known Pang for only
three months, she had told him she was very lonely and unhappy.
Whenever they parted, she told him she did not wanted him to leave.

Mr Siu said Pang once tried to cut her wrist to threaten him and make
him stay. On one occasion, he said, she took about 50 pills because he
was leaving.

The inquest before Coroner Colin Mackintosh and five jurors continues
today.



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Annie Pang `died from taking drugs'

Though the coroner's investigation into the death of decapitated model
Annie Pang is to officially determine when, how and why she died,
Pang's youngest sister Wednesday told the inquest that police
investigators had told her family she had died of a drug overdose.

Justin Mitchell

Thursday, February 23, 2006

Though the coroner's investigation into the death of decapitated model
Annie Pang is to officially determine when, how and why she died,
Pang's youngest sister Wednesday told the inquest that police
investigators had told her family she had died of a drug overdose.

No official cause of death for Pang has been established since her
decapitated skeletal remains were found in October 1999 on the floor of
her bedroom in a 300-square-foot Yau Ma Tei flat owned by her long-time
married lover John Fang.

The former model was 31 years old when reported missing in 1995.

Fang, a lawyer, is the brother of former chief secretary of
administration Anson Chan and son of renowned artist Fang Zhaoling, who
died Monday.

"What did police tell you about the cause of her death?" attorney Mary
Jean Reimer, representing the Pang family in the inquest, asked Pang
Po- yuk, the sister.

She replied: "The police said she died because of taking drugs. Police
said they found white powder in her flat."

Coroner Colin Mackintosh asked: "White powder being heroin?"

Pang said: "Yes."

According to two drug addicts who also testified Wednesday, Pang smoked
heroin at least once.

In other testimony a bizarre and wanton portrait of a lonely,
desperate, suicidal Pang was painted by a man who bought dogs from her
while she was living in a Sai Kung flat in 1993.

Pang, whose modeling career was essentially over by then, was
attempting to breed and sell pomeranians, a type of toy dog, at the
flat owned by Fang, whose visits to her were declining at the time.

Siu Hong-wah said he was 19 when he received a telephone call from Pang
in response to a dogs/puppies-wanted ad he had placed in the Oriental
Daily News.

He drove to Sai Kung and paid her HK$10,000 for three dogs but calls
and invitations from her escalated after the transaction and ultimately
took a sexual and morbidly melodramatic twist.

Siu told the five jurors that when he returned "three or four" more
times at her invitation, Pang habitually greeted him in the nude or
clad in sheer silk pajamas "with nothing underneath."

Siu claimed he " didn't pay any attention to this," though he also
described her as "quite sexy, somewhat reckless and a very nice person.

"I thought because she was a model that she wouldn't feel shame so I
didn't pay attention."

She begged him to stay, he said, saying she was lonely and twice tried
to kill herself in front of him when he refused to linger.

"She cut her wrist deeply to the bone with a paper cutter," said Siu,
who denied any sexual relationship with Pang.

"I held her, helped to stop the bleeding and called 999."

Two former drug addicts, described also as "casual friends," gave
testimony that they had smoked heroin at least once with Pang after she
visited their illegal porn videotape business on Temple Street in 1994.

Chow Wai-chung described Pang as a "rookie" heroin user who needed
assistance in "chasing the dragon."

Chow and fellow user Ka Kong-tin said Pang had incessantly begged them
for as much as HK$100,000 to pay off loansharks and appeared to be
virtually penniless.

The inquest continues today.

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Guard tells of nasty smell at - dead model's apartment

The varying memories of smells and a mystery man with a dog permeated
the coroner's inquest into the lonesome death of model Annie Pang
Friday.

Justin Mitchell

Saturday, February 25, 2006

The varying memories of smells and a mystery man with a dog permeated
the coroner's inquest into the lonesome death of model Annie Pang
Friday.

Pang went missing for four years until her decapitated remains were
found in a 15th-floor flat in Wah Tak Building, Yau Ma Tei, owned by
her married lover John Fang, brother of former chief secretary for
administration Anson Chan. According to her family, Pang had been
seeing Fang since she was about 18.

Security guard Wong Wah-kwan said a "really nasty smell" enveloped the
floor for around 10 days sometime after the middle of 1995. Pang was
last seen in mid-July of that year.

"When we patrolled that area, we walked faster. Some people thought it
was dead rats but we couldn't find any," he told coroner's officer Dee
Crebbin.

Though chairman of the Wah Tak owners corporation, Lee Tak-ming, had
earlier said he had no knowledge of any smell or complaints of one,
Wong said he notified Lee, who told him that he was already aware of
the problem.

But two of Pang's next-door neighbors said they were not as troubled by
the odd odor.

"I lived next door so I would be most sensitive to it," said Loong Wai-
lun, who had lived there since 1993. "It was not extremely strong, like
dead cockroaches - not as smelly as a dead rat."

Other testimony focused on the Loong family's sightings of a mysterious
man - not Fang - with a small dog who apparently had a key to her flat.

Loong and his son Wing-pong, a secondary four student at the time, said
they saw coming and going from the flat a man they described as short,
in his late thirties or early forties and "fattish."

While the elder Loong described Pang's demeanor as pleasant and normal,
others, including the younger Loong, the watchman and Lee described
encounters when Pang seemed mentally unstable or talked incoherently..
In Friday's edition of The Standard, Dee Crebbin was incorrectly
identified as Corbett.

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Truck driver the mystery man of Pang

A name and face were put to the "fattish" mystery man with a dog whom
neighbors of model Annie Pang had described - he appeared as a witness
in the ongoing coroner's inquest into the cause and circumstances of her
mysterious death in 1995.

Justin Mitchell

Wednesday, March 01, 2006

A name and face were put to the "fattish" mystery man with a dog whom
neighbors of model Annie Pang had described - he appeared as a witness
in the ongoing coroner's inquest into the cause and circumstances of her
mysterious death in 1995.

Pang's decapitated remains - skeleton on the floor, skull in a waste
basket - were found in her cluttered, unkempt bedroom in an apartment
owned by her former married lover, lawyer John Fang, in October 1999.

The witness, Sit Ping-hung, a truck driver described by coroner's
officer Dee Crebbin as Pang's last known boyfriend, said Tuesday he met
Pang in October 1993 when he was introduced to her in Macau by a friend
who was dating her at the time.

About a month later, he said, he went with another man, at Pang's
invitation, to her flat in Sai Kung which previous testimony showed was
owned by Fang.

It was over cocktails of narcotic cough syrup that night that Sit said
he and Pang went to bed and consummated a relationship that would become
increasingly fraught with melodrama and angst until they agreed to break
it off near the middle of 1995.

"I was high," Sit said of the cough syrup, which he said Pang poured
from a "big bottle, almost a gallon."

He said: "Annie became delirious and from that day on we were together."

Though Sit minimized his own drug experiences, he said Pang became
addicted to cough syrup and Halcyon sleeping pills and finally turned to
smoking heroin in the year she disappeared. Heroin traces were found in
Pang's hair.

He described quarrels, and several suicide attempts, including one in
which Pang climbed out a 26th floor window and threatened to jump from a
laundry rack, and another mutual pact where both were in the bathroom
and he severed the gas line.

"I switched on the gas and we waited for death to come," Sit said. "I
passed out but Annie called the police."

The pair had moved from Sai Kung to share an apartment with Sit's
sister, who eventually grew weary of the ambulances and fire trucks and
neighbor complaints and told them to leave.

Suicide reports were made to authorities in March, April and July of
1994, Crebbin said. Sit said that nonreported attempts were also made
"too often."

The pair then moved into the Yau Ma Tei flat on Waterloo Road where
Pang's remains were found. There, they had a Pomeranian dog for several
months until Pang sold it, Sit said.

Sit initially claimed he knew nothing of Pang's long relationship with
Fang, but admitted to Crebbin that his former sister-in-law, who had
opened a bank account for Pang, told him that the two had been lovers.
He also said he once accompanied Pang to Fang's law office where he
waited outside while she went in to ask Fang for money.

He said Pang's refusal to give up drugs led to his decision to leave
her. In the summer of 1995 Sit told her he was going to the mainland to
find a wife and asked Pang for money.

She told him she had none but he claimed she gave him two gold bracelets
and a ring which he pawned for about HK$1,500. He then went to China
where he did not find a wife but instead "found some fun because I felt
bored."

Sit said he never saw Pang or went to the apartment again.

When Pang's remains were found in 1999 there was a message scrawled in
lipstick on the bathroom mirror, one that Sit said he had seen following
a 1995 suicide attempt. It read: "I have gone to ... hospital."

His testimony continues today and Fang is expected to testify tomorrow.

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Wednesday, March 1, 2006

Model had tried suicide, boyfriend tells coroner

YVONNE TSUI


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The last known boyfriend of the late model Annie Pang Chor-ying said
yesterday the model had been emotionally unstable and had attempted
suicide at least three times during their relationship.

Truck driver Sit Ping-hung told the Coroner's Court a doctor had told
him Pang had taken so many drugs that her mind was "not so clear".

On one occasion, he said, a doctor had advised her to seek outpatient
treatment for her addiction after she appeared with a running nose and
was drooling in the street "like a mad person".

Mr Sit was giving evidence in the inquest into the death of Pang, whose
skeleton was found in a flat owned by lawyer John Fang Meng-sang, the
brother of former chief secretary Anson Chan Fang On-sang.

He said Pang had been admitted to the psychiatric ward at Princess
Margaret Hospital some time around March 1995.

Mr Sit said he and Pang had lived together in her Sai Kung villa for
nine months after their relationship began in 1993, before moving to
Tuen Mun in March 1994.

He said they quarrelled over trivial matters. Once, Pang had climbed out
a window and bounced on the laundry rack demanding he apologise for not
separating from his work partner, a Mr Mok, who had "scolded" her.

Pang had berated him for being "stupid" after he paid $10,000 to release
her from Macau loansharks to whom she owed $100,000.

The couple cut the gas pipe in their Tuen Mun flat to commit suicide but
Pang later changed her mind and called police for help.

Mr Sit said he wanted to separate from Pang after a quarrel over her
drug-taking in April 1994, during which she damaged his hi-fi equipment,
and she demanded a $14,000 "separation fee".

Because so many items had been damaged in the fight, Mr Sit reported it
to police.

They were eventually reconciled and in July 1994 moved into the Yau Ma
Tei flat where Pang's skeleton was found in 1999.

Mr Sit said he had seen Pang take pills and had once given her
mouth-to-mouth resuscitation when she collapsed in bed after taking
drugs. Pang would invite addicts to smoke heroin in their flat, but he
never saw her smoke it.

He said he knew Pang had two other boyfriends when they lived in Yau Ma
Tei, including Mr Fang, whom she referred to as "Ah-Sang".

Although he never met Mr Fang, Pang had once told him she could get some
money from "Ah-Sang" when they had no cash to go out. They went to Mr
Fang's law firm to get money. He did not go in, but waited for Pang
downstairs.

He finally separated from Pang because she had started another
relationship with an architect and continued to take drugs.

Mr Sit said that on the day he and Pang broke up, he had gone to the
mainland for 20 days after she gave him some jewellery, which he pawned
for $1,600.

He said: "If she had not taken drugs, we could have been very happy
together."

The inquest, before Coroner Colin Mackintosh and five jurors, continues
today.

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Chinese smut isn't desire becoming sophisticated and self aware, it's
just low and dumb and slovenly, don't let it irritate everyone:



UPDATED: 11:12, March 01, 2006
Public call for cleaner, healthier Internet
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Chief executives from China's overseas-listed Internet firms and sector
experts met at a seminar in Hainan last Saturday to discuss issues
concerning the smooth and healthy growth of the country's Internet business.

Experts and sector representatives expressed the hope that the
government would improve the legal framework to better guide its
progressive growth. They said that some self-governing rules by the
Internet firms on forbidding porn and illegal information have been
well-received by the public.

Li Jiaming, director general of China Reporting Center of Illegal and
Unhealthy Information, said his department has received more than
240,000 reports from the public complaining about illicit or irregular
Internet-related content and acts, since its launch in June 2004. Of
those complaints, 127,010 or 68.2 percent reported in 2005 are porn
related. The reporting center also received thousands of letters, the
majority of which were from parents, teachers and students. People from
all walks of life expressed their support for the work of the reporting
center.

Li said many people expressed in their letters extreme concerns about
the pernicious effects of porn and illegal websites on the young and
called for harsh punitive actions against offenders. Some parents are so
gravely worried about the influence of such websites on their children
that many resorted to writing "Please help save our children!"in their
letters.

He cited one letter from a mother in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province,
which read: "I strongly support the government's regulating of the
Internet. If the government didn't deal with it, the Internet would be
flooded with harmful information and no parent would want that."

In their letters, many people expressed their indignation that some
websites work solely for profits, while ignoring their social
responsibilities. A man surnamed Zhan from Beijing's Dongcheng District
said he would not sit idle while seeing pernicious information on the
internet "ruining our young generation".

Li cautioned about the long and hard road to achieving a clean and
healthy cyberspace due to the complex nature of the Internet business.

Source: China.org.cn

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Madam Lam said her daughter left home, aged 16, in 1981 and had been
financially supported by Mr Fang, a lawyer, since she became his
girlfriend in 1985.

There is no law against a woman shacking up with a married man. But
the woman in question should have kept records in case she gets
dumped. Its insurance and payback material. When dumped she will
need a means of living. The best is of course video-voice recordings
of themselves in the love nest. Then there are rent receipts,
cancelled cheques, ect.

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Friday, March 3, 2006

Coroner orders Anson Chan's brother to attend court after no-show

YVONNE TSUI


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A coroner will compel the former chief secretary's brother, John
Fang Meng-sang, to give evidence at an inquest if he does not appear in
the Coroner's Court today, having failed to attend yesterday's hearing
into the death of model Annie Pang Chor-ying.

"I'm extremely disappointed [at Mr Fang's failure to appear in court].
I'll not hear any other evidence. Mr Fang must be the next witness,"
Coroner Colin Mackintosh said.

Because of Mr Fang's absence, the court had to be adjourned early at
about 3.30pm until this morning.

The coroner said he would use his power to compel Mr Fang's attendance
if he did not answer a summons to appear as a witness this morning,
saying: "This is Mr Fang's duty to come to this court to give
evidence... This court is not operated for the convenience of any other
outsiders."

Mr Fang is the brother of former chief secretary Anson Chan Fang
On-sang.

Coroner's officer Dee Crebbin told the court police had been unable to
contact Mr Fang to tell him to attend court yesterday afternoon.

According to the coroner's original witness sequence, Mr Fang should
have testified after Pang family members completed their evidence eight
days ago.

However, he was allowed to postpone his appearance in court because his
mother, Fang Zhaoling, died on February 20, the first day of the
inquest.

The court indicated this week that Mr Fang would be called to give
evidence after Pang's last known boyfriend, Sit Ping-hung, finished
testifying.

Mr Sit's evidence ended yesterday.

Mr Sit told the court Pang had become a drug addict.

"[Pang] took three to four tablets a day. She took pills like taking
candies," he said, adding that Pang also took cough syrup every day.

Mr Sit said Pang had brought two men home and slept with them on two
occasions while he was living with her in a Yau Ma Tei flat owned by Mr
Fang, where the skeleton of Pang - last seen alive in 1995 - was found
in 1999. "[Pang] had other men besides me," he said.

Solicitor Mary Jean Reimer, representing Pang's family, put it to Mr
Sit that he had never been Pang's boyfriend and never cohabited with
her, since he had admitted that he never knew Pang's age. Mr Sit told
the court Pang was a "worthless woman who deserved to be suffering from
illnesses and to die of an overdose". Ms Reimer put it to him that that
was a lie intended to ruin Pang's reputation.

Mr Sit denied lying about being Pang's boyfriend and stressed he had
lived with her for a long time.

The inquest, before the coronor and five jurors, continues today.

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Tuesday February 28 2006

Witness denies hiding love link
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Yvonne Tsui

A woman who 'loaned' Annie Pang Chor-ying a bank account that the model
used to receive payments from John Fang Meng-sang denied yesterday that
she had lied to the police.

Yu Yim-sheung rejected suggestions at the inquest into Pang's death
that she had concealed a relationship between her brother-in-law, Sit
Ping-hung, and the model in case he was linked to the death.

She said she did not know Mr Sit, her ex-husband's younger brother, was
the model's last boyfriend before she died.

The coroner's court heard Ms Yu had told the police in a statement on
October 9, 1999 - two days after Pang's skeleton was found in a Yau Ma
Tei flat owned by Mr Fang, the brother of former chief secretary Anson
Chan Fang On-sang - that she did not know Mr Sit.

Yesterday she explained the statement had been taken about the time she
was divorced from her husband, Sit Kwan, and she had therefore been
'not in a good mood' to mention anything about his family.

Ms Yu said she did not know Pang and Sit Ping-hung were lovers or had
cohabited. She also denied she had deliberately hidden his identity
from police hoping they would not find out about his relationship with
Pang. Ms Yu told the inquest she had opened an HSBC bank account in her
name for Pang in September 1994. She said Pang had asked her to do this
shortly after they had first met to play mahjong in Tsz Wan Shan
Estate.

Coroner's officer Dee Crebbin suggested Pang's account had been
overdrawn and Ms Yu's account was used to avoid the bank taking Pang's
money for repayment.

But Ms Yu said she had never asked Pang for details.

The court heard Ms Yu had said in her 1999 statement to police that
Pang had told her 'she would use the account for several months only
for her friend to deposit money for her'.

Yesterday Ms Yu said she did not know it was Mr Fang who had deposited
money into the account for Pang every month.

The court was told that Pang was fond of playing mahjong and had once
offered Ms Yu a free trip to Macau to gamble, in which Pang had lost
more than $20,000.

Ms Yu said she knew Pang took sleeping pills but did not know if Pang
had taken other drugs.

The inquest before Coroner Colin Mackintosh and five jurors continues
today.

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"after playing mahjong"

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Wednesday March 1 2006

Model had tried suicide, boyfriend tells coroner
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Yvonne Tsui

The last known boyfriend of the late model Annie Pang Chor-ying said
yesterday the model had been emotionally unstable and had attempted
suicide at least three times during their relationship.

Truck driver Sit Ping-hung told the Coroner's Court a doctor had told
him Pang had taken so many drugs that her mind was 'not so clear'.

On one occasion, he said, a doctor had advised her to seek outpatient
treatment for her addiction after she appeared with a running nose and
was drooling in the street 'like a mad person'.

Mr Sit was giving evidence in the inquest into the death of Pang, whose
skeleton was found in a flat owned by lawyer John Fang Meng-sang, the
brother of former chief secretary Anson Chan Fang On-sang.

He said Pang had been admitted to the psychiatric ward at Princess
Margaret Hospital some time around March 1995.

Mr Sit said he and Pang had lived together in her Sai Kung villa for
nine months after their relationship began in 1993, before moving to
Tuen Mun in March 1994.

He said they quarrelled over trivial matters. Once, Pang had climbed
out a window and bounced on the laundry rack demanding he apologise for
not separating from his work partner, a Mr Mok, who had 'scolded' her.

Pang had berated him for being 'stupid' after he paid $10,000 to
release her from Macau loansharks to whom she owed $100,000.

The couple cut the gas pipe in their Tuen Mun flat to commit suicide
but Pang later changed her mind and called police for help.

Mr Sit said he wanted to separate from Pang after a quarrel over her
drug-taking in April 1994, during which she damaged his hi-fi
equipment, and she demanded a $14,000 'separation fee'.

Because so many items had been damaged in the fight, Mr Sit reported it
to police.

They were eventually reconciled and in July 1994 moved into the Yau Ma
Tei flat where Pang's skeleton was found in 1999.

Mr Sit said he had seen Pang take pills and had once given her
mouth-to-mouth resuscitation when she collapsed in bed after taking
drugs. Pang would invite addicts to smoke heroin in their flat, but he
never saw her smoke it.

He said he knew Pang had two other boyfriends when they lived in Yau Ma
Tei, including Mr Fang, whom she referred to as 'Ah-Sang'.

Although he never met Mr Fang, Pang had once told him she could get
some money from 'Ah-Sang' when they had no cash to go out. They went to
Mr Fang's law firm to get money. He did not go in, but waited for Pang
downstairs.

He finally separated from Pang because she had started another
relationship with an architect and continued to take drugs.

Mr Sit said that on the day he and Pang broke up, he had gone to the
mainland for 20 days after she gave him some jewellery, which he pawned
for $1,600.

He said: 'If she had not taken drugs, we could have been very happy
together.'

The inquest, before Coroner Colin Mackintosh and five jurors, continues
today.

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Saturday February 18 2006

Lawyer in dead model case may quit after receiving threats
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Polly Hui

The lawyer representing the family of model Annie Pang Chor-ying at
next week's inquest is considering quitting the case after receiving
two threatening phone calls, a legislator involved in the case said
yesterday.

Solicitor Mary Jean Reimer, who is representing Pang's family, told
lawmaker Leung Yiu-chung that a man warned her to 'beware' in two
anonymous phone calls she received on Wednesday and Thursday. 'Her
family is very worried about her safety. She herself is very unhappy,'
Mr Leung said.

He said Ms Reimer was considering withdrawing from the inquest, which
is scheduled to start on Monday and last for three weeks.

Reimer & Partners, the actress-turned-solicitor's firm, said yesterday
Ms Reimer was off sick with a cold and 'does not wish to attract any
more publicity'. A secretary said: 'She said she is only performing her
duty and understands that there will be risks involved.'

In 1999, Pang's remains were found at a Yau Ma Tei flat owned by John
Fang Meng-sang, brother of former chief secretary Anson Chan Fang
On-sang. Pang's head was discovered in a nearby rubbish bin, and a gold
tooth and two digit bones were missing. Pang disappeared in 1995, when
she was 34. There were no signs of a struggle or violence and the cause
of death remained a mystery because of the extent of decomposition.

On Thursday, Mr Fang, 66, filed a writ to the High Court seeking a
permanent injunction to prevent Ms Reimer from obtaining his
confidential documents.

The documents related to a 2001 court case in which Mr Fang, then a
practising lawyer, was sued by a client for failing to complete the
purchase of a property with a good title.

Pang's elder sister, who did not want to be named, said her family was
very concerned about Ms Reimer but hoped she would continue to
represent them.

'No one else is as familiar with the case,' the sister said. She said a
younger sister had also received threats, telling her to 'pull out from
the case'.

The sister questioned why Mr Fang filed his writ on the eve of the
inquest hearing.

'Our family is under enormous pressure,' she said.

'I could not sleep last night. My mother has already been admitted to
hospital several times with heart problems.

'With so many pieces of evidence missing, we may only receive a
question mark at the end of the hearing. But I still have a little
hope.'

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Friday February 17 2006

John Fang seeks order against law firm over bid to get letter
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Polly Hui

The brother of former chief secretary Anson Chan Fang On-sang yesterday
sought a permanent injunction preventing a lawyer involved in the
inquest into the death of model Annie Pang Chor-ying from obtaining his
confidential documents.

John Fang Meng-sang, 66, filed a writ against actress-turned-solicitor
Mary Jean Reimer and her firm Reimer & Partners for their 'wrongful
act' of asking Warehouse System Limited to turn over a letter he faxed
to the company in 1999.

The warehouse undertook to provide safe storage for the files of Mr
Fang - also a lawyer before he retired. Ms Pang's body was found in a
flat belonging to Mr Fang.

The letter related to a 2001 court case in which Mr Fang was sued by a
client for failing to complete the purchase of a property without
obtaining a good title. He lost that case and launched an appeal in
which he argued he was unable to produce files related to the
transaction with his client because they had been accidentally
destroyed in a typhoon. The letter in question mentioned the
destruction of the files, he said. The court dismissed his appeal.

In a letter dated February 8 this year, Reimer and Partners asked the
warehouse if the faxed letter existed and, if so, for a copy of it.

The remains of Pang, who went missing in 1995 at the age of 34, were
found at a Yau Ma Tei flat owned by Mr Fang in 1999. Her head was
discovered in a nearby rubbish bin, and a gold tooth and two digit
bones were missing. Police reopened inquiries last July after being
urged to do so by the Pang family.

Mr Fang will be a witness in the inquest, which opens on Monday.

'A confidential relationship exists between the plaintiff and Warehouse
whereby the latter was obliged to keep information relating to the said
files (inclusive of their whereabouts and traces) confidential and
secret and that it would not reveal such information to any third
party, either directly or indirectly,' Mr Fang wrote in the writ.

He argued that the content of the letter and files kept by Warehouse
were irrelevant to the cause of death of Pang.

Mr Fang urged the court to issue a permanent injunction against Reimer
and her firm attempting to induce Warehouse System to breach its
contractual duty of confidence with him and claims cost against the
defendants.

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Questions hang over model's pals

Whatever ex-model Annie Pang may have had in life, it was not friends
that could be relied on after she disappeared in July 1995.

Justin Mitchell

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Whatever ex-model Annie Pang may have had in life, it was not friends
that could be relied on after she disappeared in July 1995.

Pang, whose decapitated skeletal remains were found in an apartment
owned by her former married lover, lawyer John Fang, in October 1999,
is the subject of a noncriminal coroner's inquiry into the cause and
circumstances of her death.

A woman named Yu Yim-shueng on Monday gave wildly contradictory
evidence regarding her relationship with Pang and a man described by
coroner's officer Dee Crebbin as Pang's last known boyfriend, Sit
Ping-hung.

Sit was also Yu's former brother-in- law, a fact that Yu flatly denied
when she was initially interviewed by police shortly after Pang's
remains were discovered.

"You told police [in October 1999] that you had no idea who Sit was,
didn't you?" Crebbin asked.

Yu responded: "I cannot remember."

She told Crebbin that her divorce from Sit's brother combined with
Pang's death made it too painful to remember her former brother-in-law
at the time, though she had admitted that Sit introduced her to Pang
and that she and her ex-husband were separated in 1996, three years
before Pang's body was found.

In subsequent interviews with police in January 2000 and last year she
admitted knowing Sit but said she knew nothing of his relationship with
Pang.

Yu also opened an HSBC savings account in her own name for Pang in
September 1994 at Pang's request due to overdraft problems the former
model was having with her own account.

But she told the inquest that she only saw Pang "occasionally" to play
mahjong.

Only under repeated questioning did she admit to also renting a car for
a day trip with Pang and financing a gambling trip to Macau for the
pair. She maintained she had no interest or knowledge of why Pang
needed the account and never bothered to check the balances or
statements.

"Did you receive a bank card and passbook that you handed over to Miss
Pang?" Crebbin asked.

Yu said: "Yes ... I thought it would only be for two or three months
and it wasn't a big deal."

Crebbin and solicitor Mary Jean Reimer, who is representing Pang's
family, said that Fang was making payments into the account, though Yu
maintained her ignorance.

Yu claimed that Pang never discussed her personal life with her.

She also said that she went voluntarily to police in October 1999 after
reading that Pang's remains had been found and said that a photograph
of the bank card with Yu's name on it in a local newspaper had nothing
to do with her decision.

When pressed by Reimer as to why she later admitted knowing Sit in the
January 2000 police interview, Yu said: "It was a matter of my mood."

Reimer, reading the interview which Yu had signed, said: "The police
asked you why in 2000, and you didn't say that. You said: `I don't want
to be blamed by Sit Ping-hung."'

Sit is expected to testify today and Fang tomorrow.

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Model's ex-lover faces court warrant

If lawyer John Fang is a no-show again today at the coroner's inquest
examining the cause and circumstances of the death of his former
mistress Annie Pang, coroner Colin Mackintosh said he will issue a
warrant for Fang's appearance.

Justin Mitchell

Friday, March 03, 2006

If lawyer John Fang is a no-show again today at the coroner's inquest
examining the cause and circumstances of the death of his former
mistress Annie Pang, coroner Colin Mackintosh said he will issue a
warrant for Fang's appearance.

"I am extremely disappointed that Mr Fang is not here," a visibly
irritated Mackintosh told the court and jurors Thursday afternoon,
following three days of testimony by Pang's last known boyfriend, truck
driver Sit Ping-hung.

Fang was scheduled to testify following Sit.

"If Mr Fang is not here tomorrow, I shall use my powers to compel his
attendance," Mackintosh said Thursday. "He must be here. I take a very
dim view of the situation."

By "powers" Mackintosh meant that he can issue a warrant to compel Fang
to appear. Fang would conceivably face a contempt charge if he ignored
the warrant.

Fang, the brother of former chief secretary Anson Chan and son of
artist Fang Zhaoling who died nearly two weeks ago, has repeatedly
asked that his testimony be delayed since his mother's death.

Wednesday, he sent a five-page letter to Mackintosh asking for another
delay until March 6. Mackintosh denied the request and asked him to be
prepared to testify Thursday and Friday.

A senior inspector of the Organized Crime and Triad Bureau said he made
several unsuccessful phone calls to Fang's mobile and fixed-line
numbers Thursday in order to determine whether he would appear.

"I got voice mail each time," Almerick Cheuk said. "I finally reached
him at home. He said he would be here tomorrow but I think I need to
call him again."

The investigation will be in its 10th day today. It was scheduled for
15 days but Mackintosh has recently expressed concern that it may run
longer than planned.

The 31-year-old former model was missing for four years until her
decapitated skeletal remains were found in October 1999 in a Yau Ma Tei
apartment owned by Fang.

He and a locksmith entered the Waterloo Road apartment to close
bathroom and bedroom windows that had caused water leakage into the
flat below. Both claimed they never saw Pang's uncovered skeleton
surrounded by maggot casings, nor her skull in a waste basket on the
floor beside the bed in the 300-square-foot flat.

The following day Fang sent a former employee to the flat to clean it.
He reported the remains to police after phoning Fang.

Sit's longer-than-expected testimony was primarily drawn out by
solicitor Mary Jean Reimer who is representing Pang's family.

Using mostly minor inconsistencies in two interviews that Sit gave
police in 2000 and 2005 and during his three days on the stand, Reimer
tried to bolster a theory that Sit was never Pang's live-in boyfriend
and that he was taking financial advantage of a woman whom others and
Sit have described as deeply in debt to loan sharks, suicidal and
addicted to drugs and gambling.

Reimer Thursday described Pang as "quite wealthy" and said that her
apparent interest in trading futures combined with a 1994 debt of about
HK$80,000 to the Inland Revenue was proof of her financial success and
acumen. However, friends and acquaintances have testified that she
appeared to primarily depend on Fang's largesse for living expenses and
shelter in flats he owned after she became his mistress at about age
18.

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Tuesday, March 7, 2006

John Fang denies he plotted to kill model
Anson Chan's brother describes as 'improper' lawyer's allegation at
inquest

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John Fang: denial
Lawyer John Fang Meng-sang yesterday strongly denied an "improper"
allegation that he had arranged for someone to kill model Annie Pang
Chor-ying.

The allegation by lawyer Mary Jean Reimer, acting for the Pang family,
prompted an adjournment of the inquest into the model's death so that
Mr Fang could decide whether he needed legal advice.

Mr Fang, brother of former chief secretary Anson Chan Fang On-sang,
told the Coroner's Court he had not instructed anyone to kill Pang and
that he strongly objected to the suggestion.

He complained that Ms Reimer's allegation was "improper" and may
involve professional misconduct.

Ms Reimer suggested to Mr Fang that he had sent someone to murder Pang
because she had become a "financial nuisance" to him and he wanted to
get rid of her.

"An allegation of a serious nature has been put to you and I think you
are entitled to have a legal representative in this hearing," Coroner
Colin Mackintosh told him.

The coroner adjourned the court at noon to allow time for Mr Fang to
consider whether he wanted legal representation.

Ms Reimer also alleged Mr Fang had not told the truth about property he
bought with Pang in 1988.

She told the court the flat in Jaffe Road, Wan Chai, was originally
bought in April 1988 for $400,000 by Mr Fang, who then sold it to Pang
at the same price.

She said Pang later mortgaged the flat to a bank for $450,000, of which
$50,000 was paid to Mr Fang's firm - J. Fang & Co - in legal charges.

In 1991, Pang sold the flat, making a profit of $840,000.

Ms Reimer further contended that Pang, despite being only 21 years old,
had been able to secure more than $3 million in financing for three
properties that were bought in her name.

Mr Fang replied he had acted as Pang's solicitor for her property
transactions.

He said the Jaffe Road flat had been bought in a form of "joint
venture" and that he had lent her money. She later repaid him from the
profit on the sale.

He denied he had kept all the profit Pang earned, saying: "I did not
keep anything to which I'm not entitled."

Mr Fang could not recall how much he was paid because "there were
fairly complicated transactions, undertakings and promises" between him
and Pang over the properties. However, he admitted he had helped Pang
to obtain the mortgages, adding that the late model conducted all the
transactions "beyond [his] control".

Questioned by Ms Reimer, he denied owing Pang money.

The court heard earlier that Pang had been sued for non-payment of
$70,000 in salary tax and Mr Fang's firm had been instructed to handle
the matter.

Mr Fang denied he had been asked to pay Pang's tax arrears.

The hearing continues today.

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Wednesday, March 8, 2006

John Fang tells inquest he did not try to reach Annie Pang after
skeleton found
Lawyer tells inquest he felt no need to look for Annie Pang when
remains were found in her flat years after her disappearance

YVONNE TSUI


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Lawyer John Fang Meng-sang made no attempt to contact model Annie
Pang Chor-ying after a skeleton was found in the flat she rented from
him, he told the inquest into her death yesterday.

"I left that [the identity of the skeleton] to forensic experts," said
Mr Fang, the 61-year-old brother of former chief secretary Anson Chan
Fang On-sang.

Questioned by Mary Jean Reimer, the solicitor representing Pang's
family at the inquest, Mr Fang told the Coroner's Court he was not
interested in the identity of the corpse, found in the Yau Ma Tei flat
by one of his employees.

Ms Reimer reminded Mr Fang that Yeung Kwai-choi, at the time employed
by Mr Fang's law firm, was the first person to report finding Pang's
skeleton, on October 7, 1999 - five years after she was last seen alive
and the day after Mr Fang visited the premises himself.

He insisted he would have reported finding the skeleton to police if he
had seen it as "I am not a chicken-hearted person".

But Mr Fang said he had no reason to contact Pang after Mr Yeung's
discovery, adding he no longer had Pang's phone number. He said he
rented the flat to Pang for only $1 after he promised her she could
live there indefinitely.

Mr Fang again testified that he went to the flat one day before Mr
Yeung after neighbours complained about water damage his flat was
causing to the building. He said he had been "threatened" by the
chairman of the building's owners' corporation that the leakage would
be reported to police if he did not solve the matter.

Referring to earlier testimony, Mr Fang emphasised he had never paid
Pang's household expenses.

"I am a married man, I don't pay another woman's household expenses,"
he said, adding that he felt "rather relieved" after Pang suddenly
stopped asking him for financial assistance in mid-1995.

He estimated Pang had owed him between $300,000 and $1 million in debts
accumulated after they met in 1985. He said he had once helped her to
obtain over $3 million in mortgages for three properties she bought in
1989.

Referring to testimony that Pang asked him for money for abortions, he
said he had never made Pang pregnant and could not remember when last
he had sex with her.

Coroner's officer Dee Crebbin read out statements made to police by two
of Pang's ex-lovers - former fireman Kwong King-fai and former
taxi-driver Hui Sik-ming.

The two said they had sex with Pang soon after meeting her, at a time
when both men were married.

Mr Hui, who met Pang as his passenger, told police he later found her
to be "queer" and "eccentric". They parted after she once collapsed,
apparently from taking some "medicine".

Mr Kwong said he began seeing Pang after they met at her North Point
pet shop, at a time when his wife was pregnant.

The inquest before Coroner Colin Mackintosh and five jurors continues
today.

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Fang tells of Annie's real estate deals

Known in death as a former model - as well as a drug and gambling
addict and, occasionally, as a dog breeder and pet shop owner - Annie
Pang assumed yet another identity in the coroner's inquest into her
1995 death.

Justin Mitchell

Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Known in death as a former model - as well as a drug and gambling
addict and, occasionally, as a dog breeder and pet shop owner - Annie
Pang assumed yet another identity in the coroner's inquest into her
1995 death.

Pang's guise as a property speculator was sketched out Tuesday in
questioning by Mary Jean Reiner, a solicitor advocate for Pang's
family, who tried to press Pang's former boyfriend John Fang about his
ex-law firm's involvement in the deceased's real estate deals.

"Annie and I had many transactions - between two and 100, perhaps. If
you prompt me, maybe I can remember," said Fang - a brother of former
chief secretary Anson Chan - in his third and final day of testimony at
the inquest.

Essentially, Reiner - whose queries were often reined in and recast by
coroner Colin Mackintosh - was trying to prove that Fang used his long-
time mistress as a front to flip property.

These included a flat in Jaffe Road bought in her name for HK$400,000
in 1988, mortgaged for HK$450,000, and later sold for HK$1.24 million.

"Did you use Annie as your front to purchase property to ease your cash
flow," Reiner asked.

"It could be ... it could be," Fang replied. "I could have also given
Annie some equitable shares. I can't be sure."

"Who was the actual owner?"

"Probably me," Fang replied.

"It was sold for HK$1.24 million. Where did all the profit go?"

"Most likely, Annie would have taken a share, but I can't remember.
These things are very trivial," he replied.

When questioned about a 1991 deal involving the Golden Dragon building
in Wan Chai, he said: "My staff arranged it for her. I might have also
given her an equitable share."

Reiner also tried to press Fang on why Pang used his law firm's address
as her home address in the Golden Dragon mortgage application.

"I think she just liked the address," Fang said. "And she didn't have a
[permanent] address at the time."

Fang maintained that Pang "didn't fight very much over dollars and
cents" but said that an unannounced visit she made with a knife to his
home in 1995 was "probably because she wanted money." He told police he
estimated that Pang "owed him" between HK$300,000 and HK$1 million at
the time of her disappearance.

Her skeletal remains were found in October 1999 in a Waterloo Road flat
also owned by Fang.

Fang has said he wasn't particularly worried or curious when her
requests for money stopped in the summer of 1995.

In other testimony Tuesday, locksmith Wong Ying-choi - who Fang
employed to get into the flat on October 6, 1999 - claimed that he,
like Fang, never saw Pang's bones in the apartment bedroom.

The four-year-old remains were reported the following day by Yeung Chi-
lam, a handyman sent by Fang to clean out the flat.

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Fang accused of fixing Pang's death

The ongoing coroner's inquest into the circumstances surrounding the
death of former model Annie Pang took a bizarre turn and was cut short
for the day when the Pang family's solicitor accused her former lover
John Fang of engineering her demise.

Justin Mitchell

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

The ongoing coroner's inquest into the circumstances surrounding the
death of former model Annie Pang took a bizarre turn and was cut short
for the day when the Pang family's solicitor accused her former lover
John Fang of engineering her demise.

"I suggest that [Annie] ... became a financial nuisance and that you
sent someone to kill Annie," Mary Jean Reimer said Monday.

"No, of course not," replied Fang, the lawyer brother of former chief
secretary for administration Anson Chan. "Pure character assassination,
pure and simple."

Reimer's accusation came despite repeated reminders to Reimer from
coroner Colin Mackintosh that the inquest, now in its third week, is
not a criminal trial. Throughout the hearing and again Monday,
Mackintosh cautioned Reimer to "avoid speculative allegations."

Fang, the long-time married boyfriend of Pang and the man in whose flat
her decapitated skeletal remains were found in October 1999, more than
four years after she vanished in July or August 1995, was advised by
Mackintosh - who is leading the proceedings - to consider hiring a
solicitor of his own in preparation for more questioning by Reimer
today.

"Allegations of a serious nature have been put to you," Mackintosh told
Fang. "You have the right to be legally represented. We will adjourn
for the day in order for you to consider if you wish to be
represented."

Reimer has previously accused another Pang boyfriend, Sit Ping-hung, of
somehow being involved in her death. Sit denied the allegation.

Fang has tried to paint a casual picture of his long relationship with
Pang, whom he met when she was about 18.

Coroner's officer Dee Crebbin's questioning of Fang Friday had gone
relatively smoothly, concerning matters such as how and why he was able
to overlook Pang's remains lying near a flat window he had closed.

But Reimer and Fang locked horns immediately Monday over her wide-
ranging queries that leapt from issues such as whether or not Fang's
firm had drafted a will for Pang to whether he recognized furniture in
the death flat.

Typical was this exchange: "I put it to you that you deliberately
destroyed the will of Annie," Reimer said.

"I put it to you that you're crazy," retorted Fang, only to have
Mackintosh firmly tell him to mind his mouth.

Later when Reimer told Fang: "I suggest to you that Annie became a
burden and you wanted to get rid of her."

Fang asked Mackintosh: "Can I say she's crazy again your worship?"

Mackintosh ruled: "Definitely not."

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Brother of former top HK leader in court. He said:
I DIDN'T SEE EX-LOVER'S SKELETON
March 06, 2006 Print Ready Email Article

THE disappearance of his mistress while his sister was Chief Secretary
of Hong Kong caused a minor scandal in the mid-'90s.

A decade later, the case is in the limelight after Mr John Fang Meng
Sang told a Coroner's Court hearing into the model's death on Friday
that he closed a window in her flat without noticing her skeleton on
the floor in front of it, reported The Standard.

Mr Fang, the brother of former Hong Kong chief secretary Anson Chan
Fang On Sang, told the Coroner's Court that he had failed to see the
remains of model Annie Pang Chor Ying the day before they were found by
his handyman because he had been distracted by the open window.

Mr Fang testified that he went to the apartment on 6 Oct 1999 after a
neighbour complained of a water leak, reported the South China Morning
Post.

He said he had let Miss Pang, 31, move into his empty 15th-floor flat
five years earlier.

But their affair was already cooling by then and he barely contacted
her after that, he testified.

Mr Fang said he had given Miss Pang money until 8 Jul 1995, when she
stopped calling him to ask for it.

Miss Pang is believed to have died in July or August 1995.

Mr Fang said he did not go to the flat until 1999, when he went with a
locksmith as he had never asked Miss Pang for a key.

Mr Fang said he and locksmith found the home to be 'messy and dampish'
when they gained entry and the electricity and water supplies cut off.

'When I got in to the bedroom, I concentrated on finding a possible
cause of a leak. I immediately saw the window open,' he testified.

'I stepped in to shut it. It was very unhygienic and I remember
climbing over something to get to the window.

'There were many obstacles and I had to fix my eyes on the window.'

Coroner's officer Dee Crebbin asked: 'The skeleton was on the floor but
you say you didn't see it?'

Mr Fang replied: 'It only occurred to me that the window had been blown
open by the typhoon. Otherwise, I should have reacted.'

He said he was preoccupied by the shocking state of the flat, which
appeared to have been 'created by a natural disaster like a typhoon'.

HANDYMAN AN 'ENTICER'

Mr Fang said he asked the handyman at his law firm, Mr Yeung Kwai Choi,
to clean it out the next day, and was 'apologetic' that the 'unlucky'
Mr Yeung had found the skeleton when he arrived to do so.

Mr Fang had earlier described Mr Yeung as the man he used to 'entice
(Miss Pang) to be a good girl' when she was 'being mischievous' during
visits to his law office to ask for money, reported The Standard.

Members of Miss Pang's family had earlier testified that she had
complained of being beaten up by Mr Yeung.

They also claimed that she had had three abortions at Mr Fang's request
and had pined for years for Mr Fang to leave his wife and marry her.

Mr Fang denied all the allegations.

He claimed that 'abortion' was the 'the code word' that Miss Pang used
when she asked him for money.

'She would tell me she needed money for an abortion and I'd say:
'You've already had three abortions this month! It was a standard joke,
so to speak,' he testified.

He said he had met Miss Pang when she was 18 and had helped her open a
pet shop, which closed down soon after.

After that, they continued to date casually in an arrangement that
allowed her to date other men, he said. He was married throughout their
liaison.

Mr Fang agreed with the Pang family that she had run up heavy gambling
debts, made several suicide bids and was known to behave erratically.

Asked why he did not check when Miss Pang suddenly stopped asking for
money, he replied: 'Unless I'm raving mad, I'm going to leave the devil
alone. She wasn't good company.'

Mr Fang also apologised for being absent from court on Thursday when he
had been due to give evidence.

He claimed he did not hear the police calling because of loud drilling
in the flat next door and because he had been taking a nap.

The hearing continues tomorrow.

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Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Inquest told of 'favour' to open Annie's flat
John Fang asked friend for help a year before skeleton found

YVONNE TSUI


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A man who owed lawyer John Fang Meng-sang a favour tried
unsuccessfully to get into the Yau Ma Tei flat where model Annie Pang
Chor-ying stayed, about a year before her skeleton was found there, the
Coroner's Court heard yesterday.

Lee Yick-ming said Mr Fang, brother of former chief secretary Anson
Chan Fang On-sang, had asked him to find out why the management fee was
not being paid and see whether Pang was still living there.

"I owed [Mr Fang] a favour," Mr Lee said. He said the lawyer, whom he
had known for about 10 years, had asked him to check on the condition
of a few properties before he went to look at Pang's.

"Mr Fang asked me to check if a woman still lived there. I [then] asked
him who that woman was. He told me I could call her `Fei Pang' [Fat
Pang]," Mr Lee said.

He added that he did not know or meet Pang, and knew her only by this
nickname after his conversation with Mr Fang.

"Mr Fang's purpose was not to sell the flat," Mr Lee said. "He had
received a letter from which he learnt that [Pang] had not paid the
management fee for several months."

Mr Lee said Mr Fang gave him "a bunch of keys" to open the door to
Pang's flat but he never tried them because he could not get past the
front gate that Pang's flat shared with the neighbouring flat.

Pang's neighbour refused to open this gate or help him by knocking on
Pang's door and asking her to come out. Mr Lee called a locksmith to
open the gate but the neighbour called the police, who told him to
leave. He returned the keys to Mr Fang two days later.

The court also heard evidence from Constable Chan Chok-hing, who was
responsible for handling exhibits after Pang's skeleton was found in
October 1999.

Pointing out that there was no record of a diary on the police exhibits
list in 1999, coroner's officer Dee Crebbin asked Constable Chan if he
had seized a diary belonging to Pang with pages torn out.

He replied he had not seen a diary. Handed some diary pages he sniffed
them and said: "The notebooks I seized were very smelly. I just sniffed
[the pages] and I did not find that smell."

He also denied he had seen any photographs of Pang with a man. He
insisted there was no damage caused to photographs from the flat, and
that he had not taken any away before they were returned to the dead
model's family in 2001.

But he confirmed that, according to police records, nothing had been
returned to Mr Fang.

The inquest continues today.

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Thursday, March 16, 2006

Model's skeleton in bedroom was hard to miss, court hears

YVONNE TSUI


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A former employee of lawyer John Fang Meng-sang's firm of
solicitors had no difficulty finding model Annie Pang Chor-ying's
skeleton in her bedroom when he was sent by his boss to clear her Yau
Ma Tei flat.

Yeung Kwai-choi, who has known Mr Fang, brother of former chief
secretary Anson Chan Fang On-sang, since 1991, told the inquest into
Pang's death yesterday that he had received a telephone call from Mr
Fang on October 6, 1999, asking him to clean the flat and remove some
large items, such as a television set and refrigerator.

The coroner's court heard that this was not the first time Mr Fang sent
Mr Yeung on an errand that involved Pang. Mr Yeung testified that, a
few years before Pang's remains were found, Mr Fang sent him to her
Sheung Sze Wan home after she tried to commit suicide.

On his last errand involving Pang, Mr Yeung was told that there was no
one living in the Yau Ma Tei flat, and he collected the keys from Mr
Fang before heading there with several cleaners the next day.

"I was standing in the doorway leading from the living room to the
bedroom. Before I entered the bedroom, I leaned forward to look inside
and I saw the bone of a human leg on the floor," Mr Yeung said, adding
that the skeleton was close to the doorway and that "it was not
difficult to see".

Mr Yeung said he was shocked by the "foot bone" but he re-entered the
room and confirmed that he had seen a human skeleton without a head. "I
did not look for the head ... the police told me later that the skull
had been found."

Earlier, the court heard that Mr Fang entered the flat with a locksmith
the day before Mr Yeung reported finding Pang's skeleton. Mr Fang has
testified that neither he nor the locksmith saw the skeleton.

Mr Yeung said he had first telephoned Mr Fang before he reported
finding Pang's skeleton to police. He asked Mr Fang how come Mr Fang
did not see the skeleton in the flat the previous day, but Mr Fang only
told him to report the matter to police quickly.

Mr Yeung testified that he was never told that Pang occupied the Yau Ma
Tei flat. But he did know who Pang was because he had helped Mr Fang
handle her affairs when she lived in Sai Kung. Once, Mr Fang asked him
to go to a flat in Sheung Sze Wan, near Sai Kung, to check whether she
had committed suicide.

"Mr Fang once called me and he said that a person called `Fei Pang'
[Fat Pang] committed suicide there," he said, "Mr Fang had told me it
was his girlfriend."

When Mr Yeung arrived in Sheung Sze Wan, he saw Pang sitting on her bed
with her right wrist cut by a fruit knife. He recalled that Pang used a
glass to collect the blood from her wrist and that she was naked. "She
said she wanted Fang Meng-sang to come and she disagreed to be sent to
the hospital," Mr Yeung told the court. Mr Fang told him to leave Pang
after he called him to report the matter.

The inquest continues today.

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She had a broken heart!

Why?

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Pang hearing told of $2.5m debt

The man who reported Annie Pang's skeletal remains to police a day after
her former lover John Fang had been to the same Yau Ma Tei flat and
claimed to notice nothing amiss was heavily in debt to Fang at the time,
the non-criminal coroner's inquest investigating Pang's death heard.

Justin Mitchell

Thursday, March 16, 2006

The man who reported Annie Pang's skeletal remains to police a day after
her former lover John Fang had been to the same Yau Ma Tei flat and
claimed to notice nothing amiss was heavily in debt to Fang at the time,
the non-criminal coroner's inquest investigating Pang's death heard.

Yeung Kwai-choi, a former employee whom Fang earlier described as a
"jack of all trades, a handyman who was unluckily available to clean out
the flat," admitted Tuesday under questioning by coroner's officer Dee
Crebbin that Fang had filed a HK$2.5 million writ against him and that
he had once borrowed HK$900,000 from Fang.

"After you went to the premises [Fang] didn't pursue the claim against
you," Crebbin said.

"Yes," Yeung replied, but added "the writ is still there."

"He's never pursued it," Crebbin said.

"I did repay him," Yeung said.

"HK$2.5 million?" Crebbin said.

"No," Yeung said without elaborating.

"Did [Fang] ask you to clean out the flat and to find the skeleton in
exchange for not pursuing the writ?" Crebbin asked.

"Not at all," said Yeung, who maintained he had taken up that task and
others involving Pang when she was alive for free after he had left
employment at Fang's former law firm in 1992.

Pang is believed to have died in the Waterloo Road apartment in July or
August 1995 and her decapitated skeletal remains were reported by Yeung
on October 7, 1999, a day after Fang said he and a locksmith entered the
chaotic, grimy flat which Fang owned but claimed never to have entered
until that day.

"You were prepared to do any jobs he wanted free of charge?" Crebbin asked.

Yeung agreed, and called the task for which he took five other men whom
he said also agreed to work for free, "too trivial."

Yeung said Fang had told them they could have electrical appliances and
a television in the flat.

In describing his discovery, Yeung said he was "shocked" after peering
into Pang's bedroom and seeing bones on the floor beside the bed.

He said he called Fang who told him to notify the police.

Fang's fix-it man also said he had no idea and that Fang didn't bother
to mention that the remains Yeung found might be those of Pang, whom he
initially met in 1991 or 1992 when Fang sent him to check out a suicide
threat she had made.

At the time Pang was living in a Sai Kung Spanish-style villa provided
by Fang, though he rarely saw her there after beginning their
relationship in the 1980s.

Yeung said Fang was "too busy" to deal with a lover who had cut her
right wrist with a fruit knife and was sitting nude on her bed letting
the blood drip into a glass when Yeung arrived.

"Had you ever been asked to do this sort of dirty work for him before?"
Crebbin asked.

"No," Yeung said.

Fang, who had described Yeung as the man he exclusively used to "entice
[Pang] to be a good girl" when she was "being mischievous," tapped him
due to familial connections Yeung had in Sai Kung.

Pang's neighbors reportedly called Yeung and Fang with complaints about
her erratic behavior, including drug use, swimming nude and cutting
other people's flower gardens.

Yeung also described himself and "colleagues" he had called from Sai
Kung trying to calm Pang in a conference room at Fang's behest in Fang's
law office in Central where she had torn wallpaper and damaged pictures.
He claimed she scratched him and threw a heavy ashtray at him in the row
which eventually ended in the Waterfront police station.

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`Maybe I'm a sucker ... I help everybody'

While he may not be particularly modest, John Fang is a good guy. Just
ask him.

Justin Mitchell

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

While he may not be particularly modest, John Fang is a good guy. Just
ask him.

He'll tell you repeatedly - just as he told the coroner's inquest into
31-year-old Annie Pang's death - that he's a "nice person, a generous
person."

"You've told us that already," coroner Colin Mackintosh said at one
point.

Fang picked up the self-promotional thread again in an interview with
The Standard. "I'm a good chump, a buddy- buddy kind of guy," Fang
said.

His self-proclaimed generosity - Fang admitted to depositing more than
HK$58,000 in an account set up for Pang in the name of another woman
from January-July 1995 despite the fact that their physical
relationship had ended long ago - makes it hard for him to believe that
others might question just exactly how he avoided seeing his ex-
lover's bones on the floor of her flat on October 6, 1999.

A day later others who were asked to clean out the flat had no problem
at all almost immediately spotting the grotesque tableaux.

Doubting Thomas's may also wonder why he never bothered to actually
enter the flat until 1999 and why he seemed not to be curious about
whatever became of Pang after her pleas for money stopped.

In coroner's court, Fang said he was so busy avoiding injury - and
perhaps dying - on the room's debris that he never saw Pang's remains
as he scampered nimbly and quickly to close the window. "It was very
unhygienic and like an obstacle course and I remember climbing over
something to get the window closed," Fang said.

Out of court he said he even conducted a home test.

"I now have a better version," Fang said. "This is it. This is
scientific. I had people with a stopwatch with me at my home. I
measured this equivalent distance and ran in, shut a window and then
came back and said `stop!"'

No skeleton or skeleton model was used, he said, but he swore that if
anyone - including Pang's survivors - tries it in the privacy of their
abode using a stopwatch and a few friends they'll find that "if you
concentrate you will have no time to see what is on both sides of you
or below you."

Fang blamed Pang's siblings and mother for some of his bad publicity
because he has rejected what he called financial "compensation"
demanded by them. Pang Ngor-vee, Annie's sister and the last family
member to see her alive in April 1995, denied ever asking Fang for
anything except information as to her whereabouts.

He said he refused because Pang had told him she was on bad terms with
her sister and mother and didn't want them to know where she was
living.

"Annie never allowed me to see them when she was alive because she
insinuated that her mother is very greedy and would want money from
me," Fang claimed. "In 2005 [a daughter] wrote me and said, `if you
don't pay we'll go to the press."' Pang's sister denied the allegation.

He said he almost caved in to their alleged demands, but his loyal wife
- the woman from whom he had concealed the relationship after he met
Pang when the 20-year-old aspiring model and pet shop owner drifted
into a bachelor party Fang was at in 1986 - urged him to stay the
course.

"Of course my wife doesn't like it. But she is solidly behind me and
does not believe I should pay them. Two sons are really grown up and
very supportive too," he said.

Why did he keep giving Pang rent- free lodging and money, despite the
decline of their physical relationship and what he said was an increase
in friction between them? Well, because he's a nice guy ...

"I'm not the guy who cries over spilled milk," Fang said. "And I help
everybody, men and women, who needs it and who comes across my path. Of
course, maybe I'm a bit of a sucker and stupid, too. Maybe I should
have reported her missing to police. I wasn't so much interested in her
anymore but I never kicked her out of my life. I helped her because
she's a human being and she had all kinds of problems."

Which leads to another explanation for not seeing her remains: Annie's
cosmic gratitude for his generosity.

"There is a Buddhist saying that during your life if someone owed you a
lot of favors that they won't ever shock you by letting you see them in
skeleton form."

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Annie Pang, the energetic and cute sister I knew

While the Annie Pang described by many of the 49 coroner's inquest
witnesses - both in person and in written statements - described an
often desperately sad woman living a ragged, uncertain and risky
lifestyle of debts, gambling, drugs and sex, that's not the little
sister Pang Ngor-vee knew.

Justin Mitchell and Albert Wong

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

While the Annie Pang described by many of the 49 coroner's inquest
witnesses - both in person and in written statements - described an
often desperately sad woman living a ragged, uncertain and risky
lifestyle of debts, gambling, drugs and sex, that's not the little
sister Pang Ngor-vee knew.

"Annie was energetic and cute and liked reading," Pang said in an
interview with The Standard.

"My best memories of her were when we were children living on Lion
Rock. There was only one year difference between us, so we were closer
than normal sisters, I think. Annie told me everything and we loved to
go swimming and pick lychees and being chased by dogs."

Pang said "nothing about their childhood" - including a father who left
the family when they were young and never maintained contact - prepared
her to believe that she was the often unhinged, unhappy person
portrayed in the inquest.

"We were close but Annie never mentioned those things," Pang said
referring to the drug use and suicide threats.

"She took great care of our younger sister and brother and our mother.
And I don't believe she would have ever tried to commit suicide. She
loved our mother too much. That's not something she would do."

However in her testimony, she painted a picture of a wayward sister
hooked on sleeping pills whose life was spiraling out of control amid
gambling debts and fears that her long relationship with married lawyer
John Fang would finally end.

"In the beginning, it was good. She said she wanted to have Mr Fang's
child. Later she told me that she and Mr Fang argued about money and
she couldn't sleep because he wouldn't come see her," she said.

"Sometimes when I asked her why she had no money she said it was
because Mr Fang had financial problems."

Annie's money woes and demands finally led her sister and mother to
change their phone numbers and cease contact with her in late 1994 and
1995.

Pang said the last time she saw her sister was in March 1995 at Tai
Hing police station in Tuen Mun, where she went to bail her out
following a fight with another boyfriend.

In the interview, though, she said Annie was "whiter than white."

She would never do anything criminal like drugs and gambling," Pang
said. "Why would [other witnesses] smear her? I don't believe any of
it."

As for Fang, she said Annie "really loved him. She only ever talked
about one man in her life and that was Mr Fang."

But Pang said Fang's testimony in the inquest marked the first time she
had seen the man who had infatuated her little sister.

"I don't know what Annie saw in him," she said.

As to why the family's lackluster attempts to contact Annie - who had
quarreled with her mother and not given the family any contact
information - ended in 1995 with several fruitless calls to Fang, Pang
said they "assumed" Annie was safe wherever she was.

"Annie could be stubborn and narrow-minded but we thought she had gone
abroad for a while. We never imagined something had happened to her."