{"id":45446,"date":"2015-02-15T21:31:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=45446 "},"modified":"2015-02-15T21:31:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T21:31:00","slug":"45446-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=45446","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Ferry Captain Guilty of Manslaughter in Collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mzzg.org\/UploadCenter\/ArticlePics\/2015\/7\/20152152A16BD7B-EED5-44EB-B86B-9D6697B4504F_w640_r1_s.jpg\" alt=\"20152152A16BD7B-EED5-44EB-B86B-9D6697B4504F_w640_r1_s.jpg (640&#215;360)\" \/><\/div><div>FILE &#8211; Workers salvage boat which sank after colliding with ferry near Lamma Island off the southwestern coast of Hong Kong, Oct. 2, 2012.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>February 14, 2015 8:17 AM<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>A Hong Kong court found a ferry boat captain guilty of manslaughter Saturday in a collision that killed 39 people in 2012.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Sea Smooth captain Lai Sai-ming, 56, was also convicted of one count of endangering the safety of others at sea in the accident between his high-speed ferry and a smaller pleasure boat near Lamma Island.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>The smaller craft was carrying around 120 employees of the local power company on an excursion to watch a Chinese National Day fireworks display on October 1, 2012. All the deaths occurred on the pleasure craft. The two captains blamed each other for the collision.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>The same jury found the captain of the pleasure craft Chow Chi-wai innocent of manslaughter, but guilty of endangering the safety of others at sea.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Some information for this report is from AP and AFP.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><\/div><div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/content\/hong-kong-ferry-caption-manslaughter\/2644073.html\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;Sea Smooth captain Lai Sai-ming, 56, was also convicted of one count of endangering the safety of others at sea in the accident between his high-speed ferry and a smaller pleasure boat near Lamma Island.&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}