Police will start taking random breath checks on motorists to combat drink driving when a new law comes into effect from February 9, Commissioner of Police Tang King-shing says.

Police today appealed for information about a fatal traffic accident in Yuen Long last month that killed an 88-year-old man.

The Adaptation of Laws Bill 2009 will be gazetted tomorrow and tabled in the Legislative Council on February 11.

The overall crime rate fell 2.9% last year, Commissioner of Police Tang King-shing says, with 78,469 cases recorded, 2,327 less than the previous year.

Chief Executive Donald Tsang has urged motorists not to drink and drive after visiting the scene of a Lok Ma Chau traffic accident in which six men died.

A Mainland tourist has been jailed four months by Fanling Magistracy for bribing an immigration officer.

The Office of the Telecommunications Authority issued the first enforcement notice under the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Ordinance today against a commercial fax sender who has kept sending messages to numbers on the do-not-call register.

The former chairman of a tobacco manufacturer, charged by the ICAC, was today convicted at the District Court in his absence of bribery and fraud in relation to cigarette-smuggling activities.

The Sha Tin Magistracy has sentenced a Department of Health mortuary worker to 150 hours of community service for accepting bribes in return for giving a funeral parlour operator information on dead bodies.