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Teenager tried to steal mobile phoneA 16-year-old boy was arrested after he tried to snatch a HK$5,000 mobile phone from a woman, 39, in Kowloon yesterday.儲存倉 The teenager fled when the woman screamed. Police stopped the boy at Cherry Street in Tai Kok Tsui after chasing him from a footbridge at the corner of Argyle Street and Tong Mi Road.Public rental allocation system to be reviewedThe points system used to allocate public rental housing units to applicants may be reviewed so that single people over the age of 45 can be given priority, the transport and housing minister says. Professor Anthony Cheung Bing-leung said young people were joining the queue once they graduated from university, but many would not be eligible when it came to their turn. A mechanism could be set up to regularly review applicants' economic status so those who became ineligible could be rejected 迷你倉最平arlier, he said.Airport sees record number of visitorsThe Hong Kong International Airport received a record-breaking almost 60 million passengers last year – an annual growth of 6.1 per cent. The Airport Authority said passenger traffic to and from the mainland, Taiwan and Japan recorded the most significant increases.10 arrested in sex syndicate crackdownTen women were arrested in a police crackdown on a syndicate that provided tourists with sexual services. Nine local, mainland and Vietnamese women aged from 21 to 42 were netted in an Admiralty hotel room after they offered their services to three undercover officers. A 41-year-old local woman, believed to be the ring leader, was arrested in a flat in Central. A bank transaction record involving HK$17 million, HK$70,000 in cash and drugs worth HK$8,200 were seized. Police said the ring targeted expats in Lan Kwai Fong.迷你倉