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Monk remanded after alleged theft of Monkey King statue from Hong Kong temple
South China Morning Post
A mainland Chinese Buddhist monk has been remanded in custody after allegedly stealing a statue of the Monkey King, a deity famed in classic Chinese novel Journey to the West, from a Hong Kong temple. The 57-year-old, Zha Jianxin, appeared in West Kowloon Court on Wednesday after being charged with one count of theft involving a statue belonging to Lung Mo Temple in Tsuen Wan. The statue, valued at HK$2,000 (US$255), depicts Sun Wukong, the mythological Monkey King from the 16th-century...
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