A City University professor has been sentenced to 4.5 months in prison for offering a bribe of HK$1,000 to a Hong Kong property agent. The sentence comes after a magistrate dismissed the professor's claims of 'cultural differences' as the reason for the bribe. The professor was granted bail to appeal against his conviction.

A City University (CityU) professor has been sentenced to 4½ months in prison for offering a HK$1,000 (US$128) bribe to a Hong Kong property agent, after a magistrate dismissed the defendant’s claims that the situation arose from “cultural differences”. Du Du, 48, an associate professor at the university’s economics and finance department, was granted bail on Wednesday to appeal against his conviction for offering an advantage to the agent in an attempt to avoid paying HK$16,000 for breaching a....