NEW YORK (AP) — A former Hong Kong government official has been denied bail in a U.S. case accusing of him using bribes to secure business deals. Dr. Chi Ping Patrick Ho had been jailed last week after being charged with paying bribes on behalf of a Chinese energy conglomerate to the president of Chad and the Ugandan foreign minister. Prosecutors say Ho hatched the scheme at the United Nations when the Ugandan foreign minister was president of the U.N.