On Thursday's Backchat, we'll discuss the government's public consultation on tobacco control.

Some of the measures being considered include the banning of the sale of tobacco products to citizens born after a certain year, increasing tobacco duty, re...

On Wednesday's Backchat, we talk about  kids and internet addiction.

A new survey of primary and secondary school students found almost a third of them had recently played video-games non-stop for more than five-hours; while almost half admitted to ho...

On Tuesday's Backchat we look into the long-planned waste charging scheme, which has been postponed until April next year. 

Praised by environmentalists as a step in the right direction towards waste reduction, the scheme will require residents to pa...

On Monday's Backchat, we look into the Taxi-Driver-Offence Points Bill.

Gazetted on Friday and set to be introduced into Legco on Wednesday, the proposal comes in light of several incidents involving cabbies, from tourists reportedly overcharged to inc...

On Friday's Backchat, we discuss extreme heat -- as the average world temperature reached a record high of 17.18 degrees on Tuesday. 

The region wasn't spared from this either, with temperatures soaring to 40.9 degrees in Beijing on Wednesday, prompti...

On Thursday's Backchat, we discuss changes in the social media landscape -- ahead of the launch of conversation app Threads by Facebook's parent company Meta.

Available for pre-download starting Thursday, the app has been described as a "Twitter Killer...

On Wednesday's Backchat, we're looking at illegal building structures 

The Buildings Department revealed earlier this week that pieces of concrete that fell from a tall building in Mong Kok on to a busy street on Sunday came from an illegal canopy att...

On Tuesday's Backchat, we're talking about a controversial decision by the US Supreme Court to overturn race-based college admissions in the United States.

The practice, called ‘affirmative action’, has been around for decades and was meant to increas...

On today's Backchat, we gather views on Chief Executive John Lee's one year in office. 

Nominated as sole contender and sworn-in on July 1 last year at a ceremony officiated by President Xi Jinping, the former security chief began his five-year term a...

On Friday's Backchat, we look at construction projects gone wrong — and the repercussions.

A leading construction company in Hong Kong has been fined HK$40,000 for cutting corners while building the Shatin-to-Central Rail Link in 2018.

Leighton Contra...