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South Korea's daily call to a jointly-run liaison office in North Korea has gone unanswered for the first time. The break came days after North Korea said it would pull out of the inter-Korean liaison office, located in the North Korean border city of ...

Three passers-by have been hurt by falling tree branches in Ngau Chi Wan. The two men and one woman were sent for medical treatment. The incident put tree safety under the spotlight, as the rainy season approaches. Jim Gould asked Jim Chi-yung, researc...

As we learned this week, Madeleine McCann, the British girl who disappeared in 2007 in Portugal is "assumed" to be dead, according to German prosecutors. A 43-year-old German man, who media are calling Christian B, but police and prosecutors have not r...

Around a hundred residents of a public housing block in Sha Tin are being evacuated from their homes and sent to quarantine camps as a precaution against Covid-19. Despite earlier telling residents of a housing block at Lek Yuen Estate that it was safe...

Legco has passed the national anthem bill, which makes disrespecting or misusing the national anthem a criminal offence, with offenders liable to fines of up to 50-thousand dollars or three years in prison. The vote this afternoon was 41 for, 1 against...

The Foreign Ministry in Beijing has spoken out against what it sees as British interference in Hong Kong's affairs. This comes after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would offer Hong Kongers with British National (Overseas) passports a rout...