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The Diploma of Secondary Education exams began today, after being delayed for about a month due to the coronavirus. Social distancing was in place, and a handful of students only passed their temperature checks after a few tries with one student having...

Pan-democratic district councillor Lester Shum has dismissed an offer by the new Home Affairs Secretary, Caspar Tsui, to meet with councillors from all sides to listen to their views. The former student leader told RTHK's Ben Tse the government has bee...

A mainland journalist who was chased and then detained in Wuhan – the centre of the country's virus outbreak – has reappeared after almost two months. Li Zehua broadcast the chase and his detention by police on the February 26, and had not been seen pu...

Human rights activists have renewed calls for an independent investigation into police treatment of medics in Hong Kong. That's after United Nations investigators to Beijing detailed their 'serious concerns' over what they described as the harassment, ...

Facebook has said it is investing 5.7 billion US dollars in cut-price Indian mobile internet company Reliance Jio, which is owned by the country's richest person Mukesh Ambani. The deal makes the social network the largest minority shareholder in the t...

Political commentator Chung Kim-wah says a reported cabinet reshuffle by the Carrie Lam administration appears to be the latest move in Beijing's broader strategy on dealing with Hong Kong. There've been widespread reports that mainland affairs ministe...