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The Judiciary may extend court hours and reopen an old court building in Tsuen Wan, as part of efforts to handle a large number of cases relating to the social unrest that began last year. But in a statement to legislators, it dismissed suggestions to ...

The Bar Association has written to the Financial Secretary Paul Chan – asking for help for practising barristers during the coronavirus pandemic. The association's chairman, Philip Dykes, says barristers have started to feel the pinch – with no end in ...

Six more types of entertainment venues, including karaoke bars and mahjong parlours, have been ordered to temporarily close or limit their operations, to help fight the coronavirus epidemic. That's after a group of people who went to a karaoke bar in T...

Authorities in the UK say their capacity for Covid-19 testing is being hampered by the limited supply of specific chemicals, but the government is working to increase the number of test centres. That’s having a knock-on effect for NHS staff, many of wh...

Authorities in India have launched an investigation after a group of migrant workers were filmed being doused in a "chemical solution" by officials. They are believed to be migrants who returned to the city of Bareilly, in the northern state of Uttar P...

Hong Kong has seen its worst retail slump on record, plunging 44 percent in February from a year earlier, as the spread of Covid-19 dealt a heavy blow to businesses. Jewellery shops were the hardest hit with sales sinking 78.5 percent. Clothing retaile...

A group representing employers of foreign domestic workers is calling on the government to get rid of pedestrian areas for the time being, to stop helpers from gathering there in large groups. But as Richard Pyne reports, one migrant workers' group say...