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University of Hong Kong researchers are warning that the territory is facing its highest risk yet of a sustained coronavirus outbreak, with people letting down their guard just as a large number of people return from infected places abroad. A record 48...

Australia and New Zealand will seal their borders to try to choke off the rise in coronavirus infections. Australia’s national airline Qantas has also announced it will ground all international flights because of the pandemic. RTHK’s Australia correspo...

The government is being urged to make of idle hotel rooms, and possibly other venues, to quarantine people returning to Hong Kong from overseas. A public health expert says this would help prevent a surge in coronavirus infections among family members....

Marine biologists are warning that sea life, and the industries that rely on them, could collapse because of more extreme marine heatwaves, like the one in 2016 that ‘bleached’ the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. An international team of scientists ha...

The European Union has imposed a ban on travellers from outside the bloc for a month, in an unprecedented move to seal its borders as the coronavirus crisis escalates. The measure applies to 26 EU states as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Sw...

The government says a study of brownfield sites in Yuen Long, Tuen Mun and Tai Po has found 36 hectares of land it believes can be used to build more than 20,000 public flats in as little as ten years. But a think tank, the Liber Research Community, sa...

China analyst Mark O'Neill says the SAR government has been "backed into a corner" by Beijing's sudden decision to expel at least 13 American journalists from the country – including Hong Kong and Macau. Opposition politicians say the move undermines p...