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The largest Lunar New Year fair in Hong Kong at Victoria Park is usually bustling with activity, but with the city still reeling from months of protest, and facing the new threat of the Wuhan virus, the atmosphere is quite different this year. Our repo...

Mainland authorities are imposing strict travel restrictions in more than dozen cities across Hubei Province, which at the centre of the outbreak of a new respiratory virus that's already killed 26 people. In all, some 40 million residents have been ur...

A transgender soldier in South Korea says she will sue the army after it dismissed her for violating regulations following her sex change. Byun Hui-soo joined the army as a man but had gender reassignment surgery last year after suffering from gender d...

In Wuhan, residents are said to be in a state of near panic... with people making online calls for help and resources after the city was effectively locked down as authorities try to stem the spread of the pneumonia outbreak. As Altis Wong reports, man...

The Consumer Council has urged traders to be socially responsible amid the new virus outbreak, and not to raise the prices of face masks to "outrageous levels". The council inspected shops in Sheung Shui and found big variations in the prices of masks ...

The first batch of people who're deemed to have come into close contact with Hong Kong's first two confirmed Wuhan virus cases, are being sent into quarantine at the Lady Maclehose camp in Sai Kung. But it remains unclear how many of these 'close conta...

Macau has recorded its first infection of the new coronavirus... a 52-year-old woman from Wuhan. Authorities say she spent most of her time at a casino since arriving in the city on Sunday. Annemarie Evans asked Joao Pinto, the Portuguese News and Prog...