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An infectious disease expert says the government's move to give health authorities the legal power to force people who may have been exposed to a mystery illness from Wuhan to be isolated or quarantined, will be 'useful' in limiting the possible spread...

Psychiatrists say the ongoing protest movement has taken a toll on the mental health of many Hong Kong people. The Hong Kong College of Psychiatrists polled around 800 people between October and December, and more than half of them said they felt helpl...

Tension has soared between Iran and the United States, after Iran's top general was killed in an American air strike in Iraq, near Baghdad's airport. Tehran has now promised "harsh retaliation" for the death of General Qasem Soleimani. Professor Paul R...

A lawyer says police seem to have changed their tactics in dealing with the anti-government unrest. Daniel Wong has been volunteering to help arrested protesters since June. He says the mass arrests on New Year's Day in Causeway Bay for illegal assembl...

Several members of the Civil Rights Observers were among those arrested in Causeway Bay on Wednesday. Ben Tse asked the group's Icarus Wong what he made of the arrests.

A woman has been placed in isolation at Tuen Mun Hospital after falling sick following a visit to Wuhan, where officials are battling an outbreak caused by a SARS-like virus. Frances Sit has more.

Police have denied making arbitrary arrests in Causeway Bay on Wednesday after the New Year's Day pro-democracy march came to an abrupt end. More than a third of some 460 people detained at the scene have now been released unconditionally. Timmy Sung h...