Newswrap

The billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg is strongly considering entering the race for the Democratic Party presidential nomination. He is expected to file paperwork this week ahead of a deadline for the Democratic presidential primary in Alabama....

Many across the city are mourning the death of 22-year-old HKUST student Chow Tsz-lok, who passed away at Queen Elizabeth Hospital on Friday morning after being found grevously wounded at a Tseung Kwan O carpark on Sunday night. Students, supports and ...

A veteran pro-democracy activist, Lee Cheuk-yan, has accused the Carrie Lam administration of suppressing political expression, after it was revealed that virtually everyone but florists will be banned from bidding for a stall at next year’s Lunar New ...

A group of political scientists and activists are urging the government to make public its contingency plans on dealing with possible violence during the District Council elections later this month. The Election Observation Project says a high degree o...

Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte’s nomination of one of his biggest critics to help lead his controversial war on drugs came as a shock to some, but Leni Robredo’s acceptance of the offer appears to have caught many off guard. Robredo, the country...

Pro-Beijing lawmaker Junius Ho was stabbed in the chest on Wednesday morning while campaigning for the upcoming District Council elections in Tuen Mun - in an attack he said marked the "darkest day" of the campaign. Ho escaped serious injury, saying hi...

Campaigning in the UK's general election officially got underway on Wednesday, after parliament formally closed down overnight. The Conservative prime minister, Boris Johnson, and the leader of the main opposition party, Jeremy Corbyn, were both set to...