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A concern group has appealed to the Chief Executive Carrie Lam to withdraw her controversial Lantau Tomorrow Vision plan in her upcoming Policy Address. The Save Lantau Alliance says a HK$550mn funding request for a study relating to the project should...

More than three dozen people have died and many are still missing after Typhoon Hagibis pummelled Japan over the weekend. Over a hundred thousand emergency workers including soldiers have been deployed across the country and have been carrying out reco...

The government is planning to spend HK$10 billion on four subsidy schemes relating to building rehabilitation. The Development Bureau says the proposals are not meant to ease social tensions, but it surely wouldn't hurt if they did. For one, it's looki...

Around 20 taxi, truck and coach drivers have demonstrated outside police headquarters to demand tougher action against anti-government protesters. The drivers say their incomes have fallen by up to 30 percent, and they fear for their personal safety af...

The Ethiopian prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize for helping to end the 20-year-old conflict with neighbouring Eritrea. Ahmed Soliman is a Research Fellow from the Africa Programme at Chatham House - an international affa...

In Taiwan, President Tsai Ing-wen says the biggest consensus among its 23 million people is the rejection of One Country, Two Systems being implemented on the island, citing what she called the "failure" of the principle in Hong Kong. Speaking on Doubl...

Education sector lawmaker Ip Kin-yuen says schools should urge young students not to go the front line of protests - because it's simply too dangerous. There's been an increase in the number of youngsters arrested by the police in recent weeks, and som...

Apple has removed a smartphone app from its online store that had allowed protesters here in Hong Kong to track police movements. The tech giant is the latest firm to come under pressure from Beijing in the months-long unrest. Separately, the National ...