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Credit rating agency Fitch has downgraded its sovereign rating for Hong Kong from 'AA+' to 'AA', and revised its outlook for the city to "negative". Fitch says Hong Kong has been rocked by "months of persistent conflict and violence", challenging the O...

After years of speculation and debate, Indonesia announced last week that it will be moving its capital from Jakarta to East Kalimantan, nearly 1,300 kilometres away. Jakarta has become crowded and polluted and is sinking at an alarming rate. East Kali...

The Chief Executive, Carrie Lam, has dismissed criticism that her decision to officially withdraw the contentious extradition bill was too little, too late. Lam stressed that her announcement came just in time to lay the foundation for her government t...

Indian-administered Kashmir has been under an unprecedented lockdown for the past month, after India revoked a special constitutional status dating back nearly 70 years. Since India's partition and the creation of Pakistan in 1947, India and neighbouri...

A medical society on Wednesday said the government should offer people free bone density scans to look for signs of osteoporosis - a condition where bones become brittle and can easily break. Dr Wong Sze-hung, president of the Osteoporosis Society of H...

Before the announcement by Chief Executive Carrie Lam that the extradition bill was being formally withdrawn, Annemarie Evans spoke to Sealing Cheng, a member of the Mothers Group that supports young anti-extradition protesters, and asked her if she fe...

The Chief Executive, Carrie Lam, has formally withdrawn the extradition bill. In a televised speech on Wednesday evening, Lam said she hopes the bill's withdrawal will help alleviate the public's concern that the law could be "revived". But she ruled o...