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A Cathay Dragon union leader on Friday said she had been dismissed after airline managers asked her to confirm that she made certain private posts on social media. Rebecca Sy, who led the Hong Kong Dragon Airlines Flight Attendants’ Association, said s...

Indonesia is deploying hundreds more security personnel to contain unrest in its eastern provinces of Papua and West Papua. It follows several days of violent protests - apparently triggered by allegations that Papuan students in East Java were raciall...

The DAB party says a specific law is needed as soon as possible to tackle the problem of upskirt photography. A survey the party conducted recently of 615 women showed about 10 percent had experienced this, but only a small percentage of them had made ...

A vice-chairman of the Independent Police Complaints Council has defended officers who failed to display identification numbers on their uniforms when dealing with protesters over the past two months. Christopher Cheung said by not wearing ID tags, off...

Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Roman Catholic cleric to be found guilty of sexual abuse, has lost his appeal against his conviction in Australia. The former Vatican treasurer was found guilty last December of sexually abusing two choir boys in t...

Civic Party lawmaker and pilot Jeremy Tam has expressed concern that more companies will be pressured by Beijing over the ongoing extradition protests. He resigned from Cathay Pacific on Tuesday, hoping to calm what he described as the storm surroundin...

A number of pro-Beijing figures have formed a concern group against school bullying, amid society's polarisation because of the extradition bill controversy. The group has cited online messages targeting the children of police officers. Annemarie Evans...