North Korea has said that it will never sit down for talks with South Korea again. In a blistering statement, the North said it was an illusion for Seoul to expect talks to resume after the South's joint military exercises with the United States. And i...

Labour Party legislator Fernando Cheung says the government's surprise HK$19 billion relief package for local residents and businesses won't do anything to quell the weeks-long anti-extradition protests here. Taxpayers, parents, welfare recipients and ...

The government's relief package comes as the tourism trade complains of a massive drop in business over the past several weeks. The Travel Industry Council says the situation is worse now than when the SARs epidemic hit in 2003. Council chairman Jason ...

The Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, has described the decision to revoke Kashmir's autonomy as a major achievement of his government, within weeks of its re-election. In a nationwide broadcast to mark India's independence day, Modi defended his d...

Airport operations returned to a semblance of normalcy on Wednesday as new restrictions imposed on people entering the terminal succeeded in vastly cutting down the number of protesters there. Hundreds of flights were cancelled on Monday and Tuesday as...

Britain's former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, has accused government advisers of making it inevitable that Britain will leave the European Union without a deal. He said that insisting that the Irish backstop should go in its entirety wa...

The Civil Human Rights Front – which has organised major rallies against the extradition bill – is planning another march this Sunday. This one is protesting against the actions of police, who've been accused of using excessive force towards protesters...