The Law Reform Commission is calling on the government to introduce a new ‘bystander' law to punish people who fail to protect children or vulnerable adults who die or are seriously harmed as a result of abuse, neglect, or any other unlawful act. The g...

China has warned the United States against further harming trade ties after President Donald Trump effectively barred Chinese telecom giant Huawei from the US market, escalating tensions between the world's top economic powerhouses. Foreign ministry sp...

North Korea has said it is suffering its worst drought in 37 years and called on its citizens to "battle" against the crop damage caused by it. It comes after the United Nations said that up to 10 million North Koreans were "in urgent need of food assi...

An infectious diseases specialist says ‘intensive surveillance’ is needed to find if any more people have been infected with a type of hepatitis that had, until last year, been only been found in rodents. Hong Kong University microbiologist Siddharth S...

The Consumer Council says serious improvement is needed among agencies that match foreign domestic helpers with families. The council says they get around 200 complaints a year about such companies, with the most serious alleging deliberate misleading ...

Huawei's CEO Liang Hua says the telecom giant is "willing to sign no-spy agreements with governments" including the UK, following concerns from some countries that China could use products made by the firm for surveillance. The company has denied that ...

There were more scuffles in Legislative Council on Tuesday morning as pan-democrats and pro-government legislators again tried to hold their own versions of the bills committee meeting to vet the government's proposed amendments to the city's extraditi...

A survey by the accounting firm KPMG suggests banks and financial services companies are becoming more cautious about hiring amid escalating trade tensions between China and the United States. Jim Gould asked KPMG’s head of executive search and recruit...