The government is looking to add more flats to its already controversial plan to build public housing on 7.2 hectares of greenbelt land in Tseung Kwan O. New documents given to the Sai Kung District Council reveal that the Housing Department now wants ...

The Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, says Teheran will stop implementing some of its commitments under a 2015 nuclear accord if world powers do not fulfill their part of the agreement. Mr Rouhani gave the five countries still committed to the deal –C...

Hong Kong's top justice and security officials have ruled out any changes to government plans to make it legal to transfer fugitives to places with which the city has no formal extradition agreement. Justice Secretary Teresa Cheng and Security chief Jo...

Government plans to introduce 600 premium taxis are putting current cabbies on a collision course with the administration. The aim is to increase competition and improve overall service quality. But more than 40 taxi associations say the proposals are ...

The Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, jailed by Myanmar for breaking the Official Secrets Act, have been unexpectedly freed from prison. The two men had been sentenced in September to seven years' in jail, after investigating the involvement...

The political discord over proposed changes to Hong Kong’s extradition laws took the Legislative Council into uncharted territory on Monday, with the pro-establishment and pro-democracy camps both claiming to have control of the Legco committee tasked ...

China said on Monday that it still plans to send negotiators to the United States for trade talks even after President Donald Trump vowed to raise tariffs later this week, a threat that sent stock markets into a tailspin. Trump upped the ante as negoti...

The pilot of a Russian passenger plane that erupted in a ball of fire on the runway of Moscow's busiest airport, killing 41 people, said on Monday that lightning led to the emergency landing. Investigators are working to understand the causes of the bl...