Health Secretary Sophia Chan on Thursday said she welcomes any plan that would make it easier for foreign doctors to work in Hong Kong, as the Medical Council moves to restart discussions on various proposals that it dismissed just last week. The counc...

The number of black-faced spoonbills around the world has topped 4-thousand 4-hundred, according to this year's international census. Taiwan contributed to half of the number. And the mainland also saw its number rise by a third to 990. A research mana...

The people of India are voting in the first phase of a mammoth general election, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking a second term. The first phase of voting covers an electorate of 142 million across 20 states, who will decide the fate of 91 can...

Health Secretary Sophia Chan on Wednesday opened Hong Kong's first public columbarium for aborted or miscarried foetuses. The facility in Fanling has 300 urn spaces, and there's an area where parents can place memorial stones. Miscarried or aborted foe...

The Our Hong Kong Foundation on Wednesday said foreign doctors should be allowed to practice in the SAR full time without passing an exam - as long as they work for some years in public hospitals. The think tank, founded by former chief executive Tung ...

With almost all the votes counted on Wednesday in Israel's election, the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was looking set to form another government. Although his Likud party was in a tie with the centrist Blue and White alliance headed by a former ...

Nine pro-democracy figures linked to the 2014 Occupy movement were on Tuesday found guilty of at least some of the nuisance-related charges they faced. Each charge carries a maximum sentence of seven years in jail. A District Court judge made it clear ...