Cathay Pacific on Wednesday confirmed its entry into the budget travel market with a deal to buy low-cost carrier Hong Kong Express for HK$4.93 billion. If the deal goes through, it would leave Cathay in control of three of Hong Kong's four passenger a...

Authorities in India have seized more than US$70 million worth of cash, alcohol and illegal drugs under special laws designed to curb vote-buying, ahead of the country's election next month. Since the election was announced on March 10, special laws ha...

Amnesty International on Tuesday said Hong Kong's human rights situation has deteriorated severely over the past year, and the government is using national security as an excuse to limit people's freedoms. In its annual report on the city's human right...

There are now calls to extend the plastic bag levy scheme to include the extra bags given out by bakeries. An environmental group, Green Earth, says many shops in Hong Kong give out more than one bag for each purchase. In 2017, bakeries used more 267 m...

Lawmakers from across the political spectrum on Monday expressed reservations over the government's proposed set of new air quality goals, which would allow more times in a year that the amount of fine suspended particulates can exceed targets. The pro...

As traditional family life undergoes changes and the number of remarriages increases, a veteran social worker said on Monday that children need to be prepared to make the adjustment. The call came from Dr Lau Yuk-king, a consultant at Chinese Universit...

In Thailand the opposition Pheu Thai party linked to former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, said on Monday it will still try to form a government, even though the military-backed Palang Pracharat party won the popular vote in Sunday’s general electi...