The English Schools Foundation said on Friday that children entering their kindergartens from August 2020 will have guaranteed spots at their primary and secondary schools. Children will need to undergo an initial assessment on whether they are suitabl...

Pro-democracy lawmakers Shiu Ka-chun and Fernando Cheung on Friday called for the Ombudsman to set up a new unit to deal with complaints from prison inmates, and conduct spot checks in the city's jails. They said the prison service's current practice o...

Britain announced on Friday it was granting formal diplomatic protection to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian dual national detained in Iran. The Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, said he'd decided to afford her this status because Iran had ...

Mainland telecoms giant Huawei announced on Thursday it had filed a lawsuit against the United States government for restricting it from doing business there, calling the ban unconstitutional. Huawei has also accused the American Congress of acting......

The MTR Corporation on Thursday announced a management reshuffle. The head of the Lingnan University Council, Rex Au Yeung, will become the railway company's new chairman, replacing Frederick Ma in July. Its current managing director, Dr Jacob Kam, wil...

Researchers at Chinese University have found that a drug used to treat depression can also help people suffering from a common digestive problem. In a three-month study, 55 people who have functional dyspepsia were given low doses of an anti-depressant...

A migrant workers' group says it's sceptical of a government proposal to start training foreign domestic helpers to work as caregivers in subsidised elderly care homes. Executive Councillor and Elderly Commission Chairman Lam Ching-choi says a pilot sc...

Activity has been detected at a North Korean long-range rocket site, suggesting Pyongyang may be rebuilding the facility. Analysis of satellite imagery suggests the rebuilding of the site may have started even before last week's summit in Hanoi between...