Medical Association member Leung Chi-chiu says a HK$500mn-cash injection the government is giving the Hospital Authority to help local hospitals cope with a surge in patients, may have come too late. The money is to be used to hire part-time doctors an...

A Legco panel has voted down a motion of no confidence in the Secretary for Justice, Teresa Cheng, over her handling of a controversial case involving former Chief Executive CY Leung. The motion, tabled by legal-sector representative Dennis Kwok, was d...

The government has relaxed the criteria for its unpopular tax-concession scheme aimed at getting people to replace their old petrol cars with new electric ones, but the changes have left critics unconvinced. Only around 300 drivers have taken advantage...

China analyst Willy Lam says the international spotlight on human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang may have contributed to the length of his 4½ year prison term, handed down by a Tianjin court on Monday. The lawyer, who was convicted of subversion, also ha...

The Society for Community Organisation (Soco) has urged the government to start subsidising physiotherapy for elderly people to help prevent them from having a fall. It says it recently assessed the more than 100 older people, to check their ability to...

The Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido ha said he would consider granting amnesty to President Nicolas Maduro and his allies if they help return Venezuela to democracy. Guaido has declared himself interim president – and has been recognised as su...

The government on Thursday told all of the SAR's hundreds of kindergartens and childcare centres to bring forward their Lunar New Year holidays to Saturday - a week ahead of schedule - to help prevent the influenza virus from spreading even further. Al...