The government is asking Legco to approve an extra HK$330 million to set up automated toll booths at a new tunnel being built between Tseung Kwan O and Lam Tin. It would be the first tunnel in Hong Kong to only have automated toll collection. There won...

The wife of former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn has said he is suffering under "harsh treatment" in a Japanese jail, where he has been detained for nearly two months. In a letter to Human Rights Watch, Carole Ghosn described constant interrogations and app...

The Confederation of Trade Unions says the city's minimum wage levels should be reviewed every year – instead of the current two years – as low-income workers are still struggling to earn enough to live on. The Executive Council has endorsed a wage ris...

The environmental group Clean Air Network says the government needs to start treating the city's roadside air quality as more of a public health emergency, after the latest official data showed high levels of Nitrogen Dioxide and rising levels of Ozone...

There was a bit of a rare scene at the Chief Executive's question-time in Legco on Thursday, as Carrie Lam rowed with pro-government legislators over an unpopular change to elderly welfare payments. Starting next month, the age of welfare recipients wh...

The Medical Council has been debating whether elderly doctors should be required to take tests to make sure they're physically and mentally fit to continue practising medicine. Members did not reach a consensus on the issue at a meeting on Wednesday, b...

Campaigners in Australia have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to help free Aboriginal women jailed for being unable to pay fines. Western Australia is the nation's only state that regularly jails people for unpaid fines, often on minor crimes. ...