Pro-establishment lawmaker Holden Chow says the public has nothing to fear from the proposed national anthem law. The DAB legislator said only people who go out of their way to disrespect the "March of the Volunteers" will be charged under the proposed...

A regional director at the Economist Intelligence Unit says there's been an erosion of democracy in Hong Kong in recent years. The SAR has slipped two positions in the EIU's annual global democracy index, to 73 out of the 167 territories that were rate...

At least one man has died, and several others were injured, in a fire on a 17,000-tonne oil tanker south of Lamma Island. Rescue workers plucked crew members from the sea around the Aulac Fortune, as plumes of smoke billowed from the damaged vessel and...

An independent committee says there's a "wholly insufficient" emphasis on safety, both in Hong Kong law and among bus operators. The committee was set up after one of the city's deadliest bus crashes in February last year, to look into bus safety. It's...

Several journalist organisations have held talks with Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung, calling for the government to uphold press freedom in light of a growing number of "red lines" imposed by Beijing. The chairman of the Hong Kong Journalists Associati...

Political commentator Chung Kim-wah says Chief Executive Carrie Lam might have been overstating things a bit when she said she'd brought "fundamental changes" to the subsidised housing market by de-linking the cost of Home Ownership Scheme flats from m...

A gender studies expert is urging the government not to rule out asking people about their sexual orientation in the next population census in 2021. The Commissioner for Census and Statistics, Leslie Tang, on Monday told legislators that authorities ha...

Authorities in Thailand say the young Saudi woman who has barricaded herself in a hotel room at Bangkok airport won't be sent anywhere against her wishes, and will be allowed to meet UN officials. Eighteen-year-old Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun said she was ...