The Executive Director of Green Earth says he is disappointed that the government has postponed its plan to start charging people for disposing their household rubbish by at least a year, until the end of 2020. Edwin Lau said the plan has already been ...

Home prices fell for a second straight month in September and at a much faster pace than August. New government data showed that prices of private residential flats declined by 1.4 percent in September -- far higher than a fall of just 0.1 percent in t...

Pakistan's Supreme Court has overturned the conviction of a Christian woman who had been sentenced to death for blasphemy. The judges ruled that Aasia Bibi should be released. Her case dates back to 2009 when she was working in a field and was asked to...

The chairman of the Finance Committee has defended his comments that a government request for funds for a feasibility study on building massive artificial islands off Lantau could be passed within 20 hours. Chan Kin-por said over the weekend that he wa...

The speaker of Sri Lanka's parliament has warned that the country's unfolding political crisis threatens to turn into a "bloodbath" unless order is restored. It comes after President Maithripala Sirisena sacked the cabinet, suspended parliament and rep...

The renowned Chinese novelist, Louis Cha, has died. He was 94. Better known by his pen name, Jin Yong, he authored many martial arts novels that were adapted into TV dramas and video games. Some of his famous works included The Legend of the Condor Her...

The Indonesian authorities say all 189 passengers and crew aboard a crashed Lion Air jet were "likely" killed in the accident. The Boeing-737 MAX, which went into service just months ago, vanished from radar 13 minutes after taking off from Jakarta, pl...

A new study suggests that people in Hong Kong have 'poor' mental health, and working more than nine hours a day makes the situation significantly worse. A coalition consisting of government departments and NGOs commissioned the study, and researchers f...