Political commentator, James Sung, says it is uncertain whether the Labour Party’s Lau Siu-lai would be able to stand in next month’s Legco by-election. Lau is seeking to reclaim the seat she was disqualified from for an invalid oath, and has made stat...

The Hong Kong Red Cross says the full impact of the disaster caused by the earthquake and tsunami on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is still not known. Its senior programme coordinator of the international and relief service department, Karen Poon, ...

A microbiologist says people should not panic over the case of a 56-year-old man who was found infected with a strain of hepatitis E previously found only in rats. Dr Siddharth Sridhar from the University of Hong Kong’s Department of Microbiology said ...

The head of research at property consultancy firm Jones Lang LaSalle, Denis Ma, says he believes a number of factors have caused a fall in home prices for the first time in more than two years. He said they included expectations that mortgage interest ...

Several prominent pro-democracy figures have warned that Beijing is using Hong Kong as a testing ground for its sharp power, as opposed to soft power, before extending these tools to other parts of the world. The activists, including Demosisto's Joshua...

Several medical groups have come together to call on the government to totally ban electronic cigarettes, saying a plan to just regulate sales will lead to an epidemic of teenagers vaping. The warning came from the Medical Association, the Dental Assoc...

It has been almost six years since the Lamma ferry disaster that killed 39 people and injured around 90 others on National Day. While the families of the deceased are still seeking answers to what went wrong, Legco's economic services panel has decided...

The Khmer Rouge Tribunal has set a long-awaited and much-anticipated verdict in the genocide trial of Pol Pot's surviving henchmen for November 16. They will be answering for the deaths of at least 1.7 million Cambodians from 1975 to 1979 in one of the...