The chairwoman of the Hong Kong Committee on Children’s Rights, Priscilla Lui, says more help needs to be given to parents who are inadequately supported and unprepared for caring for children. She said latest government statistics that showed a rise i...

Turkish and Russian officials are meeting in Iran for talks on the future of Syria’s war. Turkey aims to avert a ground offensive by Syrian troops against rebels in Idlib province. Russian commanders have reportedly threatened to attack militants in an...

The Town Planning Board will decide on Friday whether a shopping centre near the border, The Boxes, will go out of business. Many tenants have already pulled out, and the few remaining shops have said they are struggling to stay afloat because there ha...

An architect says with modern technology, it was unlikely an artificial island would encounter the flooding seen at Kansai International Airport in Osaka in the wake of Typhoon Jebi. Thousands of passengers were stranded after the airport -- built on r...

In a historic verdict, India's Supreme Court has ruled that gay sex between consenting adults is legal. A five-judge bench was unanimous in its decision to end the legislation that categorised gay sex as an "unnatural offence". They said a controversia...

Hong Kong Customs have reported a dramatic increase in the number of smuggling cases involving endangered species in the first eight months of this year. Officers handled more than 500 cases - an increase of 80 per cent. The number of people arrested m...

A former assistant director of Social Welfare, Rachel Cartland, is calling for national security legislation to prevent the government from using a range of different ad-hoc measures against political figures. She said it was essential to put in place ...