A fleet of speedboats have been ferrying thousands of stranded passengers from Kansai International Airport near Osaka which was cut off by a powerful typhoon that hit Japan on Tuesday. The airport lost its link to the mainland when high waves and stro...

Civic Party lawmaker, Tanya Chan, says she was surprised that there is an extra basement at the West Kowloon express rail terminus. She said she had always understood there were only four basement-levels there. Chan said she has since gone through gove...

The High Court has jailed a man for six-years-and-four-and-a-half months for physically abusing his newborn daughter. Chung Kei-yuen, who is aged 26, slapped and shook the baby girl on three occasions in December 2016 after his sleep was interrupted by...

The flood-hit south Indian state of Kerala has declared a health alert after 11 people died of leptospirosis or rat fever over the past two days. The government has asked everyone who came into contact with flood waters to take medication as a precauti...

An academic says the comments being made by officials and students on the option of independence for Hong Kong is not going to be productive. Dr Cheung Chor-yung from City University’s department of public policy said it could result in a vicious cycle...

A court in Myanmar has sentenced two journalists from the Reuters news agency to seven years in prison each, after finding them guilty of violating a state secrecy law. The journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, said they were framed by police because o...

A law professor says it is disappointing that the Hong Kong government has rejected a United Nation call to pass legislation to improve protection for refugees. The administration has said that the territory was a densely populated city that was partic...