Migrant domestic workers have been left disappointed by the government's lack of response to their requests during a meeting at the Labour Department. Employee groups had called for their minimum monthly wage to be raised by 25 percent to HK$5,500, for...

U.S. President Donald Trump says that sanctions re-imposed on Iran were the "most biting ever". He wrote in a tweet that they will be ratcheted up to another level in November. Trump also stated that anyone doing business with Iran will not be doing bu...

Indonesia has sent rescuers fanning out across the holiday island of Lombok and evacuated hundreds of tourists after a powerful earthquake killed at least 90 people and damaged thousands of buildings. The shallow 6.9-magnitude quake sparked terror amon...

A political commentator says the government is trying to send a political message to the public by objecting to the decision of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club to invite Chan Ho-tin to give a speech there on August 14. Professor Ma Ngok said Chan, who...

Indonesia has sent rescuers fanning out across the holiday island of Lombok and evacuated hundreds of tourists after a powerful earthquake killed at least 90 people and damaged thousands of buildings. The shallow 6.9-magnitude quake sparked terror amon...

Engineer Albert Lai says the most worrying thing about subsidence at MTR stations is the lack of disclosure about what is going on. But he said he doesn't think any safety issues have arisen at this stage. Lai’s comments came after the MTR Corporation ...

The High Court has dismissed a judicial review by a transgender woman who complained that police and prison officers had wrongly treated her as a man, by sending male officers to strip search her and putting her in a male prison. The case was brought b...

South Korea is battling with what's been described as a spy porn epidemic. Hidden cameras and phones capture mostly women in a state of undress in changing rooms and bathrooms and the videos are posted online. Thousands of women will protest in the str...