Rural leaders have called on the government to help brownfield-site users to continue their businesses in future, when the sites are resumed for development. The government wants to develop Hung Shui Kiu – an area covering about 300 hectares of brownfi...

Cricketer-turned-politician, Imran Khan, and his party are maintaining a commanding lead in the general election in Pakistan amid slow and tedious counting of ballots from a historic election the previous day that was marred by allegations of fraud and...

Civic Party legislator Jeremy Tam says the introduction of a demerit system is a way to deal with errant taxi drivers. He said he wasn’t worried that drivers would be prosecuted for trivial matters, like disputes over small change. Tam said if cameras ...

Unicef Hong Kong says guidelines brought in last year to regulate the marketing behaviour of formula milk companies in the city don't appear to be working. They're meant to stop firms from advertising or promoting their products to parents of children ...

South Korea is sending an emergency relief team to Laos after a partially-built dam collapsed, inundating nearby villages. South Korean companies were involved in the construction project. A local official in southern Laos says about half of the 6,000 ...

The government has been urged to provide owners' corporations at subisidised housing estates with the information they need to work out whether Link Reit has avoided paying its share of maintenance fees. The FactWire news agency recently reported that ...

The Leisure and Cultural Services Department is being urged to clean up public swimming pools, after a survey suggests only one-third of users are happy with the water quality in them. The pro-establishment DAB party said it questioned 1,200 swimmers a...