A green group is questioning whether a planned glass bottle levy due to come into force next year will be enough meet the government's target of getting manufacturers to reduce glass waste by 80 percent. Lawmakers are still bickering over how exactly t...

A court in South Korea has ruled that the government is partly liable for the botched rescue of more than three hundred people, almost all teenagers, who drowned when their ferry, ‘Sewol’, sank in 2014. The court ordered the state to pay at least US$17...

Shares of mainland smartphone giant Xiaomi rallied to record highs on Wednesday after the local stock exchange said it's working with bourses in Shenzhen and Shanghai to give mainland investors access to the firm's shares, which debuted here last week....

Hong Kong's increasingly unaffordable housing means the overall quality of life in the city got worse last year… according to the latest annual study on the matter by Chinese University. The survey – conducted in September last year – suggests that thi...

The government is considering banning the pro-independence Hong Kong National Party, using a rarely-used law that hasn’t been invoked since the 1997 handover. Secretary for Security John Lee said the group has been given 21 days to respond to the propo...

The government's being urged to adopt a more flexible approach in handling innovative companies like Uber that embrace the concept of the 'sharing economy' – online platforms for the exchange of services and goods. After a court on Tuesday fined 28 Ube...

There's been widespread condemnation of US President Donald Trump's handling of his summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Helsinki. Many leading Republicans and Democrats expressed dismay that Trump had cast doubt on the reliability of US intell...