US President Donald Trump says there's "excitement in the air" ahead of his unprecedented summit with the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Tuesday. The two are already in Singapore for the meeting which is designed to prevent a nuclear confrontation....

A rescue ship carrying more than 600 migrants, including dozens of children, is stranded in the Mediterranean between Malta and Italy because the two countries are arguing about which of them should let it dock. Italy's new interior minister, Matteo Sa...

Legco's House Committee has rejected a proposal to use the council's special powers to probe the corner-cutting saga of the MTR Corporation's Shatin-to-Central link. The motion was moved by Civic Passion’s Cheng Chung-tai over the shortening of steel r...

The European Union recently proposed a ban on single-use plastic products such as straws, cutlery and plates. The director of strategy at the European Commission's environment section Astrid Schomaker is in Hong Kong, in part to talk about the EU's pla...

A member of the Citizens Task Force on Land Resources Tom Yam says the administration is not carrying out a genuine survey on land supply. The government's Land Supply Task Force has laid out 18 options in the survey, as part of its ongoing five-month ...

A proposal by Tencent to create an electronic identification system aimed at making border crossings smoother between Hong Kong, Macau and Guangdong has raised privacy concerns. The internet giant said it was working with the mainland government to dev...

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is in Washington for last-minute talks with Donald Trump, just days before the US President meets North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Abe's visit is part of a surge of diplomacy ahead of the unprecedented summit in Singap...