The Journalists Association says violence against Hong Kong journalists seems to be increasing on the mainland. Its vice-chairwoman, Shirley Yam, said there have been attacks on two journalists within the past few days alone. She said anything could ha...

The imprisoned former opposition leader in Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim, has been released after a royal pardon. He was jailed for a second time three years ago on what he said were trumped-up charges of sodomy. Mr Anwar was first imprisoned 20 years ago by...

Local scientists and academics have broadly welcomed a newly-announced directive issued by President Xi Jinping ordering state agencies to support Hong Kong's development into an international innovation and technology hub. National-level funding previ...

Former Taiwanese President and Kuomintang chairman, Ma Ying-jeou, has been sentenced to four months in prison after being found guilty of helping to leak classified information. He was originally acquitted in March last year, but faced a new trial afte...

The killing of more than 50 Palestinians in Gaza by Israeli forces has triggered widespread international condemnation. The Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, called the deaths a massacre. France's President Emmanuel Macron condemned the violence, w...

Four months before the high-speed rail link to Guangzhou is scheduled to open, the MTR says it still hasn't cut a deal to ensure that passengers can buy tickets here -- to all destinations on the mainland's high-speed rail network. And even if they man...

The Court of Final Appeal has quashed the convictions of two people who provided a visiting service for prisoners on remand, and brought them things like food and newspapers. Thomas Wan and Guan Qiaoyong were convicted in 2013 of conspiracy to defraud ...

For the second time in two days in Indonesia, a mother and father have included their children in suicide bomb attacks in the port city of Surabaya. The latest blast occurred outside a police station. Keith Loveard, senior risk analyst with Concord Con...