India's Meteorological Department has warned that further powerful storms are likely in the coming days and over a wider area. More than 140 people are now reported to have died in the dust and thunderstorms that swept through northern India on Wednesd...

The government has set a series of targets in a bid to help prevent Hong Kong people from suffering chronic diseases such as cancer, heart diseases and diabetes. It said these diseases accounted for 25,000 deaths, or more than half of the total number ...

The Executive Director of Research at Kingston Financial Group, Dickie Wong, says Xiaomi’s initial public offering would be one of the biggest this year if it is given approval to list on the Hong Kong stock exchange. He said the company has a bright f...

A prominent new member of Donald Trump's legal team, Rudy Giuliani, says the president personally reimbursed US$130,000 to his long-time lawyer, Michael Cohen, for buying silence of a porn star about an alleged affair with Trump. Stormy Daniels, whose ...

Civic Party lawmaker, Alvin Yeung, has warned that the Hong Kong government could one day change the facts surrounding the Beijing massacre in 1989. He said if it can erase any mention of a “handover of sovereignty” in official wording, and that Hong K...

An alliance of environmental groups says the vast majority of the public want the government to protect the Nam Sang Wai bird watching site in Yuen Long, which has been affected by a series of fires recently. The groups said they carried out a survey o...

The most senior Roman Catholic to be charged with sexual abuse, Cardinal George Pell, has pleaded not guilty in an Australian court. Cardinal Pell, who's treasurer of the Vatican, is facing offences dating from the 1970s and 1990s when he was a priest ...