Researchers at the Polytechnic University say they've invented a new spectacle lens that can help slow the progress of short-sightedness, or myopia, in children. They tested out the new lens on 79 short-sighted children aged between 8 and 13 and found ...

Scientists at Hong Kong University have successfully tested out the effectiveness of a type of heart medicine – without having to actually give the drug to any patient. Instead, they took skin cells from a group of patients who suffer from a rare hered...

It's emerged that the director of the CIA, Mike Pompeo recently travelled to North Korea to meet with leader Kim Jong Un – a highly unusual, secret visit undertaken as the two sides prepared for a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Kim withi...

Political analyst Ma Ngok says it seems there is an internal struggle going on between the Hong Kong and central governments on whether to enact national security legislation in the city as quickly as possible. He said Beijing appears to be pressuring ...

The lawmaker representing the education sector Ip Kin-yuen says the government has corrected what he called a “detrimental wrong” by deciding to bring back a subsidy to help public schools get their students into reading. He said the abolition of the a...

The government is proposing that the territory's two power companies buy back renewable energy generated by private producers at between HK$3 and HK$5 for each unit. Smaller producers will receive a higher tariff. The level of tariffs will remain uncha...

One of South Korea's most famous actresses Choi Eun-hee has died at the age of 91. Known as the queen of South Korean cinema from the 1950s to the 1970s, she appeared in more than 100 films. In 1978, she was abducted in Hong Kong by North Korean spies ...

The Consumer Council says it has found that 18 margarine brands available in Hong Kong contain the chemical genotoxic carcinogen glycidol which has been linked to cancer. No international threshold has been set for the chemical but European authorities...