A new study has found there has been a dramatic increase in mammal skins being shipped from Africa to Asia, especially Hong Kong and mainland China. The trade – mostly Cape fur seals hunted in Namibia – grew from nearly 2,000 skins in 2007 to a peak of...

A Russian man convicted in Moscow of spying for Britain is critically ill in hospital in England, after being exposed to an unknown substance. Sergei Skripal, who's 66, was granted refuge in the UK following a spy swap between the US and Russia back in...

A China analyst believes Beijing is tightening its grip on Hong Kong. Professor David Zweig said Premier Li Keqiang didn’t mention phrases like ‘Hong Kong people ruling Hong Kong’ and ‘high degree of autonomy’ in his work report to the National People’...

A survey by the University of Hong Kong has found that women in the city reported having more stress in their lives over the past year, compared with men. Researchers polled 1,500 people by phone and found over half of them experienced at least one str...

For the first time since the end of the Vietnam War, the US has sent an aircraft carrier to the country. The nuclear-powered USS Carl Vinson is anchoring off Danang -- the central Vietnamese port where American combat troops first landed 53 years ago t...

The Confederation of Trade Unions says the government's shown 'some commitment' to abolish the controversial MPF offsetting mechanism by setting aside HK$15 billion in its new budget for the move. That's substantially more than the HK$7.9 billion the p...

A new survey commissioned by the Equal Opportunities Commission suggests that local women are likely do nothing if they're sexually harassed at work. Forty-five percent of local women who said they've been harassed told researchers they did nothing; co...

China's steel industry has said US President Donald Trump's decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminium imports is "stupid". And as stocks around the world plunged on fears of a possible trade war, the foreign ministry warned that global trade wo...