Twenty-two pan-democratic legislators have accused New People's Party lawmaker Regina Ip of being biased towards the government in her capacity as chairwoman of a Legco committee scrutinising the express rail link co-location facility at West Kowloon. ...

A concern group is raising questions over whether local schools are making good use of a HK$200 million-per-year initiative designed to help ethnic minority students learn Chinese. Each school can receive up to HK$1.5 million every year in additional r...

A former journalist has become Australia's new deputy prime minister. Michael McCormack replaces Barnaby Joyce as leader of the Nationals, the governing coalition's junior partner. Joyce resigned last Friday over his affair with a former staffer. Jim G...

Civic Party lawmaker and barrister Dennis Kwok says comments by the Secretary for Justice, Teresa Cheng, dismissing concerns about the legality of the proposed co-location arrangement for the high-speed rail link to Guangdong were “ridiculous” and “con...

The chairperson of the Hong Kong Committee on Children’s Rights has questioned the effectiveness of a new government guidelines intended to identify potential cases of child abuse. The government’s instructed local kindergartens to inform authorities w...

The mainland’s insurance regulatory has announced it will take over the Anbang Insurance Group for the next year, saying the firm’s been engaged in illegal operations that seriously endanger its solvency. The company’s former chairman is being prosecut...

A housing policy thinktank is challenging the powerful rural group, the Heung Yee Kuk, to make their case for the continuation of the controversial small house policy in court, rather than just talking tough. Heung Yee Kuk chairman Kenneth Lau on Thurs...

Most primary school teachers agree that their students have too much homework – but they say they have no choice because that's what the curriculum demands. A survey of more than 400 teachers by the Professional Teachers' Union released on Thursday fou...