The legislator representing the health services sector has welcomed extra funding for the Hospital Authority to hire more staff to deal with the winter flu peak. Joseph Lee, who is also the chairman of the Association of Hong Kong Nursing Staff, said t...

Police in the Indian capital Delhi have arrested a 28-year-old man after he allegedly raped his 8-month-old cousin. Reports said the girl is in critical condition in a local hospital, where she was bought after the incident on Sunday. Police said the b...

Executive Councillor Ronny Tong says he is frankly relieved that ousted lawmaker Edward Yiu has been cleared by election authorities to run in the LegCo by-election in March. He said pan-democrats would probably be able to retain their Hong Kong Island...

The Australian government has announced a strategy to become one of the top 10 defence industry exporting countries within a decade through arms sales to other countries. It will create a US$3.1 billion fund to lend to exporters that banks are reluctan...

An academic has warned that mass protests could erupt in Hong Kong if two pro-democracy candidates are barred from standing in the Legco by-election in March. Chung Kim-wah, Deputy Director of the Centre for Social Policy Studies at the Polytechnic Uni...

The environmental group WWF has called on the territory's two power companies to buy back clean electricity generated by the community at HK$4 per kilowatt hour. Under the new Scheme of Control Agreement that will take effect later this year and next y...

The South Korean government has ordered an investigation into a fire that swept through a hospital, killing around 40 people. About 130 others were injured. The blaze, in the city of Miryang, was the worst in a decade. RTHK’s Seoul correspondent Frank ...