A vice-chairman of the pro-establishment DAB party, Horace Cheung, says the magistrate who sentenced retired police superintendent Frankly Chu had the option of ordering him to perform community service. Cheung, who is also a solicitor and a lawmaker, ...

A Hong Kong tourist has died and another has been injured while climbing South Africa's Table Mountain. A South African mountain guide also died in the fall on New Year's Day. The Immigration Department and the Chinese consulate in Cape Town say they'r...

South Korea's unification ministry says North Korea has restored the hotline between the two governments, making a call on Wednesday afternoon, local time. The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, ordered the reactivation after an almost two-year suspensi...

A political analyst has warned that Chief Executive Carrie Lam’s popularity rating may take a hit if she continues to reject criticism against the co-location plan at the West Kowloon Station. Ma Ngok from the Chinese University said the middle-class a...

The Hang Seng Index has kicked off 2018 with a bang. It rose to a 10-year high and finished the first trading session of the year above the 30,000-point mark. The Chief Executive of GEO Securities, Francis Lun, told Priscilla Ng that an influx of hot m...

State television in Iran says clashes overnight between protesters and security forces have killed nine people. That's raised the number of dead in six days of anti-government protests across the country to more than 20. And more than 450 people have r...

Pro-government figures have attacked the Bar Association for warning that Beijing has "irreparably breached" the integrity of the Basic Law with its approval of the controversial co-location plan for the West Kowloon Station. Former justice secretary E...