The Education Policy Concern Organisation says there should be no room for brainwashing students or hiding historical facts from them in a revised secondary school curriculum that’s the subject of a public consultation. Its chairman Mervyn Cheung told ...

A prominent mainland human rights lawyer and activist Jiang Tianyong has been sentenced to two years in jail for inciting subversion of state power. Prosecutors said he had used social media platforms to denigrate the government and judicial authoritie...

A former assistant director of Social Welfare Rachel Cartland says one of the ways to help people living in poverty is by building more public rental flats so that they would at least have a roof over their heads. She says once this is done, welfare pa...

WWF-Hong Kong has unveiled the territory's first solar powered mobile cafe, which will embark on a citywide tour promoting the adoption of renewable energy policies. It will make stops at the Education University and University of Science and Technolog...

Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi says the world is facing instability and conflict in part because illegal immigration spreads terrorism, as her country faces accusations of violently pushing out hundreds of thousands of unwanted Rohingya Mus...

The number of poor people in Hong Kong hit a record high of 1.35 million last year, meaning one in five are now living below the poverty line. The government says an increase in the number of poor elderly people is to blame. And Chief Secretary Matthew...

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has made his first public appearance since the military put him under house arrest this week. The 93 year-old attended a graduation ceremony in the capital Harare, even as the military announced "significant progress"...

Hong Kong and Beijing will sign an agreement on Saturday on setting up joint immigration facilities at the West Kowloon terminus of the express rail link – days after Legco gave its blessing to the controversial plan. The agreement is the first of a th...