Home prices are continuing to hit record levels, rising for the 17th straight month in August, and prompting an official warning that the market may be overheated. Private property prices have gone up by more than 10 percent since the start of this yea...

The new director of Beijing's liaison office, Wang Zhimin, says there's no room for Hong Kong independence "anywhere in the world". He said Chinese people have zero tolerance for the idea - and that's not just on Chinese soil. Mr Wang also stressed tha...

A rush-hour stampede at a railway station in India's financial hub, Mumbai, has resulted in a number of deaths and dozens of injuries. Local hospitals say at least 22 people have been killed on a pedestrian bridge linking the Elphinstone Road and Parel...

A survey by the Open University suggests most people in Hong Kong are willing to pay more tax if the money is used to fund a universal pension scheme. The university's School of Arts and Social Sciences says it surveyed about 1,800 people between June ...

US President Donald Trump has set out plans for what he says will be the largest tax cuts in American history. He said he wants to make tax codes simpler and fairer, bringing back jobs and wealth to the US. The president announced tax cuts for business...

A social work professor from Chinese University has urged the government to relax eligibility criteria for its low-income working family allowance, as the scheme is benefiting far fewer households than expected. The scheme was supposed to benefit 200,0...

Former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra has been sentenced to five years in prison for her involvement in a rice subsidy scheme introduced by her government. But Yingluck wasn't in court to hear the verdict -- she fled the country last month, ju...