The chairman of the Education Policy Concern Organisation, Mervyn Cheung, says the number of so-called "cross-border children" attending Hong Kong schools could drop further, following a decision by Shenzhen authorities to allow them to study there. Th...

A community organiser with the Society for Community Organisation, Sze Lai-shan, says she doesn't think immigrants from the mainland are putting pressure on public housing in Hong Kong. She says only a small number of them apply, while some others are ...

Australia's highest court has begun hearing legal challenges against a national vote on same-sex marriage. The government plans to hold a non-binding postal survey from next week - to gauge support for changing the country's law to allow same-sex marri...

An independent fund has been set up to support 16 pro-democracy activists recently jailed for unlawful assembly offences. The fund already has HK$2.5 million that was raised when tens of thousands of people staged a rally last month in support of those...

The Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development, Edward Yau, has urged the former and future operators of the Observation Wheel in Central to ensure a smooth transition. The Ferris wheel stopped running after the former operator, Swiss AEX, lost ou...

RTHK's correspondent in Seoul, Frank Smith, says North Korea is developing weapons like the hydrogen bomb because it wants to deter the United States from launching an attack against it. He says Pyongyang views American policy towards it as aggressive....

University of Hong Kong law professor, Simon Young, says lawmakers would have to be mindful when they enact local legislation to implement the national anthem law. He says they will have to ensure that it complies with the territory's human rights fram...

There are 28,000 children born in Hong Kong to non-local parents travelling every day from Shenzhen to attend schools in the territory. But the International Social Service's Hong Kong Branch thinks their parents will not choose Shenzhen as the place t...