An editor at Macau's TDM station, Joao Pinto, says people in Macau don’t seem to realise how much devastation a typhoon can cause. He says the enclave hasn’t been hit by a strong typhoon like Hato for the past two to three decades, and the people livin...

The vice-chairman of Legco ’s transport panel, Kwok Ka-ki, has described the government’s decision to fine the MTR Corporation HK$2 million as an insult. The penalty was imposed for the service disruption on the Kwun Tong Line on August 5 that lasted m...

India's Supreme Court has ruled that citizens have a constitutional right to privacy, a landmark decision that could jeopardise a government programme with biometric data on over a billion people. Privacy is not explicitly mentioned in the Indian const...

Airlines are working to clear a backlog of hundreds of flights, which had to be cancelled because of the arrival of Typhoon Hato on Wednesday. Hundreds of passengers were stranded at Chek Lap Kok, but RTHK’s Joanne Wong tells Jim Gould that airline sta...

The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered increased production of rocket engines and nose cones for intercontinental ballistic missiles. Pictures released by North Korean state media showed Kim visiting a plant that makes solid fuel engines, with...

A former chairman of the Youth Commission, Doctor Philemon Choi, says it's important to include more young people in government advisory committees so that they could help the administration formulate better policies for them. He says there've been ver...

An advocacy group says it's going to push ahead with a campaign to increase the amount of land available for housing. According to the group - known as Momentum 107 - only seven percent of Hong Kong's land area is currently being used for residential p...

India's top court has banned a controversial Islamic practice that allows men to divorce their wives instantly. The practice enables a Muslim man to divorce a woman by saying 'talaq' or 'divorce' to her three times. The Supreme Court ruled this was unc...