Civic Party legislator Jeremy Tam says the government’s plan to raise fire safety standards in old industrial buildings could take years. The Security Secretary John Lee had said legislation would be tabled in the coming year after a fire in an old ind...

Labour Party lawmaker Fernando Cheung says he’s not optimistic that the introduction of wheelchair-accessible minibuses will turn out to be a success. He says they’re more expensive than the ones currently running on the roads and the government should...

India will celebrate Independence Day on Tuesday to mark 70 years since the end of British colonial rule, but also the controversial partition with Pakistan and Bangladesh, which resulted in tens of thousands of deaths. But preparations to mark the ann...

At the Women's Rugby World Cup in Ireland, Hong Kong have taken another pounding – this time at the hands of four-times World Cup winners, New Zealand. Jim Gould asked the Hong Kong coach, Jo Hull, if New Zealand was much stronger than she had expected.

Pan-democrats are challenging the government to press the mainland for answers on the alleged abduction and beating of a member of the Democratic Party. Howard Lam on Friday told of how he was whisked into a car in Mong Kok and knocked out, before his ...

The Education Policy Concern Organisation has accused the government of reacting too slowly to allegations of mismanagement and fraud at a primary school in Tuen Mun. Media reports revealed this week that Hing Tak School had supposedly inflated student...

Mainland authorities have launched probes into three of China’s largest social networking platforms over the suspected dissemination of violence and obscenity. The world's most popular messaging service WeChat, the Twitter-like Weibo, as well as the Ti...