Veteran democrat and Senior Counsel, Martin Lee, has warned that Hong Kong risks the possibility of having national laws carrying the death penalty being extended to its people. He says if the Hong Kong government sets a precedent by allowing mainland ...

Land researchers at the University of Hong Kong say there is a need for large-scale reclamation in the city and for starters, the government should fill up the Plover Cove Reservoir to build flats there. They say the ecological value of the 1,200 hecta...

Around 12,000 people have been evacuated in France from areas threatened by wildfires that are sweeping across forested land in the southeast of the country. The blaze has spread over a large area along the Mediterranean coast, in the mountainous inter...

A legal scholar has questioned the rationale behind the government's plan to allow national laws to be applied to a quarter of the West Kowloon Terminus of the future high-speed rail link to Guangzhou. Eric Cheung says even the People's Liberation Army...

A study has found that the number of atrial fibrillation-related stroke cases has more than tripled. Atrial fibrillation - a condition in which the heart beats irregularly - can lead to blood clotting. Blood clots entering brain arteries are likely to ...

The Israeli government has removed controversial metal detectors from a sensitive holy site in Jerusalem -- the Temple Mount or Haram al-Sharif. It had been coming under international pressure to act after a week of protests by Palestinians. But Muslim...

An employer representative on the Labour Advisory Board, Ho Sai-chu, says nothing was decided during a meeting on Monday with the Labour Secretary on finding a way to scrap the MPF offsetting mechanism. Reports have said the government's proposal would...

An environmental group says it's found more than 1,000 circuit boards on a beach in Tai Po. The beach is near Ting Kok, a village that was flooded because of heavy rain last week. The Environmental Association said many similar circuit boards were dump...