Seventeen journalists and staff from the Turkish opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet have gone on trial in Istanbul, charged with aiding terrorist organisations. If found guilty, they could face up to 43 years in jail. The arrest of the group has caused an...

Civic Party legislator, Kwok Ka-ki, who is also a doctor, says every bed provided by a private hospital would help ease the over-crowding in public hospitals. But he says its not easy to get a bed in private hospitals either because they too are full. ...

An infectious diseases expert from the University of Hong Kong says the government needs to "go on the offensive" to tackle a surge in flu cases. Dr Yuen Kwok-yung says health officials should give the antiviral drug Tamiflu to elderly care home reside...

An Indian musician has played a guitar on the operating table to help doctors treat involuntary muscle spasms in his fingers. Abhishek Prasad was asked to play every time doctors "burnt" a circuit in his brain to treat what is commonly known as "musici...

Education sector lawmaker Ip Kin-yuen says there will be questions about whether appointments to government posts are made on talent, if a controversial pro-establishment figure becomes the new under secretary for education. He said all indicators poin...

The Institute of Surveyors has suggested the government come up with some interim design and construction requirements to guide improvements to sub-divided flats that are unsafe or unhygienic. It also says the government should consider ways to encoura...

Ram Nath Kovind has won India's presidential election after securing over two-thirds of the total electoral college votes. The 71-year-old Kovind is only the second dalit - a member of the lowest caste in India - to occupy the largely ceremonial post. ...