The Hong Kong Medical Association has urged the Hospital Authority to make it easier for private doctors to work part-time at public hospitals. It said currently, private doctors must sign long-term contracts with the authority if they want to work par...

A judge in Bangkok has announced 21 guilty verdicts in Thailand's biggest human trafficking trial which involves more than 100 defendants. A Thai general and other security officials are among those accused of smuggling and trafficking Bangladeshi nati...

Political analyst Chung Kim-wah says tensions are expected to continue in the coming months between the government and the pan-democratic camp. Chung, who is an assistant professor at the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the Polytechnic Univers...

The Confederation of Trade Unions has called on the government to reinstate the collective bargaining legislation so that low-income workers could earn a decent living. Its general secretary, former lawmaker Lee Cheuk-yan, says the lives of grassroots ...

Mainland users of the instant messaging app, WhatsApp, have not been able to send and receive videos and pictures. Text messages are not affected. Human rights lawyer Hu Jia says he noticed the problem on Monday night, linking it to a further crackdown...

Land Justice League lawmaker Chu Hoi-dick says the Chief Executive Carrie Lam is just paying lip service by saying that her administration has no plans to challenge the validity of oaths that lawmakers have taken. A hearing will take place in the High ...

The NGO – AIDS Concern – says local schools don’t appear to be enthusiastic about providing sex education to students. Its project director, Mandy Cheung, says her group sent out letters to 450 schools in 2015 offering talks but only one of them respon...

RTHK’s Seoul correspondent, Frank Smith, says that there is a good chance that North Korea will react positively to a proposal by South Korea to hold their first military talks since 2015. This follows the recent spate of missile tests by Pyongyang. Th...