Civic Party legislator Tanya Chan says the government is lacking transparency over its decision to carry out studies into the feasibility of building flats on the fringes of the Tai Lam and Ma On Shan country parks. Green groups have called on the new ...

China analyst Mark O'Neill say China's decision to send troops to the northeastern African state of Djibouti to man its first overseas military base is aimed at protecting its interests in the region. He says Beijing is now Africa's biggest investor an...

Education sector lawmaker Ip Kin-yuen has welcomed a plan by Carrie Lam to save surplus teachers at government schools from being sacked for two years. The Chief Executive said because of falling student numbers, there'll be too many teachers at 11 sch...

The Equal Opportunities Commission is warning that the social welfare sector isn't doing enough to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace. The watchdog says a survey of more than 50 NGOs found the majority have taken insufficient measures -- or no ...

Indian leaders and Kashmiri separatists have united to condemn an attack on a bus that killed seven Hindu pilgrims and threatened to exacerbate tensions in the country's only Muslim-majority state. Six women and a man died when unidentified gunmen open...

Conservationists are urging the government to divert high-speed ferries between Hong Kong and Macau to a more southerly route to protect the endangered Chinese white dolphins from harm. The Hong Kong Dolphin Conservation Society says a survey it carrie...

Donald Trump's eldest son said on Sunday that he met with a Kremlin-linked lawyer shortly after his father clinched the Republican nomination, hoping to get information helpful to the campaign. A New York Times report Sunday citing advisers to the Whit...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam held a lunch on Monday with lawmakers in her latest attempt to mend fences between the government and the legislature. Some opposition lawmakers chose not to go; while others used the occasion to press their demands to the ne...