The Maritime Museum in Central has organised a public forum on Saturday to highlight the issue of plastic pollution in Hong Kong waters. It will be held between 4pm and 6:30pm to highlight the problem, as an alarmingly vast amount of plastic floating i...

State media in Iran says former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has been disqualified from standing in next month's presidential election. Only six people have been approved by the Guardian Council, the clerical body that vets candidates. Paul Rogers, ...

Civic Party lawmaker Kwok Ka-ki says the government’s plans to relax requirements for food trucks won’t help them to survive. The government’s proposed allowing struggling operators to set up at three new sites, in addition to the existing four locatio...

The government in Australia has announced changes to its citizenship laws. It follows a move earlier this week to scrap the current four-year skilled-migrant visas and adopt more stringent tests for applicants. The changes are expected to assess migran...

The government has denied that it's opening the floodgates for vote-rigging through its new voter-registration exercise. It's proposing to tighten rules by the end of this year, so that voters have to submit proof of address when they move. The proposa...

Concern groups say plans to build a 21-storey youth hostel right next to the historic Man Mo Temple on Hollywood Road are "inappropriate" - and are asking town planners to reject the proposal. The public will have the opportunity to air their concerns ...

India's supreme court has ruled that several senior figures in the country's governing party, the BJP, must face charges of criminal conspiracy. The long-running legal case relates the demolition of the Babri Mosque - in the city of Ayodhya - in 1992, ...