Civic Party leader and barrister, Alvin Yeung, says mainland laws cannot be applied in Hong Kong under the Basic Law. He says the government’s plan to build a joint customs, immigration and quarantine facility at the West Kowloon terminus of the expres...

The Acting Chief Executive, Matthew Cheung, says it is "unacceptable" to separate controversial items from an infrastructure funding request in the Legislative Council’s Finance Committee. The committee will discuss the issue on Friday and Saturday, an...

Taiwan journalist, Cindy Sui, says former president Ma Ying-jeou’s opponents are trying to get back at him for getting his predecessor, Chen Shui-bian, jailed for corruption. Ma has been charged with leaking secret information. They include violations ...

China specialist Willy Lam says the most important takeaway from the meeting of the mainland’s advisory body is that President Xi Jinping wants strong measures to deal with pro-independence activities in Hong Kong. He says the appointment of Chief Exec...

The Urban Renewal Authority (URA) has decided to preserve some of the remains of tenements in Central that are more than a century old. It earlier planned to dismantle the stone-wall structures - about 34 metres long on Cochrane Street - and re-assembl...

Several European Union countries have hardened their stance against Turkey in a growing row over the Turkish government's attempts to hold political rallies abroad. The German interior minister, Thomas de Maiziere, said he was against Turkish ministers...

RTHK’s Seoul correspondent, Frank Smith, says the court ruling against South Korean President Park Guen-hye does not appear to be based entirely on the law. He says the judge in the case spoke about the effects and repercussions of the case, and that t...