An academic says Chief Executive-contender Carrie Lam seems to be trying to draw the public’s attention on livelihood issues in her election platform. But Professor Ma Ngok from the Chinese University's Department of Government and Public Administratio...

An Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in England and Wales is to hold its first public hearings later on Monday. It will start by examining the plight of up to 10,000 British children sent to Australia between 1945 and 1974. It will eventually...

WWF Hong Kong says the government’s decision to reclaim about 200 hectares of land to extend Tung Chung will affect the habitat of the Chinese White Dolphins in the area. Its Director of Wetlands Conservation Michael Lau says their numbers have already...

Local policy group Civic Exchange has urged the government to review its policy on open space in urban areas. A researcher with the group Carine Lai says the administration is trying to find land anywhere to build flats. She says this had led to people...

Opposition lawmakers have accused the government of covering-up the collapse of seawalls on the reclaimed island at the Hong Kong end of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge. The collapse has added about 10 metres of land to the island. Highways officials...

Police in Malaysia say one of the world's most deadly nerve agents was used to kill Kim Jong-nam -- the brother of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un -- at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Eleven days after the attack, the Malaysian authorities are...

A member of the University of Hong Kong’s governing council says he expects recommendations by a review committee on how the school is run, to allay worries about its institutional autonomy. But Professor Timothy O' Leary, who's also the Head of Humani...