The chairman of the Samaritans, George Woo, says students are facing immense pressure not only from teachers in schools but also their parents. He says the push for excellence is affecting their mental and physical health. Three teenagers have committe...

A political analyst from the City University, Cheung Chor-yung, says Chief Executive-contender, Carrie Lam, should be more specific about how she is going to deal with the higher education sector if she gets the top job. Lam said in her election manife...

North Korea has confirmed what it called the "successful" firing of a ballistic missile on Sunday in a test supervised by leader Kim Jong-un. State news agency, KCNA, described it as a "surface-to-surface medium-to-long-range ballistic missile". There ...

A new report says Hong Kong's new Air Traffic Control system malfunctioned about 80 times and issued 30 false alarms in its first month of operation. The report by the Factwire news agency also says the problems troubling the system have not eased sign...

The chairman of Legco’s Transport Panel, Michael Tien, has urged the government to put off plans to co-locate immigration facilities for the Express Rail Link to Guangzhou –if it means that Beijing has to interpret the Basic Law to clear the way. The g...

US President Donald Trump endorsed the long-standing "One China" policy on Thursday during a phone call with President Xi Jinping, a move analysts interpreted as a change of course for the mercurial leader. The tycoon-turned-statesman agreed he would "...

A convenor of the Professional Commons, engineer Albert Lai, says he's worried the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge project is getting out of hand even for the government’s top officials. Transport Secretary Anthony Cheung admitted that the bridge project...