This year's Hong Kong Soccer Sevens will feature its most international lineup in its 19-year history of the event. Teams from Germany, Italy, and France are due to compete at the Hong Kong Football Club in May. The tournament director, Chris Plowman, ...

Political analyst Willy Lam from Chinese University says Chief Executive-contender John Tsang is “posturing like a populist” – and this could be part of a strategy to show Beijing he’s the most popular CE hopeful. Lam said Tsang’s pledges to restart th...

The Development Bureau says the ban imposed on the consultancy firm Arup from bidding for government projects was only a partial restriction. It said the three-month ban, which ended on Monday, applied only to contracts issued by one of the government’...

An inquiry examining institutional sex abuse in Australia has heard that 7 percent of the nation's Catholic priests allegedly abused children between 1950 and 2010. In one Catholic order, more than 40 percent of church figures were accused of abuse. Th...

Carrie Lam has promised to usher in a new style of governance that allows for more public participation and a freer business environment. She was speaking after unveiling her campaign slogan – "We Connect" – at a rally attended by her supporters includ...

The US Defence Secretary James Mattis is touring Asia to shore up Washington’s ties in the region that have been rattled by some pronouncements of President Donald Trump. However, with the current President Park Geun-hye facing impeachment, RTHK's corr...

The announcement that University of Hong Kong vice-chancellor Peter Mathieson will leave the post has been met with surprise and disappointment by his colleagues. Timothy O’Leary, a HKU council member who also heads the university’s school of humanitie...