The man suspected of carrying out the New Year's Eve attack on a nightclub in Istanbul was trained in Afghanistan, according to the city's governor. Vasip Sahin says the man, named earlier as Uzbek national Abdulkadir Masharipov, was believed to have e...

Professor Ma Ngok from the Chinese University of Hong Kong says the different length of time taken by the central government to approve the resignations of the chief secretary Carrie Lam and the financial secretary John Tsang will give rise to a lot of...

The head of Designing Hong Kong, Paul Zimmerman, has welcomed the government’s suggestion to impose a recycling levy on suppliers of five types of electrical appliances. But he says there are currently not enough facilities to recycle televisions, refr...

Australia has sharply criticised Japan after photos emerged allegedly showing it had resumed whaling off Antarctica. Anti-whaling group, Sea Shepherd, released the images which it said showed a dead minke whale on a Japanese vessel on Sunday. It comes ...

The convenor of the Path of Democracy think tank, Ronny Tong, says each of the chief executive hopefuls that have come forward so far have their own merits. But he says one of the most important things they will have to do is to explain how they are go...

A spokesman for the Asian Migrants' Coordinating Body, Eman Villanueva, says the new code of practice for employment agencies will not have enough teeth to deter them from committing malpractices against domestic helpers. He says his group was expectin...

China analyst, Mark O'Neill, says prospective US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson is a specialist in the oil industry worldwide and not a diplomat. He says the comments he made to the US Senate that he would deny Beijing accessing the artificial islan...