Japan has temporarily withdrawn its ambassador to South Korea, amid an escalating row over a statue representing wartime sex slaves that was installed by activists outside the Japanese consulate in the South Korean city of Busan. RTHK’s Tokyo correspon...

Civic Party legislator, Tanya Chan, says a public consultation on building the Hong Kong Palace Museum should have been carried out before a decision was taken to build it. She says the basic question that should have been asked during the consultation...

Winnie Tse from the Clean Air Network advocacy group says there is room for improvement in Hong Kong’s air quality because the Air Quality Objectives adopted by the government are too lax. She says despite the improvement in the city’s air quality last...

The impeachment trial of South Korea's President, Park Geun-hye, has started with her lawyers arguing there is no evidence to back the corruption allegations that threaten to force her from office. Parliament voted to impeach Park last month over an in...

The Chairman of the Task Force on Health Care Reform at the Hong Kong Federation of Insurers, David Alexander, says the insurance sector has made a number of compromises so that the government could launch a public consultation on its controversial Vol...

The President of the Internet Professional Association, Witman Hung, says it is the government's practice to carry out an environmental impact assessment for projects like its planned Innovation and Technology Park in Lok Ma Chau. The area is just four...

Police in India say they have credible evidence that widespread sexual assaults took place at New Year's Eve celebrations in Bangalore. Several women have said they were molested by mobs of men, though police say they have had no official complaints fr...