The property consultancy firm, Jones Lang LaSalle, is predicting that home prices will rise by 5 percent next year despite the introduction earlier this month of a 15 percent stamp duty on all deals, other than for first-time buyers. It says the latest...

The Advocacy Director of Human Rights Watch's LGBT Rights Programme, Boris Dittrich, says Christian religious beliefs and LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual transgender, intersex) people could go hand-in-hand and co-exist in the community. Dittrich, who is ...

The new leader of the centre-right in France, former prime minister Francois Fillon, has promised sweeping changes if he wins next year's presidential election. He beat another former prime minister, Alain Juppe, in the primaries by a wide margin. Acco...

Pro-democracy lawmakers say they have reservations about a move to strip Civic Passion legislator, Cheng Chung-tai, of his seat in the Legislative Council. This came after pro-Beijing lawmaker, Paul Tse, said he'll launch a process to remove him becaus...

The Convenor of the Hong Kong National Party, Chan Ho-tin, says the territory’s last governor, Chris Patten, should acknowledge that the city is still a colony, but under the rule of what he called "fascist communists" on the mainland. He says Hong Kon...

The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, has warned that if the fires sweeping across the north of country were deliberately caused, they would be treated as acts of terror. The police are investigating the causes of the blazes and their spoke...

Civic Party legislator, Jeremy Tam, has accused the Civil Aviation Department of covering up problems with the new air traffic control system at Hong Kong International Airport. The pilot-turned-lawmaker says the radar of HK$1.5 billion system has been...