A survey commissioned by the think-tank, Future at Hong Kong, has found that the public has lost confidence in the government, the Legislative Council and the Independent Commission Against Corruption since CY Leung became the Chief Executive four year...

Labour Party legislator and social worker, Fernando Cheung, has welcomed an announcement by the Social Welfare Department that it is considering closing down a care home whose co-founder was alleged to have molested a resident with a mental age of an e...

President Xi Jinping has welcomed his Philippine counterpart, Rodrigo Duterte, in Beijing, in a ceremony that seems to signal a major shift in bi-lateral ties. Only months ago, they were at loggerheads over rival territorial claims in the South China S...

Professional Commons lawmaker, Kenneth Leung, has described the walkout from the Legislative Council by pro-establishment legislators as “disgraceful”. He says their action was pre-meditated and they should learn to respect the legislature as an indepe...

A political analyst says the government is trying to keep localists and independence advocates out of the Legislative Council. Chung Kim-wah from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University says that is probably the reason why the Chief Executive, CY Leung, a...

Super Typhoon Haima is expected to hit the far north of the Philippines as it crosses the main island of Luzon on Wednesday night. It is forecast to bring winds as strong as those brought by Super Typhoon Haiyan that claimed more than 7,300 lives in 20...

The lawmaker representing the legal sector, Dennis Kwok, has urged the five lawmakers whose oaths have been declared invalid by the president of the Legislative Council, Andrew Leung, to retake them in a responsible manner. He says he hopes the five, i...

Sze Lai-shan from the Society for Community Organisation says the government should help the poor rent cheaper accommodation, introduce rent controls and speed up the building of public housing. Her call came after a public policy think tank, Bauhinia ...