The head of the Medical Association has criticised a new voluntary scheme to provide private hospital patients with cost estimates for common types of minor surgeries and operations. All 11 private hospitals in the territory have agreed to provide such...

Pakistan says two of its soldiers were killed in an "unprovoked'' attack when India fired across the border of the disputed region of Kashmir, while India said it had carried out a “surgical strike” against terrorists, in an exchange that marks an esca...

For a few hours on Wednesday, Admiralty was awash in yellow once again as hundreds of people returned to the epicenter of the 2014 Umbrella Movement to mark two years since the start of the unprecedented street protests. At 5:58pm, participants of the ...

An alliance of concern groups have called for sweeping reform of education policies, saying the alarming rate of student suicides indicates a systemic problem. They want the government to hire more teachers and reduce the number of exams to alleviate s...

Israeli ex-president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres died on Wednesday, some two weeks after suffering a major stroke, triggering an outpouring of grief for the historic figure and beloved statesman. Peres, who was 93, held nearly every major...

A former top record-keeper says the row over what the government did or did not say to rural leaders regarding a downsized public housing development near Yuen Long could have been avoided if Hong Kong had an archive law. Former Government Records Serv...

Donald Trump aggressively tried to pin the nation's economic and national security problems on Hillary Clinton in the first US presidential debate, belittling the former senator and secretary of state as a “typical politician” incapable of delivering t...

Strong winds felled trees and scattered construction debris that killed several people and injured scores more as a large typhoon crossed over Taiwan. Typhoon Megi's bands of heavy rain and 162-kilometres-per-hour sustained winds blanketed the island b...