China analyst Mark O’Neill says the case of a serial killer captured on the mainland is bizarre and horrific, and warrants psychoanalysis. Gao Chengyong, dubbed as China’s "Jack the Ripper" was arrested in the city of Baiyin in the northwest province o...

Liberal Party candidate Ken Chow’s abrupt announcement that he would be suspending his campaign for a Legislative Council seat because of “threats” will adversely affect the image and legitimacy of next month’s election, according to political commenta...

An assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong’s Department of Microbiology, Dr Jasper Chan, says the city’s first imported Zika case wasn’t a surprise. Dr Chan said experts always believed it was just a matter of when rather than if this would ...

Recent comments by the Philippines’ national police chief – calling for drug users to kill traffickers – are very dangerous, says RTHK’s Manila correspondent Alan Robles. He told Annemarie Evans that the comments will encourage more violence in a count...

The president of the Professional Teachers’ Union, Fung Wai-wah, says ordering teachers not to encourage discussion of Hong Kong independence in schools will do little to stop its discussion among students outside of class. Fung said the issue is a hot...

Emil Chan, the chairman of FinTech committee of Smart City Consortium, says Hong Kong regulator’s conservatism is to blame for the city’s late rollout of stored-value mobile payment services. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority announced on Friday that fi...

The Indian government has put forward plans to ban commercial surrogacy, the practice of a woman bearing babies for others. If approved by parliament, the law will also block foreigners, people of Indian origin, single parents and gay couples from havi...