The president of the Hong Kong Federation of Restaurants and Related Trades, Simon Wong, says he’s not entirely happy with the list of eateries chosen to operate the city’s first batch of food trucks. He said most of the winners of the government’s coo...

Hillary Clinton will take the stage on Thursday at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia to address the party as its presidential nominee. Alex Montgomery, Communications Director for Democrats Abroad International, said the nomination of ...

The concern group, Animal Earth, says the 10-day suspended jail sentence meted out to a man for throwing his Chihuahua on the floor three times that left the dog with a broken leg, will send out a very wrong message to animal abusers. Its chief officer...

The World Green Organisation says the government’s public consultation on sustainable consumption of biological resources should have been done earlier. Its chief executive, William Yu, says many cities embarked on the process years ago. But he says th...

The executive director of the Hong Kong American Centre, Glenn Shive, says the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia got off to a rough start for Hillary Clinton following leaked emails that appeared to show the Democrats' national organisatio...

A spokesman for Hong Kong Patients' Voices, Tsang Kin-ping, says public hospitals should treat all patients equally regardless of their background. His comment came after the Apple Daily newspaper reported that Queen Elizabeth Hospital has admitted tha...

The human rights advocacy group, the Society for Community Organization, says it is happy that the Independent Police Complaints Council has agreed to follow-up on the poor conditions in police detention cells. A community organiser with the group, Ann...

The United Nations says the number of civilian casualties in Afghanistan has reached a record high in the first half of this year. Its report says almost one third of the casualties were children, many of whom were killed by improvised explosive device...