The executive director of Samaritan Befrienders Hong Kong, Clarence Tsang, says engaging nurses to identify students with suicidal tendencies may create a labelling effect on them. His comment came after the Committee on Prevention of Student Suicides ...

An academic says Lin Zulian, the former chief of Wukan village who has been formally arrested by Guangdong authorities on allegations of taking bribes, will probably be slapped with a jail sentence of several years. Lin was detained a few weeks ago jus...

The vice chairman of Republicans Abroad Hong Kong, Alan Siegrist, says Donald Trump's acceptance speech was one of the most interesting he has heard in Republican politics in decades. He says he was very effective in speaking to the marginalised blue c...

The communications director of Democrats Abroad International, Alex Montgomery, says Donald Trump’s acceptance speech acknowledging African-Americans and members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community does not mean he has painte...

One of the organisers of the Occupy Central movement in 2014, Professor Benny Tai, says the conviction of three students leaders for unlawful assembly and other offences was expected. He says although they were convicted of criminal offences, their act...

Malaysia's prime minister, Najib Razak, says he will "fully cooperate" with a US investigation into a US$3.5 billion scandal involving a state fund he headed. Fraud investigators in Singapore have seized more than US$175 million in assets connected to ...

Political scientist Joseph Cheng says Beijing’s top official in Hong Kong should not have said anything if he believes Hong Kong people know what is right and wrong for the territory. During a meeting of the National Day Organising Committee, Zhang Xio...