Labour Party legislator Fernando Cheung insists that an independent commission of inquiry should be set up to investigate the blaze in Kowloon Bay last month that killed two firemen. He tabled a non-binding motion to call for its creation during a join...

Huge amounts of household rubbish have been washing up on Hong Kong's beaches in recent weeks. Volunteers who have helped clean them for the past two decades are expressing alarm at the amount of plastic trash, particularly on the beaches of Lantau. Th...

The founder of the Path of Democracy think tank, former legislator Ronny Tong, says he’s not confident that talks between Beijing officials and local ministers will uncover more details about what exactly happened to Lam Wing-kee and other booksellers ...

Professor Chiu Siu-wai, of the Chinese University’s School of Life Sciences, says early detection is the key to battling brown root rot. The Development Bureau has proposed the removal of 18 old and valuable trees that are infected with the disease. Th...

Paul Rogers, professor of Peace Studies at the UK’s University of Bradford, says it is almost certain that Sunday's Baghdad suicide bombing, claimed by Islamic State, was in direct retaliation for its loss of Fallujah. He said the Iraqi government also...

Newly published comments by a top mainland official dismissing a ‘separatist’ movement in Hong Kong as a ‘passing phase’ belies Beijing’s growing concerns over the issue, according to political analyst Joseph Cheng. He told RTHK’s Annemarie Evans that ...

A campaigner for LGBT rights has called for immediate action to enact an anti-discrimination law to protect the rights of sexual minorities, saying there’s clearly a consensus that such legislation is needed to counter rampant discrimination in the cit...