Authoritarian firebrand Rodrigo Duterte warned of a "rough ride" after being sworn in as the Philippines' president on Thursday, promising a relentless war on crime and corruption but also to be a unifying leader. Duterte, 71, won last month's election...

A former president of the Medical Council has accused the Secretary for Food and Health, Ko Wing-man, of telling what he called “blank lies” by saying that the adding of more lay-members to the watchdog would speed up the hearing of complaints against ...

Suicide attackers have launched a deadly assault on Istanbul's main airport. Thirty-six people, including 13 foreign nationals, were killed and about 150 others wounded. Three gunmen opened fire before blowing themselves up and early indications sugges...

A religious decree declaring transgender marriage to be legal has been cautiously welcomed in Pakistan. The decree, or fatwa, passed by a group of clerics said according to Islam, transgender people with "visible signs" of being male or female may marr...

Labour Party legislator, Lee Cheuk-yan, says there should be collective mourning on July 1 for the two firemen who died while fighting a blaze in an industrial building in Kowloon Bay last week. He says although the day will mark the 19th anniversary o...

The environmental group, Clean Air Network, says ozone pollution is still threatening people’s health despite a fall in air pollution in the Pearl River Delta region. Its Chief Executive, Patrick Fung, says ozone pollution is actually worse than it was...

China analyst Mark O'Neill says the deputy editor of the Chinese Communist Party's top theoretical journal committed suicide probably because of the way he was being treated by the mainland authorities. Zhu Tiezhi, 56, was a well-known writer on party ...