The founder and chief economist of Economic Research Analysis, Connie Bolland, says it is too early to say whether economic growth on the mainland is stabilising. The National Bureau of Statistics said on Friday that the economy grew 6.7 percent in the...

RTHK’s South Korea correspondent, Frank Smith, says North Korea still has a long way to go before it could hit a target in the United States with a missile. He says the country does not have the technology that is needed to produce such a missile. Nort...

The Chief Executive of the Consumer Council, Gilly Wong, says employment agencies in Hong Kong should not blame their overseas counterparts when domestic helpers who come to the territory are found to be incapable of doing their work. She says some lo...

A colorectal cancer specialist, David Lam, has welcomed the government’s decision to offer elderly people subsidised screening tests for the disease from September. A HK$280 subsidy will be provided when participants take tests at private clinics to lo...

RTHK’s Moscow correspondent, Fred Weir, says he thinks the buzzing of a US warship by a Russian military aircraft in the Baltic Sea is not really a serious incident, and could just be a propaganda war. The aircraft repeatedly buzzed the USS Donald Cook...

An expert in urban planning and sustainable development, Albert Lai, has criticised the Housing Secretary, Anthony Cheung, for blaming everyone but the government for the shortage of affordable housing in Hong Kong. Cheung had said that district counci...

Owners of local bars and restaurants are ‘worried’ that holding more ‘ladies’ night’ promotions may put them in breach of the law… after a man won a case against a club that charged him more than women for the same services. The chairman of the Hong Ko...

A mainland court has ruled against two men seeking to marry, dealing a blow to sexual minorities who’ve been pushing for equal rights in China. Sun Wenlin, 27, sued a civil affairs bureau after it refused to grant him and his partner, Hu Mingliang, a m...