Global banking giant HSBC reported a shock pre-tax loss in the last quarter of 2015 on Monday, with results for the year missing analysts' expectations, as it grapples with "seismic shifts" in the world economy. For the year, HSBC posted a one percent ...

Senior Counsel and former Civic Party legislator Ronny Tong has spoken out against calls to ban protesters from wearing masks, saying this would be a knee-jerk overreaction to the violent clashes in Mong Kok earlier this month. Tong, who also heads the...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday he and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, had reached a provisional agreement on terms of a cessation of hostilities in Syria and the sides were closer to a ceasefire than ever before. However, vio...

The chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong Industries, Daniel Cheng, says footage of demonstrators throwing bricks at police is more disruptive to the rule of law than the disappearance of Causeway Bay bookseller, Lee Bo. Professor Cheng’s comments co...

A group of professionals and scholars have said the Legislative Council should invoke its special powers to investigate the Mong Kok clashes. The call comes after the Chief Executive rejected their request to set up an independent inquiry into the caus...

The CEO of app-based car-hire service Uber has admitted that they’re losing US$1 billion a year on the mainland, where it competes with the Didi Kuaidi app, backed by Tencent. RTHK’s Beijing correspondent Paul James told Jim Gould that the availability...

A charity that supports ethnic minorities, Hong Kong Unison, has given a ‘fail mark’ to the Chief Executive, CY Leung, with regard to eliminating racial discrimination against the group during his tenure in office. Its Executive Director, Phyllis Cheun...

The Hong Kong Shippers’ Council says it is not concerned that the territory has slipped to number five in the list of the world's busiest ports, following a steep drop in container traffic last year. Volume has fallen for 18 straight months as cargo sh...