The Supreme Court in India has asked a five-judge bench to examine whether an 1860 law, which imposes a 10-year sentence for gay sex, is constitutional. Activists gathered outside the court cheered after the court announced its decision that is being s...

A shareholders' rights activist, David Webb, says there are still a lot of questions over how the government bailout of the Express Rail Link's cost overruns would work out. He says apart from whether the deal will be approved by the legislature, quest...

Health authorities say they will officially designate the Zika virus a notifiable infectious disease from Friday, requiring all doctors to tell the Centre for Health Protection about all suspected or confirmed cases. The virus has been linked to an inc...

The House of Representatives in Myanmar has begun a new parliamentary session, marking a historic transition from dictatorship to democracy. MPs elected a speaker from the National League for Democracy led by Aung San Suu Kyi, which won a landslide ele...

Swedish police have visited Gui Minhai’s apartment in Pattaya, and are reviewing closed-circuit video tape and talking to local residents about his disappearance. But RTHK’s Bangkok correspondent Larry Jagan says they’ve been categorically told by Thai...

Lawrence Pang, a University of Hong Kong alumnus and spokesman for an alumni concern group, says Tuesday’s protest outside the meeting venue of the HKU Council was an extension of the storming of an earlier meeting last year. He said it was evident tha...

Analyst Mark O’Neill says the mainland authorities’ treatment of detained Canadian citizen Kevin Garratt shows that China feels it can afford to ignore the appeals of the Canadian government on this case. Annemarie Evans asked him for his take on this ...

The head coach of Hong Kong’s cricket team, Simon Cook, says the recent wet weather, which washed out the second one-day international with Scotland, has been hampering the side’s preparations for the upcoming Asia Cup and World T20 tournaments later t...