The Equal Opportunities Commission has released its much anticipated study on legislation against discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity. It found that discrimination against LGBT people is common in Hong Kong, and publ...

An announcement by Malaysia’s attorney-general that a payment of nearly US$700 million into the personal bank account of the Prime Minister, Najib Razak, was a gift from the Saudi royal family has left many Malaysians shocked, puzzled and bewildered. T...

The Hong Kong Meteorological Society says the cold weather experienced by Hong Kong over the weekend was by all standards an exception. Its spokesperson, Leung Wing-mo, says the Hong Kong Observatory recorded the lowest temperature in nearly 60 years, ...

The environmental group Greenpeace has urged the government to raise public awareness about the chemicals being used for making popular outdoor clothing brands. It says 90 percent of them contain chemicals which could cause cancer and damage the enviro...

An unusually cold weather front has been blamed for dozens of deaths in Taiwan. The cold wave abruptly pushed temperatures to 4 degrees Celsius in the subtropical region where most homes lack central heating, causing heart trouble and shortness of brea...

A majority of people who responded to a new poll on universal pensions say they would be willing to pay more to secure monthly social security payments to the elderly. Close to 70 percent of respondents to a survey commissioned by the Alliance for Univ...

The government has been urged to improve sex education at schools, after a study of 400 teenage mothers found that one third got pregnant again within two years of giving birth. The University of Hong Kong survey also found that young mothers who have ...

Moscow has dismissed as a "joke" a British inquiry's findings that Russian President Vladimir Putin "probably approved" the killing of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko a decade ago in London. Litvinenko, a prominent Kremlin critic, died of radiation poisoni...