Labour Party lawmaker Fernando Cheung has urged the government to tighten rules for operators of elderly homes. This came after an elderly home in Tsuen Wan told its 50 residents on Monday that they will have to move out before New Year’s Eve because i...

The General Secretary of the Confederation of Trade Unions, lawmaker Lee Cheuk-yan, has accused the government of being insincere over the introduction of standard working hours in Hong Kong. He said it has been discussing the issue for years and nothi...

RTHK’s UK correspondent Gavin Grey says questions are being raised about flood prevention in Britain after parts of northern England were devastated by weeks of heavy rainfall and swollen rivers in the worst flooding in the country in 70 years. The gov...

Organisers of a New Year's Day protest say the police will soon give permission to them to march from Causeway Bay to government headquarters in Tamar on Friday. But a spokesman for the 2016 New Year's Day March Alliance, James Hon, says they are not s...

Political analyst and retired academic Joseph Cheng says he is not surprised that Financial Secretary John Tsang has put a positive spin on the rise of localism in Hong Kong. Tsang stated on his blog on Sunday that localism has the potential to become ...

The agreement between foreign ministers of South Korea and Japan to resolve the long-standing disagreement over Korean sex slaves during the Second World War has come too late, according to RTHK’s Seoul-based correspondent Jason Strother. He says there...

The convenor of the HKU Alumni Concern Group, legislator Ip Kin-yuen, says it’s important for the University of Hong Kong’s governing body to appoint the right person to replace Leong Che-hung as council chairman. Ip was speaking after the government a...