The District Court’s observation about government’s policy of small house policy for indigenous villagers was a long needed step, says Roger Nissim who's now with the Department of Real Estate and Construction at the University of Hong Kong. He told An...

The fall in private home prices during October is fuelled by the forthcoming US interest rate cut and levelling of the inflation due to the slowing down of the Chinese economy, says an expert. Professor Edward Yiu of the department of Geography and Re...

Floods continued to wreak havoc in the southern Indian city of Chennai. At least 280 people have been killed and thousands remained cut off as essential services remained affected. RTHK’s India correspondent Murali Krishnan told Annemarie Evans the si...

People Power lawmaker Albert Chan says he believes plans to hold extra Finance Committee meetings in Legco at the end of this month are a tactic by the committee’s new chairman to “bulldoze” controversial funding applications through the council. Chan ...

The Greeners Action group has criticised the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) for not signing the government’s Food Wise Charter, saying the department has a responsibility to reduce the amount of waste in the city’s wet markets. Its se...

Human Rights Watch has condemned a national security bill proposed by lawmakers in Malaysia, calling it a “tool for repression”. The law would give extensive powers to the authorities to declare places as areas of security risk, and conduct searches an...

A biology professor at the Hong Kong Baptist University, Chris Wong, says the amount of perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) found by Greenpeace in five local reservoirs is low, and people in the city shouldn’t be concerned about drinking water from these r...

“Crucial” discussions on the transition of power between the leader of Myanmar’s National League for Democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi, and President Thein Sein have taken place at the presidential palace in the capital, Naypyidaw. RTHK’s Southeast Asia corr...