Unionist legislator Lee Cheuk-yan says the courts would be sending the “wrong message” to the public if a magistrate ultimately decides only to fine ATV’s executive director Ip Ka-po, for failing to pay staff wages on time. Ip was convicted of the offe...

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has said Ankara will work with Russia to calm tensions after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane. Writing in the UK's Times newspaper, Mr Davutoglu stressed that fighting Islamic State is the main priority. But he...

New People’s Party lawmaker Michael Tien, who chairs the Legislative Council’s transport panel, says he’s eager to find out if the one-year delay on the Hong Kong section of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge will have any impact on the project’s price ...

The chairman of the Living Islands Movement, Merrin Pearse, has described as “unfortunate” the Court of Final Appeal’s decision to reject a judicial review linked to the construction of an incinerator at Shek Kwu Chau. The applicant raised questions ab...

Prime Minister David Cameron is to present his case to parliament for the UK to launch air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria. He is expected to warn of the threat posed to the UK and say the country should not “sub-contract its security”...

The Hong Kong Committee on Children’s Rights has welcomed the “essence” of reforms to existing child custody laws, describing it as a “paradigm shift” from parents’ rights to children’s rights and their best interests. The committee’s vice chairwoman, ...

Accountancy sector lawmaker Kenneth Leung, one of the councillors who expressed concerns about the city’s level of English proficiency at the Legislative Council on Wednesday, says he disagrees with the education secretary’s assertion that local studen...

Those three words are how The Economist has summed up what it expects to see in 2016, in a special issue looking at the year ahead. The magazine’s executive editor, Daniel Franklin, explained to Annemarie Evans why those three words would define the ne...