A surgery professor at the University of Hong Kong, Chan See-ching, says the 17 percent drop in organ donors in Hong Kong last year was a cause for concern. But Chan, who specialises in liver transplants, says the government should consult the public t...

Mainland security forces have killed 28 people allegedly responsible for a deadly attack on a coal mine in Xinjiang. The Xinjiang government's web portal, Tianshan, reports that the deaths took place over a 56-day operation in which one person was deta...

An Indian media tycoon has been arrested in connection with the murder of his stepdaughter. Police are holding Peter Mukerjea, the former chief executive officer of Rupert Murdoch's Star India network. Mukerjea and his lawyers are yet to make a stateme...

A professor at the School of Journalism at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Clement So, says a report by a US congressional commission further confirms that press freedom is eroding in Hong Kong. The report by the US-China Economic and Security Rev...

Left-wing protesters staged a demonstration near the venue of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Manila on Thursday as leaders from various countries were gathering for the group photograph that is customary at the annual meeting. The poli...

Gunfire and explosions shook the Paris suburb of St Denis early today as French police searched for suspects thought to be connected to last week's terrorist attacks in Paris. They surrounded a building where a Belgian Islamist militant suspected of be...

Civic Party legislator, Dennis Kwok, says he finds it hard to understand why the government feels reviewing its small-house policy is not its top priority. He says the current administration has emphasised time and again that housing and land issues ar...

The meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation being held in Manila was meant to discuss issues like climate change, terrorism and the dispute in the South China Sea. But the attacks in Paris last Friday seem to have caused leaders to place more ...