Civic Party lawmaker Claudia Mo says the suspended jail sentence handed down a 66-year-old woman who kept her undocumented grandson in Hong Kong for nine years is a happy ending to a long and sad saga. Mo said this was an exceptional case with exceptio...

An assistant director of conservation at WWF-Hong Kong there isn’t a need to look at country parks to find land for more development, to meet housing demands. Dr Michael Lau was speaking after comments this week, most recently by Chief Executive CY Leu...

The man who floated a controversial idea to sell public housing units at a discounted rate, to boost the city’s home ownership rate, says it’s not a radical idea. Richard Wong, professor of economics at the University of Hong Kong, says his plan only f...

Barrister and Civic Party member Dennis Kwok says the latest leaked audio from a closed-door University of Hong Kong Council meeting shows just how pointless a High Court injunction has been. The latest leak is thought to be from a meeting where the co...

Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy has hinted it’s on course for victory in Myanmar’s first openly contested national election in 25 years. The military-backed Union Solidarity Development Party has been in power since 2011. Annemarie Eva...

Senior counsel Ronny Tong has welcomed the High Court’s decision to narrow the scope of an injunction banning the publishing of leaked materials from deliberations of the University of Hong Kong’s Council. Tong said he thought the court had accepted th...

Security has been tightened around the Shangri-La hotel in Singapore, where President Xi Jinping and Taiwan’s president Ma Ying-jeou will meet on Saturday. Our reporter Priscilla Ng says there are a number of police vehicles around the hotel, and X-ray...