Civic Party lawmaker, Kenneth Chan, says he feels the government is going to use delay tactics in order to keep the Territory-wide System Assessment (TSA) for schools in place. The TSA was implemented in 2004 and looks into the teaching provided by sch...

A senior director of Fitch Ratings, Sabine Bauer, says Standard Chartered Bank could take a long time to turn around its business. The bank said on Tuesday that it will cut 15,000 jobs and raise US$5.1 billion after it posted an unexpected loss in the ...

As a child, Michelle Payne dreamed of lifting the Melbourne Cup, and she finally achieved that Tuesday -- despite horrific injury, chauvinism and a horse that was listed at 100-1. In doing so, she became the only female jockey to win Australia's "race ...

The Institution of Engineers has waded into the lead water scandal and says rules regulating the water supply in Hong Kong have to change with times. The organisation’s president, Peter Wong, said ordinances of the 1970s were meant for buildings that w...

Banking giant HSBC has reported a handsome pre-tax profit for the third quarter, thanks to the reduced costs from fines and settlements with regulators. But its stellar performance failed to impress stock markets and its shares in Hong Kong ended flat....

The coalition force’s air strike last month at a medical facility run by French NGO Medicins Sans Frontieres in Kunduz, Afghanistan has shaken many aid workers who feel that there is increasingly less security. This week, Rosella Miccio, a humanitaria...

The Assistant Head of the City University's Department of Public Policy, Dr Cheung Chor-yung, says stopping Hong Kong’s chief executives from automatically becoming chancellor of all public universities under a local law is not going to help prevent co...

The director of the Disaster Preparedness and Response Institute, Dr Kevin Hung, says there is room for improvement to prepare the public for catastrophic events. His comment came after the Secretary for Security, Lai Tung-kwok, said Hong Kong should n...