The President of the Hong Kong Medical Association, Louis Shih, says he believes a claim for a pay increase by public hospital doctors is reasonable. The doctors will stage a mass sit-in on Wednesday to demand a three percent pay increase. Senior docto...

Doctors at the University of Hong Kong hope that the free heart screening programme they will be launching for first-time marathon runners would lead to the government introducing mandatory examination for the athletes. Three participants in the annual...

An academic says many people with mental illness are facing a lot of difficulties in recovering from their condition and integrating into society. Dr Sherry Chan from the University of Hong Kong’s Department of Psychiatry says the stigma they face from...

Pan-democratic lawmakers and members from the Alliance for Standard Working Hours have urged the government to submit a proposal to cap working hours at 44 a week, before the end of the year. A government-appointed committee looking into the matter ear...

Slow-moving Typhoon Koppu is bringing heavy rain and causing severe floods to some of the Philippines most important farming areas, after making landfall on Sunday morning on the east coast of Luzon – the country’s biggest island. Military, government ...

Former legislator Ronny Tong says he is surprised by the tone and content of comments Chief Secretary Carrie Lam made to Legco members, during a failed attempt to invoke special powers to investigate the lead-contaminated water scare. Lam slammed the p...

People Power Albert Chan says his party is not against the establishment of an Innovation and Technology Bureau – just how the government is positioning it. The government’s proposed new bureau is being discussed again in Legco, after filibustering in ...

Prosecutors in the United States and Scotland said on Friday they had identified two new Libyan suspects in the Lockerbie bombing, when a Pan-Am airliner was blown up over Scotland in 1988, killing 270 people. Annemarie Evans spoke to UK correspondent ...