Several green groups say the Environmental Protection Department should be headed by a person who possesses technical knowledge to understand and solve the increasingly complicated environmental issues facing Hong Kong. An Administrative Officer -- Ani...

Civic Party legislator Dr Kwok Ka-ki has called on the government to conduct blood tests on children at a Kwun Tong kindergarten as soon as possible after a sample taken from a water boiler there was found to contain lead that was 10 times above the sa...

Nepal's parliament has overwhelmingly approved a new constitution, which is due to come into effect on Sunday. As it was passed by 507 votes to 25, cheers broke out in the assembly. It comes after years of political wrangling, while Nepal was governed ...

An Associate Dean of Law at the University of Hong Kong, Professor Simon Young, says he does not feel that Hong Kong’s judicial system is under threat from the mainland. He was responding to remarks made by a prominent mainland legal scholar and a memb...

The Society for Community Organisation (SoCo) says it was shocked after immigration officers revealed that three teenagers have never had their births registered and were leading a cloistered life in a public housing estate. The three, aged 17 to 19, n...

A new study has found that the population of marine mammals, birds, reptiles and fish has nearly halved in the past four decades. The report - by the conservation group WWF and the Zoological Society of London - says some species that people rely on fo...

Visiting nobel laureate Steven Chu - who was US President Barack Obama’s energy chief from 2009 to 2013 – says he’s not hopeful that a binding international agreement to curb greenhouse gas emissions will be reached at a key international conference in...

The president of the Hong Kong Paediatric Society, Lilian Wong, says children who have been found to have borderline levels of lead in their blood should be tested in future to ensure that their health does not get affected in any way. Her comments cam...