The chairman of the Antiquities Advisory Board has defended the statutory body’s decision to leave the heritage rating of an 80-year-old pawn shop in Wan Chai unchanged – even though it’s facing demolition. Andrew Lam said the board decided to maintain...

South Korea switched off loudspeakers blasting propaganda messages into North Korea after the two rivals reached a compromise deal on Tuesday and stepped back from the brink of an armed clash. The giant banks of speakers, which had lain silent for more...

Analysts are warning that the stocks sell off that saw regional markets slump to multi-year lows on Monday will likely continue, as equity investors abandon hopes that Beijing can do anything to halt the plunge in mainland markets. Shanghai closed down...

A majority of people aged 25 or under can now speak Cantonese, Putonghua, and English – up from less than a fifth of the population who claimed to be trilingual in 1991, according to new research from the University of Hong Kong. Its new study, involvi...

The death toll from Typhoon Goni in the Philippines has risen to at least 20, after the storm caused major landslides and flooding in the north of the country. At least a dozen miners remain missing and hopes are fading that more survivors will be foun...

The Hong Kong Football Association has announced a five-year, HK$120 million plan – funded by the Jockey Club – to raise the standard of local football. It’s the biggest single donation ever for football development in Hong Kong, and the Association sa...

South Korea has fired artillery rounds towards North Korea after the North fired a rocket towards a South Korean loudspeaker that had been blaring anti-e>