The Pulse

On Wednesday, the Hong Kong government and the central government took a series of steps to try to gain Hong Kong people’s support for the 2012 Constitutional Reform Proposal. However, to the dismay of many, the proposal contains none of the major chan...

Movie director Lung Kong dealt with many controversial social themes in his work in the late sixties and early seventies. Many of them are still with us today. Lung says he was driven out of the industry by criticism, often political, that went as far ...

In part one of tonight's show, we look at shark finning and the issue of marine sustainability. Hong Kong internet users were recently shocked by footage shot by local tourists showing a whale shark that had had its fins removed and been left to die on...

Last year, at least 714 people were executed in 18 countries and at least 2,001 sentenced to death, in 56 countries. That’s according to the latest Amnesty International report “Death Sentences and Executions in 2009”. Amnesty believes thousands more e...

The day before our broadcast the government published a draft charter for the future of Radio Television Hong Kong, according to which the broadcaster will be editorially independent, and have a 'broad-based' board of appointed advisers. That’s probabl...

So far this year the Department of Health has issued five recall orders for Chinese medical preparations, most recently for Po Chai pills. Western pharmaceuticals had been added in all five cases. In the United States, ongoing tests on Chinese medical ...

It’s common as you get older to begin to think that policeman and doctors are getting younger. If you are starting to find that even Hong Kong’s street sleepers are not as old as they used to be, or as uneducated, you may be right. A recent survey high...

A verdict’s expected on Monday in the trial of four employees of the Chinese branch of an Australian mining firm, Rio Tinto. The trial was adjourned on Wednesday at the Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People's Court to wait for a decision. Overseas compani...

Fresh air in Hong Kong is beginning to feel like a luxury. On Monday the Air Pollution Index or API went off the charts. It hit the maximum 500 again on Tuesday. An API of 200 is already considered hazardous to health.

After several days, the protests in Bangkok are dying down. Many of those who have come to the capital to air their grievances are from rural areas and have to return to their jobs and businesses. Others in the latest campaign, organised by the United ...