Philippine police shot dead eight drug suspects this week, authorities said on Friday, following repeated calls by president-elect Rodrigo Duterte for security forces to kill criminals.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday left open the possibility of running for the South Korean presidency after his term with the world body ends.
Floods subsided across Sri Lanka on Tuesday revealing the full extent of damage from last week’s deluge that also triggered landslides, officials said, as the death toll crossed 100.
Several city assemblies in the Okinawa Prefecture yesterday unanimously passed a resolution to protest the murder of a local woman to which a civilian United States base worker has allegedly confessed.
A collapse at an illegal mine killed at least 13 people in Myanmar’s northern Kachin State, a resident involved in rescue efforts said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of deadly accidents to hit the jade-mining area.
Google is reportedly working on a competitor to Amazon's sleeper hit, the smart speaker Echo, and the project is adorably dubbed Chirp internally.
Land ownership is the big issue after Beijing’s 50-year guarantee ends, says former lawmaker Ronny Tong
More than 400 people have been cheated out of at least HK$320 million by scammers acting as middlemen to secure loans for struggling property owners and plunging them further into debt.
More than a quarter of secondary school pupils had thoughts about taking their own life or self-harming in the past six months
Chief executive claims ‘small group of people’ could cause seven million people to feel negative political and economic impact
Highways Department admits landing point has shifted but still aims to complete subsea tunnel by end 2018
PolyU omitted two offshore subsidiaries from its financial reports
Government makes U-turn after critics slam proposal that subsidies for public housing flats be included in calculation of household income
Accountancy lawmaker Kenneth Leung makes plea as many focus on ‘super seats’
Airport Authority points out there have been 517 similar ‘courtesy deliveries’ over the last year
Lawmakers say testing process to decided whether regulation necessary is taking too long
The city’s public hospitals owed a record HK$52 million last year, much of which came from mainlanders who gave birth in Hong Kong, and refused to pay for their treatment
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