The High Court today refused to grant leave for protesters to appeal a court injunction that would allow bailiffs to clear sit-in sites in Mong Kok. At a hearing, Mr Justice Thomas Au Hing-cheung ...

Two sailors have died in separate incidents in the treacherous Sydney to Hobart blue water classic, organisers said on Friday, while race favourite Comanche was forced to retire. Both crew members – ...

An enduring theme of the recent protests on the streets of Hong Kong has been the age divide. It is a truism that if you are under 20 and you are not a socialist, you have no heart. If you are over 20 ...

“When July 1, 1997 comes, when you wake up and open your eyes, you’ll see nothing change except the flags – the British Union Jack will be lowered; replaced by the five-red-star Chinese flag and the ...

I love good street art, when a dull wall or shop shutter is brought to life by someone who knows how to handle a spray can. Who wouldn’t appreciate the work of Portugal’s Alexandre Farto, aka Vhils, ...

A true story about the first person ever to receive gender reassignment surgery, Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl is a handsome period piece that fails on an emotional level. Eddie Redmayne plays Einar ...

A man took his wife and daughter hostage and threatened to kill the woman after spotting her walking along the street with another man. The drama took place in Washington Heights, New York, where ...

The 10th annual Gay Games came to a close on August 12 in Paris, France. Next stop: Hong Kong, which, in 2022, will become the first Asian destination to welcome the world’s “largest sporting and ...

The ADB has been very active lately in China's “backyard” of Central Asia, in the process stealing some of the AIIB’s thunder. On the other hand, the Beijing-based AIIB has been working so closely and ...

For a government that has spent so much time and money trying to stop asylum seekers from trying to reach its shores by boat, Australia has spent much of the past week making quite a lot of noise ...

What better reason to nip up to Guangzhou than for a spot of skiing? Come this June, Hong Kong’s Big Brother repositions itself – at least, that’s the plan – as the year-round winter sports capital of ...