Hong Kong government should insist on more rigorous regulations to ensure organizers keep their side of the deal when sponsoring major events, lawmakers said on Monday after star footballer Lionel Messi did not play in a much-anticipated friendly match at the weekend.

FOLLOWING a significant number of recent charcoal-burning suicides in Thailand, the Public Health Ministry’s Mental Health Department is urging the media to avoid giving too many details of how the deaths occurred, out of fear that such reports could lead to copycat deaths.