Hong Kong's 180,000 civil servants were told on Friday that they will be given four weeks to sign a declaration that they will uphold the Basic Law, pledge allegiance to the SAR, be dedicated to their duties, and be responsible to the government – ...

The government is seeking an additional HK$1.5 billion in funding from Legco to cover budget overruns in the construction of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge. The 55-kilometre bridge and tunnel connecting the three cities opened in 2018 and is fund...

Federation of Trade Unions lawmaker Kwok Wai-keung said on Friday he will be happy to cooperate with any possible investigation against him, a day after he was caught driving while using the video conferencing software Zoom to attend an online Legco ...

A political analyst and members of the public warned on Friday that the police are wasting their time producing promotional videos to try to convince people of their professionalism, saying the force's reputation is already in tatters. The trailer f...

Hong Kong is expected to welcome in the Year of the Ox next month with muted celebrations, with the government cancelling more of the planned festivities. The latest events to get the chop are the fireworks display over Victoria Harbour, which usual...

The MTR said on Friday that it was facing "many challenges" with getting the cross-harbour section of the Sha Tin-Central rail link up and running by early next year as planned. The rail firm's divisional general manager James Chow told lawmakers at...

DAB lawmakers on Friday urged the government to waive penalties for those who are late paying their water charges, saying fewer meter checks than usual because of the pandemic have led to some people receiving bills they can't afford. With Water Sup...

A former firefighter was jailed for 34 months on Friday over an anti-government protest where he carried four Molotov cocktails. Fong Chi-hung, 34, pleaded guilty to five charges at the District Court in relation to a protest in Mong Kok on November...

Thousands of people living in old tenement buildings in Yau Ma Tei and Jordan are being ordered to undergo coronavirus testing, after a spate of Covid cases in the area. Health Secretary Sophia Chan said that as of Friday afternoon, residents of 20...

The government confirmed on Friday that Jade Lai, the political assistant to the secretary for home affairs, has resigned, saying she needs to take care of her family. News broke on Thursday that Lai, who is in her 40s, had quit. In a statement, ...

Lawmakers were supposed to be ‘zooming’ during an online Legislative Council panel meeting on Thursday, but not in the way that Kwok Wai-keung did it. Reporters covering the meeting quickly spotted something unusual about the Federation of Trade...

A teenager who pleaded guilty to throwing a petrol bomb at police quarters in Chai Wan is set to receive a harsher sentence, after the Court of Appeal ruled that a probation order issued by a lower court was too lenient. The 15-year-old – who cann...

The confirmation on Thursday that the authorities have ordered an internet service provider to block access to a local website under the national security law for the first time augurs more online censorship, a data scientist has warned, saying unles...

Police on Thursday confirmed officers from the national security department had arrested 11 people for allegedly helping 12 Hongkongers flee the city by speedboat in August. In a brief statement, a police spokesman said the eight men and three women...

Concerns are growing about a Covid-19 outbreak in Jordan as a cluster of infections in an old tenement building there expands, while new cases are reported from another block 100 metres away. Health officials said one more confirmed infection and a ...

Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN) said on Thursday it has blocked a website that publishes material mainly on 2019 anti-government protests, to comply with the city's national security law, marking the first censorship of a local website under the l...

RTHK journalist Bao Choy on Thursday pleaded not guilty to two counts of making false statements in relation to car licence plate searches aimed at finding the perpetrators of the Yuen Long gang attack in 2019. Choy, 37, is accused of violating the ...

The bunkering industry has called on the government to relax quarantine measures for incoming vessels and offer a HK$32 million lifeline for the sector hit by the coronavirus pandemic. The trade said sales volume has dropped by 70 percent since the ...

The second of two teenagers brought back to the territory after being detained for months in Shenzhen with a group of 10 other Hongkongers has appeared in court in the SAR and has been remanded in custody. Liu Tsz-man, 18, was taken to the District ...

A 35-year-old man was on Thursday sentenced to seven months in prison over his participation in a lunchtime anti-government protest in Central. Cheung Chin-man earlier pleaded guilty at Eastern Magistracy to assaulting a police officer, and was con...