Health officials said on Wednesday they are investigating how an elderly resident in a small care home in Jordan got infected with Covid-19, despite not leaving the facility recently. The 80-year-old man has tested preliminary positive for the virus...

Police say they have seized ketamine with a street value of HK$40 million from an industrial unit in Kwai Chung. The force said some 50 boxes containing 62 kilogrammes of the drug were found during an operation on Tuesday. A 38-year-old man was arr...

A man who has come down with the coronavirus is urging the authorities to make sure their community testing services are up to standard, saying he and his three family members experienced delays in treatment because of false negative results. Dilip ...

Researchers at Chinese University said on Thursday that they have developed a new therapy that helps treat some patients with depression - by shining bright light at those who are "night owls" and changing their biological clocks. The research team...

An advocacy group for ethnic minorities said on Thursday that local officials have to be more culturally sensitive, after comments by health authorities on the coronavirus outbreak in Yau Tsim Mong earlier this week left some people feeling targeted....

Executive councillor Ronny Tong has accused the UK of interfering in Hong Kong's judicial independence, after its foreign minister criticised a British barrister for taking up the prosecution of several pro-democracy figures for the SAR government. ...

Health officials said on Wednesday it could take up to two weeks before the coronavirus situation in Yau Tsim Mong district stabilises, as the number of cases there continued to climb. Authorities reported 77 new Covid cases, 41 of them from Yau Tsi...

The government has proposed building a network of elevated moving walkways in Kowloon East as part of a plan to ease traffic congestion and "shape a green community" in the area. The proposal was revealed in papers submitted to the Legislative Coun...

Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng on Wednesday lashed out at Britain's foreign minister, Dominic Raab, saying he had made "disgraceful" comments regarding the decision of a top UK barrister to take up the prosecution of a group of Hong Kong pro-demo...

The government says it aims to propose a historic building grading for the Bishop Hill underground reservoir within the first quarter of this year, and its antiquities advisers would be able to pass an official grading after a month-long public consu...

Police say they have arrested seven current and former bank staff over an alleged money laundering case involving HK$6.3 billion. Superintendent Yip Wing-lam from the Commercial Crime Bureau said it is the first time that local bank staff have been...

The Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (HKICPA) on Wednesday predicted an unprecedented fiscal deficit of HK$348 billion, saying the government needs to adopt a targeted approach to revive the economy. The group's estimate is in li...

A Sham Shui Po district councillor on Wednesday criticised the government's decision to ramp up Covid-19 testing in the area, saying it will only cause unnecessary worries among the residents who don't know why they're being singled out. Authorities...

The government said on Wednesday that it is prepared to further reduce the number of people to be allowed in the Lunar New Year flower markets if the coronavirus situation worsens, but insisted it doesn't plan to scrap the events altogether. The dir...

A British barrister who has come under fire for agreeing to prosecute prominent Hong Kong democracy activists has pulled out of the case, the SAR government announced on Wednesday. Queen's Counsel David Perry had agreed to lead the protest-related c...

Just a little over a week after the government announced that Hong Kong's traditional Lunar New Year fairs cannot be held this year, they're back on again – albeit with a string of conditions. On January 8, the government declared that the fairs c...

Health officials said on Tuesday that more than half of the territory's latest coronavirus infections involve people living in the Yau Tsim Mong area of Kowloon. There are 56 new coronavirus new infections, all but one locally acquired. Thirty-one ...

Hong Kong’s latest unemployment rate has climbed to 6.6 percent, the highest in 16 years, and an academic warned that the worst is not over yet. The latest jobless figure, which covered the three-month period from October to December last year, wa...

The Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) says it will not appeal against the High Court's dismissal of its legal challenge over the police’s behaviour towards reporters at protests. The HKJA had accused the police of acting unlawfully by faili...

Customs officers said on Tuesday they have made the largest seizure yet of counterfeit face masks. In an operation last Thursday, officers confiscated 330,000 fake N-95 medical-grade masks in a logistics company in Kwai Chung. Authorities said the...