Hong Kong University microbiologist Yuen Kwok-yung said bad ventilation at a restaurant in Tsim Sha Tsui might have caused an expanding coronavirus cluster there. Forty-eight cases -- including 22 customers and nine staff at Mr Ming's Chinese Dining...

Lawmaker and Basic Law Committee member Priscilla Leung has called for a special committee to be set up to vet potential candidates who plan to take part in local elections. The Business and Professionals Alliance legislator made the suggestion on M...

The head of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, Xia Baolong, has reportedly called for “severe punishment” for Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai, jailed activist Joshua Wong and former HKU legal scholar Benny Tai. In a transcript published by t...

The Health Secretary, Sophia Chan, said on Monday that authorities will investigate whether it was a side effect of the Sinovac coronavirus vaccine that caused an elderly man to become ill shortly after receiving a shot. The 72-year-old man, who had...

Police on Monday warned people gathering outside the court where 47 pro-democracy figures were appearing on subversion charges that they too could be arrested under the national security law. Officers raised the purple warning flag that they have be...

The District Court on Monday adjourned the trial of seven pro-democracy figures over a 2019 protest after the hearing clashed with a national security case involving one of the defendants. Media tycoon Jimmy Lai and former lawmakers Martin Lee, Marg...

The government came under heavy criticism on Monday over serious delays in sending out coronavirus test results, with an infectious disease expert warning this is making the testing meaningless. Authorities have been expanding testing in a bid to de...

Hundreds of people gathered outside West Kowloon Magistracy on Monday to show support for 47 pro-democracy activists due to appear there accused of "subverting the state" by holding Legco primary polls. As they queued up for seats for the hearing, ...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called for the immediate release of Hong Kong dissidents charged and detained under Beijing's sweeping new national security law. "We condemn the detention of and charges filed against pan-democratic candidat...

New Director of Broadcasting Patrick Li on Monday vowed to uphold editorial independence, while at the same time emphasising the importance of RTHK "fulfilling its editorial responsibilities", adding that there's no "freedom without restraint". Li,...

A constitutional law expert on Monday said the subversion charges against 47 pan-democrats for holding a primary election brings Hong Kong into "huge disrepute" and doesn't benefit anyone. Professor Michael Davis, a US-based senior fellow at the Un...

The government said on Sunday that people would be able start making appointments to receive the BioNtech Covid vaccines by the middle of this week, as they prepared to open up thousands more appointments to receive the Sinovac inoculation. Some 585...

A social policy academic from Lingnan University on Sunday strongly criticised the government's plan to provide low-interest bank loans to the jobless, saying that's the worst option the authorities can offer to the unemployed. Financial Secretary ...

A coronavirus cluster involving a restaurant in an upscale shopping mall in Tsim Sha Tsui has expanded to include over 40 people, as health officials moved to offer free Covid-19 tests for those who received an alert on the government's LeaveHomeSafe...

The European Union on Sunday called for the release of 47 pro-democracy campaigners who've been detained on a a charge of conspiracy to commit subversion under the National Security Law. Meanwhile British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab described th...

A former National People's Congress standing committee member on Sunday suggested that people who want to run for Legislative Council in future need to be nominated by the election committee and district councillors should be barred from selecting th...

Police said on Sunday they have charged 47 people with conspiracy to subvert state powers under the National Security Law. They said 39 were men and eight were women, and they were aged from 23 to 64. They said they would be detained overnight and ...

The Chief Secretary, Matthew Cheung, said on Sunday that groups of people who are given a priority for Covid-19 vaccines can get their shots directly from selected private doctors later this week. Writing in his weekly blog, the top official said t...

Top government officials on Sunday moved to allay concerns that the decision to increase stamp duty on stock transactions by 30 percent could harm the SAR's competitiveness as a financial hub. Speaking on a radio show, the Secretary for Financial S...

A 72-year-old man was sent to hospital on Saturday after reporting that he felt unwell shortly after receiving a Covid-19 jab. He's one of about 7,000 people who received Covid-19 vaccinations on Saturday, taking the total number of people inoculat...