Sixteen people connected to a Sai Ying Pun gym have come down with Covid-19, one day after a fitness trainer there contracted the disease. The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) said the Ursus Fitness cluster now stands at 17, of which seven are st...

Senior Hong Kong officials put out a flurry of statements on Thursday afternoon expressing their delight at the NPC's approval of Beijing's plan to overhaul Hong Kong's electoral system. Several, including the director of fire services, the commissi...

Britain’s foreign secretary Dominic Raab said on Thursday that the decision by the National People’s Congress to make sweeping changes to Hong Kong’s electoral system will undermine international confidence and trust in China. Raab’s comment...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Thursday expressed her administration's "sincere gratitude" to the National People's Congress for approving Beijing's plan for a drastic overhaul of Hong Kong's electoral system, saying the changes will fix the problem o...

Three men have each been sentenced to 40 months in prison after pleading guilty to robbing a supermarket of 600 rolls of toilet paper in February last year when the Covid-19 pandemic began. The District Court heard that on February 17 last year, on...

The National People’s Congress (NPC) on Thursday officially endorsed a proposal to “refine” Hong Kong’s election system, at the conclusion of its annual plenary session. The plan, which officials say will make sure the SAR is ruled by "patri...

The government is set to release guidelines on various groups of people who should not take coronavirus vaccines, sources tell RTHK, at a time of growing scepticism about the safety and efficacy of the jabs. RTHK understands that the guidelines, mai...

The Editorial Board of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has lashed out at Financial Secretary Paul Chan for claiming Hong Kong has a “high degree of autonomy”, accusing Chan of “invoking a system that no longer exists”. In a letter written by C...

A member of the MPF Schemes Advisory Committee, disqualified pro-democracy lawmaker Kenneth Leung, said on Thursday that it makes sense for the authorities to refuse to accept BN(O) passports and visas as proof that someone is leaving the territory a...

An infectious diseases expert has called for staff at high-risk premises such as gyms to be tested for the coronavirus every seven days, instead of two weeks. Leung Chi-chiu made the suggestion on Thursday after a cluster of cases emerged at a gym i...

A director of the Greater Bay Airlines, Stanley Hui, said the Hong Kong-based start-up carrier "surely" has the financial capabilities to develop, despite the unprecedented challenges the Covid-19 pandemic has posed to the aviation industry. Hui sa...

The High Court on Thursday revoked the bail granted to Yuen Long district councillor Ng Kin-wai – one of the 47 pro-democracy figures charged with subversion under the national security law. National security judge Esther Toh ordered that Ng be r...

Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Ted Hui is welcome to campaign on political issues in Australia and his arrival is not a matter for China, the chair of the Australian parliament's intelligence committee said on Thursday. In the first comments from ...

The High Court on Thursday granted bail to former Democratic Party lawmaker Helena Wong, one of a group of 47 pan-democrats charged with subversion under the national security law. She was ordered to pay cash bail of HK$200,000 and surrender all he...

The High Court is hearing a challenge by prosecutors to a lower court’s decision to grant bail to 11 pro-democracy activists charged under the national security law. Dozens of people lined up for the bail hearing, some as early as 1 am. There’s...

Police are appealing for witnesses after a 52-year-old petrol station attendant died after being trapped against a column following a car accident. The accident happened on Sunday morning in Tin Sum in Sha Tin, when a private car, driven by a 28-ye...

The head of the community vaccination centre in Jordan, which offers the Sinovac Covid-19 jab, says there has been an increase in people turning up for their bookings in the past two days. The take-up rate dropped following reports of deaths and illn...

Britain said on Wednesday that proposed changes to Hong Kong's electoral system would be another attack on the freedoms of its former colony, and that London had raised its concerns directly with Beijing. "Such measures, if introduced, would be a fu...

The Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority stressed on Wednesday that people cannot use a British National (Overseas) passport or the BN(O) visa for those relocating to Britain as proof they are leaving the territory and are therefore eligible to...

Eight activists from the Labour Party and the League of Social Democrats were on Wednesday given 14-day suspended prison sentences, after being found guilty of breaching the government's public gathering limit by staging a protest on Labour Day last ...