The government announced on Monday that it will significantly expand the city-wide coronavirus vaccination programme, covering everyone aged 30 and above, amid a slow take-up rate in the city. Domestic helpers and students aged over 16 who study ou...

Pro-Beijing figures in Hong Kong put forward various suggestions on Monday as to how many of Legco's lawmakers the public should get to choose in future, with one saying he hopes it can be limited to little more than a fifth of the members. Mainland...

The city's consumer rights' watchdog has seen a spike in complaints about wedding services last year when many couples had to postpone or cancel their bookings due to the pandemic. More than 230 complaints were recorded by the Consumer Council in 20...

A senior Communist Party official said on Monday that the central government is "all ears" when it comes to views on the planned changes to Hong Kong's electoral system, as long as people's opinions are based on Beijing's decision on the matter. Mai...

A prominent Beijing loyalist, Maria Tam, said on Monday that "facts and truth" can keep a committee to be set up to vet candidates for public office in Hong Kong in check. But she also expressed reservations to suggestions that candidates could turn...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Monday that the government's work to amend law after law to accommodate Beijing's overhaul of the electoral system is so important that she'll have to supervise every aspect of it herself. Just like the national se...

Beijing officials are to start seeking "public opinion" on the electoral overhaul planned for Hong Kong, even though the move has already been rubber-stamped by the National People's Congress (NPC). On March 11, 2,895 members of the NPC voted in fa...

University of Hong Kong microbiologist Ho Pak-leung warned on Monday that more coronavirus outbreaks could emerge in the community if health authorities don't act quickly enough to trace close contacts of patients linked to a Sai Ying Pun gym. The ...

A High Court judge on Monday remanded district councillor Sam Cheung in custody, after the government successfully challenged a magistrate’s decision to grant him bail. Cheung is one of 47 pro-democracy figures charged with subversion under the n...

The head of a medical concern group on Monday urged the public to get vaccinated to stave off a possible fifth wave of Covid-19 infections. David Lam, the chairperson of Medical Conscience - who will run a vaccination centre - said the government s...

Health officials said on Monday that they had tested more than a thousand residents of Central and Western after an overnight ambush-style Covid-19 lockdown and found two confirmed cases. They said in a statement that the test result of one other s...

The government says four people were sent to hospital on Sunday after receiving their Covid-19 vaccinations. Two have been discharged and the other two have been kept in for observation. It said 7,900 people had received their first dose Sinovac jab...

Residents of Central and Western are facing more ambush-style Covid lockdowns with two being imposed on Sunday evening at separate locations. It's the second night in a row that there has been a lockdown in Central and Western, as the government tr...

Health authorities said on Sunday they were expecting more cases to emerge from a growing Covid-19 outbreak originating from a gym cluster in Sai Ying Pun, which has now been linked to more than 100 confirmed cases. Dr Albert Au, a principal medical...

The official heading the government's vaccination drive said on Sunday that they will lower the age limit for people to sign up for Covid-19 inoculation, while also adding more high-risk groups to the eligible list. Civil Service Secretary Patrick N...

Residents who underwent compulsory testing overnight in the Mid-Levels said on Sunday morning that the operation was very efficient, but they were divided about whether it was completely necessary. Officials say 1,855 people were tested for Covid-19...

Hong Kong's sole delegate to the nation's top legislative body, Tam Yiu-chung, said on Sunday that he expects detailed legislation to put into effect Beijing's sweeping electoral reforms to be concluded by May, as the SAR runs on a tight schedule ahe...

The Chinese Embassy in London on Sunday rejected as "groundless slanders" western criticism of Beijing's sweeping electoral reforms for Hong Kong, including Britain's claim that China is now in "ongoing non-compliance" with the Sino-British Joint Dec...

Officials began easing an overnight lockdown in Mid-Levels on Sunday morning after testing some 1,855 people for Covid-19, with no confirmed cases found. People who could show an SMS with a negative test result or who were wearing a wristband indica...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan says he hopes that businesses can get back to making money again – now that the SAR's long-awaited Covid-19 vaccination programme has begun. Some 177,000 people had received Covid vaccinations as of Sunday, raising ho...