Health authorities on Monday appealed to people who had recently been to a clinic in Central to get tested for Covid-19, as officials continued to trace contacts of two coronavirus patients found to be carrying a mutated strain. A 31-year-old woman ...

The government on Monday said officials will speed up work to sack more than a hundred civil servants who have refused to declare their loyalty to the SAR. The Civil Service Bureau said 129 members of the 170,000-strong government workforce have fa...

The Hong Kong Employers of Overseas Domestic Helpers Association says the government's two-week ban on arrivals from the Philippines has come as a relief to many people who are concerned about the Covid-19 situation in the country. The discovery of...

Lawyers for pro-democracy activist Tam Tak-chi on Monday applied for proceedings against him to be halted, by challenging the legality of the colonial-era sedition law he is accused of violating. The People Power activist is facing numerous charges ...

A large queue of people seeking coronavirus tests formed at Harbour City in Tsim Sha Tsui on Monday morning, amid fears a highly infectious strain of the virus is spreading in the community. The government ordered a mass-testing exercise after someb...

A specialist in respiratory medicine said on Monday that people who have spent time in India, Pakistan and the Philippines should be banned from coming to Hong Kong for as long as it takes for the coronavirus situation in those places to improve. T...

The government said on Sunday that it's banning flights from India, Pakistan and the Philippines for two weeks from Tuesday, after the SAR found its first case in the community infected with the N501Y mutant coronavirus strain. The 29-year-old man,...

Firefighters, police and the Civil Aid Service on Sunday evening found the body of a missing woman after a 30-hour search on the steep cliffs of Kowloon Peak – where her hiking shoes were found last night. More than a hundred officers were deploy...

The Department of Health said on Sunday that it's following up some vaccination irregularities, including the case of a man who received mixed coronavirus vaccines. It said in a statement that the 32-year-old man went to a private clinic for a Sino...

The Foreign Ministry's Office in Hong Kong on Sunday accused overseas politicians of being "hypocrites", saying their calls for the release of several pro-democracy activists jailed for taking part in an unauthorized protest in 2019 ignores the “ma...

The Democratic Party has urged the government to offer exemptions and alternatives for unvaccinated people when it launches its "vaccine bubble" plan, as concerns persist on whether people would be forced to take Covid-19 jabs under such policies. ...

A survey measuring pupils' stress levels ahead of next week's start of university entrance examinations suggests the coronavirus pandemic is taking a toll on their mental well-being. Announcing the results on Sunday, the Hok Yau Club said the 1,700 ...

The Centre for Health Protection on Sunday reported 30 new coronavirus cases, with all but one imported from overseas. Health officials said the local case is a woman who lives in Jordan's Parkes Building, where a returnee from Dubai who carried a ...

Health Secretary Sophia Chan said on Sunday the government is considering whether it needs to further tighten hotel quarantine measures and flight restrictions, after a man who returned from Dubai and completed 21 days of quarantine tested positive f...

The chief executive of the Hong Kong Science and Technology Park, Albert Wong, warned on Sunday that tech companies will start looking outside the city for opportunities if the SAR fails to attract enough talent to join the sector. Speaking on RTHK'...

The chairman of the Hong Kong Journalists Association, Chris Yeung, on Saturday said he’s extremely concerned that freedom of the press here could be further restrained, after Police Commissioner Chris Tang warned that the national security law cou...

The government has rejected criticism of recent court sentences, saying it disagrees with the "ungrounded comments" made by politicians. In a statement issued on Saturday, the Department of Justice said there had been “bare assertions” that the...

Local health authorities are scrambling to find out how a 29-year-old man who returned to Hong Kong from Dubai last month got infected with a highly infectious coronavirus variant. It’s the first N501Y strain reported in the Hong Kong community. ...

Police said they arrested four men in connection with a robbery on a car in Yau Ma Tei. Officers said the robbers crashed their car into the victim's vehicle on Hoi Po Road and smashed the windows with hammers before stealing HK$16 million in cash. ...

The president of the Federation of Restaurants and Related Trades, Simon Wong, has dismissed concerns that some employees in the catering sector would face the sack if they don't get vaccinated against Covid-19. The government earlier announced tha...