Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Wednesday offered an alternative suggestion for any young Hongkongers who have failed to be convinced about the attractions of the Greater Bay Area, suggesting they pack up and move to Hainan instead. She said not only ...

A local green group said on Wednesday that the city needs to create a circular economy for plastics, with the material making up the majority of coastal waste they had collected over the past decade. The Environmental Association said it had collect...

DAB lawmaker Holden Chow warned on Wednesday that the pro-democracy Confederation of Trade Unions (CTU) could be violating the national security law with its private screenings of three documentaries on the social unrest of 2019. Chow said the group...

A student has been sent to a training centre for vandalising the Tsuen Wan office of pro-Beijing lawmaker Junius Ho in 2019. Anson Chu, 20, was put into detention on Wednesday after a second appeal by the Department of Justice (DOJ) against his ear...

Medical experts on Wednesday raised doubts over a presumption that a mutated strain of coronavirus had been spread at a quarantine hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui via door hooks. A man who travelled from Dubai and completed a 21-day quarantine at Ramada Hon...

Singapore has announced it will reduce mandatory quarantine requirements for people arriving from Hong Kong by a week. It said that from Friday, people who have stayed in Hong Kong for at least 14 consecutive days can instead do seven days of home q...

A co-convenor of the government panel on Covid vaccines has downplayed fears of a mass outbreak due to highly-infectious strains recently found here. Professor Ivan Hung from the University of Hong Kong praised government efforts in containing the s...

The jailing of a couple for life on Tuesday over the murder of their daughter, 5, has sparked fresh calls for a mandatory reporting system for suspected child abuse cases. Secretary for Labour and Welfare Law Chi-kwong said the Law Reform Commission...

Health officials said on Tuesday that two returnees from the mainland had tested positive for Covid-19, but there is no evidence so far to suggest they had been infected there. The pair returned to Hong Kong separately, but within a few hours of eac...

Health authorities said on Tuesday that a coronavirus patient with a mutant strain, whose infection prompted a travel ban affecting three countries, most likely caught the virus at his quarantine hotel, as another guest there was confirmed to be infe...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday that she will keep on rebutting criticism from the West, even though she's come to the conclusion that some countries simply can't stand the fact that China has become so strong. In an interview with state...

The High Court on Tuesday sentenced a couple to life imprisonment for the murder of their five-year-old daughter in 2018, with the judge calling it a case of extreme cruelty. The five-year-old’s father, 29, had earlier been unanimously convicted b...

A renovation worker has been jailed for 40 months after he admitted wounding a man who was clearing away barricades put up by anti-government protesters in Mong Kok two years ago. The District Court heard that demonstrators had blocked the junction...

The District Court on Tuesday sentenced a 26-year-old woman who helped run a Telegram channel during anti-government protests in 2019 to three years in jail, for conspiring to destroy property and inciting people to injure others. Hui Pui-yee had pl...

The national security law poses a “grave threat” to journalism in Hong Kong, the international press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders said on Tuesday, as it also warned that Radio Television Hong Kong is being subjected to a government-...

Families trying to find foreign domestic helpers amid a ban on arrivals from the Philippines are bumping up wage offers, the Hong Kong Union of Employment Agencies said on Tuesday. The union’s chairman Thomas Chan told an RTHK programme that the ...

The government at 7 am on Tuesday finished its compulsory testing at ambush lockdowns at two buildings in Tsuen Wan. They had been enforced at 8 pm on Monday after untraceable and preliminary positive Covid-19 cases were detected in the buildings. A...

Authorities on Monday evening announced "ambush lockdowns" on Block 4 of Belvedere Garden Phase 2, as well as Fu Yung Building in Tsuen Wan. In a statement, authorities say all residents of the two buildings are required to stay home and undergo co...

The government has proposed banning people convicted of animal cruelty from keeping pets – maybe even for life – as it plans to amend the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Ordinance in the next Legco term. Speaking at a Legco meeting on Monday, ...

Former director of administration Kitty Choi joined RTHK on Monday as an "adviser to the director of broadcasting". The appointment was announced in an internal mail to station staff. Choi joined the government as an administrative officer in 198...