Four Central and Western district councillors were each fined HK$7,000 by the Eastern Court on Friday, after they admitted to violating social distancing rules at a rally in Sai Ying Pun in August last year. Fergus Leung, Sam Yip, Jordan Pang and Na...

The High Court on Friday handed down the stiffest sentence yet in connection with the 2019 protests, sending a member of a now-disbanded pro-independence group to prison for 12 years for possessing explosives. The judge said in some ways, the offen...

Police said on Friday that they had arrested a 25-year-old cat owner for allegedly making an online threat to poison dogs on the city's streets. Officers said the man was suspected of posting a message on Facebook falsely claiming he had left poiso...

People aged between 16 and 29 on Friday rushed to make appointments for Covid-19 vaccinations, after the government opened up the online booking platform for its inoculation programme to all adults. The Sinovac vaccine is now available for people ag...

Two officials from the Communications Authority are joining RTHK to provide “special support”, staff were told on Friday. The news came just days after a former director of administration started work as an "adviser to the director of broadcasti...

School pupils began sitting this year's Diploma of Secondary Education exams on Friday morning, filling out health declaration forms to be allowed into the exam venue. A secondary school in Yuen Long only allowed candidates sitting a visual arts exa...

Hong Kong's Foreign Correspondents' Club (FCC) on Friday published an open letter to Police Commissioner Chris Tang, seeking "urgent clarity" on his recent comments that the force would prosecute so-called "fake news". The club's letter, dated April...

The police say the pandemic may have prevented child abuse cases from being uncovered, as the force recorded a slight fall in the number of reports last year. The issue of child abuse has come under the spotlight recently, after a couple were senten...

Experts advising the government on Hong Kong's Covid vaccination programme are now recommending pregnant women and nursing mothers to get the BioNTech jab. Previously, they had only advised expectant or nursing mums in high risk groups, such as he...

A prominent microbiologist on Thursday said he suspects cross-contamination in a private laboratory testing samples for the coronavirus may have resulted in more than two dozen false positives. Professor Yuen Kwok-yung of the University of Hong Kong...

Investigative journalist Bao Choy said on Thursday that it was a "very dark day for all journalists in Hong Kong", after she was convicted over car licence plate searches she made for an RTHK documentary on the 2019 Yuen Long attacks. Choy was fined...

Health authorities are investigating whether there are any irregularities at a laboratory processing Covid tests, after it detected 30 preliminary positive cases on a single day from people living in different buildings all across the city. Speaking...

Journalist Bao Choy was on Thursday found guilty of improper searches of an online car licence plate database, during an RTHK investigation aimed at identifying some of the perpetrators of the 2019 Yuen Long attack. Choy, 37, was convicted of two co...

Lawmakers on Thursday expressed concern about proposed changes to election rules that will leave candidates out of pocket if a poll is called off because one of their opponents is disqualified or dies. The Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau ...

Customs officers said on Thursday they had broken up an alleged family-run syndicate they accused of laundering some HK$2.5 billion in just a couple of years. Officers arrested a couple and their son, as well as a former employee of a currency excha...

Former chief justice Geoffrey Ma has raised concerns about the “strange provision” of the national security law that allows the chief executive to appoint judges to oversee national security cases. Ma made the comments during a webinar on March ...

The lawmaker representing the tourism sector, Yiu Si-wing, said on Thursday that he believes local tours can resume next month as Hong Kong's coronavirus situation eases. Yiu told an RTHK programme that the government has agreed that participants o...

An RTHK documentary investigating the 2019 Yuen Long mob attack has won the prestigious annual Kam Yiu-yu Press Freedom Award, as one of the producers awaits the verdict in a court case connected to the programme. The award went to an episode of Hon...

The government said on Wednesday that it was "appalled" by comments made by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) after the international press freedom watchdog warned that the national security law poses a "grave threat" to journalism in Hong Kong in its ...

Top pro-democracy figures Jimmy Lai, Martin Lee and Albert Ho on Wednesday appealed against their convictions and sentences for their roles in an anti-government protest on August 18, 2019. Last week, Lai was jailed for 12 months in prison while Lee...