Wincastle Travel has become the latest local travel agency to go out of business, as the badly hit travel industry struggles to stay afloat during the pandemic. The Travel Industry Council said it received the 35-year-old company's formal notice on ...

Hong Kong residents staying anywhere in mainland China will be allowed to return to the city from April 29 without needing to quarantine, the government announced on Monday, as it described the Covid-19 situation across the border as under control. ...

Pro-democracy activist Tam Tak-chi on Monday lost a legal fight to have prosecution proceedings against him halted. The People Power activist is accused of chanting seditious slogans that incited hatred and contempt of the Hong Kong government, as w...

Hong Kong's pro-democracy protesters will not be forgotten, an Oscar winner told millions of people around the world watching the 93rd Academy Awards ceremony on Monday morning. A documentary on the 2019 protests, "Do Not Split", was nominated for b...

Hong Kong and Singapore announced on Monday that a long-awaited “travel bubble” will start on May 26 at the earliest, following the easing of the coronavirus situation in the two places. Under the agreement, residents will be allowed to travel b...

Students sitting this year's liberal studies DSE exam said on Monday that they felt lucky to have been taught the subject before it is given an overhaul. A student surnamed Chui told RTHK that the curriculum had taught him critical thinking. He sai...

Medical experts have backed the government's move to stop private laboratory BGI from running mobile testing stations until investigations into its procedures and the accuracy of sample-taking are complete, following several apparent blunders. The m...

An expert in suicide prevention has urged the community to begin offering more support to elderly people, saying that they've become more isolated than ever amid the pandemic. Paul Yip of the University of Hong Kong made the comments after police re...

Beijing’s liaison office on Sunday pressured the Hong Kong Bar Association to depose its chairman Paul Harris, after accusing the senior counsel of abandoning his professional ethics and the rule of law by speaking out against the prison sentences ...

An elderly man found hanging in his North Point flat on Saturday may have killed his unwell wife before committing suicide because he was worried that he could no longer take good care of her, police said on Sunday. Officers said the couple had been...

The government may be trumpeting the imminent reopening of borders through ‘travel bubbles’ and other quarantine-free travel schemes, but Ocean Park chairman Lau Ming-wai said on Sunday that the cash-strapped attraction will keep its focus on loc...

Health authorities on Sunday confirmed two new local Covid-19 infections – both connected to a previous infection at a Tseung Kwan O apartment block. Officials also confirmed four imported cases and fewer than 10 preliminary positives. The two loc...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan on Sunday said he expects a ‘significant’ turnaround for Hong Kong’s economy, which contracted by an unprecedented 6.1 percent last year – even as he warned that low vaccination rates here may put this recovery a...

Labour minister Law Chi-kwong on Sunday played down the impact of a two-week travel ban from the Philippines, on local families who have been waiting for foreign domestic helpers from the country, saying the move is holding up far fewer workers than ...

Police are investigating the death of an elderly couple who were found unconscious in a North Point flat on Saturday as a possible murder-suicide. An 83-year-old man was found hanging inside the flat, as his wife, 85, lay passed out in the same room...

An economist has cautioned parents that their unhappy children may not be any better off if the family decides to move to the United Kingdom. Lingnan University's Professor Ho Lok-sang made the comments after reports emerged that as many as three t...

Police say they've arrested an elderly man living in a Tuen Mun care home in connection with the suspected murder of another man in the same facility. They said an 85-year-old man was found unconscious with facial injuries on Friday night, while a ...

The convenor of the Executive Council, Bernard Chan, has dismissed rumours that the government will soon impose further social distancing restrictions on people who have not been vaccinated. He also said it's impossible to carry out drastic measure...

Health officials on Saturday confirmed three new local coronavirus infections, and one of them is a Filipino helper who was found to be carrying a highly infectious variant of Covid-19 after she completed her quarantine. The helper, 38, was one of ...

The government said on Saturday that it found no coronavirus cases after testing around 950 residents in a building in South Horizons in Ap Lei Chau during an overnight ambush-style lockdown. Authorities sealed off Yee Lai Court, or Block 10 of Sou...