Customers will be asked to prove that they have been vaccinated when entering restaurants and bars that plan to stay open until 2am, as part of a relaxation of social distancing rules amid an easing of the city’s coronavirus situation. The governm...

A legal challenge to the tabling of a bill in Legco that will set down Beijing’s changes to the SAR’s electoral system has been thrown out by a High Court judge, who held that it has little prospect of success as local courts have no jurisdiction...

Political commentator Chung Kim-wah said on Tuesday that it should not be a crime for people to call on the authorities to respect human rights, but unfortunately nobody knows where the red lines are these days. Chung's comment comes after the polic...

Yet another change to RTHK's television offerings is in the works, the latest schedules reveal – but rather than a programme being dropped this time, new talent has been signed up in the form of Chief Executive Carrie Lam. Lam will present her own...

Commerce secretary Edward Yau said on Tuesday that future travel bubbles will only be open to Hong Kong residents who have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19, or those who – due to their age or health reasons – are unable to get inoculated lo...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam says she sees no need to intervene in the affairs of the Bar Association for the time being, despite Beijing’s scathing criticism against its chairman, Paul Harris. Beijing’s liaison office had called Harris an “ant...

The police have accused the Civil Human Rights Front of breaching the Societies Ordinance and demanded information from the pro-democracy group on its finances and activities, amid fears that it could be outlawed. In a Facebook post, the front said ...

RTHK said on Monday that assistant director of broadcasting, Brian Chow, had tendered his resignation citing family reasons. He will leave the post on July 9. Chow, 50, has worked at the broadcaster for over 30 years. In a statement, RTHK thank...

Kwun Tong’s HK$50 million musical fountain which opened last Thursday after years in the planning has already been closed to the public, over fears that the water has been contaminated – with soap. Critics have dismissed the harbourfront feature...

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...