The government has introduced several amendments to its bill to pave the way for an overhaul of Hong Kong's electoral system, including expanding a candidate-screening committee to bring in "community leaders". The administration tabled the bill to ...

The University of Hong Kong says it has severed ties with its students' union, accusing it of using the campus as a "platform for political propaganda", undermining the institution's interests and tarnishing its reputation. In a public statement an...

Long queues have formed outside testing stations in Tung Chung, after a resident of the area was found to have caught a mutated strain of the coronavirus via an unknown local source. Mandatory testing notices have been issued for people who have vis...

Nine pro-democracy figures on Friday lost appeals against their convictions for taking part in the 2014 Occupy protests. In 2019, Benny Tai, Chan Kin-man, Raphael Wong and Shiu Ka-chun were jailed for between eight and 16 months on public nuisance c...

Four pro-democracy figures on Friday pleaded guilty to taking part in an unauthorised assembly on June 4 last year in Victoria Park. Activist Joshua Wong and district councillors Lester Shum, Tiffany Yuen and Jannelle Leung are among 24 pro-democrac...

RTHK has axed another episode of the television programme Hong Kong Connection, this time a documentary on online media in the territory. The show focused on two outlets – Citizen News and Hong Kong Free Press – and whether they could finance t...

The head of an industry group said on Friday that about 70 percent of restaurants are sticking to the previous Covid-19 restrictions despite a government move to ease the rules for businesses whose staff are vaccinated. However Simon Wong, who leads...

Hong Kong has banned all flights from Nepal and barred travellers who've been to the country within the past two weeks from entering the SAR as concern continues over mutated strains of Covid-19. Officials announced late on Thursday that, from Satur...

Bars in party hotspot Lan Kwai Fong welcomed customers again on Thursday from a monthslong shutdown, but they had to turn away some patrons under new vaccination and Covid app requirements ordered by the government. A few customers in their 20s wer...

In the first case of its kind in Hong Kong, a domestic helper from the Philippines has caught a mutated strain of the coronavirus, N501Y, via an unknown local source. The infection of the helper, 39, forced on Thursday evening the evacuation of a re...

Customers will be able to redeem a HK$100 voucher at any one of around 100 pubs and clubs, the Hong Kong Bar and Club Association said on Thursday, as part of a bid to drum up business after they were forced to close for five months. The government ...

A 26-year-old civil engineer was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday after a jury had found him guilty of murdering his girlfriend on a bus. The High Court heard that Ng Yan-kin stabbed Annie Li, 20, with a cleaver 33 times in Chai Wan on Septe...

The High Court said on Thursday that the prosecution’s interpretation of a “terrorist act” is too wide when it comes to the case against the first person charged under Hong Kong's national security law. A day after the law came into effect las...

Some restaurants are opting out of the looser social distancing restrictions on offer from Thursday, saying they're not worth the trouble, or they simply can't comply with them. Restaurants whose staff are vaccinated and whose customers use the gove...

Research by the University of Hong Kong on Thursday suggested that boredom brought about the coronavirus pandemic helped pushed a record number of young smokers into trying out electronic cigarettes. The university's Faculty of Medicine says the pan...

The Audit Commission on Thursday responded to a public attack by the Immigration Department by urging the disciplined service to start abiding by government rules. The spending watchdog said immigration officials had breached a government requiremen...

The Immigration Department has reacted with fury to a report by the Audit Commission recommending that a backlog of suspected bogus marriage cases be cleared up, ridiculing the watchdog for what it says is its ill-informed criticism. Aside from atta...

The United States said on Thursday it was "deeply concerned" by a new Hong Kong immigration law which includes powers to stop people leaving the city, raising fears mainland-style exit bans could be deployed there. The law was passed on Wednesday by...

Police say they will launch a new app next month that will enable frontline police officers to verify a person’s ID more quickly, as they will no longer have to verify the information with colleagues in the office. The Privacy Commissioner says i...

Hong Kong's bars, karaokes and other entertainment venues are now free to open up again after months of closure, and restaurants can extend their services, but some businesses say they'll have to remain shut as they work out how to comply with the va...