The Centre for Health Protection has issued a compulsory Covid-19 testing order for anyone who visited Deep Water Bay Beach on April 25 and May 1, as it tries to combat the spread of a more infectious strain of coronavirus. A variant with the N501Y ...

An RTHK documentary into the Yuen Long gang rampage in July 2019 won another award on Thursday, two weeks after one of its producers, Bao Choy, was convicted over her investigative work for the programme. There is also recognition in this year's Hum...

Secondary school students sitting a DSE history exam on Thursday told RTHK they would avoid any elective questions on China, just in case there's a repeat of the controversy that erupted last year. A question on the paper in 2020 – which asked whe...

Pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong and district councillors Lester Shum, Tiffany Yuen and Jannelle Leung were jailed for between four and 10 months on Thursday for taking part in a June 4 vigil that had been banned by the authorities. Wong received ...

University of Hong Kong microbiologist Ho Pak-leung on Thursday called on the police to investigate whether several people infected with a mutated strain of Covid-19 deliberately concealed their movements around the territory, hampering efforts to tr...

Health authorities on Thursday said they had found no new infections, after testing some 460 residents of Block R of Allway Gardens in Tsuen Wan. The residents have all now been quarantined for 21 days after a recently-arrived foreign domestic helper...

Health authorities on Wednesday said their latest investigation found how a mutated strain of coronavirus has possibly spread in Hong Kong. The Centre for Health Protection found a possible link between the infection of a man who flew in from Dubai ...

Former Democratic Party lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting and eight other victims of the Yuen Long mob attack on July 21, 2019 have decided to drop a civil suit against Police Commissioner Chris Tang. Lam and other people injured in the gang rampage filed a l...

The District Court on Wednesday handed down jail sentences of at least four years to three people convicted of rioting in Tsuen Wan during anti-government protests in 2019 – even though the judge acknowledged there was no evidence they had any actu...

An evacuation of a residential building in Tsuen Wan over a coronavirus scare on Wednesday sparked uproar among residents angry about what they said were chaotic and confusing arrangements. More than 220 households in Block R of Allway Gardens were...

Former RTHK producer Bao Choy says she is appealing against her conviction in connection with a documentary on the 2019 Yuen Long gang attack, saying she wouldn't be able to sleep at night if she didn't. The freelance journalist was fined HK$6,000 l...

A concern group for foreign domestic workers on Wednesday called on the government to withdraw its mandatory testing order for all helpers, as it also demanded an apology from Labour Secretary Law Chi-kwong for his “discriminatory” remarks agains...

Prison officials have defended their decision to refuse to allow Wu Chi-wai to attend his father's funeral by saying they have to ensure the safety of their officers, the public and Wu himself. In a statement, they said various factors had been take...

Health officials say residents from two apartment blocks in Quarry Bay and Pok Fu Lam will be sent to quarantine for 21 days after two domestic helpers were confirmed to have contracted highly infectious strains of the coronavirus. The Centre for He...

A specialist in respiratory medicine has cast doubt on the government’s plan to relax quarantine requirements for people flying back to Hong Kong who are fully vaccinated against coronavirus. Leung Chi-chiu said on Wednesday that such a move woul...

A DNA specialist on Wednesday said Hong Kong could consider capping the number of people allowed to return to the city, to prevent imported coronavirus cases. Dr Gilman Siu from the Department of Health Technology and Informatics at Polytechnic Uni...

Residents of two buildings in Quarry Bay and Pok Fu Lam began taking Covid-19 tests on Wednesday morning after two suspected cases of a more infectious strain were found in the blocks. People living in block N2 of Kornhill in Quarry Bay and Royalto...

The government said on Tuesday that its flight ban on the United Kingdom and Ireland could be lifted on Friday - if the coronavirus situation in the two countries and in Hong Kong "remains largely unchanged". The ban on passenger flights to Hong Ko...

A group of former marine police officers are trying to save Hong Kong's last ‘dai fei’ – one of the notorious armour plated speedboats used in cross border smuggling before and around the time of the handover. One such ‘dai fei’ captured b...

Health Secretary Sophia Chan said on Tuesday that the government is planning to shorten the quarantine period for fully vaccinated people who fly back to Hong Kong. Chan told lawmakers at a meeting of Legco’s health services panel that experts had...