Sources said on Saturday that the police were investigating whether a man who flew in from Dubai in March and his friends had covered up gatherings that might have led to a string of Covid variant cases in Hong Kong. The man was found to have a mut...

Travel agencies in Hong Kong are marking Mother's Day weekend by offering their first local tours since December, as they take advantage of a relaxation in social distancing measures under the government's vaccine bubble plan. Families and friends j...

Amid tight security, the detained former leader of the Democratic Party, Wu Chi-wai, was finally allowed to attend the funeral of his father on Saturday morning. The former lawmaker, who has been in custody for more than four months, stepped out of...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan said on Saturday that the government was adjusting its plans for a HK$5,000 per person handout to give people more flexibility in how they spend their electronic vouchers. Officials had said that the vouchers would be ...

A government adviser on the pandemic said on Saturday that officials should introduce antibody tests as an additional check for inbound travellers who've been vaccinated against Covid-19. Professor David Hui of the Chinese University said an expert...

The judiciary says it's planning to implement a new mechanism for handling complaints against judges, in which lay members will for the first time be involved in the process. Local judges have been subject to increasing complaints over alleged poli...

A resident of a luxury apartment block in Pok Fu Lam on Friday welcomed the government’s relaxation of its policy to quarantine whole buildings where patients with a mutated strain of the coronavirus live, calling the arrangements “overkill”. ...

A member of staff at BGI, a mainland firm responsible for Covid-19 testing in Hong Kong, has tested positive for coronavirus despite being fully inoculated. The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) said on Friday that the 29-year-old man took his two...

The High Court has thrown out a bid by ex-lawmaker Ted Hui to resurrect prosecutions relating to the 2019 protests that the Department of Justice (DoJ) had taken over and dropped. Hui, who recently fled Hong Kong while facing charges of his own, la...

Thousands of people put into quarantine are to be released early, as part of an overhaul of the way authorities handle Covid infections involving mutant strains, while quarantine periods in general will be cut for those who are fully vaccinated. Off...

Legislator after legislator on Friday warned the government it must watch out for the pro-democracy Professional Teachers' Union (PTU), making a series of claims against the body as it supports members struck off over protest-related complaints. Fro...

A public health expert at the University of Hong Kong says plans to reduce the quarantine period for vaccinated close contacts of Covid-19 patients are reasonable, as there's a lower chance of them being infected. In recent days, thousands of people...

A national security judge on Friday granted former Democratic Party chairman Wu Chi-wai permission to attend his father’s funeral, two days after his request was rejected by prison officials. Wu’s plea to be allowed to attend his father’s fune...

The head of the Confederation of Trade Unions, Mung Siu-tat, has called on the government to introduce quarantine leave for people put into isolation by health authorities, saying employees are having their pay deducted because they're unable to work...

Authorities put a public housing block in Chai Wan under lockdown from 9pm on Thursday, after a resident there tested preliminary positive for a mutant variant of the coronavirus. Residents of Fung Hing House in Hing Wah (II) Estate have been order...

Police from the national security department descended on a children's clothing shop in Tsuen Wan for investigation on Thursday. Officers were seen cordoning off the Chickeeduck store at Heung Shing Street at around 5pm and searched the premises fo...

An executive producer who headed renowned RTHK documentary programme, Hong Kong Connection, resigned on Thursday. Paul Lee reportedly quit after suggestions for new episodes on the 2019 Yuen Long mob attack and local commemorations of the Tiananmen...

A former official who previously set questions for the DSE history exam said this year's paper was much less challenging, after a controversial question on whether Japan did more good than harm to China from 1900 to 1945 was scrapped last year. On ...

Chinese University's student union says eight former executive members have been disqualified from various university committees. The representatives were part of the now-disbanded student cabinet, Syzygia, which resigned en masse in March followin...

Hong Kong DJ “Uncle” Ray Cordeiro announced on Thursday that he’ll be hanging up his headphones for good after his show on May 14, bringing to a close a career that has spanned seven decades. “As a DJ, I have a very strong bond with my liste...