Commissioner for Sports Yeung Tak-keung says there's no way public broadcaster RTHK would have the resources to broadcast coverage of the Tokyo Olympics on its own. Speaking on RTHK's City Forum on Sunday, Yeung also said it was unlikely that the T...

A second round of mandatory testing for Hong Kong's foreign domestic helpers got under way on Sunday, with those undergoing Covid checks reporting none of the long queues and chaos seen at the start of the previous mass testing exercise. Helpers tak...

Organisers of the annual June 4 candlelight vigil said on Sunday they would urge police to respect people’s right to assembly when they discuss holding a march and rally to remember the 1989 crackdown on democracy supporters in Tiananmen Square. ...

Health Secretary Sophia Chan said on Sunday that the authorities were stepping up contact tracing in the hope of finding out how a four-year-old child was infected with Covid-19. The boy was confirmed to have the virus on Saturday, making him the fi...

The head of the equal opportunities commission, Ricky Chu, says the rights watchdog will always be a vocal defender of equal rights amid what he described as "unwarranted attacks from across the political spectrum". Chu, who made the comments on an ...

Hong Kong customs say they have made their largest seizure of smuggled goods so far this year – netting electronics, high-end food and cosmetics worth an estimated HK$50 million. However, the department said its officers were unable to make any ar...

Hong Kong on Saturday recorded its first untraceable local Covid-19 case in a week – a four-year-old boy who came down with a fever and sore throat earlier this week. Health officials said the boy had last been to kindergarten on May 12, and saw a...

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) celebrated the successful landing on Saturday of the Zhurong rover on Mars, saying it was an achievement for the country and an honour for the two PolyU research teams that had contributed to the Tianwen-1...

Taiwan warned on Saturday that Hong Kong's decision to freeze assets belonging to jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai was a sign to the international community that doing business in the city was becoming increasingly risky. The asset freeze, announced on...

The Hospital Authority (HA) said on Saturday that less than a third of its full time workers had had a Covid-19 jab. Speaking on a radio programme, the authority's chairman Henry Fan said around 24,000 staff members had been vaccinated, with around...

The government has frozen media tycoon Jimmy Lai's personal assets, using new powers available to authorities under the Beijing-imposed national security law for the first time. Lai is facing three security-related charges, and is already serving a ...

A former principal firefighter explained to the Coroner's Court on Friday why a safety air cushion had not been set up closer to the spot where anti-government protester Marco Leung was standing before he plunged to his death from the Pacific Place m...

Former Democratic Party lawmaker Roy Kwong told the Coroner's Court on Friday that he regretted not being allowed to speak to a protester before he fell to his death in 2019, saying he believed he would have been able to help if police had let him ge...

RTHK received a letter containing a white powder on Friday morning, a day after similar suspicious mail was sent to government officials. The broadcaster said it had reported the matter to the police. On Thursday, Chief Executive Carrie Lam, Securi...

A mainland man was on Friday sentenced to six years and four months in prison, after he admitted to stabbing and slashing a 19-year-old student at the Tai Po 'Lennon tunnel' two years ago. Liu Guosheng, a Guangxi native who came to Hong Kong on Octo...

Executive Council member and lawmaker Regina Ip has accused Health Secretary Sophia Chan of "lacking common sense" over whether Hong Kong should donate unused Covid-19 vaccines to other places, such as India. Speaking at a Legislative Council meetin...

Officials said on Friday that there is a high chance the planned May 26 launch of a long-delayed travel bubble between Hong Kong and Singapore will be pushed back. Speaking to reporters, Commerce Secretary Edward Yau said Singapore’s transport mi...

The SAR government on Friday announced tighter anti-epidemic measures for people flying in from Taiwan, after a spate of Covid-19 cases there. Instead of home quarantine, arrivals will have to stay at a designated quarantine hotel for two weeks. ...

The judiciary said on Friday that the chief justice will be in charge of appointing lay members to a planned panel for handling complaints against judges, but judges will still have control over the process. While complaints are currently handled by...

Infectious disease experts said on Friday that it is important to step up infection control measures and plug all loopholes at quarantine hotels to prevent the spread of mutant strains of the coronavirus which are circulating around the world. The...