Director of Broadcasting Patrick Li told lawmakers on Tuesday that RTHK has more programmes promoting government policies in the pipeline, and he hopes the station's staff can also start collaborating with mainland media. At a special Legco meeting...

The government has announced that it will expand its Covid-19 vaccination programme to include mainlanders with two-way permits and refugees. In a statement published on Tuesday, a government spokesperson said there are some 40,000 mainland resident...

Organisers of the annual June 4 candlelight vigil called on the police not to use the Covid-19 pandemic as an excuse to block the memorial from happening again, after the force on Tuesday asked how they plan to comply with social distancing regulatio...

Researching vaccine options, getting a body check and booking time off work are common among those getting jabs against Covid-19, but some people are going a step further and making wills before inoculation day. Wong Tai Sin district councillor and ...

Police said on Tuesday they had arrested one of their own officers and a woman, 47, on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud. It's understood that the officer concerned is Harbour Chan, an assistant commander in Sha Tin District, who is also known for ...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday the government won’t immediately start making district councillors take an oath of allegiance, since many are still resigning. She said oath taking will take place once the situation has stabilised – bu...

RHTK's decision to outsource production of one of its programmes after "unapproved content" made its way into a recent episode is both "disturbing" and "totally disproportionate", the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) said on Tuesday. The gov...

The SAR government couldn’t persuade many Hongkongers to get Covid-19 vaccines even if it paid them, Chief Executive Carrie Lam conceded on Tuesday. There have been calls for the administration to offer people cash to get jabs, to help tackle Hon...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday it was wrong for Hong Kong to have initially suspended quarantine-free entry for Hongkongers returning from Guangdong. Speaking before the weekly Executive Council meeting, Lam brushed aside suggestions tha...

Leading microbiologist Ho Pak-leung has expressed support for the government’s move to adopt Beijing's Covid-19 risk assessments for mainland cities. Over the weekend the SAR government reversed its decision to stop Hongkongers returning to the t...

A member of the government's vaccine task force is urging Hong Kong people to get inoculated now, warning that BioNTech shots will soon be out of date and the SAR may not be able to get its hands on further doses for the rest of this year. Thomas Ts...

RTHK on Monday said it has hired an outside team to take over production of the TV programme, Legco Review, for the time being after the latest episode aired last Friday contained footage of organisers of the annual June 4 candlelight vigil taking pa...

University of Hong Kong researchers said on Monday that schools should stay open as much as possible as they do not pose a high risk of Covid-19 transmission. That, they said, would allow students to attend classes in person and boost their social s...

Former chief executive Tung Chee-hwa on Monday urged people not to leave Hong Kong, accusing those who have chosen to migrate to places like the UK of "lacking foresight". Speaking at a press conference organised by the Hong Kong Coalition, of whic...

Health officials said on Monday that a nurse who tested positive for coronavirus was probably not actually infected with Covid-19, and traces of the virus in her upper respiratory tract could have come from the Sinovac jab she was working with. Dr ...

A shadow of fear hangs over Hong Kong's outspoken and staunchly pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper, with its billionaire owner Jimmy Lai now jailed and many reporters asking themselves: "Are we next?" Each day, tomorrow's date is hung up on the wal...

As the coronavirus vaccination programme makes Hong Kong people more conscious of their health, a private cardiologist says it's led to a jump in the number of people discovering they have heart problems they weren't aware of. Dr Godwin Leung said ...

Hong Kong people could soon be able to go on cruises again, but only if they are fully vaccinated and as long as the ships don't actually go anywhere in particular. Commerce Secretary Edward Yau said on Monday that "cruises to nowhere" would allow p...

Cathay Pacific has won a contract to provide meals at the Penny's Bay quarantine camp, a lawmaker said on Monday, following a scandal over the quality of food provided there by a government contractor. Some of those held at the centre recently compl...

The medical director of a vaccination centre in Jordan says he has ordered staff to get inoculated themselves, after a nurse there was listed as a preliminary positive case on Sunday. Samuel Kwok, who is in charge of vaccinations at the Kwun Chung ...