The High Court on Monday allowed prosecutors to add an alternative charge against the first person charged under Hong Kong's national security law – dangerous driving causing grievous bodily harm, rather than terrorism. Tong Ying-kit is also accus...

A 30-year-old legal assistant appeared in court on Monday over an alleged collusion case involving media tycoon Jimmy Lai and activist Andy Li – one of 12 Hongkongers accused of trying to escape prosecution in the SAR by fleeing to Taiwan. Chan Ts...

A third member of a Tin Shui Wai family was on Monday confirmed to be infected with a mutated strain of coronavirus. The 20-year-old student was sent to a quarantine centre on June 4 and developed symptoms such as a cough, runny nose and diarrhoea ...

The Court of Final Appeal (CFA) is set to hear arguments on whether people charged with unlawful assembly or rioting can be convicted even if they were not present at the scene. An appeal has been initiated by Tong Wai-hung, who was among several de...

The Education Bureau said on Monday that it is investigating the suspension of classes at a private school in Tsim Sha Tsui over financial problems. Mount Kelly School Hong Kong has reportedly told parents in an email that it needs time to sort out ...

The pro-democracy alliance which for decades organised June 4 vigils has always been subversive in nature and should disband or risk prosecution, a pro-Beijing stalwart warned on Monday. Lo Man-tuen, vice-chairman of the All-China Federation of Retu...

University of Hong Kong microbiologist Ho Pak-leung says the government should trace and test people who flew in from high risk places in the past month, to see if any of them were infected with a UK variant of Covid-19 and spread it to a family livi...

A group of pro-democracy district councillors on Sunday criticised government departments for lacking coordination when heavy smoke caused by a burning barge engulfed West Kowloon last week. The fire broke out on the vessel near Stonecutters Island...

Health officials said on Sunday that genetic sequencing shows that Shenzhen is unlikely to be the source of a Covid-19 variant that first infected a 17-year old Hong Kong girl, and then her mother, who shows no symptoms and hasn't been vaccinated. T...

A taxi driver has been arrested for criminal damage and entering a closed area without permit, after he crashed into a gate of the Central Barracks of the Chinese People's Liberation Army on Saturday night. The 53-year-old man was driving along Lung...

The head of the Medical Association, Choi Kin, said officials should consider sending doctors to schools to directly address any concerns that teachers and parents may have about the BioNTech vaccine. His comment on Sunday comes after the governmen...

The government said it’s considering sending teams to schools to administer Covid-19 jabs, after authorities lowered the age limit for the BioNTech vaccine to 12 years old. Speaking on a television interview, education secretary Kevin Yeung said ...

Former minister and scholar Anthony Cheung said on Sunday that pro-democracy parties should take part in future elections, in spite of what he called the "difficult and challenging" situation they're in after Beijing's overhaul of Hong Kong's elector...

Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung on Sunday called on teaching staff to get inoculated against Covid-19 as soon as possible, saying information provided by around 2,000 schools across Hong Kong shows that only about 18 percent of teachers have received ...

The head of a child protection NGO on Sunday said calls to the organisation's child helpline have doubled during the pandemic yet the number of reported cases has decreased. Dr Patrick Cheung, the chairperson of Against Child Abuse, said anti-epidemi...

One of the organisers of the candlelight vigil to commemorate those killed in the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown was released on bail on Saturday after being arrested on Friday for allegedly advertising the banned event. Chow Hang-tung, the vice c...

Health officials warned on Saturday that more coronavirus cases might surface after a 17-year-old girl who lives in Tin Shui Wai contracted a variant of Covid-19 first detected in the UK, while urging people to get vaccinated as soon as possible. T...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Saturday that taking part in elections is not the only way for people to pursue a career in politics, appealing to talents to join the administration. Speaking at a seminar hosted by the pro-government DAB party, ...

China on Saturday berated the US and EU consulates in Hong Kong for displaying candles to commemorate the June 4 Tiananmen crackdown, slamming it as a "clumsy political show" to destabilise the city. Candles were seen lit in the windows of the US co...

Latest genetic analysis showed on Saturday that a secondary school girl who tested preliminary positive for the coronavirus has contracted a variant of Covid-19 that was first detected in the UK. It is the first time the UK variant, with a scientifi...