The privacy watchdog on Saturday alerted the public to protect their personal information when taking part in lucky draws organised for people who have received Covid-19 vaccinations. Many private companies have heeded calls from the government and...

The Centre for Health Protection on Saturday reported one imported coronavirus case. The patient is a 19-year-old woman who flew in from the UK recently. She was undergoing quarantine at Metropark Hotel in Ho Man Tin when she developed symptoms....

West Kowloon Court on Saturday denied bail for two Apple Daily executives charged under the National Security Law. It also adjourned a mention hearing for the pair until August 13. The chief executive of Next Digital, Apple Daily's parent company, C...

A government advisor on Covid-19 vaccination on Saturday again played down concerns over the safety of the Covid vaccines, saying the percentage of people experiencing severe side effects after vaccination is low. Professor Ivan Hung, the convenor ...

The Financial Secretary, Paul Chan, on Saturday warned people against cashing out the HK$5,000 spending vouchers to be dished out by the government in August. The vouchers will come in instalments and must be spent locally. The scheme is aimed at b...

Three of the five Apple Daily executives, arrested by national security police on Thursday, were released on bail on Friday evening. Their release came hours after police charged the other two - editor-in-chief, Ryan Law, and chief executive, Cheung ...

A former history museum worker has been jailed for six months for posting a photo of police officers online during the siege of the Polytechnic University in November 2019. Kowloon City Court on Friday convicted Chan Chi-wah, 44, of obstructing pol...

West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA) on Friday appointed former government official Betty Fung as its CEO for the next three years. Fung, who has been the authority's acting CEO after it parted ways with former chief Duncan Pescod last y...

A social work scholar says people with intellectual disabilities are being left behind because they struggle to follow information put out by the Hong Kong government about Covid-19. Angela Cui, an assistant professor at the Chinese University, too...

The host of a popular RTHK radio programme, Tsang Chi-ho, said on Friday he’s been sacked by the government broadcaster with immediate effect. RTHK neither confirmed nor denied the claim, saying only that the station conducts regular reviews of i...

The Centre for Health Protection on Friday reported three imported coronavirus cases. Two involved domestic helpers from Indonesia, with one of them found to have the L452R mutant strain of coronavirus. The third new patient, a seaman from Cyprus...

The District Court on Friday found five men guilty of wounding and rioting, for their parts in the indiscriminate mob attacks on people in Yuen Long on July 21, 2019. The court heard that the defendants – Wong Ying-kit, Tang Wai-sum, Ng Wai-nam, T...

The government announced on Friday that the first of its planned vouchers for all adult residents will be dished out from August 1, as part of its efforts to boost local spending. While people can get up to HK$5,000, the money will come in instalmen...

Police say they have charged two of the five Apple Daily executives arrested on Thursday with the offence of colluding with a foreign country or external elements to endanger national security. The force's national security department said two men, ...

Former pro-democracy lawmaker Tanya Chan was on Friday found not guilty of breaching public gatherings rules by going to a bar for a meeting in April last year. More than 10 other people were inside the premises in Mong Kok. Kowloon City Magistracy...

Pro-Beijing lawmaker Paul Tse on Friday dismissed concerns about the retroactive effect of the national security law, saying the police may need to look back at actions that occurred prior to the law being introduced in order to establish patterns or...

Apple Daily supporters rushed to buy copies of the newspaper on Friday – a day after the authorities arrested five of the media outlet’s senior executives, raided its offices and newsroom, and froze assets worth millions of dollars. The newspap...

The United States on Thursday strongly condemned the arrest of five executives of pro-democracy Hong Kong tabloid Apple Daily and its parent company and suggested the action was politically motivated. Police carried out the raid on Thursday morning ...

Apple Daily says it is planning a print-run of up to 500,000 for Friday, the day after national security police arrested its editor-in-chief Ryan Law and four other senior executives. The pro-democracy newspaper's offices in Tseung Kwan O were also r...

The Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong on Thursday hit out at foreign politicians and western media who have been critical of the police raid on the offices of the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, and the a...