The High Court on Tuesday granted bail to another of the 47 people facing a subversion charge for taking part in the pro-democracy camp’s Legco primaries last year. Owen Chow, 24, was released on a cash bail of HK$50,000 and a surety of another H...

Health officials reported seven new imported Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, as Hong Kong notched up 15 days in a row with no local infections. Six of the new patients were domestic helpers arriving from Indonesia, four of which carried the L452R mutated...

Apple Daily halted more of its services on Tuesday, just a day after warning that the media outlet's entire operations could come to an end by the weekend. A brief message on the newspaper's English-language web pages said: "This concludes the updat...

The first person in Hong Kong charged under the national security law, Tong Ying-kit, on Tuesday lost another legal challenge against the secretary for justice’s decision to deny him a trial by jury – with the Court of Appeal upholding a lower co...

As Carrie Lam ended her weekly press briefing on Tuesday, an Apple Daily reporter shouted what would probably have been his final questions to the chief executive, with the newspaper facing imminent closure being as its assets are frozen under the na...

Carrie Lam has accused the United States of "beautifying acts" that endanger national security with its criticism of the Hong Kong authorities' crackdown on Apple Daily, saying the territory's national security law must be enforced. The chief execut...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday reiterated that there is no exact science behind the government’s decision to keep in place a ban on public gatherings of more than four people under newly eased social distancing rules, while allowing up to 18...

Police have arrested a 40-year-old man for allegedly uttering seditious words, after they received a report that a "Liberate Hong Kong" flag was hung on the laundry rack outside his flat in Mong Kok. Officers say they received a report from a passe...

The lawmaker representing the tourism sector, Yiu Si-wing, on Tuesday said the government should compensate quarantine hotels for their losses caused by a change in quarantine rules expected to take effect in July. Chief Executive Carrie Lam announ...

Epidemiologist Benjamin Cowling has urged the government to set out what level of antibodies arrivals to Hong Kong will need to qualify for a reduced quarantine period, and whether those who've received mainland vaccine Sinovac will be able to pass t...

Apple Daily aired its last live news show on Monday night, only days ahead of the expected closure of the newspaper and its online operation. The programme thanked the audience for their support since it started going live last October, and urged ot...

The College of Physicians on Monday urged authorities to let the elderly get vaccinated without making a booking in advance, to try to boost the inoculation rate for senior citizens in Hong Kong which it described as "the lowest in the world". Of th...

A man the authorities linked to a small outbreak of a mutant strain of coronavirus in Hong Kong was remanded in custody on Monday after pleading guilty to several counts of knowingly giving false information to officials. Syed Mohamed Rizvi, 30, wh...

Taipei on Monday said some of the services it provides in its Hong Kong office will be moved online after most of its staff returned to Taiwan. The Mainland Affairs Council in Taipei earlier said the decision to send employees of the Taipei Economic...

The government on Monday announced a further relaxation of social distancing rules as Hong Kong recorded zero local coronavirus cases for 14 consecutive days, but the four-person cap on public gatherings is to remain in place. From Thursday, restaur...

Apple Daily staff have been told the newspaper could cease operations this coming Saturday unless the Hong Kong authorities release assets frozen as part of a national security investigation. An internal memo to employees said if the funds are not f...

Authorities said on Monday that they won't stop sending government staff to attend overseas training programmes – despite plans to develop a civil service academy in Hong Kong to enhance workers’ knowledge of the country. The government is now ...

The Hospital Authority said on Monday that it has started vaccinating its long-stay psychiatric patients against Covid-19. The authority’s chief executive Tony Ko said he believed a majority of them were suitable to receive the shots. Speaking ...

Liberal Party lawmaker Felix Chung on Monday said the government's consumption voucher scheme has spurred many small businesses to start using electronic payments. "We understand that there's quite a lot of small businesses that didn't used to do e...

Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily will be forced to shut "in a matter of days" after authorities froze the company's assets under a new national security law, an adviser to jailed tycoon Jimmy Lai told Reuters on Monday. Mark Simon, spea...