An accounting manager of a sushi restaurant chain was on Tuesday jailed for six years and eight months after he admitted to stealing HK$24 million from the company between 2005 and 2007. The High Court heard that Eric Tong, 50, pocketed revenue he ...

RTHK has scrapped two of its television programmes – RTHK Talk Show and This Week – saying it is updating its offerings. A spokesperson for the government station said existing shows may be replaced with new ones, programmes could get new eleme...

An infectious disease expert on Tuesday said it was appropriate for the government to ban flights from the UK for the time being, given a rise in Covid-19 cases in the country involving the more infectious Delta variant. The flight suspension will t...

Former RTHK radio presenter Allan Au on Tuesday accused the government station of exhausting all its administrative powers to remove voices it doesn't like. Au was speaking on Commercial Radio a day after he was ditched from RTHK's evening current a...

RTHK has let go of another of its long-time radio show hosts. Allan Au, a freelancer for the government broadcaster, told his audience on Monday that he had been notified that it would be the last time he co-hosted his current events programme on Ra...

The government on Monday said it will ban flights arriving from the United Kingdom, citing a rebound in coronavirus cases and the spread of the mutated variants there. The flight suspension will take effect from July 1. The government said the fli...

The government says Hong Kong's first Chinese medicine hospital will have around 400 beds and 200 practitioners when it is running at full capacity, and will serve hundreds of thousands of people each year. The hospital, which is expected to open by...

The police have banned three groups from staging a march on July 1, citing risks posed by the pandemic. The League of Social Democrats, Tin Shui Wai Connection and Save Lantau Alliance wanted to march from Victoria Park to the government’s headqua...

Health authorities reported three new imported Covid-19 infections on Monday and no local cases. One of the imported cases involves a 19-year-old woman who flew in from the United Kingdom, while another is a 47-year-old woman from Indonesia. Both o...

The Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) says it fears more former staff at Apple Daily will be arrested despite the newspaper's demise, after a senior editor was believed to have been detained at the airport on Sunday night. Police said they ha...

A DNA specialist says people who visited a Tai Po mall where Hong Kong's first patient infected with the Delta variant worked should be at a lower risk of being infected compared to his colleagues. Speaking on a radio show, Gilman Siu from the Depa...

Health officials said on Monday that no new coronavirus cases were found after around 390 residents of a Tai Po building were tested overnight. The lockdown at Block 10 of Tai Po Centre was lifted at 6:30 am on Monday morning. On Sunday, a 24-yea...

Torrential rain on Monday morning prompted the authorities to close schools, suspend coronavirus jabs, and postpone court hearings, as the Hong Kong Observatory issued its first Black Rainstorm Warning Signal of the year. The stock market was also c...

The Red Rainstorm Warning Signal was issued by the Hong Kong Observatory on Monday morning at 5:55 am. This means that heavy rain has fallen or is expected to fall generally over Hong Kong, exceeding 50 millimetres in an hour, and is likely to conti...

Police arrested a former senior journalist with the Apple Daily newspaper at the airport on Sunday night on a suspected national security charge as he tried to leave Hong Kong, according to media reports. Fung Wai-kong would be the seventh staffer a...

The pro-democracy web media, Stand News, on Sunday said it's decided to stop accepting monthly sponsorship from readers and shelve older commentaries for now, saying "speech crimes" have arrived in Hong Kong. The moves come days after another pro-d...

The new Chief Secretary, John Lee, is to act as the Chief Executive on Monday - on his fourth day on the job. He'll be filling in while Carrie Lam leads a delegation to Beijing to attend celebrations to mark 100 years since the founding of the Chin...

The Peak Tram said on Sunday that it's under immense pressure to raise fares, after it finishes upgrading the service by the end of this year. Currently, an adult return ticket costs HK$52, with concession fares for children and the elderly at HK$2...

A recent study suggests that some Hong Kong carers spend nearly 1.5 times longer than the average working week caring for their loved ones. The Council of Social Service polled some 700 carers earlier this year, and it found that the middle-aged no...

Health officials have reported one new local Covid-19 infection on Sunday, which is linked to an airport worker who earlier became Hong Kong's first case of the more infectious Delta variant. The 24 year-old woman, who is a colleague of the man, las...