A scheme that allows people aged 65 and above to ride public transport for just HK$2 will be extended to those aged 60 to 64 from February 27 next year, the government announced on Wednesday. Welfare Secretary Law Chi-kwong said that expanding the e...

Health officials on Wednesday reported two new imported Covid-19 infections, taking the city’s total of confirmed cases to 11,923. The two imported cases – an 18-year-old man from the UK and a 34-year-old woman from Bangladesh – were asymptoma...

Customs officers said on Wednesday that they had seized more than 100 kilogrammes of cocaine at the airport, describing the bust as the largest airborne trafficking case involving the drug in 20 years. The department says X-ray scans at the airport ...

A former president of the Hong Kong Public Doctors’ Association, Arisina Ma, said on Wednesday that she expects medical professionals to increasingly refrain from criticising the government and its healthcare policy to avoid getting into trouble. ...

Sources have told RTHK that the police are planning to deploy more than 10,000 officers across the city on Thursday, to prevent the public from gathering on the streets on the 24th anniversary of the handover. There will be a strong police presence ...

Hong Kong's national security law has decimated freedoms and created a "human rights emergency", Amnesty International said on Wednesday, a year after Beijing imposed the legislation on the city. The sweeping national security law – which criminal...

Leading microbiologist Ho Pak-leung said it appears that Hong Kong has managed to limit the spread of the contagious Delta Covid-19 variant in the community, but stressed officials need to be extremely stringent in enforcing flight bans to prevent th...

Veteran journalist, Steve Vines, has announced he's quitting RTHK, citing the national security law that was introduced in Hong Kong exactly a year ago. Vines had been serving as a guest presenter on the public broadcaster's Backchat programme sinc...

The Appeal Board on Public Meetings and Processions on Tuesday upheld a police ban on a march on July 1, citing infection risks posed by Covid-19. The League of Social Democrats, Tin Shui Wai Connection and Save Lantau Alliance wanted to march from...

Police said on Tuesday that they had arrested two men, in Lam Tin and Tai Po, after seizing chemicals that could have been used to make gunpowder. Officers alleged that the men had made social media posts aimed at inciting hatred and violence, and ...

Health authorities said on Tuesday that they are no longer classifying a Tai Po man found with the Delta variant of coronavirus as having an untraceable infection, after their investigations linked him to three imported cases. Last week, officials s...

Hong Kong's air could be as fresh as that in Tokyo or Paris by 2035, the government announced on Tuesday. Environment Secretary Wong Kam-sing unveiled the administration's new Clean Air Plan – after the last blueprint expired in 2020 – with a t...

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...