Police sources on Friday said the man who allegedly stabbed a uniformed officer before killing himself on Thursday night had apparently written a suicide note said to be “critical of the force”. In light of the attack, frontline officers had bee...

Pro-government lawmakers on Friday urged the government to require schools to report their Covid-19 vaccination rates regularly, with some saying the jabs should be made mandatory for teachers. The government earlier revealed that only about 18 perc...

The Chinese Embassy in London said on Friday that UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has "confused right and wrong" in saying the national security law had been used to crush freedoms in Hong Kong, adding that people in the SAR are enjoying more right...

The SAR government on Friday dismissed as ‘biased and unreasonable’ a US State Department report which concluded that Hong Kong isn’t doing enough to tackle human trafficking. Washington had placed Hong Kong on its ‘tier two watch list’ fo...

Confederation of Trade Union's secretary-general, Mung Siu-tat, on Friday questioned whether Hong Kong people still enjoy freedom of speech, after his colleagues who criticised the government at their street booths were warned by the police not to "i...

Security secretary Chris Tang on Friday signalled that authorities will crack down on people who advocate violence and hatred against the country, as he blamed hatemongers for pushing a man into what he described as a ‘lone-wolf style act of domest...

No new coronavirus infections have been found in the compulsory testing of some 580 people in a block of flats in Aberdeen. Port Centre was locked down overnight after one resident tested preliminary positive for a mutant strain of Covid-19. The ...

A policeman was stabbed outside the Sogo department store in Causeway Bay at about 10 pm on Thursday evening and the suspect died in hospital about an hour later. Police confirmed the alleged attack on their Facebook page, saying the left side of th...

A residential building in Aberdeen was put under lockdown on Thursday evening after one resident's preliminary positive test for Covid-19 involved a mutant strain. Residents of the Port Centre were required to stay in their flats and undergo compuls...

A political analyst says President Xi Jinping's speech to mark the centenary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party showed the leader has adopted a high level of vigilance in his foreign policies, and that his understanding of the One Country...

Police on Thursday said they had arrested 19 people across the territory for various offences, as officers swarmed the streets to stamp out any dissent on the 24th anniversary of the handover. Another 19 people were slapped with fixed penalty ticket...

The Centre for Health Protection on Thursday reported four additional Covid-19 cases, all of them linked to overseas travel. The patients, aged between 19 and 54, arrived from the UK, Russia and Indonesia. The three women and one man did not show a...

Police on Thursday broadcast announcements warning people not to gather in parts of Causeway Bay, erecting their own tents where street booths usually stand, and stopping people for searches as part of an operation aimed at snuffing out any hint of a...

Police on Thursday sealed off Victoria Park – the traditional starting point for July 1 marches – saying there had been calls online for people to join an unauthorised assembly there. Officers set up barricades around the park’s football pitch...

Civil Service Secretary Patrick Nip said on Thursday that it would be an "overstatement" to say that Hong Kong has become a police state. The recent appointments of former officers John Lee and Chris Tang as chief secretary and security secretary re...

Acting Chief Executive John Lee on Thursday said Hong Kong was on the rebound, as the city restores social and political stability. Speaking at a ceremony to mark the 24th anniversary of the handover, Lee said Hong Kong had faced unprecedented chall...

Police on Thursday said that several bottles of combustible material were thrown near the slope of Government House on Lower Albert Road, causing a fire. They said the incident happened at about 2 am. Firefighters put out the fire and no one was ...

Seven people were awarded on Thursday the Grand Bauhinia Medal - the top prize in the government's Honours List this year. The highest award went to Chief Justice Andrew Cheung, Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng, Executive Councillors Regina Ip an...

Activist Chow Hang-tung of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of the Patriotic Democratic Movements of China was in police custody on Wednesday, charged with promoting this year's June 4 candlelight vigil which was banned by the authorities. Chow, wh...

Pro-democracy data scientist, Wong Ho-wa, has announced that he is disbanding his group G0v.hk, citing changes in the "recent atmosphere", restrictions in freedom of expression and access to information. G0v.hk, which was formed in 2016, compiled op...