Health officials say it is highly likely that a US Consulate General staff member, who tested positive for Covid-19 earlier this week, is a "re-positive" case. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the Centre for Health Protection said the 25-year-old ...

Police on Tuesday said they had arrested nine people, including six schoolchildren, on suspicion of engaging in terrorist activities, with an alleged plot to blow up Hong Kong courts, the cross-harbour tunnels and the railways. Officers said they ha...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday sought to play down concerns that planned anti-doxxing laws could lead to tech giants Facebook, Twitter and Google pulling out of Hong Kong, saying anxieties over the legislation will fade in time. An industry g...

Three pro-Beijing heavyweights were on Tuesday appointed as non-official members of a powerful new panel that will decide who gets to sit on the Election Committee, or take part in Legco and chief executive races. Chief Executive Carrie Lam said for...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday said it was immoral for people to mourn a man who stabbed a policeman before killing himself in Causeway Bay last week. Some people posted messages on social media paying tribute to the assailant, and others pl...

International journalism watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has named Chief Executive Carrie Lam a "predator of press freedom". The list, which RSF has been compiling since 2016, names the heads of state or governments which they say crack dow...

The government said on Tuesday that more than three million people have now registered online for the consumption voucher scheme, after the process was fine-tuned to eliminate the glitches that caused delays earlier this week. Over 3.2 million peopl...

The standby signal number 1 was issued at 4.15am on Tuesday, as two tropical cyclones came within 800km of Hong Kong. It said the signal was expected to remain in force "before the evening" on Tuesday, but did not give any indication of what time it...

An industry group backed by Google, Facebook and Twitter on Monday warned the Hong Kong government that tech companies might stop investing and offering their services in the city, if it goes ahead with proposed changes to privacy laws. The governme...

Police on Monday took a man into custody for allegedly inciting others to attack officers, following two similar arrests the day before. The force said the suspect, 34, planned to stage "chopping attacks" targeting officers on specific days in a po...

Police were called on Monday to investigate a bomb threat made against drinks company Vitasoy, sources said. The force said it received a report from an employee at around 11am regarding claims made online that a bomb had been planted at a company ...

A historian testifying at the trial of national security suspect Tong Ying-kit told the High Court on Monday that the protest slogan "Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Times" refers to changing the government and changing the era. As well as ter...

New security secretary Chris Tang says separatist ideas are still being spread in Hong Kong through channels like the media, documentaries, books and street booths. At a forum on the national security law on Monday, the former police chief said the ...

Police on Monday said they had made a second arrest over bottles of combustible material allegedly being thrown onto a slope near Government House on July 1. The force said it had arrested a 19-year-old woman in Sha Tin on suspicion of conspiring to...

Health officials said on Monday that they had reclassified the Covid infection of a hotel cleaner as being "related to an imported case". The 41-year-old woman, who works part-time at Bridal Tea House Hotel in Yau Ma Tei, was previously regarded as...

Kowloon City Magistracy on Monday handed down a three-month jail sentence to a man officials linked to a small outbreak of a variant strain of the coronavirus after he failed to report his movements around the city. Syed Mohamed Rizvi, who arrived ...

All judiciary staff, administrative officers and those in law enforcement have a responsibility to safeguard national security, a mainland official in Hong Kong said on Monday. Addressing a legal forum on the security law, the director of the Office...

The government's latest pandemic handout has proven popular, with more than two million people signing up for HK$5,000 worth of electronic consumption vouchers as of Monday morning. The scheme, which lets people buy goods electronically on their sm...

Police on Sunday arrested two people for allegedly inciting others to kill officers and set police premises on fire. Authorities said a 20-year-old woman and a 26-year-old man posted the messages on social media on July 2 – a day after a police o...

Health authorities reported three new Covid-19 infections on Sunday, all of which involved people flying in from the United Kingdom. The new patients, aged between 15 and 20, were staying in quarantine hotels at Chek Lap Kok, Wong Chuk Hang and She...