The police have launched a murder investigation after the deaths of a woman and her two daughters aged 8 and 13, who are believed to have been stabbed before their flat was set on fire. A 62-year-old man, who police say was the boyfriend of the woma...

The government on Monday said it was tightening quarantine requirements for people arriving from Russia from July 16, amid a rebound in Covid cases in the country and after a number of arrivals from there had been detected as carrying a potentially m...

The Secretary for Justice, Teresa Cheng, has warned that “defending” or “glorifying” acts of terrorism amount to advocating them which is a national security offence, and reasons like freedom of speech or a free press are simply not legitimat...

Infectious disease expert Leung Chi-chiu on Monday questioned why the Airport Authority (AA) is waiting until August to require workers entering the restricted area to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 or to present a negative test result. Leung�...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Monday took a shot at her predecessor, CY Leung, saying if his idea of building flats on the edge of country parks was so good, it would have been done long ago. Leung, a vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political...

A former ICAC chief investigator said on Monday that the government needs to investigate whether three senior officials, who had a free hotpot meal at a luxurious private club back in March, had violated any codes of conduct. Barrister Stephen Char...

National security police have arrested at least five people in connection with the case of an alleged pro-independence group, Returning Valiant, sources told RTHK on Monday. The five are believed to be aged between 15 and 37, and three of them are s...

Three people have died in a fire at a sub-divided flat in Tai Po in the early hours of Monday morning. One other person was injured. The blaze started on the sixth floor of a building on Heung Sze Wui Street at about 2am. Thirteen people were ...

Tuen Mun Hospital has brought in the police after a 69-year-old woman was found dead in a ward early on Sunday morning, with a pillow over her face and tissue paper in her mouth. A ward staff member made the discovery at about 1 am during a regular ...

The foreign ministry on Sunday slammed a group of western governments for their joint statement expressing concerns over the forced closure of Apple Daily, saying they were trampling on Hong Kong's rule of law and judicial independence. More than 2...

Health officials on Sunday announced an order for everyone working at the airport to undergo a Covid test after a man came down with a mutant strain of the coronavirus. The new local case is a 50-year-old airport worker whose preliminary positive r...

Democratic Party chairman Lo Kin-hei on Sunday announced he has resigned as a district councillor, joining more than 150 pro-democracy councillors who have quit in a matter of days. Those who stepped down in the past few days include veteran council...

The University of Hong Kong has taken down all the posters and banners displayed on the “democracy walls” around campus. That’s according to reports carried by student publications Campus TV and Undergrad on Sunday. Photos published on th...

A union representing employees of social welfare organisations on Sunday said it’s disappointed by the results of a four-year review into the government's funding mechanism, criticising it for not going far enough. The Social Welfare Employees Un...

Police on Sunday warned young people against falling prey to drug traffickers over the summer holiday, after officers arrested a few teenagers in a HK$14 million drug haul. Investigators said they raided a hotel room in Hung Hom on Friday and found...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam has played down the wave of emigration following the enactment of the national security law, saying people who are leaving will eventually realise how good Hong Kong is, adding the administration will recruit talents from t...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Sunday that she does not expect the new Chief Secretary, John Lee, to have to do much besides working on safeguarding national security. Lee, who formerly headed the Security Bureau, was promoted to the number two...

Health authorities on Sunday lifted a lockdown on a Wong Tai Sin residential block after finding no Covid-19 cases there, a day after the discovery of an untraceable preliminary coronavirus case that involves a mutant strain. The preliminary positiv...

Health officials put a residential block in Wong Tai Sin under overnight lockdown on Saturday, after they found an untraceable preliminary positive Covid-19 case that involves a mutant strain. Authorities said the case involves a 50-year-old man wh...

RTHK sources on Saturday said an airport worker had tested preliminary positive for Covid-19. The latest case was identified through mandatory Covid testing at Hong Kong International Airport, after an airline ground staff member was infected two w...