The Centre for Health Protection said on Tuesday that an airport worker might have contracted Covid-19 from crew on a flight from Russia. The 50-year-old porter was on Sunday confirmed to be infected with the Delta variant of the coronavirus. The...

The government is distributing a book about the national security law to kindergartens in Hong Kong, saying this can help teachers educate children about the legislation. In a circular, education officials said each kindergarten will receive from th...

The University of Hong Kong on Tuesday issued a statement saying it no longer recognises the institution's students' union, just hours after Chief Executive Carrie Lam demanded action against student leaders. Lam told the media she was very angry an...

A District Court judge said on Tuesday that he is considering imposing heavy sentences on several men involved in the mob attacks in Yuen Long on July 21, 2019, as he described the violence as "indiscriminate" and said the assailants seemed to have �...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday said the University of Hong Kong should take action against student leaders who passed a motion expressing sadness over the death of a man who stabbed a policeman on July 1. Even though the HKU student union co...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday insisted no further action should be taken against three senior officials who were treated to a free hotpot meal at a private club in March, saying people shouldn't be "too harsh" on them. Last week, it was reve...

Epidemiologist Benjamin Cowling said on Tuesday that the situation in Hong Kong is still too unstable to open up travel bubbles, and emphasised that the SAR needs to do more on the vaccination front. He was speaking one day after the Chief Executiv...

Environmental group, Greenpeace, has expressed alarm at finding microplastics in half of the eight popular countryside streams it tested, saying the water there should be clear of pollutants as there is no industry nearby. “Even finding one micro...

Emperor Group said a staff member from its property department was arrested under national security law. The employee is understood to be one of five people believed to be taken into custody by national security police on Monday in connection with t...

A veteran China analyst and co-host of a current affairs programme on RTHK said on Monday he was disappointed with the decision by the public broadcaster to replace the show with a special programme on the Tokyo Olympics. Johnny Lau is one of the ho...

Films that make it through Hong Kong's censorship checks may still breach the national security law, a government official warned on Monday. Commerce Secretary Edward Yau said that's because at the end of the day, it's up to law enforcement agencies...

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 ...