Health authorities on Saturday reported no new Covid-19 infections, but it's understood that there are fewer than five preliminary positive cases. The Centre for Health Protection said a total of 18 cases were detected in the past 14 days. All of th...

Beijing and top Hong Kong officials on Saturday hit back at the the US government for imposing sanctions on Chinese officials over Beijing's crackdown on Hong Kong, while adding that US warnings about the city's trading environment were simply unfoun...

A Kowloon City magistrate on Saturday sentenced a reporter to 240 hours of community service for resisting a police officer, after she had mistakenly suspended the defendant's prison sentence last month. Reporter Ho Ka-yan, who works for the online ...

A government advisor on Covid vaccines said on Saturday that those with weak immune systems may be able to get booster jabs in future. Wallace Lau, the convenor of an advisory panel on Covid-19 jabs, told a radio programme that experts would be meet...

Carrie Lam on Saturday said Hong Kong's Chief Executive shouldn't be subject to, what she called, excessive legal restrictions and public accountability, otherwise the special constitutional status of the post would be undermined. Lam was defending...

The American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong (AmCham) says the city has a crucial role to play as an international business hub and that the chamber is well aware of the increasingly complicated geopolitical environment and its risks. AmCham issued...

The government accused the United States of having a hidden agenda and of fear-mongering after Washington imposed sanctions on Liaison Office officials and issued a business advisory warning businesses about the risks posed by the National Security L...

The United States imposed sanctions on Friday on seven officials over Beijing's crackdown on democracy in Hong Kong, Washington's latest effort to hold China accountable for what it calls an erosion of rule of law in the city. The sanctions target ...

Local publishers on Friday insisted that they would not stop selling books that have attracted national security complaints at the ongoing fair in Wan Chai, despite receiving warnings from officials. One publisher, Hillway Culture, said it had been ...

Health officials on Friday said they are looking into a probable re-positive case involving a sailor from India, who had also come down Covid-19 in India in May. The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) said the man, 32, arrived in Hong Kong on Tuesda...

More than a dozen national security police officers raided the University of Hong Kong's students' union office on Friday, three days after Chief Executive Carrie Lam called for action against student leaders at the institution. Officers were seen ...

The coroner's court on Friday ruled that a man who staged a knife attack at a supermarket in March 2019 was lawfully killed by a police officer. The court heard that Li Ho-ting, 54, knifed the manager of a supermarket on Reclamation Street in Yau M...

A University of Hong Kong infectious disease expert suggested on Friday that people who have received the Sinovac coronavirus vaccine this year should be the first in line to get booster doses if they are eventually offered. A study by HKU researche...

Those involved in governing Hong Kong must have the courage to fight anyone who tries to harm national sovereignty and safety and can't shy away from confrontations, a senior Beijing official in charge of Hong Kong affairs said on Friday. Xia Baolon...

District councillors on Friday called on the government to provide a solution to the standstill at some councils, whose memberships have been decimated by mass resignations this month. While there have been resignations of individual district counci...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Friday said the SAR government will "deepen" its implementation of the national security law, in order to meet Beijing's expectations. Among other things, the central government wants Hong Kong to bring the 60 or so peo...

The founder of prisoners' rights group Wall-fare, Shiu Ka-chun, has urged the Ombudsman to help bring about changes to prison visits by Justices of the Peace (JP), saying various measures are being used by the authorities to stop inmates from making ...

Privacy Commissioner Ada Chung on Friday warned that entire websites could be blocked if the hosts refuse to take down any doxxing content. However, she insisted this would be a last resort and such a move would be "rare" under the anti-doxxing law ...

The United States is preparing to impose sanctions on Friday on a number of Chinese officials over what it deems as Beijing's crackdown on democracy in Hong Kong, as well as a warning to international businesses operating there about deteriorating co...

The Security Bureau said late on Thursday that it had been notified by the Nuclear Emergency Committee Office of the Guangdong Province of an operational event at Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station (DBNPS). It said that during a routine inspection...