Politicians, businesspeople and other prominent Hongkongers have started throwing their hats into the ring for a seat on the city's election committee, boasting of their patriotic credentials and setting out what they expect of the next chief executi...

Health officials on Friday reported two imported Covid-19 infections, with both patients asymptomatic. The Centre for Health Protection said one of them, a 41-year-old man from Russia, was infected with the potentially more contagious L452R mutant ...

Chief Secretary John Lee has vowed to leave no stone unturned when it comes to vetting those who hope to join Hong Kong's Election Committee (EC), to make sure only true believers make it through the selection process. His warning came as the nomina...

The Foreign Ministry office in Hong Kong on Friday condemned a move by the United States to offer temporary "safe haven" to SAR residents, saying its plot to oppose China and upset the city's order is bound to fail. US President Joe Biden earlier si...

Seven members of the University of Hong Kong's legislative body have demanded the institution's governing council end its campus ban on all students who attended a controversial union meeting last month. In an open letter issued late on Thursday, th...

The chairman of the Hong Kong Table Tennis Association, Tony Yue, says an historic bronze won by the women’s team in the Tokyo Games has shown their transformation from relying on athletes from the mainland, to producing home-grown paddlers. The ...

Police say a 30-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after an elderly man's body was found in Hoi Chu Road Playground in Tuen Mun on Thursday night. The 70-year-old victim had suffered multiple stab wounds, mostly to his face and ne...

Police on Friday said they had arrested a man on suspicion of murder after the body of a 70-year-old man was found in a Tuen Mun park, with stab wounds to his head and neck. A passer-by, who was walking through a playground on Hoi Chu Road, made th...

Hong Kong saw heavy rain overnight, with the Red Rainstorm Warning being issued at 1.30 am on Friday. Parts of the northern New Territories were hit by flooding. So far, there have been no reports of any injuries. The Observatory said heavy rain h...

The government on Friday partially eased home quarantine restrictions for fully-vaccinated people arriving from the mainland and Macau after the government suspended its Return2HK quarantine-free scheme earlier in the week, due to rising Covid cases ...

The government on Thursday said Hong Kong had reached a 50 percent inoculation rate for the first Covid jab, while 38 percent had had both shots. Civil Service Secretary Patrick Nip, who's responsible for the vaccination drive, said more than 3.4 mi...

President Joe Biden on Thursday offered temporary "safe haven" to Hong Kong residents in the United States, allowing what could be thousands of people to extend their stay in the country in response to Beijing's crackdown on democracy in the Chinese ...

Health officials on Thursday confirmed the first local case of Covid-19 in nearly two months, though they said the man was probably infected some time ago. The patient, a 43-year-old construction worker, tested weakly positive earlier this week. Te...

The High Court on Thursday granted bail to activist and barrister Chow Hang-tung, the vice-chairwoman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China. Chow is charged with inciting others to join an unauthorised rally...

Singer Anthony Wong and former pro-democracy lawmaker Au Nok-hin have each been bound over for 18 months in the sum of HK$2,000 for corruption charges in connection to the Legco by-election in 2018. The ICAC charged the pair earlier this week over ...

Hongkongers again erupted in cheers on Thursday, as the SAR’s table tennis players snatched a bronze in the women’s team event – the city's fourth medal at the Tokyo Games. Among those watching the event on TV at the Olympian City mall were th...

Researchers from Chinese University say they have developed a stool test that can detect or predict autism in young children. The researchers looked at the stool samples of 128 children aged 3 to 6, of which half had autism. They found that in the...

University of Hong Kong microbiologist Ho Pak-leung has joined calls for health authorities to further tighten entry and quarantine requirements for residents returning from the mainland, in light of a worsening Covid-19 situation across the border. ...

Law lecturer Eric Cheung said on Thursday he had resigned as a member of the University of Hong Kong's governing council, a day after the body banned from campus all students who attended a recent controversial students' union meeting. The council s...

The overnight compulsory Covid testing operations at a block of flats in Sham Shui Po, and at a hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui, have been completed with health authorities so far finding no cases. Officials said they had tested 600 people in Sham Shui Po, an...