A migrant workers' group on Saturday called on the government to be mindful of the potential for foreign domestic helpers to exploited and discriminated against in a new plan to open the border to new helpers who have been fully inoculated in their h...

The Labour Department said on Saturday it was nearing agreement with authorities in the Philippines and Indonesia on arrangements for newly-hired foreign domestic helpers to come to Hong Kong. Officials say an announcement could come as soon as next...

The Airport Authority on Friday said it was making Covid-19 vaccinations compulsory for staff who handle high-risk cargo or come into unavoidable close contact with transit and incoming passengers and crew. It added that negative test results or med...

A 21-year-old man, who was formerly employed as a part-time journalist at RTHK, has been charged with possessing imitation firearms and a walkie-talkie without a licence. The man, who was working for RTHK at the time, was arrested at the Ocean Park ...

Police say they have made 19 arrests after people overseas were scammed out of at least HK$11 million after being promised they could make a fortune by investing in cryptocurrency. The force said fraudsters targeted 170 people in various places, in...

The Law Society said it will review current laws regulating legal workers, after a law clerk with a criminal record was found to have provided legal advice to a man who was later wrongly jailed for drug-trafficking. Last month, the Court of Appeal ...

A mainland scholar on Friday played down Beijing’s decision to postpone a vote on inserting the anti-sanctions law into Hong Kong’s Basic Law, saying it’s not unusual given the profound impact it could have on the SAR’s markets. Tien Feilon...

Health officials on Friday reported two new imported Covid-19 cases, both found with the L452R mutant strain. One of them, a 53-year-old man who flew in from Germany, had received two doses of the BioNTech jab in Hong Kong earlier this year. Anot...

The government has come under heavy criticism from lawmakers over the exemption of Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman and her film crew from quarantine. "Is that going to be a precedent? Does it mean that when people come to make films they will be ex...

Hong Kong's member of the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) Tam Yiu-chung on Friday said a vote on adding the mainland's anti-foreign sanctions law to the SAR's Basic Law had been postponed. The NPCSC was originally expected to ...

Police were on Friday investigating the death of one of their own officers who was believed to have shot himself in the head at the force's New Territories North headquarters in Tai Po. A shot was heard in the building at about 7 o'clock on Friday ...

The head of the Hong Kong-Singapore Business Association, Philip Chan, said on Friday that it was "understandable" for the two governments to scrap plans for a travel bubble, given their different strategies in handling the Covid-19 pandemic. Hong K...

An international business group has warned that Hong Kong's move to enhance quarantine as it attempts to keep out new strains of Covid-19 is leading some to question whether they can continue operating from the SAR at a time when much of the world is...

Singapore said on Thursday that it will soon lift its quarantine requirement for travellers arriving from Hong Kong, as both governments agree to stop pursuing a travel bubble between the two sides. From 11:59pm on Friday, August 20, Hong Kong visi...

Four University of Hong Kong students charged with advocating terrorism have been remanded in custody after their court appearance on Thursday. The suspects, aged 18 to 20, have been accused of contravening Article 27 of the national security law on...

The Communications Authority (CA) on Thursday said two complaints against RTHK have been substantiated, including one that involved the wrong use of the term "nationwide" in a news story about Taiwan. The story in question was about a by-election he...

Health experts said on Thursday that samples of a man who tested positive for the coronavirus might have been contaminated by inactivated virus strains from Sinovac vaccines. If confirmed, it would be the second such case in about three months. The...

Kenneth Ng, political assistant to the constitutional and mainland affairs minister, has resigned and will leave the administration on August 30, the government announced on Thursday. Ng, a former TVB journalist, will join the West Kowloon Cultural ...

The government said on Thursday that Hollywood star Nicole Kidman had not breached any of the conditions that came with her quarantine-free arrival in Hong Kong, including minimising any contact with the public. The actor was allowed to skip quarant...

Police said on Thursday they had made their largest drug seizure of the year, netting 148 kilogrammes of ice and 86 kilogrammes of heroin. The haul was estimated to be worth HK$195 million. Officers said the drugs were uncovered on Wednesday at an ...