A Beijing official overseeing Hong Kong affairs on Wednesday said the SAR is now teeming with patriotism and positive energy after the national security law was implemented and electoral system improved. Speaking after a seminar organised by the Hon...

Health officials on Wednesday reported five new imported Covid-19 infections. One of them is a 44-year-old woman who flew in from the Philippines and had received both doses of the BioNTech jabs. Another is a 61-year-old woman from Dubai. She had ...

National security police have reportedly written to core members of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, asking for information related to the group's ties with foreign groups. According to Chow Hang-tung, v...

Customs officers said they have for the first time smashed a money-laundering case involving cross-boundary drivers. Officers said on Wednesday they arrested five men aged 40 to 43 in the past week on suspicion of laundering HK$170 million. Three ...

Students aged 12 or above can take their coronavirus jabs at 24 vaccination centres without a booking from Friday. Currently, people who are 60 or older can get a same-day ticket to receive a Covid-19 jab on a walk-in basis. The government decided...

Prominent microbiologist Yuen Kwok-yung and his team said on Wednesday that Hong Kong should maintain its zero-Covid strategy for the time being, while suggesting herd immunity is no longer achievable with the emergence of the Delta variant. In an...

Prominent movie director Mabel Cheung has called on the government to clarify what would be banned under the proposed film censorship law, even though she said she doesn’t think anyone in Hong Kong would intentionally make films to threaten nationa...

Five lawyers, who argued that the Law Society should focus on professional issues, have been elected to the city’s largest solicitors group's 20-member council in a high-profile election. The result comes after Chief Executive Carrie Lam last week...

Authorities would have the power to revoke approval already granted to movies for national security purposes under proposed legislation on film censorship unveiled by the government on Tuesday. Film censors were ordered in June to ban movies deemed ...

Health officials on Tuesday reported seven new Covid-19 infections – all of which were imported cases. Five of them, aged 6 to 34, arrived from Pakistan on a flight operated by Emirates, and among them four were fully vaccinated with the BioNTech...

The chief executive on Tuesday urged the private sector to follow the government's lead and require staff to get vaccinated against Covid-19. At her weekly press briefing, Carrie Lam said although 58 percent of the population has received at least o...

A senior mainland official overseeing Hong Kong affairs on Tuesday reassured the business sector that Beijing will not change the one country, two systems policy, and the legal rights of investors in the SAR will continue to be protected. Speaking a...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam says the value of political parties should be called into question if they have no plans to take part in elections. She was responding to an opinion piece by a DAB member who warned the Democratic Party against boycotting...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday said Hong Kong cannot allow thousands of foreign domestic workers to arrive in the city each week and their numbers will have to be controlled. The CE said officials are expected to give more details this week o...

A conservationist said on Tuesday that the government could have done a better job at revitalising the historic Central Market to preserve more of its unique structures and make the complex more down-to-earth. Katty Law, convenor of the Central and...

Federation of Trade Unions lawmaker Alice Mak on Tuesday said it was a "pity" that two lawmakers didn't attend Monday's seminar on the nation's five-year plan. At the session in Legco deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, Huang ...

Lawmakers have called on mainland and Hong Kong authorities to start discussions on reopening the border as a visiting delegation from Beijing said the SAR should not miss out on development opportunities in the country's five-year plan. The deputy ...

A doctor was on Monday found guilty of manslaughter over a botched liposuction operation in 2014 in which her patient died. After a 29-day trial, a seven-member jury at the High Court deliberated for eight hours before unanimously finding Vanessa Kw...

The High Court on Monday sent four members of the same family to prison after they obstructed a teenage relative from testifying in a rape trial. A girl in the family accused her father of raping her when she was 13 years old. But before she could t...

The Centre for Health Protection on Monday reported five newly confirmed coronavirus infections – all of which were imported cases. The patients, aged between nine and 38, had arrived from Nigeria, Pakistan, Indonesia, Turkey and the US. All of...