Lawmakers have approved the government's plan to charge households for their rubbish disposal, based on the amount they throw away. The move has been years in the planning and on Thursday the relevant bill was backed by 37 lawmakers and opposed by o...

Health authorities on Thursday reported three new Covid-19 cases, all of them imported. The patients, aged between 34 and 47, arrived from Nepal, Pakistan and Greece respectively. The Centre for Health Protection said the three men were asymptomat...

The government has announced that foreign domestic workers can start flying in from Indonesia and the Philippines once again from August 30, after new arrangements were hammered out with authorities in the two countries. SAR officials have conceded,...

The police on Thursday launched an investigation into suspected illegal entry to Hong Kong after a man apparently drowned in waters off Lung Kwu Tan in Tuen Mun and another was reported missing. The force said it received a report from a 24-year-old...

A medical expert on Thursday called for a ban on unvaccinated people entering crowded public places, only to be shot down by one of his peers who said such a move would never work. The government says fewer people are now booking jabs, and while aro...

The government has proposed allowing lawmakers to vote remotely on important matters under exceptional circumstances such as the pandemic. Legco panels and subcommittees have been holding virtual meetings since last year, but councillors must atten...

Health officials said five people had been sentenced in the Magistrates' Courts on Wednesday for breaching quarantine rules. They said in a statement that the five cases involved three men and two women, aged between 29 and 74, who had been ordered...

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...