Five members of the group which for three decades organised June 4 vigils in Hong Kong pleaded not guilty on Friday to failing to comply with a demand to furnish police with information about their activities. Chow Hang-tung, Leung Kam-wai, Chan To-...

Health authorities reported five new Covid-19 infections on Friday, all of which are imported. The Centre for Health Protection said the patients, who arrived from Switzerland, Russia and the Philippines, carried the L452R variant and have all been...

The Law Reform Commission on Friday proposed making bystanders criminally liable if they do nothing to protect children, the elderly or people with disabilities from serious harm or death. The commission said the move would deal with the problem of...

Three leaders of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China appeared in West Kowloon Court on Friday charged under the national security law. Lee Cheuk-yan, Chow Hang-tung and Albert Ho are accused of inciting subv...

The government says it is standing firm on a proposal to impose an all-out ban on the sale, import and manufacturing of e-cigarettes and other heated tobacco products, as the bill proceeds to the full Legislative Council for a second reading. The a...

Police on Friday said they had arrested a man and a woman on suspicion of arson after an early morning fire in Shek Kip Mei that left one man dead and 12 other people injured. Firefighters said the blaze broke out at around 2.30am in a 12th floor fl...

Eastern district councillor Peter Choi has been removed from office after failing to turn up for a mass pledge of allegiance session arranged by the government. Twenty-five district councillors from Eastern, Central and Western, Wan Chai and Souther...

A fire at a flat in Pak Tin Estate in Shek Kip Mei has killed one person and injured 11 others, with firefighters saying they heard reports that there was a dispute before the blaze. The fire broke out at about 2:30am and was put out about 30 minute...

The National Security Department of the Hong Kong Police on Thursday charged the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China chairman Lee Cheuk-yan, and the group's two vice-chairs Albert Ho and Chow Hang-tung, as well as...

National People’s Congress Standing Committee member Tam Yiu-chung said on Thursday the city’s NPC members will be holding street booths during the weekend to promote their political platforms and listen to the public's views. Tam said the membe...

The government on Thursday announced the extension of its Covid-19 inoculation programme to the end of the year. Twenty-one of the 26 community vaccination centres that are currently in use will stay open through December, but with shorter hours and...

Two local universities have jointly developed what researchers describe as a groundbreaking robotic device to treat head and neck cancer, which is said to be less invasive than traditional forms of treatment and spare patients from remaining in "extr...

Hong Kong reported two imported Covid-19 cases on Thursday. Health authorities said the fully-vaccinated patients – a 33-year-old woman and 55-year-old man – flew in from the Philippines and South Korea respectively. They were asymptomatic, and...

National security police on Thursday raided the closed June 4 museum in Mong Kok, while officers reportedly arrested a fifth core member of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China which ran the venue. Police arri...

Another 12 people on Thursday pleaded guilty over a banned June 4 vigil last year. Appearing at the District Court, former lawmakers and activists admitted taking part in or inciting others to join an unlawful assembly in Victoria Park. The 12 wer...

Respiratory medical expert, Leung Chi-chiu, said on Thursday that exchanging Covid exposure records is one of the things that mainland and local authorities have to work on before both sides can lift border restrictions. His comments come a day aft...

Artist and architect Raymond Fung on Thursday hailed the upcoming opening of the M+ Museum as an important milestone for arts development in Hong Kong, in the midst of a pandemic which has badly crippled the tourist sector. The museum will finally o...

The M+ Museum will finally open on November 12 after years of delay, the West Kowloon Cultural District announced on Wednesday. Hong Kong residents can visit the contemporary visual culture museum for free for its first year of operation. In a sta...

Cathay Pacific said it has sacked "a small number" of flight crew who weren't vaccinated against Covid-19 and didn't produce proof of medical exemption. But the airline did not specify the exact number. The loss-making carrier said the coronavirus ...

Hong Kong and mainland police have arrested 22 people in a crackdown on a cross-border money-laundering syndicate, which they said had handled HK$740 million of suspected crime proceeds. SAR officers said they earlier received intelligence, and fou...