Hong Kong's sole delegate to the nation's top legislative body, Tam Yiu-chung, says he has been barred from attending the committee's meeting in Beijing next week – due to the recent discovery of an untraceable Covid-19 case in Hong Kong. In a vi...

Health officials on Saturday reported six imported Covid infections, including a Russian consulate worker who had been exempted from hotel quarantine and tested preliminary positive earlier. The fully-vaccinated 55-year-old was self-isolating at his...

A 31-year-old man appeared before Kwun Tong Court on Saturday to face a charge of murdering a taxi driver in Sai Ying Pun. The prosecution requested psychological reports on the accused, Matthew Choi, before proceeding with the case. Magistrate May...

The District Court on Saturday sentenced seven activists to between six and twelve months behind bars for their roles in a protest on July 1 last year. The seven are former lawmakers Wu Chi-wai, Leung Kwok-hung and Chu Hoi-dick, former district coun...

Secretary for the Civil Service Patrick Nip admitted on Saturday that a new test on the national security law for would-be government workers will reduce the number of people seeking such roles, but he said he was confident the administration would ...

The government has ended its lockdown of a residential building in Sai Wan Ho, with no new cases of Covid-19 being being found. Around 830 people were tested. Compulsory testing was ordered after a resident, who had been exempted from hotel quaranti...

The government on Friday ordered an overnight lockdown at a building in Sai Wan Ho after a resident who was exempted from hotel quarantine tested preliminary positive for Covid-19. The resident, 55, works for the Russian consulate and was allowed to...

Readers took a last opportunity to browse the shelves of Bleak House Books before one of the city's few independent English-language bookshops closed its doors on Friday. The bookstore in San Po Kong that sells both new and old books was closing aft...

A scientist who told a court he tried to help a protester shot and injured by the police in 2019 has been jailed for a year. Yau Wang-tat had pleaded guilty to unlawful assembly, having initially been charged with the more serious offence of rioting...

Customs officials said on Friday that they had seized more than 3,000 kilogrammes of Australian lobster that they believed was to be smuggled to the mainland by sea. Thirteen people were arrested, some on suspicion of making inadequate import declar...

Labour and Welfare Secretary Law Chi-kwong said the government may make available more quarantine facilities for newly arrived foreign domestic helpers when the time is ripe. Employers and agencies have complained that they've been struggling to fin...

The Department of Health on Friday banned all direct flights from Vancouver operated by Air Canada between October 16 and 29. The authority said the move was taken because a passenger tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday, and another passenger ...

Security Secretary Chris Tang said on Friday that the government will need to consult the public well on planned national security legislation under Article 23 of the Basic Law, and watch out for people "demonising" the law. Tang said his bureau is ...

Hospital Authority chief executive Tony Ko has played down the impact of subsidence that has forced the suspension of construction work at the site of the future acute hospital in Kai Tak, blaming bad weather for what he says is a common phenomenon. ...

Education professionals have urged the government to take a cautious approach and assess the situation on the ground before moving to close or relocate schools amid an expected decrease in the number of pupils. In a paper submitted to the Legislativ...

Education Secretary Kevin Yeung says teachers may in future have to take a test on the Basic Law and the national security law before they could take up a job. Speaking on an RTHK programme on Friday, Yeung said teachers at government schools alread...

The Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood on Thursday said it will start accepting applications from members to run for December’s Legislative Council elections. The association said those who want to participate in the race ...

Labour and Welfare Secretary Law Chi-kwong on Thursday said it would be absurd to force retirees to transfer their savings under the mandatory provident fund into an annuity plan, stressing that people will be given a choice. The official had first ...

Hong Kong health authorities reported one imported Covid infection on Thursday, involving a 30-year-old woman who had already completed 21 days of quarantine. The woman, who works as a domestic helper, flew in from Indonesia on September 17 aboard f...

Development Secretary Michael Wong on Thursday said it was unrealistic to presume the city’s green belts and country parks, which make up more than half of the land in Hong Kong, will remain untouched as authorities seek to boost land supply. Plan...