A group of construction workers staged a protest outside Queen Mary Hospital and blocked a section of Pok Fu Lam Road on Tuesday morning in a labour dispute. Pictures and videos circulated on social media showed workers placing traffic cones on the ...

Hong Kong health officials on Tuesday reported three new Covid-19 infections, all of them imported cases. The patients, aged 28 to 65, recently arrived from Singapore and Pakistan. All three had been vaccinated.

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday said the national security law has not "horrified people” or prevented them from operating legitimate businesses in Hong Kong, saying no one knows for sure why a number of civil organisations have recently disb...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam says Hong Kong is going to scrap most quarantine exemptions, following discussions with mainland health experts aimed at securing a full reopening of the border. At the moment some travellers from overseas, such as senior ...

The chairman of the Journalists Association, Ronson Chan, says a new requirement for people to give their ID card numbers when carrying out company or land registry searches will subject journalists to greater legal risks. The Companies Registry an...

The Asia Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association warned on Tuesday that Hong Kong's current quarantine measures could threaten the SAR's status as an international finance centre and its long-term economic recovery and competitiveness, ...

Special Covid-19 arrangements will be made for December's Legislative Council elections, including the setting up of a polling station at the Penny's Bay quarantine centre catering to those under isolation. Announcing the guidelines for the December...

Amnesty International said on Monday it will close its two offices in Hong Kong by the end of the year, citing the national security law. In a statement, Amnesty said its local membership section focusing on human rights education in Hong Kong will ...

A man who repeatedly chanted pro-independence slogans last year has been convicted of inciting secession, becoming the second person to be found guilty under Hong Kong's national security law. The defence had argued that by chanting things like "Hon...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Monday she believes the SAR government will see smoother governance and greater achievement in the next five years. But she told the audience at a forum not to treat that as her re-election bid. Speaking at her f...

Hong Kong health officials on Monday reported four new Covid-19 infections, all of them imported cases. The patients recently arrived from the Philippines, Denmark and Ukraine. The Centre for Health Protection also reminded people who had stayed at...

Development Secretary Michael Wong on Monday dismissed concerns that officials are biting off more than they can chew by undertaking two massive projects, the Northern Metropolis and Lantau Tomorrow Vision, at the same time. At a Legco panel meeting...

Customs officers said on Monday they had seized suspected controlled medicine with a street value of around HK$55 million. Five people, aged between 27 and 41, were arrested at the airport, a Hung Hom warehouse and a logistics centre in Sheung Wan, ...

University of Hong Kong microbiologist Ho Pak-leung has called on the government to let people receive booster shots against Covid-19 as soon as possible if it wants to reopen the border. Speaking on an RTHK programme on Monday, Ho noted the mainla...

Liberal Party leader, Felix Chung, on Monday played down the impact of the loss of opposition legislators from Legco, saying the Legislative Council would still have room for different viewpoints. He said the current Legco term - which ends on Wedn...

A worker died on Sunday after falling through an opening in the floor at a construction site in Tseung Kwan O. She was rushed to hospital, where she was certified dead. The Labour Department said it was concerned about the incident and would be inv...

Authorities on Sunday said they have foiled an attempt to smuggle about HK$1.6 million worth of hairy crabs and other frozen food into Hong Kong. Customs officers said the items were seized from a truck returning from the mainland at the Man Kam To...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced she will resume her duties on Monday, after taking several days off following a fall at her residence. Chief Secretary John Lee has been acting in her capacity, after she fell from the stairs at Government House...

A new group has been formed to promote public awareness of the dangers of heart failure, warning that the chronic condition is often mistaken for other diseases which share similar symptoms. Heart failure occurs when the heart is unable to pump eno...

Health authorities on Sunday reported four new imported coronavirus cases – three of them carrying mutant strains. The two men and two women, aged between 37 and 51, were fully vaccinated and asymptomatic. They arrived from the Philippines and S...