Health authorities on Wednesday banned Emirates flights from Dubai and Bangkok for two weeks after three of the airline's recent passengers were found to have Covid. The three infected people, a woman and two children, arrived in the SAR on October ...

It's understood that the former headteacher of GT (Ellen Yeung) College (Junior Primary Section), Nip Man, has been arrested by the police on suspicion of embezzlement. Police confirmed that the school filed a report to the force in May after suspec...

Lawmakers on Wednesday passed a bill that allows authorities to ban movies which are "deemed to be contrary to the interests of national security”, as they urged the government to extend the ban to online videos as well. Under the new law, author...

Secretary for Home Affairs Caspar Tsui said on Wednesday that Hong Kong will be well equipped to host water sports and golf races in the National Games in 2025. At the last council meeting of this Legco term, he told lawmakers that SAR officials wil...

A group of tourism workers has appealed for greater government support for the trade hit hard by the pandemic. They also called for the reopening of the border between Hong Kong and the mainland as soon as possible to help ease their financial pain...

Property tycoon Li Ka-shing has been named one of China’s 10 richest people in a list that includes Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan for the first time. According to the Hurun China Rich List 2021 published on Wednesday, Li, 93, and his family ranked ...

Epidemiologist Benjamin Cowling on Wednesday said requiring recovered Covid patients to spend an extra two weeks in hospital before being allowed to go home will waste public resources. The infectious diseases expert from the University of Hong Kong...

The government has announced that patients who have recovered from Covid-19 and are ready to be discharged from hospital will need to spend an additional two weeks in quarantine. It said the requirement, which will take effect from Wednesday, can he...

The Chief Executive in Council (CE-in-C) on Tuesday ordered that the Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China be struck off the Companies Register. It said the group had always promoted and maintained the goal of "ending one-p...

The Bar Association said it supports proposed legal aid reform in principle, but the association also urged the government to make sure it would not violate Article 35 of the Basic Law that guarantees people's right to choose their own lawyers. Unde...

The Hospital Authority said on Tuesday that it will "allow some flexibility" for people who require medical care but don't have the LeaveHomeSafe Covid app that will soon be needed to enter government buildings. The administration says from November...

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...