A concern group has on Saturday urged the government to reverse a decision to capture wild boars in urban areas for humane dispatch. On Friday night, the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department said the measure aims to reduce the number ...

The Centre for Health Protection reported two new imported coronavirus cases on Saturday. Both patients, a 49-year-old woman and a 65-year-old woman, have received two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine. The 49-year-old is infected with the mutant L452R s...

The Economist magazine on Friday said authorities in Hong Kong have refused to renew the employment visa of its China correspondent, Wong Sue-lin. "We regret their decision, which was given without explanation," the Economist's editor-in-chief Zanny...

The District Court on Saturday found 20 people guilty of rioting during a 2019 protest in Sheung Wan, while three others were acquitted as the judge said he could not be certain they personally took part in the riot. Judge Johnny Chan ruled that a r...

The Commissioner of Customs and Excise Louise Ho on Saturday dismissed censorship claims after she said her department would be on alert for people using everyday items to spread messages that could endanger national security. Speaking on a radio s...

Health Secretary Sophia Chan on Saturday said introducing a vaccine passport is something Hong Kong could do after a certain proportion of the population has been inoculated against Covid-19. She was commenting on the idea after it was proposed by p...

Over 50 people who have quarantined or are currently in isolation at a Tung Chung hotel have to be sent into the government’s quarantine camps, after authorities suspect that a patient who lived there had spread the coronavirus to another man in th...

The Danish sculptor of a statue that commemorates those who died on June 4, 1989 in Beijing, has asked SAR authorities for immunity from the national security law so that he can come and take it back to Denmark. The University of Hong Kong (HKU) ha...

The government said on Friday it would tighten infection-control measures for flight crew members, after two of them were among the city's recent imported Covid-19 patients. Under the changes, all local air crew staff are required to get their thir...

The 2021 Legislative Council elections will have as many as 154 candidates vying for 90 seats in December's polls – the first to be held following an electoral overhaul. The 154 nominations submitted by the end of the nomination period on Friday ...

An inquest jury on Friday unanimously returned an open verdict on the death of a man two days after he received a coronavirus jab. Timble Li, 63, got the Sinovac vaccine at a community centre at Kwun Chung Sports Centre on February 26 - the day Hong...

Health authorities reported one imported Covid-19 case on Friday, involving a patient who had received three doses of coronavirus vaccine. The 59-year-old man arrived from the United Kingdom on Wednesday and tested positive at the airport. He rece...

The police on Friday said they had charged a former officer with seditious intent over comments he allegedly made online in relation to the recent death of a marine inspector. Officers said the comments are suspected of inciting hatred against the g...

The government on Friday announced the establishment of a new committee that will determine a list of recognised non-local medical qualifications to enable Hong Kong to bring in doctors from elsewhere. Professor Grace Tang, an honorary clinical pro...

The Customs and Excise Department on Friday said smuggling syndicates appear to have changed tactics after a recent crackdown by the authorities and are using river trade vessels instead of speedboats to sneak goods across the border. Officers said...

More than 13,300 people visited the M+ museum on Friday as it opened its doors to the public for the first time. When visitors were finally let into the museum – one of the cornerstones of the West Kowloon Cultural District – a few curators and...

Authorities say a 10-year-old girl and her mother were taken to hospital on Thursday night after a fire at the Penny's Bay quarantine centre. The police said they received a report about a fire in one of the cubicles at around 8pm. Officers said t...

An expert on medical ethics said on Friday that Hong Kong should consider introducing vaccine passports, saying it would be key for the city to reopen to the rest of the world amid the pandemic. Calvin Ho, associate professor of law from the Univers...

An art critic has welcomed the opening of the M+ museum, saying it has a regional significance as one of the largest ones in Asia. John Batten said the focus on Chinese contemporary art will be very significant, and that the museum will also have a ...

Health authorities on Thursday reported three new imported Covid-19 cases, involving fully-vaccinated people who flew in from the Philippines, Thailand and Saudi Arabia. All three were diagnosed to carry the L452R mutant strain, but were asymptomat...