Health officials on Thursday announced that Hong Kong had 12 new Covid-19 patients, including three aircrew members and three foreign domestic helpers. All 12 cases were imported, with the other patients recently flying in from Pakistan, Brazil, Tu...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Thursday said more low-income earners will be allowed to buy public units, to help them get on the property ladder and reduce the waiting test for public housing. Lam said applicants who have been in the public housing ...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Thursday the government will kick off public consultations on introducing Basic Law Article 23 national security legislation in the next six months. But she said she wasn't optimistic that the legislation would be ...

The District Court on Thursday found 14 people guilty of rioting in Sheung Wan on July 28, 2019. Chan Wai-lam, Chan Chak-fung, Po Tsz-Ching, Leung Chi-pang, Yeung Wai-sing, Pang Yu-tung, Lau Yiu-chuen, Liu Chung-yin, Chan Wing-Ki, Lam Ho-ching, Liu...

The chairman of the Hong Kong Union of Employment Agencies, Thomas Chan, said he expects demand to be huge for quarantine rooms at a newly-designated hotel on Lantau, which will replace the Penny's Bay Quarantine Centre as an isolation facility for f...

Executive Councillor Ronny Tong on Thursday said the actions against Stand News have "very little to do” with its news reporting, after seven people linked to the online media outlet were arrested on sedition-related offences. Police said they are...

The Foreign Ministry's representative in the SAR has rejected as "misleading" criticism from the European Union's External Action Service and the Foreign Correspondents' Club of an operation by national security police against Stand News. The online...

Police have arrested three more staff members of a foster home in Prince Edward at the centre of abuse allegations. Officers said on Wednesday three female employees of the Children's Residential Home were detained on suspicion of ill-treatment or ...

Stand News on Wednesday announced it had shut down all operations and sacked all staff, hours after seven people linked to the online media outlet were arrested on sedition-related offences. Police said investigations were continuing into whether ne...

The Penny's Bay Quarantine Centre will stop taking bookings for foreign domestic helpers from next Monday, with the government saying it needs to reserve all the rooms there for its response to the rapid spread of the Omicron variant of Covid. The a...

Hong Kong reported 12 new imported Omicron cases on Wednesday, raising the tally in the city to 70. Health officials also announced a decision to ban Cathay Pacific from operating passenger flights from Los Angeles and Toronto for two weeks till Ja...

The Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, Christopher Hui, says figures show the confidence of international investors in Hong Kong remains unchanged after the introduction of the national security law. Speaking on RTHK's Overview Pol...

Representatives from the logistics and aviation sectors say a new government rule forcing cargo aircrew to quarantine for three days in a hotel instead of at home is acceptable, but warn about the potential impact if the quarantine period is extended...

National security police arrested at least six people and raided the offices of online media outlet Stand News on Wednesday morning, as part of an investigation into an alleged conspiracy to publish seditious materials. The police said the suspects ...

Health officials said on Wednesday morning that they had found no cases of Covid-19 in overnight lockdown and testing operations at residential blocks linked to two Cathay Pacific air crew members. The government said it tested 210 people at Twiligh...

The Social Welfare Department says it held talks on Tuesday with officials of the organisation in charge of a foster home at the centre of child abuse accusations after sending a team of more than 20 specialists to conduct checks at the home. The d...

The government on Tuesday evening imposed overnight lockdowns on two residential blocks, in Discovery Bay and in Tuen Mun, after the latest batch of Covid cases in Hong Kong. Residents of Twilight Court, Peninsula Village in Discovery Bay must stay ...

The child welfare organisation that runs a foster home at the centre of abuse allegations says it has suspended four more staff who are suspected of misconduct. The Society for the Protection of Children said on Tuesday that a review of CCTV footage...

West Kowloon Court on Tuesday allowed prosecutors to press a new charge of conspiracy to publish seditious publications against Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai, six former senior staff members and three companies linked to the now-defunct newspaper. T...

The government on Tuesday announced that cargo aircrew will be required to undergo three days of hotel quarantine when they fly into Hong Kong. This comes after authorities reported that three Cathay Pacific cargo aircrew members who recently retur...