Health Secretary Sophia Chan said on Friday that Chief Executive Carrie Lam had summoned the chairman and CEO of Cathay Pacific to express the government's "strong dissatisfaction" with breaches of the company's isolation rules by staff infected with...

The District Court on Friday found five people guilty of rioting and resisting a police officer in Wong Tai Sin on National Day in 2019. Kwok Siu-kit, Cheung Kai-cheong, Ho Man-him, Wan Tsz-lam and Mak Ho-wai, who are aged between 19 and 30, were c...

Dozens of people queued up to get tested for coronavirus at the Festival Walk shopping mall on Friday morning, after the authorities issued a compulsory testing order in connection with an Omicron case. Staff and customers who were in the Kowloon To...

People living at a public housing estate in Shek Kip Mei on Friday said they were not afraid after a 76-year-old resident there tested preliminary positive for Covid-19. Health authorities had put Wing Chak House in Chak On Estate into lockdown ove...

Medical experts say Hong Kong has likely been hit by an Omicron outbreak, with one warning the territory must now brace itself for a "super-spreading" event. A construction worker has tested preliminary positive for coronavirus, days after he ate at...

The authorities on Friday announced that no confirmed cases of Covid-19 were found during overnight lockdowns in Shek Kip Mei and Kennedy Town. The lockdowns took place as officials investigate two suspected cases of local transmission of the Omicro...

Health authorities on Thursday reported two suspected cases of local transmission of the Omicron coronavirus variant linked to a Cathay Pacific aircrew member who recently returned from the United States. Officials are investigating whether the var...

The government has put two residential blocks in Shek Kip Mei and Kennedy Town under overnight lockdown on Thursday, after two residents tested preliminary positive for mutant strains of Covid-19. In a statement, a spokesman said residents of Wing ...

Two former Stand News editors were denied bail by West Kowloon Court on Thursday, one day after they were arrested by national security police. Former editor-in-chief Chung Pui-kuen, 52, former acting editor-in-chief Patrick Lam, 34, and the parent ...

The government has set a minimum flat size requirement of 280 square feet for a residential plot that it is tendering out in the next quarter. The site on Castle Peak Road in Tuen Mun is expected to provide 2,020 flats. Development Secretary Micha...

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 time 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...