The District Court on Saturday found a man guilty of rioting and assaulting a police officer during a protest outside the Tuen Mun Town Hall on National Day in 2019, but acquitted two others of joining an unlawful assembly. Yip Ho-hin, 23, was conv...

The University of Hong Kong (HKU) on Saturday covered up the last piece of June 4 monument on its campus – the hand-painted slogan on the pavement of Swire Bridge. Workers were seen boarding off the section of the pavement and covering some of th...

The Baptist University said on Saturday it was cutting all ties with a student-led editorial body, after the group accused the University of censoring its publications and said its members were resigning en masse on Friday. The HKBU Students’ Uni...

Police Commissioner Raymond Siu warned media organisations on Saturday that they won't be exempted from criminal liability, even if they publish disclaimers saying they don’t intend to incite hatred or discontent with the government. At least on...

DAB lawmaker Holden Chow on Saturday called on the government to provide a HK$1,000 subsidy under the anti-epidemic fund for frontline cleaners and security guards for seven months in recognition of their bravery during the pandemic. This comes afte...

A government expert advisor expressed concern on Saturday that the SAR's current coronavirus surge will worsen after the Chinese New Year holidays. Speaking on a radio show, Wallace Lau said the trend is worrying, saying this infection wave is like...

Extended lockdowns targeting buildings in the virus-stricken Kwai Chung Estate were all lifted as of Saturday morning, as residents of Ying Kwai House and Ha Kwai House were finally free to leave their blocks. A few residents of Ying Kwai House, wh...

The government has lifted overnight lockdowns in Tsuen Wan and Hung Hom and said no tests came back positive. It said health officials tested about 75 people in Tai Yuen House, at 77-83 Tai Pa Street in Tsuen Wan were tested, but officials were stil...

The government on Friday evening ordered lockdowns for two residential buildings, in Hung Hom and Tsuen Wan, after a resident in each block tested positive for Covid-19. Residents of Block D of Loong King Mansion on Ma Tau Wai Road and Tai Yuen Hous...

The government said on Friday the Hong Kong economy grew by 6.4 percent in 2021, ending two years of contraction. A government spokesman noted double-digit growth in exports and stronger private consumption helped fuel the rebound last year, while t...

The Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority (HKEAA) announced on Friday that it is scrapping the DSE English oral exam scheduled for March this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic situation. It's the third year in a row that the exam has been...

Two coronavirus outbreaks at schools accounted for some of the 115 new Covid infections reported in Hong Kong on Friday. The daily figure was down from the record high of 164 recorded on Thursday, but it was still the sixth day running that the city...

The Environmental Protection Department on Friday downplayed concerns that Hong Kong's air pollution will get worse once the Covid-19 situation stabilises and the economy picks up further. Latest figures show monitoring stations recorded higher leve...

The District Court on Friday convicted 11 people of rioting in Wong Tai Sin on October 1, 2019 – including a first aid worker. One defendant was acquitted. The court heard that hundreds of black-clad protesters had gathered at Lung Cheung Road on...

Some residents of the coronavirus-hit Kwai Chung Estate are being barred from work even after lockdowns on their buildings are lifted, the Federation of Trade Unions (FTU) said on Friday. They say residents are being treated unfairly, and the govern...

An unprecedented seven-day lockdown of a residential building at the centre of Hong Kong’s worst Omicron outbreak was lifted on Friday morning, with some residents still fretting over the lingering effects of the protracted quarantine operation. â...

Health officials said on Friday that they found single preliminary positive Covid cases in two overnight lockdown and testing operations in Kwai Fong and Wong Tai Sin. The authorities moved in at Block C of New Kwai Fong Gardens and blocks one and t...

An expert in geriatric medicine said on Friday that people shouldn't "obsess" about vaccination in care homes, and officials should study why so few residents have had jabs. Jean Woo, a professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the Chinese University,...

A representative of Hong Kong's international business community on Friday welcomed the government's decision to reduce hotel quarantine for people arriving from overseas, but said the changes would not be enough to encourage inbound business travell...

The government says no Covid-19 cases were found in lockdown operations at residential blocks in Kwun Tong and Wong Tai Sin as they wrapped up on Friday morning. Kwun Tong's On Shun Building was locked down at 9.30pm on Thursday, an hour after offic...