Police said on Monday that 60 people have been arrested in the past two weeks in connection with dozens of suspected fraud cases. Detectives in Mong Kok said around HK$75 million was believed to have been swindled in total, in 44 alleged scams. Su...

The West Kowloon Court on Monday acquitted a Chinese University student of an unlawful assembly charge related to a 2019 protest. Handing down judgement, magistrate Jeffrey Sze said video clips provided to the court failed to show Cheng Ting-fung, ...

Chief Executive John Lee said the government has decided to shorten the seven-day hotel quarantine requirement for inbound travellers, but the Health Bureau and the Hospital Authority have to look at various data before any concrete decisions are mad...

Culture secretary Kevin Yeung said on Monday that he expects authorities to be able to find out in one to two weeks' time why a huge video screen crashed down on performers at the MIRROR concert last week. The accident on Thursday injured two dance...

MIRROR’s concert producer Francis Lam has on Monday released a statement on social media, apologising for last Thursday's accident which left two dancers hurt – one critically. In the statement released four days after the dancers were hit by a...

The Hong Kong Rugby Union – which organises the Hong Kong Sevens – on Monday said it expects there will be fewer overseas visitors to the tournament this year, given the city's quarantining of arrivals. But the union's chief executive, Robbie M...

The government on Sunday issued compulsory testing notices for 65 places across Hong Kong. Anyone who has visited any of these premises and stayed there for the length of time and on the dates specified must get a nucleic acid test for Covid-19. Th...

Police on Sunday said they had laid a holding charge of manslaughter against two men, after a 40-year-old man was found dead in a hotel room on Hollywood Road in Central on Saturday. The pair, a 38-year-old foreign national and a local man, 44, were...

Health officials on Sunday reported 4,455 new local Covid infections and 179 imported cases. A total of 1,494 patients were being treated at public hospitals, of which 12 patients were in intensive care. One more Covid patient has died. The 82-ye...

Twenty-three dancers who took part in Thursday's MIRROR concert have issued a joint statement, calling on people not to blame any of the performers for the accident that left one of their colleagues seriously injured. In a post on social media on Su...

The government on Sunday said 350,000 people who lost their jobs in the fifth wave of the pandemic have been granted a special HK$10,000 handout, amounting to HK$3.5 billion in total. Officials said in a statement that they had completed the process...

The parents of the dancer who was seriously injured at Thursday's MIRROR concert arrived in Hong Kong on Sunday morning from Toronto, according to the legislator who represents the performing arts sector, Kenneth Fok. The dancer, Lee Kai-yin, was hi...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan on Sunday expressed confidence in Hong Kong’s economic outlook with the resumption of international events such as the Hong Kong Sevens but warned that the growth forecast for this year will be revised downwards. Wri...

A former Observatory chief, Lam Chiu-ying, said on Sunday the government should focus on developing flat land in the New Territories before going for other options. He was responding to the Chief Executive John Lee, who vowed on Saturday to explore...

The government on Saturday issued compulsory testing notices for 65 places across Hong Kong. Anyone who has visited any of these premises and stayed there for the length of time and on the dates specified must get a nucleic acid test for Covid-19. ...

Police said on Saturday that they had arrested two men on suspicion of manslaughter after another man was found dead in a hotel room in Central in the early hours of the morning. A 38-year old foreign national, understood to be American, was arreste...

Health authorities on Saturday reported 4,683 new coronavirus cases, as they noted infection clusters arising from hospitals. There were 4,490 new local Covid cases and 193 imported infections reported for the day. A total of 1,456 patients are n...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan said on Saturday he expects the external economic environment in the second half of the year to be worse than the first half. Speaking at a forum at the Hong Kong News-Expo, he cited factors such as rising inflation gl...

Secretary for Environment and Ecology Tse Chin-wan said on Saturday a move to redraw the boundaries of protected wetland areas and their buffer zones is aimed at enhancing conservation rather than freeing up land for development. Speaking to reporte...

Chief Executive John Lee on Saturday made a visit to Shum Shui Po, as he seeks people's views ahead of his maiden policy address in October. Along with Chief Secretary Eric Chan, he met a grassroots family living in a subdivided flat on Lai Chi Kok...