An activist jailed under the national security law for inciting secession has won a bid to get his sentence reduced. The Court of Appeal ruled on Wednesday that Ma Chun-man, who was dubbed "Captain America 2.0", should have been jailed for five year...

Environmental group Green Sense on Wednesday urged the government to provide more incentives to get people to buy electric vehicles. The green group surveyed 503 people online from June to July, finding that more than 70 percent of petrol car owners...

Three anti-triad police officers were on Wednesday found guilty of colluding with gang members, after they acted to thwart a raid on an illegal gambling den in 2018. The District Court heard that the gang was tipped-off that a police raid on an ind...

Police on Wednesday said they arrested 18 people last month on suspicion of using fake documents to take out government-guaranteed bank loans totalling HK$193 million under a scheme to support Covid-hit businesses. Officers accused some of the susp...

Hong Kong politicians have joined in the criticism against the controversial visit by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taipei. Vice-chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, CY Leung, said at a national security education e...

Firefighters on Wednesday found the charred body of a man in a warehouse in Fanling where a fire had earlier broken out. At a media briefing, acting divisional officer of the Fire Services Department Chan King-keung said the blaze started at about ...

Health Secretary Lo Chung-mau has dismissed suggestions that the SAR government has given up on trying to arrange quarantine-free travel to the mainland. In an exclusive interview with RTHK, Lo said the situation has already improved since he took...

A performing arts union has said new temporary measures to improve stage safety are reasonable but may not be enough. The government on Monday brought in a series of short-term rules for organisers on stage design and the use of mechanical equipment...

The government on Tuesday 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. T...

Police officers investigating last week's MIRROR concert accident were seen taking away a steel cable after visiting the Hong Kong Coliseum on Tuesday. Officials from the Government Laboratory also assisted with the probe. Two dancers were injured...

Health authorities on Tuesday reported 4,123 new Covid infections, 234 of them imported cases. Another 171 Covid patients had been admitted to hospital, with the number currently receiving care standing at 1,536. Six people are in intensive care. ...

The High Court has ordered a magistrate to lift a reporting ban on a national security court case involving a disbanded group which used to organise the June Fourth candlelight vigil. High Court judge Alex Lee's ruling on Tuesday would allow report...

The government on Tuesday lowered the minimum age limit for the Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine to six months, as recommended by its advisers a day earlier. Previously, children needed to be older than three to get Sinovac, and five for BioNTech. Authori...

Kenneth Fok, the lawmaker representing the performing arts sector, says practitioners understand the need to introduce temporary safety measures amid the probe into a MIRROR concert accident last week that left two performers injured. His comments ...

The Hong Kong Automobile Association has welcomed a proposal by seven car distributors to change their warranty policies in order to give vehicle owners more freedom in choosing where to get repairs and maintenance. Under the plan, car owners will n...

Food Expo organisers on Tuesday rejected a call to allow people to sample the delicacies on sale at this year's event. Simon Wong, the president of the Federation of Restaurants and Related Trades, told a Commercial Radio programme that a lot of exh...

The president of the Hong Kong Paediatric Society on Tuesday urged parents to get their young children vaccinated against Covid as soon as possible – as there has been a rise in serious cases among young patients. Dr Patrick Ip made the comment a...

The Hospital Authority has rejected safety concerns about paracetamol it procured from the mainland when the fifth wave of Covid peaked earlier in the year. In a media session, the authority said that, although the mainland-made painkiller was not r...

National security police said on Monday that they had arrested two men for allegedly publishing seditious messages on social platforms. The men, aged 34 and 36, were separately arrested in Wan Chai and Central. Police said the suspects were suspe...

Government advisers have unanimously agreed to recommend a lowering of the minimum age for vaccination to six months. Currently, children must be aged three or above to receive the Sinovac vaccine, while the minimum age for BioNtech is set at five....