Secretary for Security Chris Tang said on Saturday that authorities are working to help Hongkongers who have reached out saying they are being held captive in Southeast Asia. He noted that so far 28 residents have sought assistance after apparently f...

Six people linked to the pro-independence group "Returning Valiant", including minors, on Saturday admitted to conspiracy to incite others to subvert state power. The six, aged between 16 and 26, admitted to committing the offence between January 1...

The Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development on Saturday said the government must take a cautious approach when assessing whether quarantine requirements for arrivals into Hong Kong might be further adjusted, as the SAR's Covid caseload has be...

The government on Friday issued compulsory testing notices for 60 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...

The government said that the Kai Tak isolation facility, which started operation on Friday morning, has received about 60 Covid patients as at 6pm. The facility is managed by an anti-epidemic task force under the Security Bureau. In a statement, ...

Authorities have announced that from next Monday, government workers who need to take their toddlers to get inoculated against Covid will be entitled to half a day of childcare vaccination leave. In a statement, a government spokesperson said the m...

Health officials announced on Friday that they will once again start using the AsiaWorld-Expo to house Covid patients as infections continue to climb. For the day, 6,445 new coronavirus infections were reported, including 6,260 local infections. Eig...

Eight people were jailed for up to 52 months on Friday and another was detained at a training centre over a protest in Tsim Sha Tsui on August 11, 2019. Two of them admitted taking part in a riot and seven were found guilty of the charge. A tenth pe...

A senior executive of the Airport Authority and the owner of a sub-contractor in the third runway project have been charged with accepting and offering bribes totalling $3.8 million. According to a statement released by the Independent Commission Ag...

Undersecretary for Security Michael Cheuk said on Friday that three Hongkongers have sought help from the authorities saying they are being held captive in Southeast Asia, in addition to eight others officials were already aware of. Cheuk told an RT...

The government on Thursday 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. ...

Security officials said on Thursday that they are aware of eight Hongkongers being held captive in Myanmar after apparently falling prey to human traffickers. Undersecretary for Security Michael Cheuk said the police's organised crime and triad bure...

Hong Kong's daily Covid tally surpassed 6,000 on Thursday for the first time since March. Of the 6,054 cases, 247 were imported. There were five more Covid-related deaths. Health officials said 1,886 patients were being treated in hospital, with ...

The High Court has spared Chief Executive John Lee from punishment over his late submission of copies of consent for election advertisements to the Electoral Affairs Commission. In a judgement handed down on Thursday, judge Queeny Auyeung said the n...

A former worker at a foster home in Prince Edward was on Thursday sentenced to six and a half months behind bars for abusing two toddlers. Cheung Wai-yin, 30, had earlier admitted to ill-treating or neglecting two boys at the Children's Residential...

The UK government has blocked the takeover of a British electronic design company by a Hong Kong-based firm, citing national security grounds. Britain's business secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, used the National Security and Investment Act to bar the ta...

Pro-democracy activists Benny Tai and Joshua Wong, and former lawmakers Wu Chi-wai, Alvin Yeung, Claudia Mo and Chu Hoi-dick, are among 29 people who plan to plead guilty to violating the national security law through their involvement in unofficial ...

The government has been urged to issue travel warnings for Cambodia and Myanmar over fears Hongkongers could be trafficked there in job scams. Authorities say five Hong Kong residents believed to be in Southeast Asia are currently unaccounted for. ...

A Highways Department official on Thursday said planned work to upgrade and widen Lion Rock Tunnel is needed because wear and tear may affect its operation in the long-run. Tony Cheung, a deputy major works project manager, noted that the south-bou...

The government on Wednesday 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. ...