Health officials expressed relief on Wednesday at the easing coronavirus situation in Hong Kong as the number of new Covid-19 cases dropped to 25, the lowest in almost seven weeks. Twenty-two infections are locally acquired, seven of them via unkno...

Three weeks after holding the first ever "virtual" Legco meeting, Hong Kong's lawmakers have decided they don't even need to go into the council to take part in voting. Pro-Beijing legislators, who now form the only camp in the legislature, original...

A senior national security officer says around a thousand police were involved in Wednesday morning's operation to arrest 53 people suspected of subversion by allegedly planning to force Carrie Lam to step down as chief executive and to paralyse the ...

Taiwan says it is just as shocked as the rest of the world by the Hong Kong authorities' move on Wednesday to arrest dozens of pro-democracy figures. Around 50 people linked to the pro-democracy camp's primary polls for 2020 Legco elections that wer...

Security Secretary John Lee said on Wednesday that the police's mass arrests earlier in the day targeted "active elements" who had an "evil plan" aimed at paralysing Hong Kong. Dozens of former lawmakers and activists were detained under the nationa...

Lawmakers on Wednesday hailed the police move to arrest scores of pro-democracy politicians and activists, claiming last year's primary polls were clearly a violation of the national security law. One of the remaining members of the opposition-less ...

The District Court on Wednesday convicted three people of rioting and assaulting a mainland journalist during an anti-government protest at the airport in August 2019, but acquitted a fourth defendant in the case. Amy Pat, Lai Yun-long and Ho Ka-lo...

Western politicians and exiled Hong Kong activists on Wednesday denounced a wave of arrests under the national security law in the SAR, with US President-elect Joe Biden's pick for secretary of state describing the crackdown as an "assault". "The sw...

Executive councillor and senior counsel Ronny Tong said on Wednesday that he can't see how holding primary polls to choose candidates for elections could violate Hong Kong's national security law. But he said he wasn't sure whether activities surrou...

A political commentator says Wednesday's massive round-up operation against pro-democracy figures in Hong Kong shows the government is ready to use any excuse it can to silence dissent and nobody is safe anymore. Chung Kim-wah said police also conta...

Eight police officers charged in connection with the assault of a street sleeper in Sham Shui Po have been granted bail after their court appearance on Wednesday. Eastern Court granted the six men and two women bail of HK$1,000 each. Three of the o...

Police raided a law firm in Central and arrested an American lawyer working there on Wednesday morning, just hours after launching a national security crackdown that saw dozens of other arrests. Footage posted online showed officers at Ho, Tse, Wai ...

Police officers on Wednesday descended on the offices of Stand News with a court warrant, demanding the pro-democracy online media outlet surrender documents within seven days to assist with a national security investigation. Four plain-clothes offi...

Police have arrested a bus driver after his vehicle knocked down and killed an 82-year-old woman who was crossing the road in Shau Kei Wan. The incident happened around 5pm on Tuesday, as the bus was heading down Aldrich Bay Road and turning onto Tu...

Around 50 pro-democracy politicians and activists were arrested on Wednesday morning under the national security law over last year's primaries for Legco elections that didn't take place in the end. Those arrested included former Hong Kong Universi...

The government has revealed that almost 10,000 people who were required to get Covid-19 tests by Monday still had not done so by Tuesday evening, warning it would take "resolute" action to ensure the public complies with mandatory testing orders. Au...

Former pro-democracy lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting and six other people appeared in the District Court on Tuesday over the July 21 Yuen Long gang attack in 2019. A large group of men wielding sticks launched indiscriminate assaults on passengers in the to...

Hong Kong on Tuesday reported 32 new coronavirus cases, with one infection brought in from elsewhere and nine without any known source. Speaking at a daily briefing, the Centre for Health Protection's Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan said one of the patients wi...

An electronic bracelet used for people who have been placed under coronavirus quarantine in Hong Kong has been found washed up on a beach in Taiwan. Emma Wong, a Hong Kong-based artist, posted on social media on Monday that the wristband was found ...

A lawyer has told the inquest into the death of Chow Tsz-lok during the protests of 2019 that they shouldn't just take the opinions of expert witnesses to be the truth about what happened, as their testimony could have been limited by the findings of...