Health officials on Saturday reported 59 new coronavirus cases, the highest total in more than a week. Fifty-three of the infections are locally acquired and twenty have no clear source. Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan of the Centre for Health Protection sai...

The MTR Corporation says it will closely monitor traffic conditions on Sunday as it suspends East Rail services between Mong Kok East and Hung Hom stations. The closure is the first of ten this year to allow for work to connect the East Rail Line ...

Police said on Saturday they’ve arrested 13 people in connection with a fatal knife attack of a man in a stone factory in Fanling last month. Officers said a gang of four men attacked the victim with meat cleavers at Wo Hop Shek Tsuen before flee...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan says he expects the SAR's economy to return to growth in the second half of this year, but he also cautioned against expectations of big handouts in his budget. Chan attended an RTHK programme on Saturday to gauge publ...

The government says experts are to study whether people who are vaccinated against Covid-19 could be spared some anti-epidemic rules, including quarantine requirements. The Secretary for Civil Service, Patrick Nip, one of the officials in charge of ...

The Democratic Party on Friday vowed it would not be cowed into submission by the arrest this week of seven high-profile members, saying the crackdown will not affect its political stance. Former lawmakers James To, Wu Chi-wai, Andrew Wan, Lam Cheuk...

The SAR government announced on Friday that it has decided to call off the Lunar New Year fairs planned across Hong Kong next month, citing the latest situation with the pandemic. The authorities earlier said that they were planning scaled-down fai...

Health officials said a rebound in the number of Covid-19 cases shows there's still silent transmission in the community. Since hitting a near seven-week low of 25 cases on Wednesday, the number of infections has been heading north. It reached 45 on...

The government on Friday said it will bring in new offences to criminalise voyeurism and photography of people's intimate parts without consent, such as upskirt photos, after receiving around 200 written submissions in a three-month public consultati...

Three people were jailed for up to five and a half years on Friday for rioting at the airport and assaulting a mainland journalist, with the prison terms the longest so far in relation to Hong Kong's recent unrest. The District Court earlier found A...

The husband of Justice Secretary Teresa Cheng has lost an appeal at the High Court over the HK$20,000 fine he was given for an illegal swimming pool he had built at his luxury home in Tuen Mun. Otto Poon was found guilty at West Kowloon Magistracy ...

A pollster who was commissioned to run the pan-democratic camp's primary elections for the now-postponed Legco elections said he would continue his work despite this week's mass arrests of those linked to the exercise. A defiant Chung Kim-wah, deput...

The jury looking into the death of university student Chow Tsz-lok during the anti-government protests in 2019 retired on Friday morning after being told by the coroner that they could return one of three verdicts. The five-member jury could rule th...

An adviser on the government's anti-pandemic efforts said on Friday that he is encouraged by the latest trial results for the Covid-19 vaccine made by China's Sinovac, but SAR officials need more information before clearing it for use in Hong Kong. ...

Former Democratic Party chairman and lawmaker Wu Chi-wai was remanded in custody on Friday, with a court revoking his bail over a protest-related case. Wu and seven other pro-democracy activists were granted bail last month after they were charged w...

Police said on Friday morning that none of the 55 pro-democracy figures arrested this week under the national security law have been charged with an offence, and all but three have now been released on bail. There was no bail for Joshua Wong and Tam...

About 100 officers from the disciplined services will join a contact-tracing team and help track down people who came into contact with Covid patients, health officials said on Thursday. Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan of the Centre for Health Protection said ...

Former Democratic Party chairman Wu Chi-Wai appeared in court on Thursday, accused of violating bail conditions in relation to a BN(O) passport he allegedly holds. Wu and seven other pro-democracy activists were granted bail last month after they we...

State-run tabloid Global Times was on Thursday quick to mock the siege of the US Capitol, quoting mainland internet users as describing Trump supporters' invasion of the building as “karma”, “retribution” and “deserving”. An article, pu...

Jailed activist Joshua Wong was taken to the Lai Chi Lok Reception Centre for questioning on Thursday after being arrested under the national security law, a post on his Facebook account said. Wong, 24, is believed to be suspected of subversion, alo...