Health officials say they are concerned about coronavirus infections among healthcare workers, with small outbreaks now reported at Tsing Yi Ambulance Depot and Princess Margaret Hospital. In total, the authorities recorded 41 new coronavirus cases...

Justice Secretary Teresa Cheng has hit out at "baseless challenges" against Beijing's introduction of the national security law in Hong Kong, saying the central government has always had the power and duty to enact laws on national security matters. ...

Four men accused of clashing with a group of Beijing supporters in a Kowloon Bay shopping mall in 2019 pleaded guilty on Monday to unlawful assembly. One of the defendants also pleaded guilty to wounding. The District Court heard that on the after...

The chairman of the Bar Association, Philip Dykes, has urged the secretary for justice to take action against what he called "baseless criticisms" against judges, just because they decide a case one way rather than another. Delivering a speech mark...

The Chief Justice, Andrew Cheung, has condemned unfounded attacks on judges, saying an independent and impartial judiciary must be maintained in Hong Kong. In his first speech delivered as the head of the judiciary to mark the opening of the legal ...

The District Court on Monday acquitted a university student of attempted arson during an anti-government protest, after two police officers who testified gave contradictory statements. Abilkaiyr Nukpi from Kazakhstan was accused of trying to ignite ...

The government said plans to allow people aged between 60 and 64 to take public transport for HK$2 would not be in place for another year, and they will have to get a personalised Octopus card in order to benefit. The idea to widen the HK$2 scheme, ...

A charity that provides support for Hong Kong's homeless population says it has seen a huge increase in the number of street sleepers in the past few months. The founder and chief executive of ImpactHK, Jeff Rotmeyer, said this increase is partly d...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Monday vowed to "steadfastly safeguard" judicial independence, as she congratulated Andrew Cheung on his swearing-in as Hong Kong's new chief justice. Lam said the government has always given its full support to the jud...

The new chief justice, Andrew Cheung, was sworn in at Government House on Monday. He took the judicial oath administered by Chief Executive Carrie Lam, pledging to uphold the Basic Law, swearing allegiance to the HKSAR, and promising to safeguard t...

Medical experts are divided over whether Hong Kong can achieve "zero infections" anytime soon, despite the number of new coronavirus cases slowly falling. An epidemiologist from the University of Hong Kong, Professor Benjamin Cowling, said on Monda...

The owner of Hong Kong's biggest orchid farm on Monday urged the government to compensate flower farmers for their losses over the cancellation of next month's Lunar New Year fairs. Yeung Siu-lung told an RTHK programme that he had grown more than ...

Health authorities said on Sunday there may be an outbreak at the Hong Kong and Kowloon Ferry company, after a captain came down with Covid-19 and three sailors tested preliminary positive for the virus. The captain, 59, works on several routes, fr...

Police on Sunday arrested two men, aged 24 and 33, and seized methamphetamine worth more than HK$5.5 million that was disguised as liquid ice packs used to keep live seafood chilled. Police made the arrests in To Kwa Wan as the two men attempted to...

The Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs, Erick Tsang, said on Sunday that the more than 50 pan-democrats arrested last week on suspicion of subversion had to pay the price for "crossing the red line". He told the state-owned China New...

Financial secretary Paul Chan said on Sunday he will have to keep some firepower in reserve to tackle any uncertainties Hong Kong may face in the coming year, amid calls for sweeteners in his upcoming budget. On his official blog, Chan wrote that he...

Clients of a shuttered law firm are demanding help from the government, saying they've suffered losses totalling HK$100 million after the Law Society froze the firm's accounts. In a rare intervention on December 24, the Law Society stepped in to sus...

The Hong Kong government on Sunday accused foreign governments of making "slandering" remarks about the National Security Law, which it said was equal – if not better than – similar national security laws in other jurisdictions. The SAR governme...

Trains weren’t running between Hung Hom and Mong Kok East stations on Sunday, in the first of ten planned suspensions by the MTR this year, with the railway operator saying most passengers had switched to using other routes. The MTR announced in D...

Liberal Party lawmaker Tommy Cheung has blamed Hong Kong's acute shortage of doctors on what he calls the "protectionist attitude" of local doctors and the Medical Council. Speaking on RTHK's Letter to Hong Kong, Cheung, who's also an executive coun...