A 37-year-old policeman died on Saturday after apparently vomiting in his office at police headquarters in Wan Chai. Police said when another officer went to work this morning, he found his colleague lying unconscious on a folding bed at around 9 a...

The Secretary for Justice, Teresa Cheng, has accused some media - which she didn't name - of using biased language to describe the appeals or sentencing reviews her department has made. She said last year, there were 12 sentencing review application...

The MTR's new nine-carriage trains on the East Rail Line began running on Saturday, as enthusiasts celebrated their introduction. The first train departed from Shatin station at 5:40 am and went to Hung Hom. The newly introduced train was welcome...

The Police Commissioner Chris Tang on Saturday said the introduction of the national security law won't change the way his force vets public gathering applications such as the June Fourth candlelight vigil - but he noted that national security has al...

Organisers of the annual June the Fourth candlelight vigil had briefly defied the authorities’ ban and kept hosting a Lunar New Year flower stall at Victoria Park. Minutes into Saturday, the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) termina...

Overnight lockdowns at a private estate in Yuen Long and a public housing block in Ma On Shan were completed on Saturday morning - again with nobody testing positive. The lockdown orders for both blocks of Fu Loy Garden on Ma Wang Road in Yuen Long ...

Infectious disease expert Yuen Kwok-yung on Friday expressed support for the government’s ambush-style lockdowns, even though they've identified only a handful of Covid-19 cases. Yuen, who's a government advisor on the pandemic, said some people m...

The government has decided to exempt mainland drugmaker Sinovac from having to publish data from late-stage clinical trials in a medical journal, before a panel of experts decides whether to recommend its coronavirus vaccine for use here, after the f...

Health authorities on Friday said they will expand a free Covid-19 testing programme to cover security guards, while extending the programme for construction workers and foreign domestic helpers until the end of February. A spokesman for the Food an...

A private estate in Yuen Long and a public housing block in Ma On Shan were put on lockdown on Friday evening, the latest residential buildings to be sealed off in the government's ambush-style operations aimed at stopping the spread of the coronavir...

Health officials said on Friday that the suspected coronavirus case the authorities found during their latest ambush lockdowns turned out to be a recovered Covid patient. Thursday night saw buildings in Yau Ma Tei and Mong Kok sealed off as tests we...

Five of the 24 pro-democracy figures charged in connection with an unauthorised assembly last year marking the June Fourth crackdown said on Friday that they plan to plead guilty. Former lawmaker Chu Hoi-dick, jailed activist Joshua Wong and distric...

The MTR Corporation says new shorter trains, with only nine carriages rather than the usual 12, will start running on the East Rail Line from Saturday. The railway operator says the move is to prepare for when trains eventually cross the harbour as ...

Health Secretary Sophia Chan has defended a proposal to let Hong Kong residents trained elsewhere as doctors practise more easily in the SAR, saying it's a much-needed and timely change to ease a manpower shortage. The proposal would allow doctors ...

A man who fled a hospital isolation ward after he was confirmed to have Covid-19 has been jailed for four months. Li Wan-keung, 63, pleaded guilty to violating anti-epidemic laws in December last year. He ran away from Queen Elizabeth Hospital and...

The Education Secretary, Kevin Yeung, said on Friday that schools that fail to act or report obvious breaches of the national security law on campuses could be held responsible under new guidelines on national security education. His comments came o...

Lawmakers have expressed doubt as to whether a proposed Railway Department would be able to tackle the sort of problems that the MTR Corporation has found itself embroiled in in recent years, saying the root cause is the company's monopoly. Among ot...

Police on Friday said they had made their biggest ever seizure of ketamine, finding a haul worth some HK$437 million. Officers said they arrested a 23-year-old man as he left an apartment in Yuen Long on Wednesday. At a warehouse in Kwai Chung, of...

The vice-president of the Professional Teachers' Union, Ip Kin-yuen, says he is astonished to see the "vast scope" of the government's proposed national security education guidelines, as well as the lack of consultation with teachers before it was dr...

Health officials say coronavirus tests on more than 2,100 residents of Mong Kok and Yau Ma Tei overnight led to the discovery of one preliminary positive case. The latest "ambush lockdowns" came to an end by 7am on Friday morning. One preliminary ...