Authorities on Monday ordered around 130 students at a secondary school in Shau Kei Wan to be sent to a quarantine centre after two fellow pupils came down with Covid-19. The two infected students at Shau Kei Wan Government Secondary School live in...

The case of eight pro-democracy activists being prosecuted over an unauthorised protest on July 1 last year is being transferred to the District Court. The defendants – former lawmakers Wu Chi-wai, Chu Hoi-dick and Leung Kwok-hung; Figo Chan of th...

The Secretary for Labour and Welfare, Law Chi-kwong, on Monday rejected legislators' demands to further relax the threshold for a subsidy for low-income families. The government has proposed reducing the minimum working hour requirements for the bas...

Police say they believe they have busted a triad-controlled gambling and drug-dealing syndicate after arresting 81 people in more than a dozen suspected gambling dens on Hong Kong Island. Officers alleged on Monday that the operators of these venue...

A national security judge handling the court case of radio host Wan Yiu-sing has adjourned the proceedings after the defendant made a request to be sent to hospital. Wan, who is also known as Giggs, was due to appear in West Kowloon Magistracy on M...

Some residents of a Quarry Bay building said on Monday that they were glad that a lockdown and mass testing exercise there had identified three possible Covid carriers among their neighbours and had hopefully prevented a further spread of the virus. ...

University of Hong Kong microbiologist Ho Pak-leung has criticised the government for spending time on "ineffective lockdowns" rather than targeting places clearly prone to Covid-19 outbreaks, like construction sites. Ho said on Monday that officia...

Health authorities on Monday discovered four preliminary positive Covid-19 cases in the ambush lockdowns announced on Sunday evening for three residential buildings in Quarry Bay, Hung Hom and Mong Kok. It's the largest number of cases to be found ...

The police have warned that a hybrid scam involving romance and investment is emerging in Hong Kong, with reported losses last year totalling HK$85 million. Officers say under the scam, con artists would meet someone online, form a relationship, and...

Three residential blocks in Mong Kok, Quarry Bay and Hung Hom have become the latest to be locked down under the government's overnight Covid-19 mandatory testing scheme on Sunday. Residents of Hoi Yu House in Mong Kok, Wai Lee Building in Quarry Ba...

Health officials said on Sunday that a pregnant woman, who concealed the fact that she was a close contact of a Covid-19 case, had come down with the virus. Dr Chuang Shuk Kwan from the Centre for Health Protection said a family member, who was alre...

Democratic Party chairman Lo Kin-hei on Sunday accused the government of suppressing opposition voices, after an online radio host was arrested for a second time by national security police, while out on bail. Wan Yiu-sing - also known as Giggs on ...

The Hong Kong Council for Social Service is calling on the government to beef up its support for the unemployed, saying many of those now out of work were previously on middle incomes and this group does not get enough help under Hong Kong’s existi...

Education secretary Kevin Yeung on Sunday denied that the Education Bureau was looking to pressure teachers through more school visits, once a revamped Liberal Studies curriculum was in place. He told a TV programme that the government only wanted ...

Police have seized HK$63 million worth of cannabis buds in Mai Po, the second biggest seizure of the drug in Hong Kong. Officers found 280 kg of the drug and arrested a 41-year-old man when they raided a warehouse on Friday. The man, who's believ...

Food and Health Secretary Sophia Chan on Sunday defended the government's ambush lockdown policy, saying strict action was needed to rid the SAR of Covid-19 - especially now that cases were falling. Chan told a radio programme that 15 cases had so ...

Labour and Welfare Secretary, Law Chi-kwong, says last Thursday's tweaking by the government of two important welfare programmes will help the jobless, or those on low incomes, get through the pandemic. Speaking on Letter to Hong Kong, Law said the...

Executive Councillor Lam Ching-choi revealed on Saturday that elderly residents from 10 larger scale care homes will be among the first groups of people to receive coronavirus inoculations. Lam, who’s also a member of the government’s vaccinati...

The government imposed a lockdown on two separate residential buildings in To Kwa Wan and Tuen Mun on Saturday night. The authorities declared Block 9 of Gold Coast a “restricted zone” at about 8.30pm, and Wah Fat Building at Ma Hang Chung Road...

Virus control measures have been brought in on the first day of the annual Lunar New Year fairs, with temperature sensors and crowd control indicators similar in appearance to traffic lights set up at the entrances of the 15 fair venues. The public a...