Health authorities revealed on Tuesday that a 55-year-old woman was in intensive care after she waited for several days to receive her positive test result for coronavirus. The woman, who works in a cake shop at the Royal Plaza Hotel in Mong Kok, d...

The government on Tuesday announced its intention to require district councillors to take a pledge of allegiance, with any who are disqualified for breaching the oath to be banned from running for office for five years. Planned amendments to the law...

The SAR government announced on Tuesday that the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has agreed to set up a dispute-settlement panel upon its second request over a decision by the United States to label goods made in Hong Kong as “Made in China”. For...

Around 200 Hongkongers received Sinovac Covid-19 jabs on Tuesday, several days before the government officially rolls out its territory-wide vaccination programme. The participants, consisting of elderly residents as well as people from “high ris...

The District Court on Tuesday granted anonymity to more than half of the prosecution's witnesses at the trial of eight men linked to the Yuen Long gang attack on July 21, 2019. The eight defendants are alleged to have been among a group of white-cla...

Government officials say the Antiquities Advisory Board will hold a meeting next month to consider the conservation value of a century-old underground reservoir in Sham Shui Po, and people will later have a chance to share their views about the archi...

The High Court on Tuesday rejected a social worker's appeal against a conviction for obstructing police during a protest in July 2019, but reduced his jail sentence from a year to eight months. Judge Albert Wong ruled that Lau Ka-tung – who blocke...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday that the central government has to get involved in solving Hong Kong’s political problems to ensure that “One Country, Two Systems” can continue. She was commenting on remarks made by the head of Bei...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said the government has no plans to introduce legislation that prohibits insulting public officials for now, saying her administration has more pressing issues to deal with. Her comment comes after civil service chief Pat...

The vice chairwoman of the Basic Law Committee, Maria Tam, says the National People’s Congress Standing Committee will have to decide on reforms to the SAR's electoral system, because Hong Kong doesn't have enough lawmakers left to make such a move...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday said there has been a keen response to the government’s coronavirus vaccination programme, with more than 42,000 people in priority groups making appointments for the jabs by 9am after online bookings opened at...

The Secretary for Innovation and Technology, Alfred Sit, said on Tuesday that around 30,000 people had made appointments for the Sinovac vaccination through the government's inoculation website as at 8 am. He told an RTHK radio programme that the e...

Democratic Party chairman Lo Kin-hei on Monday said he expects it will become increasingly difficult for any pro-democracy candidate to take part in any election for public office in Hong Kong in future, after a senior Beijing official said the centr...

The government on Monday proposed a new recycling levy for businesses that manufacture or import plastic drinks bottles as part of its strategy to reduce the amount of waste in Hong Kong. It says under the ‘polluter pays’ principle, manufacturer...

Britain's foreign secretary Dominic Raab on Monday said the rights of people in Hong Kong were being "systematically violated", while denouncing ‘torture, forced labour and sterilisations’ that he said were taking place against Muslim Uighurs on ...

The Centre for Health Protection on Monday reported 16 new coronavirus infections in the territory. Thirteen of them were locally acquired, four via an unknown source. These included a 66-year-old post-natal care helper, two retirees, and a 41-year-...

Hong Kong health authorities on Monday said an expert panel would study reports of any serious side effects experienced by people who receive coronavirus vaccines, and decide whether they can receive compensation from the government. The government...

Two men have pleaded guilty to rioting in connection with the July 21 Yuen Long attacks. Prosecutors told the District Court on Monday that Lam Koon-leung and Lam Kai-ming were among a group of white-clad men who attacked passengers and bystanders ...

CLP said it's studying plans to build an offshore wind farm in Hong Kong waters. "We now believe that offshore wind [farm] could be economically feasible in Hong Kong," CEO Richard Lancaster said as CLP posted an almost 150 percent surge in total ea...

Lawmakers took turns on Monday to announce their support for plans to reform the SAR's electoral system, with one insisting it's only right that Hong Kong people will not get a say in the matter, and another proclaiming that whatever Beijing decides ...