A West Kowloon magistrate said on Tuesday that the mammoth national security bail hearing for 47 pro-democracy figures charged with subversion would adjourn at 10pm at the latest, after some of the defendants complained they were exhausted by the pro...

Lawmakers on Tuesday said the government should use soon-to-be vacated land near the border with Shenzhen for innovation and technology enterprises, to tie in with the Lok Ma Chau Loop. At least 20 hectares of land, currently under the Lok Ma Chau C...

Prosecutors have laid a new charge against one of the 12 young Hongkongers who were detained by mainland authorities as they allegedly tried to flee the SAR to Taiwan by speedboat last August. Liu Tsz-man, 18 – who was one of two detainees handed ...

A District Court judge on Tuesday refused to grant bail to a national security suspect, saying there had been no “material change" in the defendant's circumstances. Ma Chun-man, who was dubbed "Captain America 2.0", is accused of inciting others t...

The government has been urged to speed up its process of allowing more private doctors to join the territory-wide Covid-19 vaccination programme, and replenish the supply of jabs for them more quickly. The call was made by the president of the Hong...

Beijing's Taiwan Affairs Office on Tuesday warned Taipei not to go "any further down the wrong path of political manipulation of Hong Kong issues". Spokeswoman Zhu Fenglian issued the warning in response to the ruling Democratic Progressive Party's ...

The lawyer representing Occupy movement co-founder Benny Tai argued that he and other campaign leaders only played supporting roles in the 79-day protests in 2014 at the start of an appeal hearing on Tuesday. The Occupy trio are among nine leading f...

A political analyst said on Tuesday that it will almost be impossible for Hong Kong to hold free and fair elections in future if the central government introduces sweeping reforms to the SAR's electoral system. The National People's Congress (NPC) w...

A Hong Kong deputy to the National People’s Congress (NPC) says Beijing will likely remove district councillors’ power to help choose the SAR's chief executive, so as to reduce the opposition camp’s political leverage. Of the 1,200-strong ele...

A marathon national security law hearing resumed at West Kowloon Court on Tuesday lunchtime, with 47 pro-democracy politicians and activists seeking bail after being charged with subversion. Several of the defendants were absent, however, with Chui ...

The Secretary for Innovation and Technology, Alfred Sit, on Tuesday said the government has increased the capacity of its vaccination booking website, but he said people might still have to queue online for some time when appointments open for the co...

West Kowloon Court sat into the small hours as it tried to process the cases of 47 pro-democracy figures accused of national security crimes over their involvement in Legco primaries last year. The suspects are accused of intending to abuse Legco's...

The new cabinet of the student union of Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) announced its resignation on Monday, citing increasing political pressure after the school cut ties with it last week. Syzygia said it was taking "political responsibilit...

The Civil Service Secretary, Patrick Nip, has defended the promotion of a former director of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) who was the target of an attack by a top pro-Beijing newspaper. Vivian Lau was named the Permanent Secr...

Hong Kong University microbiologist Yuen Kwok-yung said bad ventilation at a restaurant in Tsim Sha Tsui might have caused a coronavirus cluster there. Forty-eight cases -- including 22 customers and nine staff at Mr Ming's Chinese Dining, along wit...

Lawmaker and Basic Law Committee member Priscilla Leung has called for a special committee to be set up to vet potential candidates who plan to take part in local elections. The Business and Professionals Alliance legislator made the suggestion on M...

The head of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, Xia Baolong, has reportedly called for “severe punishment” for Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai, jailed activist Joshua Wong and former HKU legal scholar Benny Tai. In a transcript published by t...

The Health Secretary, Sophia Chan, said on Monday that authorities will investigate whether an elderly man who became ill after receiving the Sinovac coronavirus vaccine was suffering from any side effects. The 72-year-old man, who had hypertension,...

Police on Monday warned people gathering outside the court where 47 pro-democracy figures were appearing on subversion charges that they too could be arrested under the national security law. Officers raised the purple warning flag that they have be...

The District Court on Monday adjourned the trial of seven pro-democracy figures over a 2019 protest after the hearing clashed with a national security case involving one of the defendants. Media tycoon Jimmy Lai and former lawmakers Martin Lee, Marg...