The Hospital Authority said it’s trying to find out more information about two people, who've been sent to hospital after receiving the mainland-produced Sinovac jabs at the Kwun Chung Sports Centre on Sunday morning. The head of the vaccination ...

The head of a local patients group has called on the government to do more to educate the public about its inoculation programme, following the deaths of two people after receiving the Sinovac jabs. Speaking after attending RTHK's City Forum on Sun...

Vice Premier Han Zheng has been quoted as saying that Beijing's electoral reforms for Hong Kong are no longer about whether the SAR's systems are democratic or not, but about preventing subversion. During a two-hour meeting with local National Peop...

Former justice secretary Elsie Leung has rejected suggestions that Beijing's electoral overhaul for Hong Kong has violated the Basic Law and the Sino-British Joint Declaration, saying the SAR can still move towards democracy after things “return to...

The financial secretary, Paul Chan, has defended Beijing's plan to drastically change Hong Kong's electoral system, saying it would be “pointless” to talk about Hong Kong's development or its role as an international financial centre, if the sove...

Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung has urged people to focus on the science when it comes to the safety of Covid-19 vaccine. The minister's appeal comes after a 55-year-old chronically-ill woman who reportedly had high blood pressure as well as high ch...

A former chairman of the Health and Medical Development Advisory Committee, David Fang, says accusations that the medical council is preventing foreign doctors from practising in the SAR are unfair and groundless. Critics have accused the Medical C...

A 60-year-old woman has died, and an 80-year-old woman has been hospitalised, in a fire at Ka Keung Court in Wang Tau Hom. About 90 people were evacuated, after the blaze broke out at about 3 o'clock on Sunday morning. The cause of the fire is no...

A pro-democracy labour group on Saturday said it was cutting ties with the Civil Human Rights Front, after a media report said the government might outlaw the protest organiser on national security grounds. In a brief statement, the Neighbourhood a...

Health officials say they are investigating two more Covid-19 cases involving people who visited the K11 Musea shopping mall in Tsim Sha Tsui, which saw a major outbreak linked to a restaurant. The announcement came as the mall reopened on Saturday ...

A delegate to Beijing's top political advisory body confirmed on Saturday that the central government is indeed mulling boosting the size of Hong Kong's Legislative Council and the committee that picks the chief executive. Henry Tang, who is in Bei...

The Department of Health has confirmed that a 55-year-old woman who suffered from chronic illness died on Saturday morning, days after she had received the Sinovac Covid jab. The woman was inoculated at Kwun Chung Sports Centre on Tuesday, and suff...

Health Secretary Sophia Chan said on Saturday that she had noted a fall in the number of people booking a Covid-19 vaccine, and urged anyone who is unsure about getting inoculated to speak to their family doctor. She made the comment after being as...

The High Court on Saturday set hearings for next Thursday and Saturday to consider a challenge by prosecutors to a lower court's decision to grant bail to 11 pro-democracy figures in a high-profile subversion case. The activists, including former la...

One man died and eleven others were injured in a fire at a building in Yau Ma Tei in the early hours of Saturday. The Fire Department was called at about 5am to the Po Cheung Building on Reclamation Street after multiple reports of smoke and fire. T...

The United States on Friday condemned Beijing's proposed reforms of Hong Kong's selection of lawmakers as a "direct attack" on the SAR's autonomy and demanded that Beijing reverse course. The proposed measures "are a direct attack on Hong Kong's aut...

The Hospital Authority (HA) on Friday announced an investigation into the case of a chronically-ill patient who was found dead in a hospital corridor while waiting to be admitted. The HA said the man, 63, was waiting to be admitted to Kwong Wah Hosp...

The European Union warned China on Friday that it may take "additional steps" in response to Beijing's move to grant itself a veto over the selection of Hong Kong lawmakers. Earlier on Friday, Beijing introduced legislation to allow the central gove...

Police have arrested a dozen people and frozen assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars, as part of an investigation by the force and the Securities and Futures Commission into alleged stock manipulation. The suspects are accused of running a "r...

The Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF) has denied receiving funding from overseas organisations after a report said the government may outlaw the group on national security grounds. There have been claims that the front – which is best known for orga...