A coronavirus cluster linked to an upmarket gym is still expanding, as authorities on Saturday confirmed that 35 more customers or their close contacts have come down with the disease. This brought the tally of the cluster linked to Ursus Fitness i...

The office of the commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong on Saturday hit back at the G7 statement on the SAR's electoral overhaul, which it said was the work of "very few Western countries". The Group of Seven nations, Britain...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said that pro-democracy politicians will see their chances of winning office increase after Beijing approved sweeping reforms of the SAR's political system – as long as they prove themselves to be patriots. She was spea...

The High Court on Saturday allowed the release on bail of district councillors Tat Cheng, Michael Pang, and Ricky Or, three of 47 pan-democrats charged under the national security law, but denied bail to ex-lawmakers Jeremy Tam and Kwok Ka-ki. The d...

Senior officials in Hong Kong continued on Saturday to talk up Beijing's sweeping reform of the SAR's electoral system, with one proclaiming that "quality democracy" is now possible and another promising that more people would be able to participate ...

The head of the University of Hong Kong's medical school warned on Saturday that urgent action is needed this weekend to prevent a growing outbreak of Covid-19 at an upmarket gym from launching a fifth wave of the coronavirus in the SAR. Gabriel Leu...

Group of Seven powers on Friday demanded that China honour commitments in Hong Kong and end "oppression" against democratic activists after Beijing forced sweeping changes of the city's election system. The National People's Congress on Thursday pas...

The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) on Friday said it had arrested 24 people suspected to be part of an alleged plot to illegally transfer ‘small house’ rights to a developer to build a large-scale property project. The graft-bu...

The European Union’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has submitted a scathing report on Hong Kong which concludes that there had been an “alarming political deterioration” in the territory over the past year, and accuses China of “consciou...

A vice-chairman of Beijing’s top advisory body, Tung Chee-hwa, said on Friday that Beijing's decision to change the SAR’s electoral system will make the Legislative Council more representative and allow more room for political discussion. His co...

Authorities on Friday ordered all gym workers in Hong Kong to get tested for Covid by Sunday. A major coronavirus outbreak at a gym in Sai Ying Pun worsened on Friday, with 47 more customers and their close contacts coming down with the infection. ...

Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne on Friday expressed serious concern about Beijing's planned changes to Hong Kong's electoral system, saying the overhaul will weaken Hong Kong's democratic institutions. "It is essential that Hong Kong people...

Pro-establishment heavyweight Tam Yiu-chung said on Friday that a new screening committee to review and confirm the qualifications of candidates for the Election Committee, the chief executive and the Legco polls – as part of Beijing-led electoral ...

Veteran democrat and former journalist Emily Lau said on Friday that the director of broadcasting's move to abruptly pull an episode of a TV show she featured in – covering the electoral overhaul planned for Hong Kong – was both "very alarming" a...

Former Taiwan president Ma Ying-jeou said on Friday that Beijing’s latest decision to overhaul Hong Kong’s electoral system spells the death of ‘One Country, Two Systems’. Speaking to reporters while attending a memorial to mark the 96th an...

A senior mainland official overseeing Hong Kong affairs said the proposed changes to the SAR’s electoral system are not meant to impose “uniformity”, and that pan-democrats can still take part in elections and be elected. Zhang Xiaoming, depu...

A government adviser on the pandemic, David Hui, on Friday described an outbreak linked to a Sai Ying Pun gym as a "symptom" of a fifth wave of Covid-19. Around 50 people connected to Ursus Fitness – staff, customers and their close contacts – h...

Twenty-one of the 47 pro-democracy figures charged with subversion under the national security law will continue to be held in custody after West Kowloon Magistrates' Court on Friday upheld its decision to refuse some of them bail, while others withd...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Thursday said that changes to the city’s electoral system are not aimed at removing opposition, but safeguarding national security. Lam told reporters at a press conference that there had been lawmakers, without namin...

The European Union on Thursday warned China it could take "additional steps" as it condemned a vote by Beijing's rubber-stamp parliament for sweeping changes to Hong Kong's electoral system. "The National People's Congress of the People's Republic o...