Political analyst Ma Ngok warned on Wednesday that Beijing’s overhaul of Hong Kong’s electoral system will make people far less interested in participating in elections, as they will doubt whether their votes still matter. Ma, a Chinese Universi...

A Tsim Sha Tsui restaurant recently linked to dozens of Covid cases has hit back at the suggestion that a problem with its ventilation helped the virus to spread, after bringing in its own expert to look at the system. Around 50 infections were tied...

A government task force recommended on Wednesday that authorities introduce standard contracts for subdivided flats, and cap rent increases to 15 percent, in order to better protect the poor families who live there. Government figures suggest there ...

A Filipina who was sacked as a domestic worker in Hong Kong after being diagnosed with cancer – a case that exposed the vulnerability of low-paid foreign workers – has passed away, a friend confirmed on Wednesday. Baby Jane Allas, 40, was told s...

Two men have been jailed for 45 months for rioting during a protest at Hong Kong airport in 2019, with two others given shorter jail terms for unlawful assembly. Yau Man-king and Yip Man-leong earlier pleaded guilty to taking part in a riot, when t...

The United States strongly condemns moves by China to further reduce political participation and representation in Hong Kong and is deeply concerned by a second delay in the territory's Legco elections, the US State Department says. "We are deeply c...

A district councillor says he's going to be able to focus his attention on serving residents of his constituency now he and his colleagues have been stripped of their power to help select the city's chief executive, and it's time for Hong Kong to pla...

The Hospital Authority (HA) on Tuesday said it would review its screening procedures for coronavirus variants after it found that a patient carrying a mutated strain was unintentionally placed together with three other Covid-19 patients for more than...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday that a committee to vet potential election candidates will be comprised of "a few principal government officials". Lam said Hong Kong needs the new "Candidate Eligibility Review Committee" because in the pa...

Hong Kong's electoral overhaul endorsed by the country's top legislature on Tuesday saw the elimination of district councillor seats from the election committee, as well as the so-called district council superseats from the Legislative Council. The ...

Legco president Andrew Leung revealed on Tuesday that the next Legco elections will take place in December, and that current lawmakers will stay on in the council until then. The polls had been scheduled for September last year, but officials scrap...

Beijing’s liaison office in Hong Kong on Tuesday said changes made to the Basic Law by the National People’s Congress Standing Committee have created more space for residents to take part in the territory's politics. The number of seats to be ch...

National security police officers are to run background checks on would-be election candidates to determine how patriotic they are, with securing the force's approval one of several new hurdles for those hoping to run for office. Once potential Legc...

Carrie Lam on Tuesday reiterated the authorities' claim that a committee which will vet candidates for future elections in Hong Kong will not screen people out based on their political views. What it will do is weed out any "non-patriots", she expla...

Health Secretary Sophia Chan said Hong Kong is not ready to drastically relax its infection control measures despite a recent drop in number of new Covid-19 cases, because the government does not want everyone’s efforts in fighting the virus to be ...

The National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) on Tuesday approved amendments to annexes I and II of Hong Kong's Basic Law to pave the way for a drastic overhaul of the SAR's electoral system, according to local member Tam Yiu-chung. Tam ...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam has defended the new head of RTHK over his controversial decisions to pull several programmes at the last minute, saying he has been doing what she expects of the station's chief editor. Since taking office on March 1, Pa...

Nightlife entrepreneur Allan Zeman says stricken bar owners had hoped to reopen before the Easter weekend and are disappointed and frustrated to have been left out in an easing of Covid-19 restrictions The government said on Monday that beaches and ...

The government has proposed barring the public from accessing some personal information about executives through company registry searches – a move that a journalists’ group says would seriously undermine press freedom. In a proposal submitted t...

RTHK said on Monday evening that the reason it pulled three television programmes from its schedule at short notice was because portions of the episodes in question contained inaccuracies and were not impartial. The broadcaster pulled an episode of ...