National security suspect Andy Li was remanded in custody on Wednesday after making his first court appearance since he was brought back to Hong Kong from the mainland last month. Security was exceptionally tight and Li was escorted to West Kowloon...

Local media are reporting that the Land Registry will be the next public database to restrict public access, after the Company Registry. According to media reports, the administration is reviewing search arrangements for the Land Registry, citing pr...

A 15-year-old boy who was shot by the police during the 2019 protests has been sent to a training centre after pleading guilty to rioting. The court heard that a plainclothes officer was surrounded by a crowd in Yuen Long on the night of October 4, ...

Elections expert Ma Ngok said on Wednesday that if people were to call on voters to cast blank ballots in future polls this would be a form of electoral campaigning, but not an attempt to manipulate polls as officials have suggested. Constitutional...

The government has been urged to consider requiring domestic helpers from the Philippines to be vaccinated against Covid-19 before they come to Hong Kong, amid suggestions of a ban on all arrivals from the country. Concerns have spiked over recent i...

Hongkongers took to beaches, hiking trails, camping grounds and outlying islands in droves over the Easter and Ching Ming holiday – but not everyone who enjoyed the countryside left it in the condition they found it in. Photos shared online showed...

Media tycoon Jimmy Lai, former lawmaker Lee Cheuk-yan and former Democratic Party chairman Yeung Sum on Wednesday pleaded guilty to taking part in an unauthorised assembly in 2019. An anti-government march on Hong Kong Island on August 31, 2019 des...

A government adviser on the pandemic, David Hui, has on Wednesday urged health officials to scrap the SAR's order for 7.5 million doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, amid growing concerns over the jab's safety in Europe. The European Medic...

Education officials said on Tuesday that a self-evaluation kit that asks primary school pupils whether a citizen should be willing to sacrifice his or her life for the country, along with other questions, had nothing to do with the imposition of the ...

Police on Tuesday said they have arrested a man accused of molesting a 12-year-old girl left home alone while a partner allegedly helped burgle her public housing flat on April 1. Officers said the duo had first tried to get into her Sau Mau Ping ap...

Large crowds swarmed to local beaches on Tuesday to take advantage of the sunny weather on the last day of the Easter and Ching Ming break, bringing much-needed business to restaurants and shops that have been struggling to survive amid extended clos...

The number of new Covid-19 cases swung back into the single digits on Tuesday, with authorities confirming seven new infections – comprising of three local and four imported cases, but no untraceable ones. The three local cases are of a woman and ...

Shoppers continued to visit a Covid-hit wet market in Yau Tong on Tuesday, with some saying they don’t have much of a choice even as they acknowledged concerns about the possibility of getting infected. Health authorities had on Monday issued a ma...

Infectious disease expert Joseph Tsang on Tuesday cautioned the government against relaxing quarantine requirements for incoming travellers – even those from countries considered to be ‘low risk’ – saying such a move could introduce mutated s...

RTHK has aired an episode of its award-winning programme, Hong Kong Connection, that isn't produced by the team normally tasked to do so. It is understood that the show on Monday evening – which interviewed three musicians who are visually impair...

Democratic Party chair Lo Kin-hei on Monday said although it plans to recommend its district councillors take a new oath of office, members won't be forced into doing so - but it's not made its mind up on whether to run in future Legislative Council ...

Two policemen have been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, after a detainee alleged her property had been stolen while she was in Sham Shui Po Police Station. Police on Monday said that the woman had been arrested a week ago for ...

A 32-year-old salesman, who works in a Mong Kok branch of the electronics shop Fortress, has come down with Covid-19, the only local coronavirus case reported on Monday. It is not known how he contracted the disease. There were 15 other cases, all ...

Pro-Beijing lawmaker, Paul Tse, said on Monday that people might be committing a crime, if they called on others to cast blank votes in protest at Beijing's overhaul of Hong Kong's electoral system. This came after the Secretary for Justice, Teresa ...

Five of the 12 Hong Kong people, who returned to the SAR last month after serving jail sentences in Shenzhen for an illegal border crossing, were remanded back in custody after being mentioned in court on Monday to face charges relating to anti-gover...