A university student accused of possessing a pepper ball gun has now also been charged with violating the national security law. Lui Sai-yu, 23, was arrested at his Fanling home last September and accused of possessing the gun without a licence, as...

Police shot and wounded a man on Thursday after a car chase from the Tolo Highway to outside the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sha Tin. The male motorist was shot in the shoulder while his girlfriend and their two-year-old daughter were also in the ve...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam says she will not reverse plans to build funeral facilities in North District, although they will be located at a key site designated for Hong Kong’s Greater Bay Area development. At a question and answer session on Thur...

Hongkongers stranded in the UK for months can book seats from Thursday on two special flights to return home, but some have expressed concerns about the arrangements the government has put in place for their quarantine. Since late December, the aut...

Human rights and freedoms have been greatly stifled in Hong Kong after the enactment of the national security law, with authorities increasingly using safeguarding national security to legitimise politically motivated repression – according to an a...

The government will next Wednesday table a host of bills in relation to Beijing's electoral overhaul in the city, Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Thursday. Lam told lawmakers that the legal amendments are related to laws on the chief executive an...

Medical experts in Hong Kong are divided on whether the government should go ahead with its order for 7.5 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, following the latest findings linking the jab to rare blood clots The European Medicines Agency annou...

Former lawmaker Nathan Law said on Wednesday that he has been granted political asylum in the UK, almost ten months after he fled Hong Kong ahead of the imposition of the national security law last June. In a series of tweets, the activist said “A...

A person whose organised a dance party that contributed to one of the largest Covid-19 outbreaks in Hong Kong last November was on Wednesday sentenced to two months in prison for violating anti-epidemic restrictions, while the license holder of the v...

Health officials on Wednesday said there could be silent transmission of coronavirus in Tuen Mun after two residents in the district were confirmed with Covid-19 and a third tested preliminary positive. Two of the patients live in the same building....

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, with District Court judge Amanda Woodcock saying their sentences will...

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...