Hong Kong’s Covid-19 vaccination programme will be expanded to include residents aged 16 to 30, with bookings starting from April 23, the government announced on Thursday. Sixteen and 17-year-olds will be allowed to get the German-made BioNTech va...

Police on Thursday arrested a part-time worker at RTHK on suspicion of possessing imitation firearms after he was allegedly found to be carrying two toy guns with him. The video journalist was on his way to cover an open day at the police college in...

The Consumer Council on Thursday took aim at supermarket chains ParknShop and Wellcome, saying they jacked up their prices last year, despite booming business during the pandemic and millions of dollars in government subsidies. The watchdog called f...

Hong Kong police goose stepped PLA-style around their training college as the force's band blasted out "Ode to the Motherland" on Thursday, in a public display of the officers' "nationalistic sentiments". "Defend national security with loyalty, prot...

Mainland officials say they will “teach foreign forces a lesson” if they try to interfere in Hong Kong’s affairs, adding that although the national security law was questioned when it was introduced last year, it is now “embraced by everybody...

Four pro-democracy activists staged a march through Wan Chai on Thursday morning, demanding universal suffrage for the entire country, as Hong Kong marked its first-ever "National Security Education Day". The activists, from the League of Social Dem...

The number of people applying to become a police constable in the current financial year has fallen by more than 40 percent compared with the year prior to the anti-government protests in 2019, according to government documents submitted to Legco. I...

Health officials said on Wednesday they are looking into two cases of miscarriage after the women received the BioNTech coronavirus vaccine. They said at the moment they don't think the two cases were related to the jabs. The first case involved a ...

New People's Party chairwoman Regina Ip says the government should avoid giving people the impression that it is suppressing press freedom with new editorial controls at Radio Television Hong Kong, and it would be better to just shut down the broadca...

A retired civil servant has been jailed for 40 days for chanting slogans during a protest last year. To Wing-cheung, 60, pleaded guilty to behaving in a disorderly manner in a public place, after chanting anti-police slogans in Mong Kok on June 12....

The Education Bureau said on Wednesday it was looking into whether an international school in Kowloon Tong had violated anti-epidemic rules by extending half-day classes into the afternoon, saying the school hadn't asked them for permission to do so....

A survey has found Hong Kong to be the most expensive place in the world for expatriates, despite a drop in rents during the pandemic. According to research carried out by ECA International – which helps companies move their employees abroad – ...

The MTR Corporation says the first trains on the West Rail and Ma On Shan lines will depart two hours later than scheduled at 7:30am on May 2, as it carries out tests for when the lines are merged. The two lines will connect in Hung Hom to form the ...

A 30-year-old legal assistant charged under the national security law has been remanded in custody after the West Kowloon Magistracy adjourned his hearing to June 7. Prosecutors allege that Chan Tsz-wah colluded with media tycoon Jimmy Lai, activist...

Authorities on Wednesday reported five new coronavirus cases, all but one were imported. The local case was a 70-year-old man who lives in Oi Fai House in Yau Oi Estate, Tuen Mun. He developed symptoms on March 31. The public housing block was p...

Federation of Trade Unions lawmaker Alice Mak says she's hopeful of a high voter turnout when the next set of Legco members are returned this December, but thinks the government should step up its propaganda efforts to make it happen. A bill to cha...

The District Court on Wednesday jailed a barista for four and a half years over her involvement in an anti-government protest in Mong Kok two years ago, in which she helped light a large fire on the street. Siu Lok-ting, 27, was earlier convicted o...

Executive councillor Ronny Tong said on Wednesday that the government's move to make calls for election boycotts illegal is "politically and ethically" the right thing to do and people should "stop making a fuss about it". Tong said the SAR governme...

Families of patients at eight hospitals will be able to visit them from April 21, the Hospital Authority said on Wednesday. Speaking on an RTHK radio programme, a senior manager at the authority, Leung Ming, said they will be calling families to mak...

No new coronavirus cases were found after authorities locked down around 780 residents of a building in a Sham Tseng estate on Tuesday night. The block in Lido Garden was sealed off for overnight testing after one person living there was confirmed t...