Five of the most well known pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong were jailed for up to 18 months on Friday and four were given suspended sentences, for their involvement in one of the largest protests in 2019 over the government's despised extraditio...

Education Secretary Kevin Yeung has brushed aside legislators’ calls to make it compulsory for schools to report suspected child abuse cases, saying it’s not fair to rely solely on teachers because “children after all only spend a few hours in ...

Prosecutors have pressed two additional charges against pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai, including another one under the national security law. As well as the earlier charge of colluding with foreign powers, Lai is now also accused of conspiri...

Police Commissioner Chris Tang on Friday accused the media of "smearing" and trying to intimidate people who are “close and supportive” of his officers, saying this is “extremely unethical”. At a Legco meeting, Tang accused a newspaper he di...

Health authorities on Friday reported 17 new coronavirus infections, of which six were locally acquired. Among the local cases, five are relatives of a couple who were confirmed to have the virus on Thursday. Officials said the family had gathere...

A local restaurant chain has admitted that it's told workers to get vaccinated soon if they want to keep on working. An internal memo of the U-Banquet group, which says that workers must be vaccinated by April 26 or they won't be able to work from A...

The District Court on Friday heard mitigation pleas from seven prominent pro-democracy figures convicted of organising and taking part in one of the biggest anti-government protests of 2019. Founding chairman of the Democratic Party Martin Lee, medi...

The Court of Appeal on Friday sent a teenager to a rehabilitation centre over his trashing of a mainland-owned bubble tea shop, after prosecutors successfully challenged the community service order he was given by Sha Tin Magistracy in December. Cho...

Hong Kong people are applying for the bespoke visa route for British National Overseas passport holders at a rate of 3,000 per week, The Times newspaper reported on Friday, quoting leaked figures. More than 35,000 British National Overseas (BNO) cit...

Four people have died, including a two-year-old child, after a fire at a public housing flat in Sau Mau Ping. Two others were injured, one of them seriously. Duty assistant divisional officer Wong Kwok-chun said the fire broke out at around 3am i...

Hong Kong's police chief Chris Tang on Thursday accused the United States of using its agents in the SAR to undermine national security, saying this is exactly what they did to incite the protests of 2019. This is a fact, he told the media, after at...

Health authorities reported on Thursday that a couple who live in Yuen Long have come down with Covid-19, sending up to 50 of their friends, relatives and colleagues into quarantine. The wife, 29, started coughing and had a sore throat on Friday la...

Police Commissioner Chris Tang said on Thursday that he was "shocked" by the arrest of an RTHK employee on suspicion of possessing imitation firearms, claiming that if the journalist had not been stopped by officers, there could have been serious con...

Prosecutors told the District Court on Thursday that they are dropping a charge of absconding against Hoang Lam-phuc – one of a group of Hongkongers who had been detained in Shenzhen – while the defence said he plans to plead guilty to two protes...

Four former Civic Party politicians facing national security charges over their involvement in last year’s Legco primaries have made a public call for the dissolution of the pro-democracy party – saying it has already completed its historic missi...

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...