Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday that she will keep on rebutting criticism from the West, even though she's come to the conclusion that some countries simply can't stand the fact that China has become so strong. In an interview with state...

The High Court on Tuesday sentenced a couple to life imprisonment for the murder of their five-year-old daughter in 2018, with the judge calling it a case of extreme cruelty. The five-year-old’s father, 29, had earlier been unanimously convicted b...

A renovation worker has been jailed for 40 months after he admitted wounding a man who was clearing away barricades put up by anti-government protesters in Mong Kok two years ago. The District Court heard that demonstrators had blocked the junction...

The District Court on Tuesday sentenced a 26-year-old woman who helped run a Telegram channel during anti-government protests in 2019 to three years in jail, for conspiring to destroy property and inciting people to injure others. Hui Pui-yee had pl...

The national security law poses a “grave threat” to journalism in Hong Kong, the international press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders said on Tuesday, as it also warned that Radio Television Hong Kong is being subjected to a government-...

Families trying to find foreign domestic helpers amid a ban on arrivals from the Philippines are bumping up wage offers, the Hong Kong Union of Employment Agencies said on Tuesday. The union’s chairman Thomas Chan told an RTHK programme that the ...

The government at 7 am on Tuesday finished its compulsory testing at ambush lockdowns at two buildings in Tsuen Wan. They had been enforced at 8 pm on Monday after untraceable and preliminary positive Covid-19 cases were detected in the buildings. A...

Authorities on Monday evening announced "ambush lockdowns" on Block 4 of Belvedere Garden Phase 2, as well as Fu Yung Building in Tsuen Wan. In a statement, authorities say all residents of the two buildings are required to stay home and undergo co...

The government has proposed banning people convicted of animal cruelty from keeping pets – maybe even for life – as it plans to amend the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Ordinance in the next Legco term. Speaking at a Legco meeting on Monday, ...

Former director of administration Kitty Choi joined RTHK on Monday as an "adviser to the director of broadcasting". The appointment was announced in an internal mail to station staff. Choi joined the government as an administrative officer in 198...

The trial of former lawmaker Tanya Chan over an alleged social distancing violation began on Monday despite multiple problems with the prosecution witnesses, with one disappearing, another refusing to turn up and a third lying about her identity. Ch...

Health authorities on Monday appealed to people who had recently been to a clinic in Central to get tested for Covid-19, as officials continued to trace contacts of two coronavirus patients found to be carrying a mutated strain. A 31-year-old woman ...

The government on Monday said officials will speed up work to sack more than 100 civil servants who have refused to declare their loyalty to the SAR. The Civil Service Bureau said 129 members of the 170,000-strong government workforce have failed t...

The Hong Kong Employers of Overseas Domestic Helpers Association says the government's two-week ban on arrivals from the Philippines has come as a relief to many people who are concerned about the Covid-19 situation in the country. The discovery of...

Lawyers for pro-democracy activist Tam Tak-chi on Monday applied for proceedings against him to be halted, by challenging the legality of the colonial-era sedition law he is accused of violating. The People Power activist is facing numerous charges ...

A large queue of people seeking coronavirus tests formed at Harbour City in Tsim Sha Tsui on Monday morning, amid fears a highly infectious strain of the virus is spreading in the community. The government ordered a mass-testing exercise after someb...

A specialist in respiratory medicine said on Monday that people who have spent time in India, Pakistan and the Philippines should be banned from coming to Hong Kong for as long as it takes for the coronavirus situation in those places to improve. T...

The government said on Sunday that it's banning flights from India, Pakistan and the Philippines for two weeks from Tuesday, after the SAR found its first case in the community infected with the N501Y mutant coronavirus strain. The 29-year-old man,...

Firefighters, police and the Civil Aid Service on Sunday evening found the body of a missing woman after a 30-hour search on the steep cliffs of Kowloon Peak – where her hiking shoes were found last night. More than a hundred officers were deploy...

The Department of Health said on Sunday that it's following up some vaccination irregularities, including the case of a man who received mixed coronavirus vaccines. It said in a statement that the 32-year-old man went to a private clinic for a Sino...