A survey has found that an overwhelming majority of respondents are not motivated to undergo inoculation against Covid-19, despite the government’s “vaccine bubble” initiatives that offer relaxed social distancing rules for those who’ve recei...

A group of single mothers from the mainland are calling on the government to let them work here, saying they have been left destitute because they have not been able to cross the border to earn a living during the pandemic. While their Hong Kong-bor...

Dim sum restaurants hummed with the sound of families celebrating Mother's Day on Sunday, with some taking advantage of more relaxed social distancing rules while others happy to tolerate being divided between tables. It's the first significant holi...

The government on Sunday reported one imported coronavirus case but, for the second consecutive day, there were no local Covid-19 infections. The Centre for Health Protection said the patient is a 52-year-old woman who flew in from Argentina, and w...

The head of the Medical Association, Choi Kin, says distrust of the authorities is holding back Hong Kong's efforts to persuade its citizens to accept Covid-19 vaccinations, as he warned that inoculation is the only hope in the fight against the viru...

The Labour Department says it is looking into a fatal work accident that occurred at a construction site on Lamma on Saturday morning. The department said a man had died after being thrown out of the driver's seat of his vehicle, which had been tran...

Health authorities on Saturday said they were looking into the deaths of two people days after they'd received the BioNTech coronavirus jab, though they didn't think the deaths were caused by the vaccinations. The Department of Health said a woman, ...

Police on Saturday arrested a man and his girlfriend for providing misleading and insufficient information to health officials, in a case that may have led to Hong Kong's first Covid-19 variant cluster. The man, who had flown in from Dubai in March...

Travel agencies in Hong Kong are marking Mother's Day weekend by offering their first local tours since December, as they take advantage of a relaxation in social distancing measures under the government's vaccine bubble plan. Families and friends j...

Amid tight security, the detained former leader of the Democratic Party, Wu Chi-wai, was finally allowed to attend the funeral of his father on Saturday morning. The former lawmaker, who has been in custody for more than four months, stepped out of...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan said on Saturday that the government was adjusting its plans for a HK$5,000 per person handout to give people more flexibility in how they spend their electronic vouchers. Officials had said that the vouchers would be ...

A government adviser on the pandemic said on Saturday that officials should introduce antibody tests as an additional check for inbound travellers who've been vaccinated against Covid-19. Professor David Hui of the Chinese University said an expert...

The judiciary says it's planning to implement a new mechanism for handling complaints against judges, in which lay members will for the first time be involved in the process. Local judges have been subject to increasing complaints over alleged poli...

A resident of a luxury apartment block in Pok Fu Lam on Friday welcomed the government’s relaxation of its policy to quarantine whole buildings where patients with a mutated strain of the coronavirus live, calling the arrangements “overkill”. ...

A member of staff at BGI, a mainland firm responsible for Covid-19 testing in Hong Kong, has tested positive for coronavirus despite being fully inoculated. The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) said on Friday that the 29-year-old man took his two...

The High Court has thrown out a bid by ex-lawmaker Ted Hui to resurrect prosecutions relating to the 2019 protests that the Department of Justice (DoJ) had taken over and dropped. Hui, who recently fled Hong Kong while facing charges of his own, la...

Thousands of people put into quarantine are to be released early, as part of an overhaul of the way authorities handle Covid infections involving mutant strains, while quarantine periods in general will be cut for those who are fully vaccinated. Off...

Legislator after legislator on Friday warned the government it must watch out for the pro-democracy Professional Teachers' Union (PTU), making a series of claims against the body as it supports members struck off over protest-related complaints. Fro...

A public health expert at the University of Hong Kong says plans to reduce the quarantine period for vaccinated close contacts of Covid-19 patients are reasonable, as there's a lower chance of them being infected. In recent days, thousands of people...

A national security judge on Friday granted former Democratic Party chairman Wu Chi-wai permission to attend his father’s funeral, two days after his request was rejected by prison officials. Wu’s plea to be allowed to attend his father’s fune...