Most Hong Kong women don’t want to give birth, a non-profit group said on Monday, with respondents to its survey saying they didn’t have enough money, space or time to raise a child. A survey from the Hong Kong Women Development Association foun...

The jury at an inquest into the death of a protester was disbanded just hours after the hearing began on Monday, when one of the five jurors told the court she couldn’t fully understand Cantonese. Coroner David Ko said he would resume the hearing ...

A man linked to a small outbreak of a mutant strain of coronavirus in Hong Kong was remanded in custody on Monday, after being arrested at the weekend on suspicion of lying to health authorities. The 30-year-old, who arrived in the SAR from Dubai i...

Lawmakers on Monday gave their backing to a government proposal to expand the Legislative Council complex, to accommodate more members added to the body through Beijing’s electoral overhaul. Legco will grow from 70 members to 90 following this Dec...

Andrew Wan on Monday resigned as a district councillor, the latest pro-democracy figure to throw in the towel while behind bars awaiting trial. Wan is one of scores of people accused of breaching the national security law by holding primary polls t...

People recently released from Penny's Bay quarantine camp as part of the government's policy reversal have spoken of their horror at the conditions inside, saying they were left without basic necessities, couldn't seek medical care, and were poisoned...

Microbiologist Siddharth Sridhar on Monday said it was "lucky" that there had not been an outbreak of a more infectious strain of Covid-19 in Hong Kong, but added authorities must keep a close eye on the situation. The University of Hong Kong exper...

Hong Kong is experiencing the “worst of both worlds” with relaxed quarantine policies for some people but no increase in vaccine uptake, a public health expert said on Monday, as he called for more incentives for people to get inoculated against ...

The government has thanked the hundreds of thousands of foreign domestic helpers who took a compulsory Covid-19 test, ahead of Sunday's deadline. The order, seen by some as discriminatory, was made late last month to combat a mutated variant cluste...

Two in five teachers say they are contemplating leaving the education sector, with many citing increasing political pressure as a major reason. That’s the finding of a survey conducted by the pro-democracy Professional Teachers' Union, which poll...

After an initial rush to get tested for the coronavirus, few foreign helpers were seen at testing centres on Sunday – the deadline for a mandatory testing order for all migrant domestic workers. Hong Kong's 370,000 helpers were given nine days t...

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 in Hong Kong, 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 ...

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...