Taiwan warned on Saturday that Hong Kong's decision to freeze assets belonging to jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai was a sign to the international community that doing business in the city was becoming increasingly risky. The asset freeze, announced on...

The Hospital Authority (HA) said on Saturday that less than a third of its full time workers had had a Covid-19 jab. Speaking on a radio programme, the authority's chairman Henry Fan said around 24,000 staff members had been vaccinated, with around...

The government has frozen media tycoon Jimmy Lai's personal assets, using new powers available to authorities under the Beijing-imposed national security law for the first time. Lai is facing three security-related charges, and is already serving a ...

A former principal firefighter explained to the Coroner's Court on Friday why a safety air cushion had not been set up closer to the spot where anti-government protester Marco Leung was standing before he plunged to his death from the Pacific Place m...

Former Democratic Party lawmaker Roy Kwong told the Coroner's Court on Friday that he regretted not being allowed to speak to a protester before he fell to his death in 2019, saying he believed he would have been able to help if police had let him ge...

RTHK received a letter containing a white powder on Friday morning, a day after similar suspicious mail was sent to government officials. The broadcaster said it had reported the matter to the police. On Thursday, Chief Executive Carrie Lam, Securi...

A mainland man was on Friday sentenced to six years and four months in prison, after he admitted to stabbing and slashing a 19-year-old student at the Tai Po 'Lennon tunnel' two years ago. Liu Guosheng, a Guangxi native who came to Hong Kong on Octo...

Executive Council member and lawmaker Regina Ip has accused Health Secretary Sophia Chan of "lacking common sense" over whether Hong Kong should donate unused Covid-19 vaccines to other places, such as India. Speaking at a Legislative Council meetin...

Officials said on Friday that there is a high chance the planned May 26 launch of a long-delayed travel bubble between Hong Kong and Singapore will be pushed back. Speaking to reporters, Commerce Secretary Edward Yau said Singapore’s transport mi...

The SAR government on Friday announced tighter anti-epidemic measures for people flying in from Taiwan, after a spate of Covid-19 cases there. Instead of home quarantine, arrivals will have to stay at a designated quarantine hotel for two weeks. ...

The judiciary said on Friday that the chief justice will be in charge of appointing lay members to a planned panel for handling complaints against judges, but judges will still have control over the process. While complaints are currently handled by...

Infectious disease experts said on Friday that it is important to step up infection control measures and plug all loopholes at quarantine hotels to prevent the spread of mutant strains of the coronavirus which are circulating around the world. The...

With his signature baritone voice and flat cap, Uncle Ray has become a perennial fixture of Hong Kong broadcasting, and his late-night show is RTHK’s longest-running radio programme, playing a selection of nostalgic hits dating back to the 1940s. ...

The government has announced that it is beefing up infection control measures at designated quarantine hotels. The announcement follows the news that a man contracted a mutant strain of coronavirus at a quarantine hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui, leading to...

The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department on Thursday said it's going to prosecute the contractor that supplied meals to people quarantined at Penny's Bay after an inspection to its premises found irregularities. Officers inspected Danny Caterin...

Development officials on Thursday said they were going to invoke the Land Resumption Ordinance to take back three plots of private land in Yuen Long and Fanling to build subsidised housing. The three sites are located at Shap Pat Heung Road near Lu...

A police officer has told an inquest that an anti-government protester fell to his death from a shopping mall in June 2019 when firefighters moved in on him from two different directions. Superintendent Sean Lin, a team leader of the police’s nego...

The Centre for Health Protection reported two imported coronavirus cases on Thursday, and one local infection linked to a previous patient. It marked the sixth consecutive day without an untraceable local infection. One of the imported cases involv...

The government says more than 1,800 civil servants resigned in the last financial year – the highest figure since 2006. In a document submitted to the Legislative Council, the Civil Service Bureau said those who quit between April 2020 and March ...

The government has to do a better job managing and maintaining public toilets, Ombudsman Winnie Chiu said on Thursday, noting that complaints about the facilities weren’t even analysed until last year. Chiu’s office said the Food and Environment...