The Consumer Council warned on Monday that more than half of the children’s art supplies it tested leach toxic metal substances – which, when taken in excessive quantities, can cause vomiting, diarrhoea, or even chronic disease. The watchdog tes...

Ten veteran pro-democracy activists have pleaded guilty to organising an unauthorised protest on Hong Kong Island on October 1, 2019. The defendants are former legislators Lee Cheuk-yan, Leung Kwok-hung, Albert Ho, Yeung Sum, Cyd Ho, Sin Chung-kai,...

Hong Kong's top court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal by a man convicted of rioting for taking part in the Mong Kok clashes in 2016. Lo Kin-man was sentenced in 2018 to seven years in prison by the High Court. He received the longest sentence of ...

A taxi driver was on Monday sentenced to four years in jail for transporting more than 40 petrol bombs during anti-government protests in October 2019. Tsang Wai-lung, 31, had earlier pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit arson and p...

A veteran unionist on Monday described the government’s warning that it may deregister trade unions on national security grounds as "scary", and said such a move would further stifle civil society. The head of the Confederation of Trade Unions, M...

The government is expected to start providing outreach Covid-19 vaccination for construction workers at the end of this month. That’s according to the president of the Hong Kong Construction Association, Lam Kin-wing, who’s been holding talks w...

Infectious disease expert Leung Chi-chiu said on Monday that all Hongkongers returning from Taiwan should be quarantined for 21 days, even those who are fully vaccinated. His suggestion is contrary to the government’s latest rules which require p...

The Centre for Health Protection on Sunday said it was investigating a locally-transmitted Covid-19 case involving a four-month-old baby boy. It said the case was linked to another local case. The centre also said there were three imported cases, ...

The government has further tightened quarantine and testing requirements for arrivals from Taiwan, after the island recorded 206 new Covid cases on Sunday. It follows the removal of home quarantine for Taiwanese arrivals on Saturday, which had been a...

The Labour Department on Sunday said it had performed spot-checks on more than 3,500 domestic helpers to see whether they had complied with a compulsory Covid-19 testing order. Officers approached the helpers at their popular gathering spots in Cause...

Labour Secretary Law Chi-kwong has warned that the authorities may cancel the registration of trade unions as part of the government's new duties under the national security law. His warning comes as the Labour Department plans to seek legislators' ...

Commissioner for Sports Yeung Tak-keung says there's no way public broadcaster RTHK would have the resources to broadcast coverage of the Tokyo Olympics on its own. Speaking on RTHK's City Forum on Sunday, Yeung also said it was unlikely that the T...

A second round of mandatory testing for Hong Kong's foreign domestic helpers got under way on Sunday, with those undergoing Covid checks reporting none of the long queues and chaos seen at the start of the previous mass testing exercise. Helpers tak...

Organisers of the annual June 4 candlelight vigil said on Sunday they would urge police to respect people’s right to assembly when they discuss holding a march and rally to remember the 1989 crackdown on democracy supporters in Tiananmen Square. ...

Health Secretary Sophia Chan said on Sunday that the authorities were stepping up contact tracing in the hope of finding out how a four-year-old child was infected with Covid-19. The boy was confirmed to have the virus on Saturday, making him the fi...

The head of the equal opportunities commission, Ricky Chu, says the rights watchdog will always be a vocal defender of equal rights amid what he described as "unwarranted attacks from across the political spectrum". Chu, who made the comments on an ...

Hong Kong customs say they have made their largest seizure of smuggled goods so far this year – netting electronics, high-end food and cosmetics worth an estimated HK$50 million. However, the department said its officers were unable to make any ar...

Hong Kong on Saturday recorded its first untraceable local Covid-19 case in a week – a four-year-old boy who came down with a fever and sore throat earlier this week. Health officials said the boy had last been to kindergarten on May 12, and saw a...

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) celebrated the successful landing on Saturday of the Zhurong rover on Mars, saying it was an achievement for the country and an honour for the two PolyU research teams that had contributed to the Tianwen-1...

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...