Two women were on Wednesday sentenced to eight months in prison for trying to bribe people to vote for the DAB's Vincent Cheng in a 2018 Legco by-election. Deng Yi-mei, 42, and Wong Wai-ha, 52, had earlier been convicted by West Kowloon Magistracy o...

Officials on Wednesday reported one new imported Covid-19 case in Hong Kong, involving a woman who flew in from the United Arab Emirates. Health officials said they were also investigating a case across the border, involving a 51-year-old man who t...

Researchers from the Chinese University estimated on Wednesday that limitations with the city’s coronavirus testing methods had seen nearly 20,000 Covid-19 infections slip through the net. However, the team said the majority of these “hidden” ...

An infectious disease expert has urged the government to start letting children under 16 receive coronavirus vaccines as soon as possible, especially being as the territory's stock of BioNTech jabs is set to expire in August. More than 800,000 doses...

A unionist on Wednesday called on the government to give people two days off to get Covid-19 vaccines to boost the take-up rate, as a lawmaker warned that the administration also needs to clear up "misunderstandings" about the safety of the jabs. C...

A co-founder of the Society for Asylum-Seekers and Refugees has welcomed plans to include the city's 13,000 such claimants in the Covid vaccination programme, saying it shows the government is being responsive to their concerns. The government said...

The Democratic Party said most of its supporters don't want the party to run in the Legislative Council election later this year, contrary to overtures by "messengers from Beijing" who are urging them to do so despite the government's electoral overh...

A five-member jury ruled on Tuesday that the death of a protester who fell from the Pacific Place mall in Admiralty during the anti-government protests of 2019 was the result of misadventure. The unanimous ruling came after a two-week inquest and si...

Health authorities said on Tuesday that community tests have uncovered two local coronavirus cases with unclear sources of infections. The Centre for Health Protection said the patients are a construction worker and a domestic worker, who was found ...

Director of Broadcasting Patrick Li told lawmakers on Tuesday that RTHK has more programmes promoting government policies in the pipeline, and he hopes the station's staff can also start collaborating with mainland media. At a special Legco meeting...

The government has announced that it will expand its Covid-19 vaccination programme to include mainlanders with two-way permits and refugees. In a statement published on Tuesday, a government spokesperson said there are some 40,000 mainland resident...

Organisers of the annual June 4 candlelight vigil called on the police not to use the Covid-19 pandemic as an excuse to block the memorial from happening again, after the force on Tuesday asked how they plan to comply with social distancing regulatio...

Researching vaccine options, getting a body check and booking time off work are common among those getting jabs against Covid-19, but some people are going a step further and making wills before inoculation day. Wong Tai Sin district councillor and ...

Police said on Tuesday they had arrested one of their own officers and a woman, 47, on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud. It's understood that the officer concerned is Harbour Chan, an assistant commander in Sha Tin District, who is also known for ...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday the government won’t immediately start making district councillors take an oath of allegiance, since many are still resigning. She said oath taking will take place once the situation has stabilised – bu...

RTHK's decision to outsource production of one of its programmes after "unapproved content" made its way into a recent episode is both "disturbing" and "totally disproportionate", the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) said on Tuesday. The gov...

The SAR government couldn’t persuade many Hongkongers to get Covid-19 vaccines even if it paid them, Chief Executive Carrie Lam conceded on Tuesday. There have been calls for the administration to offer people cash to get jabs, to help tackle Hon...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday it was wrong for Hong Kong to have initially suspended quarantine-free entry for Hongkongers returning from Guangdong. Speaking before the weekly Executive Council meeting, Lam brushed aside suggestions tha...

Leading microbiologist Ho Pak-leung has expressed support for the government’s move to adopt Beijing's Covid-19 risk assessments for mainland cities. Over the weekend the SAR government reversed its decision to stop Hongkongers returning to the t...

A member of the government's vaccine task force is urging Hong Kong people to get inoculated now, warning that BioNTech shots will soon be out of date and the SAR may not be able to get its hands on further doses for the rest of this year. Thomas Ts...