The Legislative Council on Thursday completed a series of law changes to enable Beijing's sweeping overhaul of the way Hong Kong chooses its lawmakers and the chief executive. The changes, which were approved by Beijing in March, were passed by a ma...

For the second year in a row, Hong Kong authorities have banned the June 4 candlelight vigil at Victoria Park. Tens of thousands of people normally gather at the park to commemorate those massacred by the People's Liberation Army in 1989. Last year...

Researchers at Baptist University on Thursday called on the government to promote e-sports, saying the fact that it will be an official competition event in the 2022 Asian Games shows it is not just about playing video games. Professor Chung Pak-kwo...

Hong Kong's security chief sent letters to media tycoon Jimmy Lai and branches of HSBC and Citibank this month threatening up to seven years' jail for any dealings with the billionaire's accounts in the city, according to documents seen by Reuters. ...

Hong Kong's political system is beyond redemption and any pro-democracy politicians taking part in it would be used solely as "window dressing", an academic said on Thursday. Kevin Carrico, a senior research fellow in Chinese Studies at Monash Unive...

A specialist in respiratory medicine warned on Thursday that the "cruises to nowhere" announced by the government this week will "obviously" bring with them a risk of imported coronavirus cases, and infected passengers could go on to spread the virus...

The MTR Corporation has said testing is complete on the next phase of its Tuen Ma Line, with reports late on Wednesday suggesting it could open as soon as the end of June. The long-delayed project will see phase one of the line, covering the former ...

Moongazers in Hong Kong were out in force on Wednesday evening for the rare cosmic event known as the "super blood moon". While some said they enjoyed the occasion, others were left disappointed, saying the moon was mostly hiding behind the clouds. ...

Hong Kong's schools are haemorrhaging pupils and the government needs to stop denying there is a problem, a teacher's union warned on Wednesday. The Professional Teachers' Union said it polled 180 school principals this month and more than half said...

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...