Beijing's Foreign Ministry office in Hong Kong on Thursday accused "a small amount of American and Western politicians" of using press freedom as an excuse to continuously attack the SAR's national security law. Western governments, rights groups an...

Hong Kong cyber activists are backing up articles by pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily on censorship-proof blockchain platforms after the newspaper was forced to shut down as it became embroiled in a national security law crackdown. The latest drive...

A journalism professor at Chinese University has questioned how a diversity of views in Hong Kong and the concerns of the public can be reflected now pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily has closed down. Speaking on a radio show on Thursday after the...

Hong Kong’s human rights scores have plummeted since 2019, and the pandemic has made the situation worse, according to a report by a human rights index published on Thursday. The Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI) tracks human rights perfo...

Authorities in Taiwan condemned the closure of Hong Kong's most vocal pro-democracy newspaper the Apple Daily on Thursday as "political oppression" of the SAR's media, saying it sounded the death knell for freedom of speech and the media. The paper ...

Health authorities have tested 2,100 residents of a building in Tai Po that was locked down overnight, after one resident had earlier tested preliminary positive for a more infectious Covid-19 strain, known as L452R. If confirmed, it will be the fi...

Apple Daily apologised to its readers for not living up to their expectations and urged them to take care in its final publication on Thursday. Staff, meanwhile, expressed mixed emotions, with one calling on supporters to keep the faith. The final...

The Science and Technology Park Corporation has started the procedure to reclaim the land it leased to Apple Daily on the Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate, saying multiple violations were involved in the operations of the printing company. The statu...

At a newspaper stand in Mong Kok, which is one of the first places to get newspaper deliveries, hundreds of people early on Thursday morning queued up to buy their own copy of the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily. The tabloid had announced it wa...

Fans of Apple Daily were out in force at its Tseung Kwan O headquarters on Wednesday evening, offering their support and an emotional farewell to their beloved newspaper on its final night in business. Many of them went there after learning that App...

The new head of the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA), Ronson Chan, said he expects greater self-censorship among local media, especially involving controversial stories, after the closure of Apple Daily and the arrest of its editorial writer....

The government said on Wednesday that an airline ground staff has tested preliminary positive for a mutant strain of Covid-19, as it ordered a lockdown of a public housing estate in Tai Po where the man lives. Health officials said the patient, 27, ...

A national security suspect flew a flag bearing a protest slogan in order to incite others to commit acts of secession, prosecutors told the High Court on Wednesday, at the start of the city’s first national security trial. The defendant, Tong Yin...

The once-in-a-decade population census has begun, with people being urged to make use of online questionnaires or hand in paper forms by post to avoid the need for a face-to-face interview during the pandemic. The census will last from Wednesday to ...

The government on Wednesday ordered residents in an extensive area in Tai Po to get tested for Covid-19, saying a very high viral load was detected in sewage samples collected there. Sources also told RTHK that a Tai Po resident had tested prelimin...

The Centre for Health Protection reported two new imported Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, as Hong Kong extended its streak of no local infections to 16 days. One of the patients is a domestic helper who flew in from Indonesia and was undergoing quaran...

Apple Daily says the last edition of the paper will roll off the presses on Thursday – three days earlier than expected. The online edition will stop updating after Wednesday midnight. In a report published online on Wednesday afternoon, the pa...

Prosecutors of the city’s first national security suspect have told the High Court that a protest flag the man flew displayed a slogan that "connotes Hong Kong independence". The suspect, Tong Ying-kit, allegedly drove his motorcycle into police o...

An infectious disease expert on Wednesday urged the government put the UK back on a list of very high-risk countries and quarantine arrivals from there for 21 days even if they are vaccinated against Covid-19. Microbiologist Ho Pak-leung from the Un...

Police said on Wednesday that they had arrested a 55-year-old man in connection with an on-going national security probe linked to the pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper. He was being detained on suspicion of conspiracy to collude with a foreign co...