The police have banned three groups from staging a march on July 1, citing risks posed by the pandemic. The League of Social Democrats, Tin Shui Wai Connection and Save Lantau Alliance wanted to march from Victoria Park to the government’s headqua...

Health authorities reported three new imported Covid-19 infections on Monday and no local cases. One of the imported cases involves a 19-year-old woman who flew in from the United Kingdom, while another is a 47-year-old woman from Indonesia. Both o...

The Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) says it fears more former staff at Apple Daily will be arrested despite the newspaper's demise, after a senior editor was believed to have been detained at the airport on Sunday night. Police said they ha...

A DNA specialist says people who visited a Tai Po mall where Hong Kong's first patient infected with the Delta variant worked should be at a lower risk of being infected compared to his colleagues. Speaking on a radio show, Gilman Siu from the Depa...

Health officials said on Monday that no new coronavirus cases were found after around 390 residents of a Tai Po building were tested overnight. The lockdown at Block 10 of Tai Po Centre was lifted at 6:30 am on Monday morning. On Sunday, a 24-yea...

Torrential rain on Monday morning prompted the authorities to close schools, suspend coronavirus jabs, and postpone court hearings, as the Hong Kong Observatory issued its first Black Rainstorm Warning Signal of the year. The stock market was also c...

The Red Rainstorm Warning Signal was issued by the Hong Kong Observatory on Monday morning at 5:55 am. This means that heavy rain has fallen or is expected to fall generally over Hong Kong, exceeding 50 millimetres in an hour, and is likely to conti...

Police arrested a former senior journalist with the Apple Daily newspaper at the airport on Sunday night on a suspected national security charge as he tried to leave Hong Kong, according to media reports. Fung Wai-kong would be the seventh staffer a...

The pro-democracy web media, Stand News, on Sunday said it's decided to stop accepting monthly sponsorship from readers and shelve older commentaries for now, saying "speech crimes" have arrived in Hong Kong. The moves come days after another pro-d...

The new Chief Secretary, John Lee, is to act as the Chief Executive on Monday - on his fourth day on the job. He'll be filling in while Carrie Lam leads a delegation to Beijing to attend celebrations to mark 100 years since the founding of the Chin...

The Peak Tram said on Sunday that it's under immense pressure to raise fares, after it finishes upgrading the service by the end of this year. Currently, an adult return ticket costs HK$52, with concession fares for children and the elderly at HK$2...

A recent study suggests that some Hong Kong carers spend nearly 1.5 times longer than the average working week caring for their loved ones. The Council of Social Service polled some 700 carers earlier this year, and it found that the middle-aged no...

Health officials have reported one new local Covid-19 infection on Sunday, which is linked to an airport worker who earlier became Hong Kong's first case of the more infectious Delta variant. The 24 year-old woman, who is a colleague of the man, las...

The MTR's Tuen Ma Line has drawn mixed reviews on the first day of its full operation, with rail enthusiasts and residents happy about the convenience it offers, but others worried about a loss of business. With the opening of two new stations, Sun...

The Fire Services Department says at least ten vessels sank and others broke their moorings during a blaze at Aberdeen South typhoon shelter early on Sunday. About 30 vessels were affected. They said 35 people were rescued from vessels during the fi...

Trains have begun operating on the MTR's new Tuen Ma Line, that runs between Wu Kai Sha and Tuen Mun. The MTR had arranged a special train at 5.50 am on Sunday from Sung Wong Toi station to Tuen Mun. Over a hundred people waited outside Sung Wong T...

The Fire Services Department says at least 14 boats have been affected by a fire in Aberdeen South typhoon shelter, off Ap Lei Chau Praya Road. The fire broke out at about 2.30 am, and was upgraded to a No. 3 alarm fire just over two hours later. ...

The pro-democracy party, the Neo Democrats, announced on Saturday that it had disbanded. In a Facebook post, the group said Hong Kong had undergone drastic changes over the past two years and the political environment now was much worse than before...

Three groups have sought police approval to stage a march on the July 1 handover anniversary. Representatives from Tin Shui Wai Connection, Save Lantau Alliance and League of Social Democrats met with police on Saturday to discuss their proposal. ...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Saturday officiated at the launch of the final section of the Tuen Ma line, a day before trains start carrying people on the 56-kilometre long route. When it opens to passengers on Sunday, the Tuen Ma line will become t...