Police on Thursday said they had arrested three people in Causeway Bay on suspicion of misconduct in a public place, as officers swarmed the streets to stamp out any dissent on the 24th anniversary of the handover. In a Facebook post, the force said...

The Centre for Health Protection on Thursday reported four additional Covid-19 cases, all of them linked to overseas travel. The patients, aged between 19 and 54, arrived from the UK, Russia and Indonesia. The three women and one man did not show a...

Police on Thursday broadcast announcements warning people not to gather in parts of Causeway Bay, erecting their own tents where street booths usually stand, and stopping people for searches as part of an operation aimed at snuffing out any hint of a...

Police on Thursday sealed off Victoria Park – the traditional starting point for July 1 marches – saying there had been calls online for people to join an unauthorised assembly there. Officers set up barricades around the park’s football pitch...

Civil Service Secretary Patrick Nip said on Thursday that it would be an "overstatement" to say that Hong Kong has become a police state. The recent appointments of former officers John Lee and Chris Tang as chief secretary and security secretary re...

Acting Chief Executive John Lee on Thursday said Hong Kong was on the rebound, as the city restores social and political stability. Speaking at a ceremony to mark the 24th anniversary of the handover, Lee said Hong Kong had faced unprecedented chall...

Police on Thursday said that several bottles of combustible material were thrown near the slope of Government House on Lower Albert Road, causing a fire. They said the incident happened at about 2 am. Firefighters put out the fire and no one was ...

Seven people were awarded on Thursday the Grand Bauhinia Medal - the top prize in the government's Honours List this year. The highest award went to Chief Justice Andrew Cheung, Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng, Executive Councillors Regina Ip an...

Activist Chow Hang-tung of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of the Patriotic Democratic Movements of China was in police custody on Wednesday, charged with promoting this year's June 4 candlelight vigil which was banned by the authorities. Chow, wh...

Pro-democracy data scientist, Wong Ho-wa, has announced that he is disbanding his group G0v.hk, citing changes in the "recent atmosphere", restrictions in freedom of expression and access to information. G0v.hk, which was formed in 2016, compiled op...

A scheme that allows people aged 65 and above to ride public transport for just HK$2 will be extended to those aged 60 to 64 from February 27 next year, the government announced on Wednesday. Welfare Secretary Law Chi-kwong said that expanding the e...

Health officials on Wednesday reported two new imported Covid-19 infections, taking the city’s total of confirmed cases to 11,923. The two imported cases – an 18-year-old man from the UK and a 34-year-old woman from Bangladesh – were asymptoma...

Customs officers said on Wednesday that they had seized more than 100 kilogrammes of cocaine at the airport, describing the bust as the largest airborne trafficking case involving the drug in 20 years. The department says X-ray scans at the airport ...

A former president of the Hong Kong Public Doctors’ Association, Arisina Ma, said on Wednesday that she expects medical professionals to increasingly refrain from criticising the government and its healthcare policy to avoid getting into trouble. ...

Sources have told RTHK that the police are planning to deploy more than 10,000 officers across the city on Thursday, to prevent the public from gathering on the streets on the 24th anniversary of the handover. There will be a strong police presence ...

Hong Kong's national security law has decimated freedoms and created a "human rights emergency", Amnesty International said on Wednesday, a year after Beijing imposed the legislation on the city. The sweeping national security law – which criminal...

Leading microbiologist Ho Pak-leung said it appears that Hong Kong has managed to limit the spread of the contagious Delta Covid-19 variant in the community, but stressed officials need to be extremely stringent in enforcing flight bans to prevent th...

Veteran journalist, Steve Vines, has announced he's quitting RTHK, citing the national security law that was introduced in Hong Kong exactly a year ago. Vines had been serving as a guest presenter on the public broadcaster's Backchat programme sinc...

The Appeal Board on Public Meetings and Processions on Tuesday upheld a police ban on a march on July 1, citing infection risks posed by Covid-19. The League of Social Democrats, Tin Shui Wai Connection and Save Lantau Alliance wanted to march from...

Police said on Tuesday that they had arrested two men, in Lam Tin and Tai Po, after seizing chemicals that could have been used to make gunpowder. Officers alleged that the men had made social media posts aimed at inciting hatred and violence, and ...